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UPDATED, 8:45 a.m.: “Lots of people get lost in Saltburn,” Paul Rhys’ butler Duncan warns Barry Keogh’s Oliver in the new trailer for Amazon MGM Studios’ Saltburn, unveiled on Thursday morning. In the sophomore feature of writer-director Emerald Fennell, which has been buzzed about since her Academy…

Barry Keoghan says a funny thing happened on the way to playing the Joker in the new Batman film. “The Joker, that was funny how that happened,” he related in an Esquire interview. He heard there might be an opening for the role of the Riddler. No one asked him to audition. No one encouraged…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning writer-director Emerald Fennell says that "if you're prodding at something uncomfortable, that's what movies are for." The filmmaker spoke to this columnist at the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) opening night gala reception held at BFI Southbank following the international…

“This could easily have been set in Hollywood,” Emerald Fennell said of her new film Saltburn, during a post-screening Q&A at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. The actual setting is, in fact, a long way from Hollywood. Fennell’s sophomore follow-up to her Oscar Best…

EXCLUSIVE: Emerald Fennell likened making Saltburn, her dangerously dark comedy of class and lack of manners, "to taking your clothes off and exposing yourself." The filmmaker, who won an Oscar and BAFTAs for her debut feature Promising Young Woman, clarified that the "transgressive" material that…

The haves and have-nots of Great Britain always have served as ripe subject matter for writers of every stripe, and the tradition continues in Saltburn, a vibrant if rather familiar take on the class system circa 2006. Emerald Fennell, following up on her Oscar-winning script for Promising Young Woman…

EXCLUSIVE: American Honey director Andrea Arnold’s next film is gearing up as Deadline has confirmed that Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski are in talks to star in Bird. Not much is known about the film other than it begins filming next month which is why Keoghan had to part ways with Ridley Scott’s G…

The Banshees of Inisherin Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan is in negotiations to join the cast of Paramount’s sequel to Gladiator that has Ridley Scott returning to direct and Paul Mescal set to star. Scott also will produce, along with Scott Free President Michael Pruss as well as Doug Wick & Lucy…

EXCLUSIVE: Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye is set to make his feature acting debut, teaming with Waves helmer Trey Edward Shults on an untitled film that also stars Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan. Plot details are being kept under wraps with the pic currently in production. Shults will direct from a…

Mubi today shared a first-look image of Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott in the upcoming drama Bring Them Down, the debut feature from writer-director Chris Andrews. The pic is in the final stages of principal photography in Ireland. Keoghan and Abbott replace Tom Burke and Paul Mescal who were pr…

Fresh from his Oscar nomination for The Banshees of Inisherin, Irish actor Barry Keoghan is turning his attention back towards a dream assignment: a new feature retelling of the story of Billy the Kid. Keoghan’s American Animals director Bart Layton is aboard to direct the feature, produced by Element…

Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin promises a reunion of the In Bruges team of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, and it overdelivers, featuring supporting performances from both Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan that are attracting the attention of awards groups internationally. Keoghan has had a…