#FIRSTLOOK: OSCAR NOMINEES AND WINNERS AVAILABLE NOW ON PRIME VIDEO CANADA

From heavy hitters like five-time Oscar winner Anora for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress in a Leading Role to fan favourites The Brutalist, Wicked, and Conclave, and more, Prime Video has you covered.

Anora

A young escort from Brooklyn meets and impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

The Brutalist

After surviving the Holocaust, Hungarian-Jewish architect László Tóth emigrated to the United States after being forcibly separated from his wife, Erzsébet, and niece, Zsófia, in Budapest during World War II. He goes to Philadelphia, where he is given permission to stay with his immigrant cousin, Attila and his American wife, Audrey while he searches for work.

Wicked

In the Land of Oz, the citizens of Munchkinland celebrate the death of the Wicked Witch of the West. Glinda the Good tells the Witch’s story: born from an affair between the wife of then-Governor Thropp and a traveling salesman, she was rejected from birth due to her green skin, which caused her to suffer a troubled childhood. When asked if she and the Witch were friends, Glinda replies that they knew each other and reflects on their past.

Conclave

When Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope, he finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could shake the very foundation of the Catholic Church.

A Real Pain

Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, but their old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

The Substance

A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

Full list of nominations now available on Prime Video…

A Complete Unknown was nominated in 8 categories, including:

Best Picture

Actor in a Leading Role

Actress in a Supporting Role

Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Director

Best Sound

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Best Costume Design

A Real Pain was nominated for 2 categories, including:

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Actor in a Supporting Role (Winner)

Anora was nominated in 6 categories, including:

Actress in a Leading Role (Winner)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Directing (Winner)

Film Editing (Winner)

Best Picture (Winner)

Writing (Original Screenplay) (Winner)

Conclave was nominated in 8 categories, including

Actors in a Leading Role

Actress in a Supporting Role

Film Editing

Best Original Score

Best Picture

Production Design

Writing (Adapted Screenplay) (Winner)

Costume Design

Nickel Boys was nominated for 2 categories, including:

Best Picture

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Sing Sing was nominated for 3 categories, including:

Actor in a Leading Role

Best Original Song

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Substance was nominated for 5 categories, including:

Best Picture

Actress in a Leading Role

Best Director

Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Winner)

Writing (Original Screenplay)

The Wild Robot was nominated in 3 categories, including

Animated Feature Film

Best Original Score

Best Sound

Wicked was nominated in 10 categories, including:

Actress in a Leading Role

Actress in a Supporting Role

Costume Design (Winner)

Film Editing

Makeup and Hair Styling

Music

Best Picture

Production Design (Winner)

Sound

Visual Effects

#BOXOFFICE: “VENOM” TAKES HALLOWEEN BOX OFFICE

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE is set to take the top spot at the Box Office Halloween weekend with $19 million from 4,131 theatres. In one week, it has grossed $82.9 million for Sony Pictures.

THE WILD ROBOT continues to motor on in second with $6 million in its sixth weekend out, a total run of $120 million for Universal Pictures.

Third spot goes to SMILE 2 with $5.1 million for Paramount Pictures, bringing its two week tally to $51 million domestically.

Fourth is a debuting HERE re-teaming Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Director Robert Zemeckis, opening with $5 million from 2,402 theatres for Miramax/VVS Films. It gets 39% on the Tomatometer.

CONCLAVE pulls in $4.2 million from 1,796 theatres for Focus Features/Elevation Pictures, taking it to $14.1 million, good for fifth.

#FIRSTLOOK: “VENOM: THE LAST DANCE” STRUTS TO #1 IN OPENING

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE struts into top spot in its opening weekend with $50 million from 4,131 theatres for Sony Pictures. It gets 39% on the Tomatometer. Best opening for the Franchise still goes to 2021’s VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE with $90 million. This will be the final film in the Trilogy starring Tom Hardy.

Second is last week’s champ, SMILE 2 with $10.8 million, a two week total of $42 million for Paramount Pictures.

Third up is THE WILD ROBOT with $6 million, a tally of $110 million over five weekends for Universal Pictures.

CONCLAVE is set to debut with $5.3 million from 1,753 theatres for Focus Features/Elevation Pictures. Rotten Tomatoes score is an excellent 92% for this TIFF ’24 selection.

Fifth is TERRIFIER 3 with $4.5 million for Cineverse, a run of $45.2 million over three weekends – very impressive for this small budget Horror.

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Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events — participating in the selection of a new pope. Surrounded by powerful religious leaders in the halls of the Vatican, he soon uncovers a trail of deep secrets that could shake the very foundation of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Elevation Pictures release CONCLAVE October 25, 2024.

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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TRAILER FOR “CONCLAVE”

Today we get a new Trailer for CONCLAVE, in theatres this November via Elevation Pictures. The Drama stars a brilliant Cast, including Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow Elevation Pictures release October 25, 2024.

Synopsis:

From director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front), Conclave follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting a new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy and discovers a secret that could shake the very foundation of The Church.

Directed by Edward Berger
Written by Peter Straughan
Based on the novel by Robert Harris
Starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Carlos Diehz, Lucian Msamati, Brían F. O’Byrne, Merab Ninidze, with Sergio Castellitto, and Isabella Rossellini

#TIFF24: “CONCLAVE” REVIEW

By Nicholas Porteous

The pope is dead and Ralph Fiennes must find his successor amongst an ever-shrinking field of candidates in Edward Berger‘s Conclave, based on the historical fiction novel by Robert Harris. This is Berger‘s followup to his Oscar-winning All Quiet On the Western Front, and it’s not hard to see the cinematic parallels. 

Conclave is brimming with painterly compositions, a sweeping dramatic scope about as large as Saint Peter’s Basilica, and a great Ensemble Cast featuring Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, as well as a small but memorable turn from Isabella Rossellini. It’s fascinating to see inside the democratic process to decide who holds the power of the church until the end of their days, and this particular race is by no means straightforward. Not all potential (or rather, popetential) cardinals are free of sin, and some do a better job of hiding their indiscretions than others. There’s a Survivor/Hunger Games vibe to the proceedings, with various players scheming, forging alliances and counter alliances, votes cast and renegotiated, and cutthroat eliminations that ripple across the popelitical landscape as the next round of voting begins.

I found myself invested in the proceedings of this twisty-turny plot, but I’d wager Conclave had a significantly smaller impact on me than anyone bringing in their own personal connection to the Catholic Church. While I can understand the political gravity of a new pope in the abstract, the outcome has almost no influence on my life, so I can’t say Conclave’s urgency broke through on a personal level. The drama of the movie can also feel a bit room-temperature just months before the US election. It feels otherworldly to witness people vying for power who are actually held accountable for past behaviour. There is a touch of prescience in Conclave, and some solid universal observations, but at the end of the day, in 2024 I felt more disconnected than I’d like from what is, in spite of its twists, a relatively straightforward work of political fiction. Well-shot, well-acted, well sure–but I don’t see Conclave amassing the same critical and awards momentum as Berger‘s more gripping previous work.

Conclave screens at TIFF ’24:

Monday, September 9th at 3:00 PM at The Princess of Wales Theatre

Tuesday, September 10th at 8:30 PM at Scotiabank Theatre