Ethan Hawke Gossip

Ethan Hawke was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards last night to collect his award for Best Actor for his performance in First Reformed. He was also on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote the revival of Sam Shepard’s True West opening soon on Broadway and it happened to be the first day of Oscar nominations voting so, you know, the timing couldn’t be better. Full Story

Ethan Hawke got the wildest applause of the night at the Gotham Awards last night after his Best Actor win for his work in First Reformed. It’s his first win for that performance, and with the National Board of Review and New York Film Critics Circle both announcing their picks this week, it could be the start of a win streak for him. Full Story

It’s a one-person team, really. Bohemian Rhapsody continues to perform very well at the box office. Right now it’s approaching $400 million worldwide and could make as much as $500 globally by the end of its theatrical run. Despite the problems that many critics – including Sarah Full Story

Viggo Mortensen was the Middleburg Film Festival promoting Green Book this weekend. Green Book won the People’s Choice at TIFF last month. And Viggo is definitely a contender for Best Actor for his performance in the film, alongside Mahershala Ali. Ethan Hawke, meanwhile, was at the London Film Festival promoting a film he directed, Blaze. Full Story

Nikola Tesla is ripe for a biopic. His story has everything: Genius, madness, rags-to-riches-to-rags, world-changing inventions, and a tragic ending. Tesla is one of the smartest people to ever live—if that sounds like exaggeration, x-rays are just some sh*t he discovered on accident and we’re still not even touching the greatest of his inventions and theories—and he was also a real character, as the kids say. Full Story

Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried are at the Venice Film Festival supporting Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. Full Story

And it’s worth lining around the block for. In Maudie, Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins unexpectedly fall in love and fit together like a "pair of old socks. Full Story

According to Ethan Hawke, working with Sally Hawkins in Maudie - a film about Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, who had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis - was a "match made in cinema heaven. Full Story

If you recognise the combination of those names, you’re just as happy as I am today. Because you love Reality Bites. Those of us who love and lived Reality Bites know that it’s not the best movie, with not the best acting, and we will tell that to the hater who huffs about how they don’t understand why Reality Bites came to mean what it means that they’re not illuminating for us anything new. Full Story

Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven—itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai—was the opening film at TIFF. I missed the press screening, so I had to wait a couple days to see it, and during that time everyone kept telling me how horrible it is. Full Story