Thank you Alex for posting all the videos . Team RW has worked so hard these past number of weeks with all the promo . Rob myst be exhausted,

 

Looking forward to the Graham Norton show on New Years Eve, that will be great promo for the movie ..

Graham Norton Show's New Years Eve special confirms star-studded line-up

 

The Graham Norton Show has confirmed the star-studded line-up for its upcoming New Year's Eve special.

 

The Hogmanay sofa is set to welcome showman Robbie Williams, who will promote his new biopic Better Man and close the show with a special live performance.

 

Oscar winner Rami Malek will discuss his leading role in the upcoming West End production of Greek tragedy Oedipus, while Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi Mabuse will talk about the 2025 Strictly Live Tour. Meanwhile, comedian and former Doctor Who star John Bishop will promote his forthcoming tour, John Bishop: 25, which celebrates his 25-year career in stand-up.

 

Viewers can also expect some surprise guests, a look back at the highlights of 2024, and stories in the Big Red Chair.

 

The episode will air on New Year's Eve (Tuesday, December 31) at 10.25pm on BBC One.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/...id=BingNewsSerp

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Better Man vs Wicked

 

Bettericked

or

WickedMan

 

:)

 

 

 

:lol:

 

Better Man vs Wicked

 

Bettericked

or

WickedMan

 

:)

 

 

 

 

PULP iamspamspamamiPODCAST

 

Great chat about BETTER MAN without giving too much away ..

 

Sexed Up , Yes I agree :heart-old:

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:lol:

So, also tons of new interviews, including even with Guillermo Del Toro! Wow!

 

 

 

 

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Gosh ! , such an array of different ads . I love the background story to this one as told by MG ..

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Thank you, Alex. This sounds all so good, now we need the fingers crossed that it will show at the box office.

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In a case you prefer to watch this interview (Digital Spy) on Youtube

 

 

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This one is different and new one by Radio Times.

It's a very kind and good interview, especially in the end. Really recommend you (no spoilers).

And also I like to look at Rachelle and Jonno - beautiful pair and I feel well how they love and admire Robbie's legacy and Rob himself

 

While here is another inteview with Frazer who plays Nate character in the movie... But who is Nate? Robbie's friend at school or?...

 

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97TH OSCARS® SHORTLISTS IN 10 AWARD CATEGORIES ANNOUNCED

 

 

Posted: Tuesday, December 17, 2024

 

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced shortlists in 10 categories for the 97th Academy Awards®: Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound and Visual Effects.

 

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

Fifteen songs will advance in the Original Song category for the 97th Academy Awards. Eighty-nine songs were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

 

The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by film title:

 

“Forbidden Road” from “Better Man”

“Winter Coat” from “Blitz”

“Compress/Repress” from “Challengers”

“Never Too Late” from “Elton John: Never Too Late”

“El Mal” from “Emilia Pérez”

“Mi Camino” from “Emilia Pérez”

“Sick In The Head” from “Kneecap”

“Beyond” from “Moana 2”

“Tell Me It’s You” from “Mufasa: The Lion King”

“Piece By Piece” from “Piece by Piece”

“Like A Bird” from “Sing Sing”

“The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight”

“Out Of Oklahoma” from “Twisters”

“Kiss The Sky” from “The Wild Robot”

“Harper And Will Go West” from “Will & Harper”

 

 

 

VISUAL EFFECTS

Ten films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 97th Academy Awards. The Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist. All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view excerpts and interviews with the artists from each of the shortlisted films on Saturday, January 11, 2025. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.

 

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

 

“Alien: Romulus”

“Better Man”

“Civil War”

“Deadpool & Wolverine”

“Dune: Part Two”

“Gladiator II”

“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”

“Mufasa: The Lion King”

“Twisters”

“Wicked”

 

Nominations voting begins on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, and concludes on Sunday, January 12, 2025.

 

Nominations for the 97th Academy Awards will be announced on Friday, January 17, 2025.

 

The 97th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC, streamed live on Hulu and airs live in more than 200 territories worldwide.

 

https://press.oscars.org/news/97th-oscarsr-...ories-announced

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Fingers crossed ;)

Credit to RW Fanfest

 

Robbie and Ayda looking gorgeous at a Golden Globes nominee lunch today

Robbie Williams and director Michael Gracey on their bananas, CGI monkey- featuring biopic ‘Better Man’: “It’s healing”

 

 

Williams also speculated on Liam Gallagher’s reaction to his role on the movie and teased a new album featuring Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi

 

Robbie Williams and director Michael Gracey have spoken to NME about Better Man, the new Williams biopic featuring a CGI monkey (performed by actor Jonno Davies) in the lead role. The duo revealed the logic behind the unusual choice, the film’s no-holds-barred depiction of Williams’ drug and alcohol addictions and why we empathise more with animals than human beings in cinema. Williams also speculated on Liam Gallagher’s reaction to his role in the film and opened up about his forthcoming 13th studio album, which features Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi and British hard-rock legend Glenn Hughes on one track.

 

The monkey came about because, Robbie, Michael asked what animal you might be. You said…

 

Robbie Williams: “Lion. I was trying to get some self-worth for myself at the time – and still, every day. Chin out, chest out – lion. And Michael just went: [looks uncertain]. I went: ‘Monkey?’ He went, ‘Yeah, OK,’ and pitched me the idea and I was totally onboard.”

“Because that’s it, innit? I’m a cheeky monkey, aren’t I? If they said, on Family Fortunes, ‘We asked 100 people, “What animal is Robbie Williams?”’, the people that don’t hate me would probably go, ‘He’s a monkey.’”

 

Michael, why did you want Robbie to be an animal in the first place?

 

Michael Gracey: “There’s been a number of musical biopics and I was searching for something that would be, from an audience point of view, more interesting. When I came up with that idea, it just really made me smile. You see more of Rob in the monkey than you would if it was an actor playing him. We did hi-res scans of Rob’s eyes, so it is actually, in all those close-ups, Rob looking out at you.”

 

A lot of music biopics are cleaned-up versions of the story, with the Freddie Mercury movie Bohemian Rhapsody being the prime example. You don’t go down the family friendly route here…

 

MG: “Rob’s life has not been family friendly.”

 

RW: “I haven’t lived a PG life! Neither had Freddie Mercury but there are three members of that band that need to OK things – there’s less people to go through to get to me. One of my strengths – being ADHD and neurodivergent and being on the spectrum – is that I don’t pick up on the cues of stuff that you’re not supposed to say… until the thing that I’ve said reaches the person’s ears and they go: [looks shocked]. I go: ‘Did I do a thing?’ My autism, I suppose, is a useful tool for a filmmaker that wants to exploit that!”

 

MG: “When you go to those darker moments, you feel the light so much more. That’s in the narratives that I love watching. Films like All That Jazz are just fantastic because they don’t shy away from showing the darker moments and I think there is something for an audience that is a lot more respectful when you show truth. “It’s more relatable as well, because we as an audience go, ‘We’ve also done things we’re ashamed of, that we’ve don’t wanna talk about, or we’ve said things we regret.’ That makes it a much more engaging experience.”

 

RW: “I think we all wanna expel the things that live in the dark corners of our minds and memories, and I’m lucky enough to get to do it on such a grandiose scale. In some sort of way for me, it’s healing.”

 

What do you reckon Liam Gallagher will make of his depiction in the film?

 

RW: “I think that there’ll be a bit of him that’s happy that he exists in it. Did you send him the script Michael?”

 

MG: “I don’t think Liam’s read it [but] there’s nothing in there that’s not common knowledge.”

 

RW: “Uh-oh! [adopts a legalistic tone] There’s not anything there that isn’t 100 per cent factual! That’s how he behaved! That’s the person that he was! And in a court of law, it all stands up! “I dunno, man. The people that we were are different people than we are right now. I see Liam and I love his interviews, and I love the person that he is becoming. He’s kindly now and introspective and still marvellously funny – but the edges have been taken off. Same with me: the edges have been taken off. So, in the movie, he’s a representation of who he was then and I’m a representation of who I was then. I don’t want him to be upset. I hope he likes it. The guy that plays Noel has only got one line, but that one line is so unbelievably Noel, it’s incredible: ‘f*** off, c**t!’”

 

Michael, were you surprised by how far Robbie was willing to go with those darker elements in the film?

 

MG: “To read it in script form is one thing. To see it up on the screen, large, is another. I knew Rob was totally onboard with the script because he’d read it and signed off on it, and we were all set to make that film. You have a level of empathy with animals that is different to humans. We are very numb, cinematically, to seeing humans suffer, whereas there is something deeply unsettling about watching a monkey snorting coke. It’s not glamorous. It’s like: ‘Ugh!’”

 

RW: “That’s the kind of Siegfried & Roy [the German-American magicians and entertainers who were big in the ‘80s and ‘90s] show I wanna see, though.

 

MG: “When you go to those really dark places, it’s wonderful that Rob didn’t shy away from it. I would tell you if he made us cut anything. This would be my moment to say: ‘There’s this great sequence that Rob couldn’t handle. But the truth is that there isn’t a single shot in the film that Rob took out.”

 

What was it like for you actually seeing the film, Robbie?

 

RW: “Tears. And triggering. And grief. And healing. And ego. And: ‘Look at what’s happened to me!’. It just depends on which version of me turns up for the screening on that particular day – and how much sleep I’ve had. At the minute, I just wanna take all of this in. I wanna drink every moment that I can, because I’m now in a place where I can derive joy from life. I couldn’t derive any joy from life for such a long time. And I feel as though I’m getting lucky again and I’m getting another bite of the apple.”

 

Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath reportedly appears on ‘Rocket’, a song from your new album… :cool:

 

RW: “And Glenn Hughes! I wanted to make the album that I’d make if I’d left Take That now, knowing what I know. This particular song encapsulates that perfectly. Unfortunately and fortunately for me, pop songs turned up along the way, too. I’m like: ‘Ah, f*** – a hit!’ This [track] is massive guitars, as you can imagine. It’s adrenaline-filled and balls-to-the-wall. That one in particular is my favourite song off my new album – that I’ve just announced is happening!”

 

When’s it out?

RW: “I dunno – let’s see how well the film does…”

 

MG: “No pressure”

 

‘Better Man’ is released in UK and Irish cinemas on December 26

https://www.nme.com/features/film-interview...terview-3821636

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I liked this part in this article on BBC:

 

In 2002, he even made fun of the situation with the self-deprecating I Will Talk And Hollywood Will Listen, in which the title rhymed with the lyric "Mr Spielberg look just what you're missing".

 

How things change. Better Man has already earned a Golden Globe nomination for best song. And on Tuesday, he will find out whether Forbidden Road, which plays over the end credits, is among the 15 songs on the shortlist for the Academy Awards.

 

And there are other categories in which the film could get a nomination.

 

"Best visual effects," starts Gracey, before Williams interjects once more.

 

"Best musical monkey!" he beams.

 

Gracey laughs. "If that was a category, we would definitely win."

 

Hollywood is indeed starting to listen.

 

Better Man opens in cinema on 26 December.

Credit to RW Fanfest

 

Robbie and Ayda looking gorgeous at a Golden Globes nominee lunch today

Agree, Laura!

 

But it's still about a gum and new teeth B-)

 

If you don't mind, let me pin this thread into upper section because it's a very hot topic of our Forum at the moment.

Let's keep it here until Feb or so.

 

Talking this, I must admit that this video is highly discussed on Twitter today.

I didn't watch this clip because want to keep it until its first screening..

 

 

AACTA International Awards 2025: ‘Better Man’, ‘The Brutalist’ Lead Nominees

 

By Jessica Lynch

 

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) has revealed the nominees for the 14th International AACTA Awards. Celebrating the best in global film and television, the winners will be announced during the 2025 AACTA Awards on the Gold Coast this February.

 

Leading the nominations is “Better Man,” the much-anticipated Robbie Williams biopic, earning six nods, including Best Film, Best Director for Michael Gracey (“The Greatest Showman”), and Best Lead Actor for Jonno Davies. Davies’ motion-capture performance as Williams marks a groundbreaking moment, highlighting the innovative strides of modern storytelling.

Close behind, “The Brutalist” secured five nominations, with Guy Pearce earning a nod for Best Supporting Actor. Golden Globe favourite “Emilia Pérez” followed with four nominations, while “Anora” and “Dune: Part Two” round out the Best Film category, offering a blend of independent grit and epic spectacle.

 

This year’s awards are notable for breaking new ground: motion-capture performances have been recognised for the first time, reflecting the evolving landscape of performance and technology. Jonno Davies’ role in “Better Man” marks a milestone for the industry as technology and artistry merge seamlessly.

The winners will be revealed across two ceremonies held at HOTA, Home of the Arts, on the Gold Coast: the AACTA Awards Industry Gala on February 5th and the AACTA Awards Ceremony on February 7th. Both events are part of the larger AACTA Festival, a five-day celebration of screen culture that includes workshops, meet-and-greets, and outdoor screenings.

 

The 2025 AACTA Awards will be broadcast on Channel Ten on February 7th, with an extended version available on BINGE and Foxtel the following day.

 

 

The 2025 AACTA International Award Nominees

 

Best Film

“Anora”

“Better Man”

“Dune: Part Two”

“Emilia Pérez”

“The Brutalist”

 

Best Lead Actor in Film

Adrien Brody – “The Brutalist” – as László Tóth

Daniel Craig – “Queer” – as Lee

Jonno Davies – “Better Man” – as Robbie Williams

Colman Domingo – “Sing Sing” – as John “Divine G.” Whitfield

Ralph Fiennes – “Conclave” – as Thomas Lawrence

 

Best Lead Actress in Film

Kirsten Dunst – “Civil War” – as Lee Smith

Karla Sofia Gascón – “Emilia Pérez” – as Emilia Pérez

Nicole Kidman – “Babygirl” – as Romy

Mikey Madison – “Anora” – as Mikheeva

Kate Winslet – “Lee” – as Lee Miller

 

Best Supporting Actor in Film

Kieran Culkin – “A Real Pain” – as Benji Kaplan

Damon Herriman – “Better Man” – as Nigel

Guy Pearce – “The Brutalist” – as Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr.

Stanley Tucci – “Conclave” – as Cardinal Bellini

Denzel Washington – “Gladiator II” – as Macrinus

 

Best Supporting Actress in Film

Toni Collette – “Juror #2” – as Faith Killebrew

Ariana Grande – “Wicked” – as Glinda

Felicity Jones – “The Brutalist” – as Erzsébet Tóth

Zoe Saldaña – “Emilia Pérez” – as Rita Mora Castro

Alison Steadman – “Better Man” – as Betty

 

Best Direction in Film

Jacques Audiard – “Emilia Pérez”

Brady Corbet – “The Brutalist”

Michael Gracey – “Better Man”

George Miller – “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”

Denis Villeneuve – “Dune: Part Two”

 

Best Screenplay in Film

“Anora” – Sean Baker

“Better Man” – Michael Gracey, Oliver Cole, Simon Gleeson

“Conclave” – Peter Straughan

“The Brutalist” – Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold

“A Real Pain” – Jesse Eisenberg

 

The 2025 AACTA Awards Ceremony will be broadcast on Channel Ten at 7:30 p.m. AEDT on February 7, with an extended version available on BINGE and Foxtel the following evening.

 

For more information, visit aacta.org.

 

https://au.variety.com/2024/awards/awards/a...nominees-19237/

 

https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/aacta-in...ational-awards/

But it's still about a gum and new teeth B-)

 

 

Yes, some folk are obsessed with the finer details :lol:

If you don't mind, let me pin this thread into upper section because it's a very hot topic of our Forum at the moment.

Let's keep it here until Feb or so.

 

Talking this, I must admit that this video is highly discussed on Twitter today.

I didn't watch this clip because want to keep it until its first screening..

 

 

 

I have purposely not watched any of these additional promo videos as I want to experience them in full at the cinema . From what I read about them & hoe they were made they sound just fantastic.