Hollywood Reporter
Clooney is a Venice regular, having premiered such films as 'Jay Kelly,' 'Gravity,' and 'Good Night, and Good Luck' on the Lido.
Variety
Next Interactive Studio unveiled its slate of interactive films and its self-developed interactive cinema ecosystem at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, drawing more than 100 audience members to “play” a film live at the festival. The showcase’s centerpiece was “Replica,” one of the first Chinese-language interactive animated features. The film was co-produced with Kinlea […]
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Indian auteur Anurag Kashyap has come on board as presenter of Bangladeshi drama “Delupi,” with the film set to carry the “Anurag Kashyap Presents” banner across its release and promotional campaigns going forward. “Delupi” had its international premiere in the Bright Future section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) earlier this year. The premiere […]
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The Venice Film Festival will honor George Clooney with its 2026 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Clooney – who is one of only three people to have been nominated in six different Oscar categories throughout his career (best picture, director, lead actor, supporting actor, original screenplay and adapted screenplay) – will be celebrated on the […]
The Guardian Culture
A reminder of Steven Spielberg’s prowess and speed in the latest in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort watchesSteven Spielberg was never much of a radical. While Francis Ford Coppola made Apocalypse Now and even George Lucas attacked the Vietnam war with Star Wars, the nervy new Hollywood hotshot was more interested in moviemaking’s toys than its politics. In Peter Biskind’s bestselling book of Tinseltown gossip, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, the actor Kit Carson remembers runni
Hollywood Reporter
Films from Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata and Roger Corman will also screen as the Swiss fest keeps putting a spotlight on "cinema of the past with an eye to the new generations and the audiences of tomorrow."
The Guardian Culture
The story of a lifelong friendship between two art-world mavericks from the working-class midwest is disappointingly piousDave Eggers, the author of more than a dozen novels as well as a steady stream of children’s and nonfiction books, grew up wanting to be an artist.As a child he took lessons with a Japanese watercolourist, studied painting at college, worked as a magazine cartoonist and illustrator, even curated a New York show entitled Lots of Things Like This featuring pieces by Jean-M
Hollywood Reporter
THR can premiere a clip from the film, also starring Rory Kinnear and Ezra Carlisle, about an autistic boy, his grieving father and an au pair who shakes up their lives, which debuts in Karlovy Vary's Special Screenings program.
Variety
“Toy Story 5” held onto the number one spot at the South Korean box office during the weekend of July 3–5. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the film brought in $2.8 million from 429,042 admissions over the three-day window, maintaining a 38.6% share of the weekend […]
The Guardian Culture
Misan Harriman was catapulted into a new career after turning his camera to anti-racist demonstrations – though the shadow of more recent criticism loomsThis is a documentary portrait of the celebrated British-Nigerian photographer, film-maker and activist Misan Harriman, who has campaigned on Gaza and Black Lives Matter, that was completed before the row in May about some of his social media posts. These appeared to amplify anti-Zionist conspiracy theories about media coverage of the Golders Gr
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When Miroslav Terzić was writing his new film back in 2023, titled “3 Weeks After,” there was a mass shooting at a Serbian school, the country where the director was born. “It was terrible when you realize what you are writing, it’s happening somewhere right now — it’s not a film, it’s real life,” Terzić […]
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When director Juan Miguel Gelacio first began listening to the stories of mothers searching for their disappeared sons in Colombia, he thought it would make an interesting documentary. Then, he believed their accounts would lend themselves beautifully to a short fiction film. As the project evolved, Gelacio onboarded his “Jungle” co-director Esteban Hoyos García, who […]
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Mubi has expanded its theatrical distribution partnership with Madman Entertainment, tapping the independent Australian and New Zealand distributor to sub-release five films theatrically across the region, including several Cannes and Berlinale prize winners. Madman will open Jane Schoenbrun’s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” first, on Aug. 6 in Australia and Aug. 20 in […]
Hollywood Reporter
Serbian director Miroslav Terzić's third feature, debuting in the main Karlovy Vary competition, starts with a high-school trip to Bulgaria: "I wanted to provoke the audience. ... I did not want it to be forgotten" right away.
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Sky has agreed to acquire ITV’s Media and Entertainment business for total consideration of up to £1.6 billion ($2.14 billion). The deal, expected to close in the second half of 2027, will separate ITV Studios into a standalone global content business and return roughly £950 million ($1.27 billion) to shareholders. The consideration comprises £1.2 billion […]
Hollywood Reporter
The ITV Studios production arm will become a standalone business after the planned transaction.
The Guardian Culture
Sedaris plays up the curmudgeonliness in a collection that still entertainsI’ll confess my heart sank slightly at the prospect of reading David Sedaris’s new volume of essays, some of them previously published in the New Yorker, and which, relative to his earlier output, strike me as increasingly shticky and reliant on anecdotes too thin for their weight. (From the essay Little America: “Few things drive me crazier than people who put their feet up on the furniture.”) After nine previous volumes
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Documentary intersperses pastel scenes of spotless tourist resorts with candid interviews with the asylum seekers who labour to keep them pristineEvery year, millions of tourists flock to the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean where the sun always shines. Through static shots resembling picture postcards, Mette Carla Albrechtsen’s pastel-hued documentary captures the leisure activities on offer: cerulean rooftop pools, pristine sandy beaches and raves that stretch into d
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Norah Jones hosts the legendary rock stars as they return to the studio for a new album. Plus, mindfulness meditation with the Getty MuseumThis official Rolling Stones podcast is hosted by Norah Jones and released across six weeks, with each chapter charting the making of the band’s upcoming studio album, Foreign Tongues. Unsurprisingly, it’s a polished exercise in PR for one of the world’s biggest acts. Its first episode is also something of a tribute, as it considers how Mick, Keith and Ronnie
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Universal’s “Minions & Monsters” debuted at the No. 1 spot at the China box office during the July 3–5 weekend, grossing RMB111.5 million ($16.4 million), according to data from Artisan Gateway. Taopiaopiao’s sci-fi comedy “Keep Real” opened in second place, securing $10.5 million over the weekend frame. Including early previews, the film has reached a […]