Georgia’s ‘The Antique’ Debuts Trailer Ahead of Venice Premiere, MPM Handles...
Georgian filmmaker Rusudan Glurjidze’s second feature film “Antikvariati” (The Antique), which has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the Venice Days sidebar, is launching its trailer....
View ArticleUlla Heikkilä Readies for ‘Summer Is Crazy,’ Reveals Cast Featuring ‘Fallen...
Finnish director Ulla Heikkilä chose the “best actors she could think of” for sophomore feature “Summer is Crazy,” featuring “Fallen Leaves” star Jussi Vatanen, Aamu Milonoff (“Girl Picture”), Jani...
View ArticleNikolaj Coster-Waldau Features in First-Look Image for ‘My Fathers’...
“My Fathers’ Daughter,” soon to be the first Sámi-language feature to world premiere at Toronto, has released a first-look image featuring “Game of Thrones” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who will cameo...
View Article‘Vulcanizadora’ Review: A Bleak DIY Buddy Comedy About a Morbid Pact
Two men’s stroll through a Michigan forest as they bicker inconsequentially should not be this intriguing. However, writer-director (and actor) Joel Potrykus strikes precisely at the heart of their...
View Article‘The Furious’: How Japan’s Tanigaki Kenji Elevated a Steaming Bangkok Red...
The “police station” built in a few days from an old retail unit in Surawong, central Bangkok, is so realistic from the outside that several pedestrians stop and stare, perhaps wondering if this is the...
View Article‘Megalopolis’ Trailer’s Fake Critic Quotes Were AI-Generated, Lionsgate Drops...
Lionsgate has parted ways with Eddie Egan, the marketing consultant who came up with the “Megalopolis” trailer that included fake quotes from famous film critics. The studio pulled the trailer on...
View Article‘Three Kilometers to the End of the World’ Wins Sarajevo Film Festival
Romanian director Emanuel Pârvu’s “Three Kilometers to the End of the World,” a Palme d’Or contender at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, took home the top prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival Friday...
View ArticleDenzel Washington Says ‘There Are Very Few Films Left For Me to Make That I’m...
Is Denzel Washington nearing an acting retirement from the big screen? In a new interview with Empire magazine to promote his role in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator 2,” the two-time Oscar winner admitted...
View ArticleAFCI Week Targets Worldwide Production With Expanded Programming, Invitees
As the landscape for film, TV and commercials expands well beyond Hollywood, the Assn. of Film Commissioners International is appropriately opening its doors wider than ever before. In 2024, the...
View ArticleMilica Tomovic on Sarajevo Industry Prizewinner ‘Big Women’ and Why Audiences...
Serbian filmmaker Milica Tomović, whose sophomore feature, “Big Women,” was one of the big winners at the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry awards on Thursday, thinks audiences are afraid of women...
View ArticleRyan Reynolds Was ‘Mortified’ to Cut Rob McElhenney’s ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’...
Ryan Reynolds was “mortified” to cut Rob McElhenney’s cameo from “Deadpool & Wolverine” given that his friend and Wrexham football club co-owner flew all the way to London to make it happen....
View ArticleNoomi Rapace Talks About The Power of Film As Art And Her Upcoming Film ‘Mother’
Noomi Rapace, who is serving on the Sarajevo competition jury, visited the Variety Lounge presented by the Sarajevo Film Festival and BH Telecom to share her history with the Balkan region. Although it...
View Article‘Blink Twice’ Ending Explained: What Really Happens on Channing Tatum’s Island?
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Blink Twice,” in theaters now. In Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, paradise is not quite what it seems. At the beginning of “Blink Twice,” roommates and...
View ArticleChanning Tatum Says Gambit Accent Was Supposed to Be ‘Unintelligible’ at...
Channing Tatum finally got the chance to play the superhero Gambit in “Deadpool & Wolverine” after he spent years trying and failing to develop a Gambit film during Fox’s Marvel era. The role is so...
View ArticleBreaking Down ‘The Crow’: Inside the Reboot’s Provocative Ending,...
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the entire plot of “The Crow,” now playing in theaters. Director Rupert Sanders knows that “The Crow,” his third film, will inevitably be seen through...
View ArticleTribeca, Guadalajara, Tallinn, Rio, Sanfic Execs Map Out How Festivals Are...
SANTIAGO, Chile — This is the age of turbulence and film festivals are not immune. Decimated in many cases by public-sector cuts or COVID-19, they haven’t stopped evolving after the pandemic as they...
View ArticleBox Office: ‘Blink Twice’ and ‘The Crow’ Land Soft Opening Days as ‘Alien’...
The summer box office is winding down, as Amazon MGM’s social thriller “Blink Twice” and Lionsgate’s action remake “The Crow” both look to open beneath a trio of holdovers. “Blink Twice” wins the race...
View ArticleBill Skarsgard Ate Steak Tartare, Raw Eggs and No Sugar to Train for ‘The...
Bill Skarsgard got into incredible shape for his starring role in Lionsgate’s “The Crow,” and he’s revealed some of his intense diet and exercise regime for the role. He shot the indie action film “Boy...
View ArticleLeone Film Group Celebrates 35 Years With a Big Boost in International Pic...
Italy’s Leone Film Group is taking the legacy of its founder, spaghetti Western master Sergio Leone, to the next level. As the Rome-based company run by the maestro’s children, Raffaella and Andrea,...
View Article‘The Becomers’ Review: A Satirical Space Odyssey Writ Too Small
Since Jack Finney’s “The Body Snatchers” was first published 70 years ago, screen adaptations — official and unofficial alike — have taken place in small-town USA, Me Decade San Francisco, a military...
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