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The Locarno Film Festival‘s Open Doors program, which supports filmmakers from underrepresented regions of the world, has unveiled a new team for its next four-year mission: To focus on supporting and elevating African cinema. The co-production and talent develpment initiative, previously focused on Latin America and the Caribbean, will turn its attention to the African
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After writer/director Damien Chazelle made two of the most critically acclaimed movies of the 2010s, it felt like a big-budget follow-up starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie would be a shoo-in for a box office and critical success. However, that was very much not the case with 2022’s Babylon. The movie earned mixed reviews from
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(Image credit: Walt Disney Animation) Release Date: November 27, 2024Directed By: David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand, Dana Ledoux MilleWritten By: Jared Bush, Dana Ledoux MilleStarring: Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Temuera Morrison, Nicole Scherzinger Rating: Rated PG for action/peril. Runtime: 100 minutesMoana 2: Release Date, Cast And Other Things We Know Disney has always been known
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Mindy Kaling has boarded the live-action short Anuja as a producer off the back of its wins at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, the Montclair Film Festival, and the New York International Short Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter can reveal. Anuja, from Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai, is the story of a gifted nine-year-old
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My friends, I don’t know about you, but I’m excited for the 2024 movie schedule to unfurl the darkness of Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu upon the silver screen this Christmas. I’m a firm believer that “scary ghost stories” go together with “tales of the glories of Christmases long long ago,” just as Andy Williams sang back
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For more than 400 years the works of William Shakespeare have inspired and entertained us. The movie industry has looked to those same works to produce some of the best adaptations of his work almost from the beginning of the medium. There are dozens of excellent examples of almost all of The Bard’s plays. Some
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Universal has been vindicated, thanks to the witches of Oz and the tenacity of studio chief and top NBCUniversal executive Donna Langley. Over the Nov. 22-24 weekend, director Jon M. Chu’s Wicked opened to an estimated $114 million domestically, the biggest box office launch of all time for a Broadway adaptation in a landslide victory,
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Keira Knightley has long been a beloved figure in Hollywood, celebrated for her talent and elegance in rewatchable films like Pride and Prejudice and Atonement. However, with her rise to stardom in the early 2000s came an intense level of public scrutiny towards the young actress. Much of this centered around her physical appearance and
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Charges of beastly parents take on a literal meaning in Spellbound, a moving if somewhat familiar animated fantasy musical from Skydance Animation. When protagonist Ellian (Rachel Zegler) describes her parents as monsters, she’s not echoing the clichéd allegation lodged by teens everywhere. She’s being dead serious. Nearly a year ago, while ambling through the forest,
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Matthew McConaughey might be one of the most surprising and sustaining actors we have today. He’s been enjoyable in everything from his top standout performances to his beloved place in some classic rom-coms. Along the way, the 55-year-old realized that to sustain his career and peace of mind, something had to change. And he realized
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A total of 31 animated features, 169 documentary features and 85 international features are eligible for Oscar nominations this season, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed on Thursday. In the animated feature category, high-profile studio films like Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 and Universal/DreamWorks’s The Wild Robot and acclaimed indies like Memoir of
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Macedonian producer and actress Labina Mitevska has been selected as the recipient of this year’s Eurimages International Co-production Award, honoring producers for their contribution in fostering international film collaboration. Mitevska, who co-founded Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production in Skopje, North Macedonia, will receive the award from European film subsidy group Eurimages and the European Film
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