Month: May 2020

Movie theater chain Cinemark Holdings will delay reporting its first-quarter earnings due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has closed down its 345 venues in the U.S. Texas-based Cinemark, the third-largest U.S. chain after AMC and Regal, made the disclosure on Friday in an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It plans to report

Every shot in a movie is designed to tell a story, but there’s one in “” that stuntman-turned-director Sam Hargrave particularly fought for.  The action film, now streaming on Netflix, stars Chris Hemsworth as mercenary Tyler Rake, who has to rescue Ovi (Rudhraksh Jaiswal), the 14-year-old son of an imprisoned Indian drug kingpin, who has

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has made additional temporary changes for the 93rd Golden Globes. The organization behind the annual award show announced Friday adjustments to the foreign language motion picture category. In the past, movies had to be released in their country of origin during the 15-month period — from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31

The 58th New York Film Festival announced on Friday a new programming structure and the addition of curatorial members to their teams. For now, the festival will include in-person and digital experiences and will take place Sept. 25 through Oct. 11. But one question still hanging over New York Film Festival is if it will

English composer Rachel Portman today releases her first solo album. Titled “Ask the River,” it’s a collection of original pieces for piano, violin and cello that reflect her feelings about our fragile environment. That the release happens to come in the middle of a global pandemic is coincidental, but it also couldn’t be more timely.

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has acquired all rights in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. to “Impetigore,” the hit horror movie by Indonesian genre-meister Joko Anwar. After placing in the box office top five at home in 2019, the film had its international debut in Sundance this

Among the many cruelties of the coronavirus outbreak has been the way social distancing measures prevent us from visiting our relatives, which should be especially difficult on Mother’s Day for those who are accustomed to spending that time with mom. That’s where movies can assist: Why not select a film — from the list below

The film landscape in Scandinavia is far from homogenous. In Sweden, where no drastic coronavirus restrictions were enforced, shoots were not suspended so long as no more than 50 people were assembled, while elsewhere in the Nordics, a lockdown was imposed and film productions were stopped. On April 14, film production resumed in Denmark —

Though production is on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Italian industry is mostly holding up, thanks in part to a $145 million government aid package for exhibitors, distributors and producers. Netflix and Italy’s film commissions have launched a fund to provide short-term emergency support to crews that have been forced to stop working

With the introduction of a 30% cash rebate at the start of 2019, Poland has been wooing foreign productions to Eastern Europe. Production was steady before the coronavirus pandemic struck, and the industry is optimistic about an incentive scheme that in its first year has received more than €12 million ($13 million) from the Polish

With Italy gradually lifting some lockdown restrictions, local film and TV producers are busy drafting safety protocols to start shooting again, with June targeted as the start of the industry’s road map to recovery. With close to 30,000 deaths, Italy has the second deadliest coronavirus outbreak in Europe, behind the U.K., but is now flattening

Cinema Italiano was thriving prior to the pandemic so Italy’s David di Donatello Awards, the country’s top film prizes, will serve as a collective rebirth rite just when coronavirus lockdown restrictions slowly begin to lift. The ceremony marking the Davids’ 65th anniversary to be aired May 8 on pubcaster RAI in primetime obviously sans red

VFX house Framestore has announced three senior hires in its London-based film division. Graham Page joins as VFX supervisor after 14 years with DNEG, where he supervised the company’s work on titles such as “Avengers: Endgame,” “Captain Marvel” and “Avengers: Infinity War.” His appointment brings Framestore’s tally of VFX supervisors to 24, with experience encompassing pre-production,

Piera Detassis, who heads the Italian Film Academy that runs the David Awards, is no longer anxious about how the no-frills ceremony for the country’s top prizes will play out. Ever since the coronavirus outbreak, Detassis had been “tormented” about whether to go forward with the prizes, originally scheduled for April 3. But now that

The David di Donatello Awards, which are modeled on the Oscars, were established in the 1950s as Italy’s film industry started thriving amid the country’s postwar reconstruction effort. Below are some milestones that provide a partial mini-history of postwar Italian cinema. 1956: The first David di Donatello awards ceremony takes place at Rome’s Cinema Fiamma.