Month: January 2023

Thomas Bangalter, half of the pioneering French electronic duo Daft Punk, who announced their split in 2021, has released the first song from his first orchestral solo album. “L’Accouchement”, performed by the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine conducted by Romain Dumas, is the first track from “Mythologies,” Banglater’s 90-minutes score for choreographer Angelin Preljocaj’s for the ballet
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The Academy is looking into the campaigns of the nominees for this year’s Oscars after scrutiny arose following Andrea Riseborough’s surprise nomination for “To Leslie.” After the actor’s “grassroots” campaign enlisted a number of celebrities to help spread the word about the small indie, Oscar voters and viewers are left wondering whether Riseborough broke any rules
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Few brands boast the same name or logo recognition as Canada Goose, the luxury outerwear manufacturer synonymous with unparalleled warmth in the face of sub-zero temps. But before it peppered the winter landscape with its insulated, down-filled jackets year after year, like clockwork, its parkas were prevalent on…film sets. It’s for this reason that Penny
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“Abbott Elementary’s” Quinta Brunson will be honored by the 60th International Cinematographers Guild Publicists Awards with the 2023 Showperson Award at The Beverly Hilton on March 10. As showrunner, creator, headwriter, executive producer and star, Bronson has received a series of accolades for her mockumentary series, “Abbott Elementary,” including one of Time Magazine’s “Time 100:
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Amazon Prime Video’s “The Grand Tour” presenter James May has described his co-host Jeremy Clarkson’s comments about Meghan Markle as “too creepy.” In December 2022, Clarkson’s column in U.K. tabloid The Sun suggested Markle be made to “parade naked” through Britain while people “throw lumps of excrement at her.” Clarkson has since apologized. On Monday,
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“Love to Love You, Donna Summer,” a docu biopic of the iconic disco singer, has been added to the lineup of Berlinale Special. Directed by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Roger Ross Williams (“Music by Prudence”) and Brooklyn Sudano, the film weaves rich archive of unpublished extracts, home video, photographs, artwork, writings, personal audio and other recordings
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Throughout his career, Indian filmmaker Devashish Makhija has been a chronicler of social inequities and “Joram” continues the trajectory. Makhija’s short films examine subjects as varied as misogyny, corruption, land grab and patriarchy. Amongst his features, “Ajji” (2017) tackles rape and its aftermath, while “Bhonsle” (2018) looks at a host of subjects including loneliness, social
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Exploding in Danish pubcaster DR’s prime time slot on Sunday Oct. 2, “Carmen Curlers” attracted more viewers for Episode 2 than a political debate with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in the run-up to general elections, according to the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Newsletter.   Little wonder. Politicians promise to better their country. Inspired by
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Niña Niño Films’ “Outsider Girls” (“Las Demás”), the debut feature of rising Chilean talent Alexandra Hyland, which world premieres in the Bright Future sidebar of Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam, has bowed its trailer exclusively with Variety. Hyland was named one of Variety’s Five Chilean Talents to Watch in 2018. Her feature debut follows best friends
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GÖTEBORG, Sweden – Jan Troell, the 91-year-old Swedish director and 1972 Oscar nominee for “The Emigrants,”  is giving interviews in a Göteborg hotel, his leg propped on a chair, a walking stick, his daughter, Johanna, and wife, Agneta, both collaborators on his films, by his side. The director, who turned down a ten-year Warner Bros.
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GÖTEBORG, Sweden — Alicia Vikander is at this week’s Goteborg Film Festival to help promote the Alicia Vikander Film Lab high-school initiative, and because Scandinavia’s largest film festival, held in her home town of Göteborg, southern Sweden, has always been part of her life.  Established in 2021 by Vikander (“The Danish Girl”), the Festival and
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Global sales shingle The Yellow Affair has acquired world rights to the modern love story “Power of Love” by German helmer Jonas Rothlaender, whose breakthrough movie “Fado” nabbed a Silver Hugo at Chicago and a German Film Critics’ for best feature debut.  Julia M. Müller and Luisa Leopold are producing for Germany’s StickUp Filmproduktion, in
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Bollywood A-lister Kareena Kapoor Khan is marking a new phase in her glittering career with a brace of films that she terms as “shockingly different.” Kapoor Khan has wrapped a project that shot in the U.K. under the working title “The Buckingham Murders,” directed by Hansal Mehta (“Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story”). The actor
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Zaida Carmona’s feature debut comedy “Girlfriends and Girlfriends,” makes its International Premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam this week, competing in the Bright Futures section.  Produced by JaJaJa Industrias and Fdez & Vera, with international sales rights handled by Begin Again Films, it follows buzz from its world premiere at Spain’s D’A Festival, in addition
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Cinema box office in mainland China came close to record levels over the Lunar New Year period with RMB6.76 billion of gross revenue – or just fractions short of $1 billion – in a week. Chinese state media reported the local currency number for a period covering Saturday to Friday 21-27 Jan. That compared with
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Harry Styles will perform at the  65th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 5, it was announced during the AFC Championship game on Sunday evening. Styles joins previously announced performers Bad Bunny, Mary J. Blige, Brandi Carlile, Luke Combs, Steve Lacy, Lizzo, Kim Petras, and Sam Smith. He’s finishing up the months-long North American leg of his “Love on Tour” just three nights before the
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Check out The Super Mario Bros Movie official TV spot starring Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy and Charlie Day! ► Sign up for a Fandango FanALERT: https://www.fandango.com/the-super-mario-bros-film-2022-229649/movie-overview?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the hottest trailers: http://bit.ly/2CNniBy US Release Date: April 7, 2023 Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day,
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Check out the official trailer for The Boogeyman starring Vivian Lyra Blair! ► Buy Tickets for The Boogeyman on Fandango: https://www.fandango.com/the-boogeyman-2023-230916/movie-overview?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the hottest trailers: http://bit.ly/2CNniBy US Release Date: June 2, 2023 Starring: Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivian Lyra Blair Director: Rob
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“A kiss of death, the embrace of life.” — “Marquee Moon” The notice came in the form of a Facebook post with a broken heart emoji. “Rest in Peace, Tom,” wrote CBGB’s veteran Brooke Delarco. Tom Verlaine (ne Thomas Miller) was gone at a way-too-young 73 from prostate cancer.  Verlaine’s passing — officially announced, appropriately
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