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The voice behind China’s beloved animated character Ne Zha took center stage alongside global cinema luminaries as the Shanghai International Film Festival hosted its first-ever Kering…
With movie adaptations of books, the essential virtue is audacity, the readiness to transform the source material. That’s equally true of documentaries, as seen in “Videoheaven,” Alex Ross…
Idris Elba is thinking big about Africa’s entertainment infrastructure. At SXSW London, the actor-entrepreneur revealed his ambitious goal to establish a cinema chain across the continent,…
Charlotte Ercoli’s newest film opens with a scene that will likely feel familiar: a messy apartment and a suitcase that remains unpacked long after its owner, a New York City-based…
A wholly owned subsidiary of Frasers Property has agreed to buy the Yishun cinema complex from Golden Village Multiplex and lease back the property to the cinema chain. Frasers unit Lion…
The Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (JAFF) is gearing up for the second edition of JAFF Market at the Jogja Expo Center in Yogyakarta. The industry platform returns following a successful…
Dolby Cinema is making a killer bot’s dreams come true in a brand-new poster to celebrate the impending arrival of M3GAN 2.0. Get a first look at the girl and her protector posing for an…
The vast spectrum of streaming platforms is like so many libraries: countless treasures line the shelves but little attention is paid to them. One of the virtues of the Criterion Channel,…
When the competition program of the seventy-eighth Cannes Film Festival was announced several weeks ago, I wasn’t alone in predicting that the Iranian director Jafar Panahi would win the…
Roughly a year after its launch, Italian state broadcaster RAI’s new sales unit for film is at Cannes with its first full-fledged slate headlined by surreal Western “Heads or Tails”…
Dissident Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi on Tuesday walked up the Montées des Marches steps of the Cannes Film Festival‘s red carpet for the world premiere of his surreptitiously shot new…
A few days before the start of the Cannes Film Festival, Variety gathered top French producers, distributors and talent, including Dominik Moll, Elodie Bouchez, Justine Triet and Coralie…
JoongAng Group and retail behemoth Lotte Group have inked a blockbuster deal that promises to dramatically reshape South Korea‘s theatrical landscape. The media and retail giants signed a…
Sometimes there’s light at the end of the rabbit hole. When Josef von Sternberg’s film “The Devil Is a Woman,” from 1935, was recently screened, I was curious about how it was received in…
Despite the streaming revolution reshaping entertainment consumption worldwide, Prime Video‘s top international executives remain steadfast believers in the enduring power of theatrical…
In a major boon for action film enthusiasts and physical media collectors, Shout! Studios is launching a new entertainment label dedicated to restored Hong Kong cinema classics. The Hong…
Before watching “April,” the new movie from the Georgian director and screenwriter Dea Kulumbegashvili, I had seen only one other fictional film that featured a real childbirth. It was…
The sound mixing teams behind “A Complete Unknown” and “The Wild Robot” won awards in the categories of live action feature and animated feature, respectively, at the 61st Cinema Audio…
The Berlin Film Festival prides itself on being a political event, which dates back to its inception in 1951 as a beacon of democracy in West Berlin, surrounded by Communist East Germany…
This year’s slate of best international film Oscar nominees puts France, Brazil, Germany, Latvia and Denmark center stage for the upcoming Academy Awards. And with several of these films…
With December 25 fast approaching, a new poll by Talker Research for Newsweek has revealed America's most popular Christmas movies. The survey of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted between…
