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Venice Horizons Winner Anuparna Roy Returns to Lido With Mumbai Story of Migrants, Desire and Belonging ‘Lovers in the Blue Night’

Indian filmmaker Anuparna Roy has been carrying Ameena’s story since childhood. Ameena was a bonded laborer in Roy’s hometown, and something she once said about her marriage stayed with the director long after she grew up and moved away. That memory became the seed for “Lovers in the Blue Night,” which premieres in the Horizons […]

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Amazon’s Newest Fire Tablet Is Only $150, With 10,000 Units Sold In the Last Month Alone

Amazon has made a name for itself with its slate of Alexa-enabled devices, but the retail giant is also a leader when it comes to its lineup of tablets. Whether for work or streaming, Amazon’s Fire Tablets offer up huge value, especially when compared to Apple’s iPad or the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Case in point: […]

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About Premium Content Inks International Deals for Mystery and Romance Series, Counterfeit Art Doc (EXCLUSIVE)

APC Studios’ boutique distributor About Premium Content (APC) has signed a number of key international broadcast deals ahead of this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre on French-language scripted and unscripted series “Blue Gold,” “Seasons” and “An Artful Imbrolio.” The eight-part crime drama and family saga “Blue Gold” has been licensed to Walter Presents for […]

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Lumiere Declaration Sets 15 Principles for Global Film Governance, Calling Audience Attention ‘a Trust to Be Honored, Not a Resource to Be Captured’

Representatives of countries, international organizations, film, television and gaming industry leaders, creators, festivals and cultural institutions from across the world adopted the Lumière Declaration on the Future of Cinema and the Moving Image on Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Jointly presented by France and the Republic of Korea and convened under the co-chairship […]

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Inside the Restoration of Indian Cult Classic ‘English, August,’ Heading to Venice as Relevant as Ever (EXCLUSIVE)

Dev Benegal’s “English, August” almost didn’t survive to be restored. Its original camera negative had melted. The dupe was gone too. All that was left were two surviving 35mm prints – and, it turned out, a box of DAT tapes nobody expected to matter three decades later. “It’s really sad that when I saw the […]

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Korea Box Office: ‘The Odyssey’ Overwhelms ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ as Admissions Top 10 Million

“The Odyssey” held onto its commanding lead at the South Korean box office during the weekend of Sep. 4–6. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the Christopher Nolan-directed tentpole generated $5.9 million from 698,384 admissions over the three-day frame across 1,858 screens, capturing 60.92% of the total […]

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Prada Foundation Film Fund Chief Paolo Moretti on First-Year Journey That Helped Spawn Rubaiyat Hossain’s Venice Horizons Entry ‘The Difficult Bride’

Last year at the Venice Film Festival, Italy’s Fondazione Prada officially launched its film fund, aimed at sustaining independent cinema from around the world without any restrictions on theme, genre or language. This year, it‘s back on the Lido with tangible proof that the initiative has borne fruit. The fund’s first edition is among backers […]

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China Box Office: ‘Once Upon a Time in the Middle East’ Crosses $300 Million

Dirty Monkeys’ war comedy-drama “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East” retained the top spot at the mainland China box office for the fourth consecutive weekend, grossing RMB82.6 million ($12.1 million) over the Sept. 4–6 frame, according to data from Artisan Gateway. The blockbuster hit has now crossed a major milestone, lifting its cumulative […]

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Serielizados Unveils Lineup with ‘Celeste’ Season 2, Hagai Levi, Diane Morgan and the Sánchez-Cabezudo Brothers Series in Competition (EXCLUSIVE)

Serielizados, Spain’s second largest audience-driven film/TV festival after San Sebastián, has unwrapped its main competition programs at this year’s edition, set to unspool onsite over Oct. 19-28 in Barcelona and a month later on streaming service Filmin, Headlining the official national competition as a world premiere is the second season of Movistar Plus+’s and 100 Balas’ “Celeste”, one […]

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French President Emmanuel Macron Calls on YouTube to Finance Content and Warns of Growing Threat to Cultural Model (EXCLUSIVE)

French President Emmanuel Macron said the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, which he co-chaired with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday, was deliberately held at a moment of dramatic upheaval for the entertainment business, from the growing dominance of YouTube and TikTok to AI and media consolidation. Speaking to Variety at the event, he […]

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Macklemore Says His Call to ‘Free Palestine’ Is Not a ‘Criticism’ of Jewish People: ‘None of Us Will Be Free Until We Are All Free’

Macklemore is speaking out about his call to “Free Palestine,” which the rapper made while opening for Ed Sheeran on Friday night at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. “To all of my Jewish brothers and sisters: criticism of Israel, criticism of apartheid, being against genocide in no way is a criticism of you,” Macklemore said on […]

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‘No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman’ Review: Iraq’s Oscar Submission Offers a Patriotic Anthem to the Kurdish Peshmerga’s Fight Against Islamic State

The trope of the lone action hero with near-superhuman strength gets a gender switch in “No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman,” a visually impressive drama about a resourceful female Peshmerga sniper. Although selected as Iraq’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar, the third fiction feature from Norwegian-Kurdish helmer Halkawt Mustafa (“Red […]

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