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Warner Music India has launched season two of “Maati,” its folk music franchise, opening on Sept. 3 with the Sufi qawwali “Jalwa-e-Jaanaan” as the eight-track season begins rolling out across eight languages. Anurag Saikia composed the music for the first track, which features vocals by Jyoti Nooran and lyrics by Shakeel Azmi. This qawwali is […]
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“Anatomy of a Portrait” (“Anatomia di un Ritratto”) will have its world premiere in the Venetian Nights program of Venice Days on Sept. 4. Directed by Francesco Clerici (“Hand Gestures”) and Mattia Colombo (“Trees That Walk,” “I Wanna Sleep With You”), the documentary pieces together the story of Fernanda Wittgens, Italy’s first female museum director. […]
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“Fjord,” written and directed by Cristian Mungiu, is Romania’s submission for the 2027 Oscars in the best international feature film category, having been unanimously selected by the country’s selection committee. The film premiered in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d’Or for best film, the FIPRESCI Prize, the […]
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Andrew Garfield isn’t ready to reach out to Tom Holland about the massive success of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” or “The Odyssey,” for that matter. For good reason — he hasn’t seen either film. “I don’t want to be disingenuous,” Garfield told me Wednesday at the premiere of his historical action drama “The Uprising” at […]
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Sony Pictures Entertainment is set to release “Ramayana” globally on November 6. The epic, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sai Pallavi, follows exiled prince Rama (Kapoor) and his consort Sita (Pallavi) through exile into catastrophe, as Sita’s abduction at the hands of Ravana (Yash) sets in motion an epic war between righteousness and evil. Nitesh […]
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George Lucas previewed the long-in-the-works Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, and Lucas said of the Herculean effort, “I’m fascinated by doing things that people say can’t be done.” “I’m used to doing the impossible,” said the “Star Wars” creator, who, along with his wife Mellody Hobson, has been working on […]
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Utopai Studios and DeNA Co., Ltd. have unveiled an AI-assisted animation partnership in Japan. The Entertainment Development Business Unit of DeNA will begin weaving Utopai’s storytelling AI system, PAI, into its experimental animation workflows. “Japan is one of the world’s most important and influential animation markets, and DeNA brings a deep understanding of both its […]
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Long past his sexually explicit enfant terrible mumblecore origins, writer-director Joe Swanberg continues his ongoing experiments in honoring the romantic comedy’s conventional satisfactions while expanding its sexual parameters with “The Sun Never Sets.” Wendy (Dakota Fanning) has been dating sedate single dad Jack (Swanberg regular Jake Johnson) for two years. When he decides they should […]
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Could Hollywood entice younger audiences by having a little faith? A surprising new Future of Faith study from The Center for Scholars & Storytellers (CSS) at UCLA suggests that both Gen Z and Gen Alpha crave realistic and complex depictions of religion and spirituality in their entertainment that go beyond stereotypes. The group surveyed over […]
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Hollywood is living through “the friggin’ salad days,” as Ryan Reynolds puts it, after experiencing the biggest summer at the box office since COVID, thanks to blockbusters like “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey.” Last month, the “Deadpool” star personally congratulated the cast and crew of “The Odyssey” for surpassing “Deadpool & Wolverine” to […]
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Carla Jeffery, who played the cheerleader Bree in the Disney Channel’s 2018 movie “Zombies” and several spin-offs, died Sept. 1. She was 33. Her management company, Alexanders Talent, posted about her death on Instagram, but did not give a cause of death. “Our hearts are broken as we mourn the loss of our beloved Carla […]
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“Avengers: Doomsday” going into production without a finished script did not faze directors Joe and Anthony Russo. As the former recently told the Associated Press: “We always view the script as a living organism.” “We’re improvisation-based, rehearsal-based directors,” Joe maintained. “We like to see what the actors bring to the characters, and sometimes you don’t […]
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