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Japanese Cinematographer Ashizawa Akiko on Sneaking Angles Past Directors, Blowing Past ISO Limits and Why Bell Peppers Make the Best Color Charts

Ashizawa Akiko, a veteran of more than 70 features and one of the most accomplished cinematographers in the history of Japanese cinema, delivered a wide-ranging masterclass at the Cannes Film Festival, tracing her career from an unlikely entry into the industry through features spanning horror, comedy, drama and historical epic. The session preceded her receipt […]

Variety 22 أيار

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TIFFCOM, Frontières to Serve up New Genre Market Program in October (EXCLUSIVE)

International horror, sci-fi, fantasy, action and animation films will have a new feeding ground this fall. Frontières, the international genre co-production market, organized by Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, is partnering with the Tokyo International Film Festival Content Market (TIFFCOM) to stage a new genre gap-financing program at the Tokyo Gap Financing Market (TGFM) this […]

Variety 22 أيار

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YouTube International Boss Pedro Pina to Deliver Edinburgh TV Festival’s MacTaggart Lecture

YouTube EMEA VP Pedro Pina will deliver the flagship address at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival, having been selected to speak at The James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture. Pina oversees the European, Middle East and Africa for YouTube, including its business, creator and content ecosystems. In the role he works with everyone from nascent digital creators […]

Variety 22 أيار

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‘White Lotus’ Generated $36.5 Million in Thailand Spending and 300% Tourism Surge, Trade Chief Says

Thailand’s government arrived at this year’s Cannes Film Market with “The White Lotus” as its flagship example of how the kingdom’s filming incentives translate into tangible returns. Sunanta Kangvalkulkij, director-general of Thailand’s Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP), tells Variety that the HBO series generated approximately $36.5 million in local production spending across 129 days […]

Variety 22 أيار

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‘Big Mouth’ Creators Take Their Signature Raunch to the Animal Kingdom With Follow-Up ‘Mating Season’: TV Review

Late in the first season of the Netflix animated comedy “Mating Season,” the protagonists — beta bear Josh (Zach Woods), randy raccoon Ray (Nick Kroll), Sapphic fox Penelope (Sabrina Jalees) and single deer Fawn (June Diane Raphael) — gather on the couch to watch “MiceFlix.” (Is the concept even a feeble attempt at a pun? No! […]

Variety 22 أيار

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Thai Director Sompot Chidgasornpongse on ‘9 Temples to Heaven,’ His Debut Feature at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

Sompot Chidgasornpongse spent more than two decades as assistant director to Apichatpong Weerasethakul, working on films including “Tropical Malady,” “Syndromes and a Century,” “Cemetery of Splendour” and “Memoria.” Now he is at Cannes with a feature of his own: “9 Temples to Heaven,” an ensemble drama about a Thai family’s one-day pilgrimage to nine temples, […]

Variety 22 أيار

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Chinese Drama ‘My Dearest Stranger’ Secures Asia Deals (EXCLUSIVE)

“My Dearest Stranger,” the Chinese crime-mystery romance series that has accumulated more than 270 million views on Youku since its February premiere, has closed distribution agreements covering Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Macao, along with a worldwide airline rights deal. Handled internationally by Hishow Entertainment, the series ranked No. 1 across multiple daily charts during […]

Variety 22 أيار

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‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Series Finale Was a Letdown: TV Review

The final “Late Show” episode ever tried to just be a normal “Late Show” episode, until it couldn’t. Host Stephen Colbert — in an impossible position since his firing was announced last July, nearly a year before his final episode was to air — creditably did a full-jokes monologue, and then kept telling jokes at […]

Variety 22 أيار

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‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ Review: Clio Barnard Returns With a Clunky Social-Realist Weepie About Five Friends in Birmingham

The group of lads at the center of Clio Barnard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning” dance their way through addiction, housing precarity, class tensions and good old romantic betrayal. In theory, the British director’s fifth feature — premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes — is a film of big, bubbling emotions and anti-capitalist rage. […]

Variety 22 أيار

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Hamaguchi Ryusuke on Cannes Palme d’Or Contender ‘All of a Sudden’: ‘What I Was Moved By Was What Was in the Book Itself’

Hamaguchi Ryusuke watched the standing ovation after the Cannes premiere of “All of a Sudden” with a degree of caution. He is not, he says, someone who takes ovations entirely at face value. “I also know that a standing ovation is kind of a tradition here,” he tells Variety. “I don’t know how seriously I’m […]

Variety 22 أيار

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Stephen Colbert Ends ‘Late Show’ With Joyous Paul McCartney ‘Hello Goodbye’ Performance, as Ex-Beatle Turns Lights Out at Ed Sullivan Theater

Paul McCartney, a surprise guest on the final episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” provided a poignant capper to the series by being given the ceremonial honor of turning out the lights in the Ed Sullivan Theater, a location with which he has plenty of history. The final number had McCartney and Colbert […]

Variety 22 أيار

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Stephen Colbert Fans Explain Why They Believe CBS Canceled ‘The Late Show’: ‘It Was Politically Motivated’

Search the Ed Sullivan Theater on Google Maps and the address will auto-correct to: The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Broadway, New York, NY. For 33 years, CBS’ flagship late-night talk show has been synonymous with the historic performing arts venue (that’s more than a decade before Google Maps first debuted on BlackBerry devices). But […]

Variety 22 أيار