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Hungarian Film Industry Readies for 'New Day' as Post-Orbán Era Spurs Hope for Next Generation of Filmmakers
Now that the dust has settled on longtime strongman Viktor Orbán's landslide electoral defeat last month, Hungarian industry figures are charting a course for what one leading producer describes as a “new day” after 16 years of…
Hollywood mega-merger could add 40k jobs and save film industry: report
Hollywood may not be dead after all, if a proposed $110 billion mega-merger of Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros Discovery goes through. A new report from the California Policy Center suggests that the merger between the two huge studios could…
Prince Harry and Meghan make shock Netflix war film announcement
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are set to produce a new war film for Netflix, according to reports. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will team up with scripted content head Tracy Ryerson to bring the book No Way Out: The Searing True Story of Men…
Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival Celebrates 80 Years of Cinema Excellence, Political Struggle and Above All, Its Film-Loving Audiences
In 1946, 15 years before Alain Resnais made “Last Year at Marienbad,” one of the world's earliest film festivals unspooled in the Czech spa towns of Marianske Lazne — aka “Marienbad” — and Karlovy Vary…
Film personalities greet Satheesan after CM announcement
Prominent personalities from the film industry on Thursday congratulated V D Satheesan after he was selected by the AICC as the next chief minister of Kerala. Superstars Mohanlal and Mammootty both posted greetings to Satheesan on their social…
'There are no rules': spotlight on Gossip Goblin as AI film-making enters new era
In a former hemstitching workshop where artisans sewed pleats for Stockholm's 19th-century bourgeoisie, a distinctly 21st-century craft is taking root: AI film-making. One day last week, an actor, director and composer squeezed into a tiny studio…
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Ormax report finds YouTube & Instagram lead Hindi film discovery
Ormax Media has released The Ormax Bollywood Audience Report (TOBAR) 2026, a study based on primary research conducted among 2,000 regular Hindi theatregoers across India. The report represents a market of 28.5 million urban Hindi cinema audiences…
Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father
Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazil's leading rightwing presidential hopeful, has been caught on tape asking a banker accused of corruption for $26.8m (£20m) to fund a film about his father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro. The leaked voice…
Channel 5 The Hardacres cast unveil 'rough' reality of filming season 2
The cast of The Hardacres were excited to head back to Ireland but it did not come without its challenges. Channel 5's popular period drama The Hardacres hasn't graced television screens since 2024, leaving devoted fans brimming with anticipation…
How to steal back the future: Boots Riley on his 'best film yet'
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A few days before May Day—International Worker's Day—I traveled to Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre for the West Coast…
10 Chilean Standouts at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival
As Chile boasts a milestone presence in Cannes this year with new or consolidating companies leading the charge — including Domingo Sotomayor's drama about a woman adopting a stray dog, “La Perra,” and Lisandro Alonso's…
Top Gun review - now impossible to view Tom Cruise's testosterone-swamped film without affection
‘This gives me a hard-on”; “Don't tease me”; “I want some BUTTS!” The comedy takes on sexual identity in Top Gun have become so widespread after Quentin Tarantino's monologue on the subject that it would be…
Palme d'Gore? How Sci-Fi, Horror and High-Grade Schlock Are Taking Over the Cannes Film Festival
Are genre films set to overtake the Cannes Film Festival like a zombie horde? As with the ominous music before a jump scare, things certainly seem to be trending in that direction. Two years after Coralie Fargeat's grotesque, feminist fantasia…
Bentonville Film Festival reveals lineup, stars
The Bentonville Film Festival will bring Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Bobby Flay, Ree Drummond and a Netflix preview of 'Little House on the Prairie' to NWA next month. Why it matters: The festival, now in its 12th year, has become one of the…
'Parallel Tales' Review: Asghar Farhadi's Dire Kieślowski Adaptation Turns 'A Shot Film About Love' Into a Long Film About Nothing
Loosely adapting “A Short Film About Love” into a long film about nothing, Asghar Farhadi's cramped and tedious “ Parallel Tales ” forfeits the sordid humanity of Krzysztof Kieślowski's masterpiece in exchange for…
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