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
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
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
The first teaser trailer for Alex Gibney’s highly anticipated Elon Musk documentary “Musk” has been released. The film will world premiere out of competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 8 before continuing to the Toronto International Film Festival. In the 48-second teaser, montages of spacecrafts and astronautical devices fill the screen
The Telluride Film Festival casts a wide net, as almost all festivals of its ilk do, but if it has had any speciality that stands out among many, it might be the well-earned tearjerker. There is as much crying at Telluride every year as there isn’t in baseball, but with the festival’s emphasis on top-line
The Motion Picture Association signed two declarations at the Lumière Summit on Monday, adding its name alongside those of governments and private sector organizations worldwide to the Lumière Declaration on the Future of Cinema and the Moving Image and the Declaration on Strengthened International Cooperation in the Fight Against Film and Audiovisual Piracy. The summit
