As the summer begins to wind down in September, Hollywood is just getting started with a new crop of awards season movies premiering at the Venice Film Festival. Some of the first arrivals for the 83rd annual Italian fest included George Clooney, Laura Dern, Kate Mara, Claire Foy and jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal. At the
Two years ago, Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival was talking rebuild. Now it can start talking momentum. The world’s longest continually running film festival opens its 79th edition Thursday with 38 new feature presentations, 21 world premieres, a pumping 30th-anniversary celebration of “Trainspotting,” Ewan McGregor, Kenneth Branagh and Ken Burns in town, a beefed-up industry program
Prime Video will world premiere “Vadhandhi – The Mystery of Mani” this August, the streamer revealed, bringing back its original Tamil suspense thriller franchise for a second season. Andrew Louis, who created and wrote the first season, returns to write and direct season 2, with Pushkar and Gayatri overseeing the project as creative producers under
“Plastic Beauty,” Netflix’s upcoming Japanese drama set in the country’s growing cosmetic surgery industry, will premiere on September 17, the streamer announced along with 23 additional cast members joining stars Mayu Matsuoka and Riisa Naka. Yuki Saito, who previously directed “Unmet: A Neurosurgeon’s Diary,” is directing the series from a script by Junya Ikegami (“The