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Everything about Bethann Hardison is distinctly unique: her upbringing, her look, her wide-ranging career from model to agent to activist, and even how she brought Invisible Beauty, the film about herself, to fruition. It is not that common that the subject of a documentary also serves as its co-director (along with Frédéric Tcheng who previously made Halston and Dior and I).

The Aussie invasion of Hollywood started slowly at first, with a handful of trailblazers in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, including Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan, and Grease icon, Olivia Newton-John. But on January 28, 2023, Australian and American VIPs will come together in L.

Icelandic writer-director and actor Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir presented her feature film debut, Band (through Compass Films), at the Tromsø Film Festival, as part of the Films from the North series, presenting films from across the Arctic areas. A hybrid documentary/mockumentary, Band is a portrayal of an all-female band, comprised of three women just shy of turning 40, told through the lens of Örnólfsdóttir, and based on the real experiences of her band, The Post Performance Blues Band.

Season two of the Showtime series Your Honor, starring Golden Globe winner  Bryan Cranston, has just begun. Based on the Israeli series Kvodo, the story centers on a respected judge whose son is involved in a hit-and-run accident, leading to difficult choices and terrible consequences as he attempts to keep the crime a secret The show returns to follow ex-judge Michael Desiato (Cranston), now a man forced to face the wreckage of his former life.

“I am so happy that a giant streaming studio is backing us up and more people will be able to see this worldwide,” exclaimed Filipino filmmaker Kenneth Dagatan whose horror film, In My Mother’s Skin, was just acquired by the global video streaming service Prime Video. The horror fairytale, which was written and directed by Dagatan, had its world premiere at the Midnight Section of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Since 1978, rising talent and hidden movie gems have been put in the limelight and given an international stage in Park City, Utah, thanks to living legend Robert Redford, who created this jewel of a film festival. On January 21st, 2023, Flemish movie star Veerle Baetens’ directorial debut film, titled When It Melts, held its world premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.

The King of the World has earned a new set of bragging rights. James Cameron now has three films that made more than $2 billion – Avatar: The Way of Water, Titanic, and the original Avatar.

Marvel Studios China posted on its Weibo account “February 7th# The legend is not extinguished, facing the new deep-sea enemy, the upgraded visual effects, sea, land and air fierce battle ignited the big screen!” above a trailer of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Another post said “#Ant-Man and the Waspwoman: Quantum Frenzy is scheduled for February 17th#” followed by its trailer.

Danny Huston, a Golden Globe nominee for his acting, was only 25 years old when he made his feature film debut directing Mr. North with a script written by his father, John Huston, from the 1973 novel Theophilus North by Thornton Wilder.

Back in the dawn of cinema, in the silent era, a star died young – 31 years old – as a result of something that seemed to follow the new industry: serious safety risks on set. In 1919, Wallace Reid, a rising actor whose goal was to become a director, was seriously injured in a train wreck while on his way to the set of The Valley of the Giants in Portland, Oregon.