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The nonprofit journalism organization restofworld. org is reporting that there are great profits for Chinese creators in reducing Hollywood movies into TikTok videos of a few minutes with the help of machine translation, dubbing apps and VPNs.

If we talk about diversity based on numbers, the presence of Hispanics in Hollywood is far from what it should be, no matter how much we continue to think about it. The Hispanic community is 19 percent of the US population.

Ruben Impens doesn’t shy away from taking risks when looking through his camera lens. Over the last decade the Belgian cinematographer, born in Gent, has been working on numerous acclaimed movies worldwide.

The Eternal Daughter stars the inimitable three-time Golden Globe-nominated actor Tilda Swinton, who takes on dual roles in this mother-daughter horror story about the relationship between Julie Hart, a filmmaker, and her aging mother, Rosalind. Not to be forgotten, Rosalind’s dog, Louis, is played by Swinton’s own dog, also named Louis.

Stories of revenge permeate cinema — so much so that if extraterrestrials had to write up a report on humankind based only on an observational surveying of our most popular entertainment, they could be forgiven for arriving at the belief that accountability was only possible through eye-for-an-eye violence. But there is another side to the pain of loss to that which typically motivates vengeance.

Kompromat stayed number 1 at the French box office. Directed by Jérôme Salle with Gilles Lellouche, Joanna Kulig, and Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, the movie is about a French diplomat victim of a “Kompromat” - forged compromising documents used by the Russian secret services to harm an enemy of the state.

Authenticity is key in Danish director Frelle Petersen’s third feature film Forever, which is in the main competition at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. In a very naturalistic style, the film follows a tight-knit family of four in the rural part of Southern Denmark.

At the 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival, which takes place from September 16-24, eight of the 13-title lineup of films in the New Directors section are directed by women. Nicaraguan director Laura Baumeister and Danish director Katrine Brocks are among them.

Behind every ceremony in which a star is presented on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, there is a Latina. Ana Martinez, born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of a Peruvian father and a Mexican mother, has been a producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremonies for 35 years.

In 1918, silent movie star Alla Nazimova leased an estate called Hayvenhurst for $50,000 from real estate developer William H. Hay, located at 8152 Sunset Boulevard between Crescent Heights Boulevard and Hayvenhurst Drive.