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  Belgian filmmakers Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch weren’t expecting to win the top Jury Prize when they showed their film, The Eight Mountains, at the Cannes Film Festival this year. So much so, that the real-life couple had left France the day before the award ceremony and were hurriedly summoned back with only hours to spare before accepting the prize.

At the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, multi-talented American actor, screenwriter and director Liev Schreiber attended the opening premiere, eighteen years after his last appearance. ​ Schreiber, best known for his iconic role as Ray Donovan for which he received five Golden Globe nominations, held a KVIFF press day on July 2, 2022 and talked about his recent visit to Ukraine while discussing his BlueCheck Ukraine Project which he co-founded.

He only helmed two feature films in his lifetime, but for those in the know, Jack Garfein remains a venerated and influential figure in the entertainment community, a teacher whose impact was seen in foundational shifts in screen performance and storytelling. Director Tessa Louise-Salomé’s artful new documentary The Wild One, which recently enjoyed its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, lovingly illuminates this loquacious but still somewhat enigmatic artist, a celebrated Broadway director perhaps best known as the co-founder of Actors Studio West.

Those goggle-wearing yellow creatures are indeed rising and expanding their empire, with a record-breaking $129. 2 million four-day debut, the highest Fourth of July box office weekend figures, and toppling the $115.

A rather sluggish week comes to an end for the Italian box office. The total revenues in seven days didn't make it to the 2.

It was the week of not so ‘Minion’-mal shakeups in the German top ten. The sequel of the cute, animated characters took the charts by storm, beating dinosaurs, F 18s, Marvel heroes, and even Elvis by a mile.

China is positioning itself as a leader of cultural influence, and it learned its lessons from Hollywood, according to Erich Schwartzel in his book “Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy". Schwartzel writes about a meeting in 2008 of Chinese executives and Hollywood leaders in Los Angeles.

This week, Natalie Portman will be seen starring opposite Chris Hemsworth as superhero Mighty Thor in Marvel Comics Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) directed by Taika Waititi. In previous movies of the franchise, Portman played Jane Foster in Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013).

Guadalajara International Film Festival Winner Night time. The silhouette of a woman prostrated on the sand at the ocean’s surf.

John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley will forever be known as the film that beat Citizen Kane at the 14th Academy Awards on February 26, 1942. Perhaps it was the relentless campaign against Kane by William Randolph Hearst and his newspaper empire, but the film considered the greatest of all time only came away with one win that night – Original Screenplay for Welles and Herman Mankiewicz.