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A 75th birthday should be enough reason for a big celebration, but after being forced into a very much reduced and belated edition in 2021 due to the Covid pandemic, Cannes will this year pull out all the stops, starting on opening night. Michel Hazanavicius’ newest film Final Cut, starring his The Artist discovery Bérénice Bejo, will open the festival on May 17.

Alfred Hitchcock made two attempts at directing before his first wide release, The Pleasure Garden, was made in 1925. 1922’s Number 13 stopped in mid-production because of budget problems after he had shot only two scenes, and that footage is lost.

Continuing its ongoing transformation process, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (“HFPA”) announced the beginning of a formal review to determine potential outside strategic interest in its organization and assets. Potential proposals are to be reviewed by a Special Committee composed entirely of independent members of the Board of Directors, with the assistance of financial and legal advisors.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is the new number 1 of France’s box office.  Doctor Strange goes on a journey into the unknown, with the help of mystical allies old and new, and traverses the mind-bending and dangerous realities of the multiverse to face a mysterious new adversary.

In May 2022, in association with many other Asian-American organizations, the Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) will be celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month (AAPIHM) by hosting a special screening of multi-award-winning comedy/drama The Farewell, which will take place at the TCL Chinese Theater, Hollywood Boulevard on May 19. The film, written and directed by AWFF Advisory Board member Lulu Wang, stars Awkwafina (who received the AWFF's 2018 Rising Star Award), and AWFF Honorary Board member Tzi Ma.

From the upcoming comedy Easter Sunday to various TV series including Pachinko, Fargo, Grey’s Anatomy, and Billions, these productions share something in common – some of their creatives are alumni of the New Writers Fellowship of CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) of which the HFPA is one of the major supporters. “Together we have launched so many careers and I hope you all are as proud as I am,” said Michelle Sugihara, CAPE’s executive director.

Nineteen years, that’s how long it took to do a remake of the Belgian movie De Zaak Alzheimer. In Memory, directed by Martin Campbell, we get to see Liam Neeson as an assassin-for-hire who becomes the target himself after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization.

A steady, years-long, and fairly targeted campaign aimed at maligning the work of a free press, both within the United States and internationally, has yielded consequences. We have seen a significant deterioration of factually held societal common ground and, indeed, the very notion of representative democracy has been imperiled.

It’s been 40 years since Kathleen Turner rose to fame in her breakthrough role in Lawrence Kasdan’s directorial debut, Body Heat. That film also garnered Turner her first of five Golden Globe nominations: Best New Star.

If not for Doctor Strange 2, the Italian box office would have marked one of the worst weeks since the beginning of the year. But Marvel Studios' latest blockbuster worked like a magnet, attracting over a million fans and bringing some oxygen to the asphyctic market.