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Growing up between Atlanta and Abuja, Nigeria, Boma Iluma got his first taste of the creative arts as an actor in commercials for the NBA and the Cartoon Network before segueing to plays in the local theater scene. Spreading his creative wings, Boma stepped behind the camera, where he immediately achieved recognition for his 2019 visual art piece Negus, which focused on how Blackness in America involves being actively unseen and violently misunderstood.

A man dives into a pool, its cerulean water glistening against his tanned and toned body under the summer sun. “I’m swimming home!” announces Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) after a few laps to the stunned owners, a chic couple, former acquaintances, quite hungover.

The songstress may have her sights set on the big screen. Taylor Alison Swift has fulfilled just about every dream a songwriter could have on her bucket list.

There is a sense of familiarity to the environment in which we find ourselves. Having been educated for sixty years by the James Bond franchise, we know an MI6 operations room when we see one.

Imagine one of my childhood movie-watching experiences when I was a kid growing up in Calasiao, in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines: It is nighttime in a grassy open area beside the town’s church, built in 1588. A projector shows Elvis Presley’s Blue Hawaii on a screen mounted atop a truck.

  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.