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The Cannes Film Festival has concluded its Official Selection ahead of next month’s 75th edition. Amongst the movies competing for the Palme d’Or are three Belgian productions: The Eight Mountains / Le Otto Montagne, by Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen (Beautiful Boy.

CinemaCon 2022 kicked off its first half of programming in Las Vegas with three studios, Sony, Neon, and Warner Brothers, all reaffirming in their own distinctive yet formidable way to the worldwide delegates of theater owners that movies are back to the big screen. After nearly two years of theatrical shutdown then slowdown and a steady torrent of prominent products streamed day and date, the testimonial that films are meant to be seen in the theatrical experience resonated with the crowd of more than 3,000 envoys.

The Killing of a Journalist is director Matt Sarnecki’s second documentary focusing on the murder of a journalist investigating corruption. It premieres May 1, 2022, at the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival and probes the 2018 murder of Slovakian journalist Ján Kuciak and his girlfriend, Martina Kušnírová.

April's second long weekend brings in an extra +13% in box office revenues compared to last week's total, but the film industry isn't popping champagne bottles. Albeit on the first of May, the majority of Italy's Coronavirus restrictions will come to an end, and masks will most likely remain mandatory to go to the movies.

Following the first season of a smash hit TV show can make even the most seasoned of actors nervous. Jean Smart, known for such successes as Designing Women, Samantha Who?, Fargo, Legion, and Watchmen, and who took home a Golden Globe award this year for her role as a veteran stand-up comedienne Deborah Vance in the Golden Globe Winner Hacks, is all too familiar with this scenario.

In Beautiful Beings, a teenage boy, Addi (Birgir Dagur Bjarkason), becomes friends with Balli (Áskell Einar Pálmason) after having seen him on national television. Balli is in the news as a victim of teen violence, which, we learn, is an increasing problem in the capital of Iceland.

The massive talent of Nicolas Cage and the brute force of the Vikings were no match to criminal animals at the box office. The Bad Guys, a heist animated comedy about a group of animal thugs who try to reform themselves as model citizens, trounced the competition with $24 million and landed at the top.

Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum may be a formidable pair, but they are apparently no match for the magical beasts, dreamed up by J. K.

Box office in China continues to fall due to Covid lockdowns causing cinema closures, with double-digit drops in box office revenues compared to last year’s numbers. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore held on to its No.

Originally published on Oct. 7, 2021: We first met Italian scientist Monica Gagliano while watching the documentary Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness, directed by Frauke Sandig and Eric Black; later, we had the opportunity to interview all three of them as journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press.