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Italians flocked to the cinema over the Easter weekend. And Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, the third installment of the prequel to the Harry Potter saga, climbed in its first week of programming at the Box Office, reaching the top position and the €4 million mark.

Only a few years ago, Slava Vakarchuk was touring the world as the famous lead singer of Okean Elzy, the most decorated rock band in Ukraine. Now he’s touring his own country, but this time it’s in his role as a soldier staying behind to support Ukraine troops fighting the Russians.

At the Bari International Film Festival (BIFEST) in Bari, Italy, Hill of Vision, directed by Roberto Faenza, was the opening movie at the gala premiere. The story is based on the real-life of Mario Capecchi, a four-year-old abandoned boy who spent his childhood on the streets after his mother got arrested by fascists.

Kevin Costner has played various versions of the American everyman for over four decades. With prominent roles like Eliot Ness (The Untouchables), Crash Davis (Bull Durham), Ray Kinsella (Field of Dreams), Wyatt Earp (Wyatt Earp), Jonathan Kent (Man of Steel), and his Golden-Globe-winning role as Lieutenant Dunbar in Dances with Wolves, Costner has shown range, depth, and unwavering patriotism.

Although Javier Porta Fouz has been the artistic director of the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, popularly known as BAFICI) since 2016, his relationship with the festival began much earlier, having programmed 19 of the previous 23 editions. In a rare moment of calm in the days before the festival, which takes place this year from April 20 to May 1, Porta Fouz told us about his expectations regarding what will happen in the coming days and what should not be missed.

Easter Monday is a holiday, too, in most European countries and therefore counts as part of the box office weekend. But despite the additional day, there was hardly any change in ranking as well as ticket sales.

The beautiful Hollywood Legion Theater was buzzing at the opening of Noir City on April 15, a film festival showing restored noir films. The atmosphere was vibrant with a willing and dedicated audience, a few wearing vintage outfits with gusto, some masked as a Covid-19 precaution, others not.

From anti-war Hanoi Jane to the Jane of the fitness tape, from feminism to human rights to environmental activism – not to mention her film career – Jane Fonda, strong and healthy as ever at 84, has always been, not only hyperactive but an indefatigable activist. She is still sounding the call to action, still trying to inspire young people – indeed, people in general – to open their eyes to the social injustices and the perils of climate change.

Despite earning $43 million and topping the domestic box office chart, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore opened not so fantastically, according to box office analysts. The third installment in Eddie Redmayne’s Fantastic Beasts series continued the downward slope of the J.

After much controversy over the removal of six seconds of dialogue editing out all references to the romantic relationship of Dumbledore (Jude Law) and Grindlewald (Mads Mikkelsen), Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore won the week at the China box office, earning $14. 7 million since its opening on April 9.