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Following its acclaimed freshman run, multi-language Israeli period drama series The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem returns for a second season that will premiere on Netflix on July 14, when all 16 new episodes will be made available worldwide. Adapted from the 2013 best-selling novel by Israeli author Sarit Yishai-Levi, the series revolves around the drama of the tempestuous Ermosa family in 1940's Jerusalem and is also told through an earlier timeline in 1917, when the young man who will become the patriarch of the family, Gabriel Ermosa (Michael Aloni), has to sort out his future.

As the founder of the International Fine Arts Consortium (IFAC) – an organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the arts on a global scale – Lee Wells has been immersed in the world of creativity for decades. An artist in his own right, he recently did something that went beyond what’s ordinary: premiering his first AI movie, Marcel Duchamp and His Girlfriend Love to Eat Spaghetti out of the Toilet and Laugh, with no screening room needed.

As a waning moon rose over the medieval cathedral, Gianluca Farinelli took to the stage in front of the giant screen welcoming the several thousand strong audience to another free screening in Bologna’s main square. Farinelli is the director of Cineteca di Bologna and the driving force behind Cinema Ritrovato – the yearly celebration of classic cinema that has taken place in the Italian city every summer for the last 37 years.

Indiana Jones needs to crack that whip. The fifth and final installment in the fedora-wearing archaeologist’s franchise, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, is not performing as expected although it still debuted at the top.

What happens when two highly accomplished actors get together and discuss their craft? For one, they ponder their job description – actor vs. actress.

Golden Globe winner (The Practice) Dylan McDermott has just wrapped a fourth season of FBI: Most Wanted, the CBS and Dick Wolf procedural about an FBI Fugitive Task Force that goes after notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. Wolf’s franchises have been some of the most successful shows in television, with the first Law & Order originating in 1990.

Reflecting back on the astonishing years spent as a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, what strikes a nostalgic chord as the most blessed part of that journalistic journey has been the unparalleled opportunities bestowed on us to visit some of the most creative film and television production sets of the past twenty years. Imagine walking the early 1900 streets of New York in both Budapest and Wellington, built for the respective sets of The Alienist and King Kong.

At the recent Monte Carlo Television Festival, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry and Lloyd Owen gave a sneak preview of what can be expected in the new season of the series. Owain Arthur was the first to speak.

Le nouveau numéro 1 du box-office français a pour titre Élémentaire. Sous la réalisation de Peter Sohn avec les voix françaises d’Adèle Exarchopoulos, Leah Lewis et Vincent Lacoste, ce film d’animation relate l’histoire de la ville d’Element City où le feu, l’eau, la terre et l’air vivent au départ dans la plus parfaite harmonie.

From the get-go, Whitney Skauge’s mission as a documentary filmmaker has been to use their platform to advocate for diverse storytelling and create representation on both sides of the camera. Their debut short documentary, The Beauty President (2021), highlights the historic 1992 bid for the White House of Terence Smith’s drag persona Joan Jett Blakk as one of the first openly queer write-in candidates.