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A long weekend – Monday was a holiday in some of the German-speaking countries – and beautiful weather contributed to barely any change in the charts. Top Gun: Maverick ruled the cinematic skies again in its second week.

Top Gun: Maverick flew past $500 million globally. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness hit $900 million worldwide.

Top Gun: Maverick broke box office records in Taiwan, taking in $3. 4 million in its opening week, according to NBC news.

Laura Dern, who starred in Jurassic Park (1993) directed by Steven Spielberg, is back to her role of Doctor Ellie Sattler in Jurassic World Dominion (2022) with Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum also returning. The daughter of Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, Laura Dern was chosen as Miss Golden Globes 1982 at age 15.

Outfest’s television festival, The OutFronts, opened on Friday, June 3, at the gorgeous 1920s movie palace of the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. While the security of the event was kept to high standards and every guest was asked to go through a metal detector, once inside a colorful scene revealed itself in jubilee.

Now in its 69th year, the Sydney Film Festival (SFF) is one of the world’s longest running, and a major event on the New South Wales cultural calendar. “The world's best, strangest and most exciting cinema comes to Sydney”, is the promise.

There was a two-minute standing ovation after Aftersun in Cannes, the Charlotte Wells directed film starring Paul Mescal (The Lost Daughter) and terrific newcomer, Frankie Corio, as a father and daughter duo on a vacation in Turkey. The film is a deeply personal character study by the Scottish director in her debut feature.

“Eighty percent of silent movies were lost before anyone realized how important they were,” Sandra Schulberg, president of IndieCollect in Los Angeles stated at the May 25th Hollywood Foreign Press Association Napoleon restoration event in Cannes. “Half of all movies made before 1950 have been lost.

In her recent work in the Fox series The Cleaning Lady (no, she is not the “maid”, as Hollywood usually portrays Latinas) this beautiful and talented 27-year-old Argentinian actress, Eva De Domici, has managed to achieve something that very few immigrant actors have: perfectly blend herself into an American production. In the first season, her role as Nadia Morales began as a secondary one, and quite frankly, that could easily have been the end.

Just one year after winning her second Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play, Mary-Louise Parker is ready for her third, reprising with David Morse the roles they premiered 25 years ago in How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winning play. Parker, who has won two Golden Globes – for the TV movie Angels in America in 2004 and the TV series Weeds in 2006 – among five nominations, has found a place for herself as a respected actress of stage, TV and occasional movies.