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Actor Will Smith, actress Sherri Shepherd, and journalist Jemele Hill are just a handful of the stars who won awards at the NAACP Image Awards on Monday night. This year the show is virtual and happens over six consecutive nights.

The editors of Encyclopedia Britannica define a film festival as a ‘gathering, usually annual, for the purpose of evaluating new or outstanding motion pictures. Sponsored by national or local governments, industry, service organizations, experimental film groups, or individual promoters, the festivals provide an opportunity for filmmakers, distributors, critics, and other interested persons to attend film showings and meet to discuss current artistic developments in film.

Vaudeville spanned from the early 1880s to the early 1930s, and at its height, employed more than 50,000 people in 5,000 venues all over the country. Musicians, dancers, magicians, jugglers, ventriloquists, puppeteers, animal acts all occupied the same bill and kept audiences entertained.

Uncharted easily charted to the top of the box office and gave Tom Holland the number one and three slots with his Spider-Man: No Way Home swinging back to the race. Solidifying his status as a box office star, Holland claimed the box office crown with Uncharted, director Ruben Fleischer’s movie adaptation of Naughty Dog’s video game series of the same name.

37 million fans loved the Playstation classic ‘Uncharted’. No surprise then that the live-action film version played its way into the top spot, while Germany’s most successful movie of 2022 so far stuck to number two, and Sing 2 held its notes in third place.

The Covid cases go down, the box office figures go up. The Italian film industry is back on track and for the second week in a row box office grosses and audience numbers levitate.

Antonio Banderas, a five-time Golden Globe nominee, is on the top of the box office with the international hit Uncharted, with Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg. Back in 1998 Banderas spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1998 about The Mask of Zorro, directed by Martin Campbell, co-starring Anthony Hopkins, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

On Thursday, February 17th, in Los Angeles, a full retrospective dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini was inaugurated on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. It’s the first big event of a five-year partnership between the Italian studio Cinecittà and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

The 53rd NAACP Image Awards celebrating Black Excellence in entertainment happens on Saturday, February 26, 2022, on BET 8/7 Central. It culminates a week of awards on consecutive days starting February 21 that encompasses not only film, television and music, but also literature, fashion, news, podcasts and more.

When Italian film director, painter, and inventor Alessio Della Valle (who was born and raised in Florence, Italy, and studied film in Los Angeles) had the idea of a thriller set in the world of art, he probably didn’t think that stars like Jeremy Piven, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emile Hirsh and Paz Vega, and an Oscar-winning editor like Zach Staenberg (The Matrix) would immediately come on board. But they did because of the strength and originality of the script, and they are now supporting the US limited release of the film, American Night, a neo-noir action thriller set in the New York City contemporary art world.