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“You may not be able to travel to Tatooine,” reads a comforting announcement currently circulating planet Earth. The Force may lead you instead to the Star Wars Celebration held at the Convention Center in Anaheim, CA, from May 26 to 29, 2022: “Star Wars Celebration,” according to the promise of the ad, “is truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience where memories are made – all in the setting of the ever-evolving Star Wars universe.

Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) concludes the Apu Trilogy, director Satyajit Ray’s magnum opus. The three Bengali language films, based on the books by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, tell the coming of age story of Apu – Pather Panchali (1955, Song of the Road) is about Apu’s childhood growing up in the village of Boral in rural Bengal; in Aparajito (1956, The Unvanquished) the story moves to his adolescence in the holy city of Benares; and Apur Sansar concludes the story in Calcutta with Apu facing the challenges of adulthood.

Ang Lee was born in Taiwan in 1954, in Pingtung, a southern agricultural region. He was educated at the National Taiwan University of Arts, the best high school in Taiwan where his father was the principal.

Haruki Murakami is a best-selling author, short-listed for the Nobel Prize in Literature, regularly featured in The New Yorker, the darling of more book clubs in the West than in his native Japan. Collector of jazz records, T-shirts, and, as a runner, marathon miles.

Reggie Lee has no regrets. He was accepted at Harvard but, instead, he proceeded to Los Angeles to pursue his first love – acting.

She can be devastatingly funny, brilliantly smart, deeply emotional. She’s done theater, series, movies, and was highlighted by every award  - including several Golden Globe nominations.

Actor, singer, and ex WWF fighter, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson will hit a major milestone this week when he turns 50. Johnson’s films have grossed over US $10.

It is telling that March 8, universally recognized as Women’s Day, and May 1, just as universally recognized as International Workers’ Day, started in the U. S.

Interestingly, CinemaCon 2022, which gathered several thousands of exhibitors from all over the world in the Colosseum at Caesars Palace for four intense days of presentations by Hollywood studios, kicked off with National Association of Theatre Owners CEO John Fithian declaring that “simultaneous release is dead as a serious business model, and piracy is what killed it”. Yesterday was the final day of CinemaCon 2022 packed schedule wrapped up with Lionsgate presentation of the studio’s slate that followed two full days of exciting events by The Walt Disney Studios, Universal Pictures, and Paramount Pictures Studio expressing their confidence in the fact that moviegoers are back to theaters, and so is the industry, and sharing their release plans for the coming months ahead.

When you sit down to watch a Robert Eggers movie, you know you are in for a history lesson. But far from being a dry, dusty university lecture, Eggers' films have a perfectly calibrated vibrancy.