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Standing in front of the same Westwood movie theater where his 1991 film New Jack City premiered 31 years ago, filmmaker Mario Van Peebles can’t help but reflect on that night as he celebrates the restored 35mm print opening the “Perpetratin’ Realism” program, sponsored by the American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.   The blistering crime thriller and gangster movie opened in theatres on March 8, 1991 – four days after the world first saw the video of LAPD officers beating Rodney King, and the premiere became the setting for brawls and gun violence in New York, Chicago, and Las Vegas, resulting in at least one death.

Daryl Hannah was born in Chicago in 1960. Her mother’s second husband was the brother of cinematographer Haskell Wexler, which gave her a familiarity with the film world.

Venice Arts, founded in the early 90s, is one of the most important organizations in fostering young talent in California. With eight full-time staff and around 10 part-time employees, it serves to ignite, expand, and transform the lives of LA’s low-income youth through photography and film.

Are more families finally feeling safer about going back to the cineplexes? The record box office figures of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, pegged at $71 million, the highest weekend debut ever of a video game adaptation movie in the United States and Canada, maybe a promising sign. Paul Dergarabedian, a veteran box office analyst with Comscore, which offers real-time movie and television services, said to the media, “There has been some indication that families wanted to go back with movies like Sing 2 but it has moved in fits and starts.

The overall ranking of films at the Italian box office for the first half of the 2021/2022 season is out. A hard blow for Italian productions: only one Italian film managed to gain a space in the top ten: Me contro Te, released last August, a teen comedy starring the two young YouTube stars Sofia Scalia and Luigi Calagna.

The beasts were fantastic and took the top spot: the third installment of J. K.

Liam Neeson, three- a timeGolden Globe nominee as Best Actor - for Schindler’s List (1993) directed by Steven Spielberg, Michael Collins (1995), and.

Jude Law, four times Golden Globe nominee, spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2001 about playing a Russian sniper at the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II in Enemy at the Gates, written and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. The British actor reprised his role as a young Aldus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), directed by David Yates.

The unfolding impact of the internet can be glimpsed, somewhat paradoxically, not only in social media backbiting but also in an expanded social conscience. Over and over, we see examples of issues that were not necessarily ever deeply considered by previous generations framed in a new light, capturing the activist attention and imagination of those who consider themselves global citizens.

In France, they are nicknamed “Les Verts” (The Greens). Committed to the protection of the environment, French stars such as Marion Cotillard, Mélanie Laurent and Luc Besson do not hesitate to use their celebrity to defend this cause.