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While Thor-Love and Thunder stands alone - and afar- at the top of the Italian box office ranking for another week, one question arises: will domestic productions gain decent revenues in theaters? It appears that in Italy's hottest summer ever, festivals are the only occasions in which moviegoers enjoy watching Italian movies: films are made for a broader audience than the ones limited to occasional venues. But that's not happening in Italy.

The Minions are ruling again. Germany’s and Austria’s summer box office defies all logic, and insane heatwaves are only partly to blame.

As cinemas across China continue to open despite sporadic Covid-related lockdowns in certain areas, the box office grosses have rebounded with local releases and a little help from Hollywood, specifically Jurassic World: Dominion which is the only US film on the top ten list, coming in at No. 4 this weekend.

Golf is a year-round pastime, especially prevalent during the summer. There is no greater, more beloved, and highly quotable cinematic valentine to the most widely embraced adult sport in the world than Caddyshack, directed by Harold Ramis and anchored by a cast that includes Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, and Bill Murray.

In pre-COVID times, more than 135,000 people would pack into the San Diego Convention Center each July to eagerly feast upon trailers, casting announcements and other parceled-out new details about their favorite superhero, fantasy, horror, and other genre shows and properties. But Comic-Con International, the largest comic book and popular arts fan convention of its kind, has basically been on ice for the last several years — its frequently raucous in-person events relegated to virtual gatherings.

Jennifer Jason Leigh – now part of the ensemble cast of Sharp Stick (2022) written and directed by Lena Dunham – received the first of two Golden Globe nominations for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle directed by Alan Rudolph.

HFPA’s Anke Hofmann and Rocío Ayuso present a plaque to Comic-Con International’s Chief Communications and Strategy Officer, David Glanzer. This has been the 8th time that the HFPA has had an official presence at the festival celebrating comics and pop culture.

Jordan Peele, the creator of Nope, is meticulous as a director, delivering a combination of fear, satire, political commentary, and entertainment from his early work on Key & Peele to Get Out to this week's release. He is as fastidious on the red carpet and an example of how to power dress.

After he conducted “The Red Shoes Ballet” in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes, renowned conductor Sir Thomas Beecham suggested to the two directors that they do an entire filmed opera for their next project. According to Photoplay magazine from March 1951, he told Pressburger, “If you ever thought of putting opera on the screen as you have ballet, you might well consider Tales of Hoffmann .

    It’s almost a guarantee that if you ask someone about Don McLean’s 1971 iconic hit song, “American Pie,” they can recite the lyrics to you. Even more likely they’ll remember the classic vinyl album, reprinted for decades, that features the singer with his thumb up and painted as an American flag.