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Those goggle-wearing yellow creatures are indeed rising and expanding their empire, with a record-breaking $129. 2 million four-day debut, the highest Fourth of July box office weekend figures, and toppling the $115.

A rather sluggish week comes to an end for the Italian box office. The total revenues in seven days didn't make it to the 2.

It was the week of not so ‘Minion’-mal shakeups in the German top ten. The sequel of the cute, animated characters took the charts by storm, beating dinosaurs, F 18s, Marvel heroes, and even Elvis by a mile.

China is positioning itself as a leader of cultural influence, and it learned its lessons from Hollywood, according to Erich Schwartzel in his book “Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy". Schwartzel writes about a meeting in 2008 of Chinese executives and Hollywood leaders in Los Angeles.

4th of July means fireworks, and the fashion round-up sparked: Zoe Saldana, Cate Blanchett, and more. .

This week, Natalie Portman will be seen starring opposite Chris Hemsworth as superhero Mighty Thor in Marvel Comics Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) directed by Taika Waititi. In previous movies of the franchise, Portman played Jane Foster in Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013).

Guadalajara International Film Festival Winner Night time. The silhouette of a woman prostrated on the sand at the ocean’s surf.

John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley will forever be known as the film that beat Citizen Kane at the 14th Academy Awards on February 26, 1942. Perhaps it was the relentless campaign against Kane by William Randolph Hearst and his newspaper empire, but the film considered the greatest of all time only came away with one win that night – Original Screenplay for Welles and Herman Mankiewicz.

It wasn’t all that long ago in the history of Hollywood that the LGBTQ community represented in front of the camera had to adhere to the strict Hays Code, which remained in place for three decades (1934 to 1968). It was a self-imposed industry guideline set up to prevent any explicit depictions of homosexuality in film.

Summer always reminds us of the memorable time when we visited the set of Mamma Mia!, the romantic comedy film directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson, based on the latter’s book from the 1999 musical of the same name. We can still vividly recall that summer in June of 2008 when the cast, led by Meryl Streep, talked to us.