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A US Navy Vessel entered an extremely secluded area of the Pacific, where suddenly it was attacked by canon fire from a tiny nondescript island. As it turned out, two Japanese soldiers who had not been informed that World War II had ended years before, had dutifully held their positions there and were now firing at the perceived enemy ship.

While The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a super hit worldwide, grossing $500 million in the international market in a week, it didn’t do that well in China, earning a so-so $17.

When, quite literally, Neile Adams ran into Steve McQueen at the age of 23 on Broadway, she had no idea that the moment would change her life and turn into a scene in a movie. Neile Adams, who grew up in the Philippines, had been through rehearsals at Carnegie Hall.

It was a desire to protect her community that led Marta Cunningham from being an actor to becoming a director. Her compassion for the young trans girl Latisha King and her family after she was gunned down by a classmate in 2011, made Cunningham venture into a new career path.

On Feb 25, 2020, Anders Hofman completed the first long-distance triathlon in Antarctica, the Iceman. His goal was to show that limitations are mere perceptions.

The South East European Film Festival founder Vera Mijojlic is a passionate cinephile. After witnessing the disintegration of Yugoslavia, followed by a brutal war of the 1990s, she devoted her energy to building bridges.

Cannes is – maybe more than any other festival – where art and commerce meet. Nothing proves this more than this year’s lineup of in and out of competition films, unveiled this morning by the festival’s director Thierry Fremaux and incoming president Iris Knobloch.

In the new series Beef, what starts off as a small case of road rage spirals into a full-blown cyclone of revenge. This isn’t just an ordinary beef about two characters – played by Steven Yeun and Ali Wong – taking out their frustrations and anger on each other.

Italian-born Susanna della Sala is a director, author and visual artist. Last Stop Before Chocolate Mountain is her latest project – a documentary born from personal life experience that both tells the story and captures the spirit of Bombay Beach, a once abandoned town in the harsh California desert, situated on the shores of a toxic lake, that is now home to a small eclectic community where art heals people in the most unexpected ways.

Oscar-winning, Golden Globe-nominated actor Adrien Brody celebrates his 50th birthday on April 14. The New York City-born actor and producer started his career at age 13 when he appeared in an off-Broadway play, the same year that he landed his first theatrical role in Woody Allen’s New York Stories.