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So, who’s the real winner at the global box office this week? According to most reports out of the United States, it’s Ant-Man and the Wasp, which generated $76 million domestically and $85 million internationally for a global gross of $161 million. Numbers not comparable with Avengers: Infinity War or Black Panther earlier this year, but the 20th film by the Marvel Cinematic Universe starring Paul Rudd as the titular superhero and Evangeline Lilly as the Wasp always had smaller ambitions.

All through the 1900s Indian actors played stereotypical roles - the cab driver with the funny accent, owners of stores, and doctors.   All these were minor roles.

Z, The Confession, State of Siege, Missing, Music Box are some of the seminal films by Greek director and Golden Globe winner Constantin Costa-Gavras who in a long career which began in 1965 established himself as one of the most relevant masters of political thrillers. Today, at 85, the filmmaker has just published his first book in French, Va où il est impossible d’aller, a captivating autobiography whose title, taken from writer Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ) translates to Journey Where it is Impossible to Go.

Golden Globe winner Sandra Bullock plays Danny Ocean’s (George Clooney) sister in Ocean’s 8  the film that is becoming an international hit. Her mother was a German opera singer and we asked her if music helped her also as an actress.

“The Indians are coming” is a phrase which no longer holds true in Hollywood as the Indians have already arrived and are busy leaving their make on the film industry. But it was not an easy path, the infant steps took years.

There is no question that the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF, June 29-July 7) preserves and nurtures the great tradition of Central and Eastern European Cinema. Even though film festivals can be seen as collective products of a culture, the choices of this one seem conscious, and all point to keeping the idea of film as a poetic art alive.

Paul Rudd has built a career on his “regular guy” persona, and in Ant-Man he played the smallest superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now he’s back for more with Ant-Man and the Wasp.

When English actor Jared Harris and the HFPA journalist Nellee Holmes met at the AMC offices he revealed what happened on the Mad Men set when he was directing the episode 'Time & Life': “There were some pretty crazy moments because by then it was season seven and all those guys, they knew each other really well and they were really comfortable with each other.   And the guys had started this game where when you weren't watching, they would whack you in the balls with their fingers and try to whip your nuts.

HFPA Grantee The California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) is a cutting-edge and immersive four-week program for talented and motivated high school students in the arts, held on the campus of the California Institute of the Arts each summer. The school provides education in seven artistic disciplines: Animation, Creative Writing, Dance, Film, Music, Theater and Visual Arts.

It was only last summer when a drop in the box office generated major panic in the film industry. It was supposed to mark the beginning of the end of the summer blockbuster, as audiences grew tired of seeing over again the same heroes and super-heroes.