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The Berlinale Palast is getting ready to welcome scores of high-profile participants and screenings for the ten-day run of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, from February 15 to 25. The festival will open with the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s animated film Isle of Dogs.

When we asked our Cecil B. deMille recipient and eight-time Golden Globe winner Meryl Streep if she ever relies on music to get into character, she had a very original way to describe the music that helped her in The Post.

This weekend’s biggest worldwide entertainment event was the launch of the 23rd Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. It may be a uniquely beautiful festival of sport but it’s no Super Bowl, and worldwide box office numbers weren’t troubled by this highflying competition.

Sweden’s Gothenburg Film Festival, established in 1979, is the leading film festival in Nordic countries. Between the end of January and the beginning of February it features more than 450 films from some 80 countries and sells around 130 000 tickets to the public.

While most of America was glued to its TV sets watching the Eagles’ thrilling last minute victory over the New England Patriots to deny them a sixth Super Bowl trophy, another titan in their field made a comeback in this weekend’s box office showdown. Sony’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which has grossed a remarkable $855 million worldwide, came back from a second-place slump last week to pick up its fifth top domestic finish, albeit at only $11 million in an all-around slow theatergoing weekend.

If you have worked with King Vidor and John Huston, shared the screen with Humphrey Bogart and Rock Hudson, Tyrone Power and Yul Brynner, Anthony Quinn, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Yves Montand, Marcello Mastroianni and Erroll Flynn, well, it’s pretty safe to assume that you are part of cinema history. If you have been the honored guest of presidents and heads of state and pursued for a dozen years by Howard Hughes, and scores of other men, dazzled by one of the world’s great beauties … in other words if you are Gina Lollobrigida, then the only surprising thing about receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is that it took so long.

For our second podcast, Italian journalist Alessandra Venezia sat down with Susan Sarandon on August 2017 at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. In this in-depth conversation, Sarandon reveals how a big family influenced her imagination, how she became an actress, what is the secret to her long career, what she feels when she is playing strong women, why she is seeking different kinds of roles and why social issues are important to her.

Dany Garcia’s philosophy is to change the way the game is played. As the CEO & founder of the Garcia Companies and co-founder of Seven Bucks Productions – producers of the box office hit Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and the HBO series Ballers, to name just few - the middle child of Cuban immigrants demonstrates how and why she is successfully creating the world she wants.

After three stand up specials, millennial comedian Bo Burnham has gracefully transitioned from the stage to the screen with his directorial debut, Eighth Grade, which premiered at Sundance 2018. In the film, Burnham channels his thoughts about today’s Internet culture and his own personal anxieties through Kayla (Elsie Fisher), a teenager finishing her final days at middle school.

Fox’Maze Runner: The Death Cure finally unseated January Champ Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, taking $23. 5 million to beat the incumbent film’s $16.