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Warner Bros' animation film Mummies (Mummie – A spasso nel tempo) has climbed all the way to the top of the Italian box office for the week ending February 26. The Juan Jesus Garcia Galocha-directed movie about the adventures of three mummies in present-day London has grossed €408,158 during the weekend, with total receipts of over €700,000.

From Mexico City to Kenya to Yale to Hollywood. And from production assistant to superstar.

When Nigeria’s Filmhouse Group Holdings completed the repositioning of its FilmOne Studios division, it announced that Mimi Bartels was appointed General Manager.   FilmOne Studios will be a standalone production outfit separate from FilmOne Entertainment.

Women have always been part of the history of cinema, but only in the last few decades has their presence behind the camera gained relevance, allowing audiences to see a construction or de-construction of what it is to be a woman and a man in society. In Latin America, a small group of pioneering women filmmakers managed to express their talent in a space heretofore reserved exclusively for men.

One of the many standout films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Adura Onashile’s feature debut Girl. The film follows the mother-daughter unit Grace and Ama as they try to adapt to life in Scotland after escaping unspeakable violence in their native Republic of the Congo.

The Law According to Lidia Poët is an Italian television series streaming on Netflix, inspired by the true story of the first female lawyer in Italy. Set in the 1880s in the historic city of Turin in the Piedmont region – it had been capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1864 – each of the six episodes deals with a fictional murder mystery, brilliantly solved by this fearless young woman, who offers legal representation to the person unjustly accused of the crime and conducts daring investigations to prove their innocence and discover the real culprit.

March marks the time to celebrate Irish American Heritage Month. Here are some of the top Irish acting exports in Hollywood, along with American Public Television programming centered on Irish culture and history.

It was 1979 and the once-wunderkind of Paramount Pictures, Robert Evans, was trying to recapture his former glory days by moving into independent producing. He had bought the rights to a 1977 book by Jim Haskins called “The Cotton Club: A Pictorial and Social History of the Most Famous Symbol of the Jazz Era” for $350,000 from a guy called Charles Child who was a Union Carbide executive.

In honor of 2023 Black History Month, we are rewinding to 2018, when HFPA member Alessandra Venezia had the privilege of interviewing Spike Lee - writer, director, actor, producer, author and educator who helped revolutionize Modern Black Cinema and inspired countless generations of black filmmakers who have continued to enrich the landscape of film and black culture. Spike’s unique voice captivated audiences from the start, with early films including She’s Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989) and 25th Hour (2002).

When the animated film Suzume was accepted in competition for the 73rd Berlin Film Festival, its creator Makoto Shinkai, took the unusual step of releasing a press release to thank all who made this possible. “At its core, Suzume is based on the massive disaster that occurred in Japan twelve years ago.