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CinemaCon 2023 kicked off with a bang on Monday, April 24, at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. An annual trade show hosted by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO), the event brings together exhibition executives and theater managers from all over the United States and indeed, the world.

If it was left up to Carol Burnett, who turns 90 on April 26, she would have followed her path after editing the Hollywood High School newspaper to become a journalist. Lucky for us, fate intervened, and she went on to become one of the most beloved stage, film and TV personalities of the 21st century.

Sisu is a Finnish term that can be roughly translated into English as strength of will, determination, perseverance, and acting rationally in the face of adversity. Director and screenwriter Jalmari Helander showcases the Finnish Sisu in extraordinary circumstances in his latest movie, the action Western named after the term.

On January 15, 1947, the mutilated body of a young woman was found in the Leimert Park area of Los Angeles in an empty lot, severed at the waist. According to the Los Angeles Times, “She was face up, a few inches from the sidewalk, just north of the middle of the block.

Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona was anointed Knight of The Order of the Raven, a long-standing festival tradition at BIFFF. His much-loved cult movie A Monsters Calls, a coming-of-age drama of monumental magnitude with a phenomenal cast (Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver, Liam Neeson) was shown to an enthusiastic audience of horror fans.

On its third weekend, The Super Mario Bros. Movie inched closer to hitting $900 million globally.

Movies are back - that was the celebratory sentiment last year at CinemaCon, the annual film industry event in Las Vegas which attracts international and domestic cinema representatives from all over the world. It was a self-reassuring hopeful mantra that movie theaters are on the rebound in a post-pandemic reality.

China’s so-called Top Gun, the military film Born to Fly which was pulled from release last October when it was scheduled to open on China’s National Day, now has an April 28 release date, in time for the May Day holiday, according to Variety. The film will also begin previews in the UK on that date.

In the month of May, his work will be celebrated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Golden Globe-winning director Sofia Coppola, top models Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelista, Carla Bruni, designers Tom Ford, Ralph Lauren, Silvia Venturini Fendi, Valentino, Giorgio Armani and editor-in-chief Anna Wintour have written loving tributes in the recent edition of Vogue.

Last year, Sara Dosa’s gorgeous and affecting Fire of Love filtered some of the beauty and danger of the natural world through the real-life romance of two pioneering volcanologists, Maurice and Katia Krafft. Wild Life, the latest nonfiction effort from award-winning married filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, exists at a somewhat similar nexus, while also heartily surveying the realm of eco-sensitive capitalism and natural preservation more broadly.