BTS discuss challenging traditional masculinity, their huge fanbase and more in a new interview with Esquire.
04.11.2020 - 18:03 / variety.com
Christopher Vourlias Athens-born Fokion Bogris is among the generation of Greeks who have spent most of their adult lives in the shadow of austerity measures and a seemingly never-ending economic crisis. Like many of his country’s filmmakers, the self-taught director, who turned 40 last year, continues to persevere, even as the coronavirus pandemic has compounded the challenges for an already cash-strapped film industry.
BTS discuss challenging traditional masculinity, their huge fanbase and more in a new interview with Esquire.
Emiliano Granada After debuting at Busan and winning the Audience Award at Malaga’s Zonazine sidebar this August, Haroldo Borges and Ernesto Molinero’s “Son of Ox” has played at Malaga’s Spanish Screenings and will screen in competition at Mexico’s Guadalajara Festival, which kicked off Nov.
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.IT’S the queen of all film roles – and Emma Thompson is the latest actress to get the part.The Nanny McPhee star plays Queen Elizabeth in a new TV drama based on Michael Fagan’s Buckingham Palace break-in 30 years ago.Walking the Dogs tells how, in 1982, Fagan got into the monarch’s bedroom and sat chatting to her for 10 minutes.Fagan, 61, has hit out at the show, saying dramatising his “moment of madness”
Kate Middleton definitely stepped up her style game when Meghan Markle came around.“I think Kate kicked up her fashion game in the fall of 2018, certainly after the royal wedding of Harry and Megan,” Holmes tells Us while appearing on Us Weekly’s series “Royally Us” to promote her new book HRH So Many Thoughts on Royal Style.
The Trump campaign and President Trump are criticizing Michigan's election certification process and Georgia's recount efforts as their legal battle continues in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against the campaign's post-election legal challenges, saying that the Philadelphia Board of Elections acted properly in its decision to regulate the positioning of election observers.
Tom Grater International Film ReporterAfter a complicated pandemic-affected shoot, Palme d’Or-winning Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund has wrapped his new movie Triangle Of Sadness, a satire set in the world of high fashion.The project first rolled cameras on February 4 in Sweden, completing its initial 25-day leg as lockdowns were being implemented across Europe.
Christopher Vourlias “Identifying Features,” Fernanda Valadez’s searing abduction drama set along the U.S.-Mexico border, was awarded the Golden Alexander for best feature film at the 61st Thessaloniki Film Festival.The awards were announced Monday at the conclusion of the Greek fest’s digital edition, which ran Nov. 5-15.
Christopher Vourlias This summer a new board of directors took the reins at the Greek Film Center (GFC), the body that oversees all aspects of the country’s film policy, from bolstering the development and production of local cinema to luring international film and television shoots to the Mediterranean nation.
ATHENS, Greece -- A bust of the ancient god Hermes, in good condition, was discovered in central Athens during sewage work, authorities said Sunday.The Greek Culture Ministry said that the head, one of many that served as street markers in ancient Athens, was found Friday and it appears to be from around 300 B.C. — that is, either from the late fourth century B.C., or the early third century.
The Crown season 4 isn’t just covering the saga of Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s relationship. Queen Elizabeth II faced many dire situations throughout the 1980s. One of those situations was a major security breach where intruder Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace twice in one month.
The coronavirus pandemic is very much ongoing, fall is here, and much of the country has spent the last seven-plus months in quarantine. So it's unsurprising that even street style icon Rihanna has put full-on dressing up aside.
Tom Grater International Film ReporterParis-headquartered content creator and producer Asacha Media Group has hired Maria Grazia Ursino as Vice President of Content Development and Distribution. She joins from Disney where she most recently served as Sales Director for Turkey, Israel and Greece, following the company’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox.
Christopher Vourlias A German-speaking juvenile offender community in northern Greece is the unlikely setting of “Daniel ‘16,” the second feature film from Dimitris Koutsiabasakos.
Christopher Vourlias Giorgos Valsamis could not have predicted where his career path would lead almost a decade ago, when, as a student of fine arts and accounting, he bought a camera to photograph the dramatic landscapes of Iceland, where he was on a study-abroad program. “It never crossed my mind that I could be a cinematographer,” Valsamis told Variety.
Christopher Vourlias Romanian-born filmmaker Bogdan George Apetri has made a life for himself in New York City, since moving there 19 years ago to study film at Columbia University, where he now teaches.
Christopher Vourlias With a second lockdown looming amid a spike in coronavirus cases across Greece, Giorgos Karnavas, of production outfit Heretic, knew it was a race against time to wrap shooting on “Triangle of Sadness,” a satire directed by Oscar nominee and Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund.Production on the Woody Harrelson-starring feature was postponed for three months earlier this year due to COVID-19, and principal photography was underway on the island of Evia and on a yacht in the
Hollywood stars woke up to the news that, as vote counting continued in Pennsylvania and Georgia, former Vice President Joe Biden had taken the lead in both states. Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes would push Biden over the 270 threshold needed to declare victory, even without the state of Arizona, which the Associated Press called for Biden on early Wednesday morning but a number of other outlets have yet to do so.