Far East Film Festival: Derek Tsang's 'Better Days' Takes Top Prizes

Matt Dillon holds hands with girlfriend Roberta Mastromichele while attending the second day of the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival on Thursday (July 23) at Forte Village Resort in Cagliari, Italy.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorIn a first for an Italian movie in over a decade, Daniele Luchetti’s Lacci has been set to open the Venice Film Festival’s 77th edition on September 2. The drama is based on the novel by Domenico Starnone and stars Alba Rohrwacher, Luigi Lo Cascio, Laura Morante, Silvio Orlando, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Adriano Giannini and Linda Cadri.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe Venice Film Festival is set to open with Daniele Luchetti’s “Lacci.”The Naples-set film, which will play out of competition, stars Alba Rohrwacher, Luigi Lo Cascio, Laura Morante, Silvio Orlando, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Adriano Giannini and Linda Caridi.“Recently, we have all feared that cinema might become extinct,” said Luchetti. “Yet during the quarantine it gave us comfort, like a light gleaming in a cavern.

James McClain Derek Haas, writer and co-showrunner of TV series “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.,” “Chicago Med,” and “Chicago Justice” — all of them part of Dick Wolf’s exorbitantly lucrative and frequently expanding Chicago franchise — has significantly upgraded his L.A.

Vivienne Chow Chinese streaming giant iQIYI is to boost its Southeast Asia operation with the appointment of three new country managers. Two hail from Iflix, the regional streamer now being acquired by Tencent Video.IQIYI said that former Iflix executive Sherwin Dela Cruz had been hired as its country manager for the Philippines.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau poses with his family outside the 2020 Taormina Film Festival on Sunday night (July 19) in Taormina, Italy.

The Shanghai International Film Festival, China's longest-running major cinema event, will take place in-person beginning July 25. The 2020 edition of the festival, now scheduled to kick off in just over one week, will take a condensed form and be mostly a Chinese affair, staffers for the event told The Hollywood Reporter Thursday.

Rebecca Davis editorThe Shanghai International Film Festival will take place July 25 to Aug. 2, after Chinese authorities announced Thursday that cinemas will reopen at long last, beginning next Monday in low-risk regions.The Shanghai International TV Festival has also set its dates.

China's largest cinema chain operator Wanda Film said it expects to lose $214 to $228 million (RMB 1.5 to 1.6 billion) in the first half of 2020 thanks to over five months on continual cinema shutdowns in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The decline represents a stark reversal of fortunes from the $75 million profit the Chinese exhibition giant reported during the same period in 2019.

Rebecca Davis editorChina’s largest cinema chain operator Wanda Film said Tuesday that it anticipates reporting a net loss of between $214 and $228 million (RMB 1.5 to 1.6 billion) in the first half of the year, after cinemas were shut for almost that entire time due to COVID-19. In contrast, the firm saw a net profit of $75 million (RMB 524 million) during the same period last year.

Former Counting On stars Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard recently enjoyed a “kid free date night” without their two sons Israel and Samuel. Duggar shared a few pics and a video from their date on Instagram, and she encouraged her 1.6 million followers to make their own marriages a priority.

BANGKOK -- If Hollywood is where dreams are made, Bangkok’s Scala theater for the past 51 years was where Thais immersed themselves in the old-fashioned blockbusters of war, the heart-felt romances and quirky comedies. Now only the memories will remain.

BARCELONA — Women’s activists are urging Netflix to add specific content warnings to the hit film “365 Days” which they accuse of glamourizing rape and sex trafficking, after the streaming site dismissed calls to remove the film.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefMassively popular video sharing app TikTok may pull out of Hong Kong within a matter of days.“In light of recent events, we’ve decided to stop operations of the TikTok app in Hong Kong,” a company spokesman told the Reuters news agency.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen I heard that Ennio Morricone had died, at 91, my first thought was that the cinema had lost one of the most romantic of all screen composers. Morricone, who worked with filmmakers from around the world but rarely left his native Rome (he insisted on not speaking in any language but Italian), wrote movie scores suffused with romance, with gorgeous waves of yearning and heartbreak and rapture and lyric melancholy.

Ennio Morricone has died.The Italian maestro was 91 years old and leaves behind a movie legacy for the ages.To celebrate his phenomenal career, we take a look at some of his most memorable film scores that made him the go-to composer for westerns and more if you’re looking for movie night inspiration.Is there any sound more synonymous with westerns than the opening whistling from The Good The Bad And The Ugly? The iconic sound was to echo the coyote calls and give the film-goers a sense of

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAntonio Banderas, Edgar Wright, Jean Michel Jarre, Chance the Rapper and even the Italian prime minister were among the people paying to legendary film composer Ennio Morricone early Monday, who died following complications from a fall.

Tributes have been paid to Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created The Good, The Bad And The Ugly’s main theme, following his death aged 91.

Carmel Dagan Staff WriterOscar winner Ennio Morricone, composer of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and “The Mission” and among the most prolific and admired composers in film history, has died.