From ‘Titane’ to ‘Hand of God,’ Buzzy Festival Titles Fill International Race From Europe

Refresh for latest…: Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home is having a very happy holiday as it is now officially the first movie of the pandemic-era to pass the $1B mark at the global box office. The worldwide gross through Sunday is $1.05B which makes this installment Sony’s No. 2 film of all time, behind only Spider-Man: Far From Home ($1.13B). No Way Home is the No. 1 film of the year worldwide — and one of the only movies of the modern era to ever reach $1B without China. Simply amazing.

Belgium, “Playground”Bhutan, “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom”Denmark, “Flee”Finland, “Compartment No.

The two Oscar frontrunners for Best Documentary Feature are safely through to the next round of voting.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAs Europe copes with yet another wave of COVID-19 infections and skyrocketing cases of the Omicron variant, prospects for a full-blown comeback for the international film festival circuit are looking less likely every day.The Netherlands and Denmark have taken the strictest measures so far, while France and Germany have closed their borders to U.K. travellers.

Christmas is a time of joy and laughter but when somebody close to you has died, you might find that your grief is more intense. And as this week gets underway, with families across the UK beginning to spend more time together (even if it is over Zoom), grieving can feel a little overwhelming.

The Danish government has responded to growing numbers of Covid in the country by imposing a fresh set of restrictions, including closing cinemas and theatres.

died in a plane crash. He was 38.Flow, whose real name was José Angel Hernandez, along with eight others, died when their private plane crashed near Las Américas International Airport in the Dominican Republic, Helidosa Aviation Group, the company that owned the jet, confirmed on Wednesday.Flow was one of seven passengers on the plane who died.

Former Love Island star Demi Jones has revealed details of a new piercing she got ahead of her appearance on Strictly The Real Full Monty.

NEW YORK -- Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including “Interview With the Vampire,” reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic antiheroes, has died. She was 80.Rice died late Saturday due to complications from a stroke, her son Christopher Rice announced on her Facebook page and his Twitter page.“As a writer, she taught me to defy genre boundaries and surrender to my obsessive passions,” Christopher Rice, also an author, wrote.

Manchester United have blocked Anthony Elanga from joining Sweden's touring squad in January.

Jamie Lang Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”), the Goteborg Film Festival and the Sten Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture have teamed on a new, three-year film training program aimed at increasing diversity in film and inspiring promising young talent.

Jacob Roloff is a new dad! The former  star has announced that he and his wife, Isabel Sofia Rock, welcomed their first child together.Roloff took to Twitter to share the news on Monday in a simple post that celebrated the new addition to his family.«My wife is a superhero, my son is an angel and all nurses are saints,» he tweeted.

Scandinavia may well lead this year’s Best International Feature Film field at the Oscars, which begins shortlist voting on Friday, with a slate that includes favorites such as Denmark’s “Flee,” Finland’s “Compartment No.

Neon and Participant opened animated documentary Flee to a $25,033 debut in four locations. That makes for a strong per-theater average of $6,258 ahead of a rollout early next year for the much-decorated Danish film ahead of Academy Award nominations Feb. 8.

Jonas Poher Rasmussen joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event Saturday to shed further light on the backstory to his lauded Sundance debut Flee, which is Denmark’s entry for the International Feature Oscar race. The animated documentary from Neon and Participant tells the true story of a man, Amin, on the verge of marriage that compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time. Amin is also a childhood friend of the director.

NEW YORK -- Jonas Poher Rasmussen was 15 when a boy his same age arrived alone in his small Danish town.“He arrived all by himself and stayed with a family just around the corner from where I lived,” says Rasmussen. “We met at the bus stop every morning going to high school and we became very good friends.

The arthouse is awash with well reviewed new offerings from Danish animated doc Flee to Paulo Sorrentino’s Hand of God to IFC’s Benedetta heading into awards season and amid a paucity of new wide releases.