Iranian Filmmaker And His Producer Face Prison For Showing Film At Cannes Without State Permission

Ava DuVernay’s past experiences with the Venice Film Festival have been more exclusionary than esteemed, revealed the director during a press conference for her new film “Origin” on Wednesday.

Kourtney Kardashian and husband Travis Barker's "urgent family matter" has apparently been resolved. Last Friday (September 1), Blink-182 drummer Travis, 47, was forced to return home to America so that he could be there for his pregnant wife Kourtney, 44, who was hospitalised under mystery circumstances.

Within the course of a week some six years ago, aspiring genre filmmaker Michael Chaves’ life changed forever.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Vicky Krieps, best performance prize winner in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard for “Corsage,” will star as Sophie Toscan du Plantier in six time-Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s “Re-creation,” which is being presented in the Venice Gap-Financing Market. The docu-drama, which centers on the brutal murder in 1996 in Ireland of French film and TV producer Toscan du Plantier, has been co-written and will be co-directed by Sheridan, best known for “My Left Foot” and “In the Name of the Father,” and Merriman.

Tapestry of Love” (literally — in a notebook) after beginning her writing career at an Amish newspaper.The second novel in her “New Directions” romance series chronicles the romance between two traditional Amish youngsters in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and has sold close to a million copies, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.But Byler has gotten blowback from some community elders who claim the success of her tome is fueling sexual abuse, she told the outlet.“They are very tame books,” Byler said, dismissing comparisons to the sadomasochistic “Fifty Shades of Grey” novels, which shocked and titillated readers just over a decade ago.“There’s nothing unclean in them. There is some touching, my publisher said it would have to be discreet, and a little bit of a kiss,” she said, adding there was no sex in the book.Byler began newspaper reporting when her husband went bankrupt and later transitioned to publishing books for children before writing about the amorous side of Amish culture, where premarital sex — not to mention divorce, cars, electricity and cellphones — are verboten.Her books have increasingly become popular in the conservative US Bible Belt and other Christian communities, and Byler said she has earned a lifetime of money for her and her husband.However, she claims she is being unfairly blamed for recent publicized cases of sex abuse in the Amish community.“In the last 10 years or so, romance novels have become wrong in the community,” Byler told the Daily Mail.

Thank god for Alexander Payne. The filmmaker is, and always have been, a true humanist. A writer/director more interested in human beings, something that has always been the special effect of his movies. A two-time Oscar winning writer, his latest film, The Holdovers, which had its World Premiere Thursday at the Telluride Film Festival, is one of the rare movies in which he doesn’t also have a writing credit. David Hemingson did the screenplay, but the idea, an inspired one, came from Payne, a real film buff who was always intrigued by Marcel Pagnol’s 1935 French film Merlusse about a group of boarding school students stuck over the holidays with a much-despised teacher. The director thought it had the bones for a new story and developed with Hemingson. Still, set in 1970, it is Payne’s first period film after a celebrated career for movies like Sideways, The Descendants, and many others. He has made some contemporary classics, no doubt, but the warm humanity of a trio of people left alone at Christmas in a snowy boarding school, ranks right up there with his very best. It is funny, sad, witty, poignant, filled with snark and heart and great acting. It also manages to be a film set at the holidays that offers something truly new for the genre, and also delightfully not only evokes the period in which it is set, it also purposely looks like a movie made then.

Ali Asgari, whose latest film “Terrestrial Verses” (co-directed by Alireza Khatami) world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, has been banned by the Iranian authorities from leaving the country and directing movies until further notice. The sole Iranian movie to play in Cannes Official Selection this year, “Terrestrial Verses” earned a warm critical response at the festival, where it played in Un Certain Regard, and was sold by Films Boutique around the world.

Rafael Nadal and Maria Perello have developed their own signature scents. The married couple, who recently had their first son, collaborated with the brand Henry Jacques to develop their fragrances. This collection is called in “In All Intimacy,” with Perello discussing its origins and relationship with perfume.

A controversial US preacher who said gay marriage was "a sin" will appear at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow next year after suing the owners for cancelling a previous event.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Representation in films and television isn’t only about race and ethnicity. It’s also about giving deserved respect to genres and recognizing the allies who do the work to ensure those stories are appropriately told. That’s what director Dan Trachtenberg achieves with the science-fiction horror flick “Prey,” while working hand-in-hand with Indigenous producer Jhane Myers.

As Barbie becomes the highest grossing film of 2023 today at the domestic box office with north of $574.2M, Warner Bros and Imax have announced that the Greta Gerwig-directed movie is getting a one week release on Sept. 22 in Imax both in North American and selection locations around the world.

Sophia Scorziello editor Los Angeles-based pubcaster KCET has revealed its student finalists and episode line up for the 24th season of Fine Cut Festival of Films, an annual showcase and celebration of Southern California’s young filmmakers. The series of six, one-hour blocks on KCET will broadcast collections of short films from the student finalists beginning at 10 p.m. PT on Sept.

The path to true love didn’t run smoothly at first for Harvey and Birgit Shaw.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro has nominated 27 Latino-driven films for inclusion in the National Film Registry. Among the suggestions are films that brought Oscar nominations to Latino actors and artists, including Salma Hayek, as Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in “Frida” (2002); Catalina Sandino Moreno, who portrayed a desperate undocumented pregnant immigrant in “Maria Full of Grace” (2004) and Demián Bichir, who played an undocumented worker in Los Angeles in “A Better Life” (2011).

What To Watch. Today we recommend a mix of new releases and newly available titles, from movies and shows, all available to stream on the most popular platforms.What to watch: 7 movies and shows to stream this week — August 4thWhat to watch: 7 movies and shows to stream this week — August 11The three part series directed by Emma Cooper is now available to stream on Netflix. The series explores the controversial trial between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp while also analyzing the social media frenzy it produced.

Kellie Pickler is opening up after tragically losing her husband Kyle Jacobs.

FIFA Women’s World Cup quarter-final victory against the French on August 12. “We’ve made history,” the 28-year-old exclaimed to reporters following the awe-inspiring match. Truer words have never been spoken.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Iranian director Saeed Roustaee has been sentenced to six months to prison for showing his latest film, “Leila’s Brothers,” at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, according to an Iranian report. The Islamic Revolutionary Court convicted both Roustaee and Javad Noruzbegi for “contributing to the propaganda of the opposition against the Islamic system,” according to the Iranian daily Etemad.

American hardcore punk band Turnstile have been forced to postpone a huge sold-out gig at O2 Victoria Warehouse just hours before the show was due to take place.

Matthew McConaughey and his son Levi are offering help to Maui after the devastating wildfires that have affected the island. In a video shared on Instagram, McConaughey and his son discussed their plans to help people in Maui and the organization they were partering up to get it done. Camila Alves McConaughey and her kids stun at Fashion Week ParisWoody Harrelson photobombs Matthew McConaughey’s daughterA post shared by Matthew McConaughey (@officiallymcconaughey)The video shows McConaughey and Levi, 15, talking and explaining their plans to the camera.