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Lise Pedersen “A Sense of Place,” a collection of six short films by young Iranian directors, had its world premiere this week at Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX. The films are inspired by Wim Wenders’ eponymous 2005 book, and the Oscar nominated director – best known for “Paris, Texas,” “Wings of Desire,” “Buena Vista Social Club” and “Pina” – served as the project’s “godfather,” he explained at the festival. Curated by Iranian producer Afsun Moshiry in collaboration with The Wim Wenders’ Foundation, which supports young directors and innovative filmmaking, the anthology takes viewers on a journey that starts in Iran, travels to the country’s southern border, onto a plane to Germany, and ends up in France, where two of the films are shot.

Bad Bunny is coming in hot at this year's Latin American Music Awards! On Tuesday, TelevisaUnivision announced the full list of this year's nominees, and the 29-year-old artist is leading the pack.The  artist is nominated for 11 awards this year — including Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Collaboration of the Year, Streaming Artist of the Year and Tour of the Year, to name just a few.Meanwhile, Becky G and Daddy Yankee came in a close second with nine nominations each, while Grupo Frontera, Karol G, Rauw Alejandro, Romeo Santos, and Rosalía each managed to secure eight noms.Fans can vote for their favorite artists on Univision.com/LatinAMAs through Sunday, Mar. 26. Keep scrolling for a full list of this year's nominees.

The highly anticipated Illumination Entertainment/Universal movie The Super Mario Bros. Movie will be opening on Wednesday, April 5 around the world before Easter weekend instead of Good Friday, April 7.

In the year 2525. No, that’s the lyric of a cheesy pop song about, as it were, Armageddon Time.

A large group of Walt Disney World employees marched near — but not on — Walt Disney World property today, holding signs that said “Magic Doesn’t Pay The Bills” and chanting “need a raise.”

EXCLUSIVE: Labid Aziz’sPeople of Culture Studios (PoC Studios), has picked up North American distribution rights to Kim Bass’s comedy A Snowy Day in Oakland, and will open the film nationwide in theaters over the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday weekend, Jan. 13, 2023. The movie is the debut theatrical release for PoC Studios. 

K.J. Yossman “Sex Education,” Jodie Comer limiter series “Help” and “Lupin” are among the shows nominated for an International Emmy Award. 23 countries are represented across 15 categories and 60 nominees. The International Emmys will take place on Nov. 21 in New York. “When you look at the geographic spread, diversity and quality of our Nominees, it becomes obvious that great television knows no borders and is emerging around the world,” said International Academy president and CEO Bruce Paisner. “We look forward to recognizing these outstanding programs and performances on our global stage with the International Emmy.”

spoiler alert), Melanie’s wedding to Andrew is disrupted when it’s revealed she never signed her divorce papers. She calls off the wedding and heads down to the beach to plant lightning rods to create glass sculptures, where she confesses to Jake that she still loves him.

Less than one month after the release of the 2022 Elvis biopic, Shonka Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thornton in the film, was found dead in her Nashville home. She was 44.

Disney’s reputation is notoriously squeaky clean.

EXCLUSIVE: The pre-Broadway engagement of the Elton John-Shaina Taub musical The Devil Wears Prada is showing its fashion sense for the first time in character photos provided exclusively to Deadline.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentShaping up as one of the most anticipated movies from Spain this year, “Prison 77” (“Modelo 77”) has an international teaser trailer, which Movistar Plus has shared in exclusivity with Variety.“Modelo 77” marks the third Movistar Plus original film, re-teaming Telefonica’s pay TV/SVOD service with director Alberto Rodríguez, co-writer Rafael Cobos and co-producer Atípica Films, the driving forces behind “The Plague,” Movistar Plus’ big banner 2017 series.Sold internationally by Film Factory, “Prison 77” will be released in Spanish theaters by Buena Vista International on Sept. 23, the second Friday of Spain’s San Sebastian Festival, which begs the question as to whether it will feature at the event.

EXCLUSIVE: After a long Oscar-laden movie partnership with his brother, Ethan Coen makes his solo and documentary debut on the A24 film Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind, which premieres at Cannes tonight. He and wife/editor Tricia Cooke made this one while brother Joel Coen and his wife Fran McDormand were off making The Tragedy of Macbeth. Here, Ethan Coen describes the allure of making a free form docu on the firebrand singer/pianist behind hits like Great Balls of Fire. Coen worked closely with T Bone Burnett, the music man extraordinaire who collaborated with the Coens on Inside Llewyn Davis. And when the Coens will put the band back together and make another together.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“Bonnie is legendary for her boundless energy on the Crosiette,” AGC Studios head Stuart Ford said of his marketing head Bonnie Voland, whose 40th Cannes Festival was celebrated by Ford and friends at an elegant beachside cocktail on Friday evening.“This is my 15th Cannes with Bonnie Voland and I’m not sure I still have the energy to keep up with her,” he confessed in a speech in her honor at the cocktail.Voland has had a rich career to date, – she insists she’s certainly not done yet –  graduating as a French major at Hunter College, and working as an actress in Paris before first attending Cannes in 1982 for Passion – The Magazine of Paris. She ran the Toronto Festival press office in the mid-eighties, then worked in Los Angeles for Samuel Goldwyn, Buena Vista International and Chris Blackwell’s Island Pictures, and created her own PR agency and consultancy B.

Sony Pictures International Productions (SPIP) is set to remake Ariel Winograd’s Argentinian comedy Mama Se Fue De Viaje (Ten Days Without Mom) in Turkey and South Korea.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTV series adaptations of “Fearless” and “Cold War,” two of the highest-profile Hong Kong action movies of the 21st century, are now in development.The shift into TV represents a major expansion and diversification for Edko Films, the studio headed by legendary producer-financier-executive Bill Kong (“Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,” “Monster Hunt,” “Mulan”).The original 2006 “Fearless” was an iconic portrait of martial arts ace Huo Yianjia that was directed by Ronny Tong and starred Jet Li. It received studio-level distribution in many territories through Buena Vista, UIP and Sony Pictures Releasing.“Cold War” is a 2012 crime action film involving a mole inside the Hong Kong police.

Chanel Cruise 2016/17 went down as one of the most memorable shows in recent fashion history. Held in downtown Havana, Cuba, just a few months after the country restored diplomatic relations with the US, it marked the first international fashion show in the capital since 1959 Communist revolution – and the Maison went all out for the occasion.

Japan that will have what the renowned German director calls “social meaning” about people in modern cities.“My first reaction was, I must admit: What? Toilets? Chotto mattene,” he said Wednesday, using the Japanese expression for “wait a minute”.But then he began to see what the story could be about.“For me, they turned from toilets into restrooms. That’s a very nice word in English, the restroom.

Naman Ramachandran Daniel Battsek, director, Film4, has been elevated to chair, while deputy director and creative director Ollie Madden will succeed Battsek as director.Film4 is the filmmaking arm of U.K. broadcaster Channel 4, which invests £25 million ($31 million) annually to develop and co-fund British films with British talent.

Wu-Tang Clan’s iconic album ‘Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)’ has been archived in the Library Of Congress.The record entered the National Recording Registry this week, alongside albums by A Tribe Called Quest and Alicia Keys. Quest’s ‘Low End Theory’ album was added, as was Key’s ‘Songs In A Minor’.Other full-length projects added include The Shirelles’ ‘Tonight’s the Night’, Terry Riley’s ‘In C’, the Ry Cooder–produced ‘Buena Vista Social Club’, Bonnie Raitt’s ‘Nick of Time’, Duke Ellington’s ‘Ellington at Newport’, and Max Roach’s ‘We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite.’There are many individual song additions too from the likes of Queen (‘Bohemian Rhapsody’), The Four Tops (‘Reach Out [I’ll Be There]’), Ricky Martin’s ‘Livin’ la Vida Loca’ and Journey’s (‘Don’t Stop Believin”).Meanwhile, a documentary on late Wu-Tang Clan member Ol’ Dirty Bastard has been announced. It will be the first official documentary on ODB and is co-produced by his widow Icelene Jones.Ol’ Dirty Bastard, real name Russell Tyrone Jones, was a founding member of the legendary hip-hop group.

Two of the most revered and storied albums in the rap canon are to be archived in the Library of Congress it has been announced today. Wu-Tang Clan's Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest.

Recordings of 9/11 news reports, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speeches and Henry Aaron’s 715th home run will be preserved alongside Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and other albums and singles — and one podcast — as the Library of Congress released its 2022 list of additions to the National Recording Registry today. See the full list below.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee -- Critically acclaimed debut albums by Wu-Tang Clan and Alicia Keys, Ricky Martin's Latin pop megahit “Livin' La Vida Loca,” and Queen's “Bohemian Rhapsody” are among the recordings being inducted this year into the National Recording Registry.The Library of Congress announced on Wednesday the 25 songs, albums, historical recordings and even a podcast that will be preserved as important contributions to American culture and history.Keys' “Songs In A Minor," released in 2001, introduced the young New York musician to the world with her unique fusion of jazz, R&B and hip hop and earned her five Grammy awards. With songs like “Fallin'” the album has been certified as seven-times multiplatinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.The Staten Island collective Wu-Tang Clan, including RZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, GZA, Ghostface Killah, Method Man and more, released their highly influential debut “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)” in 1993, which combined East Coast hardcore rap centered around kung fu film storylines and samples.Other albums that were included were Linda Ronstadt's “Canciones de Mi Padre,” a musical tribute to her Mexican-American roots, Bonnie Raitt's Grammy-winning “Nick of Time,” A Tribe Called Quest's “The Low End Theory," and the Cuban musical ensemble's self-titled debut “Buena Vista Social Club," which also inspired a film by the same name.Other songs now in the registry include Journey's “Don't Stop Believin,'" “Walking the Floor Over You” by Ernest Tubb, “Moon River” by Andy Williams and “Reach Out, I'll Be There,” by The Four Tops.The Four Tops song was penned by the songwriting trio of Brian and Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier and became a No.

Shawn Levy is reportedly in negotiations to direct the third chapter in the “Deadpool” saga.

Disney’s reputation is notoriously squeaky clean.

Santa was in the Tardis — a blue police box that’s bigger on the inside and can travel through time and space! One that I had seen on TV! And that had been on incredible imaginative journeys to other worlds inhabited by amazing aliens! Some of which try to kill you! Honestly, it was fantastic.Make the jump to lightspeed into 2022, and now I’m going into the “Star Wars” universe aboard a Galactic Starcruiser called the Halcyon. She will take guests on a cruise through the outer rim during a fully immersive three-day, two-night, all-inclusive stay, featuring space pod cabins, themed entertainment and experiences and, yes, stars flying past the windows.

Disney’s reputation is notoriously squeaky clean.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- A small fire at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom started in a tree and may have been caused by fireworks debris, officials said Wednesday.The blaze broke out Tuesday after fireworks were set off near the Cinderella Castle, Reedy Creek Fire Association president Jon Shirey told WESH-TV.

Chris Evans got in a quick vacation to the Walt Disney World Resort recently in Lake Buena Vista, Fla!

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn the run-up to its roll-out in cinema theaters around the world, Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas starrer “Official Competition” has a official trailer.Variety has had exclusive access to its international subtitled version. Buena Vista International will release “Official Competition” in Spanish cinemas on Feb.

Disney’s reputation is notoriously squeaky clean.

Ann-Marie Corvin Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment has sold Icíar Bollaín’s San Sebastian Festival-bound Basque reconciliation drama “Maixabel” to Germany, striking a deal with Berlin-based distributor Piffl Medien.The film is set to make its theatrical release in Spain on Sept.

Disney’s reputation is notoriously squeaky clean.

Disney’s reputation is notoriously squeaky clean.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMiguel Herrán, who plays Aníbal “Río” Cortés in “Money Heist” and Christian Varela in “Elite,” will star with “Below Zero” lead Javier Gutiérrez in “Modelo 77,” produced by Movistar Plus and Madrid-based Atípica Films.The feature film will be released in Spanish cinema theaters by Buena Vista Intl.

Robert Jacquemin, a pioneering TV syndication executive who led Buena Vista Television for a decade before leaving to build DreamWorks’ TV business, died Sunday in Montecito, CA. He was 80.