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Manori Ravindran International EditorA changing of the guard is underway at the production company formerly led by Georgia Democratic Sen.

Looking back! During the Monday, July 26, episode of the “Drama Queens” podcast, Sophia Bush recalled an incident on the set of Chicago P.D., during which a man wouldn’t step out of their shot while the procedural was filming on the street.

It might be time to start calling Caleb Landry Jones a double threat. The young actor’s rapid ascent in the film industry has hardly hindered his longtime passion for music.

WWE Money in the Bank 2021 held at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas saw some fantastic matches and closed on a massive note with a final fight between Roman Reigns and Edge. Roman Reigns' victory over Edge after a spectacular match remained a major highlight of the event.

Not even a global pandemic could stop prolific South Korean director Hong Sangsoo, but his latest film deals with ideas and tensions that echo questions and perspectives brought to the surface by this global health crisis. Playing in the Cannes Premiere section of this year’s Festival de Cannes, “In Front of Your Face” only slowly reveals its hand.

Hazel Moder has officially made her red carpet debut!Julia Roberts' 16-year-old daughter attended the premiere of during the 74th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, looking adorable as she posed on the red carpet alongside her father, Danny Moder. Julia and Danny are also parents to Hazel's twin brother, Phinnaeus, and 14-year-old son Henry.Hazel went '90s chic in a butterscotch yellow button-up lace shirtdress with black Mary Janes, while Danny sported a classic black tux to promote his

Pretty Woman actress Julia Roberts may be a regular on red carpets but someone in her family is learning the chops! The actress’ 16-year-old daughter Hazel Moder recently made her very first red carpet appearance at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in France earlier this week to support dad Danny Moder at the premiere of his new movie Flag Day. For the unversed, Danny--Julia‘s husband is a cinematographer, the couple even met on the sets of their movie The Mexican back in 2000.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“The Salamander Child” by Belgian director Theo Degen, hailing from the INSAS film school, was named as the top prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation student film section.

Prizes are beginning to roll in here at the Cannes Film Festival ahead of the main closing ceremony on Saturday night. Parallel section Critics’ Week, celebrating its 60th edition, is up first with Egyptian filmmaker Omar El Zohairi’s Feathers awarded the Nespresso Grand Prize.

K.J. Yossman Omar El Zohairy’s comedy-drama “Feathers” has won the Nespresso Grand Prize at Critics’ Week, the Cannes Film Festival’s strand dedicated to first and second films.Set in contemporary Egypt, “Feathers” follows the journey of a woman with three children whose idealist husband is turned into a chicken by a magician in a magic-trick gone awry.

July 12th, 2021, Cannes – Reader, I ratatat out this missive in haste on my trusty Smith-Corona from the South of France, in the paltry hopes it may adequately convey my delight in viewing the latest cinematographic marvel from Mr. Wes Anderson, originally of Houston, Texas but more latterly resident of a nearby color-coded, symmetrical nebula almost entirely of his own design.

Naman Ramachandran The Netherlands Film Fund and the Swedish Film Institute are among eight European public funders that are launching ‘New Dawn,’ an inclusion and equality production fund that aims to support under-represented groups in the world of film. Apart from the Netherlands and Sweden, the other founder funding bodies are from Slovenia, Denmark, Finland, French and Flemish Belgium, and Luxembourg.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorRichard Branson has won the foot race among billionaires to blast off into space.Branson and a few of five others briefly achieved weightlessness on Sunday as his Virgin Galactic Unity 22 craft took off from the Spaceport America facility in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.The British billionaire and a crew of five others departed around 7:40 a.m. PT from the Spaceport America facility in Truth or Consequences, N.M.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentSaudi Arabia’s Ithra Film Productions banner has teamed up with prominent Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy (“Clash”) who will serve as a creative consultant on two upcoming projects by Saudi directors backed by the company, one of which Hefzy will produce through his Film Clinic shingle. The two projects which were unveiled in Cannes by Ithra Film — which is a unit of The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, financed by Saudi Aramco Oil Company to

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Naman Ramachandran While India does not have its usual physical pavilion at the Cannes market this year, due to pandemic travel restrictions, and Bollywood stars aren’t setting the red carpet on fire, the business of cinema continues to be discussed at the virtual India pavilion.At a lively session on Thursday, moderated by Vikramjit Roy, head of India’s Film Facilitation Office (FFO), Dhanpreet Kaur, MD of the country’s National Film development Corporation (NFDC), said that the long-awaited

It’s a loose riff on the Amanda Knox story, basically. A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn’t commit.