Russia film crew set to blast off to make 1st movie in space

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor“Flowers Are Not Silent,” a film about the brutal suppression of demonstrations against last year’s rigged presidential election in Belarus, will open the 25th Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival on Tuesday.

Masked men stormed a Moscow showing of Agnieszka Holland’s film Mr Jones yesterday night, chanting “Shame on the Motherland” as they took over the stage.

Naman Ramachandran British filmmaker Asif Kapadia, Oscar winner for “Amy,” was due to adapt Nick Abadzis’ 2007 graphic novel “Laika” as an animated film before it finally saw fruition as a VR experience.Kapadia came across the novel, based on the true story of a Moscow stray mongrel who was sent into orbit by Russia on Sputnik 2 in 1957, more than five years ago. He read it to his children as a bedtime story and decided to adapt it as an animated film that they could watch.

Christopher Vourlias SMF Studio, the venerable Russian animation house, and leading publisher Bubble Comics are partnering on a new series based on the comic book “Coolics” which they’ve premiered at Mipcom this week.Created by creative producer and SMF Studio director Alexandra Bizyaeva, Bubble’s editor-in-chief Roman Kotkov, and creative producer Evgeniy Eronin – a scriptwriter on the animated feature film “Major Grom: The Plague Doctor,” which was released by Disney in Russia earlier this

Carrie and Big are back in Paris!

Manchester United centre-back Phil Jones has addressed the sheer level of pride he takes about his international career.

William Earl The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday that journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.In a statement posted to their official site, the committee praised the duo “for their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia.

Norwegian Nobel Committee stressed that a free and independent press is essential to achieving and maintaining peace in the world.“Free, independent and fact-based journalism serves to protect against abuse of power, lies and war propaganda,” committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen said.

Moscow Times reports.Andrei Tsyganov, chairman of a regulatory commission that purports to protect children, said last week that it was “necessary to expand” the rights of law enforcement in order to target the groups.Alongside LGBTQ groups, Tsyagnov also highlighted “furries” — those interested in anthropomorphic animal characters — as an “extremist ideology.”“LGBT ideology, radical feminism, all these furries, child-free — they, of course, must be recognized at least as extremism, extremist

Challenge, where Peresild will play a surgeon who is sent to the space station to save a crew member who needs an urgent operation.The hatches between #SoyuzMS19 and ISS have been opened

$200 million space-based action flick. The Hollywood daredevil brokered a deal between NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX last year to bring the film, with direction from Doug Liman (“American Made”), to the big screen.Channel One broadcasted the launch live, featuring actor Yulia Peresild, 37, director Klim Shipenko, 38, and veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, 49, which they aired across multiple viewing platforms and languages.

Russia has always prided itself on being first for a number of space exploration milestones, and today it can count itself as the first country to launch a film crew into space.

MOSCOW -- A Russian actor and a film director have rocketed to space on a mission to make the world’s first movie in orbit.Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off Tuesday for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three space missions.