‘Sweat’ Director Magnus von Horn on Cinema, Social Media, and the Promise of Poland

(Reuters) - French Open champion Iga Swiatek says the COVID-19 pandemic has been beneficial for her as the restrictions allowed the 19-year-old from Poland to settle into her life as a first-time Grand Slam winner. Swiatek went from being a largely unknown teenager to acquiring celebrity status when she became the youngest woman to win the French Open since Monica Seles in 1992 and the first to do so without dropping a set since Justine Henin in 2007.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentTrustNordisk has closed further sales on Christoffer Boe‘s “A Taste of Hunger” and has unveiled the international poster for the anticipated film.“A Taste of Hunger,” which is headlined by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”) and Kathrine Greis-Rosenthal (“A Fortunate Man”), has sold to France (Kinovista) and Poland (Hagi Film).The film has Coster-Waldau and Greis-Rosenthal as a power couple on the Danish gourmet scene who run the popular restaurant

While this year's Golden Globe director nominees include an unprecedented three women — Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman), Regina King (One Night in Miami) and Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) — in 1984, Barbra Streisand was an anomaly. That night she became the first — and to this day, only — woman to win that Globe, for Yentl.The musical saw Streisand playing a young Jewish woman in 1904 Poland who masquerades as a man to study in a yeshiva, where she falls for another student (Mandy Patinkin).

Salma Hayek practically broke the internet on Tuesday when she shared a photo of herself being showered with water.Wearing a gorgeous red swimsuit and with her eyes closed and her legs pulled into her chest, the actress couldn't resist referencing a Lady Gaga song, captioning her post: "I’m ready 'rain on me.'" WATCH: Salma Hayek pole-dances in the middle of a restaurant and shows off her fabulous physiqueIt didn't take her social media followers long to rush to the comment section of her

Harlow Jane, Katie Cassidy, Jasper Polish, Robert Davi and Orange is the New Black actress Jackie Cruz have boarded the romantic crime drama I Love Us, the fourth directorial outing for The Irishman star Danny A. Abeckaser, in which he also stars.

A week before the official kick-off of Berlin's European Film Market, Culmination Pictures has closed a slew of international pre-sales for Curtain Call, a period murder mystery from Anand Tucker’s (Shopgirl, Hilary & Jackie) featuring an all-star British cast including Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu and Simon Russell Beale.

 Salma Hayek  is dancing into the weekend. In her latest social media treat, the 54-year-old powerhouse shared a boomerang video of her taking a crack at pole dancing after finishing her meal.

CD Projekt RED is reportedly using Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedowns of stolen game codes on Twitter to curb the spread of its data.According to a Vice report, the Polish game developer issued DMCA infringement notices to two Twitter users who shared links on the social media platform containing stolen source codes of several CD Projekt RED IPs.

Also Read: 'Quo Vadis Aida' Director Jasmila Zbanic Exposes the Bureaucracy of War From a Female Perspective (Video)Written and directed by Zbanic, “Quo Vadis, Aida?” stars Jasna Djuricic and was produced by Sarajevo-based Deblokada, in co-production with coop99 filmproduktion (Austria), Digital Cube (Romania), N279 (Netherlands), Razor Film (Germany), Extreme Emotions (Poland), Indie Prod (France), Torden Film (Norway), TRT (Turkey), ZDF ARTE, ORF and BHRT.Dan O’Meara and Darcy Heusel

Justin Theroux's new Apple TV+ series has a premiere date! based on the best-selling novel by his uncle Paul Theroux, will debut its first two episodes Friday, April 30, the streaming service announced Friday during the Television Critics Association winter press tour. The series, which also stars Melissa George, Logan Polish and Gabriel Bateman, follows a radical idealist and brilliant inventor, Allie Fox (Justin), who uproots his family for Mexico when they suddenly find themselves on the run

Back at it again? Clare Crawley and Dale Moss reunited in Florida on Tuesday, February 16, one month after their split — and it appears that the exes are hanging out once again.

Glamour has rounded up the very best movies on Disney Plus now streaming. I guarantee you'll find at least one ready-made movie night on the list.

Commercial media outlets owned by 43 companies,including TV networks operated by Discovery Inc., went off the air in Poland on Wednesday to protest a planned advertising tax, which the government says will raise funds for healthcare and culture institutions hit by the coronavirus pandemic. But industry companies see the tax, which could amount to between 2 percent and 15 percent of advertising revenue, as a way to hurt their finances and muzzle freedom of speech and media.

Ed Meza @edmezavarMandy Patinkin and Lena Dunham have joined German filmmaker Julia von Heinz’s next film, “Iron Box,” about a New York businesswoman who decides to take her aging father back to his native Poland, where she hopes to explore her Jewish roots.In an interview with Variety during last year’s Venice Film Festival following the premiere of her latest pic, “And Tomorrow the Entire World,” von Heinz said she planned to send Patinkin and Dunham the script and expressed hope that they

Also Read: Poland's Oscar Submission 'Never Gonna Snow Again' Acquired by Kino LorberAlthough her son brought Utgoff to Szumowska’s attention, he was also convinced she had no shot of coaxing the star of a successful TV series to play Zenia, an enigmatic masseur who travels from house to house in an affluent suburban housing estate in an Eastern European city, casting a mysterious spell over his troubled, desperately lonely clients and their families.“I said, ‘I don’t care, he’s going to be in