‘The Good House’ Filmmakers on ‘Icon’ Sigourney Weaver, Endangered Adult Dramas

There are probably quite a few women around the world that would fantasize about being transported to a play where females are in control and the men are pawns in their own little game. That’s the world of “Mayday,” but things aren’t as great as they might seem.

Rebecca Souw Busan’s Asian Film Maker of the Year Award has become almost indistinguishable from a lifetime achievement award. But that need not diminish either the recipient or the festival.Im Kwon-taek is arguably the best-known South Korean film director to have straddled both the modern era and the earlier time when the country and the film industry were under more authoritarian control.At 85, Im is not only one of the oldest working directors, he has also been one of the most prolific.

Wonder Woman is just like every woman. Gal Gadot revealed she has trouble getting her newborn to sleep.

Netflix is pulling out all the stops for TUDUM, their big global event basically hawking and showing off all their wares. The streaming studio is beyond being an underdog in the world of film and now they’re getting into the realm of gigantic blockbusters.

Tell us how you really feel, Carole Baskin!

We casually throw the word “icon” around with such abandon these days that it almost feels like we need a new, more potent idiom to describe those who actually fit the bill. But until we get that term, let’s say that Sigourney Weaver is an absolute icon and leave it at that — a brilliant actor equally adept at drama, action, and comedy, a three-time Academy Award nominee (two of them in the same year), the kind of screen presence who lifts just about anything she’s in.

I am not of fan of movies that resort to breaking the fourth wall, as it were, and letting their key characters talk incessantly to the audience. It is a device that generally feels lazy, a writer’s crutch to explain story points away instead of letting us discover for ourselves.

Sigourney Weaver is excited to be stepping back into her role as Dana Barrett in “Ghostbusters Afterlife”.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefStreaming giant Netflix has joined as a major sponsor of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, which will return to Queensland’s Gold Coast for the third edition of its forum and the 14th edition of its awards ceremony.After a slimmed-down 2020 edition, this year marks a return to full competition for the 14th Awards on Nov. 11, with all categories to be presented.

Kate Aurthur editorIn “The Good House,” Sigourney Weaver plays Hildy, a prickly, well-born Realtor in a wealthy New England town. Hildy is a mother and grandmother, and her family has become concerned with her drinking.

Naman Ramachandran Acclaimed French producer Catherine Dussart has a full production slate including new works from veterans Amos Gitai, Rithy Panh and Peter Greenaway.Dussart is currently at the Venice Film Festival where Indian filmmaker Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s “Once Upon a Time in Calcutta,” co-produced by her Catherine Dussart Productions, is playing in the Horizons strand.

K.J. Yossman Interest in the royals has never been higher but in death, as in life, it’s Diana, Princess of Wales, who continues to nab the headlines.The princess, who would have turned 60 in July, died in a Paris car crash in 1997 alongside her then beau Dodi Fayed.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s action-thriller Trigger Warning rounds out its cast with Anthony Michael Hall (The Breakfast Club, Halloween Kills), Mark Webber (The Place of No Words), Alejandro De Hoyos (The Man from Toronto), Tone Bell (The Flash), Jake Weary (It Follows), and Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy).