Venice: Diversity and Love at Heart of ‘Laila in Haifa,’ Director Amos Gitai Says

Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell are engaged! The 31-year-old Mirror Mirror actress and the 37-year-old The One I Love director and writer confirmed the exciting news on social media on Friday (September 25).

Machine Gun Kelly is showing love to his boy!

Machine Gun Kelly, 30, had a life changing experience when he met now-girlfriend Megan Fox, 34. “I didn’t know what [love] was until me and her made eye contact…That’s when I was like, ‘Whoa’,” the singer confessed to radio host Howard Stern on Wednesday, Sept. 23, going on to say it was a “love at first sight” situation. “Yeah, for sure [it was],” he said on The Howard Stern Show. How sweet!

Machine Gun Kelly is in love and he’s letting everyone know about it!

“The Farewell” director Lulu Wang is taking issue with Ron Howard’s decision to helm a new biopic focusing on the life of renowned Chinese pianist Lang Lang.

Also Read: 'Minari' Director Shares the 'Poetic' Meaning Behind Immigrant Tale's Title (Video)Bad Robot’s J.J. Abrams will produce the live-action adaptation along with Genki Kawamura, who produced the original.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Cuties” filmmaker Maimouna Doucouré says that Netflix’s initial marketing campaign opened up the film to a level of criticism that it didn’t receive after its Sundance Film Festival debut in January, and that she’s fighting “the same fight” as her critics.Speaking on Monday as part of a virtual 10 Talents to Watch panel hosted by French promotion organization UniFrance, Doucouré highlighted the streaming giant’s early artwork, which depicted the film’s

Alissa Simon Film CriticThe winner of Karlovy Vary’s East of the West prize for her debut, “The Wednesday Child” (2015), Hungarian multihyphenate Lili Horvát screens “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival after its world premiere in Venice Days.

For a lot of Americans, words like “West Bank,” “Palestine,” and “Israel” exist more as political ideas rather than actual places, denoting a struggle that transcends a particular location. To understand this region and the reasons people live the way they do there (behind walls, passing through checkpoints, in the midst of one’s fiercest enemies) takes a nuanced understanding of history spanning World War II, conflicts in 1948 and 1967, and a series of accords over the last 20+ years.

Haifa, a port city in Israeli, is famous for its mixture of Arabs and Israelis, making it an ideal location for inter-cultural dramas. Well-known Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, who hails from the city, aims to make the most of it in Laila in Haifa, wherehe brings a hip bunch of contemporary Israelis and Palestinians together in mixed couples.

Jurassic World actress Bryce Dallas Howard is seemingly a believer in magic! The actress recently opened up about her experience on her upcoming film--Jurassic World: Dominion.

Guy Lodge Film CriticClub Fattoush is a real-life bar and arts space in the Israeli port city of Haifa: a kind of bohemian, liberal-minded gathering point for a broad array of residents, be they Israeli or Palestinian, Jewish or Arabic, gay or straight, and so on. Veteran Haifa-born filmmaker Amos Gitai is sufficiently enamored of the venue to have made a feature-length fictional celebration of its diversity and cultural import.

For a lot of Americans, words like “West Bank,” “Palestine,” and “Israel” exist more as political ideas rather than actual places, denoting a struggle that transcends a particular location. To understand this region and the reasons people live the way they do there (behind walls, passing through checkpoints, in the midst of one’s fiercest enemies) takes a nuanced understanding of history spanning World War II, conflicts in 1948 and 1967, and a series of accords over the last 20+ years.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentNew York and Oslo-based writer/director Mona Fastvold made her directorial debut with “The Sleepwalker,” which unlocked secrets between two sisters and made a splash in 2014 at Sundance. Her ambitious followup “The World to Come” stars Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby as two farmers’ wives in 1856 Upstate New York who fall in love but have no template, no reference points as to how to handle their emotions.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterBook your blowout at Christophe and pop your luxury tents — Sony Pictures has ordered a sequel to the 1989 comedy “Troop Beverly Hills.”The film, about a pampered Los Angeles housewife (Shelley Long) who roughs it as Wilderness Girls scout to bond with her daughter, is getting an update from director Oran Zegman, Variety has learned.The Los Angeles-based Israeli director will mark her feature debut with the untitled sequel, set to release under Sony’s TriStar

Deadline.The military medic comedy-drama series from Brian Grazer and Ron Howard finished airing in March. It’s currently streaming on CBS All Access.The series, from Imagine Television Studios and CBS TV Studios, was based on the Israeli TV show “Charlie Gulf One.” It was written and created by Roberto Benabib.

Manori Ravindran International EditorTilda Swinton accepted her Golden Lion for career achievement at the Venice Film Festival with a touching love letter to cinema, which she punctuated with “Wakanda Forever,” in a nod to “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman.The British actor accepted the prize from Venice jury president Cate Blanchett during the festival’s opening ceremony on Wednesday evening, where the festival kicked off with a tribute to Italian composer Ennio Morricone — complete with