Vox Cinemas Chief on ‘Tenet,’ ‘Mulan’ & Driving Audiences Back to Middle East Venues (EXCLUSIVE)

Also Read: 'Nomadland' Film Review: Frances McDormand Hits the Road in Quiet, Lyrical DramaThe film begins with three sentences, and they’re all the context you’ll get and all the context you’ll need: “After the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the end of the First World War, the colonial powers sketched new borders for the Middle East. Over the following decades, greed and ambition for power gave rise to military coups, corrupt regimes, authoritarian leaders and foreign interference.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaWerner Herzog and his son, Rudolph Herzog, will partner with Gunpowder & Sky on “Last Exit: Space,” a new documentary examining mankind’s push to colonize space.

Middle East movements, it has been claimed.Glaswegian Dennis McFadden - exposed last month as an M15 agent who was working as a resource officer with New IRA political front party Saoradh - is believed to have secured information that the terror organisation was being provided with weapons and finances after communicating with Hezbollah and some Palestinian groups.McFadden, believed to be a former special constable in his late 50s, is now understood to be under a witness protection programme

Jo Malone London, the British perfume and scented candle brand, has issued an apology to John Boyega — who was last year named its first male global ambassador — for taking a personal video he made for them and reshooting it for the Chinese market, in the process removing not onlyStar Wars actor entirely but not featuring a single black individual.

alum will be joining Fox's animated comedy, as a season 2 guest star, ET has exclusively learned. Meloni will voice Detective Voccola, described as an «explosive, world-weary detective who's sick of it all and has seen it all… until he meets a woman who claims to be Betty Hart.» His episode is slated to air in 2021.follows a Southern family who are always broke and struggling to the attain the American dream of status and wealth.

Jessica Kiang Applying a minute and painterly eye to ordinary lives encircled by much larger circumstance — be it a motorway as in 2013’s Golden Lion-winning “Sacro Gra,” or the seaborne migrant crisis as in 2016’s Golden Bear-winning “Fire at Sea” — has led to Italian-American director Gianfranco Rosi’s most celebrated documentaries.

Naman Ramachandran Banijay has appointed Lars Blomgren as head of scripted for Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA), where he will focus on non-English-language content.Blomgren will report into Banijay CEO Marco Bassetti.At Endemol Shine Group (ESG), before it was taken over by Banijay, Blomgren spearheaded the business’ non-English scripted production.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentIn the Middle East, the push to get back into production is best encapsulated by Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates city that’s been steadily growing as a global hub for Hollywood and Bollywood shoots, and where even during the coronavirus crisis production never stopped.“We maintained full production throughout the pandemic,” says Michael Garin, CEO of Abu Dhabi’s Twofour54, the outfit that provides infrastructure and incentives to more than 500

When the Sussexes announced plans to step back as working members of the royal family earlier this year, the couple made it clear that they also wanted complete financial independence from The Firm.And now, just five months since their March 31 departure, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have achieved exactly that after Prince Harry fully repaid the £2.4 million ($3.1 million) spent converting Frogmore Cottage into a family home.A representative for the couple tells BAZAAR.com, "This contribution,

Cuba Gooding, Jr. saved a man set on fire during a party over the weekend.

Manori Ravindran International EditorFilmmaker Nathan Grossman has followed Greta Thunberg’s remarkable journey from the earliest stages of her school strike for climate in 2018 to the United Nations Climate Action Summit last September, often operating as a one-man band shooting quietly in the background with fairly basic camera equipment.“As the movement grew and she grew, and the scope of the film grew, I thought to myself, ‘Jesus, were we too reluctant to bring in heavier gear?’” says

From Christopher Nolan to Charlie Kaufman and Miranda July there is no shortage of highly anticipated films in September, following a rather slow summer season. With fall festivals pressing on, it will be interesting to see where the film discourse takes us in the coming months, especially as some films begin to tiptoe back into theaters.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Tenet” got off to a solid start on its debut in Chinese theaters on Friday. It opened on top of the box office and eased aside local champion “The Eight Hundred.”.By 7pm on opening day “Tenet” had earned RMB50 million ($7.31 million), according to the China Box Office service of Ent Group.

Naman Ramachandran Discovery consolidates top management, BBC launches virtual MIPCOM showcase, Korean factual producer Buzz rebrands as UniK, Audible commissions “High Strangeness,” Jed Mercurio’s “Bloodlands” scores pre-sales, and Neil Gaiman’s “The Ocean at the End of the Lane” gets postponed to 2021.Discovery has streamlined leadership roles across its Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operations.James Gibbons’ role will now encompass the Nordic markets in addition to the U.K., and

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlineThe future of film in an age of plague may be crystallized this weekend.That’s because after numerous delays and months of anticipation, Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” — the time-bending sci-fi epic that hopes to revive the beleaguered movie business  — is finally hitting U.S.

Middle East to face a year in prison on drugs charges.Conor Howard's Step-dad Robert has told the Daily Record he was denied bail at a court hearing in Corfu today, as he faces the wait to hear if he will be extradited to Qatar after a court in the capital of Doha charged him with being in possession of a narcotic substance in October last year.Yesterday we told how the 27-year-old Edinburgh man, was who was living and working in Australia in 2019, told his family he was initially arrested at

Middle East last year, but claims he was freed without charge, has been left terrified as he now faces a year behind bars in a Qatar jail after being hunted down by cops again in Greece last weekend.