William Shatner ‘Angry’ As Russian TV Exec Says Captain Kirk Went To The ‘Good Side’ After Station Buys Rights To His Show

EXCLUSIVE: German actor August Diehl, whose credits include The Young Karl Marx, Inglourious Basterds and A Hidden Life, has signed on to play the lead role in big-budget Russian drama Woland.

**Minor spoilers ahead for “Black Widow.”** Marvel‘s “Black Widow” had plenty of Easter Eggs and a big standout was the prison arm wrestling scene when David Harbour‘s Red Guardian snaps the wrist of a large fella that was willing to call him out on his tall tales of battling against Captain America, who is pointed out to be frozen at this point time.

Guy Lodge Film CriticCANNES — At a banner ceremony for female filmmakers, Russian writer-director Kira Kovalenko’s sophomore feature “Unclenching the Fists” won the top prize for best film in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival this evening, from a jury headed by British filmmaker Andrea Arnold.

Christopher Vourlias When she was growing up in Nalchik, the capital of Russia’s remote Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Kira Kovalenko wasn’t particularly interested in cinema. She can cite few films that inspired her as a girl.

coronavirus.After founding the rock group Zvuki Mu (Sounds of Mu) in 1982, Mamonov became an underground cult figure in Moscow. He gained wider recognition after Soviet restrictions on rock music and alternative culture were lifted in the late 1980s as part of then-leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.Mamonov further expanded his fame through acting.

Jon Burlingame It’s a pretty rare occasion when the director of a superhero movie sits down with the composer to talk about music and neither of them ever uses the word “action” or even “superhero.”Instead, “Black Widow” director Cate Shortland and composer Lorne Balfe talked about the backstory of Natasha Romanoff and her sister, Yelena Belova.

BTS, claiming that images of the band would cause children “to become perverts”.According to the Russian Times, the owners of PinkyPop Café, a K-pop-themed establishment in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg, had claimed that they had ordered images of K-pop groups BTS and Stray Kids to be printed as greeting cards, banners and several other merchandise.However, in a series of now-deleted Instagram Stories, the café explained that their order was purportedly turned down by the printing company

Christopher Vourlias Germany’s Sola Media has acquired sales rights across a host of territories for “Finnick,” an animated feature from leading Russian animation studio Riki Group, Variety has learned. The companies will be introducing the film to buyers during the Cannes Film Market.The CGI-animated comedy follows the adventures of 13-year-old Christine, who befriends the young prankster Finnick — one of the furry invisible beings known as Finns — in unlikely circumstances.

EXCLUSIVE: Russian film promotion body Roskino has launched a new export initiative, Russian Content Worldwide, in a bid to aid development of international relationships and interest in the Russian content market. The initiative was launched at the Russian Pavilion in Cannes this week and is direct response to the growing global interest in Russia’s film and television sector.

Kevin Feige told ET on the red carpet ahead of 's premiere. So, while the first film in the studio's fourth Phase is outwardly a swan song for its titular superheroine — an ending for Scarlett Johansson's superspy and Avenger — the movie is equally about setting up what comes next.Or as producer Brian Chapek put it, «This movie needed to do two things: The most important thing was celebrate Natasha's legacy.

Stranger Things and Black Widow.As seen at the climactic end of the third season of the Netflix sci-fi phenomenon, Harbour’s character – police chief Jim Hopper – finds himself locked up in a Soviet prison.As revealed in a new interview with Harbour in the Guardian, a few months after finishing up filming on Stranger Things season three, Harbour was offered a role in Marvel‘s Black Widow, which would also see him locked up in Russia.Harbour says he had to reveal the news to Stranger Things