Karlovy Vary: Future Frames Program Gives Young Talent Helping Hand
KARLOVY VARY — European Film Promotion’s Future Frames program for young talent provided an intense three-day experience for 10 up-and-coming filmmakers during the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The program, which took place July 3-5, helps introduce emerging film professionals to the media and the film industry and presents their work to festival auds. Belgian helmer… Read more »
Beyonce Responds to Dallas Police Shootings: ‘No Violence Will Create Peace’
Beyonce paid tribute to the five police officers killed and seven other injured in Thursday’s Dallas shootings, with a letter she posted on Instagram, late Friday night. The names of the five police officers who were killed — Brent Thompson, Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Krol, Michael Smith and Lorne Ahrens — are displayed, alternating with a… Read more »
Karlovy Vary Film Review: ‘I Am a Hero’
“I Am a Hero” careens along in a giddy, bloodsoaked, immensely pleasurable rush, propelled by an enthusiasm as infectious as a bite from the undead.
Box Office: ‘Secret Life of Pets’ Dominating Weekend with $96 Million
Illumination-Universal’s “The Secret Life of Pets” is dominating the U.S. box office with a $96 million opening weekend at 4,329 locations, estimates showed Saturday. The animated comedy took in $38 million on its opening day Friday, five times higher than the first day of “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” with about $6.6 million at… Read more »
Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘The Young Pope’ TV Series to World Premiere at Venice Film Festival
ROME — Paolo Sorrentino’s hotly anticipated TV series “The Young Pope,” toplining Jude Law as conservative cigarette-smoking American pontiff Pius XIII, will world premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival where the first two episodes will screen. The “Pope” Lido launch will precede the three-pronged Sky, HBO and Canal Plus production’s October air date on Sky’s Sky… Read more »
Karlovy Vary Film Review: ‘We’re Still Together’
The “we” of “We’re Still Together” may refer to sorely tested individuals trying to keep their own disordered lives in one piece.
Hollywood Bowl Outdoor Concert Screening Breathes Fresh Magic Into Original ‘Harry Potter’
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 15 years since the first Harry Potter movie, since author J.K. Rowling’s literary creation crystallized into the form audiences followed over the course of the next decade on-screen. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” director Chris Columbus deserves credit for making that experience so iconic, of course, as… Read more »
‘Ghostbusters’ Marketing Challenges: How Sony Is Selling All-Female Reboot
In a summer where studio tentpoles have been underperforming at the box office, Sony Pictures is facing hurdles with how to sell its female-driven reboot of “Ghostbusters” to the masses. The studio is trying to build up excitement for the picture by fanning nostalgia from the original 1984 classic. At the same time, the advertising… Read more »
Karlovy Vary Film Review: ‘Nightlife’
This engrossing examination of fear essentially poses the question of whether it is worse to be mauled by animals or by the media.
Karlovy Vary, Variety Celebrate Billion Dollar Location Czech Republic
KARLOVY VARY — The Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Comcast NBCUniversal and Barrandov Studio joined Variety to celebrate the first-ever overseas “Billion Dollar Location” special — focusing on the Czech Republic — with a swinging bash at a legendary venue in the picturesque spa town. Known as the Imperial Spa, the 19th-century pseudo-Renaissance building also served… Read more »
Film Review: ‘Dhanak’ (Rainbow)
Movie stars, distinctive deities, and steadfast siblings propel the road-movie narrative of “Dhanak,” writer-director’s Nagesh Kukunoor’s slickly produced and pleasantly engaging fairy tale about the long-distance journey of two starstruck youngsters in search of a nondenominational miracle. Winner of the Crystal Bear Grand Prix for best children’s film at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival, this… Read more »
Film Review: ‘Peter von Bagh’
“Peter von Bagh” contextualizes and pays tribute to his many facets: film critic, magazine editor, teacher, curator, author (with more than 30 books to his credit) director and television and radio presenter.
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