Official: Top Joseph Kony commander captured Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an army official said Sunday, in what an analyst said was an "intelligence coup" for forces hunting for Kony. More
Boredom, discontent set in among Kony hunters An Internet campaign that's gone viral aims to capture notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, but Ugandan foot soldiers who have spent years searching for the man are starting to ask a question their top commanders prefer to ignore: Is it possible he is dead? More
‘Emilia Perez’ Has France Poised to Win the International Feature Oscar — Could Another Country Pull Off an Upset? Will critics' darling 'Emilia Pérez' take home the gold for France, or will one of the other 85 countries pull an upset? 11/2/2024 - 5:15 am | View Link
He Might Be the Century’s Most Successful Indie Filmmaker, but He Thinks We Should All Love Taylor Swift You can make a pretty solid case that Don Hertzfeldt is the most successful independent filmmaker of the 21st century. Not because he’s topped the box office or made a killing—although in an hourlong ... 10/31/2024 - 7:53 am | View Link
Filmmaker Hannah Peterson Learned from Sean Baker and Chloé Zhao More than a year after its very well-reviewed premiere, Peterson's "The Graduates" is finally arriving in theaters. The filmmaker tells IndieWire what it took to get here, and what she's learned along ... 10/30/2024 - 2:56 am | View Link
Paul Morrissey, Filmmaker and Andy Warhol Collaborator, Dead at 86 Paul Morrissey, the filmmaker and close Andy Warhol collaborator and business partner, has died at the age of 86. 10/29/2024 - 12:15 pm | View Link
‘Juror #2’ Team On How Clint Eastwood’s Latest Is “For All People, Americans And Beyond” & Whether Pic Is Filmmaker’s Last “Who knows? He’s been saying that for a long time” exclaimed Eastwood’s longtime producer Tim Moore last night at the world premiere of the Warner Bros movie. Juror #2 was played the TCL Chinese ... 10/28/2024 - 7:45 pm | View Link
Tiina Lokk, the founder and managing director of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (known as PÖFF), one of the largest festivals in Northern Europe, has put together with her team of 15 programmers, another strong and varied harvest for the fest’s 28th edition unspooling Nov. 8-23 in the Estonian capital. Split into six main competition strands and another 37 sections, […]
Pan-Indian star Prabhas has signed a three-picture pact with production banner Hombale Films, following their collaboration on “Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire.” The deal, which includes the upcoming “Salaar Part 2” and two additional features, represents one of the largest talent-studio partnerships in Indian cinema. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Sony Group Corporation reported little changed revenues of JPY2.91 trillion ($19 billion) for the July to September period, representing the second quarter of its April to March financial year. But group-level net income surged by 75% to JPY3.39 trillion ($2.21 billion). The ‘Pictures Division,’ which spans the feature film, TV channels and TV content production […]
“Dune Part 2” won a pair of awards in the feature competition at the annual Hollywood Professional Association Awards on Thursday at the Television Academy in North Hollywood. It won trophies in color grading, which was awarded to Fotokem colorist David Cole, and in sound, which was presented to the team.
A new film festival titled Chinese Cinema Today is set to launch in Japan, featuring 15 Chinese films including four Japanese premieres. The program, running Nov. 22-Dec. 12 at Tokyo’s Cinelibre Ikebukuro before moving to Osaka (Dec. 13-26), spotlights both commercial hits and festival favorites from mainland China’s growing film industry.
One of cinema’s most iconic vampires is out of the coffin again. Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” finally debuted to film press, and first reactions are calling the horror drama a “knockout” with impeccable below-the-line craft. A reimagining of F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent German Expressionist film, “Nosferatu” stars Lily-Rose Depp as a young woman who becomes […]