Iranian authorities have questioned members of the filming crew and actors in the film by acclaimed director Mohammad Rasoulof, which will be shown in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, the cast's lawyer said. People who worked on “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” ” (“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, in literal translation) were pressured to have the film removed from the festival and the actors were banned from leaving the country, lawyer Babak Paknia wrote on Tuesday on the social network X (formerly Twitter ).Rasoulof, who in 2020 won the Golden Bear, the highest award at…
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Canal+ will produce a live-action film based on Astérix to “inaugurate in beauty” a new brand dedicated to adaptations of literary works, the audiovisual group and the publisher announced on Monday. The premiere date is not known. “In 2023 , almost half of the biggest box office hits in American and French cinema were literary adaptations”, explained the president of Canal+, Maxime Saada, to the shareholders of Vivendi (owner of Canal+), gathered at a general meeting. “That is why, inspired by merger of Vivendi and the Lagardère group”, which includes Hachette Livre, the main French and third world publisher, “we…
Sorkin, who discussed the creation and early years of Facebook in the film “The Social Network,” said the platform has since played a large role in political polarization in the United States. “I'm going to write about it. I blame Facebook for what happened on January 6th”, said Sorkin, winner of an Oscar in 2011 for the screenplay adapted from “The Social Network”. Sorkin broke the news during a live recording of the podcast “The Town” this week. The writer accused Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of social media giant Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) of prioritizing growth…
The BAP studio, the films of Abi Feijó and Regina Pessoa and a new generation of directors will be present in June at the Annecy animation film festival (France), the year in which Portugal is a guest country. June 9th to 15th, today presented the official program, such as the feature film competition, special sessions, previews of the main international studios and a tribute to Portuguese animation. In a press release, the festival announces seven programs dedicated to Portugal, namely one about the cinema of producer and director Abi Feijó and director Regina Pessoa, entitled “A Happy Story”. Regina Pessoa,…
Among Oscar nominations for “Half Nelson”, “La La Land” and Barbie”, many Ryan Gosling fans highlight “Good Guys” (“The Nice Guys” in the original) as one of his best and most 'ignored' works .The 2016 black comedy set in 1977 Los Angeles paired Gosling and Russell Crowe as private detectives with very different personalities hired to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl ” data-title=”Ryan Gosling blames “Angry Birds” for failing. make another film with Russell Crowe – SAPO Mag”> Despite the good reviews and the obvious chemistry between the actors, a sequel never materialized. According to Gosling, it was…
“Clandestina”, a documentary by Maria Mire that recalls the work of resisting the dictatorship of the artist Margarida Tengarrinha, won the A Voz das Mulheres and best Portuguese film awards at the Porto Femme festival – International Film Festival. The short film “Pelo Sim For No”, by Laura Andrade, which portrays the female experience based on the conversations of a group of friends, received the Festival Prize, which began its seventh edition on the 16th, mobilizing around three thousand people, in five spaces of Porto, and closed on Sunday night.”Clandestina”, by Maria Mire, has as its starting point the work…
Scheduled for release in Brazil on April 25th, a historic day for Portuguese democracy, this feature film by Varela, inspired by a real case, has social objectives, the director told Lusa. “I believe in the unique power of cinema, capable of trigger debates and reflections that only the dark and silence of a room provoke in us. May this film be that place where courage is gained, where especially women, with the necessary and mandatory support, can identify and denounce their aggressors, whoever they may be”, he stated. “Smoky Glass” is part of the fictionalization of a heinous crime against…
Brian Cox's usual frankness once again created viral quotes, as happened with Logan Roy, his character in the acclaimed series “Succession”. The Scottish actor was one of the guests at HistFest in London on Sunday and spoke about various topics, from politics to theater reviews and even Ridley Scott's film “Napoleon.” Really appalling. I don't know what he was thinking. I think it's completely his fault and I don't think Ridley Scott helps him. I would have done much better than Joaquin Phoenix, I can guarantee that.” “You can say it's a good dramatic story. No – they're lies”, he…
Monday's screening of the film “I, Captain” at the Italian Cinema Festival, about the journey of two young people from Dakar to reach Europe in search of a better life, was attended by a group of around 50 people migrated, the organization reported. The awareness-raising action organized together with different activist collectives around Matteo Garrone's film aimed to launch an appeal for solidarity and support for this group of people, who arrived in Portugal in search of of a new life, going through a serious and urgent situation of threat of eviction, in Largo da Igreja dos Anjos, in Lisbon.…
Inspired by facts and set in Lisbon in the 1940s, the film is directed by Jorge Paixão da Costa, produced by Ukbar Filmes and starring actor Tomás Alves. In October, when the film was shot, Jorge Paixão da Costa explained, in a note from press, which intended to make known “the other side of the man who gave its name to the super cup of the most popular sport in Portugal”, football. The intention was also to show “the intricacies of propaganda at the time and the ideological battle for the soul and heart of the Portuguese who marked the…