Portuguese director João Canijo received a career award on Sunday at the Cineuropa film festival, which takes place in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, revealed production company Midas Filmes. The festival, which ends on the 23rd, awarded career awards to actor Luis Zahera , the actress Ana Torrent, both Spanish, and João Canijo, having also shown several films by the Portuguese filmmaker. João Canijo returned to Santiago de Compostela after this festival dedicated a retrospective to him in 2011. In this 37th edition, Cineuropa showed the films “Sangue do Meu Sangue”, “Work of an actress, work of an actor”, “Fátima” and…
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“Her way of writing compulsively, with a notebook always at hand, and her ability to create complex plots were remarkable,” said editor Clara Farmer, quoted in the British group’s statement on the writer’s death. “We mourn her death. , but it is comforting to know that the sharpness of her works will mark readers for generations to come”, continued Clara Farmer, adding that “Antonia’s books are wonderful games of stories and ideas.”Antonia Susan Byatt was born on August 24, 1936, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, northern England. He studied at Cambridge and then at Oxford. He taught English and American literature at…
Jimmy Kimmel will host the 96th Oscar ceremony, on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. The name of the popular talk show host with his name on the ABC channel, the same as the ceremony, has been announced first this Wednesday night through the three most important media outlets in the industry: The Hollywood Reporter and Variety magazines, and the website Deadline. It will be the fourth time and the second in a row that Kimmel will be the face of Hollywood’s biggest night, after 2017 (the year of the famous confusion of envelopes for Best…
THE STORY: After a fateful mistake, a killer faces his employers and himself in an international chase that he insists is in no way personal.”The Assassin”: available on Netflix from November 10th.Review: Francisco QuintasIn the words of American critic Chris Stuckmann, director David Fincher is “the star of his own films”, consecutive projects far from being chosen at random. When it comes to selecting a script to work on, the filmmaker of “Seven Deadly Sins” (1995) and “Combat Club” (1999) reaffirms his artistic greatness, as well as a dose of courage that, arguably, many (young ) creators.Fincher is a cynic…
According to the producer O Som e a Fúria, in a statement, “after having had its world premiere, and having been awarded the Casting Award, in the Official Selection of the Cannes Festival – Un Certain Regard, ‘A Flor do Buriti’ now wins the main prize at the 64th Festival dei Popoli (‘the oldest documentary festival in Europe’), in Florence.” “The Flower of Buriti” was one of the films selected for the festival’s International Competition, which ends on Sunday.The film was shot with the Krahô people, from Brazil, in the Kraholândia indigenous land, where the two directors had already made…
Disney waited less than 24 hours to adjust its release schedule for Marvel films after the end of the Hollywood actors’ strike. After executive president Bob Iger assumed that the focus on quantity led to a creative decline in Disney productions , the Marvel Studios branch will only have one film in theaters in 2024 and will have four the following year. As expected, “Deadpool 3” was postponed from May 3 to July 26: the film with Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, interrupted by the start of the actors’ strike on July 14th when it was 50% done, is expected…
The singer Paula Ribas, 91 years old, who was nicknamed the “queen of the twist”, died today, in the Cascais hospital, where she was admitted, her husband, the musician Luís N’Gambi, told the Lusa agency. success in the 1960s, in Portugal, with hits such as ” Vamos Dançar o Twist “, of which she was called “queen”, and in 1970 she headed to Brazil, where she remained for 20 years.Paula Ribas, given her given name Ilídia Dias Ribas , was born in Faro, on February 23, 1942, and made her debut in 1952 on the radio program “Ouvindo as Estrelas”.…
The Halloween season release “Five Nights at Freddy’s – The Movie” remained in first place at the North American box office, surpassing the ‘biopic’ about Elvis Presley’s wife, “Priscilla”. maintain its lead in ticket sales, “Freddy’s” still saw a frightening drop from its $78 million debut to just $19.4 million, according to industry observer Exhibitor Relations, the weekend it was supposed to open its second season. part of “Dune” before being postponed until March next year because of the Hollywood actors’ strike. The film based on a video game, released in theaters and on Universal’s Peacock platform, is “falling flat…
In June, Variety magazine asked Jennifer Lawrence if she would accept returning to the role that made her a movie star, that of Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games”. At the age of 33 and after four films between 2012 and 2015, an Oscar and rise to the position of the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, the response was surprising: an enthusiastic “Oh, my god, complement!”. “If Katniss could ever come back into my life, 100%”, he reinforced. to say that this depends on Suzanne Collins, the author of the books, the great architect of the cinematic saga left the door…
Disney, the majority shareholder of Hulu, announced this Wednesday that it will buy a third of the streaming platform for 8.6 billion dollars (8.11 billion euros) from NBC Universal, a subsidiary of the television operator. Comcast cable, which will allow it to acquire full control of the company. The acquisition “will advance Disney’s streaming goals,” the company said in a press release, and comes as it strives to increase the number of subscribers to its service Disney+ streaming company. The deal values Hulu at $27.5 billion in total, according to Disney, which said the transaction will be completed by December…