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One for having opened Disney’s doors to him to be Marvel’s Tony Stark/Iron Man after several years of drug addiction in which no Hollywood studio would make him work insurance, another for the negative impact on his career, Robert Downey Jr. surprised by choosing “The Rafeiro” (2006) and “The Adventures of Dr. Dolittle” (2020) as the most important films he has made in the last 25 years. The first is a forgotten comedy about a man (Tim Allen) who seeks to take a normal life, despite the peculiarity of sometimes turning into a dog, the fault of the villainous doctor…

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Organized by the Associação de Moradores da Praia da Tocha, the international festival has the support of the City Council of Cantanhede and the Parish Council of Tocha. [inscrições] from 115 different countries, from which 94 short films were selected”, said today, to the Lusa agency, the founder and coordinator of the initiative since the first edition, Paulo Delgado. Brazil, Kazakhstan, India, France, United States, Spain, Germany, Ukraine and Russia. “The country that sent the most short films to Marmostra was Iran”, he added. May and has as themes the Sea, Environment and Traditions. Created in 2017, the annual festival…

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Hollywood actors and screenwriters join forces on the picket lines starting Friday, after the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) union failed to reach an agreement with the Film and Television Producers Alliance (AMPTP), the organization that represents major Hollywood studios and platforms such as Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount, Sony, Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix, Amazon and Apple. It will be the industry’s biggest shutdown in 63 years: it’s the first time both unions have gone on strike simultaneously since 1960, when actor (and future US president) Ronald Reagan led the protests. One of the main complaints from actors concerns the drop in payments…

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Writer Milan Kundera has died at the age of 94, advances the state broadcaster of the Czech Republic, quoted by AFP. Born Czech, and French since 1981, the author of “The Unsustainable Lightness of Being” (1984), a sarcastic painter of the human condition, belonged to the French Academy, did not receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, but is considered one of the greatest contemporary authors. ageing”.Milan Kundera liked to talk about her work before talking about it. His last appearance on television dates back to 1984 and the last interview with a journalist was in 1986. At the end of…

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Big release for this summer, “Elemental” is Pixar’s 27th animated feature film. pandemic and the commercial failure of “Buzz Lightyear”, while its rivals flourish at the box office. Inspired by director Peter Sohn’s experiences as the son of immigrants from Korea, this is a story of friendship and later love (something rare in the Pixar story) in the City of Elements, where residents of fire, water, earth and air live, between Ember (Spark in the Portuguese version), a quick-witted and impetuous young woman of “fire”, and Wade (Nilo in the ‘translation’), a fun, sentimental and relaxed “water” boy, with the…

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About to hit theaters, the rosy world of “Barbie” is turned a little darker by an unexpected “political crisis” with a quirky map of the world. the director Greta Gerwig, in full promotion work, came out on Monday with the news that Vietnam had banned the release of the film in cinemas, scheduled for July 21 (a day after Portugal). authorities detected a map in a brief scene that allegedly represents a contentious zone in the South China Sea, territory rich in oil and gas reserves that is the target of territorial disputes between several countries in the region.”The National…

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100 days before Disney celebrates 100 years, the director of the Walt Disney Archives, Becky Cline, explained how the great itinerant centenary exhibition was conceived, for which they decided to “return to the origins”. “We didn’t want to make a chronological history. , we thought it would be a little boring”, said the chief archivist in an interview with the Lusa agency, backstage at the company in Burbank. “We wanted to tell the story in a different way and go back to the origins, to Walt Disney himself, and focus on what he made special.”The Walt Disney Company celebrates 100…

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After five years of interruption, the festival returns to the medieval town of Ourém with a multidisciplinary and multicultural programme, inspired by the “cosmopolitan spirit of the 4th Count of Ourém” and the tradition of emigration of the council’s population to celebrate “the cultural diversity and creativity as ways of achieving more humanized and sustainable places”, reads the presentation. , cited in a note from the municipality. Ourém, a municipality with a historical relationship with emigration, evokes “lives and experiences of emigrants from Ourém, in the past and present”, the “social relations and cooperation (…) with other peoples around throughout…

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The Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and platforms like Netflix and Disney were deep in lengthy negotiations, but as the deadline for an agreement approached midnight on Friday, the parties agreed to continue the dialogue. The current contract was extended until July 12 at midnight Los Angeles time, SAG-AFTRA said in a brief statement. The text adds that “the parties will continue to negotiate under a mutually agreed media block.” for the actors’ union to join the writers’ strike that has gripped Hollywood for nine weeks. The members of SAG-AFTRA had already approved a strike, in case the negotiators did not reach…

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Directed by Nick Laurant, responsible for the Corridor Crew programme, the film is an independent production spoken in English and Portuguese and based on true facts. on this topic for several years with the intention of writing about it. “I did a lot of research on human trafficking, I spoke with people who were trafficked and with a policeman who only focused on cases like this”, he said. The actress also found out that a friend was trafficked in Los Angeles after responding to an ad for models . “She was locked up in a house for three months, it…

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