The legendary North American B-film producer Roger Corman, who directed and produced a huge list of low-budget films and was responsible for discovering great names in cinema such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron or Jack, has died. Nicholson. He was 98 years old.The producer died on May 9 in Santa Monica, California, surrounded by his loved ones, his family confirmed.”His films were revolutionary and iconoclastic and captured the spirit of an era”, you can read- in the statement sent by the family to the North American media. “When asked how he would like to be remembered, he…
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Disney+ released this Friday a first teaser for the third season of the series “The Bear”, along with a new image (above). Unsurprisingly, the platform officially confirmed what was announced in February by John Landgraf, chairman of FX : all episodes will be made available on their premiere date. In the USA, the announced date for the ten episodes is June 27th.WATCH THE TEASER.An official description was also revealed: “The adventures and misadventures of Carmen “Carmy” (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri) and Richard “Richie” Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) in their efforts to elevate The Bear, the modest establishment that…
Isabelle Huppert will preside over the jury for the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival, organizers announced this Wednesday. The legendary French actress will lead the jury responsible for choosing the Golden Lion and other awards at the festival, which will take place from August 28th to September 7th. “Isabelle Huppert is an immense, demanding, curious and generous actress. Muse of countless great filmmakers, she never ran away from the invitation of young or not so famous directors who saw her as the ideal interpreter of their stories”, highlighted Alberto Barbera, director of the festival, in the official statement…
The times of making dark films are in the past, admitted Ryan Gosling. Although it was “The Notebook” (2004) that made him better known to the general public, the American actor has built a career where many roles stand out. more 'heavy': in addition to “Half Nelson – Encurralados” (2006), his first nomination for the Oscars, titles such as “The Believer” (2001), “Calculated Crimes” (2002), “Stay – Entre Life and Death” (2005), “Drive – Double Risk” (2011), “Força Anti-Crime” (2013) and “Only God Forgives” (2013). Another was “Como Um Thunder” (2012), where he met Eva Mendes, his partner. They are…
This festival will occupy several spaces at the CCB during the weekend, with an extensive program for different audiences, with more than a hundred invited authors, artists and intellectuals, crossing two celebrations: that of World Portuguese Language Day, on the 5th of May, and the 50th anniversary of the revolution of April 25, 1974. “Dozens of speakers and listeners from all geographies help us to reflect on a relationship spanning hundreds of years, to discuss the plurality of roots and identities, without erasing the complexity, violence and exclusion from History”, reads the FeLiCidade press release. Among the planned initiatives is,…
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…
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…