“People are tired but not unmotivated. They still have energy,” he said. “We are in this together and we will not let them win. This is something I see in the protests outside Netflix, Amazon and Sony studios.” Marrone is not working and says he can barely survive on what he is earning from odd jobs. However, the “Westworld” actor is convinced that it is the studios that will have to give in to end the strike. “What the unions are asking for is not an exaggeration. It is an ethical wealth-sharing agreement,” he considered, stressing that artists “cannot give…
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Li Tolqa: the island paradise, where tourists receive luxurious treatment and locals survive a draconian military regime. Fictional, of course. Em and James ignore their marital crisis through beach sunbathing and fancy brunches. Both live at the expense of Em’s estate, as James is a failed writer. The couple’s monotony is shaken up by Gabi, a mysterious and sensual actress, who drags them on an adventure outside the resort with her husband. A tragic accident happens when they return at night and James is taken to prison. There, he discovers that in the country the penalty for murder is death.…
Art director and director Joe Alves, son of Portuguese emigrants, continues to have a legion of fans almost 50 years after he designed the original shark for Steven Spielberg’s classic film “Jaws”. “Not a week goes by without me receiving three, four or five letters from fans and requests for autographs, it’s constant”, said Joe Alves, in an interview with Lusa. “They come from all over the world,” he added. “It’s interesting, I don’t know why but it seems to be a lot of people’s favorite film.” This cult was evident this weekend at the Museum of the Academy of…
Among feature and short films, documentaries, debates and other activities, the complete program of Queer Lisboa 27 was announced on Thursday, which will take place between the 22nd and 30th of September at Cinema São Jorge, with the Cinemateca hosting the dedicated retrospective to North American choreographer and director Yvonne Rainer. Drug use, mental health, war in Ukraine and gentrification are some of the themes highlighted by the organization, which states that this is an edition where films written by cis women and trans people dominate or non-binary, confirming that queer cinema has more diverse signatures. The 80 films presented…
The gripping story of an African’s journey to Europe and a moving film about refugees on the Polish border, which angered the country’s government, ignited the race for awards at the Venice Film Festival. , is the latest from Italian director Matteo Garrone, known for the mafia drama “Gomorra”.The epic drama follows two naive 16-year-olds who leave Senegal for Europe, only to be robbed, tortured and enslaved along the way and , finally, aboard a dangerously fragile boat bound for Italy. Garrone told journalists he wanted to break European complacency towards migrants arriving by sea. sometimes not”, he said. director…
Spanish actor Gabriel Guevara was set free this Monday, revealed the family’s lawyer. arrived on Saturday in Venice, where the film festival takes place, in fulfillment of an international arrest warrant issued by France for alleged sexual assault. Norwegian “Skam” and then with HIT”, between 2020 and 2021, another production about adolescence. Other important works were “Tú no eres especial”, a Netflix series, and the movie “Mañana es hoy”, from Amazon Prime Video, before the first series as a protagonist, “Cómo mandalo todo a la mierda”, from HBO Max. became one of the biggest hits on Amazon Prime Video, which…
American actress Emma Stone provoked laughter this Friday at the Venice Film Festival with her extroverted interpretation of a feminine and feminist version of Frankenstein in “Poor Creatures”, the latest provocation from filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos that the demanding publication IndieWire described as a “instant classic”. The actress, advances the critic of Vanity Fair, gives the richest interpretation of her career. and successfully replaces the mother’s brain with that of the baby she was carrying in her womb. nor anyone else, since she is a newborn in the body of a young and beautiful woman. The film contains many explicit sex…
The Minister of Culture asked IGAC to travel to the Monumental building, in Lisbon, to understand the state of the cinemas, closed in 2019, whose disaffection to cinematographic activity was requested by the owner of the space. divergence that exists about the effective state of the rooms, after this period of receiving responses, I asked the IGAC [Inspeção-Geral das Atividades Culturais] that very soon he will go to the space to check ‘in loco’ the state of those cinemas”, said on Thursday the minister Pedro Adão e Silva, in statements to Lusa and Público, in Lisbon, on the sidelines of…
It was in April that the telefilm “Uma Pitada de Portugal” premiered on the North American Hallmark Channel, with much to draw the attention of Portuguese viewers. Portuguese to be the protagonist of a film on the famous romantic comedy channel in the USA. This Wednesday, FOX Life announced the date of the Portuguese premiere: September 10, at 6 pm. Filmed in locations in Lisbon, Cascais and Sintra, the story follows Anna (Heather Hemmens, “Hellcats”, “If Loving You Is Wrong”, “Roswell, New Mexico”), a cook who has just arrived in Portugal to film the latest episode of a cooking and…
“Gran Turismo,” Sony’s action sports flick, hasn’t exactly exploded in the race to top the North American box office, but it got there on a slow weekend in late August, besting a still-turbocharged “Barbie” Based on a popular video game, “Gran Turismo” grossed about $17.3 million in the Friday-Sunday period, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. especially compared to previous game-based movies like “Warcraft” ($439 million in worldwide ticket sales) and “Rampage” ($428 million), analyst David A. Gross said. 9″), the film stars David Harbor and Orlando Bloom and the story revolves around a racing academy that recruits skilled video…