Jack Quaid’s action-comedy “Novocaine” topped a painfully slow weekend at the box office with $8.7 million. For theater owners, however, there’s not too much to celebrate: It’s one of the worst debuts to still capture the No. 1 spot (at least since the pandemic ground
Amber Fares’ “Coexistence, My Ass!,” which centers on Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi, won the Golden Alexander in the International Competition section of the 27th Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival Sunday. The International Competition jury, which is composed of director and photographer Dimitris Athiridis, filmmaker Lauren Greenfield
The 7th edition of the Joburg Film Festival came to a close Saturday night, bringing an end to a busy week that saw the festival and its parallel industry event, JBX, make strides in establishing themselves as what festival founder Timothy Mangwedi is determined to
The disruptive power of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements has shifted the conversation around storytelling about underrepresented and marginalized communities, even as the backlash in the U.S. and other countries has swung the pendulum to the (far) right, putting many of those gains at
Chinese filmmaker Guan Hu has revealed he is currently developing an adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem” author Liu Cixin’s science fiction work “Full-Spectrum Barrage Jamming” and Liu Zhenyun’s acclaimed novel “One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences.” Liu Cixin’s “Full-Spectrum Barrage Jamming,” featured in the collection
Taiwanese director Julian Chou’s “Blind Love,” a drama about a sensitive teenager who discovers the secret affair between his mother and a mysterious woman, won the top prize at the 7th Joburg Film Festival on Saturday. Chou’s sophomore feature, which premiered in the Tiger competition at the Rotterdam
Japanese actor Koki is swiftly building an international profile that spans continents and genres, from dual roles in a Japanese horror film to sword fighting in 18th-century Britain. The model-turned-musician-turned-actor recently added the Asian Film Awards Rising Star Award to her growing resume, marking her
Kanye West has been one of the few public figures to be outspoken in support of Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is awaiting trial on multiple charges related to sexual assault. On Saturday, amid a long string of now-familiar hateful social media posts, he dropped a