Filipino director Lav Diaz is in pre-production with “An Amazon,” following the world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival of “Magellan,” starring Gael Garcia Bernal. The project will be shot in Diaz’s native Philippines. Diaz’ Sine Olivia Pilipinas will produce the film with the French
Nearly two hours into an ambitious critique of colonialism that runs almost twice as long, a pivotal scene brings “I Only Rest in the Storm” into sharp focus. The protagonist, a Portuguese engineer on assignment in Guinea Bissau, encounters a sex worker. He fails to
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF hits $71B, becoming the best-performing ETF in history. MicroStrategy’s BTC stash grows to 580,250 coins, doubling down on corporate crypto. JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley now offer Bitcoin ETFs to their clients. Bitcoin has truly come a long way from being a fringe
Prabhas’ pan-India action spectacle “Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire” has emerged as the most-watched movie on mobile streaming platforms in India for March 2025, according to Nielsen’s latest Mobile Audience Measurement report. The Prashanth Neel-directed film, currently streaming on JioHotstar, topped the charts alongside Netflix’s
Indian digital storytelling platform Pratilipi has forged a strategic content partnership with production house Roy Kapur Films to co-develop and produce a slate of films and series leveraging its expansive story universe. The partnership will see the companies jointly identify stories from Pratilipi’s platform, co-invest
Miley Cyrus took a moment during TikTok’s fan-only listening event for her new album “Something Beautiful” to give the 100-person audience a heads up: “My next album is about to be extremely experimental, so have fun with that,” she said. “‘Something Beautiful’ is just the
Jerry Trainor went all out in the audition for his breakout role of Crazy Steve on the Nickelodeon classic “Drake and Josh.” During a discussion at GalaxyCon, Trainor explained how he landed the role of Crazy Steve, an aggressively temperamental movie theater employee who would
Zhou Jinghao’s “Girl on Edge” starts strong. A young woman is shown skating in a dimly lit ring, finishing her routine and stopping right in front of the camera. Her face is revealed, full of blood red bruises. This is the first of many indelible