Danny Duran, a respected entertainment publicist for more than 25 years who founded boutique agency ddPR, died Wednesday after an eight-month battle with cancer. He was 58. Duran started his career at Walt Disney Studios and then joined Sandra Bullock’s production company, Fortis Films. Under
Sam Nivola and Cooper Koch both played brothers in complicated fraternal relationships this past year. Nivola, as Lochlan Ratliff on “The White Lotus,” yearned to impress elder sibling Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger), but ended up in an intoxicated tryst with him. Koch, as Erik Menendez on
There’s an ’80s nostalgia that hangs over Miley Cyrus’s entire visual album for “Something Beautiful,” a 55-minute mashup of music videos that features windblown hair, showgirl dancing and slinky designer clothing (most of which were literal archives from the ’80s). But Cyrus says that she
Lionsgate’s first theatrical stab at spinning off the “John Wick” franchise, the Ana de Armas-led “Ballerina,” fired off $10.65 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,409 venues. The actioner is now pacing a touch behind projections from earlier this week, looking at a debut
When people ask me what my favorite film festival is, I know what they expect to hear: something upscale and exclusive, like Venice or Cannes, with their red carpet premieres and interminable standing ovations, where the winning filmmaker goes home with a golden something-or-other, be
Through the thoughts and memories of its cast, Annecy __ player “Olivia & the Clouds” leaps across multiple animation and live-action formats. This film — only the third animated feature produced in the Dominican Republic, according to its director Tomás Pichardo Espaillat — is made
Since launching only a few years ago, Annecy’s “Contrechamp” section has been a haven for powerful independent features, and this year’s selection proves to be especially strong. Selected to compete among those very few is “Nimuendajú,” the debut feature of Minas Gerais-based director Tania Anaya.
José María Cravioto’s “Cars, Pot & Rock ’N’ Roll: The Legend of the Mexican Woodstock” and Victoria Franco’s “Twelve Moons” feature in the Mezcal Mexican competition at this year’s Guadalajara Film Festival. Its other main competition, focusing on Ibero-American fiction movies and doc features, takes