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Marvel's 'Deadpool & Wolverine' film smashes records with 5 million box office debut, showcasing enduring appeal of superhero genre.

According to recently updated figures, more than half of the state's film production credits for 2021 went to just one film, whose two stars collectively earned over $50 million.

“Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will open the 62nd New York Film Festival in September, organizers said Monday

More than two years into Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s strong presence at the Cannes Film Festival bears witness to its stubborn defence and the resilience of its film industry. The war’s pervasive impact on civilian life is the subject of “The Invasion”, whose director Sergei Loznitsa spoke to FRANCE 24 in…

The Maintenance Phase podcaster was an anonymous blogger before her open letter on fatness went viral. Now the subject of Jeanie Finlay’s documentary Your Fat Friend, she hopes it can reshape the way we discuss bodies

The film is being described as "astonishingly wacky" and "funny, silly, short and sweet, action-packed" by critics

From Judge David Godbey's opinion today in Hazlewood v. Netflix, Inc. (N.D. Tex.): This case arises from the use of a photograph of Plaintiff Taylor Hazlewood in the film The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker ("the Film"), published by Defendant Netflix, Inc. in early 2023. The Film is a true crime documentary…

Deborah Snyder and Eric Newman say they 'never wanted it' to be a Star Wars movie

CHICAGO — Halfway through coffee with Emily Long, the new executive director of the Gene Siskel Film Center, we had a little linguistic misunderstanding. She mentioned an upcoming September Film Center retrospective of banned films, curated by the center’s programming director Rebecca Fons; I heard the word “band,” not “banned,”…

Ricoh has unveiled more details about its Pentax Film Camera Project – and the first camera on the horizon is a fixed-lens compact.

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