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The inaugural World Culture Film Festival in Los Angeles has found itself impacted by a dangerous storm half a world away. Typhoon Gaemi, with top winds speeds equaling a category 3 hurricane, lashed the Philippines and Taiwan before blowing into China Thursday night. It caused widespread travel…

EXCLUSIVE: There’ s going to be some glory, curves and rage over at Ava DuVernay's ARRAY this summer, in all the best ways. Back for its fifth year, the ARRAY 360 conversation and screening series will feature films and more from directors Patricia Cardoso, Bill Duke Ed Zwick over the next two…

On the heels of well-received mainstream video game adaptations like HBO's The Last of Us or Prime Video's Fallout, the timing of fantasy dramedy short film Chuck and Fern couldn't be more appropo. Making its world premiere at the Oscar and BAFTA qualifying LA Shorts International Film Festival on Friday…

EXCLUSIVE: When we speak, Chuck Russell is in LA, getting ready for the world premiere of his new film Witchboard. It will be a homecoming in more ways than one; first, since — although it takes place in New Orleans — his supernatural horror was largely shot in Montreal, home to the Fantasia Festival…

Barry Diller has lashed out at the level of security in central Paris in the lead up to the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic games on Friday, which will break with tradition by unfolding on the River Seine rather than in a stadium. France has mounted an unprecedented security operation drafting…

UK director and screenwriter Joanna Hogg has been announced as jury president of Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori (GdA), running  from August 28, to September 7. She will preside over a jury of 27 young European cinephiles attending GdA under the auspices of the 27 Times Cinema program…

Boris Lojkine's drama The Story Of Souleymane has won Best International Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival. The feature, which was feted with the Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in May, revolves around a young man rehearsing his lines ahead of an asylum application interview as he cycles around…

UPDATED with latest: San Diego Comic-Con released the full schedule for its 2024 edition, which kicks off Thursday and runs July 25-28. The annual confab is officially centered at the San Diego Convention Center, but in reality it invades the city with its army of comics, genre, movie and TV fans and…

Steve McQueen's Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan, will be the closing night selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival, making its North American premiere, said the fest's parent Film At Lincoln Center. The re-creation of London during its blitzkrieg by the Germans during World…

EXCLUSIVE: WME Independent announced on Wednesday that they will be launching domestic sales on King Ivory, the starry crime thriller written and directed by John Swab (Ida Red), at this year’s Venice Film Festival, where the film is world premiering in competition. Based on extensive research…

The Venice Film Festival, a perennial awards platform, revealed another powerhouse lineup Tuesday morning, including Todd Phillips' Joaquin Phoenix-Lady Gaga starrer Joker: Folie à Deux, Pedro Almodóvar's English-language debut The Room Next Door with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, Luca Guadagnino’s…

The inaugural World Culture Film Festival kicks off in Los Angeles Thursday, a four-day event "dedicated to showcasing films that inspire, educate, and celebrate diverse cultures." WCFF opens with Oscar-shortlisted dramedy The Monk and the Gun, directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji. The Bhutanese filmmaker…