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Addie Morfoot Contributor Mark Lewis, who wrote and directed one of the most talked about (and disturbing) true-crime docseries in recent memory, is back on Netflix with a new series, “Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi.” Like “Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer,” “Vatican Girl” was produced by British TV production company Raw. The four-part docseries will premiere globally on Netflix on Oct.

On the heels of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Critics Choice award wins, Peter Straughan has now won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Conclave. This is Straughan’s second Oscar nomination and first win.

Sky News took a break from their usual programming for a vital update regarding the health of Pope Francis. Reporting from the rainy Vatican City, experienced journalist Lisa Holland has been closely monitoring the pontiff's admission to the hospital.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Global media outlets, including CNN, CBS and NBC, are getting ready to descend upon Rome and Vatican City following reports that Pope Francis is in critical condition. Logistical aspects such as renting terrace space to get the best camera angles of St.

Questions over who the next pope could be are arising after serious concerns for Pope Francis' health following his hospitalisation with pneumonia.

Ralph Fiennes arrives for an interview with Deadline in the cramped manager’s office at the Prince Charles Cinema just off London’s Leicester Square and it is too small to swing a cat. “Mind your head,” he calls to a visitor about to be knocked out by a low beam.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Pope Francis is set to feature in a documentary filmed in the Sistine Chapel about the universal power of pop culture and the performing arts, titled “Preacher of Beauty: A Spiritual Journey Through Art and Faith.” The documentary will feature the pontiff in conversations with unspecified prominent international artists. It is being produced by Italy’s Andrea Iervolino (“Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend”), via his new film and TV outfit called The Andrea Iervolino Company, and Luis Quinelli, who is founder of a non-profit called Vitae Foundation.

Drug boss series, biopics, a Kiwi skateboarding drama and a smorgasbord of period pieces are set for the upcoming Berlinale Co-Production Market.

Ricky Gervais has offered up some of the jokes he would have made if he were hosting this weekend’s Golden Globe Awards.The British comic presented the ceremony at total of five times – in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2020 – earning a reputation as a fearless and controversial compere who made piercing quips against the A-lists in attendance.This year’s show takes place on Sunday night (January 5), with comedian Nikki Glaser set to fill the presenting role, the first female host in the 82-year history of the Globes.That hasn’t stopped Gervais from speculating about what he might have said from the stage given the opportunity, however. Writing on X, he said: “Sat in the bath wondering about what I would say if I were hosting the Golden Globes on Sunday. It’s been a pretty good year for material.”Hello, and welcome to the 82nd Golden Globe awards.

Although Ricky Gervais is sitting out another year of the Golden Globes, he’s not letting Hollywood off that easily.

to offer limited blessings to individuals in same-sex relationships, Burch appeared on the right-wing channel Newsmax and blasted him for creating “massive confusion” within the Catholic Church — which officially opposes and prohibits marriages between same-sex individuals.Burch also said that Francis would not be in office much longer and that the next pope must “clarify” the church’s stance on human sexuality.Burch has accused Francis of demonstrating a “pattern of vindictiveness” in governing the Church after the pontiff removed more conservative cardinals and bishops who had been critical of his leadership.He has also claimed that Francis’ more liberal worldview has offended and chased away devout Catholics, leading them to seek spiritual guidance outside the Church, as reported by the arch-conservative Christian publication The Stream.As evidence, Burch cited a 2015 remark by the pontiff that good Catholics need not breed “like rabbits,” which social conservatives and defenders of pro-natalist political positions saw as an attack on both traditionalists who favor large families and the Church’s stated policy opposing the use of contraception. Burch has expressed views critical of unfettered immigration that place him in good stead with Trump, criticizing some Catholic Church-affiliated agencies or charities for allegedly coordinating with the Biden administration.“American Catholics deserve to know the full extent of the U.S.

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In a world often marked by division, French-Lebanese composer Omar Harfouch is crafting an amazing narrative of unity through his music.

In Dovecote, an atmospheric drama short film by Italian filmmaker and artesian Marco Perego, the camera fixates on society’s often unseen citizens: the women confined to a seaside prison in Venice. Filmed inside Giudecca’s working women’s prison on an island in the Venetian lagoon, the story centers around a woman (Zoe Saldaña) during her final moments before being released. The film was chosen at the 60th Venice Biennale as part of the Vatican Pavilion.

Scots music star Emeli Sande is to sing for the Pope at the Vatican.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has sold copies in Vatican City, with fans wondering if The Pope has been playing the fantasy role-playing game.The Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with just 764 residents living there. Each citizen has to be considered to be influential or significant within Catholicism to live there and residents include religious leader Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church.It’s perhaps why Larian’s director of publishing Michael Douse found it so funny that according to their data, two copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 have been sold in the country while another resident has it on their wishlist. “Sold two copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 in The Vatican, with one wishlist.

Four top films this weekend are indies – five including The Substance at no. 11, as the specialty market roars back to life. No. 3 at the domestic box office is a great story, Conclave from Focus Features, the studio behind the Downtown Abbey films. excels at drawing still elusive but key older demos to theaters and broadening out from there as it did most recently with Oscar-winning The Holdovers.

Conclave, a simmering political thriller about succession, set at the feet of a dead Pope.“The throne of the Holy See is vacant,” so the College of Cardinals have convened at the Vatican for a Papal conclave, to elect a new pope. While some cardinals come to Rome determined to rally support for their preferred candidate, others arrive prepared to promote their own candidacy in an expectedly ruthless contest to garner enough votes in the conclave and become the next pontiff.Overseeing the contentious proceedings is Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, one of the late Pope’s closest associates, portrayed by Ralph Fiennes with an air of genuine loss and dutiful purpose, and just a flicker of personal ambition.For nearly everyone else inside the Vatican, ambition and animus seem to be the fuels stoking their fire.

In a highly unusual private meeting at the Vatican on Oct. 13, Pope Francis met with LGBTQ+ Catholics to discuss the Catholic Church ban on gender-affirming care for trans people. Reuters was the sole news service to report the event which purportedly lasted 80 minutes and was not listed on the Vatican’s official agenda of Pope Francis’s meetings for that day.

EXCLUSIVE: After a strong reception on the fall film fest scene, Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller, Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes is going one week earlier via Focus Features on Oct. 25. The pic was previously dated on Nov. 1. Coming away from the fests, Conclave currently scored 96% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The “Last Supper” snafu has yet to die down. More than a week after the Paris Olympics opening ceremony that appeared to parody Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” painting, the Vatican has issued a statement in which it “deplored the offense” caused to Christians.

In a rare weekend release, the Vatican responded Saturday to the controversial drag performance that depicted Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” painting during the 2024 Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony last week.