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A crowd-funded short film spoofing the year’s most Oscar-nominated movie is set to screen in Mexican cinemas, as local backlash against French crime musical “Emilia Perez” pits an amateur comedy against the cinema establishment.“Emilia Perez,” the story of a Mexican cartel boss who enlists a lawyer to help her disappear and transition into a woman, garnered 13 Oscar nominations and swept up awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globes, including best non-English language film.However, the film has met with strong backlash in Mexico over criticisms of its poor Spanish, use of stereotypes, filming in Paris with few Mexican cast members and light treatment of the issue of forced disappearances — more than 100,000 people are missing in Mexico.Auteur director Jacques Audiard also was criticized for saying he did not feel he needed to do much research to make the movie, which debuted on Netflix late last year.In Mexico, a consumer watchdog had to order top cinema chain Cinepolis to clarify its guarantee policy after many spectators complained that they had not received refunds after walking out of the movie.While Mexican screenings of “Emilia Perez” remained largely empty, trans filmmaker Camila Aurora created a GoFundMe to answer with “Johanne Sacreblu,” the story of “a trans heiress to France’s biggest baguette business who seeks to destroy her country’s systemic racism with her strongest weapon… love.”The 28-minute musical, which features croissants, mimes, rats and painted mustaches, premiered on YouTube on Jan. 25 and quickly went viral, gaining some 2 million views in less than a week.On Thursday, Aurora announced that cinema chain Cinedot would screen the movie.

Annika Pham Prominent Icelandic auteur Rúnar Rúnarsson who was Oscar-nominated in 2006 for his short film “The Last Farm,” was handed out the Göteborg Film Festival’s hefty SEK400,000 ($36,000) Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film for his fourth feature “When the Light Breaks” at tonight’s closing gala of the festival’s 48th edition. Shot in 16mm, the subtle coming-of-age drama starring Elín Hall (“Cold”, “Let Me Fall”) world premiered last May as the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section.

Marta Balaga Cate Blanchett “never, ever” thought she “could work in the film industry.” “I was resigned, happily, to a career in theater. I didn’t think I was that girl. There was a sense women had a certain ‘shelf life’ in the film industry and a certain type of women got to parade on the screen and others didn’t,” she said at the Rotterdam Film Festival Saturday.

The Masked Singer fans have "confirmed" the identity of Pufferfish after the ITV show shared a clue dedicated to Coronation Street's Gail Platt.

Lady Gaga debuted a new song at the FireAid benefit concert for the Los Angeles wlldfires this week in the form of ‘All I Need Is Time’ – watch below.The song was written by Gaga and her fiancé Michael Polansky and is directly inspired by the devastating fires themselves, with Gaga giving it its first public performance during her headline set at the Intuit Dome on Thursday (January 30).“I think we all need a lot of things right now, but I think something we may also need is time,” Gaga told the crowd before playing the jaunty piano-led song. See the footage here:Gaga also played two tracks from A Star Is Born at FireAid – ‘Shallow’ and ‘Always Remember Us This Way’.It is unclear whether ‘All I Need Is Time’ will be included on her upcoming eighth album ‘Mayhem’, which is coming out on March 7.

Actress-producer Cate Blanchett and director Guy Maddin shared about their paths into the film industry as well as their experiences of “flow” in making art, while at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). They took the stage in front of more than 800 guests at the Oude Luxor Theater, shortly after a festival screening of their film Rumours.

first-ever Premium Live Event in Paris, France coming in August, the WWE first goes to “Indy” for Royal Rumble 2025 in the opening major event of the year. The pro wrestling event features four matchups, including an Undisputed WWE Championship and a WWE Tag Team Championship title bouts, on Saturday, Feb. 1.

Jamie Lang The Dutch film industry, often overshadowed by its European counterparts, finds itself at a potential turning point. Industry insiders are vocal about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, painting a picture of an industry at a crossroads.

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Annika Pham After the hopeful signs of recovery over the last two years, attendance in all five markets dropped again in 2024, by a small margin of 3% in Denmark to nearly 13% in Norway. Post COVID effects and Hollywood strikes that led to a lack of U.S. tentpoles were blamed for the decline, however mitigated in some territories by the strong performance of domestic fare.

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Carlos Aguilar Unbothered, Isabelle Huppert vapes while wearing a chic dress after a night out in Paris. The actress’ requisite ferocious grace this time is lent to Sabine, an ailing French artist who refuses to waste her final days bedridden. But she is only one of the four pieces that conform “Luz,” Flora Lau’s alluring narrative diptych on familial disconnection that moves between the French capital, the Chinese city of Chongqing and an interstitial realm of virtual reality, where her characters are meant to find common ground.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Belgian distributor Piece of Magic has acquired distribution rights for France and Benelux for Luna Carmoon’s “Hoard,” which is BAFTA nominated in the outstanding debut by a British filmmaker catagory. The deal was brokered by Alpha Violet, a sales company based in Paris. The film was also nominated at the European Film Awards in the European Discovery Prix Fipresci category, and competed at the BFI London Film Festival in the first feature competition section.

movie musical, Emilia Pérez.Emilia Pérez, which beat Wicked for best musical comedy or musical at the and scored the most Oscar nominations of any film this year, was already at the center of film Twitter discourse when its star's xenophobic and racists tweets resurfaced on the internet. Here's everything you need to know about Karla Sofía Gascón's potentially Oscar-losing controversy.The Netflix film tells the story of Rita (Zoe Saldaña), a Mexican lawyer hired to help a cartel leader (Gascón) start a new life by faking their death and undergoing gender-affirming surgery.

The future of Mathys Tel looks set to dominate the final days of the January transfer window. As Bayern Munich look to find a new home for their versatile forward, things have already taken a handful of unexpected turns.

Talia Ryder and Spike Fearn kept close while attending Paris Fashion Week!

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Laure Calamy, the Cesar prizewinning star of “My Lover, My Donkey & I,” and “The Count of Monte Cristo” actor Laurent Lafitte lead the ensemble cast of “The Party’s Over,” a satirical comedy which has been boarded by France TV Distribution ahead of the EFM. Directed by Antony Cordier (“Gaspard at the Wedding”) the movie also stars Ramzy Bedia (“Asterix & Obelix : The Middle Kingdom”), Élodie Bouchez (“Beating Hearts”), Sami Outalbali (“A Tale of Love and Desire”) and Noée Abita (“Sink or Swim”).

EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Flute Film will operate as Flimmer going forwards, after Christopher Zwickler reacquired rights to the Flimmer brand. Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner, who co-founded Flimmer with Zwickler, have joined its advisory board.

Annika Pham Two years after launch, Norway’s boutique production outlet Staer Film headed by Elisa Fernanda Pirir, is ramping up its activities by venturing into distribution and bigger budget movies. With a focus on visionary new and established auteurs, regional productions and international collaborations, the new Tromsö-based distribution outfit led by Eleanor Debreu will offer a home for Stær’s most artistically challenging co-productions, that will benefit from tailor-made innovative marketing strategies.

Naman Ramachandran Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” leads a diverse slate of nominees for the first-ever Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (NETPAC) Aruna Vasudev Award for Best Asia Pacific Film 2024, celebrating the region’s emerging cinematic voices. The winner will be unveiled at the 31st FICA (Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema) in Vesoul, France, on Feb. 18.

Molly-Mae Hague has been sharing some stunning photos from her recent snowy getaway, but it wasn't just her fabulous fashion sense that caught everyone's attention.The blonde reality star and newly-turned fashion designer was living it up in the luxurious Swiss ski resort of St Moritz, flaunting her stylish outfits to her 8.5m followers. Dressed in subtle shades of cream, nude and chocolate brown, Molly-Mae looked gorgeous as she posed outside her five-star hotel, but one particular photo grabbed all the attention.