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EXCLUSIVE: Marvel’s Moon Knight Director Mohamed Diab has revealed fresh details about his new feature Lion, starring Egyptian megastar Mohamed Ramadan in a role inspired by Ancient Rome rebel slave Spartacus.

Manchester's Trafford Centre is all set to host a Broadway-style extravaganza to kickstart the festive season.

North Lanarkshire Council have launched a new Domestic Abuse Digital Directory, enhancing support for victims and survivors across the area.

There could be a haunting experience in store at the oldest surviving musical theatre in the world this Halloween.

An Airdrie thug who battered his brother with a broken bottle has narrowly avoided a prison sentence.

Naman Ramachandran TIFFCOM, the film market attached to the Tokyo International Film Festival, is poised to exceed last year’s attendance of 3,851 participants, with visitor registrations already matching 2023’s total ahead of its opening, according to CEO Shiina Yasushi. The event, which also encompasses the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market and the Tokyo Story Market, has significantly expanded its seminar programming this year, moving from a single venue to three locations and increasing from seven to fifteen sessions. “These sessions will cover the latest trends and success stories across various genres, including film, TV and anime, with a focus on Japan and Asia,” Shiina said.

Naman Ramachandran As the third instalment of the successful “Bhool Bhulaiyaa” franchise approaches its Diwali (Nov. 1) release, star Kartik Aaryan sat down with Variety to discuss the evolution of his character Rooh Baba and working alongside Bollywood legends Vidya Balan and Madhuri Dixit. “‘BB’ is one of the first successful franchises of horror-comedy and yet it is more than just horror and comedy,” Aaryan says of the films’ enduring appeal.

William Earl administrator One day after Tony Hinchcliffe‘s controversial jokes at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, Jon Stewart used his opening monologue on Monday’s “The Daily Show” to defend the comedian. After highlighting other speakers at the rally like Tucker Carlson and Rudy Giuliani, Stewart said, “But of course, for the media there was one moment in particular that raised the alarms,” then played a supercut of network anchors criticizing Hinchcliffe’s jokes, which included calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” Stewart then defended Hinchcliffe by saying, “Obviously, in retrospect, having a roast comedian come to a political rally a week before election day and roasting a key demographic … probably not the best decision by the campaign politically, but to be fair, the guy’s just really doing what he does.” Stewart then played from jokes from Hinchcliffe’s “Roast of Tom Brady” set earlier this year, laughing at the segment and saying, “Yes, yes, of course, terrible, boo.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic If you were to find entire dinette sets, automobiles and living rooms — with people sitting in them — tumbling Earthward from the clouds, you might think “Okay, so End Times really are a thing.” But it could also be the handiwork of “Space Cowboy” subject Joe Jennings, a “freefall cinematographer” who’s made a specialty of devising and filming such surreal stunts. Coming a decade after Marah Strauch’s first feature “Sunshine Superman,” about BASE jumping pioneer Carl Boenish (also an aerial cameraman), this new doc provides a thematically and stylistically overlapping companion piece.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Chinese artist and filmmaker Qiu Jiongjiong has begun production of “Fuxi,” his second feature film, following an acclaimed debut with 2021’s “A New Old Play.” The film expands on Qiu’s use of history and folklore and uses food as a through-line to explore a narrative that blends myths, legends, literature and folk tales. The title is a blend of the Chinese words for ‘food’ and ‘joy’ and the setting is a circus tent where a ragtag film crew is busy shooting a gourmet movie. The narrative is told in four chapters, through four festivities and tells a tale that that involves the living, the dying, the dead, and the very long dead.

A Monday Night Football matchup later this season will feature two familiar characters, Bart and Homer Simpson, in the decidedly unfamiliar context of a live NFL football game.

Love Is Blind Season 7 is promising a drama-filled reunion (teaser above) for its cast, featuring couples new and old hashing out their grievances and filling audiences in on what may not have been caught on the cameras.

Rylee Arnold is officially off the dating market!

China‘s submission for the Oscars Best International Feature Film race this year, the World War II documentary The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, has been ruled ineligible by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Paul Morrissey, the avant-garde filmmaker who worked on Andy Warhol movies including Chelsea Girls, Flesh, Trash and others who also managed The Velvet Underground in the mid-1960s, died Monday. He was 86.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief With strong accents on mainland Chinese directors, Japan’s next generation of filmmaking talent and a new women’s empowerment section, this week’s Tokyo International Film Festival can lay reasonable claim to being a discovery festival – as well as one catering to a large public in the Japanese capital. “We have a strong Chinese-language presence in the competition section, three mid-career Japanese directors in competition, a really super World Focus section and a new Women’s section,” Ichiyama Shozo, the festival’s programming director, told Variety.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer Sony Pictures billed “Venom: The Last Dance” as the final chapter in Tom Hardy’s alien-symbiote-buddy-comedy franchise. But with its $51 million domestic opening weekend — 44% and 55% lower than the previous two installments — the movie also signifies the continued twilight of superhero cinema as the dominant force at the box office.

EXCLUSIVE: Zurawski v Texas, the new documentary executive produced by Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, earned two awards as the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival wrapped its 33rd edition.

It’s been an eventful couple of months for the Rotary Club of Rutherglen.