Belarusian-Set Documentary ‘Mother Vera’ Takes Top Locarno Industry Prize

returns. A new trailer for the HBO Original series dropped on Wednesday, teasing an epic war of New York's high society in its upcoming second season.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter HBO has set the premiere date for “The Gilded Age” Season 2. The series will return for its sophomore outing on Oct. 29 at 9 p.m.

Chris Hemsworth is taking over another spot on Netflix’s most popular films list.

The World War Two drama War Sailor — which debuted at last year’s Toronto Film Festival — swept Norway’s Amanda Awards last night, taking four main awards.

Georgian filmmaker Elene Naveriani clinched the Best Feature Award in the main international competition of the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival with her latest pic Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry. The award comes with a €16,000 cash prize.

Christopher Vourlias Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Bondarchuk is winding down post-production on his latest feature film, “The Editorial Office,” a dramedy set on the eve of the Russian invasion. It’s among the works in progress being presented this week at CineLink Industry Days, the industry arm of the Sarajevo Film Festival.

EXCLUSIVE: As Barbie approaches the end of a spectacularly successful first month in theaters, the Israel Film Festival has set one of the film’s great champions, Mattel Chairman and CEO Ynon Kreiz, to receive its 2023 IFF Industry Leadership Award.

Apple TV+ has released the first pics from their upcoming period drama series, The Buccaneers.

Iranian filmmaker Ali Ahmadzadeh clinched the Golden Leopard in the main international competition of the 76th Locarno Film Festival with his latest feature Critical Zone (Mantagheye Bohrani).

Bella Hadid is back in action.

Despina Athanassiadis, France Born in France and with Greek roots, Athanassiadis is currently focusing on her Alliance4Development project “The Young One,” about female truck drivers – “It’s a story of transmission, from older to younger generation” – which was awarded script consultancy residency at DreamAgo. “As a filmmaker, I’m interested in people who struggle. I find it fascinating, watching how they find ways to fix their problems.

Andrew Garfield.The actor, who starred opposite Garfield in 2018’s Under The Silver Lake, recalled the “stressful” experience during an interview with Vanity Fair.“I was in the makeup trailer and I was eating a granola bar or something, and I was about to shoot a scene where I have to kiss Andrew,” Keough said. “And the makeup lady was like, ‘Are there peanuts in that?’”After Keough said she wasn’t sure, the makeup artist “ran away” to flag down a producer.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LOCARNO — Two movie projects which capture best the brewing revolution in Latin American filmmaking walked off with the biggest plaudits at this year’s Locarno Open Doors prize ceremony on Tuesday. Both underscore the mindset reset among cineasts – their questioning of received wisdom accompanied by the explosion in invention being brought to low-budget filmmaking in the region.

J. Kim Murphy As the entertainment industry remains at a practical standstill with both the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists on strike, the Directors Guild of America has instituted a free major medical plan for members that fall under certain eligibility requirements.

Marta Balaga It was a good day for female filmmakers – and documentaries – at Locarno Pro, with “Mother Vera” by Cécile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson winning the Creativity Media First Look Award on Sunday at Locarno’s pix-in-post competition, dedicated this year to the U.K. Dedicated to a young Orthodox nun, “Mother Vera” shows her turbulent past and fragile future as she faces inner conflict after 20 years as a monastic.

Christopher Vourlias Berlin Golden Bear winner Radu Jude, whose latest feature, “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World,” premieres Aug. 4 in competition at the Locarno Film Festival, is in post-production on his next film, Variety can reveal.

Beyoncé appears to be making a statement — or two — with her latest performance. During her tour stop in Boston, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, the singer switched things up during her «Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)» song, which notably name-checks a running list of iconic Black women entertainers including Nina Simone, Erykah Badu, Lizzo, Lauryn Hill, Janet Jackson, Missy Elliot and Aretha Franklin, among several others.

A vegan café has been crowned Ayrshire’s best restaurant.

Jess and Sammy have been crowned Love Island winners as Monday night's final saw the happy couple win the whopping £50,000 prize money. During the live instalment, hosted by Maya Jama, finalists Tyrique Hyde and Ella Thomas, Jess Harding and Samy Root, Zachariah Noble and Molly Marsh, and Whitney Adebayo and Lochan Nowacki, eagerly awaited to find out who would take home the crown.

EXCLUSIVE: Ian Bonhôte, director of 2018 doc McQueen and co-founder of Pulse Films, is heading to the dance floor for his latest documentary.