James Marsden, Marcia Gay Harden And Al Pacino Among Those Starring In Michael Keaton-Directed Thriller ‘Knox Goes Away’

Hong Kong’s box office managed to stage a partial recovery in the second half of 2022, despite cinemas being closed for nearly four months earlier in the year, due to US titles including Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way Of Water and a strong line-up of local movies.

James Marsden is opening up about the cancellation of Westworld after four seasons on HBO.

As New York City emerged from Covid facing challenges from economic flight to rising crime, Mayor Eric Adams put filmed entertainment at the center of a comeback. His Blueprint for Recovery released in August (read it here) created a film council with a seat at the table for studios, producers, unions and trade groups and mandated film industry liaisons at every city agency — in tandem with a major hire, Chicago’s well-regarded film chief, Kwame Amoaku. The new Deputy Film Commissioner reports to Anne del Castillo, head of the Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment (MOME), whose sprawling portfolio also encompasses theater, music, publishing, digital media, workforce development in the creative industries, press credentials, and the Office of Nightlife.

The King has used his first Christmas broadcast to sympathise with families struggling with the cost-of-living crisis and praise individuals, charities and faith groups supporting those in need.

Micheal Mosley has shared four anti-aging hacks that can turn back your body clock.

JX’23, an event to celebrate Japanese innovators and leaders in the entertainment industry, is being held in Los Angeles at the Grammy Museum on February 9, 2023. 

Philip Yung delivers an ambitious decade-spanning true crime thriller with Where The Wind Blows, Hong Kong’s entry for the International Feature Oscar. Previously known as Theory of Ambitions, it’s a technically impressive feat with an equally impressive cast lead by Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Chiu-wai. Fast-paced and dense with detail, it challenges the audience to keep up with its complex story of two cops rising up the ranks in Hong Kong in the 1960s and beyond.

While DCU fans wait for Michael Keaton‘s brief return as Bruce Wayne/Batman in “The Flash” next year, there’s some other news on the Keaton front.

Streaming bundle provider FuboTV said a widespread outage during Wednesday’s France-Morocco World Cup soccer match was caused by a “criminal cyber attack.”

The semi-final World Cup match between France and Morocco on Wednesday night was watched by an average 20.7 million viewers on TF1 from 8pm French time. This is the network’s biggest audience since 2016, and is also the best for any program on any French channel in those six years.

EXCLUSIVE: Released in August, Louis Koo’s sci-fi action thriller Warriors Of Future has become not just the highest-grossing local film in Hong Kong ever, but the highest-grossing Asian film ever released in the territory, with a gross of HK$81.7M (US$10.5M). The film also raked in $100m in China over the summer and is currently number four in Netflix’s global ranking of non-English language films after launching worldwide on December 2.

Who do you champion when no one is truly worthy? Thieves fight for their lives in “The Price We Pay.” The unsuccessful criminals discover shelter in a farmhouse, but their current sanctuary has brutal consequences. Along for the ride is a hostage whose continued existence depends on circumstances beyond her control.  READ MORE: Stephen Dorff Trashes “Garbage” Films Like ‘Black Widow’ & Says He’s “Embarrassed” For Scarlett Johansson The film hails from director Ryûhei Kitamura; while commonly associated with the feature adaptation of Clive Barker’s “The Midnight Meat Train, Kitamura also helmed a notable chapter of the anthology “Nightmare Cinema.” This time, he’s going all out to push gore and violence to their limits.

Paris' iconic Champs Elysee could be closed on Wednesday as police fear clashes between French and Moroccan fans.