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After a year of debuts around the world on the festival circuit that culminated in a screening at this week’s Arca in Uruguay’s Punta Del Este, “Plan for Buenos Aires,” a feature-length documentary on famed Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier from Argentina’s Gerardo Panero (“Amancio Williams”), is set for its television debut in Argentina with CineArTV.

Australian platform, Shelter Stream, has swooped on the title for a broader international release. Housing content made for design and architecture enthusiasts, was formed during the early stages of the pandemic by Australian actor Dustin Clare and his spouse, Camille. It features original content and expertly curated documentaries and series that capture the historically and aesthetically engaging.

Produced by Eliana Ponzano and Franco Carbone of Argentina’s Fueye Films (“Buscando La Sombra Del Pasado”), the doc-feature will also enjoy three screenings in Madrid at the Casa de las Américas, looking towards its television and streaming bow mid-year.

Below-the-line department heads who have the opportunity to work together on more than one film often develop a kind of communications shorthand. For production designer Franco-Giacomo Carbone and costume designer Lizz Wolf, “Creed II” marks their fourth collaboration — a relationship that began with 2008’s “Rambo.” This worked to the great advantage of the eighth installment in the “Rocky” franchise, released by Warner Bros. on Nov. 21.

Carbone chose specific colors for the characters and fight scenes, allowing those visuals to communicate a parallel storyline and on-screen continuity across departments. For instance, emotions like hate, anger and pride were expressed with cold blue hues. “It’s not a good color for protagonist Adonis [Johnson, Apollo Creed’s son, played by Michael B. Jordan],” says Carbone. “But, every time we see Adonis in a positive way, we see him with warmer colors, with reds and golds.”

Wolf, in turn, drew from Carbone’s choices when designing her costumes, making them “reflective of the fight [and set] colors,...

In the high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat thriller The Call, a thin thread of survival separates a teenage kidnap victim from her only hope: a compassionate, steady voice on the other end of a cell phone marshaling all the resources she can to find her.

Veteran 911 Emergency Call Center operator Jordan (Halle Berry) has the kind of job that’s not for the faint of heart: navigating the public’s distress in order to save lives. But when a young woman’s frantic report of a prowler ends tragically, Jordan is devastated. Reassessing her life, Jordan wonders if perhaps she’s experienced her last fraught-filled phone call. With a supportive cop (Morris Chestnut) for a boyfriend, maybe it’s time to step back, enjoy life, and teach others the ins and outs of her high-pressure profession.

That lifeline to strangers isn’t over yet, though. When average American teenager Casey (Abigail Breslin), is...

With director Brad Anderson’s thriller The Call opening wide on March 15th, we sat down with the director and stars Halle Berry, Morris Chestnut, and Abigail Breslin to discuss the film this past Saturday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. Read on for more!

Berry, who portrays in The Call a 911 operator drawn into the abduction of a young girl by a serial killer, chatted with us about her preparation for the role, her working relationship with co-star Abigail Breslin, her reaction to Franco-Giacomo Carbone’s production design, and more.

Breslin, who received an Oscar nomination for her work in 2006’s Little Miss Sunshine and whose genre credits include the feature films Signs and Zombieland, portrays the abductee, and Chestnut, whose genre credits include his turn as "Luke" in “American Horror Story” Season 1, and who first came to the public’s attention in 1991 with his starring...

In August of 2012 we hit the set of the then-shooting Sony TriStar flick The Hive, now titled The Call, in Westlake, CA, to chat with the film’s writer, Richard D’Ovidio. Read on for the skinny on the suspense flick, which releases theatrically March 15.

Arriving to the set of the Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Machinist) directed feature, which stars Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin (Carrie), we found the production in full swing, shooting on location in an office building in the upscale California enclave. Set against the backdrop of a 911 call center, the flick finds Berry playing ‘Jordan’, a 911 emergency operator who must face her own fears in order to save ‘Casey’ (Breslin), a teenage girl abducted by disturbed killer ‘Michael Foster’ (actor Michael Eklund).

Erected within the extensive central lobby in the center of the two-story structure was a rather believable recreation of the City of Los...