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Kiwi Chow, the Hong Kong-based director of the controversial “Revolution of Our Times” documentary that screened on the penultimate day of the Cannes Film Festival, says he has disposed of his interests in the film.

“Revolution,” which takes its title from a pro-democracy protest slogan, chronicles the popular uprising in Hong Kong that started in mid-2019 and the government’s strongarmed suppression of the movement. Cannes gave the film its world premiere towards the end of the festival and without any fanfare in order to minimize any possible diplomatic reaction that would hurt Chinese filmmakers present at the fest or impact the ongoing events. The public reaction from Beijing has been muted.

Chow said on Thursday, however, that he has sold the copyright of “Revolution of Our Times” to a European distributor. He said he has also disposed of all his footage from the 150-minute picture.

“It’s a kind of risk assessment.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam is to be the first major cultural event to react to the ongoing Hong Kong political protests. It will put on a program showcasing recent films that chronicle the city’s biggest social upheaval.

Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong will showcase 24 features, documentaries and short films. These include the world premiere of James Leong and Lynn Lee’s “If We Burn,” a documentary feature on the seven-month long protests that were sparked by the now-withdrawn extradition bill in June 2019. Alan Lau’s feature-length film debut “The Cube Phantom,” an experimental dance film about Hong Kong people’s struggle for freedom and democracy, is another highlight.

The section also features international premiere of “Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down,” a collection of shorts about Hong Kong life by Leung Ming-kai and Kate Reilly, and Evans Chan’s “We Have Boots”, said to...

After Hong Kong and Thailand, Taiwan presents its own very personal vision of the near future in “Ten Years Taiwan”, the omnibus that is now a sort of franchising, following the original anti-establishment project originated in Hong Kong.

Unlikely the Thailand version that had established directors on board and a spotlight on big name Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and more similarly to the Hong Kong one, this is a collection of 5 short movies from 5 young directors whose vision of their country in 10-year time, highlights the concerns of the present-day Taiwan.

“Ten Years Taiwan” is screening at Across Asia Film Festival

First one to open the collection is “The Can of Anido” by aboriginal director Lekal Sumi who focuses on the environmental issue. Maran is an aboriginal old man on the small island of Lanyu who, day after day, looks after his vegetable garden that provides him with a frugal meal every day.

Fruit Chan was born in 1969 in China, from where his family emigrated to Hong Kong. A director, producer, actor and screenwriter, representing what is known as the Second New Wave of independent Hong Kong cinematography. His films are immersed in an urban climate, for which he often engaged non-professional actors to show in a close-up the life of a modern metropolis. He is interested in social issues and fascinated with the Japanese 1960s avantgarde, for instance the works of Nagisa Oshima.

On the occasion of his retrospective in Five Flavours, we speak with him about his style, working with non-actors, Hong Kong film industry, change and many other topics

I always admired the way realism is channelled through fantasy in your films. Can you tell us a bit about this approach?

It is true, I do not want to go just one way, and deal with a love story, for example,...

This week’s A Million Little Things marks Theo’s 10th birthday, but unfortunately, his mom and dad don’t give him the one gift he sorely needs and certainly deserves: an end to that ridiculous lie about Katherine’s Grand Canyon legal battle. Good god, kid, I know you’re heartbreakingly earnest and all, but catch a clue!

While we’re on the topic of lies: Delilah is really not down with Katherine’s new fervor for telling Sophie and Danny the complete truth about little Charlotte’s paternity. And when Eddie suddenly changes his position on the matter,...

The intense struggle of Hong Kong people against the extradition law could not leave local filmmakers unmoved, and after Yeh Ka Lun’s “Who’s Next, that dealt with the consequences of the law on “everyday” people, Chi Him Yuen does the same in the school environment, with another approach in the style of “Ten Years”.

The story takes place on May 25th, 2021, the 657th day since the passing of the amendment to the extradition law. The father of a high school girl, Ching, who happened to be a journalist, has been extradited and she decides to make a post on social media asking “Where are human rights? Where are due processes of law?”. Her post catches the attention of her school’s social worker, Yu, who talks with the girl and tries to help her by introducing her to a social group offering support for this kind of cases.

Young directors Michelle Hung, Li Cheuk-shing, Cheung Yin-kei and Jun Li and their short movies are part of the Hong Kong 2017 Fresh Wave Short Film Competition. Now at its 11th edition, Fresh Wave is an independent organization founded by Johnnie To, to fund Hong Kong young talents in filmmaking, showcase their projects and give them a truly effective platform to start their career from. Fresh Wave Alumni includes Jevons Au of “Ten Years” and “Trivisa” and Wong Chun of multi-awarded Mad World.

4 of these short movies from talented filmmakers screened at the Fresh Wave section of Five Flavours

“Little Shop of Grotesque” by Michelle Hung Tsz-ching

In a stylish, all-white flower shop, Molly (Che Wing-hei) works with passion and devotion to her plants. However, her fondness for the green world verges on obsession, as she feels a special bond with them and she thinks she knows exactly what they need just listening to them.

“The Truth,” directed by Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda, will be released in Korean cinemas in December this year. Rights were acquired by local distributor Tcast.

The highly acclaimed director was absent from the Busan International Film Festival’s opening ceremony, where he was Thursday named as Busan’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year award. But he has now arrived at the South Korean festival and will receive his prize before the gala screening of “The Truth” on Saturday.

“The Truth” is Kore-eda’s first feature film shot outside Japan and presented in a language other than his native Japanese. Largely in French, the film stars Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke. It sees a beloved, larger-than-life movie-star diva about to release her memoirs and getting ready to release a new movie, while simultaneously playing host to her daughter.

International rights to “The Truth” are represented by Japan’s Gaga...

Young directors Michelle Hung (“Little Shop of Horrors”) and Ashley Cheung (“Life on the Line”), cinematographer Eric Tsang (“Liu Yang River”) and their short movies are part of the Hong Kong 2017 Fresh Wave Short Film Competition. Now at its 11th edition, Fresh Wave is an independent organization founded by Johnnie To, to fund Hong Kong young talents in film-making, showcase their projects and give them a truly effective platform to start their career from. Fresh Wave Alumni includes Jevons Au of “Ten Years” and “Trivisa”, and Wong Chun of multi-awarded Mad World.

On the occasion of their films screening at Five Flavours Film Festival in Warsaw, we speak with them about their experience in Hong Kong as young, independent filmmakers, their inspirational directors and their short movies in the Fresh Wave competition.

Let’s start with some general questions for all of you. It looks like in Hong Kong at...

Born, raised and educated in Hong Kong, Au studied filmmaking at the Academy for Performing Arts’ School of Film and Television under renowned critic Shu Kei. After graduating from the Apa in 2004, Au freelanced for a while and made his own shorts, one of which memorialised his beloved grandmother, who passed away in 2003. He finally made his way to Tvb, Hong Kong’s market leading television network. Though still harbouring aspirations to filmmaking, the pick-up writing and research on period dramas proved valuable for a number of reasons. Au worked as a writer alongside To’s right hand man, Wai Ka-fai, eventually participating in To’s Fresh Wave talent incubator programme. His 2007 short “Merry X’mas” cemented Au’s defining focus on Hong Kong society and how we relate to each other.

His breakout came in 2015 with “Dialect” in the hot button indie “Ten Years.” As one of the five...

Kiwi Chow, the director of the short Self-Immolator, which featured in the controversial 2015 omnibus Ten Years, says he's "grief-stricken" by the death of a Hong Kong protester that tragically echoed the plot of his film.

Set in Hong Kong in 2025, Self-Immolator tells the story of a protester who sets himself on fire in front of the British Consulate in response to the police’s violent crackdown on demonstrations. In a sad case of life imitating art, on Saturday a man dubbed "Raincoat Man" by protesters and local media, fell to his death from the roof of ...

With the Hong Kong omnibus narrative “Ten Years” becoming a surprise hit in 2015, it might not come as a surprise that the concept – envisioning the near future of one’s country – inspired various versions in Asia. For the Japanese version, five young directors Chie Hayakawa, Yusuke Kinoshita, Megumi Tsuno, Akiyo Fujimura and Kei Ishikawa were gathered and supervised by Hirokazu Koreeda to present their vision of Japan’s future.

“Ten Years Japan” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival

Chie Hayakama’s “Plan 75” concerns a young bureaucrat (Satoru Kawaguchi) charged with explaining Plan 75, a governmental euthanasia program, to poor and disabled seniors aged 75 and above – especially those reliant on governmental welfare and thus burdening society from an economical perspective. One day, his pregnant wife (Kinuo Yamada) tells him that her mother signed to papers to join the program.

The second narrative, Yusuke Kinoshita’s “Mischievous Alliance”, frames the story...

After Hong Kong and Thailand, now it’s Taiwan’s turn to present its own very personal vision of the near future in “Ten Years Taiwan”, the omnibus that is now a sort of franchising, following the original anti-establishment project originated in Hong Kong.

Unlikely the Thailand version that had established directors on board and a spotlight on big name Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and more similarly to the Hong Kong one, this is a collection of 5 short movies from 5 young directors whose vision of their country in 10-year time, highlights the concerns of the present-day Taiwan.

“Ten Years Taiwan” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival

First one to open the collection is “The Can of Anido” by aboriginal director Lekal Sumi who focuses on the environmental issue. Maran is an aboriginal old man on the small island of Lanyu who, day after day, looks after his vegetable garden that...

Little did Ng Ka-leung knew back in 2015 when he was producing the omnibus “Ten Years”, of the impact his film would have, both as a separate entity and, as of now, as a project that has Thailand, Japan and Taiwan producing their own editions of the movie, following in the steps of the original Hong Kong one. This time, we will deal with the Thai one, which is comprised of four segments that implement an approach much more surrealistic than the original one.

“Ten Years Thailand” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival

Aditya Assarat’s “Sunset” deals with censorship, in a world where the concept has been fully accepted by the public, and is actually implemented by a kind of a thought police.

Assarat shows the ridiculousness of the concept, by having the people in charge forcing a gallery owner to take some photos down for a truly mundane reason.

This year’s line-up for the Far East Film Festival in Udine includes numerous surprise hits, as well as a diverse selection that mixes the best of Asian commercial cinema with accessible Asian art house.

Among the surprise hits are “A Cool Fish” and “Dying to Survive” from mainland China, and “Project Gutenberg,” the Hong Kong counterfeiting thriller which topped the Chinese box office. From Taiwan, “More Than Blue” was another title that took China’s box office crown.

The mainland Chinese selection also includes Han Han’s “Pegasus”, Zhang Wei’s transgender drama “The Rib,” and coming of age drama “The Crossing,” which premiered in Toronto.

Labelled as a Hong Kong production, Renny Harlin’s “Bodies at Rest,” and Yuen Woo-ping’s “Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy” also find festival berths.

The festival’s nine titles from Japan include comedy “Fly Me To Saitama,” Sabu’s absurdist “Jam...

Aly & Aj are back with new music, and my Disney Channel heart has never been happier. The sisters - Alyson Michalka, 30, and Aj Michalka, 27 - first rose to fame with pop hits like "Rush" and "Potential Breakup Song" in the early 2000s, but have since reinvented themselves with their '80s-inspired album, Ten Years. While their music has certainly evolved over the years, one thing that has remained is their sisterly bond. Whether their showing off their sweet harmonies on stage or they're hugging it out on the red carpet, it's clear that Aly & Aj are more than sisters -q they're best friends. See their cutest moments ahead!

Related: Celebrity Siblings You Probably Didn't Know About...

Chicago – In 2015, fearing the upcoming possibilities of losing their autonomy, Hong Kong released a short film anthology called “Ten Years,” which looked into the future of their province. Three years later, “Ten Years Japan” does the same, except of course with different filmmakers and attitudes. There are five films under the main title, and one of them is “The Air We Can’t See,” directed by Akiyo Fujimura. She will represent “Ten Years Japan” at Season Eight of Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema (Apuc) on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019, at AMC River East 21 in the city. For more details and tickets, click here.

“The Air We Can’t See” joins “Plan 75,” “Mischievous Alliance,” “Data” and “For Our Beautiful Country” in the shorts showcase, and gets its inspiration from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant meltdown. Two girls are living underground within a society that formed after another, and more severe, radioactive poisoning affected the atmosphere above.

South Korean filmmaker Jero Yun’s “Beautiful Days” has been announced as the opening title of the Busan International Film Festival, Korea’s biggest film festival.

Starring Lee Na-young, “Beautiful Days” depicts the story of a woman who abandons her husband and child to escape North Korea for a better life abroad. Martial arts drama, “Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy,” by Hong Kong’s Yuen Woo-ping will close the festival.

“‘Beautiful Days’ sees the dissolution and restoration of a family, and also that its subject is very timely,” said festival director Jay Jeon.

For its twenty third edition, the Busan film festival has selected 323 films from 79 countries. That includes 115 world premieres and 25 international premieres.

The festival’s Gala Presentation section screens only three films this year. They are world premieres of Stanley Kwan’s “First Night Nerves” and Zhang Lu’s “Ode to the Goose,” and Tsukamoto Shinya’s “Killing.

In the 2015 omnibus film Ten Years, five Hong Kong filmmakers offered visions of what their country might look like in 2025. Dystopian and fiercely critical of China’s interference in Hong Kong politics, it proved a massive public hit despite the Chinese government’s efforts to suppress its distribution. In light of that success, the Ten Years International Project was born with the intention to export the concept and give voice to filmmakers from other Asian nations. The first of these to be completed is Ten Years Thailand – two more from Japan and Taiwan are in the works – featuring contributions by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Wisit Sasanatieng, Aditya Assarat, and Chulayarnnon Siriphol.

Aditya’s opening short could easily take place in the present. Shot in black-and-white, it is set in a small art gallery that is hosting a photography exhibition. A group of soldiers arrive and order the pictures to be taken down...

With Christmas now only a week away, there’s a big day of genre-related home entertainment releases to look forward to in the meantime, just in case you were in need of some last-minute gift ideas (or if you were looking to spoil yourself, which is totally cool). Easily my most anticipated Blu-ray release for all of 2017, Synapse Films' stunning 4K restoration of Suspiria gets the royal treatment via an incredible three-disc limited edition Steelbook set this Tuesday, and Severin Films is also keeping busy with their HD upgrade of The Amicus Collection, which includes Asylum, And Now The Screaming Starts, and The Beast Must Die.

Other notable Blu-ray and DVD releases for December 19th include American Gothic, Leatherface, mother!, and the limited edition Steelbook for Donnie Darko.

American Gothic (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)

A new tale of terror from the director of The Legend of Hell House and The Incubus.

While Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts isn’t a hugely important part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s always nice to see her pop up in the movies. That said, her five year absence after Iron Man 3 led some to conclude that Marvel Studios had decided that it simply wasn’t affordable to continue her contract. That’s why it was such a surprise to see Pepper in the final scenes of this summer’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, having apparently been busy running Stark Industries while its owner runs around endangering and then saving the world.

Potts is also due to turn up in next year’s Avengers: Infinity War and has recently been spending some time with Robert Downey Jr. At least, judging by this Instagram picture she posted earlier today, which came with the caption: Ten years of #pepperony

Gwyneth Paltrow Marks Ten Years Of Iron Man...

Over the past decades, the animators at Studio 4˚C have been cultivating a reputation for releasing anime which is often edgy, arty, and risky. Ten years ago, the Studio facilitated "Project Genius", an anthology of short anime films by a wide selection of the industry's talents, encouraging them to go wild with their ideas and fantasies. Originally meant to be one film, the output turned out to be copious and brilliant enough to create two anthology films, so in 2007 we got Genius Party, and a year later Genius Party Beyond. The films both traveled film festivals worldwide and got an English-friendly DVD release courtesy of Australian company Siren Visual, which was great, but for years I've been hoping someone would pick up these films...

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InterviewIn this exclusive interview with Tnm, Manjima opens up about the Malayalam remake of 'Queen', Simbu's behaviour on the sets of 'Aym' and more.Priyanka Thirumurthy Manjima-Mohan.jpgAlthough she is only a few films old since the time she made her debut as a heroine, Manjima Mohan has bagged one of the most coveted projects in the south Indian film industries - that of Zam Zam, the Malayalam remake of the Hindi blockbuster Queen. Tnm caught up with the Accham Yenbadhu Madamayada actor for a chat about her upcoming film where she's playing the lead role that Kangana Ranaut played in the original, her career so far, and her thoughts on the film industry. Was it a daunting task to take up a blockbuster with a strong lead in it ? There is a lot of pressure on you as an actor because you are remaking a film which was already a blockbuster. We were afraid of comparisons but we are pretty confident now after the first schedule. In my case, I am from a Muslim background in the film, which makes it entirely different from the original. So we do have a lot of different scenes from the original one.  How did you feel playing such a role which is considered iconic when it comes to women's empowerment? It was fun playing the role. At first, I was scared that I won't be able to pull off this role when I left to France. But as I was doing it, I really enjoyed it. It was challenging because you had to be as natural as possible. You can't fake innocence and my character had to portray that on screen. Several times, the director would tell me that he wants more innocence.There are scenes where I took 5-6 takes in the first week because I couldn't bring out the expressions he wanted. But after that you get used to it and you know how to go about the character How did you prepare for the role? I went through the script only two days before the shooting started. I didn't want to watch the movie before I started shooting because I would end up replicating what Kangana did. I wanted to treat it as a new script altogether and just go with the flow. After I came back from France, I sat and watched the movie again to compare how I had interpreted the scenes.  How was it shooting in France? It was the first time I was going abroad for over a month at a stretch. I had never stayed away from family for that long. But the spot we were shooting in was so beautiful. It was more of a village, very calm and peaceful. All of us had a fun time shooting there and the production crew was amazing. They knew I was travelling alone and they took care of me very well. They made sure I did not miss home.  Kajal is starring in the remake in Tamil, Parul Yadav in Kannada and Tamannah in Telugu. Was there constant comparison with other actors on set? The best part of this shoot was that nobody would compare the other actors and me. Tamannah and I were under the same director. But when I went to the sets, nobody would talk about how Tamannah did a particular scene or vice versa. Obviously, they know that it will affect our performance. The stories are different for all of us based on the culture of the state we come from and there was no room for comparison. Will you focus on doing more women-centric roles now? No, I don't want to do such roles alone. I want to do a mix of such roles and commercial films. I am too young to do only women-centric roles right now. I am the youngest among all of them and it is too risky to take such roles at an early stage. If I am offered something as good as Queen, I will take it up. But otherwise I want to try all kinds of cinema. I think an actor should be ready to take up any role offered to her.  But actors like Trisha and Nayantara have worked for years to bag such roles.  Their scene was different from what we have now. Ten years back, when they started off, such women-centric roles were very rare. At that point of time, the focus was on doing masala movies, dancing and so on. There wasn't much scope for acting. Only now, people have opened up to the idea of women-centric roles and go to the theatre to watch these films. They are on the right track as far as their careers are concerned.  There has been controversy surrounding your former co-star Simbu's lack of professionalism on sets. Did you witness it too? It is a known fact that Simbu doesn't come on time to the sets. But once he does come, we finish whatever shoot was planned for three hours in one hour. That way, my days were not getting wasted. And at that point of time, I was not a busy actor, I was just starting my career. It didn't affect me as I had the Telugu version being shot simultaneously. I was always shooting for one of the roles.  You have spoken about being fat-shamed in the past, does that still affect you? When I started off, I was a little affected by all these things but I realised that if you are in the glamour industry, you have to take care of your looks, your body and fitness. I think I was a little too young at that point and was offended easily. But right now, if a director tells me to lose weight, I would do it happily. I know that it is good to lose weight and it feels nice to be able to carry off all kinds of clothes. They pay us to look good on screen. People come to the theatre not to just watch our performance. Even if they do, they want someone beautiful and pretty to look at. It was my mistake. I took the comments in the wrong sense.  Once I lost weight, I realised I was more comfortable in my own skin. That is very important. You have to be fit because heroines also have to physically exert themselves in films now.  Aren't being fit and thin two different things? When Aym released everyone said I look like the girl next door. Gautham sir portrayed me as very natural and very simple. Certain directors however want glamour on screen. The audience will accept you as far as you have talent and look good. It depends a lot on the character you are given in the film as well. You also work on your appearance for a film based on how the audience react.  How have they fashioned you for Zam Zam? Their criteria for my selection in this role was that they wanted someone who could pass off as the girl next door and they didn't want me to fake it. My hair and eyebrows are messed up. In certain scenes, my hair is not in the least bit styled and I let it be that way. She is a normal girl and can't always focus on such things. In the movie, the character is not that bothered about how she looks. My makeup and hair would get done in half an hour during the shoot. Even if she gets more dressy as the film progresses, she doesn't change overnight.  Do you fear being stereotyped as the girl next door? That is a fear that I definitely have. I am at an age where I can experiment with roles. I don't want to be typecast. I want to come out of the comfort zone but even now when people tell me about a project, they start with 'We are looking for someone who can play the girl next door'. I want to do something different and challenging.  Being the daughter of cinematographer Vipin Mohan, did you have a smooth entry into films? My parents were initially not for the idea of me acting. I started acting when I was four and I took a break in between because they wanted me to focus on my studies. Their only condition was that I had to finish my education before I stepped into the industry. I did a Bachelor's degree in Math. But it was just for the sake of it. Acting was always at the back of my mind.  As a child artist there is not much scrutiny into your work. But as an adult, your dialogue delivery, expressions and several other factors become very important. As a child you can just refuse to act sometimes but if I do that now, they will probably replace me.  Do you see the increased exposure of actors to social media as an advantage? It definitely is an advantage. Whenever I feel low, the first thing I do is go check out my Twitter or Instagram messages. It is a lot of encouragement. Certain comments can be negative but you learn to ignore them.  When you engage with your fans, you get to know what they like about you and what they dislike, so you can work on it.  Your thoughts on the Women in Cinema Collective? I am not too sure about the Wcc and know only what my father tell me. But on the ground there has been a lot of change. Take Parvathy or Manju Warrier for instance, they are doing women-centric projects and people are accepting it. Earlier they demanded a Mohanlal, a Mamooty or Dileep. But these days, people just want good stories irrespective of who is performing.  How do you deal with failure? I feel bad on the day of the release but then I let go after that. I don't keep talking about it. If the movie is not doing well, I don't talk about it. I work harder on the next film. But so far, I have always got positive feedback on my films. As long as my work is good and the movie is decent I am happy. It is a waste of energy and time to worry about it is what I realised. When Shatriyan did not do well, I cried the entire day but after that I put it behind.  Which was your favourtie scene from Zam Zam? It was definitely the one where she gets drunk. I also enjoyed shooting the sequences where she starts living with the boys in a dormitory. It all came out very well.    Enanble Notification: NoTNM Marquee: No...

Discovery Communications is now the majority stakeholder in Oprah Winfrey’s Own. The Discovery Channel-owner just paid $70 million to acquire an additional 24.5 percent of the Oprah Winfrey Network from Harpo, Inc. Oprah’s Harpo and Discovery were previously 50-50 in the joint venture. As part of the latest transaction, Winfrey will continue on as CEO — her contract has been extended through 2025. “Ten years ago, Oprah and I began to imagine what a network, inspired by her vision and values, could mean to viewers across the U.S.,” said David Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery. “In an increasingly crowded landscape,...

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In a new video, Hugh Jackman and Willem Dafoe consider how superhero movies have changed since X-Men and Spider-Man.

Hugh Jackman and Willem Dafoe were there at the beginning of superhero cinema in the 21st century. Before their respective debuts in the genre, 2000’s X-Men and 2002’s Spider-Man, superhero movies were still considered the tacky punchlines set-up by the likes of Batman & Robin. But after their two movies, a genre was reborn, and it has grown ever since—to the point of dominating Hollywood’s entire release calendar each fiscal year.

See related Justice League, Batman's Knightmare & the future of the Dceu

Yet as Jackman and Dafoe are both in contention for awards consideration this year (including for a superhero movie on Jackman’s part), they are now also having the opportunity to look back at how the times have changed since they helped crack this code some 15 years ago.

Having a conversation with drag stars Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova (real names Brian Firkus and Brian McCook, respectively) is kind of like being on an extended episode of their YouTube webseries, UNHhhh. You may start talking with them about one topic, but the next thing you know, they’re off on a tangent about why Bart Simpson says “Eat my shorts.”

It’s that brand of strange, out-of-left-field comedy that landed the two their very own talk show, The Trixie & Katya Show on Viceland, after becoming breakout stars on season seven ofRuPaul’s Drag Race. The show follows a similar format to their YouTube series; they take one topic every week and examine it through personal stories, games, man-on-the-street segments and more.

In a conversation with Et, Trixie and Katya discuss going from YouTube to Viceland, their experience competing on VH1’s reality series, why they want to talk about serious issues like suicide and much, much...

Let’s celebrate the birthday of this universe as Vanity Fair looks at what’s to come with a little bit of the past as well.

Ten years since Robert Downey Jr. donned the armor and started the foundations of a shared universe that’s well into double digits on movies, multiple television shows, and other media. Watching Iron Man and seeing that first after credits scene that told us there was going to be more. And here we are now, seems like yesterday that our little universe was getting its legs. Honestly these days it seems we’re just in anticipation of what the next Marvel movie is going to be. In the last few years it seems we’re watching one in theaters, while looking at a trailer for the next one, and hearing about filming on the next one. Well enjoy these new covers for Vanity Fair...

It’s not often that you can remember what you were doing a decade ago, but in this case, I can. Ten years ago at this time, I was vehemently following the production of Justice League Mortal, looking for any news I could find online pertaining to it. After all, this was set to be the first live action meet up of DC’s premier superheroes on the big screen.

Set to have been directed by George Miller with a cast of up-and-coming actors featuring the likes of Armie Hammer as Batman, DJ Cotrona as Superman, Megan Gale as Wonder Woman, Common as Green Lantern and Adam Brody as The Flash, it certainly seemed like we were off to the races and the dream was about to be made a reality.

But, unfortunately, that was not the case as the plug was pulled on the blockbuster for a variety of reasons.

Christopher Nolan appeared at AFI fest this past Sunday to discuss his opinion on cinematic storytelling and his latest film Dunkirk. Guests watched Dunkirk on 70mm before the discussion, which was a gift in itself. The film is equally incredible when viewed on film than in an IMAX.

Christopher Nolan sums up Dunkirk perfectly by calling it an “intimate epic.” The script is only 76 pages long and film tells the story of soldiers of England, Belgium, and France surrounded by the German army in World War II and the struggle to be evacuated. Instead of creating a film in a traditional three-act story, Christopher Nolan uses a different approach and essentially dives right into the action, skipping character introductions and exposition. The film is broken into three different stories that eventualy intertwine into each other: one story about a group of soldiers on land which takes place in a week,...

Saturday Night Live returned over the weekend after a three-week hiatus and kicked off the new episode with a cold open that saw Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump getting naked and taking a shower with Paul Manafort (played by Alex Moffat).

The sketch primarily lampooned the recent federal indictments passed down by Robert Mueller against Manafort and others in Trump's presidential campaign over alleged Russian interference during the election.

However, the cold open didn't miss a chance to address the ever-growing scandal surrounding Harvey Weinstein.

As Baldwin's Trump met with Moffat's Manafort at his home, where he's currently under house arrest, the president demanded that they speak somewhere more private -- namely, Manafort's shower.

News: 'Saturday Night Live' Takes Aim At Harvey Weinstein Scandal, Pulls No Punches With Biting Commentary

"We're in the shower to make sure you're not wearing a wire, Paul," a shirtless Trump explained. "So we're just gonna do this Gone Girl style."

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Ten years ago, Kate and Gerry McCann suffered every parent's worst nightmare when their 3-year-old daughter, Madeleine McCann, went missing. And for the McCanns there has been no waking up, no reprieve from the horror that is living every day not knowing what happened to her. "Ten years—there's no easy way to say it, describe it, accept it. I remember when Madeleine first disappeared, I couldn't even begin to consider anything in terms of years," the McCanns said in a statement on the 10-year anniversary of her disappearance earlier this year. "Now here we are...Madeleine, our Madeleine—10 years. Most days are similar to the rest—another day. May 3, 2017, another day. But...

Ten years ago, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher was murdered in Perugia, Italy.

Her roommate, Amanda Knox, was arrested — and twice convicted — for the November 1, 2007 killing. She spent four years in prison during the detention and prosecution before being freed on appeal. In 2015, Italy’s highest court eventually exonerated her and then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. A third person, Rudy Guede, was also convicted of Kercher’s murder and remains behind bars.

Ten years to the day of Kercher’s murder, Knox is writing about her feelings in a new essay, entitled “Mourning Meredith.” The essay was published on WestsideSeattle.com.

“Ten years ago tonight,...

St. Louis fiends! We worked with Dark Sky Films to book a one-night only showing of Adam Green’s new film, Victor Crowley, at the Moolah Theatre & Lounge this Thursday!!

Ten years ago, forty-nine people were brutally torn to pieces in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp. Over the past decade, lone survivor Andrew Yong’s claims that local legend Victor Crowley was responsible for the horrific massacre have been met with great controversy, but when a twist of fate puts him back at the scene of the tragedy, Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and Yong must face the bloodthirsty ghost from his past.

If you want to see Victor Crowley on the big screen here in St. Louis, I’d highly recommend coming out this Thursday, October 26 at 9:30pm for our one-night, one showtime engagement at the Moolah Theatre & Lounge!

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In a war film, what’s the difference between nasty exploitation and just plain honest reportage? André De Toth made tough-minded action films with the best of them, and this nail-biting commando mission with Michael Caine and Nigel Davenport is simply superb, one of those great action pictures that’s not widely screened. To its credit it’s not ‘feel good’ enough to be suitable for Memorial Day TV marathons.

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Twilight Time

1968 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 118 min. / Street Date October 17, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95

Starring: Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green, Harry Andrews.

Cinematography: Edward Scaife

Film Editor: Jack Slade

Art Direction: Tom Morahan, Maurice Pelling

Original Music: Michel Legrand

Written by Lotte Colin, Melvyn Bragg, from a story by George Marton

Produced by Harry Saltzman

Directed by André De Toth

Some movies that were ignored when new now seem far more important, perhaps due to the tenor of times.

Severin Films will bring horror to the holidays this December with their box set of three 1970s movies from Amicus Productions, aka "The Studio That Dripped Blood."

Slated for a December 5th release, Severin Films' The Amicus Collection includes Blu-rays of Asylum, And Now the Screaming Starts, The Beast Must Die, and a bonus disc of interviews, trailers, and more.

Each remastered Blu-ray is packed with new special features that offer insights into the making of the movies and the creative minds behind each effort.

The Amicus Collection box set is priced at $54.99, and it's also available in a special bundle that includes a T-shirt, enamel pins, book, and artwork (for an overall price of $129.00). You can also pick up And Now the Screaming Starst and Asylum as individual Blu-rays for $24.99 apiece).

For more information about The Amicus Collection, we have the full release details, cover art images, and...

Ten years ago, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson and actor Daniel Day-Lewis collaborated on There Will Be Blood, an instant masterpiece that may be the single best movie of the 21st century so far. And now, they’re back. The first Phantom Thread trailer is here, offering a look at the reunion between one of the great living […]

The post ‘Phantom Thread’ Trailer: Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis Team Up Again appeared first on /Film.

For Luke Bryan‘s wife Caroline, being married to a country superstar has quite a few perks. There’s the unlimited serenades, tons of red carpet events and hanging out with fellow country kings like Jason Aldean and Keith Urban. And apparently, the crooner is also really good at picking out jewelry. Case in point: the very large new diamond ring that Caroline is now wearing on her ring finger. And when People spotted the sparkler at Wednesday night’s Cmt Artists of the Year event in Nashville, we had to ask about it. Related Photos: The Best Celebrity Engagement Rings “Oh yeah,...

Ten years is a lifetime in the film industry – just look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Almost a decade has passed since Jon Favreau’s Iron Man lit the fuse, spawning a record-breaking superhero franchise that has since collected a whopping $12 billion in box office receipts. Its latest title, Thor: Ragnarok, is on the verge of becoming the 17th addition to Marvel’s lucrative juggernaut, and all signs point to another slam dunk.

As the press junkets continue for Taika Waititi’s acclaimed romp, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has spent the past few days answering all sorts of questions and queries about the McU, its future, and that hotly-anticipated Phase 4. But Uproxx took things in a different route. Rather than focusing on Marvel’s immediate future, the outlet circled back to ground zero (read: Iron Man) to discuss script changes and the death of Obadiah Stane.

Not unlike the...

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We interview Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Robert Llewellyn, Danny John-Jules and Doug Naylor about Red Dwarf Xii and more...

It’s a good time to be a Red Dwarf fan. After years off our screens, and talk of a movie that ultimately came to naught, the show made its return with Back To Earth in 2009. UKTV Freeview channel Dave was revealed as the new home of the show, and it’s fair to say that they’ve treated the small rouge one very well in the years since the big comeback.

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Red Dwarf X followed in 2012, and Red Dwarf XI in 2016. Both series gave fans what they wanted to see: character-driven episodes, stuffed with creative insults,...

The Japan adaptation of Hong Kong's groundbreaking film anthology, Ten Years, now has some local art-house star power behind it. 

Japanese director and Cannes favorite Hirokazu Kore-eda has signed on to executive produce his country's local version of the hit dystopian film series, joining Thai auteur and Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who is directing one of the segments of the omnibus project set in his nation.

Ten Years, the original speculative film collection set in Hong Kong, was composed of five shorts by young local directors, each exploring individual visions of how there home city might change...

Ten years is a lifetime in the film industry.

To put that into perspective, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was viewed as little more than wishful thinking back in 2007, when Jon Favreau and the Powers That Be quietly began plotting an Iron Man post-credits scene involving a certain Nick Fury. Twelve months later, Favreau’s standalone pic launched Robert Downey Jr.’s career into the stratosphere and the rest is history. But 2008 also witnessed the release of a lesser-known horror pic. Its name? The Strangers.

Headed up by Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman, the home invasion thriller became something of a cult hit nine years ago and now, after enduring a prolonged spell in pre-production, The Strangers 2 is officially on the cards. Former Mad Men star Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison and Lewis Pullman have all climbed aboard to anchor the horror sequel, while Johannes Roberts of 47 Meters Down fame is at the helm,...

DC Universe 10th Anniversary Collection The main stage hall at 2017 New York Comic-Con was a fun place to be on Thursday, particularly for DC animated fans. True DC legends such as Kevin Conroy, Bruce Timm, and Alan Burnett were in attendance to celebrate 10 years of animated DC filmmaking. Ten years ago, the creative minds [...]

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Ten years have passed since Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi’s heroes channeled their inner Stacker Pentecost and canceled the apocalypse, but the years have not been kind to the Ppdc’s (Pan Pacific Defense Corps) Jaeger program.

Written off as a costly and unnecessary endeavor once the Kaiju have been defeated, by the time Pacific Rim: Uprising begins, those towering mechs will ostensibly be collecting dust – that is, until those otherworldly creatures begin to claw their way back from beyond the Breach. And so, the Ppdc begins to mount a defense against yet another mass invasion.

Headed up by two Jaeger pilots – played here by John Boyega (The Force Awakens) and Scott Eastwood (Suicide Squad) – the Mark VI fleet of Pacific Rim: Uprising is armed to the teeth with WMDs and other bells and whistles. Heck, one could even argue that each bipedal Jaeger is a Wmd in and of itself,...

Tempestad has been selected as Mexico’s official entry to the 90th Academy Awards in the foreign-language film category, and was also recently nominated for an International Emmy Award for Best Documentary. It was also the winner of the Best Documentary at the last edition of the Cinema Tropical Awards, and its Dp Ernesto Pardo was nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers Award.

Its U.S. theatrical premiere is October 20 at Anthology Film Archives who is co-presenting with Cinema Tropical, its distributor.

Utilizing the direct testimony of two women whose lives have been torn apart by the cartel-fueled terror racking Mexico in the 21st century, Tempestad is an impressionistic portrait — at once lyrical and shattering — of the human cost of the country’s lawlessness.

This extraordinary film by Salvadorian filmmaker Tatiana Huezo, whose Ariel Award (among others) winning doc was The Tiniest Place/ El lugar más pequeño, will shake...

The fall TV and film season is officially here, and so is a fresh collection of documentaries to satisfy your non-fiction cravings.

2017 Fall Preview: Et's Complete Coverage of New Films, Music, TV and More!

From intimate looks into Lady Gaga and Demi Lovato's personal struggles and lives off stage to an Oprah Winfrey-produced look into the prison system and powerful explorations of racial injustice, there's no shortage of captivating deep dives this season.

These are the new and upcoming documentaries you need to watch.

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Design prodigy Zac Posen's unprecedented rise to the top of the fashion world at age 21 (and falling out of favor just a few years later) becomes the focus of the documentary, which reveals an honest portrait of a designer and his “darker times” fighting to rebuild his company and his reputation. “I think it takes a level of real maturity to reflect on oneself...

Transparent star Alexandra Billings recognizes that television has come a long way in telling authentic transgender stories – but, she says, there is still a long way to go.

"I think that we have taken a step in the right direction, though we're at a pause right now with the current government," she told Entertainment Tonight. "The people who have kept their true selves silent because they know within themselves what they believe isn't true, right or kind, have been given permission by all the white cis heteronormative men in power.

Tom Brady isn't quite ready to hang up his football cleats, and that's not settling all too well with his wife, Gisele Bündchen. The 40-year-old New England Patriots star sat down with CBS This Morning to chat about his new book, The TB12 Method, during which he admitted he plans to continuing playing into his mid-40s. Bündchen isn't so keen on the idea. "I think we go back and forth," he laughed. "She'll always say to me, 'Ten years ago you said it was only going to be another ten years. Now it's ten years, and now you're saying another five years.'" Last year, Brady became the second oldest quarterback ever to win a Super Bowl,...

Spotted: the trendsetting teen drama Gossip Girl turning the big 1-0.

Ten years ago, the world was introduced to the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite — and the all-knowing entity that is Gossip Girl — when the CW series blasted onto the television landscape on September 19, 2007. Premiering on the new network only two years after The CW began broadcasting, the boundary-pushing series was touted as “every parent’s nightmare,” “a nasty piece of work” and “mind-blowingly inappropriate.”

Now that a decade has passed since we were first introduced to Blair, Serena and their revolving door of male suitors — and almost five...

Ten years in the making, Ford’s award-winning Netflix documentary started as an intimate film about his brother’s murder in 1992. But it has become part of a national argument about whether young black men can feel safe in the Us

“Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don’t want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with,” says Yance Ford, bluntly. “And that’s what I want Strong Island to do.”

When Ford began making his documentary, 10 years ago, this was not a question that the Us was particularly interested in asking itself. In the intervening years, following a succession of slayings of innocent and unarmed African Americans, it has become part of a national conversation – although it is turning into more of a national argument. What began for Ford as an intimate, personal film now finds itself part of that argument.

Ten years ago, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez released Grindhouse, a double feature of the kind of exploitation insanity so often promised on bold, in-your-face ’70s poster art, but so rarely realized in actual ’70s films. (Perhaps the most egregious example of this bait-and-switch is 1971’s Werewolves On…

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