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Phase 5 of the MCU starts Friday with “Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania.” But five more movies come after “Quantumania”, with “Thunderbolts” being one of the most hotly anticipated. Jake Schreier‘s film sees a whole bunch of Marvel characters connected to Captain America, like Sebastian Stan‘s Bucky Barnes and Florence Pugh‘s Yelena Boleva, team up under the tutelage of Harrison Ford‘s Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross.

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Tollywood While many celebrities are active on Twitter and Instagram, the 'iSmart Shankar' director has turned to podcasts to air his views.Rajeswari ParasaImage: Facebook/Puri Jagannadh An island in Maldives with no other person in sight, coconut trees, bushes and the sea - this is what meets the eye. The sound of the waves is the only dominating sound and by night, several small sea animals such as turtles, crabs start coming to the land. Sounds like a dream? This is, in fact, a travel experience shared by Tollywood director Puri Jagannadh in one of his podcasts in the 'Puri Musings' series which he started in the month of July. He has been continuing with it till date. While many celebrities are active on Twitter and Instagram, the iSmart Shankar director has turned to podcasts to air his views. He's the first among the Telugu film industry to do so.

Oscar nominee Tony McNamara is in talks to write “The Hawkline Monster,” a film adaptation of Richard Brautigan’s novel which is being developed by New Regency, Element Pictures and Roy Lee.

Yorgos Lanthimos will direct the feature. Roy Lee of Vertigo, Andrew Trapani (“Winchester”), Steven Schneider as well as Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures (“The Favourite”) are producing the project. Paul Swensen and Ianthe Brautigan will Executive Produce and Natalie Lehmann will oversee for New Regency.

Described as a Gothic Western, “The Hawkline Monster” tells the story of two unlikely hero gunslingers hired by a 15-year-old girl named Magic Child to kill the monster that lives in the caves under the basement of one Miss Hawkline’s house. The project has been in the works for decades since first being published in 1974. Hal Ashby tried to adapt the project for Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman to star,...

TollywoodPavithra has also assisted her father on his last outing with Nandamuri Balakrishna titled 'Paisaa Vasool'.Digital NativeAce director and producer Puri Jagannadh has several hits to his credit till date. And now, the next generation from his family is venturing into the film trade. While it is well known that his son Akash is an actor, there are reports that his daughter Pavithra may also toe in line with her sibling. However, the youngster isn’t just interested in taking up lead roles but is looking for roles that will showcase her talent. She is in need of performance-oriented roles and is in no hurry to sign on the dotted lines Pavithra will be taking up only those roles that interest her and doesn’t want to be a stereotyped heroine. Sources close to the unit reveal that Puri Jagannadh has designed a quirky character for Pavithra that will...

Andrei Tarkovsky, who would have been 80 today — he died too young, 54, at the end of 1986 — has been brought back to many minds lately. One prompt would be the passing just last month of screenwriter Tonino Guerra, with whom Tarkovsky wrote Nostalghia (1983). The two documented the long gestation of Tarkovsky's first film made outside of the Soviet Union in Voyage in Time (shot in 1979 but only officially released in 1983). In this entry, you'll find not only a clip from Voyage but also an excerpt from Pj Letofsky's forthcoming documentary Tarkovsky: His God, His Devil in which Guerra, filmed in 2009, looks back on his collaboration with Tarkovsky.

For a few months now, Geoff Dyer has been sparking conversations about Tarkovsky with Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room, which, as Ethan Nosowsky puts it in the Believer, "Dyer dons a metaphorical head-lamp to mine the ore" of...

In the play ...some trace of her, Ben Whishaw plays Prince Myshkin in an adaptation of the 1868 novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idiot_(novel)) at the National Theatre in London, which runs during the month of August through to October. You can also check out some rehearsal pics Here (http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=35474 dspl=moreimages) and production pics Here (http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=35474 dspl=images)of some of the actors. - - - - - - From the National Theatre (http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/sometrace) website for ...some trace of her: This multimedia performance develops the use of live video seen in the ground-breaking production of Waves at the National Theatre in 2006/7. In the ...some trace of her programme Director of Photography, Leo Warner, describes the unique process of bringing ...some trace of her to the stage; plus...