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Pirate Arrrt Season 1 Episode 10 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Go Get Arty” titled “Pirate Arrrt” promises a fun-filled adventure for young artists. This episode features the Kwapongs as they embark on a creative journey, setting sail with their own homemade pirate ships. Viewers can expect to see some imaginative designs and clever use of materials as the Kwapongs bring their pirate dreams to life.

In another exciting segment, Sophie Ryder will be showcasing her sculpting skills by creating a huge minotaur. This impressive project will allow young viewers to see the process of sculpting and the importance of creativity in art. Sophie’s work is sure to inspire aspiring artists to think big and explore new ideas.

Bristles will also take the spotlight by sharing insights about the mysterious street artist Banksy. This part of the episode will give a glimpse...

In the exciting Season 1 Episode 10 of “Go Get Arty,” titled “Pirate Arrrt,” the Kwapongs are ready for an adventure on the high seas. This episode promises a fun-filled journey as they set sail with their very own homemade pirate ships. Viewers can expect plenty of creativity and teamwork as the Kwapongs navigate their way through the challenges of pirate life.

Sophie Ryder takes center stage with her impressive sculpting skills. She will be working on a massive minotaur, showcasing her talent and imagination. This segment is sure to inspire young artists to explore their own sculpting abilities and think big when it comes to their projects.

Bristles will dive into the world of street art, giving a closer look at the enigmatic artist Banksy. This part of the episode will shed light on the mystery surrounding Banksy’s work and influence, sparking curiosity about art in the streets.

Lastly, Harry Hill...

In 2009, Fox created a "Simpsons" scavenger hunt to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the series. It involved hiding Easter eggs and references to the animated sitcom in all of the network's prime-time programs, including "House," "Lie to Me," and "Glee." At the time, Fox's popular procedural "Bones" had been running for four years and was in the midst of its fifth season. As such, it too received the "Simpsons" scavenger hunt treatment, and might have been the show that most successfully paid tribute to Matt Groening's series.

Season 5, episode 7, entitled "The Dwarf in the Dirt," contained multiple nods to "The Simpsons," including a wrestler named Bumblebee Man and a scene at the Jeffersonian Institute that featured an x-ray of Homer Simpson's skull hanging in the background, revealing an alarmingly small brain. The episode also featured a cameo by Homer voice actor Dan Castellaneta, who plays police officer Navarro...

Despite having once illustrated that Major League Baseball is virtually unwatchable without the mind-numbing effects of alcohol…

…The Simpsons has devoted several episodes to the sport over the years. Most famously, there was “Homer at the Bat,” which guest starred several prominent baseball players as Mr. Burns’ softball ringers. As a testament to the show’s popularity, some of these baseball legends have even found that this one ‘90s cartoon has overshadowed their athletic careers.

Then there was “MoneyBart,” in which Lisa coaches Bart’s Little League team. Although the baseball storyline was seemingly overshadowed by Banksy’s controversial couch gag at the start of the episode.

This Sunday, The Simpsons will once again explore America’s pastime with “Abe League of Their Moe.” The episode finds Moe luring a Macedonian baseball megastar to the Springfield Isotopes with a “hype video.” Surprisingly, the Isotopes win out, all thanks to Moe who,...

So, you’ve binged through seven episodes of brooding blind justice, street-level brawls, and enough Catholic guilt to power the Vatican. And now you’re wondering, what’s next? What’s the finale got in store?

Will Matt Murdock finally catch a break or at least a stable relationship? But wait, hold onto your billy clubs because it turns out the stars themselves, Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofriom are just as hyped about the ending as you are. In a recent interview with Brandon Davis, the dynamic duo behind Daredevil and Kingpin gave fans a cryptic but juicy teaser.

Charlie Cox in Daredevil: Born Again | Credits: Marvel Studios

Not only did they agree on which episodes to watch closely, but they also let slip that the season wraps up with some serious heat. If you thought Hell’s Kitchen was already spicy, it sounds like it’s about to become a five-alarm fire.

Back in season 4 of "The Simpsons" Bart watches an episode of "Eye on Springfield" wherein Kent Brockman stands in a sparse warehouse in Korea to give viewers a "first-hand look at how American cartoons are made." As rows of harried animators furiously scribble on paper they're prodded by rifle-toting soldiers in a brief gag that saw the show's writers taking a jab at themselves and American networks outsourcing animation to countries where labor was much cheaper than in the U.S.

Since the very first episode of "The Simpsons" in 1989 — which was almost very different — the show has been at least partly animated in South Korea, with animator Nelson Shin's Akom studios being the most prominent example of a Korean studio contributing to the show's creation. The company has, to date, animated more than 200 episodes of the long-running series, and was surely part of the inspiration behind the "Eye on Springfield" segment.

Jaden Smith’s rise to fame in the early 2000s was nothing short of spectacular. As the son of Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, Jaden was no stranger to the spotlight.

From his debut alongside his father to his action-packed turn in The Karate Kid, the world quickly took notice of his star potential.

Will Smith and Jaden Smith in a still from Pursuit of Happyness | Sony Entertainment

However, with his unconventional views on fame and his goal, Smith has made it clear that he’s not an individual to follow the Hollywood script. And in a stunning revelation made nearly a decade ago, Smith shared his plan to disappear from Hollywood entirely in 10 years. Gear up for the scoops about what he said about his disappearance.

The Karate Kid fame Jaden Smith’s remark on his disappearance from Hollywood in 10 years Jaden Smith as Dre in...

When people tune into "The Simpsons," there are a few things they expect: social commentary, everyone staying the same age, and couch gags. Since the show's first season, audiences get to see the titular family arrive home and then sit down on their brown couch in some humorous fashion. At first, the gags were simple, like the couch falling apart as soon as they sit down. But after over three decades on the air, "The Simpsons" has needed to up the ante by getting more surreal and complex, like Homer going through a portal and winding up in "Bob's Burgers."

Sadly, anyone who watches a new "Simpsons" episode may be dismayed to find that the couch gag has largely gone away. Season 36's "Shoddy Heat" may have answered how Homer has never lost his job, but the story just starts, which feels... wrong. Couch gags still pop up every so often,...

As if Christopher Walken needed anything else to solidify his legendary status, he may be the only person to have knowingly destroyed an original artwork by the elusive Banksy. In The Outlaws, the BBC's crime-oriented comedy series created by Elgin Jamesand Stephen Merchant, Walken performed the act of brilliant sacrilege in the Season 1 finale. Following a group of strangers brought together as a part of their community payback sentence, The Outlaws stars Rhianne Barreto, Gamba Cole, and a slew of charming, irreverent, and witty actors who are pitted against a perilous association with a drug lord known as The Dean (Claes Bang).

blink-182 singer-bassist Mark Hoppus is selling a prized Banksy painting at auction, with plans to donate a portion of the proceeds to various charities.

The 2005 Banksy piece titled “Crude Oil (Vettriano)” is set to hit the block on March 4th in London, headlining Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction. Before that, the painting will be on view via a preview exhibition from February 26th up until the auction date.

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The rare, entirely hand-painted work was acquired by Hoppus and his wife Skye in 2011.

“We loved this painting since the moment we saw it,” Mark said via a press release. “Unmistakably Banksy, but different. We bought it because we loved it. It’s borne witness to our family over these past dozen years. It hung over the table in London where we ate breakfast and our son did his homework. It hung in our living room in Los Angeles.

Mark Hoppus will embark on a tour to promote his forthcoming memoir, Fahrenheit-182, in April. The seven-date tour, “An Evening With Mark Hoppus,” will feature the Blink-182 musician “in conversation” about the book.

Hoppus’ book tour launches in New York City on April 9 before heading to Somerville, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Chicago. It wraps with two dates in California in El Cajon and Los Angeles. Tickets for the events go on sale Feb. 21 to the general public, although there is a pre-sale now available.

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Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus will auction a Banksy painting, valued at up to £5 million, or $6.3 million, with a portion of the earnings directed toward a Los Angeles wildfire fund and medical charities. The rare, hand-painted artwork with an environmental message, titled “Crude Oil (Vettriano),” will go up for auction March 4 at Sotheby’s London, the auction house announced Tuesday.

“We loved this painting since the moment we saw it,” Hoppus said in a statement. “Unmistakably Banksy, but different. We bought it because we loved it. It’s borne witness to...

Norwegian director Vibeke Løkkeberg is in Berlin with her Forum feature documentary The Long Road To The Director’s Chair, over 50 years after she starting filming it at the first International Women’s Film Seminar in West Berlin in 1973.

The event at theArsenal cinema theatreis now regarded as a key staging post in the origins of the feminist movement. Female participants, all working in different sectors of the media, were fiercely critical of the rampant sexism in the film and newspaper industries.

At the time the project was turned down flat by the national broadcaster. Now it is being turned into a television series.

Who doesn’t love a good celebrity success story? More so, who would not love the money that comes with it? There is, of course, plenty of money to be made in Hollywood, and celebrities can’t deny that they have the art of raking in cash nailed down to the tee.

While most of us are figuring out whether shelling out for another streaming service is actually worth it, the big peeps of the entertainment industry are, perhaps, much more concerned about how to add another comma to their net worth. Call it Russ Hanneman’s Tres Comas.

Nevertheless, how does one even calculate this? Ranking them by earnings project-based earnings? That seems like a splintering headache in the making and does not fit the variety of celebrities and projects out there. Paydays come in all shapes and sizes, don’t they? Do you then go by the total money made throughout their careers?...

The creatives behind The Simpsons are certainly no strangers to the world of street art, as evidenced by the time they handed over the couch gag reins to Banksy and received a harrowingly bleak sequence depicting the tortuous lives of the show’s South Korean animators. The slave laborers are seen toiling away in a dystopian sweatshop full of animation cells, DVDs and Bart Simpson dolls. It was a pretty intense opening for an episode about Bart’s Little League baseball team.

Incidentally, Banksy’s interpretation pissed off the real-life animators, who were actually based out of “high-tech workshops in downtown Seoul” that presumably contained no open vats of toxic waste and/or malnourished unicorns.

The Simpsons, it turns out, has also inspired a fair bit of street art, not by Banksy, but by other, less famous street artists. And a not insignificant number of public artworks have focused on...

Raye, wearing a black, formfitting Versace dress, can hardly contain her smile as she thinks about that legendary Christina Aguilera riff in Burlesque. You know, the one at the end of her “Show Me How You Burlesque” number, where her voice does cartwheels up and down a scale? Yeah, Raye knows it perfectly. “When I tell you I studied that run, I studied that run,” says Raye. “YouTube, me. The living room. Door shut. Play, rewind. Play, rewind.”

It just so happens that Raye is sitting in Aguilera’s living room,...

Exclusive: He was one of the most feared and revered British art critics of his generation — and now, nearly a decade after his death, Brian Sewell could be about to wield his pen once more.

Deadline understands that London’s historic Evening Standard newspaper has been making plans to revive its former writer using artificial intelligence.

Two sources said AI Sewell has been assigned to review The National Gallery’s new Vincent van Gogh exhibition, titled Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers.

One person said the plans were discussed at the highest level of the Standard and in consultation with Lord Lebedev, the newspaper’s proprietor. Dylan Jones, editor-in-chief of the Standard, did not respond to requests for comment.

It is not clear how the AI will work or if the Standard has permission from Sewell’s estate. The critic was survived by his partner, the artist Dean Marsh.

The idea...

Japanese director Neo Sora is no catastrophist: the vision of dystopia he puts forth in his coolly compelling first fiction feature “Happyend” is chilling precisely because it won’t take some thunderous armageddon to bring it about. Instead, in a near future that’s barely a stone’s throw from now, beset by many of our present predicaments and a sense of impending but not quite imminent apocalypse, his teenage heroes come of age as kids have always done. It’s just that here, there is the added poignancy of experiencing the end of the beginning of life amid what might just be the beginning of the end of the world.

In tomorrow’s Tokyo, where the concrete curves and high-rise skylines have a slightly denatured air (perhaps because the film was largely shot in Kobe) a high-school principal (Shiro Sano) is distressed to discover his beloved sports car has...

On Sunday July 28 2024, CBS broadcasts CBS News Sunday Morning!

Episode 29 Episode Summary

In this episode of “CBS News Sunday Morning,” viewers can expect a blend of news, features, weather, and insightful commentary. The program aims to provide a comprehensive look at the week’s most important stories while also highlighting unique and engaging features that capture the essence of current events.

America Decides – Robert Costa has the latest on the evolving campaign for the White House.

Her Turn – Martha Teichner looks into what Vice President Kamala Harris needs to do to be elected president and how those who came before her broke through in their races.

Sunday Profile: Ralph MacChio – Lee Cowan catches up with Ralph Macchio, known for his role in “The Karate Kid,” to talk about his career and his life today.

On Pointe – Serena Altschul explores New York City Ballet, celebrating its 75th anniversary.

An American Tale...

In this broadcast of “CBS News Sunday Morning,” Lee Cowan takes the anchor’s chair and the program will feature the following segments: America Decides: Robert Costa provides an update on the campaign trail as the nation gears up for the upcoming presidential election. Her Turn: Martha Teichner investigates the road to the White House for […]

CBS News Sunday Morning July 28: Ralph Macchia, Jon Chu, Banksy, David Seders...

Join CBS News Sunday Morning on CBS this Sunday, July 14, 2024, from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. Et. Lee Cowan anchors this insightful edition, which explores a diverse range of topics and features newsmaking interviews. Mo Rocca sets the stage by looking back at the Republican Party’s history in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the host city of […]

CBS News Sunday Morning: Ralph Macchio, Gavin Newson, Banksy...

At a conference on film and artificial intelligence over the weekend in South Korea’s Bucheon, it was difficult to know whether the new technology was being embraced, normalized or underestimated.

Bucheon, a high-rise city on the outskirts of Seoul, has long harbored both high-tech and cultural industry aspirations. The city turned a WWII bunker into a digital art hub and boasts a comic book museum, a Webtoon convergence center and two film festivals as well as a Philharmonic Orchestra founded in the analog-era.

This year, its long-running Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) launched a competition for AI-produced short films, co-hosted a conference on the topic and operated a hands-on AI workshop. The embrace of AI felt like a brave response to every mature film festival’s fear of becoming stale.

The Bucheon conference’s impressive lineup of speakers included: Caleb Ward, CEO of Curious Ridge; directors Dave Clark,...

Banksy has struck again. On Friday night, the renowned English street artist unleashed a work of performance art at Glastonbury 2024, launching inflatable rafts holding dummies dressed up as migrants during Idles set.

The act occurred at the tail-end of Idles’ set, during their song “Danny Nedelko,” a humanistic, pro-immigrant anthem of sorts, with lyrics like the opening lines, “My blood brother is an immigrant/ A beautiful immigrant.” According to reports, fans thought that the rafts were part of Idles’ stage show, and even the band themselves were unaware of the Banksy stunt until after the set.

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The artwork comes as migration is a hot topic in the UK, between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s immigration policy and an overall rise in xenophobia in Europe. Glastonbury is also taking on the issue with Terminal 1, a new area designed to give festival-goers an appreciation for the struggles immigrants face.

Bright Eyes have returned with their first album in four years. Five Dice, All Threes is slated for release on Sept. 20.

Cat Power, the National’s Matt Berninger, and the So So Glos’ Alex Orange Drink join Bright Eyes’ members Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nate Walcott on their upcoming 10th studio album.

Alongside the album announcement, the band shared the LP’s lead single, “Bells and Whistles,” and music video for the track, which features them rocking on stage, a magical photo booth sprouting show attendees, and a bar fight.

An Animal Crossing: New Horizons player has created grafitti art reminiscent of Banksy's famous style. Players can use these artworks on their own island via the Custom Design Portal in the Able Sisters' shop. Custom designs, like Banksy-style art, allow for unique creativity in island esthetics.

Players can now customize their Animal Crossing: New Horizons island with a little bit of an edge thanks to custom graffiti-style murals. Customizing one's island and town is one of the main aspects of any Animal Crossing game. With all the different options for styles and things to include, anyone can design their island to be exactly what they are hoping for. Some people decide to create intricate hidden areas, while others recreate hilarious current events inside their Animal Crossing homes. Being able to include custom artwork has always been a major draw for fans, letting their creativity flourish even further.

One talented Reddit user,...

90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After? Season 8 sees the return of Alexei and Loren Brovarnik, and ahead of Sunday’s episode, she shared that she moved out of her Florida apartment. Remember, the last time TLC showed the couple, they were thinking about going to Israel, but her parents objected. Are they going anyway? Read on to find out.

Loren Brovarnik & Alexei Still Have Stories To Film?

The TLC couple’s been on the franchise for what seems like forever. Originally, they were on Season 3 of 90 Day Fiance but stuck around since 2015 in various spinoffs. Fans saw them meet, marry, and welcome baby Shai in 2020. Next came Asher in 2021, and finally, Ariel, their daughter, in 2022. Surprised by their return, some fans felt they had no more stories to tell.

90 Day Fiance Star Loren Brovarnik Moves Out Of Her Old Apartment – Instagram

Loren Brovarnik delves into her reasons for...

British comedian Joe Lycett has revealed that, in the last month, he has planted four fake stories in the British media.

The Guardian newspaper reports that, on his Friday evening TV show, Late Night Lycett, the presenter – who has previously created fake walk-outs on chat shows, and doorstepped public figures – revealed four stories that he told the audience he invented, but were picked up and covered by UK newspapers and TV.

The four stories he said he fabricated were:

A footballer suffering with a bruise in the shape of Prince Harry; A statue of ‘H’ from UK pop group Steps being erected in his Welsh hometown (this story was also confirmed as fake by H aka musician Ian Watkins); Research showing that men from Birmingham (Lycett’s hometown) are the largest endowed in the UK; A mural of Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz film being drawn by undercover graffiti artist Banksy.

Clockwise from top left: Vera Drew in The People’s Joker, Sean Connery in Never Say Never Again, and Jay Underwood in Fantastic FourPhoto: Altered Innocence, Screenshot: YouTube, YouTube

We live in a world dominated by intellectual property. Save for Oppenheimer and The Sound Of Freedom, last year’s 10 highest-grossing...

Exclusive: Alana Hadid, the fashion designer and sister of models Bella and Gigi, is spearheading film production and distribution label Watermelon Pictures.

The firm’s website describes Watermelon as a “Palestinian-owned independent film distribution, production, and financing” outfit.

The company will focus on “cultural representation and social advocacy, and be dedicated to amplifying the voices of underrepresented filmmakers across the globe”.

The first movie on the label is documentary Walled Off about the Walled Off Hotel, a Palestinian managed-hotel which was financed and designed by British street artist Banksy and is located in Bethlehem opposite the Israeli West Bank barrier wall. The film looks at the lives of Palestinians living in the area and discusses the importance of creative resistance as a form of protest.

Pic is written and directed by Vin Arfuso, an American filmmaker of Palestinian and Italian descent, and will get a limited theatrical run and digital release in the U.

Exclusive:f David Laub, a longtime distribution executive at A24, is joining Metrograph to build a new slate of theatrical releases as head of Metrograph Pictures, a label that’s been focused mainly on restorations of classic films.

Laub will consider American independent, international and documentary features, both finished films and earlier stage projects to potentially provide financing. The company is aiming to get to 10 releases a year.

“We are excited to work with a wide range of films and filmmakers, and be a robust new presence in the distribution landscape,” said Laub, who will hit the ground for Metrograph at the upcoming Berlinale and European Film Market next week.

It’s not an easy time for indie film distribution. Metrograph in is announcement said the industry “in dire need of fresh thinking and inventive distribution options.”

Laub will report to and work closely with Metrograph CEO Christian Grass, who joined...

Two arrests have now been made after a road sign featuring work by secret street artist Banksy was photographed being removed from a road junction in south-east London.

The piece of art – a red stop sign with three military drones painted on top – was unveiled on Friday in Commercial Way, Peckham, London.

The artwork was authenticated by Banksy – who has for years operated under cover of darkness, despite much speculation as to his real identity – with a photo of the piece being uploaded to his social media account.

But a man in his twenties was arrested on Saturday after being photographed removing the sign with boltcutters, and making off with it. A video shot by onlookers shows the man reaching up to cut the sign off its post, while another man holds his bike. The first was arrested on suspicion of theft and criminal damage.

The police confirmed: “We are...

Last year we had our eyes open to one of Europe’s finest events on the film calendar, at the annual Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia. Needless to say after our last visit we were grateful to be invited back for the 2023 edition; the festival’s 27th year.

Taking place a little earlier in November, while the nights were still black (as advertised), the weather was crisp. Less snow, more sun – and a lot less slipping over on the icy cobbles. Another notable difference for our visit to the Estonian capital this year was that we went at the very start of the 16-day festival, able to experience and appreciate the opening night ceremony, which was a real highlight of our stay.

Taking place at the Alexela concert hall, the film was Guardians of the Formula, by Serbian filmmaker Dragan Bjelogrlic, which tells the fascinating true story of a secretive,...

Since Banksy emerged as a street artist in the early 2000s, one of the most intriguing aspects of the Bristol-based painter has been his identity. Over the years, various people have been linked to the moniker, among them Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett, a comic book illustrator who also co-created Tank Girl, and Massive Attack co-founder Robert Del Naja, based on the fact that both hail from Bristol and Del Naja also dabbled in graffiti.

Now, an unearthed BBC recording from 2003 appears to confirm that Banksy is indeed a Robert, just not Del Naja.

Who is Banksy? It is one of the art world’s, perhaps even pop culture’s, most enduring mysteries since the street artist burst onto the scene in the early 2000s. But we may be one step closer to the artist’s true identity following the recent discovery of a lost BBC interview in which Banksy appears to confirm his name.

The BBC reported on Monday that it had unearthed a 2003 interview between the young, up-and-coming street artist Banksy and the former BBC arts correspondent Nigel Wrench. The original recording was edited for a spot on BBC radio, which was then used as part of the BBC podcast series The Banksy Story that was released in July. But Wrench, having listened to the podcast series, was inspired to revisit the full original recording and discovered a lot more buried information about the artist that was never used.

In the discovered audio,...

A bonus episode BBC Radio 4’s The Banksy Story features a recording of an interview with the artist, not heard for 20 years and broadcast in full for the first time. This follows what is believed to be Banksy’s voice being broadcast in the UK for the first time earlier this year. The interview took place with former BBC arts correspondent Nigel Wrench...

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Renowned US producer Gale Anne Hurd and Anna Bulakh, head of ethics and partnerships at synthetic voice creator Respeecher are among the speakers for Industry Innovation Forum Tallinn (Iift), the summit held today (November 17) as part of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Poff).

The half-day executive-level forum will focus on Europe and Ukraine’s solidarity in film and industry, 631 days since the start of the Russian invasion; and will explore the impact of artificial intelligence on the European film, content and audiovisual sectors.

Hurd will participate...

Further speakers include AI pioneers Caleb and Shelby Ward.

Renowned US producer Gale Anne Hurd and Anna Bulakh, head of ethics and partnerships at synthetic voice creator Respeecher are among the speakers for Industry Innovation Forum Tallinn (Iift), the summit held today (November 17) as part of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Poff).

The half-day executive-level forum will focus on Europe and Ukraine’s solidarity in film and industry, 631 days since the start of the Russian invasion; and will explore the impact of artificial intelligence on the European film, content and audiovisual sectors.

Hurd will participate...

Further speakers include AI pioneers Caleb and Shelby Ward.

The Terminator producer Gale Anne Hurd and Anna Bulakh, head of ethics and partnerships at synthetic voice creator Respeecher are among the speakers for Industry Innovation Forum Tallinn (Iift), the summit held today (November 17) as part of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Poff).

The half-day executive-level forum will focus on Europe and Ukraine’s solidarity in film and industry, 631 days since the start of the Russian invasion; and will explore the impact of artificial intelligence on the European film, content and audiovisual sectors.

Hurd will participate...

A well-told story ends when the credits roll, but not so documentaries. There, in most cases, the lives of the people depicted on-screen continue on, transformed by the fact of being filmed — and even more by whatever attention the project ignites in the culture at large. That’s why, in the hundreds of post-screening Q&As I’ve seen for docs over the years, the same questions come up virtually without fail: What’s happened since? How are the movie’s subjects doing now?

In “Subject,” co-directors Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall catch up with the people at the center of several major documentaries — from “Hoop Dreams” and “The Wolfpack” to “Capturing the Friedmans” and “The Staircase” — to see how their involvement in such projects changed their lives. That may be the hook that lures in audiences, though the film is far more than just a years-later epilogue to those high-profile docs.

UK director George Amponsah’s thriller Gassed Up has won the London Film Festival (Lff) Audience Award for Best Feature in the 67th edition running from October 4 to 15, as the event also posts record participation.

Further Audiences Award winners, which were announced on Monday, went to The Taste of Mango for Best Documentary, Festival of Slaps for Best British Film/Work and Murals for Best Immersive Work/Xr.

Amponsah’s London-set thriller stars Stephen Odubola as a member of a moped street crime gang, who gets on the wrong side of an Albanian crime family.

Archie Maddocks co-wrote the screenplay with One Piece breakout Taz Skylar, who also appears in the film, with other cast including including Steve Toussaint (House Of The Dragon) and Tobias Jowett, soon to be seen in Nick Hamm’s upcoming epic William Tell.

The thriller marks Amponsah’s first fiction feature...

Regarding studios, no one has an identity as iconic as Disney. While people know films from Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, and more, Disney is certainly the most iconic. Thanks to years of rereleasing their classic animated films in theaters, owning the most successful theme parks in the world, and acquiring brands like Star Wars, Marvel, the Muppets, and the entire 20th Century Fox library, everyone knows Disney and loves some part of it. In 2019, seven of the ten highest-grossing movies of all time were produced by Disney. It seemed like they were on top of the world.

Update October 20, 2023: In honor of Disney's 100th anniversary, this article has been updated by Yosra Ben Lagha with even more reasons why audiences still can't get enough of Disney.

2023 marks the company's 100th anniversary. In a year that was supposed to be marked with celebration has now been filled with many box-office disappointments.

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Julia Jackman’s feature debut about two teenagers with a shared passion for music is entertaining and sympathetic if a bit formulaic

Writer-director Julia Jackman is an award-winner for her short films and now makes her feature debut at the London film festival with this teen romcom, based on an idea co-authored by Josh O’Connor – who shows up in an amusing cameo playing a masked graffiti artist and part-time body piercer with a sub-Banksy reverence for his own anonymous glamour. It’s sweet-natured and engagingly laid-back, if a bit televisual and reliant on that time-honoured staple that dates from Richard Curtis’s Love Actually: the end-of-term school show in which a romantic declaration becomes an unscripted part of the programme.

The year is 2006 and, come to think of it, this is the second Lff movie set in 2006, after Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn; perhaps it will...

The Kill Room cast has been getting a lot of attention for a notable Pulp Fiction reunion, but the dark crime comedy also features an exciting ensemble roster of actors and actresses playing a unique range of characters. The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson as Gordan, a criminal who teams with art dealer Patrice (Uma Thurman) to set up a money laundering scheme for his contract-killing business. However, the scheme gets more attention than they expected when the art created by hitman Reggie (Joe Manganiello) becomes a sensation. It is a fun premise that looks to take full advantage of the impressive The Kill Room cast.

The big draw of The Kill Room cast is clearly seeing Jackson and Thurman in a movie together nearly 30 years after they both received Oscar nominations for their roles in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as Jules Winnfield and Mia Wallace respectively. Interestingly, the...

Saint Harison is lonely. On Tuesday, the singer released the poignant video for his song “More Weed, Less Friends,” which follows him coming to terms with the solitude that’s taken over his life.

“This song is my absolute baby, I wrote and produced this one all by myself and it just means the fucking world to me,” he wrote on Instagram.

The Teeeezy C-directed video sees Harison — with his bright pink hair and ironic “I Don’t Smoke” sweatshirt — singing the melancholic lyrics about fearing death from a lonesome couch.

Uma Thurman and Maya Hawke are making their onscreen debut together in the dark comedy crime movie “The Kill Room.”

Directed by Nicol Paone, the film centers on art gallery owner Patrice Capullo (Thurman) who enters a money laundering scheme with the mob to save her company. The only catch? Hitman Reggie’s (Manganiello) artwork inspired by his brutal killings leads him to become the biggest name in high art since Banksy. Now his fans — and crime syndicate enemies — are clamoring to uncover the identity of the anonymous artist only know as the Bagman.

Samuel L. Jackson stars as Reggie’s boss Gordon Davis, marking a “Pulp Fiction” reunion alongside Thurman. Hawke is among the many cast of characters seeking the Bagman, along with Debi Mazar, Dree Hemingway, Amy Keum, Candy Buckley, Larry Pine, Jennifer Kim, Matthew Maher, Tom Pecinka, and Alexander Sokovikov.

While the film marks Thurman and daughter Hawke first side-by-side acting roles,...

With Banksy’s first ever retrospective opening at the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art last month, a new 10-part series for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, The Banksy Story, hears exclusively from an ex-employee of Banksy’s infamous Picture On Walls print shop, who worked closely with the artist during a critical time in his career and recounts fascinating behind the scenes stories.

Producer and presenter James Peak isn't an art critic, or even a journalist. He's a Banksy super-fan, and in this series he gets closer than ever before to Banksy's secret world to tell the story of the graffiti kid who made spraying walls into high art, the anonymous figure who became a household name, the cultural phenomenon who bites the hand that feeds him.

After tracking down Steph Warren who worked at Pictures on Walls just as Banksy was about to explode into the mainstream, James...

A new BBC Radio 4 podcast hears exclusively from an ex-employee of Banksy’s infamous Picture On Walls print shop. With Banksy’s first ever retrospective opening at the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art last month, the 10-part series of The Banksy Story, hears from Steph Warren who worked closely with the artist during a critical time in his career and recounts fascinating behind the scenes stories.

It was just as well that Cypher was the only public screening I attended at this year’s Tribeca Festival that wasn’t preceded by an introduction from a member of the programming staff. Here’s a film best experienced absolutely cold. Fans of Philly rapper Tierra Whack might be in on the joke perpetrated by her co-conspirators, including director Chris Moukarbel and producer Natalia-Leigh Brown, but for those that haven’t been following along as closely, the film is a pseudo-documentary thriller that constantly morphs and shifts tone. Perhaps inspired by the line in Beyonce’s “Formation” (“y’all haters corny with that Illuminati mess”), Whack and Mourkarbel hint early on at what’s to come before shifting into a more traditional biopic documentary explaining the seemingly out-of-nowhere rise of Tierra Whack at age 15.

A product of Internet culture, Whack was discovered in a video of her rapping in...

Banksy documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop” sounds like a great business strategy for movie theaters still emerging from the pandemic. Do the captive-audience math: “The Little Mermaid” + two kids under six > one father who would never hear the end of it.

However, it turns out that there are forces even greater than children begging for a Barbie doll in a gold disco jumpsuit (pictured above) for $50: among them, logistics and licensing.

Exhibitors are well aware of the need for brand and use-case extensions. During Covid, theater owners turned their expensive screens toward gaming and private screenings. Once movies returned so did, um, AMC-branded popcorn. It’s now available at your local Wal-Mart, but you know another highly trafficked retailer with shelf space and cash registers? Movie theaters.

IndieWire brought that question to major players: Why not sell movie merch in movie theaters? Genius, right? We thought so,...

Variety has been given access to the teaser (below) for “Murals,” an immersive 3D documentary that has its world premiere on May 18 at Cannes Next, a sidebar to the Marché du Film in Cannes.

The experience, which is created in Unreal Engine and displayed on LED screens, features murals by Banksy, created following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The project was initiated by Artem Ivanenko, a 3D artist from Irpin, Ukraine, which was one of the first towns to be hit during the Russian invasion. Later, when the Russians withdrew, Ivanenko returned to Irpin to record the devastating destruction using 3D scanning.

The directors are Alex Topaller and Dan Shapiro of the New York-based production company Aggressive, alongside Ivanenko. Spain’s Tigrelab handled art direction and CG/Unreal animation.

In a statement, the filmmakers said: “An audacious war of conquest is being waged in the heart of Europe, a criminal,...