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The Harry Potter original motion picture soundtrack will be available in a 16-lp box set on Nov. 29. The massive box set features more than 10 hours of music from all eight films with music composed by John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, and Alexandre Desplat, Warner Music Group’s catalog developer Rhino announced Monday. The expansive set will also be available in four color variants corresponding to one of the four Hogwarts Houses. It includes red for Gryffindor, green for Slytherin, blue for Ravenclaw, and yellow for Hufflepuff.

Williams crafted the...

General Hospital spoilers and updates for the week of Monday, October 7-Friday, October 11 tease the kiss, the confession, and the letdown?

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Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) and Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) talk about The Kiss, Kristina Corinthos-Davis (Kate Mansi) makes a confession, and Lucky Spencer (Jonathan Jackson) looks like he’s had a letdown!

General Hospital Spoilers: The Kiss

Anna and Jason appear to be in his office at the Corinthos Coffee warehouse, when Anna asks Jason an uncomfortable question-“are we going to talk about that kiss?”

It was Jason who made the move as he and Anna were facing certain death in Africa, short of a miracle-which happened. Jason has avoided talking about much of anything that could be related to that kiss to nearly everyone who brings up Africa and stayed focused on their and Lucky’s rescue narrative.

A romance between Anna...

In the upcoming episode of “Sue Thomas F.B.Eye,” titled “The Kiss,” excitement is in the air as Jack and Sue take on a new undercover assignment. This time, they find themselves infiltrating a law firm, a setting that promises plenty of twists and turns. Fans of the show can expect a blend of suspense and humor as the duo navigates the complexities of the legal world.

As they dive into their roles, Jack and Sue must rely on their quick thinking and teamwork to uncover the truth behind a case that has caught the attention of the FBI. The stakes are high, and the tension builds as they encounter various characters within the firm, each with their own secrets. This episode is sure to keep viewers on the edge of their seats, eager to see how Jack and Sue manage to balance their cover identities with their mission.

New month, new horror recommendations from Deep Cuts Rising. This installment features five selections reflecting the month of August 2024.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s offerings include a horror take on a classic fairy tale, a creature-feature, and more.

Dead Kids (1981)

Dead Kids a.k.a. Strange Behavior (1981)

Directed by Michael Laughlin.

While College Colors Day (August 30) is a time to be proud of your alma mater, the students and faculty of Galesburg University likely feel less spirited after the events of Dead Kids. In this sci-fi/horror chiller, college experiments on a Midwestern community’s young people result in murder. Several, in fact. The guinea pigs’ homicidal impulses amount to a few rather creepy sequences in this “bad science” slasher.

Dead Kids, also known as Strange Behavior, is...

With the third installment of their Danza Macabra series, the fine, twisted folks at Severin Films shift focus from the boot of Italy to the Iberian peninsula. This collection spotlights four fascinating Spanish examples of the sort of moody gothic filmmaking that Italian directors like Mario Bava and Antonio Margheriti, not to mention Hammer Films in Britain, helped to popularize for international markets.

Rife with reptilian monsters, vampires, zombified Knights Templar, and even a cameo from Frankenstein and his misbegotten creation, these films vary considerably in tone and approach, ranging from rambling shaggy-dog tales to almost esoteric fables. They also differ in how far they’re willing to go with their respective lashings of sex and violence, growing bolder as the restrictions of the Franco regime lifted after the dictator’s passing in 1975.

Writer-director Miguel Madrid’s schizoid Necrophagous, from 1971, divides its time between two principal storylines that barely cohere in the end.

House of the Dragon Fans Believe One-Handed Man is the Long-Awaited Shepherd From the Books - Main Image

House of the Dragon fans may have spotted the live-action version of The Shepherd in season 2. Specifically, they were drawn to yet another major change of events in how this future villain may emerge in the HBO series.

Spoiler Warning: This article contains spoilers for House of the Dragon season 2, so proceed with caution.

One Key Season 2 Scene Introduces An Unlikely Ally To Alicent

In the middle of a riot in House of the Dragon season 2 episode 6, Alicent and Helaena were being mobbed by the smallfolk.

As the Kingsguard knights attempt to protect their Queens from the pheasants, one peculiar old man pleads to Alicent, chanting, "My Queen!" in search of food. This leads the knight to cut off the man's arm to take it off Alicent's.

Was cutting the man's arm off for righteous?...

Hotd: The Kiss Between Rhaenyra and [Spoiler] Wasn’t Scripted, It Just Happened - Main Image

House of the Dragon fans had been shipping Rhaenyra and Mysaria all season, and their collective jaws dropped when the two actually shared a kiss near the end of last Sunday’s episode.

While it did feel like a natural arc for the characters this season, the moment was apparently unscripted, and it was something the actors just felt was right for the moment.

Why Did Rhaenyra and Mysaria Kiss?

The whole season has had men underestimating Rhaenyra in her council, and while Rhaenys has always been there to stand up for Rhaenyra, her death at Rook’s Rest has left the queen more vulnerable than ever. Despite this, Mysaria has always been supportive of the queen, even giving her advice on what she should do with her special insight and connections to the smallfolk.

Days of our Lives weekly spoilers reveal that Ej Dimera spills he saw a recent drunken kiss between his wife and her ex-husband. Although he never made a big deal about it then, he wasn’t thrilled about Nicole Walker and Eric Brady’s smooch. But who will Elvis Junior tell about spying on the make-out session? Next, Tate Black and Holly Jonas plan to steam up the Salem Inn. What happens when the two get caught by his parents? Could there be a prom night pregnancy in the future? Finally, Jack Deveraux drops a truth bomb. Will it be about a Salem return? Find out what the newspaperman rants about during the week of June 24-28, 2024, on the NBC Peacock exclusive.

Days of our Lives Weekly Spoilers: Ej Dimera Spills He Spied the Kiss

Dool weekly spoilers report that Ej Dimera (Dan Feuerriegel) confesses that he saw his wife...

Nearly a decade before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were shooting machine guns at each other in their own on-screen home, Scott Bakula and Maria Bello were beating each other up in the pilot episode of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." The 1996 CBS show started off with the soon-to-be Mr. Smith stumbling across the soon-to-be Mrs. Smith on a secret mission. After a lot of fighting and mayhem, they team up by the end of the pilot and the premise of the show is established: From this point on, the two spies will work together, pretending to be a married couple who call themselves the Smiths.

It's a premise that sounds awfully familiar to fans of the '05 movie, and even more familiar to viewers of the brand new Amazon series of the same name. Just as Donald Glover and Maya Erskine's characters slowly develop feelings for each other over...

2023 was a year of sustained gains year-on-year across the Nordics, although moviegoing is still down 23%-30% from pre-covid times. The summer was exceptional thanks to the “Barbenheimer” mania that boosted all five Nordic countries. Iceland was the only territory where “Oppenheimer” ranked third, after the local comedy “Wild Game” one of three Icelandic titles that enabled local fare to jump 123% in box office for a 14% market share.

Norway enjoyed a solid year and a 27% market share for domestic fare, led by three blockbusters based on popular IPs, including the top seller “Christmas at Cobble Street.”

In Finland, the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon was perhaps the strongest among the Nordic nations, making July the biggest ever in Finnish cinema history. Also notable was the success of Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” the fourth biggest hit of the year, which helped local titles secure a 23.4% share.

Less glorious were results in Denmark where overall...

Wet Leg, Jason Isbell, Tegan and Sara, and more have contributed to Noise for Now: Vol. 1, an upcoming compilation album benefitting abortion access. It arrives on November 24th as part of Record Store Day 2023.

Noise for Now is also the name of the non-profit that helmed the compilation, and their work has become even more pertinent since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. The organization launched their eponymous record label to release their first album, which also features exclusive songs from Sleater-Kinney, My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes, Cat Power, and more.

Many of these songs were also featured on Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All, another benefit compilation from 2022 that was only available as a Bandcamp download for one day. Noise for Now: Vol. 1, however, will be a vinyl-only release, pressed on clear wax and packaged with a “Liberate Abortion” print by Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon.

When a painting becomes as famous as Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, a kind of populist appropriation can take place which dissuades those with a serious interest in art from taking it seriously. One participant in Ali Ray’s documentary suggests that students have posters of it on their walls because of its beauty, or because they think it’s romantic. This may be doing some of them a disservice. It’s isn’t all that difficult to observe that there’s something off about the embrace that it depicts. The man’s hands are on the woman’s throat; she appears to be trying to prise them off. This is the ambiguity which really cements the picture’s power and has intrigued scholars and members of the public alike ever since its first exhibition in 1908.

Centring on an exhibition which places Klimt’s works alongside those of his contemporaries,...

There is plenty to discover about the iconic ,poster-friendly image as well as the artist’s influences and obsessions

So ubiquitous is the style and imagery of Gustav Klimt that it reaches into bizarre corners of pop culture: the kids animation Mia and Me borrows unashamedly from Klimt’s whorls and rectangles, and of course there’s that episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where the undead steal posters of The Kiss from hapless college students. This, partly, is what makes Klimt a blockbuster figure in contemporary art culture; the eye-watering auction prices his work commands is another factor.

Hence the unusual direction of the newest offering in the Exhibition on Screen strand; as opposed to the customary approach of focusing on a specific show or oeuvre, here the subject is a deep dive into Klimt’s celebrated poster favourite which – inevitably – opens out into a wider examination of the artist’s obsessions and influences.

It’s not a coincidence that Volker Schlöndorff’s latest film The Forest Maker, the environmental essay documentary about Australian agronomist Tony Rinaudo, who found a way to grow trees in the most barren areas of Africa, is opening the 27th Sofia International Film Festival kicking off Thursday in the Bulgarian capital.

One of the major film festivals in Eastern Europe is going green, and the veteran German filmmaker, winner of the Palme d’Or and what was then called the best foreign language Oscar for The Tin Drum (1979), will plant the first tree of the future Sofia Film Festival Forest.

“We wanted to remind ourselves of our deep connection to the land and our power to be agents of change together. We wish to engage the public in the global vision of sustainable development of society and a responsible attitude towards nature”, the festival organizers said about the green...

The theatrical market across the Nordics recovered in 2022 without reaching pre-pandemic levels, driven predominantly by U.S. fare, such as “Top Gun: Maverick,” the biggest hit in Denmark, Finland and Sweden, “Minions: The Rise of Gru” No 1 in Iceland, and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” No 1 in Norway.

As always Danish movies secured the biggest national market share (30), followed by Finland (27), Norway (23) Sweden (19.3), and Iceland (10). Revenues were often more equally split across a larger number of titles, reaching record levels in several territories, as a result of Covid, that created a bottleneck of new releases.

Denmark

After a quiet start of the year with theaters locked down for the first two weeks due to Covid, ticket sales kickstarted again and ended up at 10.23 million, which is 49 up over 2021, but 20 down on pre-pandemic levels.

Revenue-wise, the Danish market hit Dkk 994.67 million (144.3 million), up 52 from the 2021 annus horribilis for cinemas, but just 16 down on the 2019 trawl,...

The history of film is filled with fascinating symmetries, with Edison’s early kinescopes like Fred Ott’s Sneeze and The Kiss resembling the kinds of stories friends might send you on Snapchat or Instagram. Unfortunately, Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck’s Fantastic Machine doesn’t know quite what to make of them. An essay film on the study of photography–from the early camera obscuras to cell phone videos and police body-cam footage–it has a seemingly limitless canvas to explore all aspects of photography, including its possibilities, shortcomings, and manipulations. Sourced from found footage, the film presents itself as a roadmap to the unknown, and playfully comes up short in its conclusions.

The starting point is early plate photography: Eadweard Muybridge’s 1859 experiment commonly considered the birth of the motion picture. The documentary then quickly crisscrosses over the next 164-or-so years, only periodically stopping to draw correlations...

The avalanche of music docs over the past decade has left very few stones unturned — and more than a few films that can barely justify their running times if not their existence. But one overdue and heretofore untold story is that of Judee Sill, a brilliant, innovative early ‘70s singer-songwriter who was the first artist signed to David Geffen’s Asylum Records, and was labelmates and/or a contemporary of the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, David Crosby and Joni Mitchell. Sill was frequently compared with the latter (to her great annoyance) and although there are few direct musical similarities, they were both among the most original and innovative singer-songwriters of the era: Her music fit early ‘70s Southern California vibe of her label and milieu, but it was stranger, with deep classical influences, wildly unusual structures and voicings and often dark subject matter.

The latter factor was...

Competition titles ‘Pacification’, ‘Triangle Of Sadness’, ‘Boy From Heaven’ also backed.

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s Ukrainian co-production Pamfir is one of 49 European films at this year’s Marché du Film to receive Film Sales Support (Fss) from the European Film Promotion (Efp) network.

Twenty-one sales companies are receiving a total of €78,000 for promotion and marketing campaigns of the 49 titles. Thirty-three of the films are completed, with a further 13 still in later stages of production.

Pamfir is Ukrainian director Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s debut feature, and plays in Directors’ Fortnight at the festival. A co-production between Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Chile and Luxembourg, it...

An important, if perhaps apocryphal, moment in the history of cinema was the afternoon little Alfie Hitchcock spent in the care of His Majesty. So terrified was little Hitch of the momentary incarceration (on his father’s orders no less) that his subsequent filmography maypoles artfully around fear in all its forms. Known by cinephiles the world over as the ‘Master of Suspense’, Hitchcock’s films are rightfully celebrated as some of the best the artform has produced. Not for nothing, but ten years ago Hitchcock’s 1958 exploration of obssession and grief Vertigo was voted the best film of all time.

Many of our favourite moments from Hitch’s filmography are easily recalled as scenes perfect in their own right. Today we’re taking a look at some of the scenes that, while not as instantly recognisable, are quiet miracles of cinemas. They show that Hitchcock was a director entirely...

Filmmaker Peter Greenaway has unveiled the trailer for his next film, “Walking to Paris.”

The biographical drama, Greenaway’s first feature since 2015’s romantic comedy “Eisenstein in Guanajuato,” centers on modernist Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Set in the early 1900s, the story takes place when Brancusi was 27-year-old and follows his 18-month trek from Bucharest to Paris to reach the metropolis of world culture. The first-look footage offers a glimpse at his voyage, complete with adventure and hardship, which served as a prelude of sorts to becoming a highly influential sculpture in the 20th century. Brancusi’s vast oeuvre includes “The Kiss,” “Bird in Space” and “Sleeping Muse.”

“Walking to Paris” is scheduled to release in theaters in late November 2022 after an effort to hit the festival circuit.

New York-based film and media fund Apx Capital Group, led by co-CEOs Yona Weisenthal and Noam Baram and media investor Augusto Pelliccia,...

Oscar and double Palme d’Or winning director Bille August is attending the Göteborg Film Festival for a Director’s Talk and the gala screening of his psycho-drama “The Pact”.

He will also pitch at the adjoining Nordic Film Market (Feb. 3-6), the work in progress of his upcoming Danish pic “The Kiss”.

August spoke exclusively to Variety about “The Kiss,” his enduring interest in the complexity of human beings, book-to-screen adaptations and his belief in the big screen experience.

Loosely based on Stefan Zweig’s novel “Beware of Pity and transposed from an Austrian to a Danish setting, “The Kiss” is a romantic drama set in 1913. The helmer has reunited with “A Fortunate Man”’s lead Espen Smed, cast as cavalry officer trainee Anton. Introduced to Baron von Løvenskjold’s daughter Edith, a wheelchair user following an accident, Anton is attracted to her, but unsure if his feelings are of pity or true love.

18 works in progress by some of the Nordic region’s biggest names – Bille August, Björn Runge, the multi-prized Jp Valkeapää and Malou Reymann will be showcased at the hybrid Nordic Film Market (Feb. 3-6), along with some Sundance and Rotterdam competition entries.

The Nfm runs parallel to the final stretches of the Göteborg Film Festival (Jan.28-Feb.6).

So far, over 450 international delegates have signed up for the major Nordic film confab. Only 250 will be able to attend in-person, due to Covid restrictions in Sweden.

“We’ve received a huge interest from professionals to attend in-person, following the decision of Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin’s European Film Market to go online. It’s been very difficult to say ‘no’ to people, but our priority is to guarantee a safe event,” said Göteborg head of industry Cia Edström who underlines the various safety measures to be implemented at the Nfm, from vaccination checks,...

In the beginning, there was light. And then, there were movies. And then, not long after that, there were people who watched those movies and snarked, “Well, that’s two hours I’ll never get back”. As Charlie Kaufman is fond of pointing out, however, every two hours is two hours that you’ll never get back. It doesn’t matter if a movie is good or bad or anything in between: At the end of the day, we cannot hoard our time.

And yet, for all of the truth contained in that wisdom, certain films make it almost impossible to shake the feeling that cinema — the most palpably fourth-dimensional of all popular art forms — possesses an unrivaled ability to make us appreciate how we can waste it. Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” is nothing if not one of those films.

A star-studded comedy of terrors that boasts more A-list celebrities than actual laughs,...

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Aftershocks Update Is Coming on September 23: "Today, Skydance Interactive is excited to share that the Aftershocks Update, a free content update to the critically acclaimed VR survival horror title, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, will be available for players to download beginning September 23 across Oculus Quest, PlayStation VR and PC VR headsets.

The Aftershocks Update goes above and beyond a conventional free update, as players will have access to hours of new content in the form of missions, collectibles and survival tools to use as they traverse the undead city of New Orleans. The downloadable content will be available to those that have completed the main campaign in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. This update also reinforces Skydance Interactive’s commitment to delivering more exciting content to the hit VR game and crafting one of the most content rich experiences in VR today, with...

WarnerMedia OneFifty, WarnerMedia’s content innovation hub, has snagged the U.S. rights to the winner of the Sundance Film Festival Alfred P. Sloan prize, “Son of Monarchs,” for HBO Max where it will start streaming this fall.

The semi-autobiographical film by biologist-filmmaker Alexis Gambis stars Tenoch Huerta (“Narcos: Mexico”), who is playing a villain in the upcoming “Black Panther” sequel. Here he plays Mendel, a Mexican biologist working at a lab in New York who is called back home for his grandmother’s funeral in his hometown of Angangue, a butterfly forest town set near the stunning Monarch butterfly reserves of Michoacan, Mexico. Once back home, he embarks on a personal journey where he faces the traumas of his past and his own mixed identity.

“This film exemplifies what WarnerMedia OneFifty is all about: It is a powerful, unique, and bold vision from a talented creative team and an innovative filmmaker that perfectly juxtaposes,...

French-Venezuelan biologist and filmmaker Alexis Gambis, whose sophomore drama, “Son of Monarchs,” screens in t Sundance’s Next section, has always been fixated on the confluence of art and science. It led him to found the Imagine Science Film Festival, which enters its 14th edition in October, and the five-year old VOD platform Labocine, both of which showcase science in film and seek to further the discourse among scientists, artists and educators.

In December, Sundance bestowed its 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize on the semi-autobiographical drama, which the jury cited “for its poetic, multilayered portrait of a scientist’s growth and self-discovery as he migrates between Mexico and New York City.”

For lead Tenoch Huerta, who plays a villain in the upcoming “Black Panther II,” portraying a scientist on “Monarchs” was a far cry from his previous roles in such projects as Netflix’s drug trafficking series “Narcos,” and migrant caravan drama,...

NBC has put in development Heirs, a thriller drama from East Los High co-creator Carlos Portugal, Davis Entertainment (The Blacklist) and Universal Television, where Davis Entertainment is under a deal.

Written by Portugal, Heirs is set in Miami Beach’s exclusive Star Island. It revolves around the heirs of a Latin American ex-dictator who face an unexpected dilemma when a young girl is kidnapped from their home on the night of their own daughter’s lavish quinceañera.

Portugal executive produces with Davis Entertainment’s John Davis, Jordan Davis and John Fox. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.

Portugal is also developing his original scripted drama Miss-ng at HBO Max with Macro/UCP, as well as a feature film musical entitled El Beso at Netflix with Lucky Chap and Screen Arcade producing. El Beso is based on the romantic Mexican urban legend around Guanajuato, Mexico’s...

On Nov. 27, 1929, three years after Greta Garbo’s American film debut, Variety described her as “the most mysterious of Hollywood stars.” More than 50 years later, in 1981, a Variety story began “Given that Greta Garbo still remains the most elusive, mysterious and speculated about film personality on the planet…”

It’s rare for any star to maintain public interest for so long. And it’s especially notable that she maintained interest, even decades after her final film, by trying to avoid attention.

In a career of only 15 years, Garbo gave fans her acting talent but nothing of herself — no details of her life, never addressing rumors or speculation. In a brief 1929 item, Variety said “Practically nothing has ever been known personally about Miss Garbo, she being a publicity-shunner and the toughest of all stars to interview.” In her heyday, she had as much impact on fashion and daydreams as Lady Gaga and Beyonce,...

Now that it's June, it's officially Pride month, and sadly, with stay-at-home orders still in place, the prospects of any significant Pride parades are bleak. 

We may have to celebrate in other ways in an attempt to fill the void. Why not catch up on some of these hidden gems?

Here is our list of LGBTQ storylines that surprised us. Don't forget to add them to your watchlist so you can make sure to cover all your bases in queer TV knowledge. 

Continue reading at your own risk as the list contains spoilers if you aren't up-to-date on these shows. 

Edie's Late Life Change on Almost Family

Almost Family is a wacky show that sort of feels like a silly and predictable teen drama, but then it throws some fast and hard curveballs.

Edie's the typical later-in-life queer bloomer, and although she may not have gone through the discovery period...

Saverio Costanzo has done the impossible with “My Brilliant Friend,” the HBO series adapted from Italian author Elena Ferrante’s smash literary series known as the Neapolitan novels: he’s turned an unfilmable quartet of books about the inner lives of women, written by an author who to this day remains anonymous, into must-see television art. Ahead of the recent announcement of the series’ renewal for a third season, and at the tail end of the just-concluded second season, Costanzo spoke with IndieWire about bringing this dream project to life, with an invisible author hanging over it all like an all-seeing phantom.

Costanzo’s relationship with Ferrante — which is now something like two people communicating on opposite sides of a two-way mirror — began in earnest in 2007. Costanzo read Ferrante’s compact and chilling novel “The Lost Daughter,” a project now in the hands of Maggie Gyllenhaal to direct, and asked...

Trigger alert: To those for whom the exquisite pain of first unrequited love still scalds, Episode 4 of this season of “My Brilliant Friend,” titled “The Kiss,” could freshen those wounds. It’s an effective juxtaposition to experience Lenu’s (Margherita Mazzucco) internal torment — over learning that the broodingly handsome and cocksure Nino Sarratore (Francesco Serpico) prefers her best friend Lila (Gaia Girace) to her — against the beautiful backdrop of Ischia, a volcanic island at the edge of the gulf of Naples. The emotions are volcanic, too, with Lenu devastated at the episode’s end by this awful revelation.

“The Kiss” is the first episode of the season to be directed by Alice Rohrwacher, whose sister, the actress Alba Rohrwacher, provides the narration for the series (and will presumably play the next phase of grown-up Lenu next season). The director of last year’s surreal Netflix movie “Happy as Lazzaro,” Rohrwacher...

Eric, you music-shop-owning, aw-shucks-looking, smooth-chested bastard.

As we learn in this week’s A Million Little Things, you have been lying to Maggie and her mom since the moment you met them. You never got her brother’s heart. In fact, it looks like you’ve never had any surgery of that sort, given how you have absolutely no scar whatsoever marring your torso (which we saw briefly when you took off your shirt at the end of the episode).

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Shia Labeouf's first kiss was one he'll never forget.  The 33-year-old actor shared the onscreen smooch on the set of Even Stevens. The Louis Stevens star recalled the memorable moment in an interview with W published Friday. "The producers knew I had a crush on this girl, and they wrote a scene where we kissed," he told the magazine about his first peck. "I was nervous. I matured late that way." Labeouf didn't reveal the name of his childhood crush. However, there was a season three episode called "The Kiss" in which Louis kissed Margo Harshman's character Tawny Dean. There was also an episode called "Beans on the Brain" in which Louis...

Victoria Cocks’ ‘Davi’.

The South Australian Film Corporation (Safc) and Adelaide Film Festival (Aff) have partnered with Panavision to launch a new $100,000 short film production initiative.

The aim is to co-fund the production of up to three short films to premiere at the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival, with Panavision to supply $10,000 equipment to each selected project.

Safc head of production, development, attraction and studios Amanda Duthie said the fund was created to drive the growth of the local screen industry and support emerging filmmakers to find their authorial voice and develop their craft.

“Short films supported by the Safc have launched the careers of many notable South Australian filmmakers and have achieved considerable critical success. Significantly, the success of this early career funding is evident in the fact that almost all of the active local screen sector were funded as emerging filmmakers. Short film has long been the proving ground for...

Actor Abhay Deol says the film "Jungle cry" is an example of how sports can open doors for people stuck in the cycle of caste.

The trailer of "Jungle Cry" was released on May 19 at Cannes Film Festival 2019.

Also read:?Now trend for Bollywood films is to flop: Abhay Deol

"It's an incredible story. It's a story of the underdogs. It's about hope and aspiration and a classic example of how sports is an opportunity for a lot of people who are stuck in this cycle of caste, a big thing in our country. It's an outlet for them and shows how it (sports) can help them," Abhay told a publication.

"Jungle Cry" is a sports biopic based on the life of rugby coach Rudraksh Jena and is inspired by the true story of the rugby team of the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (Kiss).

Abhay is portraying Jena in the film,...

Born in 1988, the Chinese filmmaker partially grew up in Canada, studied cinema at UCLA and is now working in China. He was in Udine to present his first movie.

Asian Movie Pulse met him on the occasion of his film “When Love Blossoms“ screening at Udine Far East Film Festival 21 and we talked about theatre, Chinese society and his new project.

How did the project of “When Love Blossoms” come to life?

It took almost three years: working on the script, pitching, figuring out how we will proceed. The biggest challenge was actually the pre-production bit and raising the money. But I am very lucky that I found Longma Entertainment, which is my production company. It was also quite a challenge to work with different people than what I was used to. Because it is my first feature. As a student, you’re working with classmates. This time, I was working in the industry,...

Last Thanksgiving, Broadway’s The Prom had just recently opened at the Longacre Theatre when it took part in the annual Macy’s parade. Performing the musical’s big finale number “Time To Dance,” the show essentially introduced itself to a nationwide audience that holiday with a big, sweet kiss that, in its own way, made history: The musical about two high school girls battling a bigoted school board for permission to attend the prom together, became the Thanksgiving parade’s first performance to feature a same-sex kiss.

I wrote in Deadline the following day that The Prom and its two young actresses, Caitlin Kinnunen and Isabelle McCalla, had upstaged Santa Claus himself. I also spoke director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw then, and he seemed both overwhelmed by the good wishes that began pouring in after The Kiss, and maybe a little disturbed by some hate email reported by a few cast members.

Although it’s one of director Jacques Doillon’s most prolific projects in years, his 2017 biopic Rodin, headlined by revered French actor Vincent Lindon, is something of a non-event, especially as far as portraits of artists go. Competing at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where it was coolly received, it failed to get much love beyond the festival circuit, distributed in June of 2018 by Cohen Media Group in the Us, where it took in just over forty-thousand at the box-office. Compared to previous films dealing with Rodin, usually in relation to his student/lover/rival Camille Claudel, Doillon doesn’t generate much interest in the famed sculptor of “The Kiss” and “The Thinker.”

From our Cannes review:

“As the titular figure, Vincent Lindon is defined more by his beard than his performance, and there’s little chance for him to touch on any real emotional depths concerning his love life or...

Personal Problems. Image courtesy of Kino Lorber, Inc.In films, there are “Black people problems,” wherein one person’s moral flaws are taken to stand in for a moral flaw with the whole race. These are usually related to drug abuse, extreme violence and a general degeneration of the values that make up the social codes. In his editorial for The New York Times on the Oscar-nominated film Precious (2009) and its theme of incest, the poet Ishmael Reed writes, “This use of movies and books to cast collective shame upon an entire community doesn’t happen with works about white dysfunctional families. It wasn’t done, for instance, with Requiem for a Dream, or with The Kiss.” When scripting Bill Gunn’s Personal Problems (1980), Reed wrote about the daily life of the nurse aide, Johnnie Mae Brown, who is not a drug dealer or a coke-snorting bad mother or even...

Modern Family executive producer Abraham Higginbotham is staying in business with 20th Century Fox TV, signing a new overall deal with the studio behind the Emmy-winning comedy series. Under the pact, Higginbotham will continue his work on Modern Family, which he’s been with since the series launch in 2010. Currently serving as executive producer, Higginbotham has written dozens of episodes and won the Humanitas Prize twice, for the episodes entitled "The Kiss" and "Aunt…...

The country music world reacted to the news of Lari White’s Death on Tuesday, with Travis Tritt, Sawyer Brown and others sharing their thoughts on the “Now I Know” singer at age 52 following a battle with cancer. Songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman, who co-penned the Faith Hill hit “The Kiss,” wrote that her “heart is breaking” at the news. “My heart is breaking as we all say goodbye to our truly bright light deep-soul sister,” wrote Chapman. Also Read: Lari White, Country Singer and 'Cast Away' Actress, Dies at 52 After Cancer Battle (Report) “I’m extremely saddened by the passing of my friend...

There’s something special about spotting that unforgettable seductress who strolls across the screen and completely ignites the hormonal interest of the viewer. You’ve seen her...

And chances are you’ve sought out more of her work, paused the film when the gratuitous nude shot arrives, and hell, maybe even tracked down a poster, just to be as close as possible, for as long as possible.

Hey, we’re guys (ladies, this article may not completely appeal to you; my advance warning, in case the title didn’t deter you). We’re drawn to lovely ladies. Even vile, evil ladies. Looks can and have killed. Here’s a little proof.

Species (1995) - Natasha Henstridge: Tall, blonde, well-endowed with presence that could intimidate George Clooney, Natasha Henstridge turned the heads of the male populace in 1995 as she tackled the character of moody alien/femme fatale, Sil/Eve in the underrated sci-fi/horror hybrid Species.

Marking the big screen debut of television director Nick Murphy, “The Awakening” is an old fashioned British ghost story following the usual creepy goings-on in a countryside boys’ boarding school. With a script by Murphy and veteran genre screenwriter Stephen Volk (responsible for a number of old favourites such as “Gothic”, “The Kiss” and “The Guardian”), the film attempts to add a certain emotional depth to the familiar form, along of course with a few spins and plenty of scares. The film is set in England in 1921, and opens with ghost hunter/debunker and famous author Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall, recently in “The Town”) exposing a cleverly planned séance as a hoax. Being known as the best in the business, she is reluctantly invited by a teacher called Robert Mallory (Dominic West, “The Wire”) to visit his boarding school in the countryside, where the boys are living in fear of...

Pen Densham is the director behind The Kiss starring exotic beauty Joanna Pacula, ever so wholesome teen superstar Meredith Salenger, the legendary Jan Rubes and feature directing superstar Shawn Levy (Cheaper by the Dozen, Night at the Museum, and Date Night to name a few). The Kiss deals with the title smooch being passed down from one generation to the next. Unfortunately, for poor little Meredith Salenger she is next in line to receive this deadly kiss from her aunt, Joanna Pacula. Initially a flop when it first came out, The Kiss has found an ever growing following over the past few years due to the film being released at the height of the DVD craze. We had the chance to ask Pen Densham a few questions about The Kiss. Here is what he had to say.

So who is Pen Densham and what are you all about?

Wow – Not an easy question.