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Byline: LINDSEY BAHR; ASSOCIATED PRESS VENICE, ITALY -- Some of Hollywood's biggest stars are getting ready to descend on the Venice Film Festival this week, from George Clooney and Angelina [...]

Byline: LINDSEY BAHR, KAITLYN HUAMANI; ASSOCIATED PRESS Alien: Romulus, the latest instalment in the 45-year-old franchise, opened in first place at the North American box office. The 20th Century Studios [...]

Byline: LINDSEY BAHR; ASSOCIATED PRESS PARK CITY, UTAH -- Angela Patton has devoted her career to listening to the needs of young girls. More than a decade ago, the chief [...]

Byline: LINDSEY BAHR; ASSOCIATED PRESS Matt Damon and Casey Affleck play complete strangers thrown into their first heist in the new action comedy The Instigators. The robbery of a corrupt [...]

Byline: LINDSEY BAHR; ASSOCIATED PRESS Five years after Joker won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, filmmaker Todd Phillips is returning with the sequel. Joker: Folie à Deux [...]

Byline: LINDSEY BAHR; ASSOCIATED PRESS Nickel Boys, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will open the 62nd New York Film Festival in September, organizers said Monday. Filmmaker RaMell [...]

Byline: LINDSEY BAHR; ASSOCIATED PRESS Moviegoers ran toward the tornadoes this weekend, propelling Twisters to a blockbuster opening. The standalone sequel to the 1996 hit made US$80.5-million in ticket sales [...]

Byline: LINDSEY BAHR; ASSOCIATED PRESS Gru and the minions celebrated a second week in first place at the North American box office this weekend, while a small horror movie called [...]

Byline: LINDSEY BAHR; ASSOCIATED PRESS A Quiet Place: Day One is making noise at the box office. The prequel earned an estimated US$53million in its first weekend in North American [...]

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The https://apnews.com/hub/sundance-film-festival has https://apnews.com/article/sundance-film-festival-new-location-finalists-eaf673661e38b41bf007d5f817e7cf7f for a new home down to three finalists. One option remains a combination of Salt Lake City and Park City, Utah, the latter its base for […]

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VENICE, Italy (AP) — https://apnews.com/hub/venice-film-festival regular Luca Guadagnino is back on the Lido to debut his new Daniel Craig film “Queer” on Tuesday night. A festival favorite, Guadagnino had to [...]

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VENICE, Italy (AP) — “The Brutalist,” a post-war epic about a Holocaust survivor attempting to rebuild a life in America, is a fantasy. But filmmaker Brady Corbet wishes it weren’t. [...]

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VENICE, Italy (AP) — Jude Law plays an FBI agent investigating the violent crimes of a white supremacist group in “The Order,” which premieres Saturday at the https://apnews.com/hub/venice-film-festival#. An adaptation [...]

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VENICE, Italy (AP) — Filmmaker Errol Morris turned his lens toward the U.S. government’s border policies and family separation in the documentary “Separated,” which premiered at Thursday at the https://apnews.com/hub/venice-film-festival. [...]

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Angelina Jolie has played an evil queen, a war correspondent, a hacker, an international spy and a sociopath. She's now adding opera singer to her resume. [...]

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“ https://apnews.com/article/alien-romulus-movie-review-5635e9c89da37b566861042d581affba,” the latest installment in the 45-year-old franchise, opened in first place at the North American box office. The 20th Century Studios release earned an estimated $41.5 million in [...]

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Matt Damon and Casey Affleck play complete strangers thrown into their first heist in the new action comedy “ https://apnews.com/article/instigators-movie-review-matt-damon-casey-affleck-9387b63247281504b61d9766de8d914a.' The robbery of a corrupt politician goes very wrong, and [...]

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The second part of Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga’ will have its world premiere at the https://apnews.com/article/venice-film-festival-f89109dc3a40fa6ad32a91b8049e8fc3 in September, organizers said Wednesday. “Chapter Two” was originally set for a […]

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“ https://apnews.com/article/deadpool-wolverine-shawn-levy-interview-9b93d63d4ddb38e94c7f6443b59df3d3 ” has gotten off to a supercharged start at the box office, breaking the Thursday preview record for an R-rated movie. The comic-book film sold an estimated $38.5 [...]

It started out as a film about rooftoppers. The risk-takers who pose atop the world’s tallest buildings, without safety nets or permission, had long been a fascination for filmmaker Jeff [...]

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The organization behind the Oscars elected over a dozen individuals to its board of governors, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday. The 2024-2025 board of governors [...]

Rita Moreno and Paul Mescal are getting together with Quentin Tarantino in October. It’s not for a movie (yet). All three are being honored at the glamorous (The event, set [...]

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The https://apnews.com/hub/sundance-film-festival may not always call Park City, Utah, home. The Sundance Institute has started to explore the possibility of other U.S. locations to host the independent film festival starting [...]

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