Sandberg is living what he calls "every filmmaker's dream." That's how he describes his rapid ascent from making "zero budget" shorts from home in his native Sweden, to sitting at the helm of…
When it comes to movies, nobody expected much from 2016. Most of the major franchises were sitting this one out — there were no sequels to "Jurassic Park" or "The Avengers" or "Transformers." Yet…
A silver-screen icon who has embodied the charm, nonchalance, and refinement of French womanhood for more than five decades, Catherine Deneuve saw her acting career take off after Jacques Demy…
There's always something novel under the sun in Palm Springs. The event-packed winter season kicks into high gear with the Palm Springs Film Fest gala, followed by festival screenings and…
World cinema is in focus at the 28th annual Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival, running Jan. 2-16. More than 185 films will screen, including 43 of the 85 foreign-language Oscar entries, providing a…
In October, Wang Jianlin, chairman of the Dalian Wanda Group, came to Hollywood to hail the deepening cooperation between the U.S. and China. Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Motion Picture…
After a year in which Britain thumbed its nose at the rest of Europe, and Americans elected a man who promised to build a wall on the border, much of the world seems to be turning inward, retreating…
Four-time Emmy winner Jim Parsons will grace the big screen this year in Theodore Melfi's "Hidden Figures," about a trio of mathematicians (Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle…
Having won Emmys, Golden Globes, a Tony, and an Oscar nomination for playing such dramatic operators as Walter White, Dalton Trumbo, and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Bryan Cranston was pleasantly…
John Hamburg keeps an idea file for weirdly funny scenes, fodder for offbeat comedy set-pieces that inevitably turn into buzzy centers of his movies. "It's a list of scene ideas, things that have…
As Sunny Pawar, the 8-year-old Indian star of "Lion," struggled to get permission to attend the film's premieres in Los Angeles and New York, the hard-charging indie mogul Harvey Weinstein tapped his…
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