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  • EntertainmentVariety

    Sheyi Cole Talks Netflix’s ‘The Beautiful Game’ and Breaking Through With Steve McQueen’s ‘Small Axe’ (EXCLUSIVE)

    British actor Sheyi Cole has a prominent role in Thea Sharrock’s Netflix original film “The Beautiful Game.” The film revolves around the Homeless World Cup, an annual soccer tournament bringing together displaced or dispossessed players from nearly 50 countries, playing not merely for a trophy but for a second shot at life. Cole plays Jason, a …

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  • EntertainmentVariety

    ‘Witness 36,’ From The Mediapro Studio’s Oficina Burman, Wins Series Mania Award at Berlin’s Co-Pro Series

    Argentina’s Daniel Burman’s international spy thriller “Witness 36” has won the coveted Series Mania Award at Co-Pro Series, the Berlinale Series Market’s annual project pitching event. The prize consists of an invitation to the production’s team to present again at the industry centrepiece at next month’s Lille-based get-together, the Series Mania Forum’s Co-Pro Pitching Sessions. …

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  • BusinessVariety

    Beyond Borders: How The Mediapro Studio CEO Laura Fernández Espeso has Helped Transform Spain’s TV and Film Industry

    Last year, actress Penélope Cruz set up a joint production venture, Moonlyon, with Madrid-based The Mediapro Studio at the urging of its CEO, Laura Fernández Espeso, a rising star in Spain’s fast-expanding media sector. “It’s been an amazing connection from the first,” Cruz says, about her working relationship with Fernández Espeso, Variety’s International Media Woman …

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  • EntertainmentEvening Standard

    Mother’s Instinct movie review: Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain can't save us from a dodgy plot

    2/5 There are plenty of secrets hidden away behind these suburban curtains, but it all feels dashed off and underexplored

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  • NewsThe Hollywood Reporter

    ‘Oppenheimer’ Finally Premieres In Japan to Mixed Reactions and High Emotions

    Oppenheimer finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist who was the subject of the Oscar-winning film. Japanese filmgoers’ reactions understandably were mixed and highly emotional. Toshiyuki Mimaki, who survived the bombing of Hiroshima when he was 3, said he …

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  • EntertainmentThe Hollywood Reporter

    ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Makes Roaring Start in China

    Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire made a suitably thunderous start at China’s theatrical box office on Friday. The film had earned about $7 million (RMB 50 million) by 3 p.m. local time in Beijing, according to ticketing service Maoyan. Maoyan currently forecasts the monster movie to earn as much …

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  • EntertainmentIndiewire

    ‘Lousy Carter’ Review: David Krumholtz Contemplates Life After Lousiness as a Terminally Ill Loser

    Bob Byington's latest is a bizarro "Ikiru" that follows a dying man who decides to make his final months as problematic as possible.

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