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Konami Announces Remake of ‘Silent Hill’ Game

As part of its Press Start online presentation this week, Konami announced that It will be remaking Silent Hill. The long-rumored project will be developed in collaboration with Bloober Team, the group that developed the Silent Hill 2 remake last year. According to a statement from the Bloober Team: “Our collaboration with Konami has been…

NYAFF 2025 | First Wave of Highlights Unveiled

The New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center announce first highlights from the 24th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF). From July 11 to July 24, FLC is proud to host 40 features of the more than 100 films featured in this year’s festival, with additional films and screenings running from July 11…

‘Tatami’ Directors Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir on Exploring the World of Female Judo Athletes (Video Interview)

Oscar-winning filmmaker Guy Nattiv is already fairly well-known for his films Skin and Golda, the latter which received an Oscar nomination but for its hair and makeup, but not for Dame Helen Mirren’s transformative performance. For Nattiv’s new film, Tatami, the filmmaker has a couple key collaborators, notably Persian actress Zar Amir, best known for…

Tribeca Festival: Re-Creation Confirms That Jim Sheridan Hasn’t Given Up the Fight

@Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Jim Sheridan wrote important, if not fundamental, pages of British cinema beginning in the late 1980s, with such award-winning films as ‘My Left Foot,’ ‘In the Name of the Father,’ and ‘The Boxer‘. Around the beginning of the new millennium, though he got kind of lost in the oblivion of those…

Tribeca Festival / What Marielle Knows: Exclusive Interview with Director Frédéric Hambalek

©Walker Worm Film Seemingly fun sci-fi movies can also serve as an allegory for a country’s most serious and important issues, such as the surveillance of its citizens. That’s certainly the case for the new drama, What Marielle Knows, which follows a family as they struggle to maintain privacy in their daily lives. The project…

Robert Eggers to Direct ‘A Christmas Carol’ for Warner Bros.

©Courtesy of Nosferatu Robert Eggers will be writing and directing a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s timeless classic, A Christmas Carol. The movie is scheduled to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 25, 2026. According to an exclusive report in Deadline, Eggers will be producing the project with Chris and Eleanor Columbus of…

Tribeca Festival : Boy George & Culture Club / Exclusive Interview with Director Alison Ellwood

Boy George and Culture Club : With humor, heart and a lot of glitz and glam, Boy George & Culture Club is an endlessly charming documentary that dives headfirst into the chaos, charisma and enduring bond of one of the most iconic bands of the ‘80s. Straight from the mouths of its four legendary members, Boy George…

Tribeca Festival/A Second Life Review: Chaos Meets Claude Monet When Titane Star Agathe Rousselle Crosses Paris on the Verge of the Olympics

Life was dark when French painter Claude Monet, regarded as the father of impressionism, took on the grand scale Water Lilies at the age of 74, a series of around 250 paintings depicting the water garden at his Giverny home. The year was 1914. His son had recently died, World War 1 had just begun,…

Pietro Valsecchi Developing Biopic on Luciano Pavarotti

©Courtesy of The Best of Luciano Pavalotti, The Millennium Collection A biopic about the late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti is being developed by Pietro Valsecchi, the renowned producer known for the 2016 comedy film Quo Vado, which became Italy’s all-time blockbuster. Valsecchi said he will soon be announcing an actor to play the lead, as…

DUAF(Downtown Urban Arts Festival) NYC : “Letter” / Playwright Momo Akashi, Director Saki Kawamura, Performer Viet Vo

Photo credit “Campaign design by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez (@MrEdgardoNYC)” for 2025 DUAF All Playwrights and 2025 DUAF MomoAkashi.  Title: Letter  https://www.duafnyc.com/schedule-tickets Date: Wednesday, June 25 at 8PM Location: Theatre Row 410W42th Street, New York, NY Price: $32.50 (inc. service charge)  Content warning: Sexual Assault Running time: Around 30 minutes Synopsis: On the way from Tokyo to…

Tatami : Exclusive Interview with Actress Arienne Mandi

  Check out more of our YouTube Channel  Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on  TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning Satellite”…