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House of the Dragon Season 2: Press Conference with Actors Olivia Cooke, Tom Glynn-Carney, Phia Saban, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Matthew Needham and Creator Ryan J. Condal

Olivia Cooke, @Courtesy of by Ollie Upton/HBO House of the Dragon: Based on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood,” the series, set 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” tells the story of House Targaryen. Season two returning cast: Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Eve Best, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell,…

Tribeca Festival : Exclusive Interview with Palme d’Or Winning Director Qiu Yang on His Feature Debut Film, “Some Rain Must Fall”

Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki Some Rain Must Fall : Cai is a mother and housewife who thought having a family was everything. When she inadvertently injures the grandmother of one of her teen daughter’s less privileged teammates, her supposedly perfect life descends into a menacing chaos and she starts to question everything about who she…

Tribeca Festival: ‘All That We Love’ is an Upbeat Look at Moving On

The death of a pet is a monumental event that can be extremely shattering but isn’t perceived and respected by society in the same way as the loss of a family member. How deep and personal it feels depends entirely on the person and the relationship they had with that pet, and grief can open…

‘Robot Dreams’: Exclusive Video Interview with Director Pablo Berger on the Academy Nominated Film

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel In a world where the major studios are cranking out animated movies right and left, it’s quite a joy when an animated film like Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams shows up unexpected among the Oscar-nominated animated features at the Academy Awards. Of course, Miyazaki’s…

Tribeca Festival : ‘Come Closer’ is a Poignant Tale of Grief and Bonding

The relationship between two people is an intimate thing that can’t be completely understood by those outside of it. When a relationship ends, for whatever reason, it will be difficult to convey just what exactly has been lost to anyone else. When one person dies, however, it can be exponentially more painful since it’s not…

Cottontail: A Japanese-British Co-Production, Starring Lily Franky

©Courtesy of Longride/Level 33 Entertainment  England’s Lake District has a rich literary history, often involving bunny rabbits. Richard Adams’ Watership Down was set in the area, but for Kenzaburo Oshima’s wife Akiko, the Beatrix Potter connection was much more important. Her love of Peter Cottontail attracted her to Lake Windermere in her youthful student days….

“Train to Busan” Director Yeon Sang-ho to Direct His First English-Language Film, “35th Street”

© 2019 CJ ENM Corporation All right reserved. Yeon Sang-ho, the prolific Korean director acclaimed for Train to Busan (2016), is poised to make his first English-language film for TriStar Pictures. Titled 35th Street, the movie will also be in the action/horror genre. Yeon will be directing the film and co-writing it with Ryu Yong-jae. No…

Let The Canary Sing : An Awe-Inspiring Rockumentary About Cyndi Lauper

“I come home, in the mornin’ light My mother says, ‘When you gonna live your life right?’ Oh momma dear, we’re not the fortunate ones And girls, they wanna have fun Oh girls just wanna have fun…” This is the first verse of the song that was made legendary by a one-of-a-kind artist, iconic performer,…

Open Roads: Interview with Director Edoardo De Angelis on “The War Machine”

©Courtesy of Cinecittà Studios Edoardo De Angelis (The Vice of Hope, Open Roads 2019; Indivisible, Open Roads 2017) returns to Film at Lincoln Center with his latest, a gripping maritime thriller driven by a powerhouse performance from Pierfrancesco Favino. Favino stars as Salvatore Todaro, the Italian Royal Navy officer in charge of the submarine Cappellini in…

Shawn Levy Reported in Talks to Direct New ‘Avengers’ film for MCU

©Photo by Sergei Bachlakov/ABC – © 2016 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. According to press reports, Canadian director Shawn Levy is being seriously considered to direct Marvel Studios’ next Avengers film, the fifth in the series. Destin Daniel Cretton had originally been attached to the project, but he left in November of 2023…

Open Roads: ‘In The Mirror,’ Cinema As A Therapeutic Experience

Director Roberta Torre, inscribes on reel her love letter towards the esteemed Italian actress Monica Vitti. However, In The Mirror is not a biopic, it’s much better. It portrays how the power of cinema may be therapeutic to someone who is struggling with a neurological disorder. Monica (Alba Rohrwacher) suffers from the Korsakoff syndrome that…