Published on 03/08/2026 – 9:29 GMT+2 What a summer Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jon Bernthal are having… ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The new Spider-Man film, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, has brought in an astonishing $927 million in global ticket sales, making it the second-biggest opening weekend ever. Tom Holland’s fourth outing as Marvel favourite Peter Parker /…
Published on 28/07/2026 – 16:08 GMT+2 The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has held a video call with multi-award-winning British director Christopher Nolan, prompted by the major international success of the film adaptation of “The Odyssey”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to a statement from the Greek leader’s press office, Mitsotakis congratulated the filmmaker on bringing the…
Though it has yet to become front-page news in the UK, you should know about the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros merger. It threatens to inflict immense harm on the British public. As actors and public figures who have spent our careers in the arts in Britain – working with British crews, on British stages and sets…
The gods themselves get mostly shoved out of the picture in “The Odyssey,” as has been noted by some filmgoers who wished Zeus or Poseidon got in on the action instead of just being talked about. But Hades, at least, has his day in another movie currently in theaters, which offers some serious interplay between…
Published on 13/07/2026 – 12:21 GMT+2 The Odyssey is soon upon us, with Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan adapting Homer’s ancient Greek epic into the blockbuster event of 2026. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The filmmaker’s follow up to Oppenheimer is not only the most expensive film of his career – with an estimated budget of $250 million –…
Published on 07/07/2026 – 14:22 GMT+2 The AI nightmare continues as Particle 6, the UK-based company which gave the world the controversial AI-generated “actress” Tilly Norwood, is officially developing its first AI feature film – starring, of course, Norwood. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT For those of you who haven’t heard of Tilly Norwood, she was created last…
“Film directors are a bunch of wretches who devote themselves to doing something that is, technologically, almost obsolete,” Orson Welles declared in a 1985 interview, recorded by ‘Arte TV’ (source in Spanish), months before his death. Alonso Quijano could have said something similar about the profession of chivalry, already obsolete in the Renaissance Spain that…
K. Bhagyaraj, the writer-director-actor widely regarded as one of Tamil-language cinema’s defining creative figures, died Saturday in Chennai following a cardiac arrest. He was 73. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, former actor C. Joseph Vijay, announced that Bhagyaraj’s final rites would be conducted with full state honors, describing his passing as an irreparable loss to Tamil…
Published on 25/06/2026 – 15:33 GMT+2 The search is still on, but it seems that an announcement is on the horizon for James Bond fans eager to find out who will play the next 007. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Director Denis Villeneuve and producers have begun notifying actors who have advanced to the next round of auditions,…
Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day is proving to be a box office hit, having debuted to $93 million globally. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The film marks the celebrated director’s return to human contact with extraterrestrial life, focusing on a whistleblowing mission to uncover a government conspiracy regarding aliens visiting Earth. While the film is on track…
