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Im Rahmen des Deutsch-Französischen Filmtreffens wurde Produzent Fabian Gasmia die Medaille de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres verliehen.

Thomas Michelon, Leiter des Institut français Berlin, überreichte die Auszeichnung an Produzent Fabian Gasmia (Credit: Robert Recker)

Beinahe hätte man beim diesjährigen Deutsch-Französischen Filmtreffen einen Heiratsantrag erleben dürfen. Beinahe – denn nach reiflicher Überlegung entschied sich Fabian Gasmia dann doch für eine weniger öffentliche Bühne, wie er augenzwinkernd erzählte. Wir dürfen jedenfalls gratulieren! Nicht nur zur bevorstehenden Hochzeit, sondern vor allem auch zu dem Anlass, zu dem er am ersten Tag dieses Treffens auf die Bühne kam: Die Ehrung mit der Medaille de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, ein Ritterschlag für Menschen, die sich „durch ihr Schaffen im künstlerischen oder literarischen Bereich oder durch ihren Beitrag zur Ausstrahlung der Künste und der Literatur in Frankreich und in der Welt ausgezeichnet haben“.

Nicht zuletzt als Präsident der Deutsch-Französischen Filmakademie habe Gasmia einen erheblichen Teil dazu beigetragen,...

Image Source: Walt Disney Pictures It was 20 years ago that Nicolas Cage assembled his band of explorers to find National Treasure for the first time. The film, of course, was a big hit, spawning both a sequel and a TV series. Now, rumors are once again picking up that there could be a third National Treasure movie made, though we’re not about to count any proverbial chickens before they’ve hatched. In the meantime, the anniversary marks an ideal opportunity to revisit the original films. At the time of its release, Cage told us it was important to make National Treasure a movie that kids could enjoy. (Click on the Nicolas Cage) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Nicholas_Cage_National_Treasure_.mp3

The National Treasure films are currently streaming on Disney and available on DVD, Blu-Ray, and most digital platforms.

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Disney Cruise Line’s latest ship, the Disney Treasure, left to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Eemshaven, Netherlands to Port Canaveral last week. Now Disney is sharing a look, and listen, to one of the seven new ship horn musical numbers the Treasure can “perform.” Although, we only know three of the seven songs so far.

What songs with the Disney Treasure horn play?

Among the new arrangements for the ship are the Haunted Mansion’s “Grim Grinning Ghosts” song. Which is in honor of the ships Haunted Mansion Parlor.

Pixar’s “Remember Me” from “Coco” for the new Plaza de Coco restaurant.

“A Whole New World” from “Aladdin” which is meant to tie back to the Disney Treasure’s Grand Hall.

Here is an example of “A Whole New World.”

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While we don’t know what the other four arrangements are,...

New Movie Alert: The Best Flicks Coming to Each Streamer This Week (October 28-November 3) - Main Image

As Halloween is fast approaching, here's your New Movie Alert guide for the best flicks hitting each streamer this week from October 28 to November 3!

Keep in mind that most of the streaming services will also soon be including more classic Christmas movies to celebrate and encourage the holiday spirit ahead of December.

New Movies Hitting Netflix This Week

From October 28 to November 3, Netflix's roster offers time traveling, romance, horror, drama, and a bunch of animation flicks kids can enjoy! For now, here are a couple of standouts worth binge-watching:

October 30-31Time Cut (2024)Martha (2024)Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)

Time Cut tells the story of a teenage girl who travels back to stop a killer from murdering her sister.

Martha is a documentary flick about Martha Stewart's journey to becoming the US's "first self-made,...

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings and our monthly breakdown of What’s on Streaming.

With over 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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Outer Banks. Rudy Pankow. Cr. Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix © 2024 It was a week of exciting debuts and returning favorites on Netflix! Here’s a look at what topped the charts: Outer Banks Season 4 Part 1 made a splash, landing at #1 on the English TV list! Fans were eager to reunite with the Pogues, and with Part 2 coming November 7th, the adventure continues. Meanwhile, Nobody Wants This charmed viewers and earned itself a second season, claiming the #2 spot. And don’t forget to check out the show’s soundtrack – it’s a treasure trove of great tunes! The Menendez brothers case gripped audiences with two compelling entries. The Menendez Brothers documentary, featuring new interviews, debuted at #1 on the English Films list. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story continued to draw viewers, holding strong at #3 on the English TV list. Romance was in full bloom on Netflix this week! Lonely Planet, starring Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth,...

In ihrer aktuellen Förderrunde unterstützt die Mfg Baden-Württemberg das neue Stefanie-Ren-Serienprojekt „Das Haus“, bei dem Mia Spengler Regie führen soll. Dazu gibt es Unterstützung für neue Spielfilmprojekte von Robert Thalheim und Milena Aboyan.

Die Drehbuchautorin Stefanie Ren hat ein neues Serienprojekt (Credit: Kay Kienzler)

Die Fachjury der Mfg Filmförderung hat sich in ihrer dritten Fördersitzung des Jahres für die Unterstützung von 18 Projekten mit einem Volumen von insgesamt knapp 3,4 Millionen Euro entschieden. Mehr als 3,2 Millionen Euro entfallen auf zwölf Projekte im Bereich Produktionsförderung. Sechs Projekte werden in der Stoffentwicklungsförderung mit über 145.000 Euro unterstützt.

Die höchste Summe im Bereich Produktionsförderung (500.000 Euro) geht an die Tragikomödie „Der beste Vater der Welt“ der Montavia Filmproduktion in Steinheim nahe Ludwigsburg. Drehbuchautor und Regisseur ist der Schauspieler Sven Serah, der nach seinem Regiestudium an der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg damit seinen ersten Langfilm realisieren wird.

Mit je 350.000 Euro gefördert werden die neuen Spielfilme von „Kundschafter des Friedens“-Regisseur Robert Thalheim,...

Palme d’Or winning director Ruben Östlund’s next film The Entertainment System Is Down has been awarded €500,000 in production support from Berlin-Brandenburg’s regional film fund.

It is one of 30 feature films and series projects, from directors such as David Wnendt and Ulrike Ottinger, to share more than €7.2m in Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (Mbb)’s latest funding round.

Phlippe Bober’s Berlin-based Essential Filmproduktion received the €500,000 for Östlund’s second English-language production The Entertainment System Is Down, starring Daniel Brühl, Kirsten Dunst and Keanu Reeves. The long gestating project is set on a long-haul flight whose inflight entertainment system breaks down.

Im brandenburgischen Bad Saarow ist gestern das zwölfte Filmfestival Film ohne Grenzen zu Ende gegangen. Ehrengast des Abschlusstages war die Holocaust-Überlebende Margot Friedländer.

Emotionaler Höhepunkt beim Festival Film ohne Grenzen: der Besuch der Holocaust-Überlebenden Margot Friedländer (Credit: Festival Film ohne Grenzen)

Mit einem „emotionalen Höhepunkt des Festivals“, so eine Pressemitteilung, ist gestern die zwölfte Ausgabe des Festivals Flim ohne Grenzen im brandenburgischen Bad Saarow zu Ende gegangen.

Vor dem Screening von Julia von Heinz‘ Abschlussfilm „Treasure – Familie ist ein fremdes Land“ wandte sich die 102-jährige Holocaust-Überlebende Margot Friedländer, Ehrengast des Festivals, die in früheren Jahren immer mal wieder zur Sommerfrische in dem Städtchen am Scharmützelsee war, mit einem Appell für Menschlichkeit und Toleranz ans Festivalpublikum.

Die Festivalleiterinnen Susanne Suermondt, Tanya Berndsen und Yvonne Borrmann, erklärten zum Abschluss von Film ohne Grenzen: „Die Botschaft von Margot Friedländer ‚Seid Menschen‘ zog sich wie ein roter Faden durch die Festivaltage, sowohl in...

Von 12. bis 15. September findet im brandenburgischen Bad Saarow zum zwölften Mal das Festival Film ohne Grenzen statt. Als Ehrengast wird am Abschlusstat des Festivals die Holocaust-Überlebende Margot Friedländer begrüßt.

Die Holocaust-Überlebende Margot Friedländer ist Ehrengast beim Festival Film ohne Grenzen (Credit: Imago / Eberhard Thonfeld)

Margot Friedländer ist in diesem Jahr Ehrengast des Festivals Film ohne Grenzen, das von 12. bis 15. September zum zwölften Mal im brandenburgischen Bad Saarow stattfindet.

Die 102-jährige Holocaust-Überlebende wird am Abschlusstag des Festivals in Bad Saarow zu Gast sein. Nach ihrer Begrüßung durch die Festivalleitung wird in der Kulturscheune Gut Eibenhof Julia von Heinz‘ „Treasure – Familie ist ein fremdes Land“ zu sehen sein; im Anschluss daran findet ein Filmgespräch mit der Regisseurin statt.

Schirmherr des Festivals, in dessen Rahmen rund 20 Filme gezeigt werden, ist Ronald Zehrfeld, der ebenso in Bad Saarow zu Gast sein wird wie u.a. Andreas Dresen, Liv Lisa Fries, Regisseur und Darstellerinnen...

Im Rahmen des Fünf Seen Filmfestival werden rund 50 Filme ihre Deutschland- bzw. Bayernpremiere feiern. Bei vielen davon werden Filmemacher und Mitglieder der Filmteams anwesend sein.

Der Schweizer Dokumentarfilm „Omegäng“ feiert beim Fünf Seen Filmfestival seine internationale Premiere (Credit: Revolumen Film)

Bei seiner von 3. bis 12. September stattfindenden 18. Ausgabe präsentiert das Fünf Seen Filmfestival nach eigenen Angaben rund 50 Filme, die dort ihre Deutschland bzw. Bayernpremiere feiern werden. Wie das Festival heute mitteilt, werden bei vielen davon Filmemacher und Mitglieder des Filmteams anwesend sein.

So feiert Julia von Heinz‘ „Treasure – Familie ist ein fremdes Land“ am 8. September, vier Tage vor seinem Kinostart, in der Starnberger Schlossberghalle seine Bayernpremiere.

In der Starnberger Schlossberghalle präsentieren die Regisseure Sabine Hiebler und Gerhard Ertl zusammen mit den Hauptdarstellerinnen Christine Ostermayer und Margarethe Tiesel am 4. September die Deutschlandpremiere des österreichischen Roadmovies „80 Plus – Toni und Helene“.

Im Breitwand-Kino in Gauting findet am gleichen Tag die Deutschlandpremiere von Antonin...

Drew Barrymore is participating in the return of fan-favorite game show Hollywood Squares.

The famous actress began hosting her talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show, in 2020 and will appear as one of the celebrities inside the squares.

A revamped version of the popular game show will arrive on CBS, and fans have also mentioned a noticeable change.

On Tuesday, comedian Gabriel Iglesias shared a sneak peek at the Hollywood Squares set with Barrymore and others in the clip.

Set to the Bruno Mars song Treasure, the video offers glimpses of the returning game show’s set and possible hints at other celebs who will participate.

Based on early reactions, fans seemed quite “surprised” by the game show’s look.

Iglesias reveals Hollywood Squares set and celebs ahead of game show’s return

In Iglesias’s Instagram video, the comedian is seated inside one of the squares in the show’s structure,...

In etwas mehr als zwei Wochen steigt zum dritten Mal nach 2022 und 2023 das bundesweite Kinofest – unterstützt von zahlreichen prominenten Paten aus der Politik. Mit einer besonders engagierten (Video-)Botschaft meldet sich Ministerpräsident Hendrik Wüst zu Wort.

Zwei der von Voll:Kontakt für das Kinofest erstellten Kampagnenmotive (Credit: Hdf Kino)

Die Vorbereitungen für das bundesweite Kinofest gehen auf die Zielgerade. Nur noch gut zwei Wochen sind es, bis Kinos im ganzen Land am 7. und 8. September zum Aktionspreis von fünf Euro einladen, die ganze Vielfalt der Leinwand zu feiern und womöglich auch wiederzuentdecken.

Das Publikum darf sich dabei auf etliche Programmhighlights freuen. Denn zu diesem Wochenende gehen nicht nur Filme wie etwa der französische Sensationserfolg „Was ist schon normal?“, der packende Hai-Thriller „Something in the Water“, die warmherzige Freundschaftsgeschichte „Bleib am Ball – Egal was kommt“ oder das herausragende Jugenddrama „Ellbogen“ an den Start. Sondern es werden auch zahlreiche Previews extra zum Kinofest angeboten,...

The Intuit Dome, Inglewood’s newest $2 billion sports venue, will be home to the Los Angeles Clippers but the doors swung wide Thursday night for an official opening that hosted two music superstars.

Headliner Bruno Mars helped christen the stage by drawing a capacity crowd for the first night of back-to-back shows backed by his band, the Hooligans. The electric two-hour concert closed with two encores, the first of which delivered a slam dunk courtesy of Lady Gaga who shocked the crowd by hitting the stage close to 11:30 p.m. for a world premiere performance of their new duet, “Die With a Smile,” which dropped at 9 p.m. Pt after being announced Thursday morning.

“How you feeling, L.A.?” asked Gaga as she was seated behind a keyboard with an oversize blonde wig, white tights, and a shiny, pink-and-white minidress. As the crowd went wild, Mars took the mic with an introduction: “Ladies and gentlemen,...

Bruno Mars has extended his residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas with six new concerts in December 2024, including a New Year’s Eve performance.

The shows go down throughout the last two weeks of December at Park MGM, where Mars has performed regularly since kicking off his residency there in late 2016.

Get your tickets here, and read on for more details, including how to get pre-sale codes and early access to the December concerts.

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What Is Bruno Mars’ Las Vegas Residency?

Bruno Mars has been performing regularly in Las Vegas for over 10 years now. His first residency was at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan from 2013 to 2015 — after Mars’ released his third album 24K Magic in late 2016, he began his new residency at Park MGM that December.

Since 2017, Mars has performed regularly at various Park MGM venues throughout the years, including a...

Director Julia von Heinz’s Treasure, a loose adaptation of Lily Brett’s novel “Too Many Men,” is a Holocaust drama centered upon father-daughter duo Edek and Ruth, whose sense of identity is intrinsically entangled with the family’s agonizing past as Holocaust survivors. The movie delineates their journey to their homeland, Poland, as an effort to reconcile with the generational trauma and mainly focuses on how the pain of being displaced, identity crises, and fear of persecution create radically different worldviews across generations. Treasure opts for a humorous tone to balance the emotionally turbulent confrontations, and even though that works well to a certain extent, it is carried forward only through a singular strain of the narrative, which ruins the effect by the end of the movie. The father-daughter chemistry, although poignantly bittersweet and occasionally endearing, feels contrived at most crucial points of the movie—much like how the...

(L-r) Stephen Fry, Lena Dunham, and Stefan Zbigniew Zamachowski in Treasure. Photo Credit: Bleecker Street and FilmNation

Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry play a daughter and her Holocaust-survivor father, on a trip to his native Poland in the 1990s, in the dramedy Treasure. The trip is the daughter’s idea, and her plan is to learn about her family history, something her father and late mother always refused to talk about. Angry and frustrated at her parents’ refusal to share anything about their past, she plans to visit sites related to dad’s family and life to learn about the family she knows nothing about. Her father has steadfastly refused to talk about it, and with the death of her mother, she figured going to their home country of Poland was the only way. Unsurprisingly, revisiting Poland is not something dad wanted to do but he goes along, pretty much uninvited,...

Season 3, Episode 11 of “Milkshake! Story Den,” titled “I Spy Treasure!” airs at 9:05 Am on Friday, August 2, 2024, on Channel 5. In this engaging episode, Jen invites viewers to dive into an exciting story about Captain Snarkle Tooth, a grouchy pirate with a hidden secret.

The story revolves around Captain Snarkle Tooth, who steals treasure that seems invisible to everyone but him. As the tale unfolds, young Billy becomes the central character, tasked with solving the mystery of the elusive treasure. The episode follows Billy’s adventure as he learns how to spy the sparkly treasure and uncovers the truth behind the pirate’s secret.

“I Spy Treasure!” promises to captivate young audiences with its imaginative storyline and engaging characters. Jen’s storytelling brings the adventure to life, encouraging children to use their creativity and problem-solving skills alongside Billy.

Tune in to Channel 5 at 9:05 Am this Friday for “Milkshake! Story...

The International Jury for this year’s Venice International Film Festival has been finalized after the previous confirmation of French actress Isabelle Huppert as its chair.

Now, American director and screenwriter James Gray, British director and screenwriter Andrew Haigh, Polish director, screenwriter, and producer Agnieszka Holland, and Brazilian director-screenwriter Kleber Mendonça Filho are the latest additions to the jury. They will join Mauritanian director, screenwriter and producer Abderrahmane Sissako, Italian director-screenwriter Giuseppe Tornatore, German director-screenwriter Julia von Heinz and Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi.

The prestigious Golden Lion for best film and other awards will be revealed during the festival’s closing ceremony on Sept. 7.

Gray made his directorial debut in 1994 with Little Odessa, which received the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. His other projects include The Yards (2000), starring Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers (2008) and The Immigrant (2013). The Lost City of Z had its world premiere at the New York...

Filmmakers James Gray, Andrew Haigh and Agnieszka Holland have joined the main competition jury of the 81st Venice Film Festival (August 28-September 7).

They are joined by Brazilian director and screenwriter Kleber Mendonça Filho; Mauritanian director, screenwriter and producer Abderrahmane Sissako; Italian director and screenwriter Giuseppe Tornatore; German director and screenwriter Julia von Heinz; and Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi.

As previously announced, the jury will be chaired by Isabelle Huppert, and award the Golden Lion for best film and the other official awards.

Gray’s Ad Astra screened in competition at Venice in 2019, and his directorial debut Little Odessa received the...

The full international jury for this year’s Venice Film Festival has been unveiled.

The lineup joining president Isabelle Huppert is director-heavy, consisting of James Gray (“Ad Astra”), Andrew Haigh (“All of Us Strangers”), Agnieszka Holland (“Green Border”), Kleber Mendonça Filho (“Bacurau”), Abderrahmane Sissako (“Bamako”), Giuseppe Tornatore (“Cinema Paradiso”) and Julia von Heinz (“Treasure”). “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” star Zhang Ziyi rounds out the jury.

In addition to awarding the Golden Lion for best film, the jury will also be responsible for handing out the Silver Lion grand jury prize, Silver Lion for best director, Coppa Volpi for best actress, Coppa Volpi for best actor, special jury prize, best screenplay and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for new young actor or actress.

Revered French actor Huppert was revealed as the president of the jury in May. “Isabelle Huppert is an immense actress. Demanding, curious and of great generosity,...

Princess Beatrice has been a regular attendee at Wimbledon, showcasing her love for the sport and the event’s prestigious atmosphere. She has attended the tournament multiple times over the years, often seen enjoying the matches with family and friends. Princess Beatrice’s presence at Wimbledon highlights her active participation in notable social and sporting events in the UK. It’s also fun to see the 35-year-old interact with celebrities as she crosses paths with famous faces like Lena Dunham.

Princess Beatrice of York and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at day nine of Wimbledon | Karwai Tang/WireImage

On July 9, all eyes were on Princess Beatrice as she took her seat in the front row of Centre Court’s Royal Box. She and her husband of four years, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, watched Russia’s Daniil Medvedev fall to Italy’s Jannik Sinner on day nine of Wimbledon. One row behind Princess Beatrice sat comedian Michael McIntyre,...

Die 30. Ausgabe des Jfbb endete am vergangenen Sonntag – und die Veranstalter können auf die bislang stärkste Publikumsresonanz für das Festival zurückblicken, das erstmals in Partnerschaft mit der MPA und bereichert um die Branchenkonferenz Jfbb pro stattfand. Die Preise waren bereits am Donnerstag vergeben worden.

Gewinnerinnen und Gewinner des 30. Jüdischen Filmfestivals Berlin-Brandenburg (Credit: Jfbb)

Die Gewinner der Jubiläumsausgabe des Jüdischen Filmfestivals Berlin-Brandenburg wurden bereits am vergangenen Donnerstag gekürt, das Programm lief aber bis zum gestrigen Sonntag – und hinter Veranstaltern und Teilnehmern liegt eine „stimmungsvolle, intensive und erlebnisreiche Festivalwoche“, wie Geschäftsführer Andreas Stein betont. Aber nicht nur das: Mehr als 6000 Besucher wurden bei den Veranstaltungen gezählt, mehr als je zuvor in der 30jährigen Geschichte des Festivals. „Dieses große Interesse gibt uns Aufwind für die Vorbereitungen auf die nächste Ausgabe eines Festivals, das aus unserer Sicht nicht nur aktuell von enormer gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung ist“, so Stein.

Tatsächlich gab es in diesem Jahr zentrale Neuerungen.

The Royal Ascot is Britain’s annual horseracing festival and a significant event for the royal family. It has been a staple in the summer social calendar of the royals since 1711 when Queen Anne established the annual race meeting.

Members Of The Royal Family Are Allowed In The Royal Enclosure

It is a five-day event and England’s equivalent to the Kentucky Derby, except it is more formal, proper, and prestigious. The opening day of the Royal Ascot this year was June 18th.

Each day of racing starts with the Royal procession from Windsor Castle, where the King, Queen, and accompanying members of the royal family come to the track in horse-drawn carriages.

Members of the royal family are allowed in the Royal Enclosure, established in 1822, when the area was explicitly reserved for the family and guests of King George IV to see the first running of the gold cup.

Inside Out 2 Our favorite emotions are back bringing along some brand new ones in the sequel “Inside Out 2.” But is it worth your time and money? (See the review below) Treasure Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham star as a father-and-daughter team on a journey that will have them find treasures from within.

The post Movie Reviews: “Inside Out 2,” “Treasure” appeared first on Manny the Movie Guy.

Nicht nur feiert der Film-Norden heute beim traditionellen Branchenfest Moin Mittsommer. Helge Albers packte davor bereits die frischen Förderzahlen aus. Insgesamt schüttete die Förderung im Jahr 2023 14,8 Mio. Euro aus, und sowohl das Volumen der Drehtage wie auch der Regionaleffekt sind im Vergleich zu 2022 gestiegen. Besonders erfreulich: Gender Equality wurde fast erreicht!

Moin-Chef Helge Albers (Credit: Jasper Ehrich)

Bis spät in die Nacht wird am 18. Juni auf Kampnagel der Moin Mittsommer gefeiert. Rund 1000 Gäste werden zu dem alljährlichen Branchenfest erwartet, um auf den Film-Norden anzustoßen. Moin-Chef Helge Albers ließ in einem Pressegespräch vor der Party das Förderjahr Revue passieren und legte die neuesten Zahlen dar. Insgesamt hat die Moin Filmförderung 258 Projekte mit einem Gesamtvolumen von 14,8 Millionen Euro unterstützt. Allein in der Produktion wurden mit 9,5 Millionen Euro 26 Spielfilme, 15 Kurzfilme, 12 Dokumentarfilme, 4 Serien und ein innovatives Projekt gefördert. Darunter İlker Çataks neuer Film „Gelbe Briefe“ mit zahlreichen Drehtagen in der Hansestadt, der Animationsfilm „Go...

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (June 14-16)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Inside Out 2 (Disney) £11.3m £11.3m 1 2. Bad Boys: Ride Or Die (Sony) £1.9m £7.1m 2 3. If (Paramount) £414,673 £11.4m 5 4. Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (Disney) £389,000 £15m 6 5. The Garfield Movie (Sony) £354,829 £7.9m 4

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.27.

Disney’s Inside Out 2 stirred up plenty of emotions at the UK and Ireland box office this weekend after its £11.3m debut made it the biggest opening of the year so far and the third-highest of all time for an animated feature.

The Pixar sequel opened in 684 sites, for an impressive £16,520 location average.

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “Treasure,” a feature film pairing the odd couple acting of Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, as a daughter and father trying to bond in the backdrop of his memories of Auschwitz. Currently in theaters since June 14th.

Rating: 3.5/5.0

The film is set in 1991, and Dunham is Ruth, the daughter of Edek (Fry), a Polish immigrant that has not been back to the Auschwitz death camp since he was confined there as a teenager. Ruth has meticulously planned the trip, which includes a side journey to the former family factory and house in the Polish town of Lodz. Edek acts strange and elusive throughout the midst of the trip, leading to a further tear in the fabric of their relationship. What they will learn is about to become very important.

“Treasure” is in theaters since June 14th. Featuring Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry,...

It was an Inside Out specialty weekend, fairly quiet and with a stream of indies films and more wide releases. The schedule is starting to recover from a strike-induced slump that, however, provided oxygen to some indies.

Small films have been competing for screens with majors at arthouses from Alamo Drafthouse to Landmark since theaters reopened post-Covid and the more of them there are, the harder it is. It’s nice to see major back and the broader box office on a solid footing. But it would also be nice to see more indie breakouts like Civil War, Late Night With The Devil, Immaculate, Wicked Little Letters, One Life or Love Lies Bleeding.

“June is crowded” with indies now, says one distributor. And theaters “don’t have space to support indies in a meaningful way.”

Others are heartened by recent wide-release blowouts. “It’s still a tough market. But I...

At last. A weekend to sincerely cheer.

“Inside Out 2” (Disney) would have been terrific at a $100 million opening weekend, but it soared to an estimated $155 million. Meantime, “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” (Sony), would have been thought successful with a 50 percent drop in its second weekend. Instead, it is off 42 percent with $33 million after an opening weekend of $56.5 million.

In what was set up to be a do-or-die critical two-weekend period, “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” (Sony) and “Inside Out 2” (Disney) exceeded expectations — and more importantly, at the same time. It’s hard to overestimate how much dread there was ahead of these two releases. Had either or both fell short of reasonable expectations, as did to many recent high-end releases before them, the despair would have reached new lows.

Instead, not only did both franchise titles come through, they also exceeded best hopes. That happened last nearly a year ago,...

After many months of disappointing showings at the box office, June seems to have fully recovered with Pixar having its biggest hit since pre-pandemic. Read on for the weekend box office report.

Disney released Pixar’s sequel “Inside Out 2” into 4,400 theaters after it scored a terrific 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. The voices of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith and Lewis Black, were joined by new emotions voiced by Maya Hawke, Ayo Edebiri and Adèle Exarchopoulos, but the success of the original Oscar-winning movie in 2015 drove millions to theaters to be the first to experience the sequel.

“Inside Out 2” managed to rack up $13 million in Thursday previews, which was added into Friday for a $62 million opening day. Disney is estimating that the animated sequel will gross $155 million domestically over the Father’s Day weekend. Not only is that the first $100 million opening of the year, but it’s also the first...

The actor on playing a Polish Holocaust survivor alongside Lena Dunham, what he likes about hip‑hop and why a boring Pm would be a relief

Stephen Fry, 66, is an actor, broadcaster, writer, presenter and director. As a teenager, he was expelled from school, went to prison for credit card fraud and failed his A-levels before retaking them, resulting in a scholarship to Cambridge University, where he joined the Footlights sketch troupe. He has since starred in more than 60 TV shows, at least 50 films and written 17 books. His latest film, Treasure, with Lena Dunham, is out now.

In Treasure, you play Edek, a Polish Holocaust survivor, reluctantly turning to his homeland with his journalist daughter (played by Dunham). It’s a long way from playing Jeeves and General Melchett in Blackadder.

It is! Casting directors, for all kinds of obvious reasons, think of me if they need a pompous lawyer or headmaster [laughs]. But just occasionally,...

British actor Stephen Fry remembers being about 10 years old in the late 1960s when he first saw a production of Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest” on television.

He immediately checked out the “Complete Works of Oscar Wilde” from the mobile library that visited his town in rural England.

“I went back and said, ‘Have you got anything else?’ And [the librarian] said, “Well, that’s the complete works,’” Fry tells me on the latest episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “I searched the shelves and I found this book, ‘The Trials of Oscar Wilde.’ I thought, that’s really weird. I thought trials as in trials and tribulations, maybe he had a very unhappy life. So I took the book out and she stamped it out for me looking a bit doubtful as to whether I should read it. I didn’t understand why.”

Fry learned that...

There’s been much speculation about distributors being wary about taking films critical of Donald Trump for fear he will sue – most recently Ali Abassi’s biopic The Apprentice, which premiered at Cannes to great reviews. The former president hates the movie and backer Dan Snyder has disavowed it. But if you love the guy, there’s new a place to go.

This weekend sees the first film from conservative production and distribution outfit Global Ascension Studios, which is releasing documentary Relentless Patriot on about 700 screens. Directed by Christopher Martini, it follows Staten Island’s Scott LoBaido, an aggressively pro-Trump artist and activist who paints flags and courts controversy with in-your-face street performances. In a recent gambit outside the lower Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump was on trial, he released 100 penis-shaped mylar balloons decorated with the faces of Trump adversaries.

It’s catnip to the red state faction.

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This week's episode of the Empire Podcast invites you to settle into a pair of cracking interviews. First up, Ben Travis has a sit-down with Richard Linklater [22:48 - 42:49 approx], director of the excellent Hit Man, which is out now and available to stream over on Netflix. Then, Chris Hewitt has a bonny time with the wonderfully loquacious Stephen Fry [1:06:39 - 1:26:31 approx], whose father-daughter road-trip dramedy Treasure, based on Lily Brett's 1999 autofictive tome Too Many Men, arrives in cinemas this week.

Between the interviews then, you'll find Chris — now mercifully free of his gammy leg — back in the pod booth, running rings around Helen O'Hara and James Dyer as the team discuss the best sunglasses in the movies. There's also a tonne of movie news to digest, including the new Paddington In Peru trailer and the potentially perilous state of being for the McU's Blade after another director of the ill-fated project bit the dust this week.

Disney is hoping to perk up the summer box office with eagerly-anticipated Pixar sequel Inside Out 2 at 684 sites, making it this weekend’s widest new release.

Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust return for the follow-up, that once again dives into the emotional fabric of lead character Riley. This time, puberty has turned up, and it’s bringing with it Anxiety, voiced by Maya Hawke, and Ennui, portrayed by Adèle Exarchopoulos. Returning voice cast members include Amy Poehler and Kyle MacLachlan. Kelsey Mann directs.

The first film, back in 2015, opened to £7.4m from 608 sites.

Re-releases out this weekend include...

An ambling father-daughter road trip through ‘90s Poland, Julia von Heinz’s Treasure is an odd hybrid. On one side it’s a meandering portrait of a father (Stephen Fry’s Edek) and daughter (Lena Dunham’s Ruth) reconnecting after the death of her mother. To which end it’s the type of tragicomedy Sundance used to pump out at a relatively fast pace: both inoffensive and more than a little bland. On the other side Treasure is, somewhat explicitly, a portrait of the collective trauma of the Holocaust.

Ruth treks to Poland to revisit the scenes of her family’s experiences in the lead-up and during their imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau. An unhappy journalist living in New York, she wants to know more about her family. Not wanting to have his daughter visit these sites alone, Edek comes along but is also––quite obviously for everyone that isn’t Ruth...

Writer, actor, TV presenter and all around national treasure, Stephen Fry, stars in Julia von Heinz’s touching drama comedy about generational trauma and the holocaust. The film is based on the 1999 novel Too Many Men by Lily Brett.

Set in 1990, Treasure follows Ruth (Lena Dunham) an American music Journalist who accompanies her father Edek (Fry), a Holocaust survivor to his native Poland. While she attempts to make sense of her family’s past, her father would rather be looking to the future. This emotional, funny culture clash of two New Yorkers exploring post-socialist Poland is a powerful example of how reconnecting with family and the past can be an unexpected

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We spoke to Fry about playing the eccentric Edek and how the role reminded him of certain members of his own Jewish family. Fry also speaks about the importance of humour when broaching a subject as difficult as...

Ten minutes speaking to two subjects with whom you could easily spend an hour each is somewhat like fighting with one arm behind your back. But having interviewed Lena Dunham at length and admired Stephen Fry in a multitude of fields for years, the opportunity was too fine to pass on. It helps that they’re promoting Treasure, a strong feature on which Dunham serves as producer and star but, crucially, not writer or director; those duties fall to Julia von Heinz, who’s adapted Lily Brett’s Too Many Men into an alternately amiable and bracing vision of Holocaust survivors, their children, and the various oddities and indignities that come with extended time in Poland.

In advance of the film’s opening this Friday, I spoke to both via Zoom, Fry and Dunham calling from separate locations.

The Film Stage: Good afternoon––for me. I don’t know where you’re all calling from.

Edek (Stephen Fry) is a Holocaust survivor from Łódź who emigrated to America with his late wife after surviving the unfathomable horrors of Auschwitz. He’s boisterous, horny, and impossible to embarrass — the kind of guy who will happily sing karaoke in a crowded hotel bar and then flirt with half of the women in the audience for an encore. His daughter Ruth (Lena Dunham) is a 36-year-old music journalist from New York City whose greatest hardship in life was landing an interview with the Rolling Stones. She’s morose, severe, and shut off from the world in a way that doesn’t seem to be a symptom of her recent divorce so much as its potential root cause.

As we follow these characters throughout their fraught but funny daddy-daughter trip back to Poland, it will become clear that Edek’s brio stems from the same thing as Ruth’s...

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week we’re talking to leading German producer Fabian Gasmia, whose credits include Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper, Leos Carax’s Annette and, more recently, Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry starrer Treasure, which had its North American premiere at Tribeca last weekend. Gasmia, who set up production banner Seven Elephants in 2018 with directors Julia von Heinz, Erik Schmitt and David Wnendt, talks us through building that outfit, his “special relationship” with France and why he thinks German cinema is having a “renaissance.”

International relationships are proving more significant than ever in what is now a fragile and economically strained independent film market and Fabian Gasmia is proving to be a European partner with clout. The German producer, who recently produced Lena Dunham...

It was such an honor to talk to the multi-hyphenate Stephen Fry – actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator, and author. Currently, he’s starring in Julia Von Heinz’s “Treasure,” a feel-good film told on a tragic canvas of the holocaust. Fry strikes an affecting chemistry with co-star Lena Dunham who plays his daughter Ruthie. Together, the

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We’ve been waiting for a weekend like this one since last July, as for the first time in almost a year, we finally get a movie that has the potential to open with over $100 million. Fingers crossed! Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.

Although Disney and Pixar Animation have had a tough time in recent years due to a combination of the Covid pandemic and the advent of the Disney streamer, on Friday it will release “Inside Out 2,” the first theatrically released sequels to one of Pixar’s massive critical and commercial hits in five years.

The original “Inside Out,” directed by three-time Oscar winner and current Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter, opened with $90.4 million nine years ago. At the time, it was Pixar’s second-best opening, and it’s still the animation house’s best debut for a non-sequel. This sequel, directed by Kelsey Mann,...

Sony’s “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £3.8 million ($4.9 million), according to numbers from Comscore.

In second place, in its fourth weekend, Paramount’s “If” collected £866,474 for a running total of £10.8 million. In third position, in its third weekend, Sony’s “The Garfield Movie” earned £729,503 for a total of £7.3 million.

In fourth place, in its fifth weekend, Disney’s “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” added a further £620,911 for a total of £14.3 million. Rounding off the top five was Warner Bros.’ “Furiosa,” which collected £436,983 in its third weekend for a total of £5.5 million.

There were two more debuts in the Top 10. Warner Bros.’ “The Watched” bowed in sixth place with £387,339 and Signature Entertainment’s “The Dead Don’t Hurt” in eighth with £95,827.

There are a welter of releases the upcoming weekend, the widest of which is Disney’s animation sequel “Inside Out 2.

Stephen Fry, normally the embodiment of droll detachment, cuts a much earthier figure in Treasure, the new film from German writer-director Julia von Heinz. With a thick beard and scraggly gray hair, a credible Slavic accent, and a distinctly oafish slump in his large frame, Fry transforms himself into Edek Rothwax, a haunted Holocaust survivor and recent widower who, in accompanying his daughter Ruth (Lena Dunham) to his homeland of Poland in 1991, would rather flirt with translators and sing karaoke than revisit the locales of his past.

Heinz shoots Poland through a gauzy gray filter that’s almost as extreme as the hackneyed orange tint used to portray Mexico in so many thrillers that center around drug trafficking. The dreary look is certainly appropriate, though, to the depressing landscapes of ramshackle buildings, not to mention the immediately post-communist time period and lingering trauma of the Holocaust half a century earlier.

When dream hampton lived around the corner from the Notorious B.I.G in Brooklyn, when Gang Starr’s Guru would cut her hair, when she found herself in the epicenter of hip-hop’s modern genesis, she was a film student at New York University who just couldn’t afford to live in their Manhattan dorms. Yet, from there, the 19-year-old would become one of the foremothers of feminist critique in the genre as she split her time between leading an activist group that helped temper New York’s racist broken-windows policing,...

Nicolas Cage fans must have been overjoyed by the recent update of his hit Disney movie franchise National Treasure. After 17 years of the release of the second installment in the franchise, a potential National Treasure 3 is reportedly in the works which will bring back Cage as Benjamin Franklin.

A still from National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Credit: Walt Disney Pictures

National Treasure 3 will make the franchise a trilogy and the success of the upcoming movie will determine if more installments can be added. Directed by Jon Turteltaub, the National Treasure franchise was a commercial success although the response from critics was not celebratory. Still, the franchise deserves one more installment. Also, Cage’s return would create the astonishing buzz as Hugh Jackman did following his return as Wolverine.

Nicolas Cage’s Return In National Treasure Would Be As Big As Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine

Nicolas Cage in a still from National Treasure.

Following “The Zone of Interest,” Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain” and Berlinale offering “Treasure,” about a Holocaust survivor, the latter starring Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham, Poland might be welcoming more foreign shoots in the future.

“I would always be willing to return and shoot in Poland,” says “Treasure” director Julia von Heinz.

“Our co-producer Mariusz Włodarski from Lava Films realized that during the tenure of the Law and Justice [PiS] government, there was no chance of obtaining public funding for a story where Polish people are portrayed not just as victims and heroes, but as complex human beings. Now, our film is embraced there.”

General director of the Polish Film Institute, Radosław Śmigulski, was dismissed in April, after parliamentary elections ended the domination of the right-wing party. Kamila Dorbach will be temporarily taking over his duties.

“This restriction limited us to eight days in Poland, but we were...

Exclusive: German actor Matthias Schweighöfer, who most recently starred in Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer, is joining forces with German director Erik Schmitt for upcoming project The Life of Wishes (working title).

The film, which is based on Thomas Glavinic’s best-selling novel Das Leben Der Wuensche, follows a disillusioned family man who is lost in a world where more is always better. When he is given the power to grant his every wish, he soon becomes confronted with his own dark and unconscious desires.

The film will be produced by Pantaleon Films’ Dan Maag, Marco Beckmann, Schweighöfer and Alexander Dreissig as well as ProU Producers United Film’s Willi Geike.

Fabian Gasmia of Seven Elephants, who most recently produced Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry starrer Treasure, will co-produce the project with Stefan Gärtner of SevenPictures Film. ProU Producers United Film will distribute the film in Germany and discussions for a sales agent are currently underway.

Experience the 149th running of the Preakness Stakes, broadcasting live on NBC Sports Audio (Ch. 85) on May 18, 2024, at 6:50pm Et.

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Horses to watch

After this year’s Kentucky Derby ended with a photo finish, all eyes are on winner Mystik Dan as he competes in the second jewel of the Triple Crown: the Preakness Stakes.

Other horses racing in the Preakness include Muth, Tuscan Gold, Imagination, Just Steel, Seize the Gray, Copper Tax, Uncle Heavy, and Mugatu. Despite his Derby win over 18-1 odds, Mystik Dan is not the favorite to win on Saturday; Muth — who missed the Derby due to...