Amazon has made a name for itself with its slate of Alexa-enabled devices, but the retail giant is also a leader when it comes to its lineup of tablets. Whether for work or streaming, Amazon’s Fire Tablets offer up huge value, especially when compared to Apple’s iPad or the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
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“The Odyssey” held onto its commanding lead at the South Korean box office during the weekend of Sep. 4–6.
According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the Christopher Nolan-directed tentpole generated $5.9 million from 698,384 admissions over the three-day frame across 1,858 screens, capturing 60.92% of the total weekend market. With its fifth consecutive weekend victory, the blockbuster officially crossed the milestone of ten million admissions, pushing its cumulative haul to $83.2 million from 10,027,970 total viewers since its Aug. 5 debut.
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Last year at the Venice Film Festival, Italy’s Fondazione Prada officially launched its film fund, aimed at sustaining independent cinema from around the world without any restrictions on theme, genre or language. This year, it‘s back on the Lido with tangible proof that the initiative has borne fruit.
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A24 has released a teaser trailer for Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s surprise Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything — and it’s quite something.
For the uninitiated, Elizabeth Holmes is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence at the Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas for defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup, Theranos. Holmes, who married hotel heir Billy Evans in 2019 and with whom she has had two children (one born in 2021, the other in 2023), began her sentence on May 30, 2023.
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Franz Kafka and Don Quixote would feel right at home watching Ground Floor (Földszint), the new film from Hungarian auteur Gábor Reisz. But former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán would very likely not be amused.
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Paris-based The Party Film Sales, attached to Oscar-nominated “The Voice of Hind Rajab” and Cannes Un Certain Regard winner “Congo Boy,” has inked multiple deals on the French documentary “Tax Me (If You Can),” helmed by Thomas Lafarge (“The World According to Amazon,” “In the Murky Waters of BNP Paribas”).
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A group of prominent Palestinian, Arab and international filmmakers and industry professionals on Monday launched the Gaza Cinema Academy at the Venice Film Festival. The new entity aims to establish a sustainable space for film education, training and production in Gaza, “while connecting emerging Palestinian filmmakers with the wider international film community,” as a statement put it.
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“Look Back” is Kore-eda Hirokazu’s third time working from manga source material, but never before has the arthouse filmmaker drawn from such a commercially popular and internationally beloved work.
A one-volume story from “Chainsaw Man” mangaka Fujimoto Tatsuki, “Look Back” follows the converging, then diverging, fates of two classmates, Fujino and Kyomoto, who achieve their professional manga-making dreams while still in school.
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Linda Cardellini, who has been acting for longer than three decades, finally won her first Emmy on Sunday for her performance in DTF St. Louis, calling it a “real dream come true.”
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David Harbour became a first-time Emmy winner on Night 2 of the 2026 Creative Arts Emmys. The DTF St. Louis star won for best supporting actor in a limited or anthology series or movie for his portrayal of Floyd Smernitch in the HBO dark comedy created by Steven Conrad.
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