Multi-prized Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban (“The Incident,” “The Similars,” “Párvulos”) is in advanced development on his sixth and “most personal project yet,” a time-travel, sci-fi road movie.
The project is one of 34 works presented at this year’s Frontières International Co-Production Market at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, forming part of its Officila Selection..
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Marvel fans are celebrating the latest X-Men casting rumors, which suggest that Star Wars sequel trilogy standout Adam Driver will play a new incarnation of Magneto.
Famously played by Michael Fassbender and Ian McKellen (the latter of which will reprise the role one more time in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday), Magneto is a key member of the X-Men universe and a pivotal casting for Marvel to get right as it looks to a new generation of actors to take on the comics' familiar characters.
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As the 2026 FIFA World Cup nears its end, Major League Soccer is using the global event to try and turbocharge its future, launching what the league says is the largest coordinated marketing campaign in its 33-year history.
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Live Review
After overcrowding led to a severely delayed start, Jay put on an unforgettable show, complete with appearances from Beyoncé, Rihanna, Pharrell, Clipse, Usher, and more
Sinatra was playing over the speakers at Yankee Stadium, but the night wasn’t over, not quite. No, as Frank’s voice rang out at 2:30 a.m., in the wee small hours of Monday morning — “I want to beee a part of it…” — Jay-Z still had a few more verses left in him.
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Moonlighting
Kyle Crownover, who's been keeping Childers' shows running on time since 2017, is releasing his own music — while making his tour dog famous
Kyle Crownover is that rare singer-songwriter whose day revolves around neither singing nor songwriting. Rather, he’s in charge of making sure someone else’s songs are heard live: Crownover is Tyler Childers’ longtime tour manager.
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Obituary
Republican mainstay and Trump loyalist "passed away from a brief and sudden illness" Saturday night, his office announced
Lindsey Graham, the longtime Republican senator from South Carolina, has died at the age of 71.
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The Serbian drama 3 Weeks After (3 Nedelje Posle), directed by Miroslav Terzić, has won the Europa Cinemas Label as the best European film at the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF). The jury of three Europa Cinemas Network exhibitors unveiled their pick on Saturday afternoon.
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The fashions and furnishings of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s — the height of the state’s racist program of suppressing the Roma population through coerced sterilization — are painstakingly evoked in Slovakian filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský’s “Only Beautiful Things to Look At.” But the film’s attractive yet oddly bloodless presentation gives the impression of a period drama set much farther back, as though we’re peering at the prettily mounted arrowheads and artifacts of a long-gone atrocity through museum glass. Alongside the decision to centralize the perspective of a white female doctor, this old-school, soft-focus approach robs an undeniably well-intentioned movie of a vital edge of urgency and discomfort, allowing viewers to consign the cruelties it outlines to some imaginary distant past, when in truth, the sterilization policy continued well into the 21st century in both the Czech and Slovak Republics.
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There is a more interesting story lurking within Jan-Eric Mack’s “A Happy Family” than the one actually being told. At times, the Swiss filmmaker teases the possibility that the conventional narrative shown thus far might break into a bold, daring twist. It’s a promise unfulfilled, however, and those glimpses of something thornier and more daring ultimately come to seem like signs of a filmmaker not in total control of his argument. The first Swiss film to ever play in the Crystal Globe competition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, “A Happy Family” is a custody drama that turns out to be more interested in the “drama” part of the phrase, at the expense of plausibility.
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Jay-Z did appear to promise far in advance that his “Reasonable Doubt” 30th anniversary show would, in fact, be a celebration of the debut album that he dropped back in June 1996. That didn’t stop him from pulling out all the stops — well, most of them, at least — during the first of his three headlining shows at Yankee Stadium on Friday night, setting off a string of performances to commemorate a pair of milestones (the other being the 25th anniversary of “The Blueprint”) plus a bonus show billed as “Extra Innings” that, as of now, has a stadium-sized question mark hanging over what it will actually be.
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