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Lina Soualem’s Spain-set family tale “Alicante,” “Asphalt,” the big winner at this year’s Cannes Docs-in-Progress, and “Printemps,” from Berlin laureates Noel and Michelle Keserwany, look like potential standouts at this year’s Amman Intl. Film Festival’s Pitching Platforms. The rich lineup underscores the vast range of output and depth of talent from emerging filmmakers in the

While many regional festivals are racing for premieres and photo ops, the Amman International Film Festival quietly follows a different script, one centered on sincerity and storytelling. “We are not really after glamor,” says festival director Nada Doumani. “The festival is focused on cinema and filmmaking,” she adds. As at last year’s edition, there will

Hugh Jackman starred in “The Greatest Showman,” and now the actor and Broadway star is taking his show on the road with a new residency at New York’s famed Radio City Music Hall. Titled “From New York With Love,” Jackman’s concert series kicked off earlier this year and was originally intended to be a 12-show

“Glastoooo!” a stranger yelled behind me as I checked into the hospitality campsite at Glastonbury Festival on Wednesday. Only, it wasn’t really a stranger: it was Louis Tomlinson of One Direction fame, lugging a huge rucksack and getting hyped with his friends for the five days of music and partying that lay ahead. Without stopping

Cinespia has unveiled the August screenings at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which will include the annual Full Moon Slumber Party double feature. This year features ’80s classics “The Lost Boys,” starring Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim and Jason Patric, and “An American Werewolf in London.” The Aug. 9 late night double feature promises “a night

UPDATED: The BBC has issued a statement regarding the controversy sparked by Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury set on Saturday, with the broadcaster saying it “should have pulled” the livestream of the performance. UTA has also dropped the band as a client, sources tell Variety, and an official criminal investigation has been launched in the U.K. Meanwhile,

Gird your loins: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci are officially set to return for “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” which has now started production. In addition to the stars of the original 2006 film, Kenneth Branagh will join the cast as the husband of Miranda Presley (Streep), the demanding editor-in-chief of

Anti Social Camp, a free songwriting workshop series which launched in New York five years ago, is expanding to London in a partnership with the creative hub Tileyard London, home to some 150 recording studios as well as independent music businesses like Empire Management. The event is scheduled to run from Nov. 3-7, 2025. The

A million years ago, in 1993, Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” unleashed two menaces on the planet. The first, of course, was dinosaurs, as the movie warned would-be genetican engineers the consequences of playing God. Far more upsetting, however, was the explosion of computer-generated visual effects, which have been abused and misused in nearly every way

The jury has begun deliberating in the Sean “Diddy” Combs trial, as the disgraced music mogul’s fate rests in the hands of eight men and four women. Combs is pleading not guilty to charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. The deliberation process — which will determine whether he is found