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Demon Slayer Tokyo US Culture Cinema Art
Shares in Japanese giant Sony jumped more than five percent Tuesday after it hiked full-year profit forecasts thanks to the latest Demon Slayer anime blockbuster. The company also attributed the improved forecasts to higher expected sales of its PlayStation console and a smaller-than-anticipated impact from US tariffs. For the 2025-26 financial ...
This is Beirut, 10/11 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cinema Film Culture Art Hollywood The Running Man
It is often said Hollywood doesn't produce movie stars anymore. So when someone with a square jaw and loads of charisma like Glen Powell is cast in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role for a reboot of The Running Man, people get excited. But Powell, an unfailingly courteous Texan who quit the Los Angeles life and moved home to Austin as his fame grew, is ...
This is Beirut, 04/11 09:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Actress Diane Ladd Heritage Cinema Culture Art
Diane Ladd, the Oscar-nominated Wild at Heart actress and mother of Laura Dern, died Monday. She was 89. In a career spanning eight decades, Ladd was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award three times: in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, and Rambling Rose. The news of Ladd’s ...
This is Beirut, 31/10 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
AI Film Broadway Cinema Culture Art
Can great art be made without human genius and all its flaws? It's a vital question at a time when artificial intelligence threatens to subsume Hollywood. Through new movies Nouvelle Vague and Blue Moon, director Richard Linklater offers an answer—delving into the lives of two brilliant, volatile men whose films and plays shaped French New Wave ...
This is Beirut, 28/10 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Paul McCartney Music Documentary The Beatles Culture Cinema
A new documentary about Paul McCartney’s solo career after The Beatles’ breakup will be released on February 25, 2026, on Amazon Prime Video, following a limited theatrical run, according to a statement released Monday. The film, available in 240 countries and territories worldwide, features rare archival footage that captures the period when ...
This is Beirut, 27/10 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Box office US Cinema Film Culture Art
Japanese anime feature Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc triumphed at the North American box office, debuting in the top spot at $17.3 million and besting a much-anticipated biopic about Bruce Springsteen, industry estimates showed Sunday. Chainsaw Man, from Sony and Crunchyroll, had already scored big successes in Japan and across Asia, noted ...
Marie-Christine Tayah, 23/10 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Dakota Johnson Actress Hollywood Cinema Culture Art
Hollywood has many comedians, but few are funny simply by existing. Dakota Johnson, with her calm voice, unbothered gaze, and perfect poker face, has turned understatement into an art form. Her humor comes quietly; it slips between pauses, thrives in awkward silences, and lingers in viral clips that feel too human to be rehearsed. Born in Austin, ...
This is Beirut, 20/10 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cinema Box office U.S. movies Culture Art
Black Phone 2, a horror sequel starring Ethan Hawke, captured the top spot at the North American box office with $26.5 million as spooky season shifts into high gear in the run-up to Halloween, industry estimates showed Sunday. The film from Universal and low-budget horror specialists Blumhouse has excellent critical and audience scores, said ...
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Star Wars Cinema Drew Struzan Heritage Culture Art
Hollywood illustrator Drew Struzan, the man behind legendary film posters for hit films such as E.T., Star Wars and Indiana Jones, has died at the age of 78, prompting a flood of tributes. Struzan was a favorite of directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and his drawing style came to symbolize the posters of Hollywood's late 1970s and 1980s ...
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Cinema Russia France Culture Art
On a cold autumn evening in Moscow, Alexandra was headed to a cinema, hoping to escape reality for a few hours by taking in a new French comedy. With Hollywood boycotting the Russian market over Moscow's offensive on Ukraine, French films are one of the few cultural windows Russians have left to the West. And even as relations between Paris ...
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Sean Penn Actor Cinema Culture Art Lyon
“The dream role is the one that surprises you the way this one did,” said American actor Sean Penn on Monday in Lyon, central France, reflecting on his part as a sadistic soldier in his latest film One Battle After Another. Honored as the guest of the 17th Lumière Film Festival—an event celebrating global cinema—Penn shared insights ...
This is Beirut, 13/10 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Diane Keaton Cinema Actress Heritage Culture Art
Fellow actors and directors who worked with Diane Keaton recalled her life and work after the family of the American actor announced her death Saturday. Keaton, who was 79, appeared in eight Woody Allen movies, winning an Oscar for her role in Annie Hall, and also starred in The Godfather films. Woody Allen ‘upset’ Woody Allen, 89, “is ...