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The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) celebrates its 30th anniversary this week, marking an improbable three-decade success story of lifting Korean cinema to global prominence. Launched in 1996 as Korea’s first international film festival — a “small but prestigious” event with 169 films from 31 countries — BIFF has since exploded into Asia’s largest cinema…
The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively unveil the trailer for Joachim Lafosse’s new film, Six Days in Spring, competing in official selection at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival. Set to premiere at the Spanish fest Sept. 20, the movie stars Eye Haïdara (The Nannies, C’est la vie!) as Sana, a mother struggling to provide her…
Dancing with the Stars is back in the ballroom! The ABC dance competition kicked off its 34th season on Tuesday night, signifying 20 years on air. Celebrity contestants ranging from reality stars to Hollywood legends hit the stage where they were tasked to dance to their self-proclaimed anthems. The slate of celebrity contestants includes Secret…
While Robert Redford was no fan of sequels for the better part of his career, there was one movie of his that remained a top candidate for a follow-up, even decades after the original hit theaters. The legendary actor, filmmaker and Sundance Institute founder, who died Tuesday at 89, leaves behind a legacy marked by…
An arrest has been made after Beyoncé‘s unreleasedmusicand other sensitive documents were stolen from a rental car ahead of her Cowboy Carter Tour’s Atlanta stops in July. According to the Atlanta Police Department, Kelvin Evans was taken into custody on Aug. 26 and booked into the Fulton County Jail. Billboard reported that Evans has been…
At the Sundance Institute’s filmmakers labs, Roger Ross Williams, the Oscar-winning documentarian, happened to be paired with Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford as a mentor. Williams was prepping for his narrative feature debut, Cassandro. He tells The Hollywood Reporter, “I told Bob about my fears. I said, ‘I’m a documentarian, and I’m really nervous about…
It might seem crass to reduce the work of Robert Redford, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 89, to a few conversation scenes in a handful of movies. But if there’s one easy way to spot the greatness of one of Hollywood’s greatest of all actors — not to mention director, producer…
Tributes are pouring in for Hollywood icon Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89. The Oscar winner and Sundance Film Festival founder, star of movies such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,The Way We WereandAll the President’s Men, died early Tuesday. Redford’s long-time publicist Cindi Berger told The Hollywood Reporter he…
Giant, a play about Roald Dahl and antisemitism, will transfer to Broadway this spring. The play, starring John Lithgow, transfers to Broadway after an Olivier Award-winning run on the West End at the Royal Court Theatre. Lithgow, who won an Olivier for his performance as Dahl, will transfer with the production. The play follows the…
Shari Redstone isn’t exiting the media business just yet. A few months after handing over the keys to Paramount, the mogul has been named chair of the board for the global entertainment studio Sipur (it means “story” in Hebrew), best known for its Emmy-winning Oct. 7 documentaryWe Will Dance Again and the Netflix drama series…
