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“Sinners,” “Frankenstein” and “One Battle After Another” won top honors in the feature film category at the Makeup Artists and Hair Stylist Guild (IATSE Local 706) Awards. “One Battle After Another” won two awards: Best Contemporary Makeup (Heba Thorisdóttir, Mandy Artusat) and Best Contemporary Hair Styling (Ahou Mofid, Gina Maria DeAngelis, Sasha Qualls). In her acceptance speech, Mofid said, “I’m the child of two Iranian immigrants. I’m first-generation. I just wanted to say that this movie means a lot to me. Paul Thomas Anderson wrote a movie that’s very close to me. We’re all fighting for freedom. Free speech, our…
Veteran producer Bill Kong is bringing four commercial titles to the European film market through his Edco Films banner as Hong Kong performs well at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, with Singapore-Hong Kong-China co-production Panda selected for the Forum section. Kong, whose credits include the Oscar-winning “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and Zhang Yimou’s “Hero,” is currently showing two sequels to the “Cold War” series, “Cold War 1994” and “Cold War 1995.” Both were directed by Longman Leung and co-produced by Kong with Ivy Ho. In Cold War 1994, MB Lee, head of the Bureau of Organized Crime and Triads, becomes…
Chinese and Greater China films have a significant presence at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival and European Film Market, with multiple official selections and several market premieres being presented to international buyers. Hong Kong-based Golden Network Asia will bring Jackie Chan’s latest drama “Unexpected Family” to market. The Chinese production, directed by Li Taiyan and co-starring Chan, Peng Yu-chan, and Zhang Jianning, is currently in theaters in multiple territories including China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Cambodia, and Myanmar. Release in North America is scheduled for February. The comedy-drama tells the story of Zhong Bufan…
Emma Laird remembers a moment not so long ago when she was standing on the roof of her Los Angeles apartment building, smoking a cigarette and looking out at a picture-postcard sunset skyline. “It was very cinematic,” she says. “And I had tears in my eyes.” The Brit had called his agent, who told him that although he had made it to the screen test stage for HBO’s Gossip Girl reboot, the role was being moved elsewhere, even though it was the closest role he had ever gotten after months of hard-earned daily auditions. “So I thought I was out…
Sales company Reinvent Yellow has closed multiple territory deals for the adventure family film Rocky the Troll, which is being sold at Berlin’s European Film Market. It is produced by the team behind Trolls (2022), the most-watched non-English film on Netflix. “Rocky the Troll” was acquired by Fox in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, by Monolith in Poland, and by Daro in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Baltic States. The main character of the Norwegian film is 12-year-old Gaia, who discovers that the stones her great-grandfather collected are troll eggs. When one of the eggs hatches, Gaia forms a magical…
Lisa Rinna and Colton Underwood had unfinished business when the Traitors Season 4 cast reunited to film a reunion Thursday. Sources told Page Six that Rinna, 62, confronted Underwood, 34, about her use of the word “hostage” during the season when discussing Rinna being a traitor. Insiders say Rinna is an experienced “housewife” with a poisonous tongue who held Underwood to the fire a little unprepared. Lisa Rinna confronted Colton Underwood about his use of the word “hostage” during the Traitors Season 4 reunion, Page Six reports. Sources say Rinna held Underwood’s feet close to the fire during Thursday’s taping,…
Agnis Shen Zhongmin’s debut feature Shanghai Girl approaches China’s Down to the Countryside movement through an unconventional lens, treating the southwest rubber plantation to which her late father was sent during the Cultural Revolution as what she calls “a geological theater that already contains all the information for the script.” The film, which is in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival, is about a Shanghai woman who travels alone to a rubber plantation in southwestern China, searching for a mysterious woman as strangers unexpectedly drift in front of her. The project, starring Liang Kuixian and non-professional performers, deliberately…
“Sinners,” “Frankenstein” and “One Battle After Another” won top honors in the feature film category at the Makeup Artists and Hair Stylist Guild (IATSE Local 706) Awards. “One Battle After Another” won two awards: Best Contemporary Makeup (Heba Thorisdóttir, Mandy Artusat) and Best Contemporary Hair Styling (Ahou Mofid, Gina Maria DeAngelis, Sasha Qualls). In her acceptance speech, Mofid said, “I’m the child of two Iranian immigrants. I’m first-generation. I just wanted to say that this movie means a lot to me. Paul Thomas Anderson wrote a movie that’s very close to me. We’re all fighting for freedom. Free speech, our…
Rihanna suffered a wardrobe malfunction while attending boyfriend A$AP Rocky’s AWGE fashion show. The “Diamonds” songstress, 37, made headlines on Friday night when she was caught on camera walking through the halls of Lumière. Her black leather AWGE coat had a slit that went up the back, exposing her butt as she stepped into the venue. Rihanna suffered a wardrobe malfunction on Friday night while attending boyfriend A$AP Rocky’s AWGE fashion show. GC images She showed off her back in a black leather AWGE coat that featured a high slit that went a little high on her legs. back grid…
When prolific Welsh indie director Jamie Adams started looking for his next film, he didn’t start with a big name in mind. He started with an epiphany. For years he had a drawer full of ideas – loose outlines waiting for the right moment. “Only What We Carry” was one of them. But it wasn’t until he was in his 40s and a father that the story fully resonated with him. “In film school in your 20s, you study great artists. You’re encouraged to admire and worship them,” he told Variety in his first interview about the film. “But over…