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Dieter Kosslick may be out of the Berlinale limelight, but he continues to champion two things that remain dear to his heart, film and the environment, and as the director of a new festival, he is combining the two in the hope of tackling the climate crisis and encouraging greater sustainability for the sake of a better world.

Kosslick was appointed by the city of Potsdam to head the new Green Visions Potsdam fest, which launched last year and will see its second edition take place May 22-25.

After stepping down as Berlinale director, Kosslick eased into his new life with a personal endeavor, writing a memoir.

“The transition was very simple because I had this project to write this autobiography,” Kosslick tells Variety. “And it took me one year to write this and it was a kind of fun and also it was a kind of a psychoanalytic meeting by myself.

August is gonna be huge for Disney+ and Hulu! There’s so much cool new stuff coming out over the next month to keep us entertained as summer wraps up.

Disney+ has some awesome shows starting new seasons. “Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures” is back on August 14th with more space adventures. Kids can also look forward to fresh episodes of “Me and Winnie the Pooh” on the 21st. Music fans should check out “Are You Sure?!,” a new show about BTS members Jimin and Jung Kook that comes out the 8th.

Hulu really loaded up their August lineup with something for everyone. One of the biggest things has to be season 4 of “Only Murders in the Building” premiering on the 27th. I heard they added some famous people like Zach Galifianakis and Eugene Levy too which will be sweet.

Movie lovers can watch a bunch of new flicks that just left theaters too.

Whenever a documentary gets a sequel, you know that its subject matter is serious enough to warrant further investigation. Collider can reveal exclusively that sixteen years after the release of the revolutionary 2008 documentary Food, Inc. the movie's long overdue sequel is coming to our homes to catch viewers up on what's changed and what has worsened about what the American population feeds themselves. Food, Inc. 2 will further expose the food industry's secrets and is available on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand today. Collider can also share an exclusive sneak peek of the documentary with you below.

His Oscar-nominated 2008 documentary Food, Inc exposed the horrors of industrial agriculture in the US. Now, a sequel shows that the corporate behemoths have no intention of loosening their grip

In the middle of Food, Inc 2 – the follow-up documentary to 2008’s Food, Inc, narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser – scientists share what they have recently discovered about ultra-processed foods (UPFs). They are not just bad for you in a trashy, empty-calories kind of way; they interfere with the brain and the body’s ability to process food; they mess with you on a cellular level. Whole populations are seeing health deteriorate, profoundly, for no purpose beyond profit. It must be annoying, I suggest to Pollan, 69, to hear scientists deliver this as a discovery. He been warning against processed food for decades.

Pollan’s mantra – “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants” – was immortalised in his 2008 book In Defence of Food.

Family fare was evidently the preferred choice during the U.K. and Ireland school half-term holidays as Paramount’s “If” bounced up the charts to the top spot.

In its third weekend, “If” collected £1.5 million ($2 million) for a total of £9.5 million ($12.2 million). In its second weekend, in second place, Sony’s “The Garfield Movie” clawed another £1.3 million and now has a total of £6.2 million.

In third place, in its fourth weekend, Disney’s “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” chest thumped to a further £1 million for a total of £13.2 million.

Warner Bros.’ “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” which was neck-and-neck with “Garfield” in its opening weekend, earned £963,976 in its second weekend in fourth place and now has a total of £4.5 million.

Rounding off the top five was Universal’s “The Fall Guy” that took in £524,320 in its fifth weekend for a total of £11.1 million.

There were three new entries in the Top 10. Warner Bros.

Former Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick is returning to the festival scene with a new event called Green Visions Potsdam, which kicks off on May 30 and runs until June 2.

Kosslick, whose 18-year tenure at the Berlinale spanned 2001 to 2019, is festival director of Green Visions Potsdam and has put together a line-up of 18 films addressing issues such as climate protection, sustainability, fast fashion, agriculture and nutrition.

The programme, which Kosslick has selected in collaboration with curator Karen Arikian, opens with the German premieres of French documentary filmmaker Jean-Albert Lièvre’s Whale Nation and UK director Mahalia Belo’s survival thriller The End We Start From,...

Food, Inc. 2 exposes the dangerous monopolistic power of corporations in the food industry, impacting workers, consumers, and the environment. You can watch a clip above. The film emphasizes the need for antitrust enforcement to prevent powerful companies from dominating the food system for unlimited profits while exploiting workers and poisoning people. The film urges audiences to demand change and support efforts to break up monopolies to create a more sustainable and ethical food industry.

When it came to theaters in 2009, Food, Inc. made a big impact on the collective perception of the food industry, which had undergone drastic and destructive changes since modernization and politicization. The film featured a variety of passionate critics of corporate food production, including Michael Pollan (author of The Omnivore's Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (author of Fast Food Nation). 15 years later, the industry seems even worse, leading to Food, Inc. 2, a rare documentary sequel...

An eye-opening follow-up to the 2008 breakout hit looks at how the food industry has changed, for better and worse

Toward the end of the new documentary Food, Inc 2, the film-makers explore alternatives to the food churned out by the corporate giants doing so much damage to our health and environment.

After meeting people turning plants into “fish” and “chicken wings”, and promising “dairy without a cow” and “honey without bees”, the scene shifts to large steel vats where chicken, pork and beef are grown from cells. This, we are told, might be a future alternative to battery farms and the vast acres of cattle heating up the planet.

Food, Inc. 2 follows the golden rule of Hollywood sequels: The second time around, the villain must be scarier and the death count higher. Directors Melissa Robledo and Robert Kenner’s 2008 documentary Food, Inc. helped spark a national conversation about the devastating economic, environmental and health effects of our industrialized food system, and built momentum for serious reform. They never intended to direct a follow-up. But since then, Big Ag has fought back, and by some measures the problems caused by corporate consolidation have only gotten worse.

Journalists Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), who co-narrated the first film, became famous for exposing the deep dysfunction of America’s food industry. They’ve since followed their curiosity to other realms — psychedelics for Pollan, for example, and nuclear warfare for Schlosser. But 16 years after the release of Food Inc., they’ve reteamed with the directors for the sequel,...

"I want rural America to vibrant again, that's my motivation here." Yes! Magnolia Pictures has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary sequel titled Food, Inc. 2, from filmmakers Robert Kenner & Melissa Robledo. This is a follow-up to the acclaimed, industry-shaking doc Food, Inc. from 2008 - both this film & its sequel are also based on books of the same name. This sequel is premiering at the 2024 Cph:dox Film Festival in Denmark this month. Their intro: "Turbo chickens, plant-based steaks and a pandemic. A lot has happened since the first Food Inc. film, and it's time for a fresh in-depth look at the food industry and at possible solutions." Food Inc 2 centers around innovative farmers, future-thinking food producers, workers' rights activists and prominent legislators such as U.S Senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester, who are facing these companies head-on to inspire change and build a healthier, more sustainable future.

“Food, Inc. 2,” the follow-up to the 2008 Oscar-nominated documentary on the effects of agribusiness on American consumers, is set for a special screening event from Magnolia Pictures on April 9. The feature documentary will be released on digital platforms on April 12.

Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo direct the film from Participant and River Road, which reunites the directors with authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to take a fresh look at how corporate consolidation has left the food system vulnerable.

“When the pandemic hit, the curtain was pulled back. There were whole crops being buried,” Pollan says in the trailer. “At the same time, there were shortages in the supermarket.”

In a quest for solutions, the film looks at innovative farmers, food producers, workers’ rights activists and legislators including senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester, who are working to create a sustainable future.

“I sure as hell don’t want my...

More than a decade after the first film, Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for Food, Inc. 2, a sequel to their critically acclaimed 2008 documentary, Food, Inc.

The film “is a timely and urgent follow-up” to the original, according to a release. The first installment earned an Oscar nomination and still holds a 95 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.

In the sequel, directors Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) for another look at the country’s food system.

“There’s a lot at stake when you sit down to eat,” Pollan says in the trailer. “When the pandemic hit, the curtain was peeled back.”

Schlosser adds, “There were whole crops being buried, and at the same time there were shortages in the supermarket.”

In another scene, an activist asks: “How can I go to work for these...

Hollywood loves sequels, but in the nonfiction space it’s rare for a documentary to get a follow up. However, 15 years after Food, Inc. landed with huge impact, the sequel Food, Inc. 2 premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, bringing a fresh perspective on America’s spoiled food system.

“All of us swore we would never go to this area again,” said Robert Kenner, director of the original Food, Inc. He co-directed Participant’s Food, Inc. 2 with Melissa Robledo, a co-producer on the first film. “But I think on some levels this became such an important story to go tell that we all felt we needed to come back and we could talk about it in sort of stronger terms than we did [before].”

The catalyst for the sequel became the pandemic, which exposed the vulnerabilities of a food system dominated by a handful of massive agribusiness companies including Cargill,...

There’s an unintentionally surreal moment in “Food Inc. 2.” Eric Schlosser, the journalist who wrote “Fast Food Nation,” is talking about how the rise of our corporatized, centralized, industrialized food system stifles the very kind of competition that could pose a challenge to it. He reaches back, with a level-headed liberal boomer nostalgia comparable to that of Michael Moore, to talk about the growth of the middle class in the ’50s and ’60s, and how that was a period of rising wages for American workers, all of which has faded away.

Here’s the surreal part. To illustrate this postwar reverie, the movie accompanies it with a 60-year-old documentary film clip presenting the wonder of supermarkets, with the camera lingering on stacks of Campbell’s Soup cans and products like Minute Rice, Ritz Crackers, and Van Camp’s Original Baked Beans. Watching the clip, though, all I could think was:...