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Paris-based sales house MPM Premium has soldRohan ParashuramKanawade’sIndian LGBTQ+ dramaCactus Pearsto Salzgeber for release in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, fresh off of the film’s Grand Jury Prize win in World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance.

The debut featureis about a 30-something man from the city who must spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in his native village where he bonds with a local farmer.

Cactus Pearswas the only Indian film in Sundance’s competition and the first Marathi-language film ever to premiere at the festival. TheUK-Indian co-production is produced by Lotus Vision, Moonweave Films and Bridge Postworks.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) married his fiancée, interior designer Mindy Noce, during a ceremony at their hometown chapel, Seacoast Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Among the readings at the wedding ceremony, which took place on Saturday, was a Bible passage that started with the reflection, “Two are better than one.”

Founding Seacoast Pastor Greg Surratt, a longtime friend and close mentor who counseled Scott while he weighed a 2024 Republican presidential bid, officiated. The groom’s older brother, Ben Scott, was his best man.

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Joni Blair became best friends with Noce when they attended the College of Charleston, and was the interior designer’s matron of honor.

Scott and Noce, engaged in January, shared their first dance to “Swayin’ to the Music (Slow Dancin’)” by Johnny Rivers.

In addition to close family and friends,...

Companions in Fallout: New Vegas add life to the Mojave Wasteland, each bringing a unique personality and benefits to the gameplay experience. The "Party Banter" mod allows companions to chat with each other, enhancing the immersive and social aspect of the game. The choice of the best companion in New Vegas is subjective, but Boone stands out for combat effectiveness, while other companions offer unique dynamics.

The Mojave Wasteland can be a quiet place and even though Fallout: New Vegas provides The Courier with some followers for their trek across the desert, the journey would be more pleasant if everyone could just chat. One of the most popular aspects of New Vegas are the game's companions, each of whom sports a unique personality and fun quirks that make them pillars of the experience. Whether Boone's out in front dealing damage or Cass is chastizing players for the choice of drink,...

The quality of Asian short films have been increasing exponentially during the last few years, with the necessity to cut down on production size due to Covid actually giving a number of directors the opportunity to shine in the format. Shorts Shorts Film Festival and Asia highlights the fact with an impressive selection for their 20th anniversary, with one of the dominant trends of this year having Japanese actors directing their own films, with Kengo Kora and Hiroshi Tamaki being two among a number. Our coverage of the festival includes a number of reviews and interviews, beginning with one with the director of Ssff & Asia, which sheds a very thorough light to a number of details regarding how the whole thing works.

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1. Amp Video Interviews: Shoko Takegasa

2. Short Film Review: Courier (2023) by Kengo Kora

To begin with, the thing the viewer will...

It seems that in this year's Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia, one of the motifs is famous actors shooting their debut short films, with Kengo Kora and Hiroshi Tamaki being two of the most prominent samples. The former has come up with “Courier”, a short that focuses on a bicycle courier in Tokyo.

Courier is screening at Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia

The said individuals is named Maru, and we follow his path through the streets of Tokyo during a day of his work. First, he goes to an office building, then he takes a break by visiting a cycle shop owner who is in a philosophical mood. A bit later, he goes to his usual joint to grab a bite, where he meets a colleague, Hide, who tells him of his plans to move out of Tokyo, now that his wife is expecting a child. Lastly, during the night,...

Exclusive: Newen Connect CEO Rodolphe Buet is happy to be back in person at the Berlinale’s European Film Market after the three-year Covid-19 hiatus.

“It’s fun to be in Berlin. When I started in the industry in 2005, my first market was Berlin with Studiocanal,” he says.

In the interim, Buet rose through the Studiocanal ranks to become president of distribution and marketing from 2015 to 2017, overseeing the rollout strategies for Paddington and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy among other major films.

He was appointed CEO of Paris-based Newen Connect in 2020, piloting its creation in the wake of TF1’s 100 acquisition of Newen Studios out of the merger of their distribution arms TF1 Studio, Newen Distribution and Reel One International.

He has spent the last three years steadily putting in place a structure in step with the convergence between the audiovisual and cinema worlds, appointing Leona Connell as Chief Commercial Officer...

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, known to cinephiles around the world as Vangelis, has died this week at a hospital in France, his reps announced in a statement. He was 79.

Vangelis is best known for the iconic theme and soundtrack to the Best Picture-winning sports film “Chariots of Fire,” for which he won an Oscar for Best Original Score while the soundtrack reached the top of the U.S. Billboard charts. He also composed the score for Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic “Blade Runner,” for which he was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe.

Born in Athens, Greece, Vangelis got his start playing keyboards for a pop band called Forminx in the 1960s and later with the prog rock band Aphrodite’s Child, which found success on the European charts. Meanwhile, he entered the film world as a composer for Greek films, expanding beyond that in the 1970s with scores...

While Season 1 of The Flight Attendant followed the same route as the novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian, Season 2 of the HBO Max dramedy ventures into new territory.

Gone are the cold and congested streets of NYC, replaced by the sunny and (even more) congested streets of Los Angeles. And while the first season dealt with Cassie’s relationship with her father, Season 2 will reunite with her estranged mother, played by none other than Sharon Stone.

More from TVLineFlight Attendant's Zosia Mamet and Deniz Akdeniz Warn: Cassie's New Neighbors Are 'Terrifying, Unsettling'Did black-ish Hint at Spinoff? Early Flight Attendant Theories?...

Nominations have been unveiled for the 42nd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. Check out the full list below.

Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog leads the field with nine nominations, followed by Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter which received 6 (a Netflix one-two). Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II, released by Picturehouse in the UK, followed with five.

This year’s contenders feature a notably healthy representation of female filmmakers, with the top three most nominated films all helmed by women directors.

More than 180 critics across print, online and broadcast media voted for this year’s noms, which were unveiled by British actors Joanna Vanderham and Gwilym Lee. The ceremony will take place on February 6, 2022, at London’s May Fair Hotel.

“Even though cinemas were closed for half of this year, our members were always watching films,” says Rich Cline, chair of the Critics’ Circle Film Section.

Del Wilkes, the former professional wrestler best known to WWE fans as The Patriot, has sadly passed away. The wrestler, who spent a year in WWE during the Attitude Era in the late 1990s, reportedly passed away last Thursday after suffering a massive heart attack. He was 59 years old.

"At the request of his family, it's with a devastated heart that I let you know Heaven gained one of the most special men I've ever had the honor to know today," family friend Allen Wright Adkins said in a statement, per WrestleZone. "Del Wilkes, I've loved you for 40 years and always will. Rest in peace, my dear friend...you'll be missed more than you could ever know."

Andy McDaniel, a pastor who hosted a podcast with Wilkes, added in a statement of his own: "Del Wilkes would become a name that those in college football knew quite well. He would...

In an online ceremony hosted by Tom Felton, the winners of the 2020 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) were announced yesterday with Sarah Gavron’s ‘Rocks’ taking home five awards.

Best British Independent Film was awarded to coming-of-age drama Rocks by Zendaya with actress Kosar Ali also taking home the awards for both Best Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer with her young co-star D’Angelou Osei Kissiedu winning Best Supporting Actor. The four awards on the night took the film’s BIFA tally to five with Lucy Pardee winning the award for Best Casting sponsored by Casting Society of America and Spotlight when the craft award winners were announced in January.

British horror His House was awarded two BIFAs on the night with Remi Weekes winning Best Director and Wunmi Mosaku winning Best Actress. Anthony Hopkins’ poignant portrayal of an ageing man in The Father won him Best Actor amongst three wins.

His House: Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù as Bol Majur, Wunmi Mosaku as Rial Majur. Cr. Aidan Monaghan/Netflix © 2020

In an online ceremony hosted by Tom Felton, the winners of the 2020 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) were announced. Live from Wales, where he is filming Save the Cinema for Sky Cinema, Tom welcomed a glittering array of stars to announce the winners.

Best British Independent Film was awarded to coming-of-age drama Rocks by Zendaya with actress Kosar Ali also taking home the awards for both Best Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer with her young co-star D’Angelou Osei Kissiedu winning Best Supporting Actor. The four awards on the night took the film’s BIFA tally to five with Lucy Pardee winning the award for Best Casting sponsored by Casting Society of America and Spotlight when the craft award winners were announced in January.

British horror His House was awarded two BIFAs on the...

To be totally honest, it was with mixed feelings that I leapt into Pandora Season 2 Episode 1

Don't get me wrong. Pandora Season 1 was a wild ride, and I couldn't resist seeing it through to the end despite some of its more frustrating features.

What kept me hanging on (when I've cut loose shows for much lesser sins in terms of continuity and logic) was the sense that Jax's story was worth the wait.

What can I say? Hope springs eternal.

This premiere hints at a more focused and centralized season to come.

Season 1 had us looking in a lot of different directions and at a lot of different plotlines -- from Atria's clone rebellion on Adar to Thomas's daddy issues to Ralen's wife (what now?) -- and that made for an often confusing jumble of different political conflicts.

Pandora Season 2 has centralized its focus to the hunt for Tierney...