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While we are still awaiting more details regarding the direction of the highly anticipated action movie sequel, Top Gun 3, Top Gun: Maverick star Miles Teller has revealed the one thing he has asked of Tom Cruise if he’s to return for the follow-up. Speaking recently with Collider, Teller, who joined the franchise in 2022 as Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw, the son of Cruise’s Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell's dearly departed best friend, revealed that, if he is to sit in the cockpit again, he needs to know well in advance so he can get back in “Top Gun shape.”

"We'll see what happens. All I know is that Tom has said that, since he's the first to know, he'll give me enough time to get back into Top Gun shape. And that's all I asked."

It’s no wonder that Teller wants to be given the time to hit the gym...

Valentina Véliz Caileo in Sorcery

Chilean director Christopher Murray's folk horror, Sorcery, set on the remote Chilean island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, subverts genre clichés by positioning sorcery as a means of resistance and empowerment against foreign settlers. The story is told from the point of view of Rosa (Valentina Véliz Caileo), a young indigenous girl whose father is murdered by Stefan (Sebastian Hülk), a German settler. Seeking help from Mateo (Daniel Antivilo) and a powerful organisation of sorcerers, Rosa is forced to confront the hideous imbalance of power that makes justice a privilege.

Murray's filmography is complemented by the documentaries Propaganda, Dios (God) and Oasis, and the narrative features Manuel De Ribera and The Blind Christ (El Cristo Ciego). He imposes the sensibility of documentary and drama on his third narrative film, Sorcery. He creates space in the fantastical and supernatural to ground the idea of sorcery in the.

Oscar-nominated Maite Alberdi’s empathic documentary witnesses a love surviving the devastation of worsening dementia

Chilean director Maite Alberdi really gets elderly people and those with mental health problems. One of her previous works, The Grown-Ups, focused on adults with Down’s syndrome struggling with independence, while her international breakthrough The Mole Agent featured residents of a care home, some with dementia. This latest painfully potent film, The Eternal Memory, carves a snug room for itself in the director’s thematic wheelhouse with its portrait of a Chilean couple, utterly devoted to each other, but challenged by the husband’s progressively worsening Alzheimer’s disease.

At the same time, the film also engages with recent Chilean history, another topic Alberdi has explored previously. How could it do otherwise given that the husband, Augusto Góngora, was a broadcaster and journalist who made underground documentaries about the conditions in Chile under Pinochet...

Producer Jonah Swilley and rapper Brandon “Bez” Evans are the two brains behind the hip-hop duo Revival Season. Their debut album, Golden Age of Self Snitching, is out February 23rd via Heavenly Recordings, and they’re previewing it with the lead single “Pump.”

Citing artists like Dungeon Family, OutKast, and Beastie Boys as some of their main inspirations, Revival Season often nod to hip-hop’s roots with their funk-forward approach. The duo formed while Swilley was looking for his next collaborator, and Bez quickly proved to be the man for the job, creating an “instant rapport and creative chemistry.”

“We kinda worked backwards, reverse-engineered a lot of songs,” explains Swilley, who’d make beats out of Bez’s isolated vocals. “I’d build a track around what he was doing vocally, kind of fill it out rhythmically, using his vocal as an instrument, seeing how I could accompany that musically...

Exclusive: Den of Thieves 2: Pantera has rounded out its cast, bringing on 11 international talents to star opposite the returning Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. The list includes Salvatore Esposito (Gomorrah), Orli Shuka (Gangs of London), Evin Ahmad (Who Is Erin Carter?), Cristian Solimeno (The Glass Man), Nazmiye Oral (Propaganda), Yasen Zates Atour (The Witcher), Giuseppe Schillaci (Romulus), Dino Kelly (Peaky Blinders), Rico Verhoeven (Black Lotus), Velibor Topic (Outside the Wire) and Antonio Bustorff (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One).

(L-r) Rico Verhoeven, Velibor Topić and Antonio Bustorff

Wrapping principal photography on July 5th — a little more than a week prior to the launch of the SAG-AFTRA strike — Pantera marks the sequel to Den of Thieves, the action thriller from writer-director Christian Gudegast which grossed nearly $45M stateside and more than $80M WW via STX in 2018. The original film watches as a group from the L.

Irish documentarian Mark Cousins is in a jovial mood. He has two films in Cannes and the first one debuted on opening day, “The Story of Film: A New Generation.” It’s a wide-ranging update to his 15-hour film-school staple “The Story of Film: An Odyssey” (the new one is a slimmer two hours and 20 minutes). Cannes director Thierry Fremaux felt that Cousins’ new film could provide a welcome transition for moviegoers as the festival returned after two years. Indeed, reviews are raves and sales agent Dogwoof is fielding offers.

“Lockdown happened,” said Cousins on Zoom from his home office in Edinburgh just before the festival. “A lot of us had more thinking time and creative time. So I made three films.” His portrait of radical British producer, “The Storms of Jeremy Thomas,” will play in Cannes Classics. The third is a personal documentary based on his 2018 history of the visual world,...

Sparks have shared “So May We Start,” the first single from their upcoming Annette musical film directed by Leos Carax. The track features the Mael brothers singing alongside the film’s stars Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard.

“So May We Start” describes in Mael-esque detail the process of an audience preparing to see a film; in this case, it’s Annette, which will open at the Cannes Film Festival prior to its August 6th U.S. theatrical release and August 20th arrival on Amazon Prime Video.

“Initially, we conceived Annette as another Sparks album,...

Milan Records has debuted the first official song from Leos Carax’s upcoming musical drama “Annette,” starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard. The film, which is opening the Cannes Film Festival in July, is a sung-through musical with songs written by the Sparks brothers. Lead single “So May We Start” features vocal performances from Sparks, Driver, Cotillard, and co-star Simon Helberg. The final soundtrack collection features lyrics co-written by Sparks and Leos Carax, performed by Sparks and the cast of “Annette,” and produced by Sparks.

“Initially, we conceived ‘Annette’ as another Sparks album,” Sparks said in a statement. “Yet this time it would be a narrative story that would consist of three main characters, a small enough ensemble that would allow us to also present the ‘opera’ live on tour. The music, story, and album were finished and ready to go, which is where the story takes a huge detour.

“The Sparks Brothers,” Edgar Wright’s debut documentary film about the influential yet below-the-radar pop band Sparks, has set a release date for this summer.

Focus Features is releasing “The Sparks Brothers” domestically on June 18, 2021, following its world premiere at Sundance and its screening at SXSW this week. The film still sits with a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Sparks is comprised of brothers Russell and Ron Mael, who have released more than 20 albums over the last five decades. They’ve proven to be highly influential, dabbling in experimental ’70s pop and later synth and dance music that inspired artists across genres on the backs of albums like “Kimono My House,” “No. 1 in Heaven” and “Propaganda.”

Wright’s “The Sparks Brothers” dubs Sparks as “your favorite band’s favorite band,” arguing that the duo is criminally overlooked. To build that case, he speaks not only with the enigmas that are the Maelstrom,...

Focus Features has picked up the worldwide rights to “The Sparks Brothers,” the documentary from director Edgar Wright about the enigmatic and influential Los Angeles pop duo Sparks.

“The Sparks Brothers” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews, landing a 100% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. The acquisition reunites Focus Features with “Baby Driver” director Wright, who also directed the upcoming “Last Night in Soho” for the distributor. Universal Pictures is distributing the film internationally.

Sparks is comprised of brothers Russell and Ron Mael, who have released more than 20 albums over the decades. They have proven to be highly influential, as they’ve dabbled in experimental ’70s pop and later synth dance music that has inspired artists across genres on the backs of albums like “Kimono My House,” “No. 1 in Heaven” and “Propaganda.”

And yet Wright’s “The Sparks Brothers,” his documentary debut, posits that this rock band...

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No one can ever say that Muse doesn’t know how to put on a phenomenal show! This time around it was quite apparent that the band spared no expense on the production that went into bringing the “Simulation Theory” tour to Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center. Muse’s show was chock full of spectacular laser lighting effects, Led-clad back-up dancer and brass musicians, and of course, we couldn’t possibly forget the ginormous robotic skeleton! It was definitely out of this world, to say the least.

Muse is on tour in support of their eight album release “Simulation Theory” and have proved once again with this album that they are fearless when it comes to changing up their style, this time opting for a more 80’s retro vibe complete with heavy synths and searing guitar riffs. We adore the fact that Muse cannot be boxed...

Muse speed through an intergalactic universe in the new video for their latest song, “The Dark Side.” The track will appear on the group’s upcoming album, Simulation Theory, out November 9th via Warner Bros. Records.

“The Dark Side” finds Muse crafting another sleek, stadium-sized rock song, with singer Matt Bellamy’s vocals rising over a propulsive drum beat, a sinuous guitar riff and flares of vibrant synths.

The Lance Drake-directed video for “The Dark Side” seems to pick up where the clip for “Something Human” left off. In the video,...

Chinese regulators have ordered the halt of sales of “Monster Hunter: World” on the WeGame PC-gaming platform of China’s Tencent. Regulators said that they had received a large number of complaints about the fantasy game that it had licensed from Japan’s Capcom.

Tencent had pre-sold over 1 million copies of the game at some $43 per unit. In a statement on its website WeGame said that it would refund users without conditions.

The move sent Tencent shares into a spin. On Tuesday, the Hong Kong-traded stock fell by 3.43% to Hk$348.60, wiping $16 billion off the value of the conglomerate.

The scale of that fall is clearly out of proportion to the specific loss from “Monster Hunter: World” alone. But it may point to ongoing problems with regulation of the sector.

It has been reported in local media that the State Administration of Radio and Television, which oversees the games sector in China,...