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For actress, producer, and activist Jennifer Lawrence, when she saw what it was like for women living under Taliban authority, not getting involved wasn’t an option.

Lawrence had watched footage of the Taliban taking Kabul on the news and continued to follow the story as these forces continued to systematically dismantle protections and rights earned by women in Afghanistan over the last 20 years. Parallel to this, Lawrence was also bearing witness to the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson that took away abortion access for many. Feeling connected to the plight Afghani women were facing, Lawrence and her producing partner Justine Ciarrocchi became involved in “Bread & Roses” through their Excellent Cadaver shingle, seeking out Sahra Mani to direct a documentary on the subject. Speaking in a recent interview with “CBS Mornings,” Lawrence shared that in making this choice, she faced a lot of push back, even from those closest to her.

Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai knows the viciousness of the Taliban all too well. When she was just 15, she was riding home on a bus from an exam she’d just taken when a Taliban gunmen entered seeking her out. Upon identifying herself, Yousafzai was shot through her eye, miraculously surviving thanks to emergency medical treatment. At the time, she’d come under fire from the Taliban present in her country for speaking against their actions towards female children, which included bombing girl’s schools so they’d no longer be able to attend. Now, Yousafzai is standing up to the organization once again by serving as an executive producer on the Apple TV+ documentary “Bread & Roses.” The film follows three women in the aftermath of Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency, which took place in 2021. Holding power in the country for over three years, the Afghan Taliban have systematically stripped Afghan women of their rights,...

“Bread & Roses” begins with a celebration. A beautiful, intimate moment of new beginnings between a newly engaged couple and their families. Then, chaos strikes. In the middle of the night, their world is turned upside down as gunfire blasts, signaling the arrival of the Taliban. But as bullets fly, communities take to their balconies, shouting, “Down with the Taliban!,” signaling that — no matter the force brought upon them — they are free Afghanis and will remain so.

At that moment in time, and when this footage was first captured via personal digital camcorder, it was easy to act in defiance. For years, the Afghan people had been emboldened to do so by American forces and their presence within the country to push against Taliban insurgency. But when these troops pulled out after 20 years due to deals signed by now President-Elect Trump during his first term in office and carried out...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Alien: Romulus (Fede Alvarez)

It’s a dire, inhospitable environment, wherein corporate interests can give way to ghoulish monstrosities, and those just trying to navigate the chokehold of capitalism are doing their best to survive. In a way, Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus may be the most meta Alien film to date. No stranger to playing in others’ sandboxes, the Evil Dead helmer is, at first glance, an encouraging fit for the sci-fi horror franchise. Like the original, 2017’s Alien: Covenant––an underrated high point for these films––was at its peak when threading its headier notions with gleefully mean-spirited cynicism towards its human subjects. Alvarez has that same kind of nasty streak in him, and much of Romulus’ mandated fan service...

The Academy has unveiled the list of feature films that are eligible for consideration in the animated feature, documentary feature Film, and international feature at the 2025 Oscars.

In animation, 31 films will vie for one of the five spots, including “The Wild Robot,” “Inside Out 2,” “Memoir of a Snail,” “Flow,” and “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.”

In documentary feature, 169 films are eligible. Among them are “No Other Land,” “Daughters,” “Martha,” “I Am: Celine Dion,” and “Dahomey,” which is Senegal’s submission for international feature.

In international feature, there are 85 hopefuls, including frontrunner “Emilia Pérez” (France), “I’m Still Here” (Brazil), “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Germany), “Kneecap” (Ireland), and “Flight 404” (Egypt).

The shortlists of 15 films for documentary and international features will be released on Tuesday, Dec. 17.

Oscar nominations will be announced on Friday, Jan. 17. The 97th Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O’Brien, will be held on Sunday, March 2 at 7 p.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has pulled back the curtain on the films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and International Feature categories for the 97th Academy Awards next year.

The list includes 31 toon features, 169 docs and international pics from 85 countries. Preliminary voting for the 97th Oscars runs December 9-13, and all three shortlists will be revealed December 17. The Oscars will be handed out Sunday, March 2, at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.

Here are the animated, documentary and international features eligible for the 2024 Oscars:

Best Animated Feature

Art College 1994

Captain Avispa

Chicken for Linda!

The Colors Within

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

Despicable Me 4

Flow

The Garfield Movie

Ghost Cat Anzu

The Glassworker

The Imaginary

Inside Out 2

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Kung Fu Panda 4

Living Large

Look Back

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

Mars Express

Memoir of a Snail...

The Academy has unveiled its list of eligible films for the 97th Oscars in the animated, documentary, and international feature categories, spotlighting various blockbusters and critically lauded works. Submissions span major studios and independent filmmakers alike, and the competition promises to be one of the most competitive as films seek nominations.

A total of 31 animated feature films are in contention this year, including DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot,” IFC Films’ “Memoir of a Snail,” and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2,” which recently became the highest-grossing animated movie of all time. While this year’s number is slightly down from 33 submissions in 2023, it marks an increase from the 27 entries in 2022, reflecting a robust year for animation. Among the list also is Janus Film and Sideshow’s “Flow,” which will also compete in the international feature race for Latvia.

Nominees in the Animated Feature category are determined by the Academy’s Animation Branch members,...

A total of 31 animated features, 169 documentary features and 85 international features are eligible for Oscar nominations this season, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed on Thursday.

In the animated feature category, high-profile studio films like Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 and Universal/DreamWorks’s The Wild Robot and acclaimed indies like Memoir of a Snail are joined in the running by longer shots like The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, a film jettisoned by Warner Bros. that wound up with the distributor Ketchup Entertainment.

The documentary feature race, meanwhile, includes titles that have dominated at the doc community’s precursor awards, including Nat Geo’s Sugarcane, Netflix’s Daughters and MTV’s Black Box Diaries; two that count Malala Yousafzai as an executive producer, Apple’s Bread & Roses and The Last of the Sea Women, and two that count Jennifer Lawrence as an EP,...

Paramount’s “Gladiator II” dominated the U.K. and Ireland box office with a £9.1 million ($11.5 million) opening weekend, according to numbers from Comscore.

Studiocanal’s “Paddington In Peru” maintained momentum in its sophomore session, collecting £6.8 million for a cumulative £18.8 million after two weeks. Warner Bros.’ “Red One” secured third place with £1.4 million, pushing its two-week total to £4.6 million.

Entertainment Film Distributors’ “Heretic” added £505,118 in its third frame, reaching £4.9 million total. Sony’s “Venom: The Last Dance” continued its run with £398,650, accumulating £11.8 million after four weeks.

Universal’s “The Wild Robot” showed staying power in its fifth week with £387,352, bringing its total to £13.2 million. Lionsgate U.K.’s “Small Things Like These” gathered £326,315 for a three-week cume of £3 million.

Trafalgar Releasing’s “Kiss Me, Kate: The Musical” debuted with £258,966 and Trinity’s “The Last Dance” earned £187,203 for a total of £1 million. Andrea Bocelli’s concert film, “Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration,...

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Here's to an all-new movie alert week! From November 18 to 24, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO, and Max are releasing a number of premieres and docuseries for subscribers to enjoy at the start of a new week.

New Movies Hitting Netflix This Week

Netflix has a couple of new flicks hitting the streamer, but the upcoming docuseries, 900 Days Without Anabel, may be the most highly anticipated.

The docuseries focuses on the abduction of Anabel Segura, aka the longest kidnapping in Spanish history. Otherwise, Netflix also adds GTMax, The Piano Lesson, and Transmitzvah to their roster.

As for subscribers looking for kids and new romances, The Merry Gentlemen, Maybe Baby 2, and Spellbound may be right up your alley!

GTMax (2024) — November 20The Merry Gentlemen (2024) — November 20Maybe Baby 2 (2024) — November 21900 Days Without Anabel (2024) — November 22The Piano...

On Sunday night, per annual tradition, dozens of the current crop of top Oscar contenders — among them Maria lead actress Angelina Jolie, Gladiator II lead actor Paul Mescal, The Substance lead actress Demi Moore, The Brutalist lead actor Adrien Brody and Emilia Pérez supporting actress Selena Gomez — turned up at Ovation Hollywood for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards ceremony, a black-tie dinner at which the organization presents special awards to industry legends.

The 15th Governors Awards’ highest profile honoree, composer-producer Quincy Jones, was celebrated posthumously, having died Nov. 3 at the age of 91. The most moving part of the evening came toward the end, when Jones’ honorary Oscar statuette was accepted by his daughter, actress-writer Rashida Jones, who, flanked by some of her siblings, tearfully paid tribute to her father and read the speech that he had planned to give at the ceremony.

An honorary Oscar...

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With over 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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Bread & Roses is a new documentary that exposes the realities of life as a woman under Taliban rule in modern-day Afghanistan. Beginning in 2021 with the United States final withdrawal from the country, Bread & Roses follows three womengovernment employee Sharifa Mowahedzada, dentist Dr. Zahra Mohammadi, and activist Taranom Seyedias their rights and opportunities are stripped from them by the extremist Taliban government. Told largely through cell phone footage and handheld cameras, Bread & Roses highlights the work of women activists in Kabul as well as the dangers they face.

The documentary comes from Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who has long worked to highlight the voices of women from her country with films like A Thousand Girls Like Me. It was produced by actor Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi and executive produced by activist Malala Yousafzai and Farhad Khosravi. Bread & Roses is a fitting project for Yousafzai to amplify as her organization,...

Jennifer Lawrence is on the red carpet to promote a new documentary that she helped produce!

The 34-year-old actress, who is pregnant with her second child, cradled her baby bump while attending the premiere of Bread & Roses on Thursday (November 14) at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Jennifer was joined by fellow producer Malala Yousafzai, her producing partner Justine Ciarrocchi, and director Sahra Mani. Also there was Malala‘s husband Asser Malik.

Bread & Roses, which debuts on Apple TV+ on November 22, captures “the spirit of Afghan women in their relentless quest for autonomy. A moving portrayal of strength amid struggle, this acclaimed Cannes Film Festival documentary shines a light on their resilience.”

Just a few weeks ago, Jennifer made her first red carpet appearance since the pregnancy news to attend the premiere of another documentary that she produced.

Variety hosted its inaugural Doc Dreams NYC event on Nov. 12, featuring two panels with some of this award season’s top documentary feature contenders.

Speakers on the first panel included Carla Gutiérrez, director and editor of “Frida”; Irene Taylor, director and producer of “I Am: Celine Dion”; and R.J. Cutler, director and producer of “Elton John: Never Too Late.”

“I Am: Celine Dion” follows the Canadian singer’s musical journey and life-altering illness, the latter of which Taylor admitted she was not aware of prior to signing onto the project.

“I was so intrigued and encouraged by Celine herself when we had met and talked through the idea of a film,” Taylor said. “I think she was ready to spend the amount of time that a thorough biography with a living subject would offer.”

Gutiérrez’s documentary “Frida,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, traces the...

Apple TV+ has announced the programming that will be added to the streaming service next month. The Apple TV Plus November 2024 lineup includes Bad Sisters Season 2, the documentary Bread & Roses, the war drama Blitz, and Silo Season 2.

Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment. It is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens.

Silo Season 2 Apple TV Plus November 2024 Schedule

Available November 1

Blitz (PG-13 War Drama Film)

Steve McQueen‘s “Blitz” follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a nine-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.

Cinema Eye Honors today shared a string of announcements, including the 16 films on its Audience Choice Prize Longlist, the unveiling of this year’s Unforgettables Honorees, nominees in its five Broadcast categories, and its annual Shorts List — spotlighting 11 of the year’s top documentary short films — at its 7th annual Cinema Eye Fall Lunch in Downtown Los Angeles on October 24, 2024.

Spotlighted on the film side are several major Best Documentary Feature contenders including “Will & Harper,” “Black Box Diaries,” and “No Other Land,” which all also factored into the organization’s list of Unforgettables — standout on-camera collaborators from eight feature documentaries. This next ceremony will be the first time those honorees, like Harper Steele, Shiori Ito, and Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham for those respective films, receive a special medallion honoring their contribution to their Cinema Eye-winning films.

Highlights among the Broadcast nominees include filmmaker Lance Oppenheim, nominated for both...

The Apple TV+ documentary “Girls State” and the HBO doc series “Ren Faire” led all projects in nominations in the Cinema Eye Honors broadcast categories, which were announced on Thursday in Los Angeles.

“Girls State” was nominated in the Broadcast Film category and also for its editing and cinematography. “Ren Faire” was also nominated in those last two categories, as well as for Nonfiction Series.

Other broadcast films and series with multiple nominations included Netflix’s “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders,” Apple’s “The Enfield Poltergeist,” HBO’s “Telemarketers” and National Geographic’s “Photographer.”

At its annual Cinema Eye Fall Lunch at Redbird in downtown Los Angeles, the New York-based organization also announced the Audience Choice Award Long List, 16 films that will compete for the audience-voted award; 11 semi-finalists in the short doc category; and “The Unforgettables,” its annual list of the year’s most interesting documentary subjects.

The Audience...

In November 2024, Apple TV+ brings an exciting lineup featuring both returning favorites and compelling new narratives. Bad Sisters returns for its second season on November 13, delving deeper into the lives of the Garvey sisters as they grapple with the resurfacing truths surrounding Grace’s “accidental death.” On November 15, the gripping sci-fi drama Silo resumes its exploration of the last ten thousand people on Earth, with Rebecca Ferguson as Juliette, who unravels dark secrets hidden within their underground world.

The much-anticipated film Blitz, directed by Steve McQueen, premieres on November 22, following the poignant journey of 9-year-old George (Elliott Heffernan) as he navigates World War II London in search of his mother, Rita (Saoirse Ronan). Also debuting on November 22 is Bread & Roses, a powerful documentary that highlights the struggles of Afghan women in the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover in 2021. This month promises to be filled with gripping stories and...

Jennifer Lawrence is pregnant with her second child, according to an exclusive report confirmed by a source to The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday.

The Oscar-winning actor was spotted sporting a baby bump while dining in Los Angeles on Saturday night, Vogue was first to report Sunday after confirming with her representative. THR confirmed the outlet’s reporting to be verified by a source close to the actor shortly after the story broke.

No further information was provided or reported regarding her health or due date.

Lawrence, 34, is already a mother to two-year-old Cy, whom she welcomed in 2022 with her husband, Cooke Maroney. This will be the second child for the couple who married in 2019 at the Belcourt Mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. The Silver Linings Playbook star has maintained her son’s privacy, having never publicly shared a photo of the boy.

In an interview with Vogue in 2022, Lawrence discussed...

Jennifer Lawrence is pregnant again!

The 34-year-old Hunger Games actress and husband Cooke Maroney are expecting their second child, a representative for the actor has confirmed to Vogue.

She made an outing for dinner in Los Angeles with her baby bump just visible one night before the confirmation.

Keep reading to find out more…

She also shares a son, Cy, 2, with her 40-year-old art gallerist husband.

The two got married in October 2019 at the Belcourt mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. Congratulations to the happy couple! Find out which other stars are also expecting babies.

She recently spoke out about having a different sort of relationship with the paparazzi since she welcomed her son Cy.

In a few days, the documentary that she produced alongside Hillary Clinton, Zurawski v Texas, about the impact of strict anti-abortion laws in Texas, premieres in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, and San Antonio. Get more details.

In 2021, as American troops withdrew from Afghanistan following 20 horrendous years at war, the very forces they fought against for those two decades were allowed to retake the country in a matter of months. Once the Taliban regained power, some of its first governing actions were to diminish the rights of women throughout Afghanistan, taking away their ability to be educated beyond sixth grade, to keep an occupation, and to even walk unaccompanied in public. Using only their cell phones and strong belief in self-determination, three women documented this cruel turn of events, both the personal struggles they faced being forced to give up jobs they’d spent their lives working towards and the resistance that grew as more women came out against these harsh laws.

This footage, which also includes occasional professional camera work, was eventually compiled by director Sahra Mani into the documentary “Bread & Roses,” which premiered at...

"We have to fight. There is no other choice." Apple TV has unveiled the trailer for a documentary film titled Bread & Roses, from filmmaker Sahra Mani. This originally premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and will arrive in US theaters later this year. In the shadow of Kabul's fall, three women from Afghanistan fight to reclaim their lives. Bread & Roses is produced by Jennifer Lawrence & Malala Yousafzai, and captures the spirit of Afghan women in their relentless quest for autonomy. A moving portrayal of strength amid struggle, this acclaimed film shines a light on their resilience, featuring the spirit of Afghani women through a raw depiction of their harrowing plight. Reviews are positive, stating the film "does a remarkable job of reminding the world both of women's rights but also our human responsibility to the women of Afghanistan. It deserves not only our attention but also our action.

Today, Apple Original Films unveiled the trailer and poster for Bread & Roses, a powerful new documentary offering a window into the seismic impact that the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021 had on women’s rights and livelihoods. Bread & Roses will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on November 22, 2024.

The documentary film follows three women in real-time as they fight to recover their autonomy. Director Sahra Mani captures the spirit and resilience of Afghan women through a raw depiction of their harrowing plight.

Bread & Roses, an Eyan Foundation presentation in association with Extracurricular, is produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi with Mani, alongside executive producers Malala Yousafzai and Farhad Khosravi. The documentary was a Cannes Film Festival selection and Cannes Golden Eye nominee.

“Closing girls’ schools in Afghanistan is not just a matter of feminist concern; rather, it is a matter of international security,” said director and producer Sahra Mani previously.

Apple Original Films has just dropped the trailer for Bread & Roses, a documentary feature — directed by Sahra Mani and produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Malala Yousafzai — about the plight of women in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the 2021 withdrawal from the country of the United States and fall of Kabul to the Taliban.

The film, which Lawrence and her Excellent Cadaver producing partner Justine Ciarrocchi initiated and hired Afghan filmmaker Mani (A Thousand Girls Like Me) to direct, follows three courageous Afghani women as they resist efforts to rob them of the autonomy they had acquired in recent decades.

Yousafzai, the Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize-winning champion of girls education, signed on as an executive producer to further highlight the film’s urgent message, joined by the Iranian composer Farhad Khosravi.

Bread & Roses had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it garnered strong reviews (it is...

Shaping the world into a better place has been an active mission for Malala Yousafzai. As an activist for girls and human rights globally recognized since age 12, the Nobel Peace Prize winner — the youngest in history to receive the award — is no stranger to cameras in her own life. After her acclaimed 2015 documentary He Named Me Malala, inspired by her bestselling memoir I Am Malala, she produced the Oscar-nominated short doc Stranger at the Gate. At the 2024 Toronto Film Festival, Yousafzai premiered the Apple doc The Last of the Sea Women, from her production company Extracurricular, which premieres on Apple TV+ on Oct. 11. The film examines the world of South Korea’s all female haenyeo divers, whose centuries-long tradition of harvesting sea life in the waters off Jeju Island is endangered.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg spoke with the 27-year-old Yousafzai as part of the annual TIFF Industry Conference’ Visionaries conversation series.

Jennifer Lawrence is teaming up once again with A24 for a movie adaptation of “Why Don’t You Love Me?,” the darkly comedic 2023 graphic novel by Paul B. Rainey.

Robert Funke (“On Becoming a God in Central Florida”) is writing the screenplay, as the search for a director is underway. Lawrence is also a producer alongside Justine Ciarrocchi for Excellent Cadaver; Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen and Emily Hildner of Square Peg are also on board. Rainey executive produces.

“Why Don’t You Love Me?” follows a miserable couple, Claire and Mark, struggling through their marriage while “feeling like something is not quite right in their reality,” teases A24. The graphic novel has been described as a “pitch-black comedy about marriage, alcoholism, depression and mourning lost opportunities,” with surprising twists along the way.

Lawrence launched the production company Excellent Cadaver in 2018 and teamed with A24 for the release of its first film,...

After dabbling in comedy with “No Hard Feelings,” Jennifer Lawrence is tapping back into her funny bone with a new project with A24.

Lawrence will star in and produce “Why Don’t You Love Me?” which is based on a graphic novel by Paul B. Rainey published in 2023. The logline is merely that Lawrence will star as one half of a couple struggling through their marriage while feeling like something is not quite right in their reality.

But Rainey’s book is described as a science-fiction dark comedy about marriage, alcoholism, and depression in which the couple realizes this unhappy marriage is not the life they chose for themselves upon hearing news of an impending nuclear war on the radio. Lawrence’s character is a chain-smoking stalker and couch potato who spends the bulk of her time in a bathrobe, and both she and her husband wonder if this life...

In a highly competitive situation, Apple Original Films has acquired The Wives, a murder mystery film to star Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence, who will also produce.

The project will be co-produced by Apple Studio and A24, with additional producers to include Justine Ciarrocchi for Lawrence’s Excellent Cadaver, and Jeremy O. Harris and Josh Godfrey for bb².

Details as to the plot are under wraps, though sources said the project draws inspiration from the Real Housewives reality franchise. Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley (Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical) will write the script.

An Academy Award winner, Lawrence is coming off of roles in Sony’s acclaimed sex comedy No Hard Feelings and Apple TV+’s veteran drama Causeway. In addition to those projects, she previously produced the documentary Bread & Roses, capturing the experiences of Afghanistan women’s under the Taliban...

Every month, Apple TV+ continues to deliver quality films and television shows to its subscribers. The list of titles set to hit the streaming service next month is no different, which means viewers should undoubtedly be excited about whats to come. The platform might not have the extensive catalog offered by other services, but that does not imply its lacking in any way. With the summer heat rising outside, viewers will likely stay glued to their couches, given what will be available in the coming weeks.

Time and again, Apple TV+ has proven itself to be quite the contender when it comes to streaming content. From dramatic legal television thrillers to critically acclaimed feature films, the platforms June offerings are bound to enthrall prospective viewers for hours. Whether audiences want to laugh or cry, the streaming service has something to suit any mood next month.

Presumed Innocent (Limited Series) Stream...

Apple TV+ has announced the programming that is coming to the streaming service next month. The Apple TV Plus June 2024 lineup includes the thriller series Presumed Innocent, the documentary Bread & Roses, the dramatic series Land of Women, the animated series WondLa, and the film Fancy Dance.

Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment. It is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens.

Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, Vizio, Tcl and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, and at the Apple site.

Apple TV Plus June 2024 Highlights

Available June 12

Presumed Innocent (Drama Series)

“Presumed Innocent” is...

The Oscar-winner and the Nobel laureate have teamed up to make Bread & Roses, a new film about the abuse of women in Afghanistan. In an emotional interview, they warn that the west ignores its message at their peril

“Strong women are not easy women,” says Jennifer Lawrence, “and a woman’s life is lonely. So much of our experience cannot be shared or understood by men, and our rights are in their hands. That’s why we need each other.”

The two other people on our video call nod in agreement. One is Malala Yousafzai, who, with Lawrence, has produced a new documentary about the oppression of Afghan women by the Taliban after US troops withdrew in 2021. The other is Sahra Mani, who directed it.

Hundreds of janitors and supporters marched from the Sony lot to Amazon Studios on Thursday to support striking Hollywood writers and protest alleged layoffs at major entertainment companies during the ongoing work stoppage.

According to the Seiu United Service Workers West union, which organized the demonstration with the Writers Guild of America, about 50 janitors have been laid off since the work stoppage began May 2, while others have seen their hours cut. The cuts have occurred across all major studios, according to the union, though it name-checks Paramount and Radford Studio Center in particular. (The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Radford Studio Center and Paramount for comment.)

“We don’t know how far it’s going to go. But we felt it was important to let them [the studios] know that we’re not going to be divided, that working people have to stand together,” Seiu-usww president David Huerta tells THR.

The...

A casual queen!

After wearing flip-flops on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival last month, Jennifer Lawrence is setting the record straight about the fashion statement that had the internet abuzz.

“Ok, thank you for bringing this up. I would really like to straighten this out,” Lawrence told Et’s Nischelle Turner while promoting her new film, “No Hard Feelings” alongside co-star, Andrew Barth Feldman. “I was not making a political statement, not that I wouldn’t. I had no idea until it like, came out that there was a whole controversy with people wearing flats, or like, walking down the red carpet barefoot. I had no clue. My shoes were a size too big.”

Lawrence was attending a screening of the film “Bread and Roses”, a new documentary she produced, alongside the film’s director, Sahra Mani and fellow producer Justine Ciarrocchi, when the incident occurred, pairing...

Heartfelt Obsession

Netflix this week announced six new Korean romance titles slated for the rest of 2023. They are: “See You in my 19th Life,” “King the Land,” “Behind Your Touch,” “Destined With You,” “A Time Called You,” and “Doona!”

The titles were unveiled at an in-person event called “K-romance obsession” in Seoul. Guests were mostly K-drama influencers from around the Asia Pacific region and the event was decked out with reds, pinks and vast numbers of heart decorations. Guests were offered snack food that had been featured in earlier hit K-drama shows including “Crash Landing on You,” “Extraordinary Attorney Woo,” “Business Proposal” and “Alchemy of Souls.”

According to Netflix, between 2018 to 2022, global viewership of its K-Romance titles tripled, with more than 90% views coming from outside South Korea in 2022 alone. Don Kang, VP of content (Korea) said, “Our stories touch on the universal aspects of life — love, heartbreak, and tenderness, while...

Jennifer Lawrence broke the internet during Cannes when she was photographed walking down the steps outside the Palais des Festivals in black flip-flops and a red Christian Dior gown.

In a recent conversation with Entertainment Tonight, the No Hard Feelings star said she wanted to explain what happened.

“I was not making a political statement, not that I wouldn’t,” she told the publication. “I had no idea until it like, came out that there was a whole controversy with people wearing flats, or like, walking down the red carpet barefoot. I had no clue. My shoes were a size too big.”

The actress, who has taken a tumble on a red carpet before, was attending a screening of the doc Bread and Roses and said she walked up the carpet in heels but came back to take photos with her production team at Excellent Cadaver.

“So, we had to take an Excellent Cadaver picture,...

Text written on June 6, 2023 by Jean-Marc Thérouanne

Asia in the juries :

Franco-Afghan writer and director Atiq Rahimi was the only Asian member of the prestigious jury at the 76th Cannes Film Festival

Fench-Cambodian director Davy Chou was the only Asia-related member of the Un Certain Regard jury

Davy Chou

Shlomi Elkabetz was the only member of the short film jury and the Cinef with a connection to geographical Asia.

Asia in the selections:

Asia, from the Near to the Far East, was present with 31 features and 13 shorts in all the official and parallel sections of the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

In compétition :

– China: Youth (Spring) by Wang Bing

– Japan: Monster by Kore-eda Hirokazu,

Kim Dong-ho, Hirokazu Koreeda

– Turkey: About Dry Grasses by Nuri Bilge Ceylan,

and The Pot-au-feu by French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung and Wim Wenders' Perfect Days, set in Japan.

Out of compétition :

– Korea: Cobweb by Kim Jee-won,...

The 2023 Cannes Film Festival’s documentary slate featured probes into human rights abuses and profiles of unsung visionaries. At least one movie falls into both categories. This year marks the second time that the L’Œil d’or, first presented in 2015, has gone to two films. It’s also the first time in 19 years that nonfiction has competed for the Palme d’Or. Do you think any of the following titles 10 should be on our radar come Oscar season?

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“Anita”

Anita Pallenberg is known by a small group, and still only as a muse rather than an actress, fashion icon and writer. Laird Borrelli-Persson (Vogue) describes her as a “troubled woman who has come close to being mythologized out of existence and sidelined by the juggernaut that is The Rolling Stones.” Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill made “Anita...

Documentary fans might be forgiven for nurturing a dream – that Cannes would follow the recent example of Venice and Berlin and award its top prize to a nonfiction film. Complete the documentary Triple Crown – the Golden Lion, the Golden Bear and the Palme d’or.

Alas, it wasn’t to be. On Saturday night, Cannes gave the gilded frond to a narrative-fiction film, as it generally does, Anatomy of a Fall. But perhaps the important thing is, the jury could have made the trifecta happen. Two documentaries appeared in main competition – Wang Bing’s Jeunesse (Youth) and Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters (Les Filles d’Olfa) – ending a nearly 20-year span in which no nonfiction film had been accorded the prestige of a competition slot. As they say about the lottery,...

The 2023 Cannes Film Festival is jam-packed with buzzy world premieres, from Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” to Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City.” Todd Haynes is also back to unveil “May December,” featuring the A-list pairing of Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, while Disney is bringing Harrison Ford to the Croisette for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” New films from Pedro Almodovar, Jessica Hautner, Jonathan Glazer, Catherine Corsini, Hirokazu Kore-eda and more are also set to make their debuts at Cannes this year.

Cannes is often seen as a launching pad for Oscar season. Warner Bros. in 2022 kicked off its lengthy awards run for Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” on the French Riviera, with the film going on to land eight Academy Award nominations, including best picture. Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness” also picked up Oscar nods for best picture, director and original screenplay. Two international film nominees,...

When the Taliban seized Kabul in 2021, the women of the city suffered. The Islamic Emirate immediately shut down schools and universities, made it illegal for women to be in public without a male chaperone and forced professionals to quit their jobs or close their businesses. Life for the women in the city shrank, as the militant group stripped away their rights and confined them to their homes.

In the harrowing documentary Bread and Roses, directed by Sahra Mani (A Thousand Girls Like Me), grainy cellphone footage shows the Taliban marching from the mountains and into Kabul. The mass of bodies floods the streets. Their faces — or what little is visible — reveal no emotions as they yell about God’s greatness. Gun shots in the distance announce their arrival and warn against refusal. This video, a roughly ten- to 15-second clip, is one of several chilling snapshots in Bread and Roses,...

A film festival as large as Cannes is always a study in contradictions, but the first six days of the 2023 edition feel particularly schizophrenic as the fest has veered between sentimental celebration and unsentimental artistry.

Both were on display in the festival’s biggest premiere so far, when Martin Scorsese’s monumental “Killers of the Flower Moon” had its debut in front of a delirious crowd at the Grand Theatre Lumiere on Saturday night. The invitation-only, black-tie audience was there to celebrate Scorsese, who first came to Cannes in 1976 with “Taxi Driver,” greeting him as a conquering hero and giving him a lengthy and emotional standing ovation that didn’t stop until he left the theater.

His film, meanwhile, was a hard-eyed and epic-length examination of the systematic murder of Native Americans from the Osage nation by whites looking to take the tribe’s oil money; the film’s biggest stars,...

Bread and Roses, co-produced by Lawrence, documents lives of three women after Taliban’s return to power

A documentary about the lives of three women living under the Taliban, co-produced by Jennifer Lawrence, has premiered at the Cannes film festival.

Bread and Roses, shown at a special screening on Sunday, follows three Afghan women in the weeks after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 after the withdrawal of US troops.

Afghan director Sahra Mani‘s well-received “A Thousand Girls Like Me” documented the quest for justice of a young incest victim, and now, Mani has returned with a similarly hard-hitting documentary, “Bread and Roses”, premiering in the official selection of Cannes as a special screening. Produced by Jennifer Lawrence, this film tackles an urgent and timely topic through a committed on-the-ground perspective, capturing the experience of three people, Zahra, Taranom and Sharifa, whose lives as they knew them were effectively ended when the Taliban seized control of Kabul in 2021.

The film benefits from not introducing a voice-of-god narrator, nor a viewer stand-in to guide the audience through an arm’s-length survey of the situation. This is scrappy, up-close and personal filmmaking — which is not to say that anything here is hard to follow or purposefully obscure. It’s more that Mani trusts both her audience and subjects to engage with...