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Villeneuve will receive the TIFF Ebert Director Award and Obomsawin will be honored with the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media at the 2021 TIFF Tribute Awards

NYFF to open with Joel Coen’s ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’

The film, starring Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington, will have its world premiere on opening night of the New York Film Festival

Sean Penn won’t return to series‘Gaslit’ unless everyone on production is vaccinated

Issuing an ultimatum, the actor has put his foot down on vaccinations for everyone on the set

Shilpa Shetty posts about ‘surviving challenges’ after husband Raj Kundra’s arrest

Kundra was arrested by the crime branch in a case related to alleged creation of pornographic films and publishing them through some apps

Cinematographer-director Sanu John Varughese on shooting for ‘Malik’ and his directorial debut, ‘Aarkkariyam’

He says working in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi cinema throws up fresh challenges and keeps him on his toes

Three Khans and the changing scene

Kaveree Bamzai’s book 'The Three Khans: And the Emergence of New India' juxtaposes the careers of the three actors with the socio-political shift in the country

The modern brown woman experience in America: Richa Moorjani and Poorna Jagannathan on Netflix’s ‘Never Have I Ever’ season two

Actors Richa Moorjani and Poorna Jagannathan get up close and personal on playing South Asian women in STEM in Netflix’s comedy ‘Never Have I Ever’, and why new mediums of storytelling matter

Songs should be appealing even years after release, says music Maestro Ilaiyaraaja

After a legal tussle with Prasad Studios where he had composed songs for over 1,000 films from the late 1970s, Ilaiyaraaja moved and began working out of his new studio in Kodambakkam earlier this year

Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to sexual assaults in California

The disgraced movie mogul now awaits a second trial on a second coast, and the possibility of another lengthy sentence

Leslie Grace to play Batgirl in HBO Max superhero movie

The DC movie will feature Grace as Barbra Gordon aka Batgirl, who is the daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon

‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ adds Michaela Coel to cast

Coel found global fame last year after the massive success of her BBC One/HBO series ‘I May Destroy You’

‘Sarpatta Parambarai’ movie review: Packs a punch, but follows a predictable path

With the Arya-starrer, director Pa. Ranjith brings to life the vibrant boxing culture in ‘70s North Madras

Kangana Ranaut challenges criminal proceedings

Magistrate court had issued a bailable warrant after she failed to appear despite summons

Malayalam actor Lena turns scenarist with ‘Olam’

Lena will also act in the film, she co-wrote with first-time director VS Abhilash

R Madhavan finishes filming for Netflix web series ‘Decoupled’

The show, also starring Surveen Chawla of ‘Sacred Games’ fame, is a comedy about a couple on the verge of a divorce

Nayanthara’s ‘Netrikann’ to release on Disney+ Hotstar

The film is reportedly an official remake of 2011 South Korean movie ‘Blind’

No regrets about ‘Eighteen Hours’ not releasing in theatres, says Rajesh Nair

The filmmaker talks about making ‘Eighteen Hours’, an action thriller starring mostly newcomers, during the pandemic

A KSFDC workshop for aspiring women filmmakers wins appreciation from participants

The aim is to help women make a mark behind the camera

Laura Pausini collaborating with Amazon Studios for Italian original movie

Pausini, one of the most highly regarded Italian artists in the world with over, has sold over 70 million albums worldwide

Toronto Film Festival 2021 to open with ‘Dear Evan Hansen’

Organisers have unveiled a robust slate of premieres for the 46th edition of TIFF, which is returning to an in-person fete

Boxing in North Madras: How actor Arya and coach Thiru worked on ‘Sarpatta Parambarai’

Actor Arya and seasoned boxing coach Thiru sparred through Pa Ranjith’s ‘Sarpatta Parambarai’ to recreate the glory days of North Madras

Kannada film ‘Ikkat’ is a lockdown-inspired comedy, says Esham and Haseen

The director brothers say they chose to make a comedy as most other films based on the lockdown are serious

Tanya Maniktala and Amol Parashar talk about Netflix romantic anthology ‘Feels Like Ishq’

The actors talk about why they chose to be a part of the project, the challenges of shooting during a pandemic and more

Sankalp Reddy to helm Vidyut Jammwal’s ‘IB 71’

‘IB 71’, inspired by true incidents during the Indo-Pak war of 1971, marks Vidyut Jammwal’s first as a producer and will be directed by Sankalp Reddy

Josh Peck on 'Turner & Hooch': ‘A little chaos is a good thing’

The actor plays Scott Turner Jr in the spin-off series based on the eponymous Tom Hanks movie

Charlize Theron, Andy and Barbara Muschietti developing ‘Final Girl Support Group’ series

The title refers to a Los Angeles-based therapeutic support group for the survivors of mass-murderer rampages

Adrien Brody joins Wes Anderson’s next movie

The new film will be the fifth project that the duo have worked on together

Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Madres paralelas’ to open Venice Film Festival

The film about two, single and pregnant women starring Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit and Israel Elejalde will debut as part of the competition slate on September 1

‘Narappa’ movie review: A faithful, frame-to-frame remake of ‘Asuran’

Venkatesh, Priyamani and Karthik Rathnam show their mettle in this Telugu film that stays unwaveringly faithful to the source material

French shocker 'Titane' wins Palme d'Or as Spike Lee slips up

French director Julie Ducournau is only the second woman to take home the prize for the movie, one of the wildest, sexiest and most violent films ever shown at the Cannes film festival

The state has withdrawn all support of serious cinema: Adoor Gopalakrishnan

As he turns 80, the celebrated filmmaker talks of censorship and the dilution of cinema seen on a phone screen

Jalaja makes a comeback in Mahesh Narayanan’s ‘Malik’

The veteran talks about playing Jameela in the recently-released ‘Malik’ starring Fahadh Faasil, and the need for better characters for senior actors in Malayalam cinema

G. Aravindan’s 'Kummatty' to be restored to its original glory

It will have its world restoration premiere at the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival late July

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