Creative works

"Avatar: The Way of Water" may have finally arrived in theaters in 2022, but that long parade of "Avatar" delays isn't done, yet.

It was Miles Morales and the Spider-Verse versus the "Transformers" at the box office this weekend and the bots came out on top.

As evening fell, the soldiers of the Western military alliance had yet to reach Bala's neighbourhood, when a group of Serbian paramilitaries burst into her home. "They ordered us all to gather in this living room," Bala told BIRN, 24 years later. Her children were asleep and her husband had left on an errand minutes earlier.

He conquered the New York stage, married a Hollywood star and directed a daring new film version of "Carmen." But Benjamin Millepied says he had to give up the American dream to return to France.

Millepied is best-known to tabloid gossip fans as the husband of actress Natalie Portman, whom he met while working as choreographer on the Oscar-winning film "Black Swan."

Most would agree the 1988 film "Beetlejuice" is a classic. And two of the main creative forces behind the macabre and comedic movie - titular star Michael Keaton and visionary director Tim Burton - say they plan to stick closely to the iconic film as they tackle its long-awaited sequel.

HBO said 2.9 million people watched or streamed the series finale of "Succession" on the night of May 28, a series record that is expected to grow as delayed viewing is taken into account.

That beat the first-night record of 2.75 million for an episode that aired on April 30, earlier in the fourth and last season of the family drama about a media company.

Disney's live-action version of "The Little Mermaid" netted the top spot at North American box offices on its opening weekend, over the United States' Memorial Day holiday, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported on May 28.

Turkish actress Merve Dizdar won best actress at the Cannes Film Festival on May 27 for her role in "About Dry Grasses," the latest film from festival favorite, Türkiye's acclaimed director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

Dizdar said she played "someone who is fighting for her life and she has overcome a lot of difficulties."

A Los Angeles County judge on May 25 said she will dismiss a lawsuit that the stars of 1968's "Romeo and Juliet" filed over the film's nude scene, finding that their depiction could not be considered child pornography and they filed their claim too late.

Back for a seventh edition, the Athens Hispanic Film Festival (FeCHA, fecha.gr) brings gems from the Spanish-speaking world to the open-air Ellinis and Aello movie theaters. The festival opens officially with Santiago Mitre's 2022 "Argentina, 1985" and closes with Marc Romero's 2020 crime-thriller "75 Dias."