Films

The third İzmir International Film and Music Festival, organized with the theme of the relationship between cinema and music since its first year, will start on June 16. The event focuses on cinema-music relations in order to encourage the use of original music in films.

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.

Pixar is seeking to rediscover its box office fortunes with timely immigrant fable "Elemental," the animation studio's first totally original new film to hit theaters since the start of the pandemic.

An accident on the set of the next "Gladiator" film, the sequel to the best picture Oscar winner from 2000, injured multiple people involved in the production.

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.

A nearly 400-item lot of James Dean-related memorabilia featuring artifacts from the late Hollywood legend, including signed photos, letters and a Warner Bros. contract garnered a sum of more than $260,000.

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.