Film

The Culture and Tourism Ministry has announced its support for various cinema projects in 2024, spanning script and dialog writing, short film production, short animation film production and domestic film screenings.

The 19th Grossmann Festival of Fantastic Film and Wine, one of the most unique film festivals in the country, will put the spotlight on the action genre with Hollywood filmmaker John McTiernan as the guest of honour.

Celebrated author Cormac McCarthy, an unflinching chronicler of America's bleak frontiers and grim underbelly, died on June 13 aged 89, his publisher said.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men" - both of which became feature films - passed away at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

A Patek Philippe wristwatch once owned by China's last emperor sold for more than $6 million at auction in Hong Kong on May 23.

The Ref 96 Quantieme Lune timepiece, which boasts a crown-like moon phase, originally belonged to Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the final monarch of the Chinese Qing dynasty.

Wes Anderson's new film puts Westerns, theatre, 1950s Americana and an alien into a blender for another of his atypical and star-packed concoctions that he says is about "reckoning with forces beyond your control".

As always, "Asteroid City," which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23, features a roster of actors that reads like a Hollywood phonebook.  

Leonardo DiCaprio lauded Martin Scorsese's filmmaking "ferocity" on May 21 as they basked in rave reviews at Cannes for their Native American crime epic "Killers of the Flower Moon," while the festival also bowed down before Jude Law as King Henry VIII.

Climate activists in Italy turned Rome's famous Trevi Fountain black on May 21, saying floods that have killed 14 people in the country's northeast were "a warning."

Activists from the anti-climate change organization Last Generation climbed into the landmark fountain and poured a vegetable-based carbon liquid into it, before being pulled out and escorted away by police.

A darker side of female sexuality was on display in Cannes on May 20 in a film portraying a woman who seduced a schoolboy and built a picture-perfect life with him after a tabloid scandal.

The Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off today, is such a colossal extravaganza that taking measure of its ups and downs is notoriously difficult. It's a showcase of the world's best cinema. But by at least some metrics, Cannes, following a canceled 2020 festival, a much-diminished 2021 edition and a triumphant 2022 return, is finally all the way back.

When Martin Scorsese premieres his latest film, "Killers of the Flower Moon," at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, it will return Scorsese to a festival where he remains a key part of its fabled history.