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The American Film Institute has ranked weird wave Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos's "The Favorite" in fifth place among its Top 10 movies for 2018, after the period comedy drama was nominated for five Golden Globes in four categories earlier this week and reaped 10 prizes at the British Independent Film Awards on Sunday.

U.S. actor Robert De Niro received on Dec. 1 a tribute award at the Marrakech International Film Festival from the hands of his old friend, director Martin Scorcese.

The relocated U.S. Embassy in Ankara will be situated along Malcolm X Street, which was given a new name on Nov. 29 in honor of the civil rights leader.

Bernardo Bertolucci, whose epic "The Last Emperor" won nine Oscars and who influenced generations of filmmakers with other groundbreaking works such as "The Conformist" and "Last Tango in Paris," in which he explored politics and sexuality through personal storytelling and audacious camera work, has died. He was 77, reported Variety.com

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On Thanksgiving, Disney released the first teaser trailer for its much anticipated, live-action retelling of "The Lion King." The entire movie is CGI.

The original Lion King was released in 1994. James Earl Jones is reprising his role as the voice of Mufasa in the remake.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) hosts a two-day tribute to Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman this weekend, in cooperation with the Swedish Embassy in Greece.

Turkish police and municipal security officers seek to find a total of 120 taxi drivers who have scammed tourists.

A wine-lover-friendly and interactive "Sommeliers' Selection Türkiye 2018" tasting will be held at the Marmara Taksim Hotel on Nov. 24 and Nov. 25. 

The official screening of director Ilian Djevelekov's Omnipresent, is part of the Oscar race and on 30th October in a special cinema hall in the heart of Hollywood was the first of many screenings of the Bulgarian Oscar contender for Foreign Language Film for 2018 in front members of the American Film Academy, reports TransmediumNews. 

In this Feb. 14, 2015, file photo, Edward Snowden appears on a live video feed broadcast from Moscow at an event sponsored by ACLU Hawaii in Honolulu.