British cinema group Cineworld has pulled a film about the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, Fatima, following a wave of mass protests and accusations of “blasphemy.” The offending movie, ‘The Lady of Heaven’ by director Eli King, was taken off the screen just four days after its release. “Due to recent …
Read More »2022 Oscars nominations say it all about the sorry state of cinema
The art and business of movies is in a dreadful state and the Oscars are in precipitous decline. Hollywood got up bright and early this morning to hear who amongst them was nominated for an Academy Award. The rest of the world slept through the festivities, just like they will …
Read More »The largest in Russia by revenue cinema chain PepsiCo will pay about $2 million fine
The network “Sinema Park” Alexander Mamut in 2019 paid the fine, OOO “PepsiCo holding” for non-performance on a sample of quarterly production volume at the supply contracts of beverages, goods and products in the cinemas. The costs of payment of a fine in the amount of 121,609 million rubles (about …
Read More »Online cinema has removed a series of the series “the Epidemic” about the shooting of civilians and disorder
The Director of the series “Epidemic” associated with censorship is the removal of part of his movie online cinema Premier. It is a series, which was shown to the riots and the shooting of civilians by the security forces. In an interview to “echo of Moscow” Pavel Kostomarov said online …
Read More »Accounts chamber: the Money allocated for the state support of cinema, in offshore
The chamber has found questionable points in the results of the activities controlled by the Ministry of culture cinema Fund, writes RBC with reference to the report of the Ministry on the audit of the Fund from 2017 to September 2019. Analysts ‘ questions SP relate to the use …
Read More »The strangeness of Soviet cinema, which nobody notices
No, really – it’s weird. It’s not odd that this one still paid no attention. The strange thing is that it was. It was officially, and deliberately, not afraid of the word – totally. In the sense that it differed not one Soviet film Studio, film Studio and all the …
Read More »The Soviet line in the mirror of Soviet cinema, 1981
Yuri Mamin is known primarily as a Director superbeing Comedy “Neptune Holiday”, which blew up the Soviet cinema in 1986. His “Fountain” to consolidate the success of “Neptune”. But it turns out to shoot a Comedy about the Soviet realities of the mom’s began much earlier, in the era of …
Read More »In the river was burning a cinema “salute”. Video
To fight the fire rescuers took about an hour. The incident occurred the night before. The smoke that poured from the Windows of the theater, passers-by noticed what at once reported in the rescue service. “In less than five minutes on the square in front of the main entrance steel …
Read More »Experts have called the best Christmas movie in the history of cinema. Video
This was a film Director Billy Wilder, who once received five awards “Oscar”. The British newspaper the Independent called the best Christmas movie in the history of cinema. It was a tape of Billy Wilder’s “the Apartment” – winner of five awards “Oscar”. This is a touching story of relationships …
Read More »In Kiev will be held “evenings of French cinema”
The annual French film festival. January 24, 2018 in the capital kicks off the annual festival “evenings of French cinema”, which runs until January 31. The festival films: “Young Godard” ( “Le Redoutable”) – a biographical Comedy (France) 2017/102 min. Paris, 1967. French Director Jean-Luc Godard meets a young actress …
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