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Lauded Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has died at the age of 76

Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has died at the age of 76 in the French capital, Paris.

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Karlovy Vary film festival honours Willem Dafoe with 'outstanding contribution' prize

Willem Dafoe was honoured at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival which also featured the world-premiere of the Prague-shot film 'Anthropoid' about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.

USA

'Deer Hunter' director Michael Cimino dies at 77

Michael Cimino, the American award-winning filmmaker best known for his Vietnam War classic “The Deer Hunter,” has died at the age of 77.

Cinema

'Aquarius': an extraordinary woman's battle against unscrupulous real estate developers

Aquarius was one of the most critically acclaimed films in Cannes this year.

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Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick premiere ‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates’ in Los Angeles

Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates follows two hard-partying brothers, played by Zac Efron and Adam DeVine, who place an online ad looking for some well-behaved dates for their sister’s wedding in…

Italy

Gentle giant Bud Spencer laid to rest in Rome

Hundreds of family and friends have attended the funeral of Italian actor Carlo Pedersoli, better known as Bud Spencer.

World News

Oscars invites record number of members in effort to push diversity

Following an outcry over a lack of diversity, the organisers of the Oscars have invited a record number of new members to vote in next year’s Academy Awards.

Cinema

"Captain Fantastic" sees a father takes his kids into the woods, and out again

“Captain Fantastic” was, in the 1970s, a persona used by Elton John on a successful album, but now it is a completely unrelated movie starring Viggo Mortensen.

World News

Bud Spencer dies at the age of 86

The Italian actor starred in more than 20 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, many of them "Spaghetti" westerns.

Italy

Italian actor Bud Spencer dies at 86

The Italian actor and film maker Bud Spencer has died at the age of 86 in Rome.

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Blake Lively, in a bikini, fighting a shark

"The Shallows" has earned strong reviews, with some critics calling it the best shark attack movie since "Jaws."

Germany

German actor Götz George dies aged 77

The death has been announced of the popular German actor Götz George who has died at the age of 77 after a short illness.

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Roland Emmerich cements his place in Hollywood

The German director left his mark on Hollywood Boulevard ahead of the premiere of "Independence Day" sequel

USA

Star Trek's Anton Yelchin killed in freak car accident

Russian-born actor, Anton Yelchin, best known for playing Chekov in the new Star Trek flims has been killed following a freak car accident at his home in Los…

Cinema

Solveig Anspach offers tender and funny posthumous rom-com in Cannes

The Cannes screening of French-Icelandic rom-com ‘The Together Project’, was tinged with sadness as it came less than a year after the premature death of its director, Solveig…

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'Suburra' - Rome bathed in corruption and decadence

The Italian film noir ‘Suburra’ centres on the murky connections between organised crime and politics in Rome.

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Hanks and Howard team up again for film of Dan Brown's Inferno

‘Inferno’ is the third collaboration of film director Ron Howard and actor Tom Hanks for a screen adaptation of a Dan Brown thriller, following ‘Angels & Demons’ and ‘The Da Vinci…

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Johnson-Hart duo star in Hollywood comedy 'Central Intelligence'

Bob Stone was a one-time bullied overweight geek at high school.

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Michael Moore invades Europe in bid to make America great again

Where to Invade Next is Michael Moore’s recipe on how he can America be better.

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Verhoeven takes us through the dark and twisted world of Elle

Isabelle Huppert plays a role that is hard to pin down in Elle, the latest film by Paul Verhoeven.

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