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Oscar nominees Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh are both hard-pressed to explain exactly how on-screen chemistry is created, but they have oodles of it in their new tearjerker romance "We Live in Time," which debuted at the Toronto film festival.
One of Hollywood's biggest stars who is never afraid to push herself, Nicole Kidman ventured even further from her comfort zone with erotic thriller "Babygirl", which saw her named best actress in Venice on Saturday.
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for "The Room Next Door", while France's Vincent Lindon and Australian star Nicole Kidman took the top acting prizes.
The Venice Film Festival wraps up Saturday with one winner to be awarded the prestigious Golden Lion prize out of an eclectic roster of exceptional international films.
Ukrainian politicians and cultural figures on Friday slammed a screening of a Russian-Canadian filmmaker's war documentary as propaganda, a claim the director denied.
Brazilian music legend Sergio Mendes, who helped catapult bossa nova onto the global stage in the 1960s with hits including "Mas Que Nada," died in Los Angeles at the age of 83, his family said Friday.
Hundreds of revellers flocked to Vienna's Central Cemetery on Friday to attend a graveyard concert commemorating the famous site's 150th birthday, doing justice to the local expression "Death must be a Viennese".
Brazilian music legend Sergio Mendes, who helped catapult bossa nova onto the global stage in the 1960s with hits including "Mas Que Nada," died in Los Angeles at the age of 83, his family said Friday.
When Canadian writer Durga Chew-Bose was asked to pen a new film adaptation of Francoise Sagan's hit 1954 coming-of-age novel "Bonjour Tristesse," she jumped at the chance, even going beyond the page to offer costume and music advice.
Singapore's first film in the Venice Festival's main competition, Yeo Siew Hua's "Stranger Eyes", is a complex reflection on voyeurism, surveillance and fractured visions of people's lives.
The Toronto film festival, the largest in North America, kicked off in earnest Thursday with Ben Stiller's family movie "Nutcrackers" as a handful of pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the opening night screening.
From Lady Gaga's Batman-inspired mask to Julianne Moore's glittery gold gown resembling an Oscar, stars at Venice have given fans standout red carpet moments worthy of the world's oldest film festival.
Hollywood's A-list stars are convening in Toronto for North America's largest film festival -- a 10-day extravaganza of Oscar bait movies, timely documentaries and glamour that opens Thursday.
The UK's competition watchdog said Thursday it has launched an investigation into Ticketmaster over how it handled ticket sales for next year's sold-out Oasis reunion tour.
A French woman whose husband is accused of enlisting dozens of strangers to rape her while she was drugged told his trial on Thursday that police had saved her by uncovering the crimes.
Understanding disinformation has emerged as a lightning rod in the United States ahead of the November election, with academics and think-tanks facing lawsuits by right-wing groups and subpoenas from a Republican-led congressional committee.
A US prosecutor has called on a judge to reconsider her dismissal of Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial, disputing the court's ruling that law enforcement authorities deliberately withheld key evidence in their case against the Hollywood star.
A dark and music-filled "Joker" sequel brought Lady Gaga to Venice Wednesday, playing the star-crossed love interest of the DC Comics-inspired anti-hero in one of the year's most anticipated films.
British luxury fashion label Burberry is set to exit London's FTSE 100 after 15 years at the top-tier index, the stock exchange announced Wednesday, as analysts cited strategic mistakes and weak demand from China.
Meta's Oversight Board ruled on Wednesday that the standalone use of the phrase "From the River to the Sea," a slogan oft-used by pro-Palestinian users, does not violate the company's content policies.
Lady Gaga confessed to having been "deeply moved" by the original film "Joker" on Wednesday as the new sequel starring the pop star and Joaquin Phoenix gets its world premiere in Venice.
Social network X has committed to stop its much-criticised harvesting of European users' personal data to train its artificial intelligence program, Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Wednesday.
The London Film Festival returns next month with the premiere of Steve McQueen's wartime drama "Blitz", as well as the first look at a new television series from "Peaky Blinders" creator Steven Knight, the organisers said Wednesday.
The enticing smell of grilled corn and chestnuts wafted from Hakan Deniz's red and gold food cart near a mosque in Istanbul's old city. But local customers are hard to come by these days.
Lady Gaga is the hotly anticipated attraction on the glitzy Lido Wednesday, as the Venice Film Festival hosts the premiere of her new film, the dark and subversive "Joker: Folie a Deux".
In his new film "Queer", Daniel Craig sheds his suave 007 persona for the loneliness and anguish of a drug-addicted gay man, in a love story based on the William Burroughs novel.
High-profile South Korean actor Yoo Ah-in was found guilty Monday of illegal use of the anaesthetic drug propofol and handed a one-year jail term, the Yonhap news agency reported.
Japan's Junko Hagiwara has caused a stir in Spain's traditional flamenco world by unexpectedly winning the prize for best dancer at the country's leading flamenco festival -- the first foreigner to do so.
A daughter of South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma was among hundreds of women and girls who danced for the king of Eswatini in a traditional ceremony Monday, confirming her engagement to the monarch.
Brazil's Supreme Court on Monday ratified the decision by one of its judges to suspend Elon Musk's X social network for alleged judicial transgressions.
Turkey's Olympic pistol sharpshooter Yusuf Dikec has filed to trademark his nonchalant stance at the Paris Games that went viral around the world, his coach told AFP on Monday.
The British government has said it will probe surge pricing after furious Oasis fans faced huge hikes in ticket prices for the Britpop band's much-anticipated reunion.