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“The White Devil” got the red carpet treatment at the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Sunday. Legendary cinematographer and three-time Oscar winner Robert Richardson received the Czech festival’s highest honor, the Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contributions to world cinema, in its 80th year. And handing him the award was none other than Hollywood legend Harvey Keitel. Nicknamed “The White Devil” for his long white hair and relentless pursuit of cinematic perfection, Richardson arrived on the stage of the Grand Hall of Karlovy Vary’s Hotel Thermal to a big ovation. “I’m not an actor,” the cinematographer started off…

Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate, Kramer vs. Kramer, Rain Man) just wanted to say one word to the huge crowd that came out to see him at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) in the Czech Republic on Saturday: Plastics. Sorry, I got carried away there by the famous line from the iconic The Graduate, a special screening of which Hoffman introduced on Saturday. No, the Hollywood legend had quite a bit more to say to an adoring audience in the Grand Hall of the Hotel Thermal, the legendary “headquarters” of the Czech festival, which welcomed him with a rousing standing ovation. Asked how he…

Sure, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival audiences come to the Czech spa town for cinematic gems and the best of the past year. But let’s be honest: they also come for the trailers. KVIFF‘s signature pre-show spots have become a festival institution in their own right — edgy, often outrageous short films starring previous festival guests who are put through some kind of ordeal, frequently involving the Crystal Globe statuette being deployed in, shall we say, creative ways. Past victims include Johnny Depp, Mel Gibson, Javier Bardem, Helen Mirren, Jude Law, Harvey Keitel, Milos Forman, Danny DeVito, Casey Affleck, Andy…

GKids has acquired the Studio Ghibli library for the U.K. and Ireland, picking up rights across theatrical, home video, TV and digital for the Japanese animation studio’s entire 23-film back catalog. GKids will kick off the new deal with a theatrical Imax release of Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) on Aug. 21. Hayao Miyazaki‘s second feature follows the adventures of Kiki, a young witch who moves to the port city of Koriko with her cat Jiji and starts a flying courier service. Future Ghibli titles slated for the Imax treatment include Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) and Yoshifumi…

Barry Pepper will be seeing Kiefer Sutherland at high noon. The two will have a good, old-fashioned showdown in The Horseman, a feature-length Western from Nomadic Pictures set for an early 2027 release across Scripps Networks, which here prominently includes cable channel Grit. The Horseman, directed by Rod Lurie (The Contender, The Last Castle) and developed and co-written by Pepper (Saving Private Ryan, True Grit) and Ed Gass-Donnelly, The Horseman is set in the late-1800s West, “where America’s burgeoning demand for illumination sparked a transformative oil rush,” per the logline. Pepper stars in The Horseman as “The Man,” a “grieving…

Some say it is all about the great films! Others mention the picturesque spa town. Some simply love the Bohemian hospitality, food and drink. And others mention the summer party vibes in the air. So, what makes Karlovy Vary and the annual film festival in the Czech town so special? Most could probably agree that it’s a mix of all of the above. As has become tradition for many, film industry folks, movie buffs and people simply looking for a good time are getting ready to head to the first big festival of the summer. After all, the 60th edition of the Karlovy…

The 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) is gearing up to celebrate the venerable Czech fest’s past and, at the same time, guide it into its future. One design change symbolizing this connection between what has come before and what lies ahead is the redesign of an iconic KVIFF space. “For this and future editions, the Karlovy Vary festival is redesigning the area around the entrance to the Hotel Thermal’s Grand Hall with a new architectural design that will allow audiences to more intensely experience and share in the festival atmosphere during the festival’s opening and closing ceremonies,…

Renny Harlin has returned to Malta. The veteran filmmaker touched down on the island last week to attend the Mediterrane Film Festival, which screened his latest film, the shark thriller Deep Water, starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley. But it was his 1995 action flick Cutthroat Island that originally brought the Finnish auteur to Malta, host of many blockbuster Hollywood productions, including the Gladiator and Jurassic Park franchises. And he was stoked to be back. “Malta is the best-kept secret,” Harlin told Collider’s Steven Weintraub during a masterclass conversation on directing held inside the festival hub in Valletta last week.…

Luca Guadagnino says it wasn’t surprising Amazon MGM dropped his nearly-finished Sam Altman movie Artificial shortly after Amazon announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI. “I can’t say much because we are right in the middle of this situation,” Guadagnino told Italian television, “[but] these are industrial policies that are certainly not new.” Speaking to news show Otto e mezzo on Italian network La7, Guadagnino cited an incident from 2003 when CBS canceled the broadcast of The Regans, a miniseries about President Ronald Regan and his family, starring Josh Brolin and Judy Davis, following a conservative backlash. (The series eventually…

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