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The Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has revealed the four movies for this year’s Treasures strand, showcasing “timeless classics,” including crime thriller Heat by director Michael Mann, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, and Val Kilmer. The film will be screened alongside “three meticulously restored works in collaboration with Egyptian Media Production City,” fest organizers said on Monday. Heat “redefined the genre with its intricate narrative and electrifying performances by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino,” organizers said.  “With Hussein Fawzi’s Bread and Salt, Smile the Photo Comes Out Better, starring the RSIFF honoree and Egyptian…

Over the past couple of years, Netflix has been encroaching on the Hallmark Channel’s holiday season chokehold. Writer Russell Hainline is no stranger to the Christmas movie, having penned several titles for Hallmark, including The Santa Summit and In Merry Measure. This week he debuted his first Netflix entry, the delightfully named, Hot Frosty. The movie stars Hallmark company player Lacey Chabert as Kathy, a widow and beloved local who wraps a magical scarf around a sculpted snowman with an eight-pack who becomes a real — and very naked — man named Jack. Hijinks ensue with naive and preternaturally good-natured…

Poland’s Energa Camerimage film festival has long been considered a cineaste’s dream. Established 31 years ago as a specialty event focused on cinematography, the Toruń fest has expanded significantly in recent years but has retained its essence as a pure celebration of the art of filmmaking, prioritizing craftsmanship behind the camera — DPs, directors and production designers — over celebrities and industry functions.  “The reason people keep coming back here to Poland is that they get to talk about art; it’s not another trade show or a festival with red carpets every night,” says Camerimage director Kazimierz Suwała, who estimates…

Werner Herzog travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate the death after a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances in Piotr Winiewicz’s feature film debut About a Hero. Vicky Krieps also stars, and Stephen Fry appears. “But Herzog, our narrator, is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect…,” a synopsis cautions. After all, “About a Hero is an adaptation of a script written by an AI trained on Herzog’s body of work. The fictional narrative it produced, ironically self-reflective, is intertwined with a series of interviews with artists, philosophers, and scientists reflecting on…

The Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has unveiled 38 feature film projects and, for the first time, TV series projects that will be featured at this year’s Red Sea Souk Project Market, with organizers touting that they showcase “a continued commitment to championing bold storytelling and exciting new voices in cinema.” This year’s selection highlights “a diverse range of narratives and talent from across the globe,” including seven series, they said. The selected projects represent the culmination of the Red Sea Labs annual development program within the Lodge, which is run in partnership with TorinoFilmLab and…

It’s Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans to the rescue. That’s the hope in any case as their new Christmas movie, Red One, opens across North America this weekend after a tough fall. Tracking suggests the action-adventure movie will unpack a domestic debut in the $30 million to $35 million range for Amazon MGM Studios before enjoying a long run through the year-end holidays (fingers crossed). However, there will be plenty of chatter about the movie’s box office performance considering it cost $250 million to make. A major legacy studio in the same situation would come under intense scrutiny if a…

Timothée Chalamet once had an agent tell him he needed to gain weight, the actor recalled this week. Though weird at the time, memories of the experience helped Chalamet prepare to play Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s upcoming A Complete Unknown. “If I auditioned for The Maze Runner or Divergent, things of that variety that were popping when I was coming up, the feedback was always, ‘Oh, you don’t have the right body,” Chalamet told Zane Lowe in an interview released Tuesday. “I had an agent that called me and said, ‘You got to put on weight,’ basically, not aggressively,…

Honors for and on-stage appearances by Viola Davis and Egyptian star Mona Zaki (Perfect Strangers, Flight 404, Abserb: The Squadron, The Spider), Johnny Depp‘s new movie as a director, and a biopic about Robbie Williams will be part of this year’s Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, organizers said on Monday. They also unveiled the competition lineup for the fest’s fourth edition. Organizers said that the overall lineup features 49 world and international premieres, also highlighting that six female filmmakers will be featured in the competition program. Among the 15 competition titles announced are Reema Kagti’s Superboys of…

[This story contains some mild spoilers for Heretic.] The heavens have smiled on Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ Heretic.  Critics and audiences are of the belief that their fourth outing as writer-directors is their finest work yet, and it’s been a long time coming considering the Iowa natives’ thought-provoking religious horror movie was conceived before they broke out as the co-writers and originators of A Quiet Place (2018). The film is largely a three-hander between two Mormon missionaries, Sisters Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Paxton (Chloe East), and a potential convert named Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant). Upon entering the Englishman’s home…

Tony Todd, an actor who starred in the Candyman and Final Destination horror franchises, has died. He was 69. He died Wednesday at his home in Marina del Rey after a long illness, his wife, Fatima, told The Hollywood Reporter. “The industry has lost a legend. We have lost a cherished friend. Rest in peace, Tony, -Your Final Destination Family,” New Line Cinema, which produced the Final Destination franchise, wrote on Instagram. Born on Dec. 4, 1954, in Washington, D.C., Todd went on to study for two years at the University of Connecticut before getting a scholarship for the Eugene…