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MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — International movie stars arrive in Morocco on Friday to kick off one of the Arab world's largest film festivals amid a shadow cast by Israel’s latest war with Hamas and protests that have swept the region for almost two months. The Marrakech International Film Festival, along with Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival that is scheduled to open next week, are taking place despite war in Gaza. That’s in contrast to the Cairo International Film Festival and Tunisia’s Carthage Film Festival, both of which were canceled due to the war. Scorsese will preside over the festival's Atlas Workshops — an initiative designed to screen films or films in progress by emerging Arab and Moroccan filmmakers. The festival is scheduled to run through Dec. 2.

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☆ Rosalynn Carter death: former first lady and wife of Jimmy Carter, passes away at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Keith Allen | Kate Andersen Brower | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +29 min

Rosalynn Carter passed away peacefully with family by her side at her home in Plains, Georgia, the center said in a statement. It was likely that Eleanor Rosalynn Smith would cross paths with Jimmy Carter in their small hometown of Plains, Georgia. Former first lady Rosalynn Carter poses for a portrait in New York in 2011. Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP Jimmy Carter, then a Georgia state senator, hugs his wife at his campaign headquarters in Atlanta in 1966. The Carter CenterRosalynn and Jimmy Carter had four children, 12 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

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Taika Waititi's “Next Goal Wins” concerns the quest of a historically bad national soccer team, the 2011 American Samoa men's squad, in their struggle to qualify for the FIFA World Cup after an infamous 31-0 drubbing against Australia. “Next Goal Wins," inspired by a 2014 documentary of the same name, is a sports movie that delights in upending the conventions of sports movies. Waititi, himself, doesn’t know much about soccer and professes to know even less after making “Next Goal Wins,” which opens in theaters Friday. AP: Your last “Thor” movie took apart masculinity and superhero convention, and “Next Goal Wins” seems just as disinterested in sports movie traditions. Well, my second film ("Boy") is a sort of deconstructed anti-feelgood family film.

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Actors secured these new safeguards as part of a deal announced late on Wednesday, according to Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, chief negotiator for the SAG-AFTRA actors union. The proposed agreement sets a minimum compensation level for AI uses, Crabtree-Ireland said. Crabtree-Ireland said the proposed contract also included safeguards around the use of generative AI to create synthetic actors. "They are being ultra cautious," said Scott Mann, co-CEO and founder of Flawless, a company that uses AI for film dubbing and editing. Film and television writers also won protections around AI use after a five-month-long strike by the Writers Guild of America this year.

Persons: Duncan Crabtree, Carlos Osorio, Crabtree, Walt Disney, Scott Mann, Dawn Chmielewski, Lisa Richwine, Mary Milliken, Bill Berkrot Organizations: National, SAG, The, Toronto, Film, REUTERS, Actors, Reuters, Alliance, Television Producers, Walt, Warner Bros Discovery, Netflix, Technology, Writers Guild of America, Thomson Locations: Ireland, Toronto , Ontario, Canada, Crabtree, Hollywood, Los Angeles

TOKYO (AP) — Godzilla, the nightmarish radiation spewing monster born out of nuclear weapons, has stomped through many movies, including several Hollywood remakes. It was a mood that fit his supernatural “very Japanese” Godzilla, Yamazaki said at the Tokyo International Film Festival, where “Godzilla Minus One” is the closing film. That helped inspire the last Japanese Godzilla, the 2016 “Shin Godzilla,” directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi. Toho studios hadn’t made a Godzilla film since 2004. But what he really wants to make is a “Star Wars” film.

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☆ After Outcry, Writers Guild Tries to Explain Silence on Hamas Attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Nicole Sperling | More About Nicole Sperling | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

They also noted that other major Hollywood unions had issued statements condemning the attack. “I hope this letter goes a long way to sort of calming some of it down,” said Mr. Gordon, who signed the open letter to the guild. He will change his guild membership status to “financial core,” according to his letter. Under that designation, he will still receive the contract benefits earned by the guild but he will no longer be able to vote or attend any guild meetings. “If one cannot condemn, clearly, and without reservation, what Hamas perpetrated, one’s moral compass is absent, not broken.”

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☆ Insider Today: You should buy a house now
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementIn today's big story, we're looking at why it's a good time to buy a house. RichLegg/Getty ImagesIt's a pretty terrible time to buy a house these days, which is why it's a good time to buy a house. AdvertisementAdvertisementInsider's Jennifer Sor detailed why it's a good time to buy a house. Part of the issue is that mortgage rates won't magically drop overnight. The Insider Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, senior editor and anchor, in New York City.

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White Sands officials warned online that the wait to enter the gates could be as long as two hours. Visitors also are being warned to come prepared as Trinity Site is in a remote area with limited Wi-Fi and no cell service or restrooms. Scientists and military officials established a secret city in Los Alamos during the 1940s and tested their work at the Trinity Site some 200 miles (322 kilometers) away. While the lore surrounding the atomic bomb has become pop culture fodder, it was part of a painful reality for residents who lived downwind of Trinity Site. The notoriety from “Oppenheimer” has been embraced in Los Alamos, more than 200 miles (321 kilometers) north of the Tularosa Basin.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Since Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it won the Palme d’Or, Sandra Hüller has been dogged by a question: Did she do it? In “Anatomy of a Fall,” Hüller plays a well-known novelist, also named Sandra, whose husband (Samuel Theis) is found dead outside their chalet in the French Alps after plunging from a top-floor window. Political Cartoons View All 1207 Images“She should be a dangerous person, in a way,” Hüller added. She also stars this fall in Jonathan Glazer’s acclaimed Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest” as Hedwig Höss, wife of the Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss. It’s kind of a psychological but dangerous thing.”In the case of “Anatomy of a Fall,” Hüller knew immediately after reading the script that she wanted to play Sandra.

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In it, the Haitian-born filmmaker of “Lumumba,” “Sometimes in April” and some of the most thoughtful, prodding essay-film documentaries, chronicles the story of the Reels family in North Carolina. The land, known as Silver Dollar Road, has been in the family since the days of Reconstruction, when their ancestors were freed from slavery. In Peck’s hands, the film stays close to the Reels’ experience and to the land; images of vines that wrap the family tree seem to grow out of the forests of Silver Dollar Road. There’s no way you can recover.”Instead, any villain in “Silver Dollar Road” is faceless. To feel at home and to feel at ease, not to be afraid that there would be something that would aggress them.”Peck was in Toronto to premiere “Silver Dollar Road” at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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☆ Insider Today: Israel's next steps
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementIn today's big story, we're looking at the latest developments in Israel's war with Hamas, including Israel's devastating airstrikes and a potentially complicated ground invasion of Gaza. What's on deck:Markets: Market experts detail how to cash in on an ailing bond market. Market experts detail how to cash in on an ailing bond market. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Israel war is also impacting another conflict: Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Insider Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, senior editor and anchor, in New York City.

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☆ Look of the Week: Chris Pine ushers in sweater weather with a chaotic workout look
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A regular fixture in the style press, LA-born actor Chris Pine is a consistently top ranking name across best dressed lists. Stefania D'Alessandro/WireImage/Getty ImagesBut off the red carpet and away from the late night talk show sets, Pine’s sartorial compass doesn’t always point north. At Milan Fashion Week this summer, he was photographed making his way to a show barefoot. “Chris Pine looks like if Lisa Rinna got bitten by a werewolf,” added another in a Tweet liked more than 26,000 times. More than any expertly curated red carpet look, we see ourselves reflected back at us in Pine’s dressed-in-the-dark ensemble.

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LONDON (AP) — British filmmaker Terence Davies, best known for a pair of powerful, lyrical movies inspired by his childhood in postwar Liverpool, has died at the age of 77. Davies’ manager John Taylor said the director died “peacefully at home in his sleep” on Saturday after a short illness. After making several short films, Davies made his feature debut as writer-director in 1988 with “Distant Voices, Still Lives,” a dreamlike — sometimes nightmarish — collage of a film that evoked a childhood of poverty and violence leavened by music and movie magic. The film won the Cannes International Critics Prize in 1988, and in 2002 was voted the ninth-best film of the past 25 years by British film critics. The autobiographical films opened the door to bigger budgets and more mainstream films, still showcasing Davies' distinctive lyricism and often set in the 19th or early 20th centuries.

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☆ How ‘Moving’ became Disney+’s first big Korean hit
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Jane Sit | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Following the success of “Squid Game” on Netflix and “Pachinko” on Apple TV+, “Moving” has landed Disney+ its first Korean hit. “Moving” is a thriller following the fates of low-profile Korean superheroes and their families. Ahead of the awards on October 8, CNN caught up with Ryu to discuss his character, why he thinks the show has resonated with a global audience, and his big hopes for a second season. Korean-style superheroesIn "Moving," actor Cha Taehyun plays a character who has the ability to generate electricity. The actor says the focus on family helps “Moving” resonate with international audiences.

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TORONTO (AP) — You don’t expect to see a movie named “Dicks: The Musical” on the marquee and neither did its makers. Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, who created and star in “Dicks: The Musical,” certainly struggled to believe it. But “Dicks: The Musical," a freewheeling queer cult-favorite-to-be, is a gleefully tasteless bid to break free of comedy doldrums. “People maybe want to go for a bigger laugh but they’re afraid they’re going to offend too many people. As Jackson and Sharp developed the movie, they carved out the role of God, as narrator, for Yang.

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☆ Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger believes there's still a 'home' for him in the Republican Party, but says his state's GOP has 'done a horrible job'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Schwarzenegger told The New York Times Magazine there's still a "home" for him in today's GOP. But he was critical of the California Republican Party, which he said wasn't listening to citizens. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger did something that seems nearly impossible these days: He was elected governor of California as a Republican. But he was much less charitable about the California Republican Party, which has struggled to elect any statewide candidates in recent years. "In the state of California, the Republican Party has done a horrible job to represent the people," the former governor told the magazine.

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Netflix has acquired Richard Linklater's “Hit Man,” starring Glen Powell, for $20 million. “Hit Man,” which Linklater and Powell co-wrote, stars the “Top Gun: Maverick” actor as a New Orleans psychology professor who also works undercover posing as a hit man for the police in sting operations to catch would-be murders. Netflix didn't announce release plans yet for “Hit Man,” which also played at the Venice Film Festival. But the “Hit Man” sale is the largest yet of the season. Netflix, which also distributed Linklater's previous movie, “Apollo 10 1/2,” earlier acquired Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, “Woman of the Hour,” following its premiere in Toronto.

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Cord Jefferson's “American Fiction,” a biting satire starring Jeffrey Wright as a disillusioned academic, has won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a much-watched bellwether in the Oscar race. Toronto's audience award winner, voted on by festival attendees, has historically nearly always signified a best-picture contender at the Academy Awards. Why is this the only thing we have to offer to culture?”The Toronto International Film Festival, which wraps Sunday, was diminished this year due to the ongoing actors and writers strikes. Red-carpet premieres were mostly without movie stars, detracting from some of the buzz that the largest film festival in North American typically generates. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe” and the midnight madness award went to Larry Charles' “Dicks: The Musical."

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TORONTO (AP) — Three generations of a Ukrainian family sit in a van in the documentary “In the Rearview.” They stare straightforward, staggered by all they’ve left behind. “I come from an aristocratic family,” one woman says in the film. The biggest battleground isn’t just a war zone but the home. In recent years, Canada has reckoned with its past treatment of Indigenous people, including heinous sterilization programs and forced-schooling systems. “Coming to New Zealand, being Māori, we don’t see enough of ourselves on screen,” Waititi said.

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☆ Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard bring Hollywood to TIFF amid strikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Jenna Zucker | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Cast members Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, Director Michel Franco attend the North American premiere of "Memory" at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 12, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio Acquire Licensing RightsTORONTO Sept 12 (Reuters) - Actors Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard brought Hollywood glamour to the Toronto International Film Festival for their family drama “Memory” amid strikes that have kept most celebrities off the carpets. Sarsgaard joins the North American premiere of the film after taking the prize for best actor at the Venice Film Festival, which marks the start of the awards season and regularly throws up big favourites for the Oscars. For Sarsgaard, who plays a man with early-onset dementia named Saul, the film is about connection and working through trauma. “There is a way out of trauma through love,” said Chastain, and she hopes this film helps the audience realize that in their own lives.

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☆ Ethan Hawke taps Flannery O’Connor's fiction to tell her story in 'Wildcat'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Jenna Zucker | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Director Ethan Hawke poses during the international premiere of "Wildcat" at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 11, 2023. Born in 1925, O’Connor was a highly regarded fiction writer in the Southern Gothic style. In “Wildcat,” which had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Hawke pulls from the author’s fiction to tell her story. He and his daughter Maya Hawke, the film's star, wanted to showcase O’Connor’s ability to capture the human condition in prose. “I used her own writing to tell the story.”O’Connor’s writing won several literary awards, and she was featured on a postage stamp in 2015.

Persons: Ethan Hawke, Carlos Osorio, Flannery O’Connor, O’Connor, Hawke, Maya Hawke, ” Hawke, ”, Maye Hawke, “, ” Maya Hawke, Laura Linney, Regina, O'Connor, “ She’s, ” Linney, Jenna Zucker, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Toronto, Film, REUTERS, Rights, Loyola University of Maryland, ‘ Loyola University of Maryland, The University of Maryland, Thomson Locations: Toronto , Ontario, Canada, American

☆ ‘Io Capitano’: An African odyssey inspired by true events wins at Venice Film Festival
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Tom Page | Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In “Io Capitano” (“Me Captain”) by director Matteo Garrone, there is no shame in retreating into imagination. “Io Capitano” premiered last week at the Venice Film Festival, where Garrone won the award for best director and Sarr was named best young actor, and was released in Italian cinemas on September 7. Moustapha Fall attends a red carpet for "Io Capitano" at the Venice International Film Festival. “I started crying during the film,” Kouassi said, speaking the day after the premiere. “I think it is important – it is sending a very great message to Europe.”“Io Capitano” premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 6.

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☆ Polish filmmaker brings struggle of Ukrainian evacuations to TIFF
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Jenna Zucker | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Polish filmmaker Maciek Hamela speaks to Reuters about his new documentary "In the Rearview", in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 11, 2023. REUTERS/Dennis Porter Acquire Licensing RightsSept 12 (Reuters) - Days after Russia launched its war on Ukraine, Polish filmmaker Maciek Hamela left his home in Warsaw, bought a van, and began transporting evacuees to safety. Hosting its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday, Hamela hopes the audience can put themselves in the refugees’ shoes. “Many of these people, especially in the first weeks of the war, they just wanted to get out,” Hamela said. “I'd like people to come and see this film not just because it's about the war in Ukraine,” Hamela said.

Persons: Maciek Hamela, Dennis Porter, Hamela, ”, ” Hamela, ‘, We’ll, “, Jenna Zucker, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, Russia, American, Toronto, UNHCR, “, Thomson Locations: Toronto , Ontario, Canada, Ukraine, Polish, Warsaw, Europe

☆ Ethan Hawke took a Greyhound bus to Toronto film festival
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Just ask Ethan Hawke, who ended up traveling on a Greyhound bus to theToronto International Film Festival (TIFF) after flights were canceled. The actor told People that he had to pivot in order to make it to the premiere of his new film, “Wildcat.”“Three flights canceled, then I was like, ‘I’m not gonna miss this because of some airport,’” he said. “So, I went to port authority and hopped the bus.”It sounds like Hawke, who made the trek with his wife and producing partner, spent his travel time well. “I just read my book and disappeared in the back and prayed that we made it,” Hawke added that no one really noticed him until they made it to customs. As for how his fellow passengers responded to having a celebrity on board, Hawke quipped, “Man, nobody cares about anybody else on the bus.”

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☆ Taylor Swift's movie is a go amid the Hollywood actors' strike after she agreed to meet their demands — something major studios still haven't done
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour movie was approved for an interim agreement through SAG-AFTRA. It also has the union stamp of approval: Swift was able to strike an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union of which she's a member. "And so she fulfilled all the same criteria as anybody else and has an interim agreement for that production." AdvertisementAdvertisementRepresentatives for Swift and SAG-AFTRA did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on Swift's interim agreement. With her interim agreement in place, Swift will be able to promote the film without crossing any picket lines.

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