A low-budget Chinese animated film that was widely mocked for its crude visuals became a viral hit, with people packing cinemas to see just how bad it is.”Niu Lai”, which translates to “Here Comes the Cow”, earned around 7,000 yuan ($1,000) in its opening week from August 5, before surging to 33.06 million yuan ($4.92 […]
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Amazon Prime Video to invest $2 bn in Latin America productions
Amazon announced Thursday that it would invest $2 billion in Latin American productions for its Prime Video streaming service through 2030 to harness “extraordinary” momentum in the region.”What’s happening in Latin America right now is extraordinary — the talent, the stories, the audiences,” Kelly Day, Vice President of International for Prime Video, told a press […]
Manifesto defends Germany’s iconic Bauhaus against ‘populist attacks’
Germany’s culture minister and a group of art and design institutions voiced support Thursday for the iconic Bauhaus art school, whose modernist legacy has come under attack from the far-right AfD. Alternative for Germany (AfD) politicians have launched repeated attacks on the hugely influential school of art and design that was founded in 1919 but […]
Nord Stream bomb suspect arrested while working on movie about attack: media
A Ukrainian man arrested in the Nord Stream bombing was detained while working on a Hollywood movie about the gas pipeline attack starring Adrien Brody and Sean Penn, a report said Thursday. Police in Pula, Croatia on Wednesday arrested Volodymyr Zhuravlyov under a European arrest warrant put out by Germany, which is seeking his extradition. […]
Hungary music festival basks in post-Orban freedom
Drifting between concert stages and chilling on hammocks, revellers partied in Hungary this year at one of Europe’s largest outdoor festivals, with organisers saying they no longer felt “headwinds” under the country’s new government. The Sziget Festival, held on a Danube island in Budapest known as the “Island of Freedom”, has long had a reputation […]
Kanye West planned concerts trigger frenzy in Russia
Rapper Kanye West’s announcement of two stadium concerts in Russia later this year has sent the local media and political scene into a frenzy — with President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman even asked on Thursday if a planned meeting was on the cards. US star West, who also goes by the stage name Ye, will perform […]
‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ in Japan, perhaps for the last time
“Girl with a Pearl Earring” will go on show in Osaka this week, on a rare trip abroad for the 17th-century Johannes Vermeer masterpiece and potentially its last to Japan. The work will be displayed from Friday at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka while its home museum, the Mauritshuis in The Hague, closes […]
‘American Doctor’ shows brutality of conflict in Gaza
Mark Perlmutter has treated patients hit by natural disaster and conflicts across 30 countries, including in his native United States. Yet, nothing prepared him for the horrors he would witness under Israeli bombardment.”Just our first week in Gaza was worse than all of my experiences combined, the orthopedic surgeon told AFP of deployments that included […]
New ‘Insidious’ reflects anxiety of being a new parent: director
When he sat down to write “Insidious: Out of the Further,” the sixth installement of the blockbuster horror franchise, director Jacob Chase channeled his fears over a major life event: becoming a parent.”I became a dad for the first time, and I was terrified of being a dad,” he told AFP.”I was really nervous I […]