Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Lights Up Venice Film Festival With 11-Minute Standing Ovation

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Lights Up Venice Film Festival With 11-Minute Standing Ovation

Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite lit up the screen at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday night as the Netflix action pic had its world premiere inside Sala Grande. The audience gave the nuclear disaster thriller an enthusiastic thumbs up with an extended 11-minute standing ovation. Amid chants of “bravo,” Bigelow clasped her hands…

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#Idris Elba to Produce Music-Industry Racism Doc ‘Paid in Full: The Battle for Payback’

#Idris Elba to Produce Music-Industry Racism Doc ‘Paid in Full: The Battle for Payback’

Luther and Hobbs & Shaw star Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures and wife Sabrina Elba’s Pink Towel have unveiled plans for Paid in Full: The Battle for Payback, a documentary about the music industry exploiting Black artists, for the BBC and CBC networks. The three-parter, which will also explore reparations for Black artists, has backing from Zinc Media’s production label…

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#‘Luther: The Fallen Sun’ Review: Idris Elba’s Troubled Detective Gets a Satisfactory Screen Treatment

#‘Luther: The Fallen Sun’ Review: Idris Elba’s Troubled Detective Gets a Satisfactory Screen Treatment

‘Luther: The Fallen Sun’ Review: Idris Elba’s Troubled Detective Gets a Satisfactory Screen Treatment Idris Elba may have taken himself out of the running to play James Bond, but he’s got a pretty terrific franchise already going playing John Luther, the dogged and troubled British detective. The title character of the hit BBC series that’s…

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