#Berlin Panorama Audience Awards: ‘Sorda,’ ‘The Moelln Letters’ Take Top Honors

#Berlin Panorama Audience Awards: ‘Sorda,’ ‘The Moelln Letters’ Take Top Honors

The Berlin International Film Festival has announced the winners of the 2025 Panorama Audience Awards, with Spanish drama Sorda (Deaf) by Eva Libertad taking the top prize for best feature film and German documentary Die Möllner Briefe (The Moelln Letters) by Martina Priessner winning in the Panorama Dokumente category. The awards, decided by audience votes,…

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#Cinemark Posts Record Fourth-Quarter Revenue, Swings to Profit and Reinstates Dividend

#Cinemark Posts Record Fourth-Quarter Revenue, Swings to Profit and Reinstates Dividend

Exhibition giant Cinemark reported record fourth-quarter revenue of $814 million, up 27 percent year-over-year and 3 percent above the pre-COVID pandemic fourth quarter of 2024. The company swung to a fourth-quarter profit of $51.3 million, compared to a year-earlier loss of $18.0 million. The company posted quarterly adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), another profitability…

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#Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater on ‘Blue Moon,’ Cash vs Art: “When We Prioritize Money, We Get Generic Material”

#Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater on ‘Blue Moon,’ Cash vs Art: “When We Prioritize Money, We Get Generic Material”

Ethan Hawke is urging you to demand offensive art from moviemakers in a world with a tense political landscape. At the Berlin Film Festival Tuesday, Hawke was joined by co-stars Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott and director Richard Linklater for a press conference on their new film, Blue Moon. When asked about making offensive art in…

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#Disney+ Sets Cast for Drama About Scotland Yard’s Killing of Innocent Man Jean Charles de Menezes

#Disney+ Sets Cast for Drama About Scotland Yard’s Killing of Innocent Man Jean Charles de Menezes

Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones), Russell Tovey (Years and Years) and Emily Mortimer (Paddington in Peru) have joined the cast of Disney+ four-part U.K. drama Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. Written and executive produced by Jeff Pope (Philomena, Stan and Ollie), the series is produced by Etta Pictures, Pope’s production label, which…

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#Is Ed Sheeran in a Berlin Film Festival Movie?

#Is Ed Sheeran in a Berlin Film Festival Movie?

If you watch Austrian writer-director Florian Pochlatko’s feature film debut How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World (Wie man normal ist und die Merkwürdigkeiten der anderen Welt) in the Perspectives program of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, you may catch yourself rubbing your eyes and wondering: Is Ed Sheeran really…

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#Composer Matthew Herbert Shares What Makes a Good Score and Why He Didn’t Use Spanish Music for ‘Hot Milk’

#Composer Matthew Herbert Shares What Makes a Good Score and Why He Didn’t Use Spanish Music for ‘Hot Milk’

British musician and DJ Matthew Herbert has pretty much done it all. After making a name for himself in electronic music (his 2003 manifesto “Personal Contract for the Composition of Music” famously emphasizes “no drum machines”) and launching his label Accidental Records, he ended up remixing such iconic artists as Quincy Jones, Ennio Morricone, Serge…

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#‘Bedrock’ Goes Face to Face With People Living on Holocaust Sites in Poland (Exclusive Berlin Trailer)

#‘Bedrock’ Goes Face to Face With People Living on Holocaust Sites in Poland (Exclusive Berlin Trailer)

“Bedrock captures the lived realities of people whose homes are on Holocaust sites,” reads a synopsis for Kinga Michalska’s feature film debut, an observational documentary that promises to take viewers “through landscapes in which traces of violence are intricately woven into the fabric of everyday life.” It is set to world premiere in the 75th edition…

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