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Gaumont releases first trailer for "The Wizard of the Kremlin", French director Olivier Assayas's film based on the book by the Swiss-Italian writer Giuliano da Empoli about the political strategist Vadim Baranov, who began…
Vladimir Putin is played by Jude Law, Baranov by Paul Dano. The world premiere is scheduled for 21 January 2026. The Russian Ministry of Culture has stated that it "has received no applications for a distribution licence for 'The Wizard of the Kremlin'".
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Joan Rowling on the young “Harry Potter” actors and the stance of those who played villains
It is good that the chief villains of Harry Potter, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter and Tom Felton, in fact support J. K. Rowling, refusing to join the pile-on against her and openly showing their gratitude to this woman. Remember the interesting observation J. K. Rowling once made about
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Curiously, among the companions of Odysseus (Matt Damon) in Christopher Nolan's new film is a character played by the South Korean actor Will Yun Lee
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Frodo Baggins Was 33 When He Received the Ring of Power
He set out from Rivendell for Mount Doom only 17 years later. All that time Gandalf was gathering information about the Ring. Thus the Ring was destroyed when Frodo was already past 50. In the film adaptation, all of this took no more than a couple of weeks, three at
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Built in 1939 by a British shipyard for a Polish-Danish company, the motor ship Sobieski was bought by the USSR in 1950 for the Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed Gruziya
Built in 1939 by a British shipyard for a Polish-Danish company, the motor ship Sobieski was bought by the USSR in 1950 for the Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed Gruziya (“Georgia”). In the film The Diamond Arm, the motor ship Gruziya appears under the name Mikhail Svetlov. In
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Ian McKellen to Play Gandalf Once More
The actor will appear in the film "The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum", the events of which unfold between Bilbo Baggins's 111th birthday and Gandalf's return to the Shire, just as Saruman's sleuths were searching for Gollum. It is
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Warwick Davis and His Roles in Harry Potter
Warwick Davis and his roles in Harry Potter. I cannot explain it by anything other than the producers' keen desire to save a great deal of money on hiring actors of short stature. This curiosity is to some extent played upon in the comedy series about Davis's
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Doctor Zaius and the ban on science in a world destroyed by man three thousand years ago
You're right, I've always known about man. Judging by the evidence, his wisdom goes hand in hand with his madness The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your kind turned it into a desert, many centuries ago You smiled, of course: an orangutan as chief scientist
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Hugh Jackman in Revolution Square
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Bjorn Andresen has died, the subject of the film “The Most Beautiful Boy in the World”
The fate of Björn Andrésen, who has recently died at the age of 70, was a sad one. Do watch The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, the documentary about him made in 2021 by Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri. A bitter story of a chain of errors made by
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