Warner Bros. Discovery has promoted Deniz Şaşmaz Oflaz to the role of vp of local original productions, local channels and streaming operations lead for Turkey. In her expanded role, she will oversee both the streaming and linear TV businesses in the region, the conglomerate said on Monday. Şaşmaz Oflaz, who has served as CEO of […]
The International Space Station, or ISS—our largest home away from home—has been continuously occupied since November 2, 2000. That month Popular Science published an interview conducted by Science Editor, Dawn Stover, with two of the ISS’s three seminal residents, NASA astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonaut Sergie Krikelev. The third was another Russian cosmonaut, Yuri […]
Data from space shows water tilting up toward the north side of the Dickson Fjord as it sloshed from south to north and back every 90 seconds for nine days after a 2023 rockslide. The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, a collaboration between NASA and France’s CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales), […]
Although no ghouls or goblins or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting facility still like to get in the Halloween spirit. Whether individually or as an entire crew, they dress up in sometimes spooky, sometimes scary, but always creative costumes, often designed from materials available aboard […]
“All art is propaganda, but not all propaganda is art.” The saying from 1984 and Animal Farm author George Orwell features in The Story of British Propaganda Filma new book in the British Film Institute (BFI)’s British Screen Stories series at Bloomsbury Publishing written by Scott Anthony, the deputy head of research at the U.K. […]
Samurai stories, an essential genre of Japan’s film industry since its inception, have been enjoying a global resurgence lately. FX and Disney’s smash-hit period series Shogunproduced by and starring veteran Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, became the most honored drama in Emmys history last month, winning in more categories in a single year than any show […]
House of the Dragon star Eve Best and The Penguin‘s Carmen Ejogo will lead a new BBC drama from Nicôle Lecky, Wild Cherry. Following the success of Lecky’s BAFTA-winning Moodthe BBC and production firm Firebird Pictures (Wilderness, The Jetty) on Wednesday unveiled the cast for the new six-part series. Imogen Faires (Goldie’s Oldies, Marcella) and […]
Sean Penn, Canadian writer-director David Cronenberg, and late Moroccan star Naïma Elmcherqui will be honoted at the 21st edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco. Fest organizers, in unveiling the news on Wednesday, described them as “three great artists whose contributions and influence have had a significant impact on cinema for several decades.” […]
The first trailer for Luca Guadignino’s latest film Queer has debuted, showing off Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in the William S. Burroughs adaptation. Based on the novel of the same name and adapted for the screen by Justin Kuritzkes (Challengers), the story follows William Lee (Craig), who finds himself in Mexico City after escaping […]
In its deliberate pacing and thoughtfulness, Daihachi Yoshida’s new film Teki Cometh is characteristic of the Japanese filmmaker’s career. The feature, which has its world premiere at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival, and is competing in the festival’s main competition, is yet another literary adaptation from a director who is an avid reader. “Right […]
