Movies

A new film about the artist Vincent Van Gogh claims that he was murdered rather than having shot himself.

At Eternity’s Gate starring Willem Dafoe as the tortured genius, was premiered Monday at the Venice film festival. In it the painter is shot after a struggle with local youths near the village of Auvers-sur-Oise outside Paris, where the artist spent his final months in 1890. He died 36 hours later after staggering back to the local inn in the dark. 

It has been another crazy good weekend for rom-com Crazy Rich Asians, which topped the box office for a third straight weekend amid a pretty good summer for North American theaters overall, industry watchers said Sunday.

The Warner Bros. film, with its mostly Asian cast, took in an estimated $22.2 million for the Friday-through-Sunday period, dropping just 10 percent from the previous weekend, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said. 

Noah Centineo's got game. 

The 22-year-old actor puts the moves on his To All the Boys I've Loved Beforeco-star, Lana Condor, in a new Charm Battle, and it might just be too cute to handle. 

With pick-up lines like, "Do I know you? You look a lot like my next girlfriend," and "I totally just lost my phone number. Can I have yours?" there's sadly no way that his competition, Israel Broussard (Josh Sanderson), could have come close to winning this flirt-off (though we give him an A for effort). Peter Kavinsky and Lara Jean Covey are just meant to be!

Filmmakers Jonathan and Josh Baker make their feature directorial debut with Kin, which is based on their acclaimed short film, Bag Man. The movie features an all-star cast including Jack Reynor, Zoë Kravitz, Carrie Coon, Dennis Quaid, James Franco, and Myles Truitt.

Kin is a pulse-pounding crime thriller with a sci-fi twist, the story of an unexpected hero destined for greatness. Fourteen-year-old African-American Eli (Myles Truitt) lives in Detroit with his adoptive father Hal (Dennis Quaid), a compassionate yet strict construction site supervisor and widower who senses Eli falling into delinquency.

Find Nico Santos from the hit movie Crazy Rich Asians familiar? He steals all the scenes as Mateo Liwanag in Superstore, a sitcom about an odd and colorful mix of store employees. Current season airs every Sunday at 8:00 p.m. first and exclusive on Sony Channel.

While China enjoys a vibrant local film industry, the nation also loves a great Hollywood blockbuster. Over the past two decades, many movies have enjoyed positive reception in China. Franchises such as Marvel, The Fast and The Furious, and Transformers all enjoy popularity in Chinese cinemas.

However, only 34 foreign films may be released in China each year unless the studio pays a flat-fee to override that limit. While studios benefit financially from the Chinese market, not every film passes the country’s censors, especially those that contain heavy violence, nudity, or ghosts.

It looks like a Princess Diaries reunion could be happening in the near future!

On Thursday, This Is Us star Mandy Moore took to Instagram to share a throwback pic of her standing next to Anne Hathaway on the red carpet at the 2001 premiere of her feature film debut, Princess Diaries.