May 23, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
A powerful drama inspired by Homer’s Odyssey and starring Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus and Juliette Binoche as Penelope is wrapping up filming at the end of the month on the Ionian island of Corfu, state broadcaster ERT reported on Tuesday. “The Return” is directed by Uberto Pasolini and written by …
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October 27, 2022
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie is set to play legendary opera star Maria Callas in a new film by Chilean director Pablo Larrain. Titled “Maria,” the biopic reportedly “tells the tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and re-imagined during her final …
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October 4, 2022
FEATURED, Tourism
The film “Greece DOES have a Winter” produced for the Greek National Tourism Organisation (GNTO) Visit Greece campaign is candidate for the World’s Best Tourism Film at CIFFT “People’s Choice” Award 2022, GNTO Secretary General Dimitris Fragakis posted on social media on Tuesday. According to film producers, main goal of …
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June 24, 2022
Arts, Culture
One person was slightly injured as 8 people found themselves in the water, when two speedboats collided during the shooting of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.”and one of them capsized. The accident occurred around 10 o’ clock Friday morning, in the sea area off Palaia Fokia in south-east Attica. …
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June 17, 2022
Arts, Culture
One of the most gifted French actors, Jean-Louis Trintignant, the “fearless prosecutor” in political thriller “Z” dealing with the assassination of Greek left-wing lawmaker Grigoris Lambrakis, passed away at the age of 91. Trintignant was the actor who played the role of investigating magistrate, an analogue of Christos Sartzetakis, who …
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May 10, 2022
Arts, Culture
Disney Plus has released the trailer for “Rise,” a film based on the real-life story of the Nigerian-Greek Antetokounmpo family that produced the first trio of brothers to become NBA champions in the history of the league – Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Laker …
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May 6, 2022
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
Hollywood star Emma Stone is currently in Greece for the premiere and promotion of the short, silent black and white film “Bleat” directed by Yiorgos Lanthimos. She arrived in Greek capital Athens on May 4 and her professional duties did not hinder her to watch a basketball game live in …
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April 11, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Members of the Greek Armed Forces were deployed to act as “supportive crowd” in the production of the Hollywood War Film EXPENDABLES 4 last November in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Now they claim that they have not be paid even one euro for “being used for the purposes of a film …
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January 7, 2022
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
Greece’s Culture Ministry launched an investigation Friday following the online release of a short film showing two men having sex at the ancient Acropolis in Athens. The 36-minute movie, titled “Departhenon*,” was released on Dec. 21 but came to the attention of authorities this week. The Culture Ministry said it …
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November 2, 2021
Arts, Culture, FEATURED, Politics
Survivors and descendants of victims of the Massacre of Kalavryta by the Nazis are furious about the film “Eyewitness – Kalavryta 1943” over a scene showing a supposedly “good Nazi rescuing children.” The Association of Survivors and Victims threaten to sue the film producers with state broadcaster ERT being one …
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February 1, 2021
FEATURED, Social
The MeToo movement in Greece has moved from the world of Sports to the world of Arts and Entertainment with female and male actors denouncing sexual harassment and abuse but also bulling by directors in theater and the film industry. Actresses Jenny Botsi, Angeliki Lambri and Loukia Michala joined their …
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November 10, 2019
Economy
Minister of Digital Governance Kyriakos Pierrakakis has announced the creation of a film studio in the town of Thermi, outside Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Investing company is Nu Boyana Film Studios, an affiliate of Millennium Films, one of the longest-running independent film companies in Hollywood. This is “an investment worth 20 …
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August 31, 2019
Arts, Culture
Behind the closed doors Europe, a man is trying for six months to save his country. A Greek tragedy in modern times with former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. The trailer of the film “Adults In The Room” was released, just hours before the official world premiere at the Venice Film …
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April 11, 2019
Arts
Director Costas Gavras turned the Kotzias square in the historical center of Athens into a setting for his latest film “Adults in the Room” based on the book of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis Part of the shooting about the Greek crisis in the first half of 2015 took place …
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April 10, 2019
Arts
The Ministry of Digital Policy approved a grant for the film “Adults in the Room” to be filmed by famous director Costas Gavras and is the cinematic adaption of the book by ex finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. The amount of 630,000 euros is a grant for director Costas Gavras. The …
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March 16, 2019
Arts, Culture
Famous Greek director Costas Gavras has started his new project: the filming of “Adults in the Room,” the book of former fiance minister Yanis Varoufakis about the fatal first half of 2015, that granted Greece another bailout program. “The history of a country and its people trapped in a power …
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March 9, 2019
Arts
Syntagma Square in downtown Athens will be sprinkled with Hollywood dust and glam when the film set for “Born to be murdered” will be staged over the weekend and close main avenues to traffic. The film is adaptation of the mystery novel with the same name, written by Elinore Denniston …
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October 16, 2018
Uncategorized
“Mocking of Christ” is a film about a Greek journalist with family roots in Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The film that has won the Innovation Award at the Montreal film Festival 2018 has triggered an outrage not only in Greece but also in FYROM. According to …
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August 29, 2018
Lifestyle
Hollywood star Jonathan Jackson offered one of his EMMY Awards to Virgin Mary and the Vatopedi Monastery in the Monks Republic Mount Athos. During his visit to Mt Athos and the Vatopedi Monetary to honor the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, Jackson had a surprise for the monks. He gave …
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August 8, 2018
Social
A 17-year-old was arrested in Aigio, North Peloponnese, early Wednesday morning for having murdered a 31-year-old with a sledgehammer. Equally shocking with the murder committed by a teenager is the fact that the perpetrator filmed the murder with his mobile phone. According to local media, the teenager went to the …
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