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Soil moisture offsets low rain in Ivory Coast, boosts cocoa mid-crop
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Soil moisture compensated below-average rainfall in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions last week as the April-to-September mid-crop continues to develop and yield large fr...
May 23, 2022
Australian grandmother hopes queen has jubilee to remember
NULKABA, Australia (Reuters) - Jan Hugo never realised her childhood dream of becoming a princess so instead she became Australia's queen of royal memorabilia with over 10,000 pieces, a collection she...
May 23, 2022
Community-led Lakata film ‘War Pony’ debuts at Cannes
By Hanna Rantala and Mimosa Spencer PARIS (Reuters) - Set on the Pine Ridge Reservation, "War Pony" began as a project among friends and over seven years grew into a community effort, said directors G...
May 22, 2022
‘Squid Game’ star Lee Jung-jae steps behind the camera for ‘Hunt’
By Hanna Rantala CANNES (Reuters) - "Squid Game" star Lee Jung-jae flexes his filmmaking muscles with "Hunt", a spy thriller he wrote, directed, produced and also acts in. Lee's directorial and screen...
May 22, 2022
Ali Abbasi introduces ‘Persian noir’ to Cannes with ‘Holy Spider’
By Mike Davidson and Mimosa Spencer PARIS (Reuters) - Iranian director Ali Abbasi premiered "Holy Spider" at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, the tale of a serial killer in the holy city Mashhad - ...
May 22, 2022
Box Office: ‘Downton Abbey 2’ Starts Strong With $16 Million as ‘Doctor Strange’ Rules Again
By Rebecca Rubin LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - The Crawley family still has the royal touch at the box office. "Downton Abbey: A New Era," a sequel to the big-screen continuation of the beloved British ...
May 22, 2022
Ukrainian director denounces Russian presence at Cannes
By Michaela Cabrera PARIS (Reuters) - Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk criticised the Cannes Film Festival for including a Russian director in its line-up, as the debut filmmaker's "Pamfi...
May 21, 2022
A Virgil Abloh-created sneaker exhibit opens in New York
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - Late fashion designer Virgil Abloh is being honored in a New York exhibition featuring 47 pairs of Louis Vuitton Nike Air Force 1 sneakers he created before his d...
May 20, 2022
Obi-Wan hides the Force in new ‘Star Wars’ TV series, says Ewan McGregor
By Rollo Ross (Reuters) - "Star Wars" Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi is back for a six-part television series and so is Ewan McGregor, who had played him as a young man. Forget the Jedi mind tricks and li...
May 20, 2022
‘Armageddon Time’ director says seeds of modern tension stem from Reagan-era racism
By Hanna Rantala and Mimosa Spencer CANNES, France (Reuters) - American film director James Gray, debuting his movie "Armageddon Time" at the Cannes Film Festival, lambasted the Ronald Reagan-era raci...
May 20, 2022
