In 2019, Ritchie directed the live-action remake of Aladdin, the 1992 classic Disney film of the same name. Disney cast Will ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about movies, continues with Jafar Panahi’s Neon film It Was Just an Accident, a deeply felt moral ...

There is just one screening left of one of 2025’s best films, a work filled with bitter jokes about Iran’s theocratic regime and the horrific logic that motivates it – nothing we can do to a prisoner ...

Each new feature from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is a form of protest. The stakes are incredibly high for him, whose films are like socio-economic parables of his country under such scrutiny and ...

Panahi, who just finished a U.S. tour promoting his Palme d'Or winner, has previously served prison time and been under house arrest in his home country. UPDATED, January 2, 2026: Jafar Panahi and his ...

From coded Disney antagonists to complex modern antiheroes, cinema's queer villains have evolved from harmful stereotypes into nuanced reflections of power, desire, and societal change Elizabeth ...

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Jafar Panahi and his legal team will begin their legal appeal on January 4 against the one year prison sentence and two-year travel ban the filmmaker was handed by the Tehran Islamic Revolutionary ...

LEONIA, NJ – After years of training and climbing various mountains, Jafar Ismail signed up to climb the world’s tallest mountain, Mt. Everest, which stands at 29,032 feet. A resident of Leonia in ...

It Was Just an Accident (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) is more than just a film – it’s a righteous act of defiance. But that’s par for the course for director Jafar Panahi, ...