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The final trailer for the upcoming thriller/action/sci-fi "Riddick" starring Vin Diesel and Dave Bautista just hit the world wide web. Releasing in theaters on September 6, the film is the third installment in the series that launched with "Pitch Black" in 2000 and...

A special festival of arts, music, ideas and gastronomy, entitled Olympolis Art Music Project, is taking place during these days at the foot of Mt. Olympus and the International Foundation of the Monument of Alexander the Great, Alexandreio. A hundred...

After hundreds of years of lying still, the theater of Ancient Messini re-opened on Aug. 3, with an opera gala, organized by the Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2013 and the Municipality of Messini and the Region of Peloponnese, among...

As part of the celebrations of Marseille as European Capital of Culture for the year 2013, the Municipality of Piraeus, which has been its sister city since 1984, participated in the events that were held on July 28-31. There was...

A 47-year-old Greek female singer dressed herself in blackface and pretended to be blind in an impersonation of the American singer Stevie Wonder during an appearance on a reality show called Your Face Sounds Familiar, drawing criticism from some...

Musical concerts at Filopappou Hill and at Elefsina, a tribute to Lorca in the Cyclades and many other events, which will be announced in time, are scheduled for the August full moon on Wednesday, August 21. At least 71 sites...

After successive reports from Brussels and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) about the course of Greece’s rescue program, the newspapers Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Financial Times came to publish articles against the program that the Troika...

In the framework of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) 2013, which started on July 25 and will run till August 11, two Greek films have been screened, representing the Greek cinema. The films are, The Daughter by Thanos...

In his interview to the Greek TV channel Star, the well-known Australian actor Hugh Jackman talked about his Greek origin. In particular, one of Jackman's paternal great-grandfathers was Greek. “It is true that I have a Greek origin. Bellas was...

The exhibition The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander The Great will be hosted in four museums in Canada and the USA from December 2014 to September 2016. The exhibition will be presented at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Canadian Museum of...

With shooting of director Renny Harlin's "Hercules 3D" well underway in Bulgaria, new stills from the set have been released, giving a peek at the upcoming action-drama centered on the Greek hero. The film's star, Kellan Lutz, bulked up quite...

Over 400 participants from about 20 communities participated in the Victorian State Community Languages Schools Conference, which was held on July 6 at the RMIT Storey Hall. Issues such as language education through the arts, technology in the language classroom...

In the closets of the furniture on the private island Skorpios, located in the Ionian Sea that was owned by the late tycoon Aristotle Onassis and was recently sold to the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, 10 rare photographs were...

"Papadopoulos & Sons," an indie about a wealthy Anglo-Greek entrepreneur who loses everything in a banking crisis and has to start over again by opening a chip shop with his estranged brother, is finally getting a theatrical release in...

The Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference has been acclaimed as a unique international gathering of creative, scientific and business minds discussing, discovering and inspiring innovation in “Stereoscopic 3D” Cinema. Brought together by the 3D Film Innovation Consortium (3D FLIC), the...