THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF CHATTER in recent days about the collapse of certain elements of the theatrical landscape, particularly as it relates to the box office of dramas and comedies. Brooks Barnes ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Spike Lee, Cate Blanchett and Judd Apatow were among the Hollywood personalities who met with Pope Leo XIV for a private audience at the Vatican on Saturday (Nov. 15), where the U ...

Vatican City — Pope Leo XIV welcomed Spike Lee, Cate Blanchett, Greta Gerwig and dozens of other Hollywood luminaries to a special Vatican audience Saturday celebrating cinema and its ability to ...

Pope Leo recently said his favorite movie of all time was “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Mine too. I first watched it when I was a kid in the early 1950s. For years, it was shown the week before Christmas.

His Holiness addressed the representatives of the world of cinema at the Vatican to champion movies as "a popular art in the noblest sense." Speaking at the Vatican on Saturday, November 15, His ...

Pope Leo told a group of leading Hollywood actors and filmmakers on Saturday that cinemas were struggling to survive and that more should be done to protect them and preserve the shared experience of ...