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• LAS VEGAS, Jan. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Get ready for an extraordinary and inaugural event that promises to be the highlight of Super Bowl week in Las Vegas!
• "The Art of Whiskey," a Whisky and Cigar Festival, will take place on Thursday, February 8, 2024, marking the beginning of an annual tradition that will set the standard for years to come.
• Hosted at one of the most technologically advanced and futuristic venues in the country, this festival will immerse attendees in the world of whisky and cigars like never before.
• With 25,000 square feet of captivating space, "The Art of Whiskey" is set to be an unforgettable experience.

• Saddle up, don the fedora and crack that whip: Harrison Ford is back as the intrepid archaeologist in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
• The film premiered at Cannes, where Ford was awarded an Honorary Palme d’Or in recognition of his life’s work.

Role returns

Ford first played Indy in 1981 and last played him in 2008. That is a full 15 years since the most recent film in the series, and 42 years since his first outing in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ford has form in returning to celebrated characters. One of the great pleasures of watching The Force Awakens back in 2015 was seeing Ford play Han Solo again for the first time in over 30 years. Actors return to roles for numerous reasons:
• And still, I’m intrigued to see what Michael Mann could do with his long-rumoured sequel to Heat, his definitive 1995 crime film.
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Undoing time

• Actors used to just play characters of their own age when reprising earlier roles.
• Here, it is as if we are getting two Fords for the price of one: the “younger”, fitter Indy and the older, more world-weary version.
• Some viewers complain that the whole process is distracting and that the hyper-real visual look of de-aged scenes resembles a video game.
• Given its reduced cost, speed and reduced human input, AI-driven innovation might have industry-changing ramifications.

The star of Ford

• Harrison Ford remains a bona fide “movie star” in an industry profoundly buffeted by COVID, the rise of streaming platforms, the demise of the monoculture, and the changing nature of who constitutes a star.
• In the midst of all this industry uncertainty, it seems there is no longer a statute of limitations on actors returning to much-loved characters.

• HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese , considered one of the most prominent and influential filmmakers working today, will receive the prestigious Eva Monley Award from the Location Managers Guild International (LMGI)at its 9th Annual LMGI Awards, set for August 27, 2022, at the Los Angeles Center Studios.
• Scorsese also directed The Wolf of Wall Street and The Irishman, both of which received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Picture.
• The LMGI Honorary Eva Monley Award is presented to a filmmaker whose efforts have demonstrated "above and beyond" support of the work of location professionals.
• The LMGI is not a labor union and does not represent Location Managers/Scouts in wage or working condition negotiations.

• Academy Award-nominee Michael Mann (Collateral, Public Enemies, Heat) has cast Academy Award nominee Adam Driver (Marriage Story, Star Wars) and Academy Award winner Penlope Cruz (Parallel Mothers, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) as Enzo and Laura Ferrari and Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies, The Descendants) as Lina Lardi in his highly anticipated film Ferrari.
• All the dramatic forces of his life - as volatile as the red race cars he builds - are in collision.
• Michael Mann has said, Being able to have these wonderfully talented artists, actors Adam Driver, Penlope Cruz and Shailene Woodley, bring to life these unique characters on location in Modena and the Emilia-Romagna is a vision fulfilled.
• Adam Fogelson has added Ferrari is so much more than a story about a man and his machine.