Woman in Gold is released in cinemas next month, but at its premiere in Berlin the Austrian reviewers were generous about its portrayal of a national reluctance to face the art crimes of the past, according to playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell, who wrote the screenplay.
Part of the reason Manhattan Love Story (and the other duds of 2014) are lasting so long is because the premiere schedule isn't nearly as packed as it used to be.
Factoring in DVR audience, the premiere of The Flash was the network's biggest show ever, and with last week's second episode at 4 million (huge for The CW) it looks like this is a fast champion.
Days earlier, at the Berlin premiere of Nymphomaniac, LaBeouf responded to questions about his sex scenes by quoting without attribution a surreal statement by Eric Cantona, in another reference to his plagiarism scandal.
Those tuning in on HBO Now to this Sunday's season premiere to find out what is going on with Tyrion Lannister and Arya Stark shouldn't experience any of those issues.
Wrestling drama Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell and Channing Tatum, has had its 20 December release put off; Grace of Monaco has been moved to March 2014 while re-edits are completed, while James Gray's The Immigrant is no nearer a confirmed US release after a poorly-received premiere at the 2013 Cannes film festival.
Now it may not even get a proper theatrical release in the US, as the Weinsteins attempt to retrench by trying a VOD premiere.
Even so, when he acted as master of ceremonies at the charity premiere of Billy Elliot last week in Leicester Square, you could sense the ease with which Daldry handles the spotlight, his confidence before a massive, if largely adoring, audience.
The Cuban Picassos, he told me, have not developed relationships with their European cousins, despite the fact that his own father went to Spain in 2000 for the premiere of the documentary and the European branch of the family, which has its own contentious ties, was present.
He will do his bit to raise funds for Prince Harry's African charities next month by travelling to the Odeon Leicester Square in London for the red carpet premiere of a digitally remastered Zulu, the 1964 film starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine that dramatises the 1879 defence of the Rorke's Drift garrison by 139 British soldiers against 4,000 Zulu warriors.
Dancers watching the premiere, whether from the Royal Ballet or Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures, think Bell's a star - and the image of their younger selves.
