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Bleecker Street has released a teaser-trailer for Alex Gibney’s highly anticipated documentary Musk, and it’s not a flattering portrait of the SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink honcho and X owner. Yes, the teaser begins with voices of some people heaping praise on Elon Musk – one idolator roaring he’s “the greatest capitalist in history!” But those encomiums […]Переглянути повний текст

The Motion Picture Association signed two declarations at the Lumière Summit, aimed at deepening international collaboration and investment in audiovisual sector, protecting intellectual property and strengthening the creative economy. The MPA joined government and private sector partners in signing the Lumiere Declaration on the Future of Cinema and the Moving Image and the Declaration on Strengthened International Cooperation […]Переглянути повний текст

Carisa Hendrix, the Canadian-born comedian, magician and variety artist, has a business mind as unusual as her career origin story. It’s a story that took Hendrix from performing at haunted houses for $50 a night as a teenager to building a global touring business around Lucy Darling, an original character she introduced at the Melbourne […]Переглянути повний текст

In a time when many film and television productions shoot in other states or countries despite having their roots of development in Hollywood, 20th Century Studios has taken a big swing with its upcoming feature Whalefall, which arrives in theaters October 16. Starring Austin Abrams, Josh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue, John Ortiz, Jane Levy and Emily […]Переглянути повний текст

The catastrophic flash floods in Nepal show the extreme peril posed by melting glacial ice in the Himalayas. The death toll stands at more than 1,300 after the August 26 disaster triggered by the collapse of a section of glacier, which plunged into water below setting off a tsunami-like surge. In the Himalayan Kingdom of […]Переглянути повний текст

Jury President Maggie Gyllenhaal paid tribute to the “brilliant and brave” Ellen Burstyn as she presented the Oscar-winning actress with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. “Let’s take a moment in this beautiful theater to remember Lois Farrow in The Last Picture Show, Alice Hyatt in Alice Doesn’t […]Переглянути повний текст

Bruce Davis, who served as chief executive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for more than 20 years, has died. He was 83. Davis died Saturday following a battle with leukemia, his wife, Joann, told The Hollywood Reporter. Davis joined the Academy in 1981, rising through ranks and becoming executive director in 1989, […]Переглянути повний текст

There will be people wondering why Paolo Strippoli’s unashamedly commercial horror-thriller The Spiral is in Competition and not in one of the festival’s many increasingly hard-to-navigate sidebars. But thank God it is; with a tsunami of documentary titles and a bunch of reality-based features that effectively make us all complicit in the rise of neo-fascism […]Переглянути повний текст

Considering the magnitude and triumph of the actual story of the first successful expedition to summit the peak of fabled Mt. Everest, it is surprising that there haven’t been a whole lot of narrative major motion pictures about it. It has all the stuff of blockbuster films based on stirring real life pursuits of glory, […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Michelin-starred chef Mory Sacko’s upcoming Japanese culinary voyage Food Samurai is headed for Disney+ in the U.S. and Canada. The six-episode show sees Mory, accompanies by pasty chef and friend Theó Segretin and guests such as Omar Sy, immerse himself in Japanese culture and gastronomy to unlock how to prepare the perfect bento. Alongside […]Переглянути повний текст

No one ever imagined this would be a record $4.76 billion summer. When we started off, we knew Universal’s The Odyssey was destined to be huge given that the 70MM Imax tickets sold out a year in advance. Sony/Marvel Studio’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day was also bound to be big, but the biggest movie of […]Переглянути повний текст

Don’t call it a comeback — Comedy Central’s South Park, which returned to the Outstanding Animated Program category with its first nomination in five years, landed its first win in 13 years. On stage, South Park co-creator Trey Parker thanked fans. On social media, the show celebrated by taunting the Emmy-winning episodes’ frequent target, President […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Renate Reinsve has been officially confirmed for the role of Mary Wollstonecraft in Mia Hansen-Løve’s epic and intimate period drama If Love Should Die as Goodfellas boards sales for a script-backed TIFF launch where it will be one of the buzziest European productions on the market. In fresh casting news, Reinsve is being joined by Johnny Flynn and Vicky Krieps […]Переглянути повний текст

Hirokazu Koreeda is not the world’s most prolific director or even Japan’s (that honor goes to Takashi Miike, who passed the 100-film milestone years ago). But he is certainly one of the most versatile and unpredictable; there are few directors who could follow the heart-wrenching poignancy of Still Walking (2008), a film about a family […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Literary classics such as Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre are getting the microdrama treatment. This is through the latest entrant into the microdrama field, LoveHit, an L.A.-based studio and app focused on originals based on classic literary adaptations. LoveHit, which launches this month, has a vertical video slate built entirely from classic novels in […]Переглянути повний текст

The London Film Festival has made several additions to this year’s lineup, including the concert film Paul Thomas Anderson shot at Carnegie Hall last year with Geese frontman Cameron Winter. Mubi has now also acquired global rights outside of North America to the film. Scroll down for the full list of LFF additions. Officially titled […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: There’s no question about it, Steve Callaghan’s Trivia Night Mysteries is expanding. The Nicely Entertainment-produced cozy crime franchise has wrapped production on its second and third instalments, Fit for a Murder and A Fatal Lesson, with stars Morgan Bradley (The Christmas Recipe Files) and Alex Trumble (A Scottosh Christmas Secret) reuniting in the lead […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Piers Morgan is turning his FIFA World Cup show into a permanent series. The British journalist is launching the weekly series Football Uncensored, expanding a roster of YouTube shows that includes Piers Morgan Uncensored and The Royals Uncensored. Morgan will co-host Football Uncensored with Simon Jordan, the former owner of Premier League club Crystal […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Morgan (Merlin) and Katie Leung (Harry Potter) will narrate The Haunted Library, a podcast about based around classic horror stories. The concept is for the pair to read titles from a fictional Gothic library, the doors to which open on September 21, with BBC Studios Audio producing and funding the series, which will […]Переглянути повний текст

France and Korea pledged to invest 1 billion euros ($1.16 billion) in the global screen industries from 2027 to 2031, in a cornerstone announcement of President Emmanuel Macron’s Lumière Summit devoted to the future of the moving image unfolding in the South of France on Monday. Korean President Lee Jae Myung, who is on a […]Переглянути повний текст

Saturday Night Live UK has added Such Brave Girls and Big Boys actor Freddie Meredith to the cast of the upcoming second season. Meredith, who is also a comedian, is coming off his Edinburgh Fringe debut show Need a Light?, which was nominated for a Best Newcomer Award. He will now join an ensemble also […]Переглянути повний текст

BBC News’ coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to move back to the UK prompted viewer complaints. The BBC revealed that audience members contacted the UK broadcaster to raise concerns that it was dedicating “too much” airtime to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The BBC did not disclose how many complaints it […]Переглянути повний текст

Maryam Moshiri, one of the BBC’s most seasoned news presenters, has revealed that she has been diagnosed with blood cancer. In interviews with BBC News and The Times of London, Moshiri said that she is living with polycythaemia vera, a rare but treatable blood cancer. Moshiri, 49, was diagnosed in November 2024 after her doctor […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Buyers seeking romance will have a chance for New Love at MIPCOM. Dori Media Group is launching Fremantle-owned Abot Hameiri’s new dating format to the international TV marketplace ahead of MIPCOM. The show puts four single women into accelerated 72-hour live-in situations with carefully selected strangers – moving past dating apps and manufactured first […]Переглянути повний текст

The official launch of the Gaza Cinema Academy was announced at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, as the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory continues to dominate global news. The initiative – co-founded by Palestinian filmmakers Ezzaldeen Shalh and Mai Masri – aims to establish a sustainable space for film education, training and production […]Переглянути повний текст