EXCLUSIVE: UK sales firm Independent has sold SXSW-winning documentary The Donut Kingto key markets with Vice picking the film up for the world excluding North America, UK/Ireland, Japan, Australia/New Zealand and Portugal.
New deals on the film also comprise UK and Ireland (Sky), Australia (Madman), Japan (Twin)…
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) crowned the winners from its 2020 awards ceremony today, with Babyteeh and Stateless dominating the film and TV categories respectively.
Shannon Murphy's tragi-comedy Babyteeth was the big winner on the film side, scooping Best Film, Best Direction…
Venice Critics’ Week Names New Head
Venice Film Festival independent sidebar Critics' Week has hired Beatrice Fiorentino as its new General Delegate, replacing Giona A. Nazzaro who left earlier this year to take the reins at Locarno. Fiorentino is a journalist, critic and teacher who has been a member of the Critics'…
True History Of The Kelly Gang and Snowtown filmmaker Justin Kurzel has set cast for his next feature, Nitram, which will focus on the 1996 Port Arthur massacre on Tasmania.
Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Essie Davis and Anthony LaPaglia have boarded the feature, which has rolled cameras in Geelong, Victoria. The…
European film, TV and media group Wild Bunch is moving to strengthen its involvement in production and co-productions in France, placing longtime in-house execs Adeline Fontan Tessaur and Jerome Rougier in charge of the effort. They will respectively continue as Managing Director of Elle Driver and Director of French…
MONDAY UPDATE, writethru after 8:47AM Sunday post: DreamWorks Animation/Universal's The Croods: A New Age led the weekend in China with a $19.2M debut, outpacing local titles One Second and Caught In Time as it got a huge Saturday boost. This is the third best bow for a studio movie in the Middle Kingdom during the…
Netflix’s animated comedy film Back To The Outbackwill feature a voice cast of Isla Fisher, Tim Minchin, Eric Bana, Guy Pearce, Miranda Tapsell, Angus Imrie, Rachel House, Keith Urban, Celeste Barber, Wayne Knight, Aislinn Derbez, Diesel Cash La Torraca, Lachlan Ross Power, and Oscar-nominee Jacki Weaver.
The film is…
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains details about tonight’s Fargoseason 4 finale “Storia Americana” on FX
Crime doesn’t pay, and it never did for mobsters.
While we were bound to see the death of one big Kansas City mafia kingpin at the end of Fargo‘s season 4, specifically Jason Schwartzman’s wet-behind-the-ears…
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have chosen an all-female White House senior communications team, led by Jen Psaki as press secretary and Kate Bedingfield as communications director.
Psaki currently oversees communications for the presidential transition, and she previously served…
Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox usually has celebratory and fun posts on her Instagram account, but on Saturday, she took to the social media platform to share her sobering account of a transphobic attack she and her friend experienced while at Griffith Park in Los Angeles.
In the video, she admits that she was in…
Halsey is the latest musician to let the world know how she feels about this year’s Grammy nominations. She joins the supporting chorus of The Weeknd who, after being shut out of the noms, took to Twitter to call the Grammys “corrupt.” He garnered support from fellow musicians like Drake, Elton John, Charlie Puth and…
