Following another streamer-dominated Sundance, where deal-making soared past $120 million, the onus at the European Film Market in Berlin is expected to shift back to a more traditional scene of single-territory theatrical acquisitions, largely by European buyers.
Filmmaker Autumn de Wilde is serving up a fresh new take on the Jane Austen novel with the film Emma., which opens in theaters this weekend. Complete with a stylized punctuated period in the title, the new version is a Focus Features co-production with Working Title and Blueprint Productions and joins the ranks of…
Netflix has added new seven cast members for season 2 of The Witcher as production begins in the UK for a planned 2021 launch.
Joining the second season are Yasen Atour (Young Wallender) as Coen, Agnes Bjorn as Vereena, Paul Bullion (Peaky Blinders) as Lambert, Thue Ersted Rasmussen (Fast and Furious 9) as Eskel…
Johnny Depp is in Berlin today for the world premiere of Andrew Levitas’ Minamata. A Berlin Film Festival Special Gala Screening, the drama also stars Hiroyuki Sanada, Minami and Bill Nighy. Depp plays celebrated U.S. photographer W Eugene Smith in the true-story thriller that pits Smith against a powerful corporation…
Major movie theater chain Cinemark, which also owns the Century, Tinseltown and Rave chains, saw earnings rise last quarter to $26.3 million, or 22 cents a share, as attendance and revenue slipped.
Earnings for the latest fourth quarter compared with $19.4 million, or 45 cents, the year before.
Revenue of $789 million…
ITV Studios is hopeful that broadcasters around the world are going to double down on Love Island after the reality show moved to two seasons a year in the UK. The Hell’s Kitchen studio is also planning its next expansion moves, as it looks to acquire more third-party formats and partner with producers in Latin…
Bankside is launching world sales at the EFM on WWI movie Benediction. Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) is attached to star as poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon in writer-director Terence Davies' upcoming biopic. Shoot is due to get underway next month in the UK.
Lowden, a recent BAFTA Rising Star nominee, will portray English…
Riz Ahmed is a multi-talented man. Alongside being a name actor on both sides of the pond – with recent credits including HBO’s The Night Of, Marvel movie Venom and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Ahmed is also a successful rapper, as well as a vocal activist for race and cultural issues.
In new movie Mogul Mowgli,…
EXCLUSIVE:Gravitas Ventures has picked up U.S. distribution on Bradley Liew's horror movie Motel Acacia after striking a deal with Berlin-based sales agent Picture Tree International.
The English-language film is a co-production between five Asian nations – Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan (with…
EXCLUSIVE:The Bay Of Silence, Paula van der Oest's thriller starring Claes Bang (Dracula), Olga Kurylenko (Death Of Stalin) and Brian Cox (Succession), has sold into numerous key territories.
Vertical Entertainment has swooped on North American rights to the project, striking a deal with Christian de Gallegos of…
Ready, they are. New Star Wars toys highlighted by the debut of items from the Disney+ hit The Mandalorian will hit the New York Toy Fair this week. But today on Good Morning America, there was a sneak peak at the offerings, including one that will undoubtedly be among the most coveted items.
“The Child,” aka “Baby Yod…
Michael Bloomberg will participate in his first televised town hall since he entered the presidential race, as one of six candidates to take part in CNN events in South Carolina next week.
Bloomberg will be the first candidate on the town hall schedule, at 8 p.m. ET on Monday. He’ll be followed by Bernie Sanders. The…
Pete Buttigieg is in Los Angeles today for campaign events and an evening fundraiser co-hosted by Seth MacFarlane and Lee Daniels, but he also squeezed in time for a guest spot on The Ellen Show.
Host Ellen DeGeneres asked him to respond to Rush Limbaugh’s questioning a gay man debating President Donald Trump.
“How is…
