The past two weeks has been a period of contrasting emotions for Maïmouna Doucouré. Her debut feature that was an award winner at Sundance was released in French cinemas to positive reviews and strong word-of-mouth from the public. Then came the U.S. key art, and everything changed.
Telepool, the German producer and distributor that is owned by Will Smith and Swiss investor Elysian Fields, has appointed Jan Frouman as CEO and Managing Director.
Frouman was previously founder and CEO at Red Arrow Studios. At Telepool is he is replacing André Druskeit, who has stepped down after 15 years at the…
Former Italian PM and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi has been admitted to hospital two days after testing positive for the coornavirus.
Representatives of his political party Forza said, “A small precautionary hospitalisation was needed to monitor the progress of COVID-19 but he is fine".
His partner, the the Forza…
The Trump I Know is different from many of the documentaries and shorts flooding the marketplace before the 2020 presidential election: It’s a positive portrait of the president.
The movie, which will get digital distribution October 1, centers on the women in leadership roles who work in the White House or on the…
Cameron Roach, Director of Drama at Sky Studios, is leaving his position at the UK producer.
In an internal note to staff, CEO Gary Davey said the exec was departing to "spend more time with his family".
Roach has been at Sky since 2013, working on shows including Britannia, Bulletproof and Riviera. Since Autumn 2018…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first footage of Venice Film Festival drama The Night Of Kings (La Nuit Des Rois), which is being sold by Memento Films.
Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte's film, which will also play the New York Film Festival, takes place over the course of one night in the Ivory Coast’s largest prison which is run…
Luca Guadagnino has signed up to preside over the jury of the 68th San Sebastian Film Festival, which runs September 18-26.
The filmmaker will attend with his latest work, the series We Are Who We Are, which has its world premiere Out of Competition at the festival.
He will be joined on the Official Selection jury by…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first footage of Venice Film Festival drama The Furnace, the only Australian feature at this year’s festival.
Australian writer Roderick MacKay’s debut feature stars Ahmed Malek (Clash), Jay Ryan (It: Chapter 2) and David Wenham (Lion) in a story set in the 1890s gold rush of Western Australia. The…
EXCLUSIVE: Chaitanya Tamhane wrote and directed Indian drama The Disciple, which you can watch first footage from above. The movie is set to debut in Venice Film Festival’s Competition program today (September 4).
The film, which is executive produced by Alfonso Cuarón, follows a man who devotes himself to becoming an…
You wait the best part of 30 years for one and then two come along at once…Orson Welles movies.
Pieced together from the 1,083 reels of footage for The Other Side Of The Wind (which debuted in 2018), Hopper/Wellesis the latest ‘new’ feature from the industry titan, who died in 1985.
Ahead of its world premiere at the…
EXCLUSIVE: Here you can watch the debut trailer for 200 Meters, Ameen Nayfeh’s Palestinian drama that is set to world premiere in the Venice Days program at the Venice Film Festival.
The film stars Ali Suliman as a father trapped on the other side of the West Bank wall, trying to reach the hospital for his son. May…
Two more Warner Bros. Television TV series, both from John Wells Prods., are resuming production in Los Angeles next week. Shameless is set to start filming its 11th and final season on Sept. 8; TNT’s Animal Kingdom will begin shooting Season 5 on Sept. 7. They are the first WBTV series to restart production in LA…
A Los Angeles federal court judge has decided that two songwriters who claim their lyrics were pilfered by Taylor Swift for her massive 2014 hit Shake It Offmay have a case.
US District Judge Michael Fitzgerald that songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler “have sufficiently alleged a protectable selection and…
