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Film Festivals In The Pandemic Era: Here’s The Latest From 17 Key Events – Update
The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the film calendar with Sundance, Toronto and London the latest festivals to announce hybrid events featuring physical and online activity.
Below we rundown the current status of some of the key upcoming festivals and markets in the next six months; this list…
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‘Salisbury Poisonings’ Creators To Direct Thriller Film ‘Chasing Agent Freegard’ Starring James Norton
Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn, creators of the hit BBC drama The Salisbury Poisonings, have been attached to direct feature film Chasing Agent Freegard, a thriller starring James Norton.
The movie is written by Captain Phillips co-producer Michael Bronner and is based on the gripping true story of con man Robert…
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Signature & Rialto Buy UK, Australia Rights To War Drama ‘A Call To Spy’
EXCLUSIVE: UK indie film distributor Signature Entertainment and Australian releaser Rialto Distribution have acquired UK and Australian rights respectively to war drama A Call To Spy.
The pic is directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher, who was Oscar nominated in 2014 for documentary Cutie & The Boxer and is also a two-time…
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Spanish Horror Hit ‘[REC]’ Gets 4DX Re-Release To Boost Local Cinema
EXCLUSIVE: [REC], the 2007 Spanish found-footage horror movie that grossed $32.5M off a minimal budget, is getting a special re-release in the 4DX format, becoming the first Spanish non-CGI title to be adapted into the technology.
4DX, originally developed by South Korean company CJ, augments a film experience with…
Demi Moore Leads Erotic QCode Podcast ‘Dirty Diana’ With Claes Bang, Betsy Brandt, Gwendoline Christie & Lena Dunham
Demi Moore is to star in and produce starry scripted podcast series Dirty Diana, which is being billed as “a new form of erotica” and will bow July 13.
Created during lockdown by Run Sweetheart Run and Country Strong writer-director Shana Feste, the six-episode series will tell the story of a dying marriage and how…
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‘Jojo Rabbit’ Producer Chelsea Winstanley Heads To NZ To Helm Maori Art Doc ‘Toi Tu Toi Ora – Visual Sovereignty’
EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Winstanley, the Oscar nominated producer of Jojo Rabbit and What We Do In The Shadows, has arrived back in her native New Zealand to begin filming on feature documentary Toi Tu Toi Ora – Visual Sovereignty.
The pic will follow the final year of preparation for the first international showing of…
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Jeremy Rush To Helm Space Thriller ‘Retrograde’ For ‘Nine Days’ Producers Mandalay Pictures & Juniper Productions
EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Rush, whose feature directing debut was Netflix thriller Wheelman starring Frank Grillo, has been set to direct contained space thriller Retrograde.
The project comes from producers Mandalay Pictures and Juniper Productions. The two companies previously teamed on supernatural drama Nine Days, which…
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Donnie Yen To Star As Chinese-Mexican Drug Kingpin In Thriller ‘Golden Empire’ For Starlight Media
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese megastar Donnie Yen is set to star in and produce crime thriller Golden Empire, in which he will play a notorious drug kingpin who hits the top of the most wanted list for both the U.S. and Mexican governments.
Yen also will produce the movie alongside Peter Luo, CEO at Starlight Media, which is…
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John Boyega, Jack Reynor, Jodie Turner-Smith & Felicity Jones To Star In Thriller ‘Borderland’ From ‘The Uninvited’ Directors & ‘Public Enemies’ Scribe
EXCLUSIVE: IRA thriller Borderland is set to feature an exciting cast of John Boyega (Star Wars), Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) and Felicity Jones (The Theory Of Everything).
The film will follow an Irish paramilitary, Michael (Reynor), who witnesses the shooting of his pregnant wife at…
Seven Conversations About Race, Inequality & Black Lives Matter With Those At The Heart Of The UK Industry
Six years ago I wrote a piece titled “All White At The Top,” asking why the UK film industry was painfully bereft of Black, Asian and minority ethnic executives.
I drew up a list of more than 75 leading companies in production, sales, exhibition, distribution, post-production, public and private finance, VFX, talent…
Palme D’Or Winner Ruben Ostlund Talks Returning To Production On ‘Triangle Of Sadness’ During Covid Pandemic
Palme d’Or winner Ruben Ostlund (The Square) resumed shooting in Sweden last week on his satire Triangle Of Sadness, following a three month break due to COVID-19.
With a budget of more than $11M, the project is one of the biggest European movies to get back underway since the pandemic struck.
Ostlund's first…
Ennio Morricone Dies: Legendary Composer Of Spaghetti Westerns & Oscar Winners Was 91
UPDATED with Morricone’s self-written obituary: Legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone died Monday in Rome following complications from a fall last week. He was 91.
His lawyer Giorgio Assumma handed reporters an obituary written by the composer himself outside the clinic where Morricone died, Reuters reports. It…
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