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The American Film Institute has announced that the 37th edition of AFI Fest will take place in-person at Hollywood’s historic TCL Chinese Theatre from October 25-29.  The Oscar-qualifying, five-day festival will, as always, feature an assortment of red carpet galas, special screenings, world cinema…

20th Digital Studio and Hulu Originals have released first-look images of Appendage, a horror comedy starring Hadley Robinson (Little Women, I'm Thinking of Ending Things) that will have its world premiere at SXSW next month. Also starring Kausar Mohammed (The Flash, 4400) and Emily Hampshire (Schitt's Cre…

South by Southwest on Wednesday revealed the second half of its lineup for this year’s edition, set for March 10-19. This includes Visions, the Global section presented by Mubi, 24 Beats, and Festival Favorites plus numerous additions to the Headliners, TV Premieres, Narrative and Documentary…

It may have been in the single digits in snowy Park City for this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but deals defrosted at the first in-person festival since 2020. Movies came in with distribution in place, others saw heated late-night auctions with tens of millions of dollars mobilized, and more sales are…

The Berlinale Film Festival has unveiled the jury members for its main International Competition, which will be presided over by Kristin Stewart. They comprise Iranian-French actress Golshifteh Farahani, German director Valeska Grisebach, Romanian director Radu Jude, US casting director and producer F…

Berlinale Adds Disney Tribute Film, Donna Summer Docs To Line-UpThe Berlinale has added Love to Love You, Donna Summer and 100 Years of Disney Animation – A Shorts Celebration to its 73rd edition line-up running February 16-26. Both titles will screen in the Berlinale Special sidebar. Co-directed by…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute and Peter Luo's Stars Collective (Crazy Rich Asians, Midway, Marshall, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) have partnered on the new Imagination Award that grants $25,000 each to three metaverse-based projects that show innovation “in a rapidly evolving…

The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its Jury and Audience Award winners for 2023. The day’s big winners included Maryam Keshavarz’s The Persian Version, which claimed both the Audience Award and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in U.S. Dramatic Competition, as well as A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and…

On September 11, 2020 the New York Times published an obituary for Shere Hite, the renowned sex researcher and author, noting that her work "helped awaken women to their sexual power and advance the Second Wave of feminism." One of the readers of that obituary was filmmaker Nicole Newnham, and it…

MTV Documentary Films has acquired worldwide rights to Sundance world-premiering love story The Eternal Memory, director Maite Alberdi's follow-up to Oscar nominated doc The Mole Agent. The price is said to be approaching $3 million in a competitive situation with a number of bidders. The film, which…

Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here. It’s Oscar noms week, and we’d be rude not to bring you the latest headlines and analysis from the Academy and beyond. Read on. And The Nominations Are In Everett Everythi…

Anyone who has traveled to seaside resort areas around the world will recognize them, the obvious foreigners who spend their days approaching tourists with assorted trinkets to sell and are most often ignored or shooed away by Westerners. Precious few films…