Bulgaria's Cash Rebate Backs First Projects
Bulgaria has officially introduced its 25% cash rebate program, and the first three projects to shoot under the scheme have now been set. The films are: Crossing, a "major studio production" that is keeping details under-wraps; The Herd, a Bulgarian majority coproduction…
Masked men stormed a Moscow showing of Agnieszka Holland’s film Mr Jonesyesterday night, chanting “Shame on the Motherland” as they took over the stage.
In footage posted on Twitter, the group of what appeared to be around 20 people took to the front of Moscow’s Memorial Human Rights Center, where the film was being…
European Film Academy president and prominent filmmaker Agnieszka Holland launched a rallying call for the independent biz today during a Cannes Marche panel, and also cautioned about the influence of algorithm-driven streaming services.
Appearing virtually via video link, Holland said she was happy that the streamers…
"Charlatan" seems too harshly definitive a term to apply to the fascinating protagonist of the new film with the self-same title, given that the Middle European physician titularly accused of medical deception successfully plied a busy career treating eager patients across more than three decades under three vastly…
The Czech Republic has become the latest country to name its selection for this year's International Oscar race, choosing Agnieszka Holland's biographical drama Charlatan.
The film premiered at the Berlinale earlier this year and was selected for Telluride before that event was cancelled. It has also been a box office…
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Netflix is prepping its first Polish-language original series with Oscar-nominated director Agnieszka Holland helming, along with Kasia Adamik. The pair recently collaborated on Holland’s Spoor which is Poland’s submission this year for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and won the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize in…
EXCLUSIVE: Agnieszka Holland is attached to direct The Kind Worth Killing, an adaptation of the Peter Swanson thriller novel for Chockstone Pictures and Nick Wechsler Productions. Paula Mae Schwartz, Steve Schwartz and Wechsler are producing; Roger Schwartz is co-producer. The novel focuses on a particularly ruthless…
Agnieszka Holland To Direct Season 3 ‘House Of Cards’ EpisodesAgnieszka Holland has signed to helm multiple episodes of the upcoming season of Netflix‘s signature drama House Of Cards. The veteran Polish director most recently helmed the NBC miniseries Rosemary’s Baby and European mini Burning Bush along with episode…
Led by chairwoman Agnieszka Holland, the European Film Academy is urging Russian officials to immediately release arrested Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov. The Gaamer helmer has been involved in supporting the Euro Maidan protests in Kiev, and opposes the annexation of Crimea by Russia. On May 11, he is understood to…
Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to the Agnieszka Holland-directed film that follows the plight of Czech student Jan Palach, who set himself on fire to protest the the Soviet occupation of Prague in 1969, and his family's legal fight to clear his name. Having lived in Czechoslovakia at the time the events took…