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A vibrant account of a long-term love affair between two aging women neighbors takes on teasing Fatal Attraction overtones in Two Of Us, the sharp-minded and shrewdly styled feature debut by French director and co-writer Filippo Meneghetti. First screened at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and this year’s submission…

France's Oscar selection committee has chosen drama Two Of Us as its submission to the International Feature Film category at the 2021 Academy Awards. From director Filippo Meneghetti, the feature debut world premiered in the Discovery section of Toronto last year and was released in France in early 2020 via Sophie…

If you thought the political wars were over because the election has passed, Slay the Dragon is a sharp wake-up call to resume the fight. Joe Biden may have won the Presidency and the Senate is focused on the duel runoffs in Georgia, but under the radar, the consequences of the 2020 Census and the dirty business of…

Participant Media is the production company behind a number of important issue-oriented films both narrative and documentary, including Oscar winners like Green Book, An Inconvenient Truth and its sequel, RBG, Spotlight, Citizenfour, and the all-too-prescient Contagion among many others. Its latest film, now hitting…

Discovery has set a launch date for Magnolia, its joint venture between Discovery and Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines. Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav revealed that the home and lifestyle brand will launch on October 4. He made the revelation during his opening remarks at the Winter TCA press…

Chip and Joanna Gaines have issued a teasing video for their new Magnolia Network, which is expected to debut next summer and replace the existing DIY Network in the Discovery empire. The video shows the easy-going couple teasing each other about the story possibilities of the new network, whose offerings remain under…

UPDATED, 4:45 PM: Hulu said today that it has moved back the premiere date for Ask Dr. Ruth by three weeks, from May 10 to June 1. Its theatrical release via Magnolia Pictures remains set for May 3. PREVIOUSLY, November 29: One day after the Ask Dr. Ruth documentary was unveiled as one of the high-profile premieres at…

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures International has finalized deals for movies on its American Film Market sales slate, including TIFF horror-western The Wind, U.S. box office hit doc RBG, and Sebastian Silva's suspense-drama Tyrel. Well-received female-fronted genre pic The Wind, which tells the story of a settler in the…

SeaWorld and its former CEO, James Atchison, have agreed to pay more than $5 million to settle federal charges that they covered up the negative impact of the documentary film Blackfish on the company. The 2013 Magnolia-CNN Films release took viewers behind the scenes of SeaWorld’s popular killer-whale shows to expose…

A&E IndieFilms announced today that Magnolia Pictures has acquired domestic rights to Alexis Bloom’s documentary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes about the late Fox News Chairman and CEO.  Magnolia will open the movie on Dec. 7 after a fall festival run. A&E Network has television rights to the film. Take…

Japan has selected Hirokazu Kore-eda's family drama and Cannes Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters as its submission for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar category. The story of a family of small-time crooks who take in a child they find on the streets has been a box office winner at home, becoming the acclaimed…

Revolving doors at two of Italy's leading television production companies as Endemol Shine Italy and Banijay-owned Magnolia appoint new bosses. The 21st Century Fox-backed business has hired Leonardo Pasquinelli as Chief Executive to succeed Paolo Bassetti. He will oversee the company, which produced over 40…