Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale has been acquired by IFC Films ahead of its North American premiere later this month in the Spotlight section at the Sundance Film Festival. The pic is coming off a Special Jury Prize from its world premiere in Venice, where Kent was the lone female director in the competition lineup. A…

The Venice Film Festival has withdrawn the press accreditation for a man who, at one of last night’s press screenings of Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, hurled a sexist insult when the director’s name appeared in the credits. On its Twitter feed, the festival today called the incident “a regrettable fact” and said it…

Arriving on the Lido, The Nightingale filmmaker Jennifer Kent was primed for questions about being the only female director in the Venice Film Festival competition, something she first addressed with Deadline earlier this week. What she may not have expected at her press conference this afternoon, was to be fielding…

EXCLUSIVE: Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent burst onto the international scene with her feature directing debut, 2014’s The Babadook. The horror pic premiered to great acclaim in Sundance, was quickly acquired by IFC and went on to win more than 50 awards, ultimately making over $10M worldwide on a reported $2M…

Sony has just dropped a slew of release date changes and set new dates for a crop of films. Marvel’s Silver Sable and Black Cat, Spider-Man allies and antagonists, will get their own movie Silver and Black, which will open on February 8, 2019 with Gina Prince-Bythewood directing. Note that these Spider-Man spinoffs…

Sony has slotted in TriStar Pictures' The Nightingale, Columbia Pictures’ Charlie’s Angels and an untitled animated franchise pic to its release schedule. First up is The Nightingale, based on the bestselling book by Kristin Hannah about two sisters living in France at the beginning of World War II. The picture…

The Nightingale, a period thriller written and directed by The Babadook writer-director Jennifer Kent, will move forward with Bron Creative executive producing and co-financing. Starring Aisling Franciosi and Sam Claflin, The Nightingale is set in Tasmania in 1825 and follows a beautiful 21-year-old Irish female…

EXCLUSIVE: Ann Peacock (Chronicle Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe) has just closed a deal to to adapt The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah for Elizabeth Cantillon (Concussion) to produce at TriStar, which had previously optioned the title. The Nightingale is an epic family drama about two sisters living…