The Babadook star Essie Davis and Leave No Trace actress Thomasin McKenzie are starring in The Justice Of Bunny King, a feature film currently shooting in New Zealand. The dramedy marks the debut of director Gaysorn Thavat, from a script written by Sophie Henderson (Fantail). Emma Slade (Come to Daddy) is…
UTA on Monday took the wraps off a new logo, the agency’s first brand revamp since 2011, with the abstract, three-dimensional shape meant to emphasize the agency’s “continued and evolving commitment to uniting ideas, opportunities and talent,” it said.
The logo is already on the agency’s website, and building signage…
British journalist Caitlin Moran began writing for the rock press in the early '90s, at the age of 16, and her experiences in the field provided the basis for her second novel, How to Build a Girl, in 2014. A film version has been in the works ever since the novel was first published, and this year director Coky…
EXCLUSIVE: Mexican mega-star Eugenio Derbez (Overboard) and his thespian family are the subjects of under-the-radar reality TV series De Viaje Con Los Derbez (Derbez Family Vacation).
The unscripted docu-comedy series, about a Derbez family vacation to Morocco, will launch in the U.S. and Puerto Rico on October 18 via…
Big Brother, widely considered to have kick-started the international reality formats business, turns 20 today.
The show first launched on September 16, 1999 on RTL's Dutch network Veronica with nine housemates moving into a purpose-built house in Holland equipped with 24 cameras. Some 471 series and 28,391 episodes…
Mark Ruffalo has shot down a claim from UK prime minister Boris Johnson that he and the UK will resemble the Incredible Hulk by securing the UK’s exit from the EU.
Johnson told a UK tabloid this weekend, “The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets…Hulk always escaped, no matter how tightly bound in he seemed to be…
Martin Scorsese and Netflix’s The Irishmanwill get a centerpiece screening at the Rome Film Festival on October 21.
The film will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on September 27 and its international premiere at the London Film Festival in mid-October before a limited theatrical run in early…
Hard-hitting Venice Film Festival competition movie The Painted Bird has been selected by the Czech Film and Television Academy as the Czech Republic’s international Oscar entry.
Described as an "evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II," director-producer Václav Marhoul’s…
Youngest Media, the British producer NBC's forthcoming non-scripted series Small Fortune, is launching a German division and has set up a new competition format.
The company, set up by former Endemol Shine execs Lucas Church and David Flynn, has sold Battle of the Bands (w/t) to RTL.
The show will see two bands, one…
“Nazis weren’t cool when I wrote it,” joked Jojo Rabbit filmmaker Taika Waititi about making and releasing his Adolf Hitler comedy in the current divided political climate, one where white supremacists have become some of President Donald Trump’s more ardent supporters.
“People weren’t into this sh*t when I wrote it…
UPDATE; writethru: New Line/Warner Bros' It Chapter Two had its second reading at the global and international box office this weekend, after screaming to the 2nd highest worldwide opening ever for a horror movie last session. With the sophomore frame's extra balloons, the franchise has now crossed $1B worldwide. The…
Terminal illness was a theme that cast a long shadow over this year's TIFF, but Maria Sødahl's film Hope came at the subject from a rather different perspective—from the Swedish director's own experience, in fact, when she was diagnosed with brain cancer several years ago. Nevertheless, the film is not in any way a…
