Refresh for latest…: With an amazing $1.69B worldwide cume through Sunday, Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: No Way Home has become the No. 6 film ever globally, passing Jurassic World ($1.67B) and The Lion King ($1.662B) to get there. This includes a running $970.1M from the international box office, which should portend an…

NBC Sports this week made the not-too-surprising announcement that much of its Beijing Olympics team would be covering next month’s Winter Games from afar, in Stamford, CT, as the Covid pandemic once again disrupts the event. But the international outcry over human rights abuses in China, leading to a U.S. diplomatic…

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Campion will have some new hardware on her mantel come March. The Power of the Dog writer-director and Oscar-winning The Piano scribe is set to receive the Art Directors Guild’s 2022 Cinematic Imagery Award. She will be honored at the 26th annual ADG Awards on March 5 at the InterContinental Los…

Johnny Depp is set to portray French king Louis XV in an untitled historical drama set to co-star Maiwenn (Polisse), who is also helming the project, according to numerous reports in French press. Miawenn will play a mistress of the king, Jeanne du Barry, who was beheaded during the French Revolution. Further plot…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first clip from Sundance premiere My Old School, the imposter story documentary starring Alan Cumming (The Good Wife). Filmmaker Jono McLeod’s nostalgic look at the strange but true story of his former classmate, Brandon Lee, is being sold by Dogwoof. In 1993, 16-year-old Lee enrolled at…

Acclaimed British author Tessa Hadley’s latest novel Free Love has been optioned by Fremantle’s Hand of God indie The Apartment and Lorenzo De Maio’s De Maio Entertainment. The book, which comes out this week in the UK and next month in the U.S., is set against the backdrop of 1960s London, telling the story of…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s some good-looking first footage from Bolivian eco-drama Utama, which is unspooling as part of the Sundance lineup. Set in the arid Bolivian highlands, the film follows an elderly Quechua couple who have been living the same daily routine for years. When an uncommonly long drought threatens their…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first footage of Sundance premiere A House Made Of Splinters, produced by Flee producer Monica Hellström for Danish documentary studio Final Cut for Real, whose impressive doc credits include Flee, The Look of Silence and The Act of Killing. The movie is Hellström’s latest since buzz movie Flee…

Afternoon subscribers, Max Goldbart here. It’s been a busy week but International Insider has you covered. Read on for in-depth analysis of the biggest international headlines of the week. Bad Times For BBC Licence (Fee) To Kill: It all started with a tweet. Negotiations over the BBC's future license fee appeared to…

Refresh for updates… Tributes have been flooding in for Meat Loaf,  the prolific singer and actor born Marvin Lee Aday who has died Thursday at 74. Many of those who worked alongside him as both singer and actor were first to take to Twitter. Global superstar Cher said she “had so much fun with Meat Loaf” when they…

A Very British Scandal producer Blueprint Television has hired Poldark exec Karen Thrussell as Head of Television. Thrussell also exec produced a number of Sarah Phelps’ BBC One Agatha Christie adaptations including And Then There Were None, Ordeal By Innocence and Witness for the Prosecution. She will oversee the Sony…

‘Big Brother’ Spain Label Zeppelin Unveils MD Zeppelin, the Banijay Iberia label that introduced Big Brother and entertainment format The Bridge to Spain, has promoted Miguel Martín to MD, replacing Amparo Castellano. Martín joined the label two years ago to work for Banijay Birds, the territory’s creative hub for…