Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival (August 20 – September 2), being held digitally this year due to the pandemic, has unveiled its final line-up.
The fest has also announced that revered genre filmmaker John Carpenter will be the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award and will host an online…
Here’s the deliciously offbeat first trailer for Oscar-winner Charlie Kaufman’s Netflix movie I’m Thinking Of Ending Things. It’s the acclaimed writer-director’s first films since 2015 pic Anomalisa.
Releasing September 4, 2020, the film stars Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette and David Thewlis in the story…
ViacomCBS has pulled the curtain back on plans to launch a premium international streaming service, which will premiere new Showtime and CBS All Access originals, and will go live across three big territories in early 2021.
The yet-to-be-named streamer — first announced in May — was discussed on the ViacomCBS…
Comcast has quietly abandoned plans to tap into the news resources at NBC and its British pay-TV broadcaster Sky to launch an international television news channel, named NBC Sky World News.
NBC News sources told Deadline that ambitions to premiere the channel over the summer have been shelved amid the coronavirus…
EXCLUSIVE: Sundance Now has boarded New Zealand crime series One Lane Bridge in the U.S. and Canada, while sister AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has taken the rights in the UK and Latin America.
Originally produced by Great Southern Television for TVNZ, One Lane Bridge tells the story of young Māori detective, Ariki…
John Preston Teams With BBC For Stonehouse
John Preston, the author of the book behind Golden Globe-winning BBC/AMC series A Very English Scandal, has been commissioned to pen a BBC drama about a British politician who faked his own death. Stonehouse, named after John Stonehouse who staged his death on a Miami beach…
EXCLUSIVE:Fabien Riggall, the founder of popular immersive film experience Secret Cinema, has launched new project LOST. Combining activism and art, the initiative will kick off with a series of exclusive UK screenings of Ladj Ly's socially-charged Oscar-nominated drama Les Misérables, prior to the film's theatrical…
San Sebastian Film Festival has added five features to this year's line-up, including Matt Dillon's second film as a director The Great Felllove, and Julien Temple's Shane McGowan doc Crock Of Gold.
The Temple pic will be presented in Competition alongside Harry McQueen's Supernova, starring Colin Firth and Stanley…
ITV has posted its earnings for the first half of 2020, and unsurprisingly it is not a pretty picture after the coronavirus pandemic wiped out advertising revenue and shut down production. But the UK commercial broadcaster and production powerhouse said there is light at the end of the tunnel.
ITV’s total group…
Organizers of the Sarajevo Film Fesitval, which was set to be one of the first international film festivals to take place in a meaningful physical form this summer, have made a late decision to shift the event entirely to online after a spike of infections in Bosnia.
The fest had been due to take place August 14 – 21…
Europe’s International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), the body representing cinema trade associations and operators across 38 territories, has called out recent moves made by studios such as Disney’s announcement last night that it will put Mulan directly on Disney+.
“New content must be released in cinemas first and…
Production begins tomorrow in Bulgaria on Millennium horror-thriller Till Death, which will star Megan Fox (Transformers), Eoin Macken (The Night Shift), Aml Ameen (Sense8), Callan Mulvey (300: Rise Of An Empire), and Jack Roth (Us And Them)
Production will take place in Sofia at Millennium’s Nu Boyana Studios. The…
