Intramovies has completed further sales ahead of EFM for the Slovak Oscar entry “Father,” directed by Tereza Nvotová. The film world premiered in the Horizons section at the Venice Film Festival. The latest sales are to Cultural Life Inc. for Japan, Arti Film for Benelux,
Late filmmaker's daughter says family may publish unproduced scripts
Laurence Fisburne is joining Scarlett Johansson and Mike Flanagan for a new nightmare in “The Exorcist” universe. An Oscar nominee and Emmy and Tony Award winner, Fisburne boards the franchise reboot with a previously announced ensemble led by Johansson, Jacobi Jupe (“Hamnet”),
The feature, which is launching worldwide sales at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, has Thunder Road and Seven Bucks Productions amongst its producers.
With all eyes on NBC for the Winter Olympics and Super Bowl LX, the peacock network also broadcasts the 132nd season of the Six Nations Championship rugby tournament. Game play lasts for five rounds spread over five weeks, as six men’s national teams, including England, France,
Casalegno will star alongside actor and screenwriter Jennifer James in the indie romance, which MSR Media is pitching to buyers in Berlin.
With her new documentary, the actress and activist takes on the fossil fuel industry’s extraction and export of liquefied natural gas in Texas and Louisiana.
GKIDS has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to “Labyrinth.” “Labyrinth” is the first original feature-length anime film directed by Shoji Kawamori (“Macross,” “The Vision of Escaflowne”) with a screenplay by Taishi Hashimoto. The animated feature will be released in
Iconic horror classic “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” is getting a contemporary reimagining from the Dowdle Brothers, who have tapped Michael Shannon, co-star of their Emmy-nominated “Waco” mini-series, to lead the project. “Doctor Caligari’s Cabinet of Wonders” will be directed
In a new photo from the upcoming third season of “Euphoria,” Sharon Stone appears to be playing a studio executive. The first look at Stone, who is new to the “Euphoria” cast, shows her in an all-black professional outfit while sitting at a desk and smirking at someone off
Christoper “Kid” Reid, half of the hip-hop duo Kid ‘n Play, has revealed he has a new heart. During an interview with Michael Strahan on “Good Morning America” on Thursday, Reid said he underwent the life-saving procedure after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure last
Kerry Washington is set to executive produce and star in “An Innocent Girl,” Jaume Collet-Serra’s next film for Netflix. James Marsden and Chloe East co-star in the psychological thriller, about a young and ambitious woman seduced by a high-powered D.C. couple who draw her into
The first trailer for “Exit 8,” released Thursday, is giving fans a glimpse into the anticipated film adaptation of the global hit video game of the same name. The film will be released in theaters nationwide on April 10. Directed by Genki Kawamura, the Japanese thriller
Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel enjoyed spit-roasting the doc’s trumped-up numbers on Wednesday night
AMC has given “Dark Winds” a Season 5 renewal ahead of the premiere of its fourth season. “Dark Winds” is set in the 1970s and follows three members of the Navajo Tribal Police — Zahn McClarnon as Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, Kiowa Gordon as Jim Chee and Jessica Matten as
Anime media giant Crunchyroll is now developing original video game titles under its Crunchyroll Games banner. Full details on these games, which will be added to the Crunchyroll streamer as Crunchyroll Game Vault exclusives, will be announced later this year. Crunchyroll
Bill Nye is set to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at the 4th Annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards next month. NATAS on Thursday also announced its 2026 Children’s & Family Gold Circle and Silver Circle Honor
Gaumont has already scored a raft of pre-sales on two highlights of its slate, “Just an Illusion,” Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano’s (“The Intouchables”) coming-of-age film, and “Rays and Shadows” by Xavier Giannoli (“Of Money and Blood”), a €30 million WWII-set drama.
Jimmy Kimmel won’t stop ragging on “Melania,” the Amazon MGM-backed documentary that follows Melania Trump in the 20 days leading up to her husband Donald’s second presidential inauguration. During his latest “Jimmy Kimmel Live” monologue, the late-night host questioned the
“Wasteman,” the BAFTA-nominated pressure cooker prison thriller starring BAFTA Rising Star winner David Jonsson (“The Long Walk,” “Alien: Romulus”) and Tom Blyth (“People We Meet on Vacation,” “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”) has been picked up for North
Kamala Harris, more than a year after she was defeated by Donald Trump in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, is leveraging the digital presence she built during the campaign with a new media initiative: Headquarters, intended to “mobilize” young people against “far-right
Marcello Hernandez is taking some of the energy he displays regularly on “Saturday Night Live” and lending it to Wells Fargo. In a new campaign from the financial-services company that will debut on specific local English- and Spanish-language stations playing NBC’s telecast of
Mariah Carey will be singing in Italian at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics. Andrea Bocelli will belt out arias in Italian, English, French and Spanish, duetting with Chris Stapleton and Colombia’s Karol G. But for all of the organizers’ efforts to create a
Icon Creative Studio has tapped European sales and finance outfit Global Constellation to handle international sales on its upcoming CG-animated family feature “Dragoons,” directed by Shea Wageman (“Charlie the Wonderdog”), and written and designed by Geoff Taylor. Global
The bombshell business story of Grammy Week was unquestionably the potential multi-billion dollar acquisition of Concord Music by Bertelsmann, parent company of BMG, which would see the two biggest independent music companies in the Western world join forces to create what
Latin superstar singer Bad Bunny is branching into the podcast game. Rimas Sports, Bad Bunny’s sports management and brand alliance agency, has forged a partnership with iHeartMedia to produce original podcasts and content for My Cultura, iHeart’s podcast network dedicated to
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for “The Wrecking Crew,” now playing on Prime Video. At the end of “The Wrecking Crew,” there’s a long, bloody fight that finds Dave Bautista’s James Hale dispensing with a collection of gun-toting, knife-wielding yakuza
Elsewhere, Britain's box office generated 996.8 million pounds ($1.35 billion) in 2025, up 2 percent on 2024, but down 21 percent from pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
The film, which world premiered in the Tiger Competition at Rotterdam, traces a filmmaker's escape from violent repression: "I wanted to create something and return something that was erased."
Some stroll down memory lane, others take a chauffeured golf cart. Such is the case for Lisa Kudrow, star of “Friends” and “The Comeback,” who recently spent some time reminiscing on a tour of the Warner Bros. Pictures lot in Burbank. Kudrow and a host of other stars made the
A potentially tranquil desert island now overrun with vacationing Europeans chugging day-glo cocktails, Gran Canaria is an intrinsically funny setting for a story of familial grief, disconnection and rapprochement, and for much of its running time, “Butterfly” gets the joke. In
The Newport Beach Film Festival has revealed that Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris’ Neal Street Productions will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Global Entertainment Award at next month’s U.K. and Ireland Honors event in London. The star-studded, glitzy event returns for its
NBCUniversal and Visa are teaming for an ambitious marketing partnership that will connect the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics with the Super Bowl though content produced by sports-centric creators Allison Kuch and Isaac Rochell, a former NFL player. The pair, known as Allie and
U.S. filmmaker Laura Poitras will be the Special Guest at the opening of the 24th edition of VdR–Industry, documentary festival Visions du Réel’s program for industry professionals. Poitras won an Oscar with “Citizenfour,” the real-life international thriller about
The U.K. has underlined its status as a major global production hub, according to new figures from the British Film Institute. In its annual investment report released Thursday, the BFI’s official statistics showed that film and high-end television production expenditure in the
The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics will have special significance for Warner Bros. Discovery. Not only is the entertainment conglomerate the games’ official broadcaster in Europe, but HBO Max is the flagship streaming hub of the Feb. 6-22 snow and ice sports extravaganza just as
Oscar winners Sean Baker and Michelle Yeoh have secretly teamed up for a new project, which will world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival later this month. In collaboration with the London-based fashion house Self-Portrait, the “Anora” director returns to his iPhone-shooting
H264, a Montreal-based film distribution and international sales company, has acquired the international rights to “La Portraitiste,” the first narrative feature film written by Florence Longpré, and directed by Annie St-Pierre, her first narrative feature as a director. It is
Sony Group executives detailed their vision for expanding the Peanuts franchise during the company’s fiscal third-quarter earnings call Thursday, revealing strategies to leverage the iconic IP across music, film and global distribution platforms. Lin Tao, Sony’s chief financial
Prime Video has tapped Francis Bourgeois, Thomas Holland and James Engelsman to helm the revamped “The Grand Tour,” which returns later this year with a fresh lineup two years after Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May concluded their run. The six-episode series will
enGEN3, a participatory storytelling platform, has formed a strategic partnership with Web3 anime brand Oni Force to develop “Oni Hunter X” as one of the first story worlds built on enGEN3’s infrastructure for licensed fan co-creation, distribution and revenue sharing, the
MetFilm Sales has acquired international sales rights to Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić’s feature documentary “To Hold a Mountain,” which recently received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize. MFS will
Paramount chair and CEO David Ellison is not giving up on his relentless pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery and his plan to counter rival suitor Netflix. In an open letter sent out on Thursday to journalists around the world, including in the U.K. and France, Ellison outlined
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society has unveiled the second slate of projects selected for the 24th Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum, spotlighting 12 work-in-progress titles that bring together Asian cinema heavyweights and promising new voices. Set to be
A24’s Oscar-nominated drama “Marty Supreme,” starring four-time Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet, will receive a theatrical release in China through China Film Group with promotional support from Wanda Film. The film, directed by Josh Safdie, has emerged as a major
Finneas took to Instagram Threads on Wednesday to defend his superstar sister and songwriting partner, Billie Eilish, from “very powerful old white men” who are “outraged” about her Grammys acceptance speech. “Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my
Sony Group raised its outlook for the current fiscal year ending in March, as the Tokyo-based tech and entertainment company beat expectations with a 22% increase in operating income for the September-December 2025 quarter. For the three months ended Dec. 31, its third quarter
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced to TruthSocial that he’s directed all federal law enforcement to help search for Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother, Nancy, who went missing in a suspected kidnapping last weekend. “I spoke with Savannah Guthrie, and let her know
In a video posted to social media, the Today show host and her siblings pleaded for their mother’s safe return