Three generations of women confront the elephant in their room — a stepfather’s sexual abuse — in Chloe Abrahams’ “The Taste of Mango.” The filmmaker’s first feature reflects her background in gallery video art as it mixes impressionistic visuals, diaristic elements, home
The Spotify Wrapped 2024 year-end data dive is out — and Taylor Swift is again at the top. Swift ranked as the No. 1 most-streamed artist globally in 2024 on Spotify, nabbing the crown for the second year in a row. That’s largely on the strength of her latest album, “The
Joe Rogan no longer had an exclusive window on Spotify in 2024 — but his hugely popular podcast was still the No. 1 most-listened to show on the platform this year. “The Joe Rogan Experience,” hosted by the comedian-podcaster, was the top Spotify podcast in the U.S. for the
James Norton has revealed he was set on playing William the Conqueror in upcoming Middle Ages drama series “King and Conqueror” but was thwarted by HBO, who had an option on the actor for another series. Norton, who is also an executive producer on the upcoming BBC/CBS show
Jordan Bolger (“This Town”) and Max Fincham (“Invasion”) have been cast as the leads in upcoming Netflix drama “The Witness.” Based on the true story of the violent murder of Rachel Nickell in 1992 in front of her two year-old son Alex while walking through a London park, “The
Marcus Loges will take over from Henning Molfenter on Jan. 1.
The youngest Indonesian director to have won the Citra Award for Best Picture at the Indonesian Film Festival in 2014, Angga Dwimas Sasongko, finds immense optimism seeing the rapid growth of Indonesian cinema in a year that has seen it claim a significant market share locally.
Amy Adams has responded to fans wanting her to play Taylor Swift’s publicist, Tree Paine, in a biopic, saying it “would be amazing.” When Adams stopped by “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday night to promote her new film “Nightbitch,” Fallon informed her of the
The next feature from the 'Parthenope' and 'Hand of God' director will be a love story.
Leading Indonesian studio Magma Entertainment presented its upcoming slate and premiered new content at the ongoing Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (JAFF) and JAFF Market, marking an expansion across multiple genres from 2025 through 2028. The company screened nine minutes
Red Sea honorees Emily Blunt and Aamir Khan, as well as Saudi pioneers Ibrahim Alhasawi and actor Moshal Almutairi will also speak during "In Conversation" events.
Sky scripted exec Meghan Lyvers has addressed a question some people have been asking over the recent “The Day of the Jackal” reboot, starring Eddie Redmayne, namely whether it needed to be a reboot at all given the departure from the source material. “The Day of the Jackal”
The Netherlands and Indonesia signed an audiovisual co-production agreement at the inaugural JAFF Market on Wednesday. The treaty was signed by Indonesian Deputy Minister of Culture Giring Ganesha Djumaryo and Barbera Wolfensberger, Director-General of Culture and Media at the
Paolo Sorrentino – whose latest film “Parthenope” is scoring record-breaking grosses at the Italian box office – is set to return behind camera to shoot “La Grazia,” a drama that will re-team the Oscar-winning director with “The Great Beauty” actor Toni Servillo. Plot details
HBO also confirmed premiere dates for The Last of Us and Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Indonesian film production is getting a major boost as Massive Music Entertainment unveils comprehensive music licensing solutions aimed at streamlining one of the industry’s biggest challenges. The music publisher, which represents over a thousand Indonesian composers,
“Santosh,” the acclaimed Indian crime drama that is the U.K.’s submission for international film Oscar, finally has U.K. distributor on board, with Vertigo Releasing partnering with Civic Studio for a theatrical release on March 21, 2025. The Hindi-language film, which
Louise Holmes, director of global partnerships for Meta EMEA, underlined during a keynote presentation at Content London on Wednesday that artificial intelligence should not be seen as a threat to creativity. “We should be cautious of either deifying it or fearing it,” she
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (“Surface”) will star opposite Jonny Lee Miller (“Covenant”), Sheldon Shepherd (“Bob Marley: One Love”) and Bel Powley (“The Morning Show”) in “Inheritance,” a Sky Original thriller from Karla Crome (“Carnival Row”). Set in Bristol, U.K. and Jamaica,
Journalists from The Guardian and The Observer have gone on strike for 48-hours in protest over a potential sale of the latter. The Observer is The Guardian’s sister paper, which comes out weekly on Sundays. First published in 1791, it now has around 70 journalists working on
The new RSIFF headquarters will bring the Saudi fest back to the city's historic neighborhood for its fourth edition under the theme "The New Home of Film" and make the Culture Square a key hub.
France and Indonesia are deepening their cinema ties with the launch of the France-Indonesia Film Lab at the inaugural JAFF Market, which operates alongside the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (JAFF). The lab, a partnership between the French Embassy, Institut Français
Rachel Shenton, Emily Atack and Joanne Whalley have been cast as the leads in upcoming U.K. psychological drama “The Rumour,” which depicts how small-town gossip can spiral out of control. Based on Lesley Kara’s novel, the new five-part series sees Shenton play Joanna, a mother
Prime Video has locked in a streaming premiere for Shuchi Talati’s Indian coming-of-age drama “Girls Will Be Girls,” following its award-winning festival run. The Indo-French co-production marks the debut of Pushing Buttons Studios, the production banner launched by Indian
Kerry Washington stars in the Netflix war drama about WWII's only Women's Army Corps unit of color, which was written and directed by Perry.
Indonesiana.TV, the government-backed digital platform, is teaming up with the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival’s new JAFF Market 2024 initiative to expand distribution channels for Indonesian filmmakers. The collaboration marks a strategic push to connect local content
Netflix has revealed that it will stream a documentary series chronicling three generations of India’s Roshan family and their contributions to Hindi-language cinema. The series marks the first time the family has offered an in-depth look at their entertainment dynasty. The
Timothée Chalamet’s team offered to pay the $500 fine incurred after the viral Chalamet lookalike contest held in New York City’s Washington Square Park in October, according to the event organizer, YouTuber Anthony Po. Chalamet made a surprise appearance at his own lookalike
Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey have been friends for nearly two decades, but his latest film, Netflix’s “The Six Triple Eight,” marks the first time Perry directed the cultural icon. The film reveals the untold story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only
Schwartz played Bruiser in the first 'Ocean's Eleven' film in 2001, and reprised the role for two subsequent films.
Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story features a rare interview with the founder of the adult entertainment franchise
“Lady Like,” a documentary about “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 14 standout Lady Camden, aka Rex Wheeler, has been acquired by Freestyle Digital Media for North American distribution. The banner has set a release date of Jan. 3, 2025 for digital rental and purchase, with a DVD
The actor starred alongside his brother Macaulay Culkin, who played Kevin McAllister, in the 1990 film.
After getting an early release, “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” is now available to watch on Disney+. Subscribers can stream the first two episodes, as new episodes drop every Tuesday until its series finale on January 14, 2025. There are 8 episodes, in total. Not a subscriber?
New rule: if Donald Trump is getting back his old job, then it might not be worth staying at your current job. That’s the premise that Bill Maher floated on his “Club Random” podcast speaking with Jane Fonda in an episode released Sunday. While interviewing the actor and
Angelina Jolie has played many a real-life figure throughout her Oscar-winning career, from supermodel Gia Carangi (“Gia”) to journalist Mariane Pearl (“A Mighty Pearl”) and now opera singer Maria Callas (“Maria”). But she’s not interested in having her own life story become a
The Producers Guild of Korea (PGK) and the Association of Indonesian Film Producers (APROFI) are deepening their collaboration following their renewed memorandum of understanding, at the inaugural JAFF Market in Yogyakarta, where horror projects dominate the slate of potential
When Kevin Cahoon got his Tony and Drama Desk nominations in 2023 as a featured actor in Broadway’s “Shucked,” he played a hayseed character whose sexuality might or might not have been known to everyone in his straight-laced, corn-fed community. But in “La Cage aux Folles,”
Anyone flipping past a cable channel late at night in the back half of the 1990s and early aughts probably had ads for “Girls Gone Wild” seared into their brains. The instantly recognizable infomercials projected purposefully pixelated footage of young women pulling up their
With “Lake George,” Jeffrey Reiner makes his first indie feature as writer-director since the 1990s, following a prolific quarter-century helming small-screen projects. The filmmaker has cited formative viewings of classic film noirs on television as an inspiration, but this
Scott L. Schwartz, a former professional wrestler turned screen actor who made an impression playing the heavy Bruiser in Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s” heist trilogy, died of congestive heart failure on Nov. 26, 2024 at his home in Covington, La. He was 65. Schwartz’s death was
The first episode of “Landman” hit 14.6 million viewers in its first week of availability, according to Paramount. That total accounts for streams on Paramount+ as well as linear airings on the Paramount Network. Paramount did not define what it counts as a viewer; therefore,
With an eye on indigenous communities and the women that dutifully anchor them, Bolivian multi-hyphenate Álvaro Olmos Torrico brings his introspective second feature, “The Condor Daughter” (“La hija cóndor”), to Montevideo for Ventana Sur’s Copia Final showcase, touting the
Fans will be able to check back into “White Lotus” in February, according to Warner Bros. Discovery global streaming chief JB Perrette. The exec revealed the news Tuesday during a tech and media conference hosted by Wells Fargo, along with HBO’s planned spring 2025 premiere for
Olivia Wilde didn’t have any scenes with Charli XCX in Gregg Araki’s “I Want Your Sex.” However, the “Brat” singer did receive quite the cheeky gift from Wilde. “I left it on her chair because I knew she was coming in right after me,” Wilde told me Tuesday at the Baby2Baby
Jack Veal, a 17-year-old actor who appeared as Kid Loki in Season 1 of Marvel’s “Loki” series, posted several videos on TikTok saying that he’s homeless and in search of housing accommodations. “Hi. I’m a famous actor, I’m 17 and I’m homeless,” Veal said in the video. “You may
Regal Cinemas, one of the world’s largest movie theater chains, has secured new financing to restructure a portion of its debt. The exhibition company has arranged a $1.9 billion loan that extends maturity dates to as far out as Dec. 1, 2031. The refinancing comes after a
ESPN and Stephen A. Smith are close to hammering out a new contract that will give the popular Disney sports personality potential access to other parts of the Magic Kingdom. The two sides, who have been in negotiations for several months, are said to be hopeful they can reach
