Variety published this week a digital Chile Documentary Spotlight, looking at one of Latin America’s fastest-evolving content production scenes, galvanized by changing narratives, historic socio-political upheaval and unprecedented opportunities in distribution presented by global platforms. Chilean documentaries and projects have and will feature at many of the year’s most high-profile documentary get-togethers including Switzerland’s Vision du Reel,
Month: November 2020
Finnish cinematographer Rauno Ronkainen is continuing his collaboration with director Antti J. Jokinen with the action films “Omerta 6/12” and “Omerta 7/12,” based on Ilkka Remes’ popular novel “6/12,” and starring “BlacKkKlansman’s” Jasper Pääkkönen. The films are shooting in Estonia. Ronkainen and Jokinen previously worked together on three film: “Purge,” which brought Ronkainen the second
If you’re struggling to find a job right now, Patrick Schwarzenegger’s character in the upcoming movie “Echo Boomers” can relate. In the heist thriller — which also stars Alex Pettyfer and Michael Shannon — Schwarzenegger plays a recent college graduate who can’t find work in a particularly unforgiving job market. He’s deep in student debt and
Patient viewers of Netflix’s royal drama “The Crown” are in for a serious pay-off with season 4, which introduces Princess Diana for the first time and delights in the painful tension between the Queen and then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. “Up until [this] point, we had been in deep history. But I do think this is
Spectrum Originals is adding a new drama to its slate. Charter Communications’ OTT service has picked up Australian drama “Eden,” with the aim of debuting the eight-episode series on Spectrum on Demand in 2021. “Eden” hails a from “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries” creators Fiona Eagger and Deb Cox, as well as “Skins” co-creator Bryan Elsley
Winner of Andalusia Cinema Awards for best new director and new actress (Silvia Acosta), Guillermo Rojas’ debut feature “Once Again” (“Una vez más”) has been acquired for international by Javier’s Krause KAF Films. The news comes just before “Once Again” bows in the Market Premieres section of Spain’s Malaga Festival Spanish Screenings, which run Nov.
A new drama about Tudor queen Anne Boleyn, starring Jodie Turner-Smith, has found its Henry VIII. British actor Mark Stanley has been cast as the iconic monarch. Best known for playing Grenn in the HBO series “Game of Thrones,” Stanley has also had starring roles in “Kajaki,” “Our Kind of Traitor” and “Dickensian.” Boleyn was
China has become one of the last major countries to congratulate Joe Biden on being elected U.S. president. Along with Russia and Mexico, which also have testy relations with the U.S., China had appeared to hold off from making any public endorsement of either presidential candidate. “We respect the choice of the American people,” foreign
Last year, and for more than four decades before that, if you’d said the words “Black Christmas movie,” a lot of people’s minds would have gone straight to Bob Clark’s sorority-house slasher flick “Black Christmas” — that’s how few holiday films Hollywood has made for and featuring African Americans. Writer-director David E. Talbert started to
Gracia Querejeta’s “The Invisible,” toplining Emma Suárez, star of Pedro Almodovar’s “Julieta,” and Toni Bestard’s “Pullman” have been acquired for international sales by Feel Content. They will be made available for online access to buyers as part of next week’s Malaga Festival’s Spanish Screenings Market Premieres showcase, one of the industry event’s main draws. A
Boston-based international sales company 34T has picked up Enrique García’s Spanish thriller “Black Stain.” Set in an isolated Andalusian village in the early 1970s, the story revolves around a family mourning the death of the elderly matriarch and the deep tensions that are reignited with the return of her estranged son Eugenio, who left years
Chile’s premier international documentary forum, Conecta, is seeing a sizable boost in attendance for its upcoming virtual edition. It’s the proverbial silver lining in the global pandemic that has allowed more people to attend festivals and markets, albeit online, which time constraints and long distances may have thwarted in the past. Normally held in December, Conecta’s
Chile has experienced an historic cultural change over the past year, led by a mobilized and energetic generation of young and highly educated people demanding change. The world has looked on as many of the stains of Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship have been washed away, making room for new narratives to be explored by an enthusiastic
Chile’s documentary film industry is making a major impact internationally with a raft of projects having recently featured at Germany’s Dok Leipzig festival and another batch headed to Amsterdam’s IDFA next week. While the Pinochet dictatorship proves as unavoidable as ever when compiling a list of Chilean productions, recent works promoted by Chiledoc have proved
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read until you have watched the season 17 premiere of “Grey’s Anatomy.” “Grey’s Anatomy” didn’t hold back in its two-hour season premiere Thursday, which was dedicated to frontline healthcare workers. Patrick Dempsey returned as Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd n a dream sequence, five years after his death shocked fans. The topical
November brings not just a new Chris Stapleton album but the fifth anniversary of the signal moment that made him one of the most significant figures in contemporary country music: the CMA Awards that had Justin Timberlake joining the then-niche artist for a viral duet of “Tennessee Whiskey.” From then, Stapleton has been that thing
John Mulaney spent several years writing for “Saturday Night Live” when Seth Meyers was a cast member. Now he will spend some time writing for Meyers’ late-night program. Mulaney has joined NBC’s “Late Night,” which Meyers hosts, as a staff writer, according to a post on Twitter from Mike Shoemaker, the show’s executive producer. Meyers’
Six weeks before “Wonder Woman 1984” is scheduled to open in theaters on Christmas, Warner Bros. execs are considering whether to push the highly anticipated superhero sequel to the summer of 2021, or keep the movie on its Dec. 25 theatrical debut and then put it on the HBO Max streaming service in early January,
Costumes from Netflix series “The Crown” and “The Queen’s Gambit” are now on display at the Brooklyn Museum’s free virtual exhibition. The exhibit features several outfits from the women in the two Netflix shows, explaining how their looks evolve over time. Highlights of the museum collection, curated by Matthew Yokobosky, senior curator of fashion and
The movie’s name is perhaps its sole stroke of genius: Just hearing the words “Chick Fight” immediately body-slams expectations to the mat, after which Paul Leydon’s anodyne comedy manages to just about put them in a submission hold. Dude, one can almost anticipate saying, it’s called “Chick Fight,” what did you expect? On the other
The CW is developing an anthology series inspired by the works of Jane Austen, Variety has learned. Titled “Modern Austen,” the one-hour series reimagines Austen’s novels as six modern stories. Each season is a different novel, beginning with “Pride and Prejudice,” set in contemporary San Francisco. The series hails from Eleanor Burgess, who will serve as
Verve has hired TV lit agent Davina Hefflin and talent agent Julian Cohen, Variety has learned exclusively. Hefflin joins the agency from Gersh, while Cohen joins from Management 360. Hefflin started out as an assistant at Gersh before moving up the ranks of the TV lit department. She has focused on identifying and empowering a diverse range
Another costume for Fox’s upcoming reality competition series, “The Masked Dancer” has been revealed, and Variety has obtained an exclusive first look, which you can see in the promo above. The new costume is the Ice Cube, joining the previously-revealed Tulip, Cricket, Cotton Candy, Exotic Bird, Sloth and Zebra. “The Ice Cube costume signifies a
In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix released the trailer for Shondaland’s dance documentary “Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker,” and YouTube Originals debuted the trailer for Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors’ documentary series “Resist.” RENEWALS E! renewed “The Bradshaw Bunch,” “Botched” and “E! True Hollywood Story,” with new seasons set to air in 2021. “The Bradshaw
The Department of Commerce announced that it would not seek to shut down TikTok on Thursday, and would abide by a court order blocking the move. The shutdown had been scheduled to go into effect on Thursday. But a U.S. district judge in Philadelphia issued an injunction on Oct. 30, granting a request from three
Disney CEO Bob Chapek hinted to Wall Street analysts Thursday that the company is set to get more aggressive in offering some new theatrical titles via a Disney Plus paid download, as it did in September with “Mulan.” With many theaters still shuttered in the U.S. because of coronavirus, Disney opted to make “Mulan” available
Hopes for a COVID relief bill during the lame duck session of Congress are already fading, as House and Senate leaders dug into their positions on Thursday. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is holding to a demand for a $2.2 trillion package, while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has dismissed that figure as far too high. Though
“Music Got Me Here” is a new documentary from filmmaker Susan Koch and looks at the extraordinary power of music and how it helped save the life of snowboarder Forrest Allen. At the age of 18, Allen had a snowboarding accident and was trapped inside himself, and unable to speak or walk for almost two
Disneyland is expected to remain closed until the end of the entertainment and media conglomerate’s fiscal first quarter, which falls on Dec. 31, Walt Disney CFO Christine McCarthy announced on the company’s fourth quarter earnings call on Thursday. Disney CEO Bob Chapek expressed disappointment in California’s state leaders for keeping Disneyland from being able to
There’s a singular vision that director Kornél Mundruczó had in constructing “Pieces of a Woman,” and he had the full trust of his actors, particularly Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn. The film had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival where Kirby won the Volpi Cup for best actress. Just ahead of its
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