Month: July 2022

Byron Allen’s Black news and entertainment media platform theGrio will present a 90-minute session at the 2022 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention and career fair, with a focus on the recently-launched theGrio Black Podcast Network (TGBPN) and the Allen Media Group’s acquisition of Black News Channel. The annual NABJ convention, held in collaboration
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Argentina’s “FAN,” Colombia’s “Gloria and the Dragon” and Peru’s “Laureano” figure among seven titles at Sanfic Industria’s Productoras Lab, a novel pitching program and training facility for emerging, first or second-feature  women producers in Latin America. All three titles carry good word of mouth. The producers will attend tutorials on how to think from early development
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“History of the Occult” director Cristian Ponce, “The Trace We Leave Behind” producer André Pereira and “Huesera” producer Edher Campos all have projects at the 3rd Sanfic Morbido Lab, Sanfic’s genre/fantastic film showcase which looks packed with riches. Also noticeable, three of the six projects are set to be directed by female genre auteurs –  Argentina’s
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Focusing on Chile’s large cinematic prowess, Sanfic’s Chilean Film Competition is set to hone in on national filmmaking and a few promising co-productions from budding and established Latin American talent. Efforts backed by industry leaders Roberto Doveris, Alicia Scherson and Mexico’s Inti Cordera illustrate that Chilean filmmakers are pulling in further support by relaying poignant,
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Chile’s Santiago Lab, the Santiago Film Festival’s industry initiative to support Ibero-American projects in development has selected 28 titles, 14 fiction and 14 documentaries, culled out of hundreds of entries from across Latin America and Spain. Some of the titles were picked from other festivals’ industry events such as “Diamante,” from Malaga’s Mafiz; Constanza Figari’s
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The proposed merger of India’s Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) and Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited (formerly Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited) has received approval from the country’s Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange. “The approval from the stock exchanges marks a firm and positive step in the overall merger approval process,” ZEEL
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Heads up, Netflix members: Rose’s heart may go on, but “Titanic” is sailing off the streamer next month. “Titanic,” the Oscar-winning blockbuster starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, will leave Netflix after Aug. 31. It’s among more than three dozen titles that are exiting Netflix in August, including three movies in Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible”
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Will Smith has opened up about the ongoing controversy surrounding his assault of Chris Rock at this year’s Academy Awards, offering up his most unvarnished thoughts about an altercation that has marred his public image. In an emotional YouTube post, Smith addressed why he didn’t apologize to Rock when he accepted a best actor prize
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Paramount Global has appointed a new leader for its international business, naming Pamela Kaufman as its president and CEO of international markets, global consumer products and experiences. The newly created role reports into Bob Bakish, president and CEO of Paramount. Kaufman — a Nickelodeon veteran who took on the global consumer products business for the
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“Stranger Things” is a blockbuster TV franchise, but star David Harbour feared the show would be canceled after filming the first season. The Emmy nominee said on BBC’s “The One Show” (via Insider) that he started losing hope for the show’s success midway through filming Season 1. “I remember when we were shooting the first
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Perhaps, one day, somebody will make a film in which a hastily arranged marriage of convenience between two virtual strangers doesn’t blossom into real love, and instead more tensely culminates in mutual acrimony and cathartic divorce. Until then, those inclined can moon over drippy, dopey fantasies like “Purple Hearts,” an opposites-attract romance that — give
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Philippe Rousselet, Oscar-winning producer of “Coda,” “Paris, 13th District” director Jacques Audiard, sales agent Hengameh Panahi and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” filmmaker Michel Gondry are part of France’s newly revamped Oscar submission committee. The committee also includes sales agent Grégoire Melin, “11 Flowers” producer Didar Domehri and Gaumont executive Ariane Toscan du Plantier.
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Days after soaring into San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H to preview the “Game of Thrones” prequel, the “House of the Dragon” cast re-assembled for the series’ world premiere at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. Set nearly 200 years before the events of the mega-hit HBO series, “House of
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