Month: February 2025

Spanish independent sales company Feel Sales has acquired “The Cottage,” Argentine filmmaker Silvina Schnicer’s debut solo feature, and will present it to interested buyers at this year’s European Film Market. “The Cottage,” “La Quinta” in Spanish, follows an upper-middle-class family in Argentina as they retreat to their vacation home for winter break, only to discover

Angel Studios — the U.S. distributor behind 2023 hit “Sound of Freedom” and known for its faith-based films and TV shows — is entering the U.K. following a strategic slate deal with Kova Releasing, which claims to be the U.K.’s first and only faith-based distributor. The partnership with see the two release several features described by Kova

In the crossover we never knew we needed, Timothée Chalamet and Kendrick Lamar linked up ahead of the rapper’s Super Bowl halftime performance to discuss their creative approaches. In a three-minute, black-and-white clip aired on NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football” on Friday, the Oscar-nominated actor and Grammy-winning rapper drove around in a GNX — because

Tom Tykwer will soon be opening the 75th Berlin Film Festival with “The Light,” a timely tale in which a deeply dysfunctional German family is saved by its Syrian housekeeper. The German-language film, which Tykwer describes as a “hardcore political” statement, will kick off the Berlinale on Feb. 13 in the turbulent lead-up to the

If you were to go into the winsome “Suze” blind, you would be forgiven for thinking that co-directors Linsey Stewart and Dane Clark’s sincere and often very funny little gem was some overlooked Nicole Holofcener movie finally getting its due. “Suze” is blessed with the same kind of lived-in attention to detail and authentic character-based

Paris-based sales company Alpha Violet has taken international sales on teen mental health drama “How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World,” a first feature by Austrian filmmaker Florian Pochlatko, ahead of its Berlin Film Festival bow. The film, about a young woman’s search for sanity after leaving a psychiatric hospital, will

Bankside Films and Heretic are co-repping worldwide sales on Miguel Ángel Jimenéz’s “The Birthday Party,” featuring a star-studded cast led by four-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe (“Nosferatu,” “Poor Things”). The companies will be introducing the film to buyers and showing a promo during the European Film Market.  Written and directed by Jimenéz, with additional writing credits going to Giorgos Karnavas and Nikos Panayotopoulos,

Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson are set to star in the Christmas comedy “Tinsel Town.” From Sky and Future Artists Entertainment, the film is now in production on location across the North of England and at Leeds’ Versa Studios. In “Tinsel Town,” Sutherland plays Bradley Mack, a Hollywood action star with a bloated ego who

Sundance prizewinning director Lemohang Mosese’s documentary feature “Ancestral Visions of the Future” has been boarded by Memento International ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. “Ancestral Visions of the Future” marks Mosese’s follow up to “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection” which won premiered at Venice in 2019 and went on

Impact entrepreneur and UN Global Goals advocate Natasha Mudhar is making a mark with The World We Want Studios, a production banner that’s quickly assembling a slate of star-powered projects including Johnny Depp‘s directorial effort “Modi” and Al Pacino-Jessica Chastain feature “Lear Rex.” Mudhar’s journey into high-profile Hollywood productions began in 2013 through veteran producer

“Wicked” and “Conclave” were the big winners of the 27th Costume Designers Guild Awards on Thursday evening. This was the guild’s second instance awarding “Wicked” designer Paul Tazewell. He won in 2021 for “Hamilton” in the excellence in variety, reality-competition or live television category. Tazewell has emerged as a frontrunner for the costuming Oscar. If he

As Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón continues to weather criticism for her resurfaced history of racist internet posts, the “Emilia Pérez” star has issued another apology in which she says she is “hoping” that her “silence will allow the film to be appreciated for what it is, a beautiful ode to love and difference.” The

Originally slated for Jan. 10 but postponed due to the Los Angeles wildfires, the American Film Institute’s AFI Awards took place nearly a month later Thursday afternoon at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. As always, the event was a starry affair with a guest list that included actors Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Harrison Ford,

“Magic: The Gathering,” the trading card game played in basements around the globe since 1993, is set for major film and TV adaptations from Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment. The toy maker and the Hollywood mini-major behind the “Godzilla” and “Dune” franchises will create “a live-action feature film and television universe” based on the fantasy