Gyorgi Palfi’s “His Master’s Voice” will line up against Fruit Chan’s “Three Husbands” and Veit Helmer’s “The Bra” in the main competition section of the Tokyo International Film Festival. Ralph Fiennes’ “The White Crow” will also receive its Asian premiere in competition. The festival announced its full line up Tuesday in Tokyo. The festival will
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Sharon Horgan’s burgeoning shingle Merman is launching a new digital arm, Mermade, and has brought in a clutch of seasoned industry execs the run the new U.S.- and U.K.-based business. Mermade will focus on shortform series for streamers, brands, and publishers. Rene Rechtman and Dan’l Hewitt, formerly of Disney-backed Maker Studios, will be non-executive directors.
Cardi B Fashion World Wants Me More After Nicki Shoe Attack 9/25/2018 1:00 AM PDT EXCLUSIVE Cardi B‘s gonna throw shoes on the reg if her still-fresh Nicki Minaj beef keeps paying off for her at Fashion Week … okurrr? Sources close to Cardi tell TMZ the “I Like It” rapper has been on schedule and unfazed for
A selection of Basque pictures, projects and productions in 2018: 70 BIG ONES Sayaka Producciones, Pokeepsie Films, La Panda Producciones and Setenta Invisibles L.P. AIE produce the next thriller from Basque genre specialist Koldo Serra (“The Backwoods”), starring Emma Suárez, Nathalie Poza and Hugo Silva. It features a desperate woman in need of $41,000, with
SAN SEBASTIAN — Based in Lyon, France Logical Pictures, proud of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s “Farming,” has come on board to co-produce Aritz Moreno’s much-awaited directorial debut “Advantages of Traveling by Train,” starring Luis Tosar and Pilar Castro. Sold internationally by Entertainment One’s Seville International, Filmax has picked up Spain’s distribution rights to “Advantages,” which is produced
SAN SEBASTIAN — Kicking off with a kinetic, slinking tracking-shot capturing the energy and Scorsese-ish voiceover of a young but caustic Ryszard Kapuściński during Angola’s 1975 Civil War, Basque animation movie “Another Day of Life” screens at San Sebastian in its best-of-the-fests Perlak section, rubbing shoulders with Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” and Damien Chazelle’s “First Man.”
SAN SEBASTIAN — Carlos Piñeiro’s “Sirena” (“Mermaid”) came into last month’s Sanfic Festival in Santiago Chile buzzing from the news that it had been selected, along with another Sanfic work in progress “The Prince,” to participate in the San Sebastian’s Films in Progress competition. “Sirena” is a black and white look at the conflict between
SAN SEBASTIAN — Acquired by Paris-based Loco Films just before San Sebastian, Celia Rico’s first feature, the contemporary Andalusian village-set “JourneyTo a Mother’s Room,” traces the evolution of two women’s relationship, from mutually dependent mother and daughter to, after the daughter takes an au pair job in London, more healthily independent friendship. Here, mother and
SAN SEBASTIAN — Basque Audiovisual, it’s all there in the name. A comprehensive brand encompassing companies from across the audiovisual sector of the Basque Country, Basque Audiovisual represents the international interests of local productions from the northern Spanish community. As some of Europe’s growth is driven not by its biggest markets, but far smaller territories
Any biopic of a great artist in any discipline tends to wrestle with the same problem: that the artist’s life, eventful though it may be, is usually less immersively interesting than their very best art. In the case of Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta, the promise of watching his rise — from an impoverished childhood
Focusing on film support funds in Europe and Latin America, a European Film Forum conference was held on Monday at San Sebastian. After a keynote from E.U.’s Creative Europe Media Program head, Lucía Recalde, the roundtable tok in two panels, moderated by producer Pablo Iraola (Florbela). Recalde emphasized a current state of flux: “Change is
Time’s Up, the organization that has been active in recent weeks in its support of Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers, has now called for Kavanaugh to withdraw his nomination to join the United States’ highest court. “Given the multiple serious allegations against him, Kavanaugh can no longer credibly serve on the nation’s highest
Michael Ovitz still has nothing good to say about Michael Eisner. He and Ron Meyer started to patch things up over dinner a few years ago at Hamasaku, the sushi restaurant that Ovitz owns in West Los Angeles. And the famous threat Ovitz delivered to Joe Eszterhas about having “foot soldiers” marching up and down
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are stepping down from their respective roles as CEO and CTO at the image- and video-sharing giant, which is owned by Facebook. Systrom confirmed the move in a blog post Monday evening, following an earlier report by the New York Times about the duo’s departure. In the post, Systrom said he
The entire world wanted to snare an interview with Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee. Martha MacCallum found out at nine this morning that he had agreed to talk to her. From there, it was a mad dash to figure out questions and logistics before taping the exchange with Judge Kavanaugh and his wife,
You don’t say no when J.K. Rowling invites you to explore New York City. The Harry Potter author and the cast of “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” formed an armada of wizards, witches, and few lucky muggles as they traveled around the Big Apple raising awareness for the upcoming film. The event was ostensibly
September 24, 2018 5:09PM PT The husband-and-wife team represent the first couple and the first musicians-songwriters of Hispanic descent to receive the honor. Emilio and Gloria Estefan will be the next recipients of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The announcement was made today (Sept. 24)by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The
September 24, 2018 5:09PM PT The cast of “One Tree Hill” is partnering with Random Acts to raise money for Hurricane Florence relief in Wilmington, N.C., where the show filmed for more than 10 years. Using the hashtag #Capefearlesschallenge, cast members are encouraging direct donations from fans of the show as well as fans of
Brett Kavanaugh I Was a Virgin for a Looong Time … No Way I Sexually Assaulted Anyone 9/24/2018 4:58 PM PDT Breaking News Brett Kavanaugh just played his virgin card to defend himself against multiple accusations of sexual assault … saying he never had sex — or anything close to it — through high school
September 24, 2018 4:42PM PT Adam Berkowitz, a longtime top agent in CAA’s television department, is departing from the agency, Variety has learned exclusively. CAA declined to comment on the reason for Berkowitz’s exit beyond confirming he is no longer an employee of the agency. Berkowitz served as CAA’s co-head of television, where his client list
Red Granite Pictures has paid off the balance of its $60 million settlement with the U.S. government, bringing an early end to its involvement in a $4.5 billion Malaysian corruption case. The production company behind “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Daddy’s Home” reached a deal with federal prosecutors in March. Under the agreement, the
In today’s TV News Roundup, the Paley Center for Media is hosting a “West Side Story” celebration event and Fox is partnering with Turnaround Arts for a new social media campaign. DATES Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights for the rom-com “California No” and is set to release the film Dec. 4 on VOD,
“Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams will make his feature directorial debut with “Till,” a film about Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, an African American teenager who was lynched in 1955 after being accused of flirting with a white woman. The movie will focus on Till-Mobley’s search for justice following the murder of her 14-year-old son in
Last year, Balenciaga made Dad sneakers “fashion” with the release of its Triple S chunky sneaker. The trend hasn’t died down, as several brands from Louis Vuitton to Fila released their own iterations of the must-have sneaker. Balenciaga is moving on though. Today, September 24, Balenciaga released its Track Sneaker, featuring a chunky silhouette—sans the
Brazil’s Carlos (Cacá) Diegues, whose poem-inspired drama “The Great Mystical Circus” vies for a foreign-language Oscar next year, is in pre-production on “The Dame” starring Betty Faria (“Bye Bye Brazil”) and his daughter Flora Diegues, who stars in “…Mystical Circus.” Diegues and Faria are both in Miami for the 22nd Brazilian Film Festival of Miami (BRAFF)
“New Amsterdam,” like the mammoth hospital it’s set in, has a whole lot of enthusiasm and too many areas in which to direct it. Based on Dr. Eric Manheimer’s book on New York City’s Bellevue Hospital (“Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital”), NBC’s new medical drama paints a simultaneously promising, bleak, and (unintentionally)
If you were a child of the nineties, bucket hats, jelly sandals, colored sunglasses, and of course, mood rings were the too-cool-for-school accessories you had stashed in your bedroom. And now, because fashion’s love affair with the 90s isn’t dying down anytime soon, Fossil is bringing the mood trend back to our jewelry boxes with
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A prosecutor urged the judge in Bill Cosby’s sexual abuse case on Monday to sentence the disgraced entertainer to five to 10 years behind bars, while Cosby’s defense lawyer said incarceration would be an “excessive hardship” for the man once known as America’s Dad. Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill is poised
The birth of the technology industry is an interesting story, one fueled by big money, hubris and creators’ unique ability to see a world that might be overlaying the one that exists. That’s the message that comes through in about half of National Geographic’s new series, “Valley of the Boom,” which had its world premiere
September 24, 2018 2:00PM PT The CW is developing a drama series based on Kathy Parks’ book “The Lifeboat Clique,” Variety has learned. When a freak tsunami hits a Malibu house party, a group of teenagers from diverse social circles are swept out to sea. The place where they wind up is new, but the high