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The Sundance Institute has announced the inaugural edition of “Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance,” presented by IMDbPro, which will take place on Jan. 19 in Park City, Utah to kick off the Sundance Film Festival. The evening will honor breakout storytellers whose journeys have been connected to Sundance throughout the years while raising funds

Harvey Weinstein is currently on trial for sexual assault crimes, but the disgraced movie mogul — who has already been convicted of rape, and is currently serving a 23-year sentence — couldn’t help but react to “She Said’s” opening weekend performance. “She Said” received strong reviews and is generating awards buzz, but opened to a

Anjelica Huston will join Ana de Armas in “Ballerina,” a spinoff set in the “John Wick” universe. Huston is reprising her role as the Director, the head of the Ruska Roma, which she originated in 2019’s “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.” “The idea of Ballerina was formed around the scenes with Anjelica in ‘John Wick 3,” producer Erica Lee

In the days leading up to his shocking return as CEO of Walt Disney Co., Robert Iger was negotiating a big new role at Gerry Cardinale’s investment firm RedBird Capital Partners, multiple sources told Variety. The gig would have given Iger significant financial resources to help shape the media landscape, the individuals familiar with the

All of the talk around Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” has been devoted to Margot Robbie’s title character and Ryan Gosling’s Ken, but there’s a lot more to the movie than just those two parts. Will Ferrell confirmed for the first time in a new Wall Street Journal interview that he is playing the CEO of Mattel

“Avatar” flying scenes weren’t the only point of contention between James Cameron and 20th Century Fox. The filmmaker revealed in a new GQ interview that he cursed at a Fox executive who begged him to make “Avatar” shorter, months before the 2009 epic would open in theaters and break box office records around the world.

Just days before the curtain rises on the second edition of the Red Sea Film Festival, which takes place Dec. 1 – 10 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Saudi filmmakers were out in force this week at the Cairo Film Festival, where they sought to highlight the rapid strides being taken by their country’s burgeoning screen

In “Strange World,” the world may be super-weird, but those who populate it are some of the most realistic and well rounded that Walt Disney Animation Studios has ever presented. Ergo, it’s the characters as much as the environment that make this vibrant, “Journey to the Center of the Earth”-style adventure movie colorful and diverse

Women in Film and Television International has appointed Dr. Susan Liddy as its new president. The former chair of Women in Film and Television Ireland will step into the role that has been occupied by Swedish producer Helen Granqvist since 2018. The pair will work together for the coming months as co-presidents until Liddy assumes

Quentin Tarantino has the following message for anyone upset with the graphic violence and frequent use of the N-word in his movies: “See something else.” The director had no apologies or regrets when recently asked by Chris Wallace about the backlash he often gets from viewers. Tarantino was a guest on Wallace’s HBO Max talk

Harrison Ford is back in adventure mode in the first images from “Indiana Jones 5,” which debuted exclusively via Empire magazine. Along with some photos comes confirmation that Ford will be de-aged using visual effects so that Indiana Jones appears in the film as his age from the original trilogy. The de-aging technology is only

Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (CMG) has scored sales to Italian distributor BIM Distribuzione, Portugal’s Cinemundo, Japan’s AT Entertainment and South Korean distributor Scene and Sound for Sergio Machado’s steamy romantic drama, “River of Desire” (“Orio do Desejo”), ahead of its Nov. 24 world premiere at the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Directed by Brazil’s

AWA Studios, the content startup that develops graphic novels with the hopes of seeding larger entertainment franchises, has assembled a brain trust of prominent writers and directors who will help the company nurture original ideas across a range of platforms. AWA Studios has enlisted Reginald Hudlin, Gregg Hurwitz, Laeta Kalogridis, Joseph Kosinski, Al Madrigal and

Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett will add another accolade to her extensive list of accomplishments at the Palm Springs International Film Awards, where she is set to receive the Desert Palm achievement award for an actress for her lead performance in “Tár.” “Cate Blanchett is truly one of the best actresses of this generation, whose

Paramount+ has set a Nov. 29 premiere date for a slate of new titles from MTV Documentary Films. The slate spans two feature documentaries and five documentary shorts, all of which are executive produced by Sheila Nevins, executive producer at MTV Documentary Films and the former boss of HBO Documentary Films. The line-up spotlights the

Popular Iranian actors Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi have been arrested and imprisoned in Iran after they appeared in public and on social media having removed their headscarves in a bold act of defiance and protest against the death of Mahsa Amini. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said that Ghaziani and Riahi are now both

“Drishyam 2,” headlined by A-lister Ajay Devgn has brought some much needed cheer to the beleaguered Bollywood box office with a strong opening weekend gross of INR890 million ($11 million). The suspense thriller, which also stars Tabu and Akshaye Khanna, is a sequel to 2015 hit “Drishyam.” The Hindi-language films are remakes of the Malayalam-language

The Cairo Film Festival’s Cairo Film Connection co-production market spread the love at an award ceremony Sunday night, with 15 projects claiming 20 prizes in the Egyptian capital valued at some $225,000. Among the standouts were Suzannah Mirghani’s “Cotton Queen” and “Lamp in the Dark,” from Sudanese filmmaker Mahdi El-Tayeb, which both took home awards

Bollywood megastar multi-hyphenate Shah Rukh Khan, one of Indian cinema’s global icons, will be celebrated with an honorary award by Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival.  Khan — affectionately called King Khan — has won most popular actor accolades three times at the Central European Bollywood Awards.  A thriving actor-producer, Khan has been making

Viaplay has assembled a top notch international cast for “Stockholm Bloodbath,” Mikael Håfström’s female-led epic adventure movie. The ambitious movie marks Viaplay’s second English-language film original, following Oscar-nominated helmer Lasse Hallström’s biopic “Hilma.” “Stockholm Bloodbath” will star Sophie Cookson (“Kingsman: The Golden Circle”), Claes Bang (“Dracula,””The Square”), Emily Beecham (“Cruella”), Alba August (“Becoming Astrid”), Adam

“Last Film Show” (aka “Chhello Show”), India’s Oscar contender, was this weekend named winner of the Asian World Film Festival in Los Angeles. Writer-director Pan Nalin and producer Dheer Momaya were presented with the Snow Leopard trophy at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills. “The best movie encompasses everything we want to see in a

Bob Iger was always going to be a tough act to follow. But Bob Chapek’s tenure at the helm of Disney was also marked by unforced errors that ultimately made it impossible to escape Iger’s shadow. On Sunday night, Chapek was ousted and replaced by Iger, a little less than three years after Chapek succeeded

Japanese animation film, “Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween” leaped to the top of the mainland China box office and gave the industry its best figures in six weeks. It also helped push the industry’s year-to-date cumulative past the $4 billion mark. The film opened with $11.7 million (RMB81.7 million) according to data from consultancy

The launch of a segment called ‘Book to Box Office’ within the Film Bazaar project market in Goa this week is an attempt to bridge the gap between filmmakers and authors, publishers and literary agencies. The emergence of a panoply of streaming platforms in India competing for content has led to a rush for established

Jean-Marie Straub, the French director who created an influential body of rigorous political films with his late partner Danièle Huillet, died Saturday evening in Rolle, Switzerland. He was 89. Straub’s death was confirmed by the French publication Le Monde. In 1954, Straub met Huillet in Paris when she was a member of Cahiers du Cinema

A volley of new releases kept life in the South Korean box office over the weekend. They ranked second, third and fourth, leaving “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” with a narrow lead in first place for the second week. “Wakanda Forever” earned $2.99 million in its second weekend, a 55% week-on-week decline. The score was enough

The Film Bazaar project market in Goa will be the first outing for semi-autobiographical drama film project “The Last Lane” (‘Band Galli’), to be directed by Gautam Arora. Production is handled by Kite Rabbit Films, the label headed by Shaunak Sen, whose “All That Breathes” won the best documentary at the Cannes Film Festival and

The talent enrichment program 75 Creative Minds of Tomorrow was launched in 2021 to coincide with 75 years of Indian Independence. In its second year, the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) sidebar aims to recognize and nurture an additional community of young filmmakers. A further seventy-five young and aspiring filmmakers and artists from across

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are reuniting as business partners with the launch Artists Equity, a production venture backed by RedBird Capital Partners that vows to expand profit participation and provide a ‘talent-friendly’ environment to creatives. Media investor Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird is said to have committed at least $100 million to funding the venture. Affleck

When first looks at the upcoming “Barbie” film dropped in June showing off Ryan Gosling’s chiseled six-pack, orange spray-tan and platinum mop-top, the internet went gaga for the two-time Oscar nominee’s look as Ken. In the photo, Gosling sports personalized underwear and a rugged denim outfit from head-to-toe, though “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig revealed the