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The Israeli black comedy “Ducks – An Urban Legend,” which has its world premiere in International Competition at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, has debuted its trailer. Fortissimo Films is handling international sales. The film, directed by Shahar Rozen, is set in the Tel Aviv neighborhood called HaTikva, which is Hebrew for “Hope,” and centers

Thomas von Steinaecker first reached out to Werner Herzog in 2020 about making a documentary surveying the prolific director’s career. Von Steinaecker’s peers told him that he would never hear back from Herzog. Afterall Herzog had never met von Steinaecker. That was two years ago. In that time, von Steinaecker completed “Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer.”

Imanol Rayo’s “Dog Days,” a coming-of-age story set one sizzling summer in the Spanish countryside, won the top prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Crossroads Co-Production Forum, which wrapped with an award ceremony Wednesday night. The Basque director’s fourth feature took home the Two Thirty-Five Co-Production Award, offering full post-production image and sound to a

Jim Cummings (“Thunder Road”), Jocelin Donahue (“Doctor Sleep”), Richard Brake (“Barbarian), Faizon Love (“Elf”) and Michael Abbott Jr. (“The Death of Dick Long”) lead the cast of crime thriller “The Last Stop in Yuma County,” the debut feature from writer-director Francis Galluppi. The film follows a traveling knife salesman (Cummings) in 1980s Arizona. Stranded and forced

Somewhere between “Alice in Wonderland” and “The Little Prince” in style and sensibility, Winsor McCay’s weekly funny-pages serial “Little Nemo in Slumberland” more than deserves a proper big-screen adaptation. Not that people haven’t attempted it before over the years. (At one point, Hayao Miyazaki tried to get an animated version made. Live-action “Dream One” came

A copyright lawsuit over “Top Gun: Maverick” will continue, after a judge on Thursday denied Paramount’s motion to throw out the case. U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson held that there are enough similarities between the film and the 1983 magazine article upon which the original “Top Gun” was based to allow the author’s heirs to

Mitchell Thomas Goldman, a longtime film executive who notably worked for New Line Cinema, died on Nov. 7 in Los Angeles after a long illness. Goldman’s work at New Line included founding the distribution arm of the production company, which opened up the New Line office in Beverly Hills. Throughout the 1990s, he was President

Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts notoriously did not get along during the making of “I Love Trouble,” director Charles Shyer’s 1994 romantic comedy about two rival newspaper reporters forced to come together to investigate a train derailment. Roberts was midway through filming the movie when she told The New York Times in Dec. 1993 while

Jonathan Majors knows how to keep a secret. Ask about him about his role (or roles) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — specifically that of Kang the Conqueror in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” — and you’ll come up empty. Ask him to tell you everything that’s going to happen and he proceeds to tease. “Yeah,

Paramount has announced 2025 release dates for upcoming animated movies about “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “SpongeBob SquarePants.” The untitled “SpongeBob” movie has a May 23, 2025, release date and is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Paramount Animation. The untitled “Avatar: The Last Airbender” movie is coming Oct. 10, 2025, and is produced by Nickelodeon

One of the biggest cinematic action-adventures of the year is Telugu-language “RRR,” which follows real-life 1920s Indian free-dom fighters Komaram Bheem (N.T. Rama Rao Jr.) and Alluri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan). Directed by S.S. Rajamouli, the three-hour-plus filled is stuffed end-to-end with action choreography, stunt work, pyrotechxnics and VFX. One standout sequence unfolds in the

Cinedigm Corp. has sealed a deal with sales agent The Playmaker Munich for North American rights to Lukas Rinker’s claustrophobic black comedy “Holy Shit!” The deal was made at last week’s American Film Market where the film was shown to buyers. Cinedigm will release “Holy Shit!” on the company’s Screambox streaming platform in early 2023.

Paul Haggis lost his civil rape trial after a New York jury found the Oscar-winning director liable on charges that he sexually assaulted a former film publicist after a movie premiere nearly a decade ago. Haggis was found liable on all three counts of rape and sexual abuse. The jury deliberated for nearly six hours

From one Velma to another, Linda Cardellini is celebrating the new “Scooby-Doo” animated movie, “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!,” for officially making the character a lesbian. Fans have long speculated that Velma was gay, but it wasn’t until the latest animated film that the character was seen explicitly crushing on another female character named Coco Diablo.

Endeavor, tousled by larger economic headwinds and the sale of its lucrative content producing business this year, reported losses for its third fiscal quarter. The talent representation, live events and sports conglomerate narrowly missed projections, taking a $12.5 million loss. Endeavor has slightly shifted its full-year forecast for adjusted earnings before interest taxes, depreciation and

John Wick is back in action. The official trailer for “John Wick: Chapter 4” has been released, featuring Keanu Reeves playing the beloved gun-fu action hero once again. While the plot had remained largely under wraps, a teaser trailer premiered at San Diego Comic-Con in July showed Wick in some familiar territory: his revenge tour.

Nadie Es Perfecto, the Spanish production house founded by Kiko Martinez, has announced it is to produce smash hit Spanish-language young adult novel “Mala influencia,” written by Teensspirit for Wattpad Webtoon story telling platform. It will be produced with Mexico’s The42ndFilm and Wattpad Webtoon Studios. To be directed by Catalan helmer Roger Gual, the script has

Netflix’s animated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Scrooge: A Christmas Carol” has gotten a trailer and a release date. The animated feature, which is set to debut on the streamer on Dec. 2, features the voice of Luke Evans (“Beauty and the Beast”) as Scrooge as well as Olivia Colman (“The Crown”), Jessie Buckley (“Men”) and

Douglas McGrath, the Oscar and Tony-nominated writer, actor and director, died Thursday in New York City. He was 64. McGrath died of a heart attack, according to a report from the New York Times. McGrath was born and raised in Texas before moving to New Jersery to attend Princeton. He began his career at “Saturday

Italian A-list actor Pierfrancesco Favino, who just scored a European Film Award nomination for his role in “Nostalgia,” is set to play heroic Sicilian World War II naval officer Salvatore Todaro in “Comandante.” Directed by rising auteur Edoardo De Angelis, the film is an ambitious anti-war epic that has required the construction of a life-size

Sales agent M-Appeal has released the trailer (below) for “A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On,” the second feature film by Gentian Koçi. It will world premiere in competition at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival later in November, and is Albania’s entry for the Academy Awards. “A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On”

OH BABY The Singapore International Film Festival (Nov. 24- Dec. 4, 2022) has added R21 rated biographical film “Baby Queen” to its lineup. The screening will also anchor the festival’s annual fund-raising evening event. The film is directed by Lei Yuan Bin, who previously made “03-Flats” in 2014 and “I Dream of Singapore” which premiered

Audiences who click play on Netflix’s “Falling for Christmas” will be the ones doing most of the falling over Lindsay Lohan’s much-anticipated comeback vehicle. Director Janeen Damian’s light-hearted feature, centered on a spoiled hotel heiress tumbling into a character-enriching circumstance, isn’t necessarily served up as the average cup of holiday cheer and rom-com charm. There’s a lot more to

EnergaCamerimage, the cinematography-focused film festival about to take place in Torun, Poland on Nov. 12-19, will bestow one of its highest honors to writer-director Jerzy Skolimowski, who will receive the Marshal of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region Film Award 2022. Skolimowski, a longtime stalwart of Polish cinema, made news in Cannes earlier this year when “EO,” which

In just 13 yearsDOC NYC has become America’s most influential documentary festival. The nine-day affair, which runs Nov. 9-17, will feature more than 124 short docus and 112 feature-length nonfiction films that will screen at New York City’s IFC Center, SVA Theater and Cinépolis Chelsea. (The 2022 version will be both in person in New

Prior to the advent of streaming, documentaries had a reputation for being, as Jerry Seinfeld put it at the 2007 Oscars, “incredibly depressing.” Politics, the environment, warfare, and the farming industry were all topics routinely explored by documentary filmmakers for several decades. But Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Apple, and Disney have effectively altered the nonfiction landscape

“Capturing the Killer Nurse” is a documentary about Charles Cullen, the serial killer whose chilling story is the basis of the Eddie Redmayne/Jessica Chastain movie “The Good Nurse.” Both films are being released by Netflix, in what has become a synergistic system of true-crime-as-cross-promotion (see the drama! then the documentary that, with its proliferation of

Something or someone is definitely haunting the grassy Calgary ravine where much of Graham Foy’s ambitiously amorphous debut takes place. But whether it’s the roaming spirits of local teenagers taken before their time, or the grief of the friends they leave behind, or the lingering shadow of a large swathe of Gus Van Sant’s noughties

Australia’s screen production industry enjoyed all-time record levels of spending in the 2021-2022 period to June. There was increasing spend on locally-produced scripted content as international streamers invested in Australian drama, but a decrease in the value of inbound foreign film and TV productions. The annual “Drama Report,” published Thursday by Screen Australia, showed a

Though the field of women’s athletics has evolved and expanded considerably in recent years, it still seems well-nigh impossible for even the most elite competitors to get more than a tiny fraction of the recognition routinely accorded star sportsmen. That equation certainly seems borne out in “Maya and the Wave,” Stephanie Johnes’ portrait of leading