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HBO Max’s Sandra Dewey has said the streamer is being “slow and careful” in its plans to bring back “Gone With the Wind” after the film was yanked from the platform in the wake of the George Floyd protests. Speaking as part of the virtual Banff World Media Festival on Tuesday, the president of business

Emmy-winning French animation production-distribution company Dandelooo has announced a new deal with Czech production company Krutart for the upcoming 2D animated series “Kosmix.” The announcement was made as Dandeloo streams two shorts, “Shooom’s Odyssey” and “Hungry Bear Tales,” in Competition and a Work in Progress presentation for its 30-minute TV short, “Mum is Pouring Rain,”

Australian production firm Porchlight Films will cease operations after 23 years of making features that include Justin Kurzel’s “True History of the Kelly Gang,” and Garth Davis’ “Mary Magdalene.” The company also produced David Michod’s 2010 Australian “Animal Kingdom” feature that sparked a successful U.S. TV series. The three founding partners Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts

Warner Bros. has unveiled a virtual fan experience for Aug. 22, dubbed DC FanDome, featuring the casts and creators of key properties, including “Wonder Woman 1984,” “Aquaman,” “The Batman” and the “Snyder Cut” of “Justice League.” “There is no fan like a DC fan,” said Warner Bros. chair and chief executive officer Ann Sarnoff. “For

Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti find themselves living the same day over and over (and over!) again in the trailer for Hulu’s new romantic comedy “Palm Springs.” The film follows Nyles (Samberg) and maid of honor Sarah (Milioti) as they attend a wedding in Palm Springs, Calif. What starts off as a one-time hookup turns

When Laverne Cox shot to fame for her work as Sophia Burset on Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black,” she also made history in 2014 by becoming the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. Since then, her list of accomplishments has made her one of the most recognizable trans

New Regency has extended its credit facility for an additional five years, the entertainment company behind “The Revenant” and “Gone Girl” announced Tuesday. The extension includes a revolving facility with a capacity of $700 million. It is led by J.P. Morgan and also backed by such financial institutions as Bank of America, Union Bank, and

Variety has been given exclusive access to the first-look image for “Naked Singularity,” starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke, which is being sold in international markets by Anton, and in the U.S. by Anton and Endeavor Content. The film, which also stars Ed Skrein, Bill Skarsgård, Linda Lavin and Tim Blake Nelson, is the directorial

The 93rd Academy Awards’ two-month postponement has already prompted the BAFTA Film Awards to follow suite, but it won’t have a domino effect on the scheduling of the Cannes and Berlin film festivals, organizers told Variety. After canceling this year’s physical edition due to the coronavirus crisis, the Cannes Film Festival said it will keep

Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” was released 60 years ago today, and though it is considered by many, including me, to be the greatest horror movie ever made, it’s one that achieves the singular feat of scaring you to your soul without monsters or demons. Of course, you could say that it does have one: Anthony Perkins’

Chile’s animation industry has gone from nearly non-existent to one of the most highly regarded and best exported in Latin America in just two decades. For the third consecutive year, a Chilean feature is in competition at Annecy (“Nahuel and the Magic Book” 2020, “Homeless” 2019, “The Wolf House” 2018), and in 2016 “Bear Story”

In one extract from the Annecy online presentation of banner French production “The Summit of the Gods,” a climber steels himself to jump over a huge, gaping, seemingly bottomless crevasse, its ice walls tinged a lethal dark blue – cold that will kill you quickly. Running at the crevasse, the climber flings himself into the

French distributor ARP has acquired “Supernova,” a romantic drama starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as a longtime couple on a road trip. The film, represented by The Bureau Sales, has now inked distribution deals in almost all territories worldwide. The deal was signed by Bureau Sales’ Clémentine Hugot and ARP’s Michele Halberstadt. Other European

Denmark’s Sun Creature, one of the fastest-rising creative studios on Europe’s animation scene, is set to open a French studio, Sun Creature France, located in Bordeaux. The new facility will bow by the end of August. Featuring a 600 sq. meter (6,500 sq. ft.) office, Sun Creature France will employ an around 50-person work force,

“Winnipeg, the Seed of Hope,” the Quirino Awards winner of a special call for projects made by La Liga – a joint venture of Argentina’s Animation!, Mexico’s Pixelatl and Spain’s Quirinos – will form part of a La Liga Annecy showcase featuring a bevy of the most anticipated animation titles from Spain, Portugal and Latin

Bankside Films has boarded sales on Welsh-language contemporary horror “The Feast” (Gwledd), the directorial debut of Lee Haven Jones. Bankside will be talking to buyers about the project and showing a promo during the Virtual Cannes week, which starts on June 22. Best known for his directorial work in television, Haven Jones has helmed episodes

European Film Promotion, a network of national film promotion bodies, has unveiled its lineup of films for its Future Frames program, which screen as part of Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s industry section, Eastern Promises. Running under the banner “Generation Next of European Cinema,” the program will present 10 films directed by some of Europe’s most

With “The Summit of the Gods” shaping up as one of the major draws of this year’s online Annecy Work in Progress section, Didier and Damien Brunner’s Paris-based Folivari is teaming with France’s Gaumont on a second signature animated feature, “The Nazis, My Father and Me.” Putting its large weight behind the title, Gaumont will

DOK Leipzig, one of the oldest documentary festivals in the world, is preparing a hybrid edition in October. A reduced selection of 120 films will screen at Leipzig venues, in compliance with coronavirus hygiene regulations, and the films will also be available online across Germany. The films will be shown via on-demand and pay-per-view for

BAFTA has laid out new, temporary eligibility requirements for the upcoming 2021 edition of the annual Film Awards. The new rules, which come less than 24 hours after BAFTA moved the awards by two months in line with the Oscars, will be reviewed at the end of July, once a clearer picture emerges for U.K.

Palm Springs Intl. ShortFest has announced  a slate of 332 films in its official selection that will be eligible for jury award consideration, including “I Lost My Mother’s Ashes,” starring Mandy Moore; Kevin Dunn in “Josiah”; and Maya Rudolph, Jay Ellis and LaRoyce Hawkins in “Thirsty.” ShortFest will screen a portion of the selected films

Oscar Isaac is attached to star in the movie “London,” based on a short story by Jo Nesbo, with Ben Stiller on board to direct. Lionsgate has landed the rights to the film. “Dune” screenwriter Eric Roth will pen the script. Details of the project are being kept under wraps. The project was first identified

More than 13,000 Chinese film and TV companies have cancelled or revoked their business registrations so far this year, a tally greater than the number of firms who did so in China in all of 2019, local reports said. May has been the most brutal month for companies in 2020, seeing 26% of these closures.

From delaying “Tenet” by two weeks to pushing the Oscars by two months, Hollywood is scrambling to adjust to a new reality. In the coronavirus era, it’s nearly impossible to predict what the world will look like next week, much less for the rest of the year and even into 2021. Because of this persistent

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did the only thing it could do — postpone the 2021 Oscars. It was assumed for quite some time that the 93rd Academy Awards would be delayed because of COVID-19, but up until Monday, the big question was for how long. The answer: two months, to April

ASCAP usually maintains a packed schedule in Los Angeles in June with separate gala pop and screen music ceremonies as well as its open-to-the-public “Experience” (formerly Expo) conference. All those events are being taken online in this quarantine year, and the performing rights organization revealed a slew of activity on Monday that is set to

Film sales veteran Michael F. Goldman, who helped launch the American Film Market, died of complications from Parkinson’s Disease on June 9 in Los Angeles. He was 80. Goldman built and owned the international film sales company Manson International, a business that had been started in 1953 by his father Edmund, after leaving Columbia Pictures in 1953. Goldman

BAFTA has moved the dates of its 2021 Film Awards in line with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ decision to shift the Oscars to April. Next year’s EE British Academy Film Awards will be held on April 11 — exactly two weeks before the Oscars, which will take place on April 25.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer has hired veteran producer Michele Imperato as president of physical production for the studio’s motion picture group. Imperato has 30 years of experience and production credits that include Mike Nichol’s “The Birdcage,” Paul Feig’s “The Heat” and “Ghostbusters,” Josh Boone’s “The Fault in our Stars,” Catherine Hardwicke’s “Twilight,” Craig Brewer’s “Coming 2

Veteran French animation producer Aton Soumache and renowned comicbook artist-turned-filmmaker Joann Sfar (“The Rabbi’s Cat”) are launching Magical Society in the run up to the online Annecy Animation Film Festival. The Paris-based mini-studio is already boasting a slate of a dozen ambitious animation, hybrid and live action projects in various stages of development, with about