It’s unclear how many people were clamoring for this, but here it is: Owners of Amazon’s Fire TV streaming devices in the U.S. and Canada can watch the latest viral TikTok memes, dances and music videos on their living-room TV sets. Fire TV is the exclusive connected-TV partner for TikTok. “No more huddling around a
Louis Hothothot’s feature debut “Four Journeys” will open the 34th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which also revealed the lineup of the International Competition program, as well as other sections. “Four Journeys” is a personal film about the destructive influence on a Chinese family of the one-child policy. Hothothot was born
Bestselling Italian writer-turned-director Donato Carrisi (“The Girl in the Fog,” “Into the Labyrinth”) has started shooting near Lake Como on his third feature film “I Am the Abyss.” Vision Distribution is launching international sales at the online American Film Market on the pic, which based on his new thriller by the same title. Carrisi, who
Billie Eilish had herself in stitches — the drawn-on kind — as she very solemnly voiced the barely-sewed-up Sally in two weekend live-to-film performances of the music for “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” bringing new life to Danny Elfman’s perennially undead L.A. Halloween tradition. Being revived as a concert event for the first time in three
Pinterest wants to turn more users into buyers with Pinterest TV — a series of live, shoppable episodes featuring top creators. With Pinterest TV, creators can showcase and tag products to let users purchase them on the retailer’s site. Episodes air each weekday and will be recorded and available for users to watch on-demand. Beginning
Following their long-overdue induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday, electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk have announced a 2022 North American 3-D concert tour. According to the announcement, “the summer run will not only build on their 3-D concert tours of the last ten years, but also mark the tour’s long-awaited launch after
Netflix’s newest addition to its official online store: The Chilleez, plush toys that are characters based on the streamer’s default profile icons. The Chilleez 12-inch plushies, available in four colors, will go on sale Nov. 12 on Netflix.shop, the ecommerce site that launched this June. They’re priced starting at $24.99 apiece. In addition, the streaming
Tara Walpert Levy, a 10-year Google and YouTube veteran ad exec, is moving over to YouTube full-time in a big new role. Walpert Levy has been named VP, Americas for YouTube, leading the teams overseeing the video giant’s partnerships across the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Brazil that work with creators and media partners to
On Monday morning, Andy Cohen, the “Real Housewives” executive producer, appeared on NBC’s “Today” to announce that Bravo has greenlit “The Real Housewives of Dubai.” Though the “Real Housewives” format has been used around the world, and a few of those series — such as “The Real Housewives of Melbourne” — have even aired on Bravo, there’s
Studiocanal has begun worldwide sales on writer-director Cédric Klapisch’s “Rise” (En corps) at the virtual American Film Market this week. A story of resilience set in Paris and Brittany, “Rise” traverses the the worlds of classical and contemporary dance with a young woman’s journey from success to rock bottom, and back again. The cast includes
Veteran producer and reality TV judge Simon Cowell will be replaced as a judge by musician Gary Barlow on U.K. broadcaster ITV’s upcoming musical game show “Walk The Line.” Cowell broke his back in a bike accident last year and had to take a break from television for surgery and extensive rehab and recovery. In
Returning to an on-site edition, Cartoon Springboard, an animation pitching get-together for on-the-rise European animators, ran Oct. 26-28 in Valencia, with 174 participants taking part. Buzz projects included an LGBT roller derby story, “Riot5,” as well as a film, “The Mission,” imagining all of the world’s money being destroyed, and “Exit Tales,” an animated short
Arguably the highlight of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival – certainly among the industry folk – is the Emerging Producers presentations, a glimpse of things to come as bizzers new to the nonfiction film field present their work and upcoming projects. Selected for their initiative and dedication, then coached by more experienced leaders in
Indian helmer Pan Nalin’s “Last Film Show” walked off on Saturday with the top prize, the Golden Spike, at the 66th Valladolid Intl. Film Festival, one of Spain’s biggest and oldest film events and a bastion of festival-prized art film titles. The French-Indian co-production marks Nalin’s homage to celluloid and is told through the eyes
Barbora Sliepková’s “Lines,” about the everyday urban bustle of Bratislava, has already brought her the Opus Bonum award at Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Festival and the Karlovy Vary Docs in Progress award. But the helmer is looking forward to taking a “little break” from the city, developing a film about dreams, and teaming up with Lucia
Russian documentary filmmaker Vitaly Mansky doesn’t keep things off the record, he said during his masterclass at Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Festival. Celebrated with a tribute section featuring “Under the Sun,” “Putin’s Witnesses” and his latest doc “Gorbachev. Heaven,” Mansky has already outlined his methods in his 2005 manifesto “Real Cinema,” including the fact that directors
FAMU graduate Francesco Montagner is following his win at Locarno with another trophy: the title of the best film in Ji.hlava’s Czech Joy section. “Brotherhood” was also noticed for its cinematography courtesy of Prokop Souček, called “one of the best cinematographers of his generation” by the jury. A Nutprodukce production, it was made in co-production
Alessandro Melazzini approaches the subject of 80s pop dance music from a particular perspective. Born in Sondrio, Lombardy, the Italian documentarian, who has filmed both nuns and porn stars, is based in Germany and was trained as an economist and philosopher, and also worked as a cultural journalist and translator. “My previous documentary was about
Bérénice Bejo, Oscar nominated for “The Artist,” and two-time Goya winner Antonio de la Torre are to star in “The Movie Teller,” which is to be directed by Lone Scherfig, a BAFTA nominee with “An Education.” Embankment is launching worldwide sales on the Spanish-language film at the virtual AFM. Walter Salles, a BAFTA winner with
Marco Orsini, president of the not-for-profit International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA), is firmly in favor of a back to basics distribution approach for independent films from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the Horn of Africa and some parts of South Asia. Orsini says that quality independent films would most likely be
“The Cry” producer Synchronicity Films has optioned the forthcoming non-fiction book, “The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment,” with plans to develop a scripted miniseries. Produced alongside Brazen Productions, the series will be written by BAFTA-winning trans writer Sukey Fisher (“Soundproof”), who will adapt University of
It has been claimed that women who forget the worst of the pain of childbirth are programmed to do so by evolutionary necessity: The selective editing of the body’s memory of trauma helps ensure the species continues to propagate itself. However true that is, a similar theory might account for why so many of us
Harry Styles’ two-night ‘Harryween’ Halloween-weekend stand at Madison Square Garden promised to be much more than the “fancy dress party” it was billed as, and the singer did not disappoint. On Saturday, Halloween Eve, he and his entire band performed while dressed as characters from “The Wizard of Oz” — with Styles as Dorothy, naturally
“High Ground,” a 1930s-set drama film, picked up eight nominations for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. It narrowly led the field of contenders that included controversial drama “Nitram” with seven nominations, “The Dry” with six and “Penguin Bloom” with five. Nominations were announced over the weekend ahead of a week of
Roblox experienced the worst kind of Halloween trick this weekend, but kids everywhere are now in for a treat: Roblox is back online. The game-creating platform was restored on Sunday afternoon, after being dark for more than two days. In a blog post, Roblox founder/CEO David Baszucki apologized for the lengthy delay in restoring the
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you haven’t watched “The Disruption,” the third episode of “Succession” Season 3. It took two full episodes to unpack the immediate aftermath of Kendall’s Season 2 press conference bombshell, making “The Disruption” the first new episode to feel…well, new. Now that the Roys and their assorted hangers-on have gotten
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the third episode of “Succession” Season 3, titled “The Disruption.” The third episode of Season 3 of “Succession,” titled “The Disruption,” sees Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) prepare to go on a late-night talk show to poke fun at himself and his family drama, only to cancel
Donald Glover released a Halloween treat for “Atlanta” fans with the first glimpse of season 3. In a tweet titled “Happy Halloween,” Glover pointed to a site named Gilga.com, which displayed a minute long trailer of the new season. Alongside stark imagery and Sun Ra’s haunting “It’s After The End of the World,” the trailer
South Korean cinemas are anticipating a boost from Monday (Nov. 1, 2021) as the country moves to a policy of living with the COVID-19 coronavirus. In the last weekend before the policy’s implementation “Dune” and “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” swapped positions at the top of the Korean box office. “Dune” rose to first place
“My Greatest Shot,” a six-part series that reveals the stories behind some of the world’s most iconic photographs, will be the first ad-funded program on the Sky Arts channel. Produced by Zinc Communicate, Zinc Media Group’s branded content division, and Zinc’s factual producer Tern Television, “My Greatest Shot” was developed in partnership with Adobe Photoshop