Music Box Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to “When Fall Is Coming,” a mystery-filled thriller directed by French auteur François Ozon. Represented internationally by Playtime, “When Fall Is Coming” premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival, where it won best screenplay and supporting actor for Pierre Lottin. The movie had its U.S. premiere at
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Jeremy Strong is set to lead a series adaptation of the Ira Levin novel “The Boys From Brazil” at Netflix, Variety has confirmed. The project hails from Peter Morgan, the creator of the critically-acclaimed Netflix series “The Crown.” Morgan is writing the adaptation and will executive produce along with Suzanne Mackie of Orchid Pictures. Reps
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“Election season is not for the weak.” Even this statement in the Telluride Film Festival program last fall couldn’t have guessed how directly German director Edward Berger’s stunning papal thriller “Conclave” would tackle our then-ongoing election season.  The start of Berger’s eight-Oscar-nominee sees the sudden death of its fictional pope, with Ralph Fiennes’ Cardinal Lawrence
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Millie Bobby Brown spoke out in a Vanity Fair cover story about her film contracts leaking online. Reports surfaced in July 2022 that Brown was making $10 million for starring in and producing Netflix’s “Enola Holmes 2,” which would be the highest salary ever for an actor under 20 years old. Then came the constant
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Noomi Rapace is set to star in female-led action thriller “Traction,” which WestEnd Films is bringing to the EFM. “Traction” is directed by Lorraine Darrow (“Pas Sages”) and is produced for Elizabeth Bay Prods. by Janette Day (“Close,” “Ghost World”), Dennis Davidson and Simon Moseley (“The Man Who Knew Infinity”). Jon Gosier and Chandler Heinz
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“Pretty Little Liars” and “Which Brings Me to You” star Lucy Hale will topline the romantic comedy “Princess” from “The Cooler” screenwriter Frank Hannah. Daniel Baur’s K5 Intl. has boarded “Princess” as its international sales agent and will commence sales at Berlinale’s European Film Market. The plot centers on a woman who finally meets the
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Bill Skarsgård’s transformation into the hideous-looking vampire Count Orlok for Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” was an arduous process — with the end goal of making the Swedish actor completely unrecognizable. “I was not so interested in Bill’s features, aside from his eyes,” Eggers says of Skarsgård. “The things that make [Orlock] not just an intimidating, masculine
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Spotify says it will give $50,000 in grants to writers of unpublished stories with the aim of “ending the stigma surrounding mental health.” The company is partnering with The Black List, a platform for filmmakers and writers to showcase projects to industry professionals, and The Jed Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping prevent suicide
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“Captain America: Brave New World” is the first Marvel movie in six months — but more than that, it’s the first since 2022, the year of “Thor: Love and Thunder” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” to build itself around a superhero you’d categorize as Marvel Classic. Those three years define an era when many began
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Nebojša Slijepčević, the director of the Oscar-nominated short “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent,” is working on a feature adaptation of “Dark Mother Earth” by Kristian Novak, Variety has exclusively learned. “Dark Mother Earth” follows an amnesiac writer, Matija, who is missing a major portion of his memory. Upon writing his third book, Matija
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New Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle underscored the vital role of independent cinema, her efforts to expand the festival beyond Berlin and the importance of young filmmakers in a discussion on Wednesday at the Cinema Vision 2030 conference organized by German independent cinema association AG Kino – Gilde. To mark the Berlinale’s 75th edition, the festival
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In “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” the neurotic, lovelorn heroine hasn’t just swapped cigarettes for Nicorette. She’s traded the big screen for Peacock, a second-tier streaming service where the franchise’s fourth entry will debut on Feb. 13. “[People] will watch this one at home,” says Helen Fielding, the author who created Bridget Jones. “If
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The new documentary “Sly Lives, aka the Burden of Black Genius,” which focuses on the life and career of the brilliant but troubled musician Sly Stone and his group Sly and the Family Stone, is both a conventional documentary and an extremely unconventional one. Like its predecessor, the Oscar and Grammy-winning “Summer of Soul” —
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Sean “Diddy” Combs has filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal, Peacock TV and Ample Entertainment for defamatory statements published in the documentary “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.” The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in New York, asserts that these media companies “falsely, recklessly, and maliciously” accused Combs of serial murder and sex trafficking,
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The Boston Red Sox, one of the most storied franchises in baseball, is getting the documentary treatment, and Variety has your first look at the immersive Netflix series. “The Clubhouse: A Year With the Red Sox” is directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Greg Whiteley (“Cheer,” “America’s Sweethearts,” “Last Chance U”) and marks the first time Netflix
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Microsoft Gaming‘s Kayleen Walters has been promoted to head of the company’s Stockholm-based “Minecraft” maker, Mojang Studios, as current chief Åsa Bredin exits the Swedish video game developer. Per Microsoft Gaming leadership, Bredin made the decision to step down “to focus on personal goals outside of work.” She joined Mojang Studios in 2021 and was
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The night the third “Bridget Jones” novel, “Mad About the Boy,” came out in October 2013, author Helen Fielding was taking a walk in London when she passed her local pub and was accosted by a tipsy patron. “You’ve killed Colin Firth!” they shouted dramatically. “Well the truth is, I didn’t ever intend to actually
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“Vigdís,” the four-part biopic about Iceland’s iconic former president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, widely known as the world’s first democratically elected female head of state, will bow Feb. 17 at the Berlinale Series Market Selects, courtesy of REinvent International. The show – which chronicles Finnbogadóttir’s journey from 1948, when she finished secondary school, up until her presidential
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