EXCLUSIVE: The subversive and experimental works of Portuguese filmmaker João César Monteiro have long been unavailable or difficult to view in the U.S. thanks to tight copyright laws and poor preservation. But that’s all about to change. The NYC-based Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights to Monteiro’s films and is planning a broad […]
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle will interview Kamala Harris this evening for for a one-on-one interview, the vice president’s first such sit down with a national network since becoming the Democratic nominee. The interview, from Pittsburgh, will air at 7 p.m. ET on a special two-hour edition of All In with Chris Hayes. CNN’s Dana Bash interviewed […]
EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based global management and production company 75East has signed Lebanese writer-director Nay Tabbara, whose short film Ebb & Flow won the Student Visionary Award at its Tribeca world premiere in June. Inspired by real events and the political instabilities of the early 2000s in Lebanon, the short follows 14-year-old Loulwa whose plans for a […]
Charles Dance is to star as Michelangelo in a BBC-PBS docu-drama about the renaissance. Dance is leading Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty, examining how some of the greatest works of art in the Western world were born out of an era of violence, power politics and rivalry. The BBC said the show will “reveal […]
Monika Shergill says Netflix has hit its “stride” in India, but warned that “supply is not meeting the demand” in the world’s most populous country. Speaking at the APOS conference in Bali, Shergill touted Netflix’s growth in the country, noting that it was the streamer’s second-largest territory for paid net adds in the second quarter […]
EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Olympic gold medallist and trailblazing boxer Nicola Adams is set to make her Hollywood debut in the upcoming action-thriller The Gun On Second Street. The film, which will also feature Poppy Delevingne, Tom Arnold, and Rumer Willis, follows two Pittsburgh police partners whose lives are dramatically altered by a tragic incident. The plot centres on Officer […]
EXCLUSIVE: Dynamic Television is plotting to turn George Dawes Green’s Southern Gothic crime novel The Kingdoms of Savannah into a TV series. The transatlantic production house has optioned the rights to the book, with writer Sheri Holman (George & Tammy, Palm Royale) attached to write a pilot script. She will also be showrunner and executive […]
Switzerland has picked Klaudia Reynicke’s family drama Reinas as its submission to the Best International Feature Film category of the 97th Academy Awards. The Swiss-Spanish-Peruvian coproduction is set in Peru in 1992 as the country undergoes social and political upheaval. Against this backdrop Lucía and Aurora’s single mother Elena is drawing up plans to leave […]
Jordan has selected Sareen Hairabedian’s documentary My Sweet Land to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category of the 97th Academy Awards. The documentary follows 11-year-old Vrej, who dreams of becoming a dentist in his village in Artsakh in the region Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been at the heart of a violent dispute between […]
‘Sex Education’ Star Asa Butterfield Lands First Theater Role Sex Education star Asa Butterfield has landed his first stage role with a project about the actor who came second to playing Harry Potter in the movie franchise. The limited four week-run at London’s Riverside Studios will see Butterfield play Martin Hill in Second Best. At […]