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Across his decades-long career, filmmaker Malik Hassan Sayeed has sat for only a handful of feature interviews, which is unrepresentative of both his unique ability to communicate and his openness to sharing stories from his life.  Indeed, when I meet Sayeed, we're in London, where he has chosen…

Shailene Woodley (Divergent) has signed on to star in the psychological thriller Ultra.  The film was written and will be directed by Victoria Negri (Gold Star), with Allison Rose Carter and Jon Read producing for Savage Rose Films (Everything Everywhere All at Once) alongside Iris Torres (In…

Joel Edgerton will be awarded the Camerimage Film Festival's Actor’s Award during this year's event, which will run from 15 Nov to 22 Nov.  Born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Edgerton's career began on the stage. His first on-screen performance was on TV. He starred in the Aussie series The Secr…

Pete Davidson (The King of Staten Island) and Ella Purnell (Fallout) have signed on to star in That Time We Met, a "cosmic romantic comedy" directed by Nick Lieberman (Theater Camp) from a screenplay written by Mitchell Winkie (The Ultimate Playlist of Noise).  WME Independent will launch sales…

Lauren Miller Rogen has added Issa Rae (Insecure), Dan Stevens (Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire), Zach Cherry (Severance), and Kate Berlant (Maddie's Secret) to the cast of her sophomore feature Babies.  Miller Rogen is directing from a screenplay she also wrote for AGC Studios and Monarch…

Akinola Davies Jr.'s debut feature, My Father's Shadow, leads this year's British Independent Film Award nominations with 12 nods, including Best Director and Best Screenplay. Scroll down for the full list. Directed by Davies Jr. from a screenplay he wrote with his brother, Wale, the film's…

"She’s very strong, but she’s never conservative," Italian filmmaker ​​Saverio Costanzo concluded this morning during a Q&A at Thessaloniki when asked about his enigmatic countrywoman Elena Ferrante, whose acclaimed Neopolitan novels he adapted to create the popular series My Brilliant…

Yves Saint Laurent, the Kering-owned French fashion house, announced a sidestep into film production back in 2023, with what appeared to be a series of unofficial pacts with veteran arthouse filmmakers.  Since then, the fashion house has popped up on the credits of several high-profile titles…

"No one with any real deep knowledge of this industry could think AI can start casting films," veteran casting director Lucinda Syson concluded this morning during a panel discussion at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece.  Syson, whose credits include ensemble titles like September 5 and Th…

Greece's premier film event, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, opened its 2025 edition — the 66th annual festival to be held in the country's bustling second city — last night, with a screening of Jim Jarmusch's latest Father Mother Sister Brother.  Jarmusch wasn't in attendance at…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Anna Zlokovic will direct the feature The Broodmare, a horror film penned by Michael Voyer, for XYZ Films and Tea Shop.  Voyer's script was featured on the Black List. The story follows a recovering alcoholic who travels to a remote horse breeding farm to make amends with…

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Acker (Cabin in the Woods) will lead the Christmas survival horror film Invader, which Alliance Media Partners has boarded to rep worldwide sales.  The film's synopsis reads: A Christmas family gathering becomes a fight for survival when Diane's family is stalked by her vengeful…