EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the American Film Market, Protagonist Pictures has boarded international sales on Jay Baruchel starrer The Stunt Driver. UTA Independent Film Group is representing the U.S. rights. Above is a first look image of Baruchel (This is the End) and Ed Helms (The Hangover) in…

EXCLUSIVE: Tessa Thompson as Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler in filmmaker Nia DaCosta's sublime Hedda is a woman in charge of her own destiny. Studying literature would've been a whole lot more fun if this voluptuous, 1950s-set re-imagining had been included on my school's curriculum. In fact…

Rowan Athale's biopic Giant, starring Amir El Masry as British-Yemeni boxing champion Prince Naseem 'Naz' Hamed, will open the fifth edition of Saudi Arabia's Red Sea International Film Festival. The news was announced at a press conference in the festival’s home city of Jeddah on Tuesday, as…

The Australian government has introduced content quotas on global streamers. The rules require Netflix, Prime Video and the other global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure – or 7.5% of their revenues – on local…

EXCLUSIVE:  Iraqi-Kurdish filmmaker Philip Rachid has been announced as a speaker at the upcoming HollyShorts Dubai as its inaugural edition takes shape. The event, which is a spin-off of the popular long-running Oscar qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival in L.A., will run from December 12 to…

The Marrakech International Film Festival will pay tribute to Jodie Foster, Guillermo del Toro, Egyptian actor Hussein Fahmi and Moroccan star Raouya, at its 22nd edition later this month. Foster's career will be feted with a gala screening of her latest film, Rebecca Zlotowski's French-language…

Much ado has been made about method acting in recent years, also known simply as the Method, and three-time Best Actor Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis would very much like to no longer be in the conversation. The There Will Be Blood actor recently lamented being “drawn into this handbags-at-dawn…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Chloé Zhao and Nicolas Gonda have just opened the doors to Kodansha Studios, a new global studio dedicated to creating premium, live-action movies and television series based on hit manga properties. Kodansha Studios will leverage the Kodansha library, which…

Simu Liu will reprise his role as Shang-Chi in Avengers: Doomsday and is teasing the film, set for release in 2026. In a new interview, Liu opened up about reuniting with all the actors from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and described what fans can expect from the film directed by Joe Russo and…

EXCLUSIVE: Not many low-budget indie debuts without name cast get a wide theatrical release. That’s the plan for supernatural thriller Hunting Matthew Nichols, we’re told. According to producers, Markian Tarasiuk's debut feature will be released in March next year on 1,500 screens after…

Diane Ladd, the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated actress best known for memorable turns in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Roman Polanski’s Chinatown and David Lynch's Wild at Heart, died Monday morning at her home in Ojai, CA, according to her daughter, Laura Dern, who was at her…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Uri Singer and talent manager and producer Orlando John have joined forces to secure adaptation rights to Frank Partnoy's book The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals. Described as The Great Gatsby meets Wolf of Wall Street…