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…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount is jumping for joy for its latest live sports deal. The company has acquired distribution rights to Varsity Spirit’s Pro Cheer League, the world's first professional competitive cheer league. The Pro Cheer League will launch in January 2026 with four teams, based in…

Ukrainian producer and director Alexander Rodnyansky has pulled his work Notes of a True Criminal from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in response to its decision to exclude Israeli state-backed organizations and films from this year's edition. "My film is not…

EXCLUSIVE: Quantify has boarded international sales rights to Nastasya Popov's buzzy SXSW comedy Idiotka as it revs up for its debut at the American Film Market. The film, which premiered to rave reviews at SXSW, stars Anna Baryshnikov and Camila Mendes, with Julia Fox, Benito Skinner, Owen…

EXCLUSIVE: Amid a continued effort to expand its international footprint, Christian Rodriguez’s AAO Entertainment has signed Ernest Gold, co-creator and showrunner of Austria’s first original Prime Video series, Beasts Like Us. The winner of a 2025 Grimme Award, Beasts Like Us is an…

Tokyo Taxi director Yamada Yoji told audiences at the Tokyo Film Festival on Monday that he admires how the Korean government has supported the film industry there for decades, and called on the Japanese government to continue to bolster funding locally, especially for live-action…

EXCLUSIVE: Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones), Cameron Crovetti (The Boys), Sarah Bolger (Mayans M.C.) and Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) are set to star in creature horror thriller Claire. Producers Matthew R. Cooper and Anna Dragoo of Objectively Good Media (OGM), along with Sterling Beaumon and…

In a conversation with prolific Japanese filmmaker Hirokaza Kore-eda at the ongoing Tokyo Film Festival, Hamnet director and Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao says that she is exploring making a documentary for her next feature but admits that the genre will take a whole different level of courage. "I…

EXCLUSIVE: Alan Cumming’s Just For Laughs gala special is set for Canada’s Crave and CTV Comedy. One Night Out with Alan Cumming, filmed live in front of an audience during the Just For Laughs Montréal festival on July 26, will see the Traitors and The Good Wife star joined by comedy talent from…

EXCLUSIVE: Smile and Strange Darling star Kyle Gallner has written and will star in the upcoming monster horror/survival thriller Man Vs, which David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment is launching for the American Film Market. Producing are Roy Lee (Weapons) and Steven Schneider (Insidious)…

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Hit Israeli prison series Bad Boy, which broke out worldwide on Netflix, is returning for a second season. Local network HOT has ordered a second run of the show from Euphoria creator Ron Leshem, Hagar Ben-Asher, Sipur and North Road. Starring Daniel Chen and based on Chen’s life, Bad…