Brazilian director and screenwriter Julia Murat will develop her fourth fiction feature film, “White Masks,” in Projeto Paradiso’s Pop Up Film Residency in Revine Lago, Italy. Focusing on the development of a fiction feature film, the program is carried out in more than 10 countries and offered to a Brazilian filmmaker by Projeto Paradiso, Brazil’s […]
SOCCER STREAMING Disney+ has landed exclusive live streaming rights to the UEFA Women’s Champions League soccer tournament across Europe in a five-year pact covering the 2025/26 through 2029/30 seasons. The deal makes Disney+ the sole destination for all 75 matches in the competition, with coverage launching in October alongside the tournament’s new 18-team League phase […]
Park Bo-young is pushing her acting boundaries like never before in Netflix‘s upcoming Korean series “Our Unwritten Seoul,” where she takes on the complex challenge of playing twin sisters who swap identities — effectively embodying four distinct personas in what may be her most demanding role to date. The actor known for her roles in […]
RedBird Capital Partners has struck a deal to acquire the Telegraph Media Group for £500 million ($674.2 million), marking the largest investment in U.K. print media in a decade and positioning the private equity powerhouse as one of Britain’s biggest media players. With the acquisition of the 170-year-old newspaper brand, RedBird is planning significant capital […]
The South Asian House initiative, which aims to highlight, recognize and appreciate South Asians in film and television, has partnered with the Islamic Scholarship Fund to present programming at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, marking a significant collaboration for South Asian, Arab and Muslim representation in the entertainment industry. The partnership will present a series of panels, mixers […]
Prime Video India has set a premiere date for “The Traitors,” the Karan Johar-hosted reality series that marks the streamer’s biggest unscripted original to date. The Indian adaptation of IDTV’s internationally acclaimed format will feature 20 celebrities competing in what the platform describes as “the ultimate test of trust and betrayal.” The series, produced by […]
Austria’s Viennale film festival has named German filmmaker Christian Petzold as its new president. The role was vacant for four years, following the death in 2019 of Eric Pleskow, who had been president from 1998. As president of the Viennale, Petzold holds its highest position. Petzold has been “closely connected to the festival for many […]
The year is 2014 in freshman director Alice Douard’s lightly comic drama “Love Letters” and French couple Nadia (Monia Chokri) and Céline (Ella Rumpf) are expecting their first child. Nadia is 37, so the duo have decided together that she should be the gestational parent, since, at 32, biology is somewhat more on Céline’s side, […]
Insanely prolific “Goosebumps” author R.L. Stine’s other major publishing franchise, the young adult “Fear Street” series, made a decent splash on Netflix four years ago with the premiere of three interlocking features, each set in the same fictitious “cursed” town during a different era. All directed by Leigh Janiak, the trio (“Fear Street: 1994,” “1978” […]
“Brat” summer is dead — long live “Joachim Trier Summer,” as proclaimed by Elle Fanning, and her playful T-shirt, at Cannes. “After three years of hard work, I’d love to have a three-year-long summer,” laughs the Danish-born Norwegian director after the premiere of “Sentimental Value.” Starring Renate Reinsve — reuniting with Trier after the hit “The Worst […]
