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Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has joined the TV adaptation of the “Payday” video games as an executive producer, Variety has learned exclusively. Jackson will executive produce the project under his G-Unit Film & Television banner. As previously announced, the show is being produced by Vice Studios and video game studio Starbreeze Entertainment. Development on the […]
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Disney cut a licensing deal for six podcasts from iHeartMedia that will stream on Disney+ and/or Hulu, starting with the Jonas brothers’ recently launched “Hey Jonas!” In addition to “Hey Jonas!”, the deal encompasses video editions of iHeartPodcasts’ “Pod Meets World,” which will stream on Disney+ as well as “Desperately Devoted,” “Fake Doctors, Real Friends […]
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Football games have long stood as a welcome place for beer commercials. Now Procter & Gamble hopes they will also become a great roost for discussions of an inevitable byproduct of liquid intake: bladder leaks. The consumer-products giant plans a substantial campaign for its Always Discreet incontinence pads for women that will air largely during […]
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Brad Pitt is keeping an open mind about AI use in movies, saying that it could actually help more mid-budget projects get made. The Oscar-winning actor was asked his thoughts on the topic in a new Esquire cover story, particularly when it comes to creating visual effects that could otherwise be very expensive. “There’s a […]
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Jeremy Irons, Keke Palmer, Alan Cumming and other talent are attached to projects launching at the inaugural market at Toronto Intl. Film Festival, known as TIFF: The Market, which runs Sept. 10-16. The projects are among 40 film, six series and five “innovation” projects to be pitched at TIFF’s International Financing and Project Market. Standout […]
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Ugandan Talemwa Pius’ striking magic realist fable “A Vineyard for a Lobster” and “Accept My Plea for a Burial,” a Somalia set critique of ancient custom, emerged triumphant at Locarno’s 2026 Open Doors, winning its two biggest cash prizes. Neither prize comes as a surprise. Picturing a miraculous snowfall in a drought-ridden Ugandan village, in […]
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In a year without Glastonbury, music lovers have turned to other festivals in the U.K. and Europe to fill the void. There’s Primavera Sound in Barcelona, with its proximity to the beach and genre-diverse lineup, or Reading and Leeds in England for those who want a true camping experience with a rock-focused flair. But look […]
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The BFI London Film Festival has announced that two of the U.K.’s most acclaimed producers will lead the industry program at its upcoming 70th edition. Pippa Harris, who produced “Hamnet,” “1917” and is currently working on “The Beatles” biopics, and James Wilson, who produced “The Zone of Interest,” “The Voice of Hind Rajab” and “Under […]
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The fight against the Islamic State has been give the Hollywood-style revenge thriller treatment in Halkawt Mustafa’s “No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman,” as revealed by the film’s first teaser trailer. The feature — which will have it world premiere out of competition at the Venice International Film Festival next month — follows a […]
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Netflix has started production on a sequel to “Ad Vitam,” its 2025 French action thriller starring Guillaume Canet. The sequel has the working title “Ad Vitam Eternam,” which is Latin for “to eternal life.” Canet is returning as Franck Lazareff, a former operator for the GIGN, the elite tactical unit of the French National Gendarmerie. […]
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Latin Quarter Distribution has acquired world sales rights to José Dell’Acqua’s Uruguayan crime thriller “Maltrato Animal” (“Animal Budget”). The deal was closed after a screening of “Maltrato Animal” at Locarno’s First Look, a pix-in-post competition focused on rough-cut screenings of emerging and established talent from a territory around the world, this year Uruguay. Presented in […]
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In the Argentine Pampas, cousins Guillermina and Belinda cannot wait to grow up. When they are not swimming in the river and dancing through the long, breezy afternoons, they re-enact funeral ceremonies and feign surgery on dead animals. This quotidian desire to accelerate the inevitable passing of time animates photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti’s debut feature, “The […]
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