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Nanni Moretti’s ‘It Will Happen Tonight’ Sells Widely Ahead of Venice Launch – Clip (EXCLUSIVE)

Veteran Italian auteur Nanni Moretti’s “It Will Happen Tonight,” featuring French star Louis Garrel and Italian A-lister Jasmine Trinca (“La Storia,” “Supersex”) has been pre-sold widely by Paris-based international sales company Playtime ahead of its Venice world premiere in competition on Saturday. Though the plot is being kept under wraps, “It Will Happen Tonight”. is loosely based […]

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Iranian Director Mohsen Gharaei, in Venice With ‘Falling House,’ Set to Shoot ‘Centrifugal Force’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Iranian director Mohsen Gharaei, who is at the Venice Film Festival with well-received drama “Falling House,” is set to shoot a new film titled “Centrifugal Force” that will capture “the impossible choices facing a generation of Iranians today,” as the synopsis puts it. “Falling House,” which world-premiered on Wed. in Venice’s Orizzonti sidebar, follows a […]

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‘Boys of Tommen’ Adds Jonathan Forbes, Cobhan O’brien, Harvey Moloney and More to Cast (EXCLUSIVE)

Prime Video’s “The Boys of Tommen” has added Jonathan Forbes, Cobhan O’brien, Harvey Moloney, Tristan Heanue and Lewis Brophy to its cast. Forbes (“Catastrophe,” “The Rainmaker”) joins as Johnny Kavanagh’s father John Senior, O’brien (“Foundation”) and Moloney (“Krimi”) as Shannon Lynch’s younger brothers Tadhg and Ollie, Heanue (“Clean Sweep”) as Aoife Molloy’s father Tony Molloy […]

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George Clooney Says the Government Shouldn’t Regulate AI: ‘These Are Not the People You Want to Entrust the Holy Grail With’

George Clooney has said he doesn’t trust the government to regulate AI. “I don’t know that you want government to be regulating this either, because I sit and watch when Zuckerberg is testifying in front of, you know, a 94-year-old Chuck Grassley, and they’re like, ‘Well, how do you turn that computer on?’” he joked, […]

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‘Spider-Man’ and ‘The Odyssey’ Propel U.K. Box Office to Best August Since 2018

The U.K. may have just had the hottest August since records began but, in more positive news, it also had the hottest August at the box office in almost a decade. Thanks to the incredible performances of both “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey” a total of $161.3 million was earned at the box […]

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Maggie Gyllenhaal Says She Tried Using AI to Turn Dakota Johnson Into Marilyn Monroe for Short ‘Flesh Impact’ — Then Scrapped It: ‘Fundamentally Did Not Work’

Venice jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal revealed that she experimented with artificial intelligence to transform Dakota Johnson into Marilyn Monroe for her short film “Flesh Impact” which plays on the Lido. But she ended up scrapping it because she felt that it stripped Johnson’s performance of the very humanity that made it compelling. Speaking at the […]

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Bendita Film Sales Snags Norma Vila’s Sitges Competition Title ‘Carapace’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Bendita Film Sales has acquired international rights to Norma Vila’s psychological horror thriller “Salitre” (“Carapace”) ahead of its premiere at the Sitges Film Festival’s Fantàstic In-Competition Selection. Vila’s debut feature stars Nagore Aranburu, star of Series Mania top laureate “Querer” and winner of this year’s supporting actress Goya Award for “Sundays,” and Haizea Carneros (“Sacamantecas”) […]

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‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile’ Review: An Enormous, Riveting Documentary Sequel Following Reporters on the Run

Following her mammoth five-hour odyssey “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow,” Julia Loktev’s sequel remains just as riveting, if not more so, in its continued depiction of journalists escaping the Russian government. Its predecessor’s endpoint (one Loktev could not have foreseen when she began shooting on her iPhone X) was the […]

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Manisha Koirala Attached to Star in ‘Cowgirls & Indians,’ Set for November Texas Shoot (EXCLUSIVE)

Manisha Koirala is attached to star in “Cowgirls & Indians,” an indie feature that will start shooting in November around Austin, Texas, and nearby locations. The film was formerly titled “Cowboys & Indians.” Tejal Desai, a Nicholl Fellow, wrote and is directing the film, expanding on her award-winning short “Cowboys and Hindus.” The story follows […]

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Busan Market Unveils Doc Square, Launches Impact Asia as Yim Siwan Named Festival Closing Ceremony Host

The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), the market of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), will present Doc Square 2026 from Oct. 10-13, bringing together eight partner organizations from five countries to connect Asian documentary creators with industry professionals. Launched last year, the program introduces documentary projects still in production across Asia and offers […]

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Magdalena Koleśnik and Kay Greidanus to Lead Finn Szumlas’ Debut Feature ‘Stairway to Earth’ as Production Starts (EXCLUSIVE)

Dutch filmmaker Finn Szumlas has started principal photography on his debut feature “Stairway to Earth,” kicking off a 5-week shoot in the Netherlands. Leading the film is Polish star Magdalena Koleśnik (“Sweat”) and Dutch actor Kay Greidanus (“Dit Zijn Wij”), playing two strangers who meet up after a one night stand at at a summer […]

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Tamar AI’s TapNow Brings AI-Native Filmmaking to Venice Production Bridge With HappyHorse-Backed 10,000 Parallel Universes Films, Unveils Streamer Glanze

Liu Haonan and Qiao Yuhang have been finishing each other’s stories since high school, where they drew together, talked about animation and film, and traded ideas for comics and stories of their own. More than a decade later, they’re doing something a two-person team couldn’t have pulled off a few years ago: building a science-fiction […]

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