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It’s set to be an “Oh, Mary!” reunion on the West End. Alongside playwright and original lead Cole Escola — who is reprising the title role of Mary Todd Lincoln at London’s Trafalgar Theatre from July 20 to Aug. 15 — Giles Terera is set to return as Mary’s Husband (July 20- Aug. 15) and […]
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Kenan Thompson has a long history with the fruit-flavored candy pellets known as Mike & Ike. “It’s one of those candies I remember grabbing at the movies or on a road trip, so there was already familiarity with it,” he recalls during a recent email exchange. Now he has a chance to bring new audiences […]
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Peter Brook’s five-hour-plus film adaptation of “The Mahabharata” is set for a BFI Blu-ray release on Aug. 10, presented in high definition from a new 4K restoration of the 1989 production. The release centres on the triptych version of the film, running 332 minutes, which sits between Brook’s three-hour cinema cut and the six-hour television […]
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Imax and Chinese audio-visual technology company Goer Dynamics have struck a strategic partnership to develop an in-vehicle entertainment system the companies are billing as the first to carry the Imax brand, with commercial production targeted for later this year. Under the deal, the two companies will collaborate on design and co-market the finished system to […]
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Independently financed American genre films rarely arrive without scars. In the case of “Cowboy,” Nathan Grubbs’ directorial debut, which bowed at London’s Raindance Film Festival, the struggle to get the film made became almost inseparable from the story being told. Produced through Rubicon Entertainment, the contemporary Southern noir Western was constructed incrementally, with Grubbs serving […]
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Indian actor-turned-politician Vijay’s long-delayed cinematic swan song “Jana Nayagan” will open in theaters worldwide on July 23, KVN Productions has revealed. The date arrives more than six months after the Tamil-language film’s original Jan. 9 launch was derailed by a protracted dispute with India’s Central Board of Film Certification and a separate piracy breach earlier […]
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Ten filmmakers unveiled their AI-native short films at the recently concluded Raindance Film Festival in London, with the project – titled “Lost Canon” – produced by Moonmax and built entirely on CapCut Video Studio. The initiative was commissioned jointly by CapCut, the AI-powered creative platform used by creators across more than 200 regions worldwide, and […]
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Margot Robbie, Mark Ruffalo, Daisy Ridley and Omar Sy are among some of the high-profile acting talent attached to projects selected for Venice Immersive, the XR – Extended Reality section of the 83rd Venice Intl. Film Festival. Other leading names associated with the projects include actresses Kathleen Turner and Isabelle Huppert, actor-director Andy Serkis and […]
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“Army of Shadows,” the upcoming thriller series from BAFTA-winning “MobLand” and “The Day of the Jackal” creator Ronan Bennett and set in a near-future authoritarian Britain, has set its top cast. Leading the ensemble are BAFTA winner Paddy Considine (“House of The Dragon,” “MobLand”), Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner America Ferrera (“Barbie,” “The Lost […]
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The U.K. government has proposed a social media curfew for older teenagers alongside its pending ban for those under 16. According to the BBC, 16 and 17-year-olds could face apps such as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube being unavailable to access by default between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. However, they would be able […]
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Parallax Films has come aboard “The House on the Moon,” the Singapore wuxia science-fiction feature set to world-premiere in international competition at the 79th Locarno Film Festival, as worldwide sales agent. The company holds exclusive rights across most international territories. German-speaking territories, Taiwan and Singapore are excluded from that exclusivity, while Parallax also holds non-exclusive […]
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Belgian filmmaker Fabrice du Welz will preside over the jury for the international competition at the 79th Locarno Film Festival, part of a full slate of juries the festival has revealed across its sections. Du Welz has made nine features that have screened at major festivals; Locarno has shown two of them, “Adoration” on the […]
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