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Lauryn Ajufo, the British actress who landed a British Independent Film Award nomination for “Boiling Point,” is set to step into the role that first launched Michaela Coel’s career in an upcoming revival of Coel’s landmark semi-autobiographical one-woman debut play. “Chewing Gum Dreams,” originally developed by Coel as her final-year show at the Guildhall School […]
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Ali Fazal has spent a decade and a half deliberately refusing to sit still. He credits his mother for it. Bombarded with world cinema from an early age, he came out of college convinced the industry was bigger than what he’d been shown, and he built a career designed to prove it. “I have to […]
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The New York Times Co. has games. Disney has theme parks. And Versant Media has golf. In an era when more traditional media companies are looking beyond the usual flows of revenue, Versant on Monday unveiled plans to purchase Full Swing, a sports technology firm that lets customers, coaches and athletes make use of simulations […]
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Colombia’s burgeoning Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM) opens its doors even wider to welcome young wannabe producers from Central America, the Caribbean and Andean countries this year, thanks to an alliance with Netflix. In past years, only Colombian producers participated in the training and networking sessions. This time, out of the 40 participants, with ages ranging […]
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Netflix France’s vice president of content Pauline Dauvin has warned that France’s newly expanded investment obligations for streamers risk turning cultural diversity into a “checklist,” arguing that rules designed to broaden creative output could threaten editorial freedom and weaken the country’s production ecosystem. In an op-ed published in Le Monde and titled “More Obligations, Less […]
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Kevin Costner’s 1990 Western “Dances With Wolves,” about an American Civil War soldier who forges a relationship with a group of Lakota Indians, is getting a new 4K restoration that will launch at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival. The cult classic, which earned Costner the best director prize at the 1991 Oscars, along with six […]
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When TodayTix acquired Secret Cinema in 2022 for a reported $100 million, it marked a new era for the company, which started life as a ragtag bunch of film enthusiasts trying to bring movies to life. Originally, the screenings were kept secret (hence the name) and staged in out-of-the-way locations with audiences only finding out […]
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Next Interactive Studio unveiled its slate of interactive films and its self-developed interactive cinema ecosystem at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, drawing more than 100 audience members to “play” a film live at the festival. The showcase’s centerpiece was “Replica,” one of the first Chinese-language interactive animated features. The film was co-produced with Kinlea […]
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Indian auteur Anurag Kashyap has come on board as presenter of Bangladeshi drama “Delupi,” with the film set to carry the “Anurag Kashyap Presents” banner across its release and promotional campaigns going forward. “Delupi” had its international premiere in the Bright Future section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) earlier this year. The premiere […]
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The Venice Film Festival will honor George Clooney with its 2026 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Clooney – who is one of only three people to have been nominated in six different Oscar categories throughout his career (best picture, director, lead actor, supporting actor, original screenplay and adapted screenplay) – will be celebrated on the […]
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“Toy Story 5” held onto the number one spot at the South Korean box office during the weekend of July 3–5. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the film brought in $2.8 million from 429,042 admissions over the three-day window, maintaining a 38.6% share of the weekend […]
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When Miroslav Terzić was writing his new film back in 2023, titled “3 Weeks After,” there was a mass shooting at a Serbian school, the country where the director was born. “It was terrible when you realize what you are writing, it’s happening somewhere right now — it’s not a film, it’s real life,” Terzić […]
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