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Rick Santelli, the longtime CNBC economic-indicators analyst whose plain-spoken but passionate takes on the effects of federal policy on average Americans boosted his profile at the business-news outlet, plans to retire from the Versant Media-backed network on October 2. Santelli’s decision was revealed to CNBC staffers Thursday, but announced on air Friday during a segment […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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”) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Actor-turned director Anna Foglietta is back in Venice in a different guise this year, after serving as the event’s official emcee in 2020. Foglietta — who is best-known to international audiences for her role in Italy’s smash hit “Perfect Strangers” — is on the Lido with her directorial debut, “A Common Story.” It’s a marriage […]
Philippine studio Viva Communications has acquired the rights to remake Indonesian film “2nd Miracle in Cell No. 7,” marking the first time an Indonesian film will be officially remade for the Philippine market. The adaptation is set to premiere Dec. 25 as part of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). The original “Miracle in Cell […]
At the start of her eponymous reality show “Earle Meets World,” the influencer Alix Earle promises that while “there’s a whole other side” of the creator economy “people don’t get to see,” her viewers are “gonna see everything in this show.” I hope for Earle’s sake she isn’t telling the truth, because if “Earle Meets […]
Liam and Noel Gallagher, to perhaps nobody’s surprise, aren’t ones for getting teary-eyed, even when reconciling after well over a decade apart. So say Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, directors of the upcoming Disney+ documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger,” speaking to Variety ahead of the film’s world premiere in Venice. In early 2025, […]
Four years after “Blanquita” won the Silver Lion for best screenplay, Chilean director Fernando Guzzoni returns to Venice. The filmmaker is set to present his latest project, “Land of the Savages,” at the Venice Gap-Financing Market, eyeing a return to the festival’s prestigious red carpet soon. “Land of the Savages” takes place in 1850 and […]
“Free Solo” directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin return with their most personal film to date. In “Everest: The Other Side” — screening in Venice and Toronto — they follow ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson as they attempt to do something that has never been done before: ski down the North Face […]
Over the last decade, Felipe Solari Yrigoyen has worked as an assistant director to some of the most lauded filmmakers in South America. His credits include Rodrigo Moreno’s “The Delinquents,” Martín Rejtman’s “The Practice” and Santiago Mitre’s upcoming “Villaflor.” After learning from the best, Solari Yrigoyen is finally claiming the director’s chair for himself with […]
