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International Insider: MIPTV Comes To A Close; BBC Blows Hot & Cold On AI; ‘Toxic’ Hot Docs Exodus

deadline.com Bonjour and hello, Insiders. This was the week in which the end of the historic MIPTV Cannes confab was confirmed after six decades. Jesse Whittock with you. Let’s begin,…

‘The Monkey’: Stephen King Adaptation With Theo James Is Also Starring Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, Christian Convery, Colin O’Brien, Rohan Campbell & Sarah…

deadline.com Horror movie The Monkey, the adaptation of the Stephen King short story, wrapped shoot a week ago and we can reveal that lead cast joining Theo James (The White Lotus)…

Environmental Documentary ‘Wild Coast Warriors,’ About a Legal Battle Against Shell in South Africa, Picked Up by Limonero (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com Limonero Films has picked up world rights to distribute environmental documentary “Wild Coast Warriors,” which launches at Mipdoc. The film aims to raise awareness of the…

Chanel-Backed ArteKino Festival Hands Out European Audience Award at Paris Ceremony

variety.com Bettina Blümner’s “Vamos a la playa” won ArteKino Festival’s European Audience Award at a ceremony co-organized by the iconic French fashion house Chanel in Paris. Held at…

Why U.S. Indie Distributor Utopia Is Dipping Its Toes Into U.K. Waters With ‘The Sweet East’

variety.com Since its inception in 2018, North American distributer and sales outfit Utopia has been quietly building up its credentials as a both a company with a distinctive cinematic…

Marché Du Film Unveils New ‘Cannes Remakes’ Showcase Focused On European Feature Films

deadline.com The Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film is launching a new initiative, bannered Cannes Remakes, aimed at fostering remake opportunities for European feature films that…

Cannes Launches Remake Market for Film Adaptations

hollywoodreporter.com Cannes is getting into the remake business. The Cannes film market, the Marché du Film, is launching a one-day event focused entirely on remakes and local-language…

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Launches Audience Award in Honor of Chantal Akerman

hollywoodreporter.com Cannes Film Festival‘s Directors’ Fortnight section will launch a new audience award at this year’s festival, named in honor of the late Belgian director Chantal Akerman. It…

5 New Hotels Where the Past Meets the Present

nytimes.com You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full will load. In London, the grand Old War Office — the…

Directors’ Fortnight Launches Cannes’ First Audience Award In Memory Of Chantal Ackerman

deadline.com Cannes Directors’ Fortnight is launching a new People’s Choice audience award at its upcoming edition, running alongside the main festival from May 15 to 26. The parallel…

Cannes-Bound ‘Directors Factory Philippines’ Wraps Filming

variety.com “Directors Factory Philippines,” an omnibus film project initiated by the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, has completed production in the historic city of Dapitan. Operating…

Marco Bellocchio’s Cannes Movie ‘Kidnapped’, About The Catholic Church’s Abduction Of Jewish Boy Edgardo Mortara, Sets U.S. Release Date

deadline.com Cohen Media Group‘s well-received Cannes, TIFF and NYFF 2023 drama Kidnapped: The Abduction Of Edgardo Mortara is set to be released stateside on May 24. The latest from…

MIPTV Confirms Move to London in 2025

hollywoodreporter.com This year will be the last hurrah for MIPTV in Cannes. The international television market has been a fixed date on the industry calendar since it first launched back in…

Karan Johar, Shekhar Kapur to Feature at India’s Cinevesture Events

variety.com The first edition of India’s Cinevesture International Film Festival and market (Chandigarh, March 27-31) will feature a range of masterclasses and panels headlined by a…

MIP London Is Launching In 2025

deadline.com It’s confirmed – or will be later today – MIPTV is setting up shop in London, Deadline can reveal. The action is moving from the Palais Des Festivals to The Savoy hotel and…

Pankaj Tripathi Says Reading Poetry Helped Him Portray Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Without Mimicry

variety.com Noted actor Pankaj Tripathi faced one of the toughest challenges of his career when he was asked to portray former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in biopic “Main…

Steven Spielberg Tapped for USC Medallion to Commemorate 30 Years of the Shoah Foundation

hollywoodreporter.com Steven Spielberg appears on stage during the Opening Ceremony of the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 15, 2013 in Cannes, France. Steven…

Molly Manning Walker & Charlotte Regan Discuss Lessons Learned From Their Debut Features ‘How To Have Sex’ & ‘Scrapper’

deadline.com Writer-director-cinematographer Molly Manning Walker and writer-director Charlotte Regan revealed some of the big lessons they each learned from their respective debut…

Georgian Drama ‘Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry’ Tops Swiss Film Awards

deadline.com Georgian director Elene Naveriani’s late-coming-of-age, female empowerment drama Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry topped the prizes at the Swiss Film Awards in Zurich over the…

Deadline Sets Key Editorial Promotions

deadline.com Long considered the destination where Hollywood gets its breaking news, Deadline has announced several key promotions across our editorial department. Deadline continues to…

The 29 best movies on Netflix right now

polygon.com Your time is precious, and your options are endless. The good news: We watch it all so you don’t have to. Polygon’s What to Watch highlights the best, the funniest, the…

Christina Wayne Out As Managing Director Of MBC Studios

deadline.com After only one year in the role, Christina Wayne is out as Managing Director of MENA network MBC Studios, we can reveal. We hear Wayne and MBC are negotiating the exit and…

See What MediaLink Is Charging Sponsors for Its Spaces in Cannes

adweek.com Want to take over a 10' x 10' meeting space from MediaLink at the splashy Cannes Lions advertising festival this June? Be prepared to pay about $850,000, according to a…

‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ to World Premiere at Cannes Film Festival

thewrap.com Oh what a day, what a lovely day! After much speculation, it has officially been confirmed that George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” will have its world premiere at the…

Eva Longoria and Cris Abrego’s Hyphenate Media Group Sets Leadership Team

variety.com Hyphenate Media Group, the production venture and holding company launched in October by Eva Longoria and Cris Abrego with backing from Banijay, has set its leadership team…

‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Officially Sets Cannes Film Festival World Premiere

variety.com After much speculation, the Cannes Film Festival has officially revealed that “Furiosa” will world premiere on the Croisette in 2024. The prequel will screen out of…

‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Confirmed For Cannes Film Festival

deadline.com George Miller’s anticipated sequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has been confirmed for the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The Cannes premiere for the fifth instalment in the Mad Max…

‘Furiosa’ Heading to Cannes

hollywoodreporter.com Mad Max is roaring back to the Croisette. Nine years after George Miller‘s Mad Max: Fury Road tore up Cannes as the diesel-fueled opener in 2015, the director’s follow-up:…

Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar Speech Is Latest In Long Line Of Academy Award Political Controversies

deadline.com With the industry names signing on to a letter growing to reportedly a near 1,000 (and counting) condemning The Zone ff Interest director Jonathan Glazer‘s very…

Walter Hill to Receive 2024 WGAW Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement

variety.com Screenwriter, director and producer Walter Hill will receive the 2024 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America West. Per the guild, the…

Walter Hill to Receive WGA Lifetime Achievement Award

thewrap.com Walter Hill, whose career spans nearly five decades, will receive the Writers Guild of America West’s 2024 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. The WGA made the…

Cult Japanese Director Takeshi Kitano Lends Art For Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Poster

deadline.com Japanese director Takeshi Kitano has provided the artwork for the poster of the 2024 edition of Cannes parallel section Directors’ Fortnight, running alongside the main…

British Airways Tells a Sweet Coming-of-Age Story That Starts With a First Flight

adweek.com British Airways and London-based agency Uncommon Creative Studio are following their Cannes-winning "A British Original" campaign with an emotional film about the power of…

Cher to Perform at amfAR’s Cannes Gala (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com Cher will perform at amfAR’s annual Cannes Film Festival gala on May 23, Variety can exclusively report. “I have such wonderful memories of being invited to host one of the…

Cannes 2024: What’s In The Mix? (Part 2)

deadline.com Roll up, roll up for part two of our Cannes preview, this time with a focus on international, mainly non-English language fare. If you didn’t catch Andreas’ English-language…

Cannes Genre Hub Fantastic Pavilion Returns for 2nd Edition (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com Fantastic Pavilion, the genre hub launched last year in Cannes, saunters back to the Croisette for its second edition, returning with a host of activities that include the…

László Nemes, ‘Son Of Saul’ Director, On Oscar Winner Jonathan Glazer: “He Should Have Stayed Silent”

deadline.com László Nemes, the director of acclaimed Holocaust film Son of Saul, has spoken out against the speech made by the The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer, when he…

Grant Page Dies: Aussie Stuntman In ‘Mad Max’ Films & 100-Plus Others Was 85

deadline.com Grant Page, the Australian stunt icon who performed in and coordinating stunts for the original Mad Max, sequel Beyond Thunderdome, the upcoming prequel Furiosa: A Mad Max…

The Animal Kingdom director unpacks the year’s most fascinating sci-fi movie

polygon.com In the new French sci-fi film The Animal Kingdom, the world is changing and humans are changing with it. A mutation begins transforming humans into animal hybrids, creating…

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