Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’, ‘Bob Trevino Likes It’ among SXSW audience award winners
Austin festival ran March 8-16.
Production begins in Japan on Brendan Fraser comedic drama ‘Rental Family’, Searchlight adds cast
Beef and Tokyo Vice director Hikari helms comedic drama.
Raoul Peck in production on Haiti doc ‘The Hands That Held The Knives’
AC Independent, Double Agent, Range Media Partners represent worldwide sales rights.
Egypt’s Al-Ahram studio destroyed by fire
The facility recently housed producion of Ramadan TV series El-Moallem starring Mustafa Shaban.
‘The King’s Speech’ writer David Seidler dies aged 86
Seidler had a stammer, as had King George VI, the subject of his Bafta and Oscar-winning 2010 feature.
AGC promotes Lourdes Diaz to partner with new employment deal
Diaz became chief creative officer at the film and TV indpendent in 2022.
Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ among first 2024 recipients of CNC funding
Dominique Cabrera, Patric Chiha and Hubert Charuel projects have also received support from the French organisation.
‘Dune 2’ rides to £26m at UK-Ire box office; ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ opens outside top five
Oscar winners ‘The Zone Of Interest’, ’Oppenheimer’ and ‘The Holdovers’ see takings surge.
“You’re always on time. You’re always polite”: Why Ema Ryan Yamazaki directed ‘The Making Of A Japanese’
The Japanese doc director turned her camera on a Japanese elementary school,
Together Films picks up CPH:DOX title ‘Mediha’, exec produced by Emma Thompson (exclusive)
The film plays in CPH:DOX’s new Human Rights award section.
Working Title, Jo Nesbø and Dome Karukoski feature on Netflix Nordic slate
Titles include a film adaptation of ‘Little Siberia’ and a Netflix series based on Jo Nesbø’s character Harry Hole.
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Filipino doc director Ramona S Diaz on why she will release ‘And So It Begins’ herself at home
Diaz has tangled with the ruling Marcos family before, with the former first lady trying to prevent the release of ‘Imedia’ in 2003.
Family portraits ‘My Stolen Planet’, ’Forest’ win main awards at Thessaloniki doc festival
The festival took place against the backdrop of homophobic protests against same-sex marriage, recently legalised in Greece.
‘Dune: Part Two’ closes in on $500m at global box office; ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ receives Mexico boost
‘Dune: Part Two’ breezes past the first film’s total, while ‘One Life’ breaks into the top 10.
Studiocanal fires up genre partnership with French outfit WTFilms
The development, production and distribution partnership comes off the back of a collaboration on Fantasia title ‘Farang’ (‘Mayhem!’).
Dag Johan Haugerud’s ‘Sex’ seduces European buyers (exclusive)
The Norwegian relationship drama debuted in Berlin’s Panorama.
‘Brother’ takes NAACP Image Award best international film prize
The group’s best film, actor and actress awards are set to be presented on Saturday.