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Covered by Variety, The Guardian – Culture. SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for “Resident Evil,” now playing in theaters. “Resident Evil” is one of the longest-running horror video game series, and for a time it was the highest-grossing film…
Sammi Cohen has hundreds of thousands of followers who tune in to her podcast focused on the intersection of business, tech and culture — and she thinks they’re hungry for a live dose of her brand of news and analysis.…
No, Channing Tatum is not running an Instagram burner account to troll his ex Zoë Kravitz — but he does find the idea pretty funny. “Yo I truly can’t believe y’all think this is what I’m doing with my free time,” Tatum…
Vincent Maraval, the veteran CEO of major French sales-production company Goodfellas, spoke about the effects of AI in the industry while taking part in San Sebastián’s fifth edition of ots Creative Investors’…
There was some much overdue optimism on the first day of the Creative Investors’ Conference, co-organized by CAA Media Finance, in San Sebastian on Tuesday, as execs from an established U.S indie distributor and new…
In a move mirroring European indie producers’ look out for strong partners in an unstable market, Helsinki-filmi (“Tom of Finland,“ “The Summer Book,” “Codename: Annika”), one of the biggest content creators in Finland,…
Abu Bakr Shawky’s drama “The Stories” — which is inspired by how the director’s Egyptian father and Austrian mother began their love affair as pen pals — has been selected as Egypt’s entry for the Academy Award for best…
Francesca Moody Productions has unveiled further casting for Tim Crouch’s “An Oak Tree,” adding Juliet Stevenson, Olivia Williams, Sean Gilder, Brian Gleeson, Sophie Melville, Rhashan Stone and Ria Zmitrowicz to the…
Susan Sarandon will be honored by the Rome Film Festival’s independently run Alice in the City sidebar, which is dedicated to films for children and youth. Sarandon will be attending the Eternal City fest to promote the…
Media and entertainment group Banijay Entertainment has unveiled a new dating reality format “Date Knight,” which will join its portfolio of new IP heading to TV market Mipcom. The show is produced by Nordisk Film TV,…
Indian actor Parvathy Thiruvothu has spent two decades fighting the system from outside it – both on screen and off. In “Pradhama Drishtiya Kuttakkar” (“Prima Facie Guilty”), the Shahad Nilambur-directed thriller now…
Atmovie Inc. will stage Japan Pitch at the 31st Busan International Film Festival, giving four filmmakers from its Atmovie Global Track accelerator a platform to pitch original feature projects to international buyers…
The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has confirmed Indian director Rima Das, Chinese producer Shan Zuolong and Korean actor Shim Eun-kyung as the three jurors for its New Currents Award, a prize that has…
The Basque Country has become an increasingly attractive place to make films and television. In Bizkaia alone, audiovisual employment rose 50.5% between 2014 and 2024, while the number of companies linked to the sector…
For a new generation of Basque filmmakers coming into focus at San Sebastián, stories often begin with something unresolved: an argument a child cannot remember, the working lives buried in an industrial landscape, a…
Buffalo 8 Distribution has acquired home entertainment rights to “Ghost Elephants,” the documentary written, directed and narrated by Werner Herzog. The deal, negotiated at the Toronto Film Festival market, pairs…
Under the banner, ‘Something is Cooking in Madrid,’ Madrid Film Office head Raúl Torquemada led its presentation at the San Sebastian Festival where he stressed that the capital is stepping up efforts to position itself…
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain – “Violence has no justification, but it does have an explanation.” That was Antonio de la Torre’s approach to playing 19th-century murderer Juan Díaz de Garayo in David Pérez Sañudo’s “The…
The six-part 3Cat series “Gènesi,” which premiered two episodes at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sept. 21, aims to look back at the genesis of the iconic Catalan restaurant El Bulli, which was crowned the world’s…
Basque cinema is making its presence felt across San Sebastián this year. The festival’s 74th edition, running Sept. 18-26, features 31 titles with Basque production involvement, with 19 world premieres competing for…