The barrage of online skepticism and discussion about SNL UK was a useful tool that the show’s producers used to shape and develop their version of the long-running series, Helen Kruger Bratt, Managing Director of Universal Television Alternative Studio, said this morning at Deadline’s Reality TV Summit in London.  Bratt, who oversees production on the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first official look at Once Upon A Time In Harlem, the decades-in-the-making documentary conceived and shot by William Greaves and directed by his son, David Greaves.  Neon will release Once Upon A Time In Harlem in theaters on October 16. The film’s theatrical release follows a series of buzzy debut screenings at […]

Christopher Nolan’s first feature, Following, screened in TIFF’s discovery competition following its debut at Rotterdam in 1998. This summer, Following will return to the TIFF Lightbox as part of a large-scale retrospective of Nolan’s work ahead of The Odyssey. Titled ‘Christopher Nolan: Grand Designs’, the retrospective will run at TIFF Lightbox from July 8 to […]

Kanya King, the founder of the UK’s popular Music of Black Origin awards show, colloquially known as the MOBOs, has died. She was 57.  King’s death was announced this morning by the MOBO Organisation with a post on Instagram. The statement said King died on June 3rd after a “courageous and characteristically determined battle with […]

EXCLUSIVE: Reclaim The Frame has partnered with Sony Pictures Television to launch Back in the Frame, a new six-month talent development programme for women film directors and producers returning to work after a career break. Applications for the programme are now open. It is free to apply for and participate in. The programme is open […]

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at In The Hand Of Dante, the latest feature film from Julian Schnabel, which debuted at last year’s Venice Film Festival.  The film features an international cast of A-listers, including Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Louis Cancelmi, Sabrina Impacciatore, Franco Nero, Benjamin Clementine, Paolo Bonacelli, Martin Scorsese, […]

EXCLUSIVE: AI firm Utopai Studios will co-produce and invest in Half Moon, a feature film from South Korean filmmaker Hyo-joo Yang.  Half Moon will be Yang’s debut feature. She is best known for the short Broken Night, which won the Silver Bear at Berlin in 2010.  Half Moon will be co-produced by Germany’s In Good […]

“For me, the reason to make a film about the past is to say something about the present,” filmmaker Lukas Dhont said this morning during the press conference for his Cannes Competition title Coward.  Directed by Dhont from a screenplay he wrote with Angelo Tijssens, Coward is set at the height of the First World […]

Paramount has dropped the first trailer for Heart of the Beast, its new survival thriller film directed by David Ayer, starring Brad Pitt, J.K. Simmons and Anna Lambe. Heart of the Beast centers on a former Army Special Forces soldier (Pitt) and his retired combat dog who battle for survival after a plane crash deep […]

EXCLUSIVE: Audible is set to launch SPLBERG, an investigative podcast series about Jonathan Taylor Spielberg, a man who convinced an entire Catholic high school in suburban Virginia that he was the nephew of the legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg.  The series is hosted and executive produced by journalist Charlie Webster (Scamanda) and will launch on Audible […]

“You speak about the film as if I made a film about the past, and I don’t feel that way,” filmmaker Ira Sachs says of his latest feature, The Man I Love, which debuted this week in Competition at Cannes.  “Partly because of the tone of the film, which was made very much in the […]

Léa Mysius’ latest feature The Birthday Party (Histoires de la Nuit) earned a 12-minute ovation Friday evening at the Cannes Film Festival following its debut screening in the Grand Théâtre Lumière. It marked the last world-premiere screening in this year’s 22-strong competition lineup. The audience broke into cheers twice during the screening of the home-invasion […]