Nothing says “I love you” like a bullet to the heart in Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra (The Black Ball), an unashamedly romantic decades-spanning drama that emerged in the last days of a very austere Cannes Film Festival as a possible dark horse Palme d’Or winner. It’s long even by Cannes standards, […]

In Memoriam, which just had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival this week, has a very funny premise. An egotistical, rather neurotic actor finds out he is dying and has only one goal left in life: to make sure he is included on the Oscars’ “In Memoriam” reel. Considering the pain that reel creates […]

When Masashi Kawamura first launched his now viral stop-motion short Hidari in 2023, the Japanese filmmaker admits he could never have anticipated he’d be working with Keanu Reeves for a full-length feature version of the film.  “There was a lot of luck getting Keanu,” admits Kawamura, whose background is largely in music videos and commercials. “After we […]

Exiled Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev has expressed his pleasure at being back at the Cannes Film Festival with Palme d’Or contender Minotaur after a near decade absence . “It’s one of the greatest things that’s happened to me over these last nine years. Coming back after such a lengthy absence to the Cannes Film Festival […]

Piers Morgan, Michelle Obama, Claire Foy and key figures from the House of the Dragon are among the latest big-name entertainment biz players set for SXSW London. Morgan will appear alongside opera singer Katherine Jenkins and be quizzed by Deadline’s Jake Kanter in a panel on fame, media, culture and public opinion, while former First […]

“Kinks are eroticized fears,” says author Dan Savage in the fascinating documentary Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders, which takes a brutal murder as its starting point and goes on to paint a portrait of pre-AIDS New York, with the filming of William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) as its backdrop. Not all Friedkin’s films hit the zeitgeist in […]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Rio Mayor Eduardo Cavaliere announced a 225 million real ($45 million) investment package through 2028 that includes public policies, grant programs and initiatives aimed at strengthening the local cultural sector and film and TV industries. Cavaliere made the announcement during Rio2C, the largest creativity gathering in Latin America, in the […]

In the run-up to Brazilian mega creativity forum Rio2C, Netflix Brazil has unveiled five new titles which show it still exploring new genres and launching new industry partnerships. At stake for Netflix is its continuing SVOD dominion over one of its biggest subscriber markets in the world. Its lineup and panels at this week’s Rio2C […]

Jordani’s film industry will be front and center at this year’s Shanghai Film Festival, where it is seeking closer collaboration with China and other global partners while celebrating the first ever screening of two Jordanian films at the event. With Asia now leading the global box office and Hollywood losing ground to local films from […]

Ira Sachs’ drama The Man I Love starring Rami Malek had its world premiere Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received a heartfelt 10-minute ovation following its screening at the Grand Théâtre Lumière. The film is the second American movie to screen in the festival’s competition section, following James Gray’s Paper Tiger over […]

Saturday Night Live’s James Austin Johnson gave the Tribeca Festival a taste, and analysis, of his celebrated stream-of consciousness Donald Trump impression. He often wings it. “It wouldn’t feel like Trump if there wasn’t this queasy feeling in the audience of ‘what is he going to say?’ and so I have to improvise for the […]

Austrian filmmaker Sandra Wollner’s third feature Everytime has scooped the top Jury Prize in Cannes Un Certain Regard. The drama revolves around a family coming to terms with loss when the eldest daughter’s night of partying with her boyfriend takes a deadly turn on the eve of a family holiday. A year later, the girl’s […]