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- 7 Oct
- Deadline· 7 OctThe Coven Boards Australian Slasher ‘The Only One’ Starring Mel Jarnson & Saphira Moran
EXCLUSIVE: The Coven has picked up worldwide rights to Michael Schwarz’s slasher directorial debut The Only One ahead of its premiere at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival this month.
- The Hollywood Reporter· 7 Oct‘Prince’ Is a Stylized Cinematic Battle Royal With a Show Dog, His Owner, Her Butler and Their Family
Uruguayan writer-director Federico Borgia's solo feature debut, premiering at the London Film Fest, features a ruthless custody battle and explores family ties, avarice and class divides with black humor.
- Variety· 7 Oct‘Will You Still Be My Friend’ Director Lu Po-Shun on Finding Common Ground From San Sebastian to Busan
When Variety spoke with Taiwanese director Lu Po-Shun in March, he was seeking final financing for his debut feature, “Will You Still Be My Friend,” a coming-of-age drama weaving adolescent friendship with local politics and solar energy development.
- Deadline· 7 OctWalmart-Owned Vizio Sets Original Film Starring Rachel Bilson And Scott Foley, Adds Film & TV Titles In Big Expansion
EXCLUSIVE: Smart-TV maker Vizio, which was acquired by Walmart in 2024, is bringing to market an original holiday movie and more programming from premium suppliers and creators in a major content expansion.
- Variety· 7 OctChinese Landscape Painting Film Series Will Run to a Fourth Installment, Says ‘First Taste of Loneliness’ Director Gu You (EXCLUSIVE)
Chinese filmmaker Gu You’s films modeled on Chinese landscape painting will not stop at three. The director of “The First Taste of Loneliness,” which world premiering in competition at the Busan International Film Festival, tells Variety that a fourth installment is already in…
- Deadline· 7 OctAndrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ To Be Recorded Live & Released In Cinemas
Universal Pictures Content Group (UPCG), LW Entertainment and Cameron Mackintosh have partnered to produce a live recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom Of The Opera, which will be released in cinemas in 2027.
- Variety· 7 OctSingapore Film Festival Stands by ‘The Assassin(s)’ After Korean Conservatives Demand It Be Dropped
The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is keeping Hur Jin-ho’s “The Assassin(s)” as its opening film, a day after all 109 lawmakers of South Korea’s conservative People Power Party (PPP) asked the festival to pull it.
- The Hollywood Reporter· 7 Oct‘Concrete Land,’ a Debut Feature Doc, Tells the Story of a Palestinian Bedouin Family Displaced in Jordan
Palestinian-Jordanian director Asmahan Bkerat's film, screening at the London Film Festival, introduces us to a family who helped the young creative discover her love for documentary filmmaking.
- Variety· 7 OctBrazilian Cinema at Risk: A Report From Watching the Presidential Elections From the Rio Film Festival
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Inside one of the refrigerated rooms of the Armazém da Utopia, the beautiful portside warehouse where the Rio Film Festival’s RioMarket takes place, renowned director Marcelo Gomes lifts his hand and makes an “L” sign. The room bursts into applause.
- Variety· 7 OctRay Panthaki Debut, Jose Maria Cabral, Frederic Bailiff Pics Make the Cut at Tallinn Black Nights Official and First Films Competitions
Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival (known as PÖFF), the only A-list festival in Northern Europe, has unveiled its official selection and first feature competitions, taking in 21 world premieres and three international premieres such as “Sh*t Happens” by Sundance selected José…
Also atThe Hollywood Reporter - Variety· 7 OctMaggie Gyllenhaal Says Directors Who Squash Collaborators Are ‘Very Scared’ or ‘Just Not Very Smart’
Maggie Gyllenhaal told a Busan International Film Festival press conference on Wednesday that the best directors she worked with as an actress, who were usually also the most successful, understood the value of drawing on the minds of the people around them.
- Variety· 7 OctBusan Jury President Zhang Yimou Weighs In on ‘The Assassin(s)’ History Row as Juror July Jung Says Her ‘Heart Feels So Cold’
Zhang Yimou, president of the Busan International Film Festival’s competition jury, waded into the dispute over historical fact and creative freedom that has engulfed Korean cinema, telling a press conference on Wednesday that history itself is written by people.
- Deadline· 7 OctParamount Pictures Co-Chairs Josh Greenstein & Dana Goldberg Say In Day 1 Memo That Film Divisions Will Operate Independently
Paramount Pictures Co-Chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein sent out a Day 1 memo to the troops at the Paramount and Warner Bros. Motion Picture units. Among the priorities, we understand, is keeping legacies of both studios alive.
- Variety· 7 OctEddie Redmayne’s Kore-eda Hirokazu Film Is Still Being Scripted, Director Says at Busan
Eddie Redmayne’s upcoming collaboration with Kore-eda Hirokazu is still at the screenplay stage, the Japanese filmmaker said Wednesday at a Busan International Film Festival press conference for his manga adaptation “Look Back.” “Right now, I am writing the script,” Kore-eda…
- Deadline· 7 Oct‘Ash And Crayons’ Trailer: In Evgeny Afineevsky’s Film, Wounded Ukrainian Children Show Will To Survive And Thrive
EXCLUSIVE: World Children’s Day on November 20 will see the theatrical release of the Oscar-contending documentary Ash and Crayons, Evegeny Afineevsky’s examination of horrors inflicted on Ukrainian children in Russia’s war of aggression, and their indomitable will not only to…
- The Hollywood Reporter· 7 OctDavid Ellison Says Skydance Will Make Original Swings Like ‘Sinners’
The $80 billion in debt will not prevent the company from taking creative risks, said the Skydance co-CEO.
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- Variety· 6 OctCo-Founder Nate Bolotin to Exit XYZ Films After Almost Two Decades With Studio (EXCLUSIVE)
Co-founder Nate Bolotin is leaving XYZ Films after almost two decades with the studio, Variety can reveal exclusively. Bolotin started the label in 2008 with partners Nick Spicer and Aram Tertzakian.
- The Hollywood Reporter· 6 OctFamily Frights: 40 Kid-Friendly Scary Films for Halloween
From 'Don't Look Under the Bed' to 'Hocus Pocus' to 'Beetlejuice,' The Hollywood Reporter rounds up some family-friendly (yet still spooky) Halloween movies.
- Deadline· 6 OctSkeet Ulrich On Not Completing ‘Scream’ “Three-Film Arc”: “Without Melissa Barrera & Sam Loomis, There’s No Billy Loomis”
Skeet Ulrich was supposed to have a three-film arc in the Scream franchise, but that all changed when Melissa Barrera was fired over her pro-Palestine views.
- Deadline· 6 OctBen Shapiro Decries Suspension Of Production On Daily Wire Movie ‘Pawn Shop’ As Shoot Resumes: “Politics, Pure And Simple”
Ben Shapiro has officially responded to the recent shutdown of production on his immigration-themed Daily Wire movie Pawn Shop, which is now back in production in Livingston, Montana.
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