Emanuel Parvu’s ’Three Kilometres To The End Of The World’ and Paul Schrader’s ‘Oh Canada’ also arrive.
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Paul Schrader Says He Wrote ‘Peace and Love’ on Jacob Elordi’s Jockstrap Himself for ‘Oh, Canada’: ‘I Took That Burden Off the Wardrobe People’s Hands’
Paul Schrader played a special role in his latest film, “Oh, Canada”: drawing on the jock strap that Jacob Elordi wears in one of the drama’s scenes. There’s a choice at the heart of “Oh, Canada,” when the fictional filmmaker Leonard Fife (played as a young man by Elordi, and older man as Richard Gere) […]
Exploring Gender Issues, Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change, Teen Suicide, Chilean Docs at Cannes Doc Plumb Universal Themes
With Maite Alberdi, twice Oscar nominated for her last two docus, “The Eternal Memory” and “The Mole Agent,” and Tana Gilbert whose feature debut “Malqueridas” won the Grand Prize at Venice’s Critics’ Week, Chilean documentaries are having a banner year. Five documentaries participate in the May 20 Chilean Docs-in-Progress Showcase at the Marché du Film’s […]
Swiss Fest Solothurn to Make Big Splash at Goes to Cannes with Curated Slate including Latest Nicolas Steiner Jacqueline Zünd
Unspooling May 18 as part of an overall Swiss Focus at the Marché du Film, Solothurn Film Festival Goes to Cannes marks the first collaboration between the long-standing Swiss festival and the Cannes market, but also a first for many of the talents and producers carefully picked for the event. Two of Switzerland’s top documentary filmmakers […]
‘Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Makers Unveil ‘Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare’ First Look (EXCLUSIVE)
In this first look from “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare” — from the makers of slasher horror hit “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey” — Martin Portlock plays an evil, murderous and disfigured version of the children’s character. The Jagged Edge Productions film — being sold by ITN Studios in Cannes — follows Wendy Darling as she strikes out in an attempt to rescue […]
Match Factory, CAA team for Jayro Bustamante’s dystopian thriller ‘El Sombreron’
Adria Arjona and Edgar Ramirez to star.
SonyLIV’s ‘Scam 2010: The Subrata Roy Saga’: India’s Sahara Group ‘Condemns’ Series, Seeks Legal Action – Global Bulletin
SCAM SEASON THREEPEAT UPDATE: Sahara India Pariwar, the company founded by the late Subrata Roy, has hit back after SonyLIV and Applause Entertainment announced a series on him. “An abusive and grossly condemnable act has been demonstrated by the makers of ‘Scam’ to achieve cheap and wide publicity, by announcing to unveil, “Scam 2010: The […]
Brazilian Producer Maria Farinha Films Takes Minority Stake in ‘The White Helmets’ Production Company Violet Films (EXCLUSIVE)
Brazilian social impact entertainment company Maria Farinha Films has taken a minority stake in Joanna Natasegara’s London-based production company Violet Films, which is known for high-profile docs such as “White Helmets,” “Virunga,” “The Edge of Democracy” and Prince Harry’s Netflix series “Invictus.” Leonardo DiCaprio and Barry Jenkins are involved as producer and writer, respectively, in […]
Ruben Östlund Regular Partner Film i Väst Hikes Co-Pros with Noomi Rapace Starrer ‘Mother,’ Flags Five Films in Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)
Billed the ‘Trollywood’ of the North for its close ties to talent, the leading Scandinavian regional film fund Film i Väst in Sweden’s Trollhättan has boarded the Noomi Rapace starrer “Mother, to be helmed by Macedonia’s Teona Stugar Mitevska. The biopic, in which Rapace will play the legendary religious figure Mother Teresa, will mark the […]
Movistar Plus+ Partners on Alauda Ruíz de Azua’s ‘Los Domingos’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Movistar Plus+, Spain’s most-viewed pay TV operator, is partnering on “Los domingos,” a new film from “Lullaby” director Alauda Ruíz de Azua and the producers of that critically acclaimed film. “Los Domingos” is set in and will shoot in Ruíz de Azúa’s native Basque country, said Nahikari Ipiña at Sayaka Producciones (“Colossal”). Now in development, […]