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Just a few days after market kick-off in Berlin, sales and agregator outfit LevelK has closed a raft of deals on its two female-helmed pics “Sudden Outburts of Emotions” and ”Dancing Queen In Hollywood.” The Finnish sex-positive dramedy “Sudden Outbursts of Emotions” was sold to Cinemaran for Spain and Andorra, Estin Film for Estonia, and […]

Belgium’s Freaks Factory and the Netherlands’ Ka-Ching Cartoons have boarded “The Growcodile” as co-production partners as the CG family animated film swims toward delivery at the tail end of next year. Sales agency Film Constellation has released a new exclusive still, and is unveiling a first teaser to buyers during the European Film Market. The […]

Erotic queer thriller “Night Stage,” which premiered on Friday in Berlinale’s Panorama section, has been sold to North America, the U.K. and Ireland. M-Appeal is handling international sales for the Brazilian film. “Night Stage,” which is directed by past Berlinale Teddy Award winners Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon, follows an ambitious actor and a successful […]

The camera operators behind ‘A Complete Unknown” and ‘Yellowstone” won Society of Camera Operators’ Awards for camera operator of the year in film and television, respectively, during the annual SOC Lifetime Achievement Awards. Saturday at the Loews Hollywood Hotel, the SOC honored P. Scott Sakamoto for his work on Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” (DP […]

Taking a significant step towards becoming a South American film-TV powerhouse, Brazil’s State of São Paulo is launching an Audiovisual Industry Development Plan. Among its initiatives are grants for movies that must be made in international co-production and a first São Paulo Audiovisual Hub event early this July, designed to become one of South America’s […]

Finnish director Zaida Bergroth (“Tove”) is set to direct a Marianne Faithfull biopic titled “Marianne” with “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” star Freya Allan playing the swinging London pop star who passed away in January. British actor and musician Jojo Macari (“Sex Education,” “Those About to Die”) is attached to star as Mick Jagger. […]

Making its international debut in Berlin, Shatara Michelle Ford’s sophomore feature “Dreams in Nightmares” follows queer Black femmes on an impromptu road trip across the American Midwest in search of a fourth friend who has seemingly disappeared. Laid off from her job as a creative writing teacher, Z (Denée Barton) spontaneously heads from Los Angeles […]

Vince Gilligan created one of the most iconic antiheroes of all time: “Breaking Bad” baddie Walter White, as played by Bryan Cranston. But Gilligan created the chemistry teacher-turned-meth-dealing-Heisenberg as a cautionary tale, not someone to aspire to. With so many bad actors now in power in real life, Gilligan says it’s perhaps time to shine […]

Two decades after their last collaboration, Marion Cotillard reunites with filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović for “The Ice Tower,” a fractured fable that lifts as much from the work of Hans Christian Andersen as from Hadžihalilović’s formative years. Premiering in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, the 1970s-set film follows a young orphan who falls into an […]

Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande have squashed any bad blood — for good. Ahead of “SNL50: The Anniversary Celebration,” Davidson told Page Six that he and Grande don’t see each other that often, but when they do, things are friendly. “When we see each other, which is few and far between, because we’re not in the […]