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Tom Morello discussed the inherently political nature of his directorial debut “The Ballad of Judas Priest” at its Berlin Film Festival press conference, saying that the band is a model for “how we all can do better.” When asked to weigh in on the conversation surrounding politics at this year’s Berlinale, Morello said: “What a […]

“Wuthering Heights,” a steamy romantic drama starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, is heating up the box office over Valentine’s Day weekend. The R-rated film has debuted to $33 million from 3,682 North American theaters and is projected to earn $40 million through President’s Day on Monday. Rivals believe the four-day figure will be closer […]

Johnny Knoxville and Jason Flemying are starring in two new thrillers from Vienna-based Pont Pictures that are slated to film in Serbia this year. Knoxville is toplining the psychological thriller “Night Sessions,” based a script by American writer Christopher Beachum that Pont Pictures’ Philipp Mair Vargas came across on The Black List database of unproduced […]

Austria continues to entice international film, TV and streaming productions with targeted funding, diverse locations and impressive infrastructure, despite the slashing of a key incentive that has rattled the local industry. The country’s film funding programs, while reduced, still offer a wide range of support, particularly for international productions, and it boasts a slew of […]

Berlin’s EFM Animation Days industry showcase presented a selection of eight German animation projects on Friday in a lively pitching session that offered a wide range of family-friendly and darker, adult-themed fare. Projects included modern twists on such classics as Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island” and “Der Struwwelpeter,” by German psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann, as well […]

Spain’s muscular presence at this year’s Berlinale and European Film Market was bolstered on Saturday with an inaugural presentation and networking event organized by the Madrid Audiovisual Cluster in collaboration with the Madrid Film Office and Film Madrid Region.   The Madrid delegation has a packed schedule of activities in Berlin under the “Madrid Make […]

Emma Laird recalls a moment — not all that long ago — when she was stood on the rooftop of her apartment in Los Angeles, looking out across a picture-postcard sunset skyline and smoking a cigarette. “It was so cinematic,” she says. “And I was crying my eyes out.” The Brit had been on the […]

The Berlin Film Festival has issued a lengthy statement from head Tricia Tuttle over what it describes as a “media storm” that has swept over the festival. The note — sent out late on Saturday night — comes following criticism faced by multiple attendees over the comments about politics, most notably the jury in the opening day press […]

Agnis Shen Zhongmin’s debut feature, “Shanghai Daughter,” approaches China’s Down to the Countryside Movement through an unconventional lens, treating the southwestern rubber plantations where her late father was sent during the Cultural Revolution as what she calls “a geological theater that already contained all the information of the scripts.” The film, which is in the […]

Sales outfit Reinvent Yellow has closed deals in several territories for adventure-family film “Rocky the Troll,” which it is selling at the European Film Market in Berlin. It is produced by the team behind “Troll” (2022), the most watched non-English-language film on Netflix. “Rocky the Troll” has been acquired for Czech Republic and Slovakia by […]