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Nine years after winning the Silver Bear for “Félicité,” French director Alain Gomis is returning to the Berlin International Film Festival with “DAO,” his most personal work yet — a three-hour family saga set between France and West Africa. The helmer, who has Bissau-Guinean and Senegalese origins, wrote and directed the film which stars a […]

India’s Sippy Films is rolling out its legacy IPs including “Sholay” and “Shaan” across animation, microdramas, gaming and merchandising in a multi-format strategy backed by investor Kuberans Tech Ventures, custodian Shehzad Sippy and Kuberans director Jeet Wagh tell Variety. The approach draws from Western character IP models and Japanese anime’s cross-platform playbook, targeting younger audiences […]

The breakout success of LGBTQ+ dating series “The Boyfriend” has turbocharged Netflix’s Japanese unscripted slate, with Ota Dai, who oversees the streamer’s Japan unscripted division, crediting a deliberate rejection of conventional reality television formulas for its unexpected international resonance. The expanded slate now includes renewed series “Badly In Love,” which hit No. 8 on Netflix’s […]

Úrsula Corberó, the breakout star of Netflix’s “Money Heist,” is set to topline Spanish horror maestro Jaume Balagueró’s next feature, “There’s Someone in the Garden” (“Hay alguien en el jardín”), produced by Kowalski Films, one of the Spanish companies pitching at the Spanish Producers Showcase at Berlin’s European Film Market on Saturday. A second key […]

A house in Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona neighborhood is being investigated in connection to her disappearance, police said late Friday night. Nancy, the mother of “Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for nearly two weeks. “Law enforcement activity is underway at a residence near E Orange Grove Rd & N First Ave related to the […]

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used by Indian screenwriters in their work even as long-standing concerns around pay, credit and professional recognition continue to dominate sentiment, according to “The Right Draft: 2026,” a new industry research report released by talent agency Tulsea and media insights firm Ormax Media. Based on a nationwide survey of 254 […]

In a bold move to take Spain’s biggest comedy franchise to the world, Film Factory has secured international sales rights to “Torrente for President,” created, directed and starring Santiago Segura as the perpetually drunk, self-centered sexist and racist scumbag ex-cop Torrente. Hitting Spain in 1998 with “Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law,” hailed by […]

Rome-based TVCO has seized worldwide distribution rights — excluding Latin America — to “Hidden Island,” a high-concept sci-fi series from Chile’s Rio Estudios. “TVCO’s long track record in the European market gives us great confidence in successfully positioning the series across diverse markets,” said showrunner Pablo Diáz del Rio.  Rio Estudios will handle Latin American […]

Greed is good? Not in Anke Blondé’s “Dust.” Premiering in Berlinale’s main competition, it sees two 1990s Belgian entrepreneurs, Luc and Geert (Jan Hammenecker and Arieh Worthalter), who suddenly lose everything when their many lies are about to be exposed. Panicked, they try to cover some of their tracks before the police arrive. “If you […]

Sales and finance outfit Global Constellation has secured a first wave of pre-sales on its upcoming World War II drama “Crux” as it debuts first footage at the European Film Market. Helmed by Ulrike Toni Vahl in her feature debut and produced by Martina Haubrich (“Michael Kohlhaas”) and Berlin competition jury member Ewa Puszczyńska (“The […]