Category: Festivals
In ‘The Track’ Young Lugers Pursue Olympic Dreams On A Course Pocked With Scars Of War – True/False Film Fest
On Mount Trebević above Sarajevo, a cement monolith snakes through wooded terrain – an elevated channel emblazoned with colorful graffiti. Locals a [...]
Radu Jude’s Berlin prize winner title ‘Kontinental ‘25’ acquired for North America
Radu Jude’s gloomy comedy Kontinental ’25 has been acquired by Jason Hellerstein’s 1-2 Special for North American distribution.
The Romanian-set [...]
‘Carry-On’ most viewed film on Netflix in second half of 2024; ‘Emilia Pérez’ way down the list
Taron Egerton airport thriller Carry-On was the most-viewed film in the second half of 2024 on Netflix on 137m views, while Oscar contender Emil [...]
Max subs climb to 117m global as media giant eyes 150m by end of 2026
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) Q4 revenues missed Wall Street consensus estimates and fell 1% year-on-year to settle on a shade over $10bn. However [...]
Smart7 travelling festival competition includes world premiere of Romanian drama ‘Internal Zero’
Eugen Jebeleanu’s Internal Zero will have its world premiere at the third edition of Smart7, the travelling competition across seven European fi [...]
UK standards authority CIISA outlines its first behavioural framework
The UK’s Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA) has detailed the minimum expectations of behaviour across the innovative in [...]
Award-Winning ‘Seeds’ To Sprout At True/False Film Fest, Plus Dozens More Innovative Docs: “We’re Really Invested In Supporting Creative Nonfiction”
Fresh from winning the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at Sundance, Seeds will germinate at True/False, the acclaimed documentary festival in [...]
Magnolia Pictures acquires Number 9 Films’ TIFF sci-fi drama ‘The Assessment’
Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to TIFF 2024 selection The Assessment starring Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen, and Himesh Patel and h [...]
UK parliamentary committees call for respect for copyright law in AI debate
“Both sides of this debate benefit from copyright law,” said a joint response to the UK government’s AI consultation from the UK parliament’s cr [...]
Leading film industry figures hit back at UK government AI proposals
Key figures from the UK original sector have urged the government to rethink plans that would automatically include UK original assets in generat [...]