Tag: FilmFestivals
Meet David Thewlis’ Sky Captain Peylak
No experience on Pandora looks as joyous as taking to those colourful skies. No wonder Avatar and The Way Of Water often found Jake Sully and his Na [...]
Magnify boards global sales excluding France on crime thriller ‘Zion’ (exclusive)
Heading into the EFM next week, Magnify has acquired the global sales rights excluding France to Nelson Foix’s Guadeloupe-set crime thriller Zio [...]
Prince’s Estate Successfully Blocks Netflix Documentary From Oscar-Winner Ezra Edelman
A nine-hour Netflix documentary about the life and music of Prince directed by Oscar-winner Ezra Edelman has been successfully blocked by Prince’s es [...]
‘No Other Land’ scores defiant US box office bow | News
No Other Land, the Palestinian-Israeli Oscar-nominated documentary deemed untouchable by US buyers, scored a mighty platform debut at the US box [...]
Ke Huy Quan, John Magaro, Chris Sanders, And The Shrek Is Broken
This week's bumper-sized edition of the Empire Podcast brings with it a hat-trick of top notch guests for your listening pleasure as Chris Hewitt si [...]
How Sarah Michelle Gellar Was Convinced to Return for a ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Revival
The chosen one has spoken. Three days after Variety reported that a Buffy the Vampire Slayer sequel series was in the works at Hulu, Sarah Michelle G [...]
Igor Bezinović’s ‘Fiume O Morte!’ wins Rotterdam 2025 Tiger award | News
Igor Bezinović’s Croatian docu-drama Fiume O Morte! has won the Tiger award of the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
IFFR’s Tig [...]
Rotterdam Winners: Gabriele D’Annunzio Picture ‘Fiume O Morte!’ & ‘Raptures’ Win Top Prizes
Croatian director Igor Bezinović’s documentary Fiume o Morte! exploring the elaborate figure of Italian poet and playwright Gabriele D’Annunzio has [...]
Fire And Ash Will Bring A ‘Battle For The Ages’
As Chief Brody famously said upon seeing the shark up-close in Jaws: “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” And that, too, seems to be exactly how the R [...]
Locarno Open Doors, Vision du Reel set to lose major Swiss funding from 2029 | News
The future of Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors programme beyond 2028 has been thrown into doubt following a decision by the Swiss Agency for De [...]