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Keira Knightley is back in the first trailer for Netflix’s “Black Doves” Season 2. All six hour-long episode will release on November 5. The logline for Season 2 teases: “Helen (Knightley) is still betraying her nation’s secrets to the covert organization she serves: the Black Doves. But after the misadventures of last Christmas, and with […]
Charlie Brooker’s new Netflix series has revealed its title — “Blackmere” — not to be confused with the writer and producer’s other show for the streamer, “Black Mirror.” Netflix announced the show’s title, some first-look images and the news that Rory Kinnear (“The Diplomat,” “Black Mirror”) has joined the cast at its U.K. upfronts in […]
The actor, who became one of the most loved characters in the Netflix series, made his Broadway debut at only 9 years. From September 26, it will first be added to the West End tables of London with the musical 'Rent'
About to finish its 74 edition, Spain's great film festival continues to add great stars to its visitors and awards. In this photogalery we go over some of them
The documentary, awarded at the Venice festival, has aroused accusations of treason against its creators in Israel. In an initiative along with the newspaper 'The Guardian', the film's co-producer, will hang on the Network without a time limit
Mexico’s Sula Films has boarded Tatiana Huezo’s anticipated fiction feature, “Galerna,” which has also won the coveted Egeda Platino Industria Award at the San Sebastian Festival where it participated in the festival’s WIP Latin America competition showcase. The award comes with a bounty of $34,466 (€30,000), which is handed to the lead producer of the […]
Terence Winter and Dan Farah are partnering for a series take on the memoir of former U.S. Intelligence official Jay Stratton titled “Out of the Shadows,” Variety has learned. In the memoir, which will be published by HarperCollins imprint William Morrow on Oct. 13, Stratton delves deep into his experiences investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) […]
“American Horror Story” is back. Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s long-running FX horror anthology returns Thursday, Sept. 24, with a three-episode premiere and one of the franchise’s biggest reunions yet. Season 13 brings back Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman, while also […]
The mere mention of “The Swan” is enough to send chills down one’s spine. Created by former Telemundo exec Nely Galán, the Fox reality series selected 16 female contestants — from over 250,000 applicants — who were so-called “ugly ducklings” and subjected them to a 90-day ordeal of extreme plastic surgery, dentistry, training and crash […]
Very few production companies can boast about landing major international festival premieres for every project in their slate. Brazil’s Desvia Filmes is one of them, with all of its 16 features launching at festivals such as Berlin, Cannes, and Locarno. Founded in 2010 by “The Blue Trail” director Gabriel Mascaro and British producer Rachel Daisy […]
Paramount Skydance said Thursday it is launching a syndication to raise $7.5 billion through a proposed senior secured incremental tranche of term “B” loans. The David Ellison-led company it will use the funds toward its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger and to pay down certain other debt. In total, Paramount said it now intends […]
Marlene Emilie Lyngstad has ruffled some feathers at San Sebastián with her feature debut “Cute.” “I find it interesting and exciting that the film creates such strong reactions,” she tells Variety. “It’s never explicit, so the discomfort must arise from the inner battles of the characters. Maybe people are confronted by their own monsters?” Her […]
If one film could define this year’s Zurich Film Festival, it would be Peter Farrelly’s “I Play Rocky,” a heartfelt drama about the making of the Sylvester Stallone-starring classic that is playing as one of the festival galas. The film embodies not only the festival’s 2026 motto of “Dream Big,” but also a go-getter attitude […]
Carat named Sarah Stringer and Brian Meuleman to key global roles aimed at helping bridge gaps between strategic theory and commercial results. Stringer was named global chief strategy and innovation officer. Her remit includes turning strategy into an immediate, actionable competitive advantage. Meuleman was named global chief planning and intelligence officer and will use evidence, […]
What happens when an emotionally stranded young film worker becomes indispensable to one of the world’s biggest stars who may also be a murderer? That collision drives “Copy” (“El participio del verbo oír”), Miguel Machetti’s feature project, currently in development and produced by Ángeles L. Guerrero and Tina V. Mollá through Gelatina Películas. Selected for […]
Beta Film, which is heading to Cannes with the world premiere of Swedish royal romance drama “Queen Silvia,” has acquired world distribution rights to Italy’s “The Man from Milan” and, from Ukraine, “Silent Nava.” The two new eight-part crime series will likewise make their market debut at Mipcom. Directed by Simone Spada (“Rocco Schiavone: Ice […]
Production has started on “Baile,” a new comedy feature co-commissioned for the BBC Gaeilge, the Irish-language arm of BBC Northern Ireland, and Ireland’s national Irish-language broadcaster TG4. Produced by Belfast based Village Films with support from Northern Ireland Screen’s Irish Language Broadcast Fund, the comedy drama follows Bríghid, a fiercely independent woman in the early […]
YouTube star Abdirahman Keinaan was born in Finland, but he kept hearing: “Go back to Somalia!” Now, in his new docuseries, he actually does. “It didn’t come from a place of anger because I’ve been hearing it my whole life. I grew up here. I was born and raised here. And then I thought: ‘Ok, […]
“NAZA,” the hot-button documentary about killings in Gaza that won a special jury prize at the recent Venice Film Festival, is set to soon be released theatrically in more than 50 territories and will subsequently be made visible to global audiences for free via the website of British newspaper The Guardian. The Guardian, which produced […]
A coalition of groups working under the Block the Merger banner have filed an emergency request to oppose Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery ahead of a court hearing in California this morning pertaining to the deal. The motion for an amicus brief – enabling interested parties to present legal arguments relating to a case […]
