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Atmovie Inc. will stage Japan Pitch at the 31st Busan International Film Festival, giving four filmmakers from its Atmovie Global Track accelerator a platform to pitch original feature projects to international buyers and producers. Atmovie Global Track, backed by the Japan Creator Support Fund through the Japan Arts Council, was set up to help Japanese […]
The tech giant has built its own concert hall, but says its not in competition with small venues.
On Monday night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” the late-night host kicked things off by throwing jabs at his favorite punching bag, President Trump, over his recent visit with Zohran Mamdani (and how smitten the president appears to be with the mayor), as well as his authoritarian decision to ban CNN, MS Now and Politico from White […]
The 2026 Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) will introduce Spotlight Screenings for the first time this November, giving international buyers an early look at two high-profile Taiwanese titles ahead of business meetings at TCCF Market. TCCF Market, the transactional hub of the festival, will bring together 107 exhibitors from seven countries this year – Taiwan, […]
Basque cinema is making its presence felt across San Sebastián this year. The festival’s 74th edition, running Sept. 18-26, features 31 titles with Basque production involvement, with 19 world premieres competing for the Irizar Basque Film Award. Spread across the Official Selection, New Directors, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, Perlak, Zinemira, Made in Spain, the Velodrome and other strands, […]
AI watchdogs, virtual production tools and carbon-tracking platforms are among the technologies heading to San Sebastian this year, as the festival’s Zinemaldia Startup Challenge unveils a 10-strong lineup drawn from Spain and across Europe. The competition, launched in 2019 to spotlight emerging tech with applications for film and the wider audiovisual business, received 68 submissions […]
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain – “Violence has no justification, but it does have an explanation.” That was Antonio de la Torre’s approach to playing 19th-century murderer Juan Díaz de Garayo in David Pérez Sañudo’s “The Harvester,” which world premiered at San Sebastián, sold by Latido Films. Yet the filmmaker was equally clear at the San Sebastián […]
The six-part 3Cat series “Gènesi,” which premiered two episodes at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sept. 21, aims to look back at the genesis of the iconic Catalan restaurant El Bulli, which was crowned the world’s best restaurant five times before it closed in 2011. The series plays on Catalan broadcaster 3Cat that same […]
Under the banner, ‘Something is Cooking in Madrid,’ Madrid Film Office head Raúl Torquemada led its presentation at the San Sebastian Festival where he stressed that the capital is stepping up efforts to position itself as a leading European audiovisual production hub, combining a diverse range of filming locations with public funding, industry networking and […]
Acme AI & FX’s Ryan Kavanaugh, Laura Austin-Little at Black Bear International, Neon’s Elissa Federoff, StudioCanal’s Ron Halpern and Sumerian Pictures’ Rob Williams are confirmed for San Sebastián’s fifth Creative Investors’ Conference, co-organized with CAA Media Finance. They will join CAA Media Finance’s Roeg Sutherland, Killer Films’ Christine Vachon, Patrick Wachsberger at 193 and Sumerian […]
Daniel Monzón presents in San Sebastián a film on horseback between drama and horror about the Patronato de Protección a la mujer, an institution that repress youth in the dictatorship
The Netflix series, which runs in San Sebastián in film format, is starring a retired doctor who the dead demand help in a desperate society
Inverter Philippe Muñoz set up a party to open his duplex. The tenant next door, Gonzalo Pardo, ended up knocking on his door to lower the music. From that "incident" was born a great friendship and even greater reform
The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), the Busan International Film Festival’s (BIFF) official market, has finalized its 2026 lineup. InnoAsia, drawing 44 organizations and companies into 11 programs, leads with a deep push into generative AI and emerging media formats. ACFM has teamed with Kling AI for “New Cinematic Possibilities: Reimagining Filmmaking with Kling […]
Netflix has teamed with one of the most famous cultural institutions in the U.K., the British Library, to help “more people discover the books behind some of the world’s most popular films and series,” it says. The new national partnership, which will include local libraries across the U.K., comes as 2026 marks the National Year […]
Zelda Williams is calling for fans to stop circulating AI-generated videos of her late father, Robin Williams, nearly a year after she last took to social media to ask them not to send her augmented content featuring the actor. In a statement posted to X on Monday, the “Lisa Frankenstein” director wrote that a “supposedly […]
Daredevil is hanging up his mask after three seasons on Disney+. Marvel’s “Daredevil: Born Again,” starring Charlie Cox as the blind lawyer-turned-vigilante, is ending with the upcoming Season 3, Variety has confirmed. The third and final season wrapped production a couple of months ago and is expected to premiere on Disney+ in 2027. Co-creator and […]
Christina Applegate has shared a first look at her life outside the hospital following a months-long stay amid her ongoing battle with multiple sclerosis. In the video, shared on Applegate’s Instagram account, the “Married… with Children” star is seen showing off her blonde hair while wearing a black zip-up hoodie. “Fresh hair color, new weird […]
Despite the threat of AI to the film industry, Tom Cruise is confident that people will always “want to see real things” on screen. At an intimate BAFTA “Life in Pictures” conversation in London on Monday night, Cruise looked back on his four-decade career including acclaimed roles in “Top Gun,” “Jerry Maguire,” “Magnolia” and the […]
Thirty-plus years after its original release, Neil Jordan’s Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise starring gothic vampire movie “Interview with the Vampire” is available in 4K and on 4K UHD Blu-ray. The bonus features include never-before-seen deleted scenes, as well as two special features: “Eternal Night and Deadly Light,” where Jordan and film editor Mick Audsley […]
