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A Satyajit Ray film from Srijit Mukherji heads a lineup of more than 25 series, films and TV titles that Bengali streamer Hoichoi has set for its 10th year. The slate also brings new cases for detectives Feluda and Eken Babu and the platform’s first animated series. In “Maharaja Tomare Selam,” Ray agrees to his […]
When Rafael Espinal took office in February as New York City’s entertainment chief, he looked around and saw a city that was thriving but had yet to recover from a yearslong slump in film and TV production. “The number of permits we were seeing was 50% compared to pre-pandemic,” says Espinal, sitting in a lower […]
Beta Film has unveiled a broad international sales footprint for “Rex – Vienna Calling,” the latest incarnation of the three-decade-old “Rex – A Cop’s Best Friend” franchise, as production gets underway on a second season. The series has been sold to SBS in Australia, Rai in Italy and TV 2 in Denmark. Elsewhere in Europe, […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — RioFilme, the film and TV company of Rio de Janeiro City, will launch a call for proposals amounting to R$100 million ($20 million) for film and TV show production, development, distribution and international co-productions, Leonardo Edde, president of RioFilme, told Variety. RioFilme will unveil Oct. 1 the incentive package, the […]
The Montclair Film Festival has unveiled the complete lineup for its 2026 edition, bringing a slate of international premieres, awards season contenders, documentaries and independent films to New Jersey. Among the highlights are Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s “La Bola Negra,” Peter Farrelly’s “I Play Rocky,” Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Debut,” Sian Heder’s “Being Heumann,” James […]
From the surprise election of mayor Zohran Mamdani to the Knicks winning the NBA championship, it’s been a time for underdog stories in the Big Apple. The New York Film Festival is continuing the trend, pulling off a coup by securing several major world premieres in a year that’s been frustratingly light on festival fanfare. […]
The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival has announced a slate of cultural programs running alongside its main competition, headlined by a 13-film retrospective honoring Mizoguchi Kenji on the 70th anniversary of his death, a symposium exploring a potential new international anime award, and a 10th-anniversary celebration of its Teens Cinema Workshop. The Mizoguchi tribute, staged […]
If you ever attended a major film festival in the last three decades, chances are you came across an auburn-haired woman sporting fashionable big glasses and pristinely curated outfits from some of Brazil’s most exciting up-and-coming fashion designers. This is Ilda Santiago, the artistic director of Brazil’s leading Rio Film Festival. The programming veteran has […]
Supporters of a federal film incentive are preparing an all-out push to pass the legislation by the end of the year, looking to take advantage of momentum before Congress potentially changes hands next term. A bipartisan group of senators and representatives unveiled the bill on Thursday. It would provide a 20%-30% federal incentive for films […]
A bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled federal legislation Thursday that would create a 20%-30% U.S. film incentive, in a bid to secure American dominance in entertainment production. The incentive would stack on top of state tax credits, combining to create the world’s most generous subsidies for film and TV. “If it passes and it stacks […]
Co-director Yuval Abraham says documentary exposing Israeli abuses will be available online in November.
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 […]
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 […]
Merely seven months before a fateful presidential election which has the far right leading polls, the French TV and film industry is in shambles. Despite recent efforts led by French President Emmanuel Macron to showcase and export France’s unique cultural model overseas — notably during the Lumiere Summit co-organized by the South Korean president — […]
Eve Jackson and film critic Emma Jones run through this week's new cinema releases in France. Brad Pitt heads into the Alaskan wilderness with his four-legged co-star in "Heart of the Beast". Also, Robert Pattinson takes on a controversial TV host in "Primetime", a new generation discovers "Sense and Sensibility", and Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's "The Scarecrows' Wedding" arrives on the big screen.
The Austin Film Society has announced more than $300,000 in new filmmaker grant awards through the launch a new film funding program Texas Lights. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, AFS’s grants support emerging filmmakers. The launch of the Texas Lights fund will provide cash for rising artists to create independent films. “Thirty years of the AFS […]
Leah Nelson’s “Tangles,” Louis Clichy’s “Iron Boy” and Ervin Han and Raúl García’s “The Violinist” are among the titles set to screen during Animation Is Film’s ninth edition. The festival will take place October 16 through 19, with the main programming taking place at TCL Chinese 6 Theaters in Hollywood, Calif. For the first time […]
The U.K.’s renowned National Film and Television School (NFTS) has partnered with the Sean Connery Foundation to establish a new Scottish filmmaking center in Edinburgh. The NFTS Sean Connery Institute, which will launch in 2027, will bring together and expand the NFTS’ work in Scotland under one banner, with a mission to “discover and develop […]
Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival, the most prominent film event and market in the Arab world, has canceled its sixth edition that was scheduled to take place from Dec. 3 to 12. The event will return in the fourth quarter of 2027 with a “renewed vision and a program that continues to celebrate cinema […]
Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions is teaming with Leo Media Collective on a theatrical feature about Rameshwar Nath Kao, founder of India’s Research and Analysis Wing, targeting an Aug. 11, 2028 release timed to the Indian Independence Day holiday weekend. R&AW, India’s primary external intelligence agency, was established in 1968 to consolidate the country’s foreign intelligence […]
