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Netflix has joined as a strategic partner the newly expanded Santiago-Guadalajara Queer Incubator, a Latin American program organized by Chile’s Sanfic Industria in collaboration with the Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG) to foster professional growth and advance feature-length fiction film projects led by emerging LGBTIQ voices from across Latin America. Netflix is renewing a partnership which […]
CAA’s Roeg Sutherland remains bullish on the theatrical market, thinks the recent spate of mergers and consolidations represent an “opportunity” for film financiers and says it’s too soon to predict what the fallout will be from the wave of firings at Netflix. “To be honest, I really don’t know,” Sutherland said at Rome’s MIA Market […]
Mexico’s beloved Guillermo del Toro descended on the 24th Morelia Film Festival like the rockstar he is, greeted by hordes of shrieking fans that impressed even the most jaded in the crowd. In town to present the much-anticipated 3D Re-Release of “Pan’s Labyrinth,” he was everywhere all at once, holding a masterclass where tickets were […]
Back in 2012, actress-turned-director Sandra Lipski wanted to crown a successful festival run for her debut short film “Going Down” with a screening in her hometown of Mallorca, but was surprised to realize the thriving island did not have its own film festival. Rather than wait for it to happen, she decided to start one […]
This year’s Evolution Mallorca, held on the Spanish island between Oct. 28 and NoV. 4, is bringing back Evolution Pitch, the pitching component of its Script Lab program as part of the festival’s 15th edition. “It was a dream of mine to bring it back this year,” Evolution Mallorca founder Sandra Lipski tells Variety. “The […]
“Line of Duty” and “Good Omens” director Douglas Mackinnon is prepping an Edinburgh-set paramedic drama that’s part of a growing slate at his recently launched production outfit Rugged Island Films. Mackinnon will be presenting the series in the Drama Co-Production Forum at Rome’s MIA Market, which runs Oct. 19 – 23. “BurnTime” is a 6 […]
Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani, whose debut feature “Goodbye Julia” premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar, has attracted a raft of partners for his follow-up “About Love & September Laws,” which he’ll be taking to Rome’s MIA Market, running from Oct. 19-23. Produced by Klozium Studios, the production outfit he launched in 2020 with “Goodbye […]
Durng a fireside chat entitled “Every Pixel Will Be Generated” at Turin’s View Conference, an audience member asked Cristóbal Valenzuela, the co-CEO of generative AI startup Runway, whether AI could eventually replace human actors. “Yeah, absolutely. I think it’s already happening in a way,” he replied, going on to describe AI as “a new medium […]
Paloma Negra, one of Mexico’s most prominent production companies, founded by producer Cristina Velasco and distinguished directors Rigoberto Perezcano (“Carmin Tropical”) and Jorge Hernandez Aldana (“The Night Buffalo”), has boarded Michael Rowe’s “Last Weekend,” a topical cross-border child custody battle drama shot in Southern California and Mexico. “Last Weekend” just wrapped filming on Oct. 15, […]
A new player is in town. Upstart Mexican distributor Caos Cine, founded by Regina Serratos and Eduardo Diaz Casanova, has launched at the Morelia Film Festival (FICM) with its first pickup, “The Huntress.” The debut feature of Susanne Andrews Correa marks its Mexican premiere Oct. 19 at the fest, where it competes. “Caos is here […]
Tribeca-winning helmer Darko Lungulov, behind Serbia’s Oscar candidate “Here and There,” and Lithuania’s Ernestas Jankauskas (“Troll Farm,” “I Am Fine, Thanks,” “Sasha Was Here”) are among a handful of seasoned filmmakers set to pitch their works in progress at Tallinn’s Baltic Event industry showcase Nov. 19, next to a swathe of exciting new voices. Those […]
“Barry Loser,” the award-winning, million-selling children’s book series from creator Jim Smith, is being adapted into an animated series by the U.K.’s Big Little Fish Television and Italian co-producer Frog Head. It’s one of the projects that will be pitched to industry reps during the newly launched Animation Series Gap-Financing Market at Rome’s MIA Market. […]
Piano, the Mexican production and distribution company behind Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winning “Triangle of Sadness,” has boarded Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Jengira’s Magnificent Dream,” producer Julio Chavezmontes has confirmed. Tilda Swinton is attached to the project. Just like Östlund’s multi-Oscar-nominated dark comedy, “Jengira’s Magnificent Dream” dovetails with Piano’s ongoing commitment to international collaborations with filmmakers whose work […]
Walking through Turin with his wife and creative partner James Ellis Deakins, Roger Deakins found himself thinking about Giorgio de Chirico. The Italian painter, one of his favorites, had drawn inspiration from the city’s vast squares, long arcades and unusual arrangements of light and shadow. Deakins was noticing the relationship for himself. It’s characteristic of […]
For Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Paul Lambert Lambert, of all the huge challenges presented by Ryan Gosling space epic “Project Hail Mary,” the most daunting was creating convincing zero gravity. “Zero-G was probably my personal biggest concern going into the movie,” he said at View Conference in Turin, Italy, drilling down on its VFX. “We tried […]
The red-feathered hero of “The Angry Birds Movie 3” looks reassuringly familiar, but DNEG Animation had to rebuild much of him to bring the franchise back to theaters. And as the studio reconstructed Red’s fur, facial rig and expressions, it also developed a system that ultimately automated character-effects work on roughly 75% of the film’s […]
Sofia Coppola’s cult classic “Marie Antoinette” and three works by Louis Daquin, a champion of the Communist Resistance during the German occupation, are among the latest restored works from French studio Pathé. The company, whose owners Jérôme Seydoux and Sophie Seydoux are being honored at the Lumière Film Festival’s International Classic Film Market (MIFC) in […]
The Coen brothers could be heading back to their hometown in Minneapolis for a reunion movie eight years after their last joint film, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.” While at Lyon’s Lumière Film Festival, where they received a career tribute, Joel and Ethan Coen revealed they have several projects in the pipeline set in Minneapolis, […]
LYON, France — “It,” the 1927 breakout movie of silent film star Clara Bow, to whom Taylor Swift paid tribute in a song named after her in “The Tortured Poets Department,” leads a deal between French classic film distributor Carlotta Films and U.S. restoration company Artcraft Pictures. Under the terms of the deal, Carlotta will […]
To the sound of the Gipsy Kings’ Spanish-language rendition of “Hotel California,” Joel and Ethan Coen took the stage at Lyon’s Lumière Film Festival on Friday evening to receive the Lumière Award, celebrating four decades of filmmaking with a characteristically irreverent tribute to the inventors of cinema. “Thank you to the Lumières for inventing the […]
