The European Film Academy has unveiled the nominations for its 2020 awards, which will take place virtually across a series of online events December 8-12.
Leading the way are Another Round, Corpus Christi, andMartin Eden which have four nominations apiece, including for European Film 2020. Joining them in that main…
With her awards-contending documentary iHuman, director Tonje Hessen Schei offers a rare glimpse into the industry of artificial intelligence, examining the profound opportunities and challenges it brings, and the ways in which it will shape the world of tomorrow.
Billed as a "political thriller about artificial…
Jayro Bustamente's politically charged horror film La Llorona, which won the Venice Days sidebar at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is Guatemala’s selection to the 2021 International Oscar race. It’s the second film by Bustamente to get his country’s Oscar submission, after his debut feature Ixcanul in 2015.
His…
Greece on Wednesday selected Christos Nikou's Applesas the country’s official entry into the 2021 Oscar International Feature race. Nikou’s debut feature, which premiered as the opening-night film in the Horizons section of this year’s Venice Film Festival, has since been acquired by Cohen Media Group for…
Spain has submitted period epic The Endless Trench as its contender for the 2021 International Oscar prize.
The film premiered at San Sebastian last year and Netflix swooped on its global rights shortly after; the streamer will debut the film in the U.S. on November 6.
Directed by the trio of Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño…
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran communications executive Liz Biber has been named partner and Head of Content at the Lede Company in what is a new position at the agency.
The former Senior PR exec of Open Road Films, Weinstein/Dimension and Sony is overseeing a new content division at Lede focused on developing and executing…
To those of a certain generation, James Bond 007 will forever be defined by the way the original movie Bond, Sean Connery, played him. Recalling where you were when you saw Goldfinger for the first time has almost the same impact as many other momentous events in our young lives. As I was reminded this morning in an…
EXCLUSIVE: “My mom was from a very small town and my dad was a farm boy, and when I read this book I recognized that I had really been looking for a story that I could tell that would allow me to apply my own sensitivity to this aspect of our American culture that I really relate to through my family in a way these…
Canada is sending Deepa Mehta'sFunny Boy to this year's International Oscar race. The film is directed by Deepa Mehta, whose 2005 pic Water was Canada's submission that year and was Oscar nominated.
Funny Boy, which is in Tamil, English and Sinhalese, depicts a young boy's sexual awakening in Sri Lanka during the…
It’s Terrific!
That was the simple advertising line that adorned most posters and newspaper ads for the landmark film Citizen Kane when it was released in 1941. Let me say the same line applies to David Fincher’s masterpiece Mank, a film centering on the creation of the script for Kane and the man who shares official…
