Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson brought sexy back to Venice Friday night at the premiere of Halina Reijn’s kinky, sex-filled “Babygirl.” In the A24 movie, Kidman plays a high-powered CEO who starts a secret affair with her new intern (Dickinson). While not a conventional art house movie, “Babygirl” stimulated the Venice audience. As the end […]
FilmNation Entertainment has sold key international territories on Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” starring Angelina Jolie, which had its world premiere in the main competition section of the Venice film Festival. The international buyers are Studiocanal (U.K., Germany, Poland), ARP (France), 01 Distribution (Italy), Latin America/Spain/Portugal/South Africa (Sun Distribution), Switzerland (Pathe), Benelux (The Searchers), Czech Republic (AQS), […]
African streamer Showmax has secured rights to adapt the hit format “The Office” for South African audiences, in partnership with BBC Studios. The localized version will debut on both Showmax and kykNET, DStv’s Afrikaans channel. Rapid Blue, part of BBC Studios’ international production network, is set to begin production in 2025. The South African edition, […]
Georgian director Rusudan Glurjidze, whose drama “The Antique” depicts the mass deportation of Georgians from the country by Russian authorities, on Friday asserted that she is being censored by an ongoing Russian campaign against the movie and pleaded for support after the film was prevented from screening at the Venice Film Festival. Set in 2006 […]
For over half a century, the tale of a missing movie has puzzled Hollywood: what happened to Jerry Lewis’ infamous dark comedy “The Day the Clown Cried”? Shot in Sweden in 1972, the film told the tale of a clown taken to a concentration camp and tasked with walking children to gas chambers. Controversy in […]
