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Javier Bardem gave a lengthy and eloquent assessment of Israel's current military attacks in Gaza this morning during a press conference at the San Sebastian Film Festival.  Bardem is in town to finally pick up his 2023 Donostia award for career achievement after he was unable to attend the festival…

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based comedian Ashley Gavin is best known for her popular TikTok account, which currently holds more than 1.4 million followers. This summer, however, Gavin hit one of the most difficult traditional hallmarks in comedy.  She successfully mounted a buzzy show at the Edinburgh…

Javier Bardem announced this morning during a presser at the San Sebastian Film Festival that he has signed on to star in the next film from Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen (The Beasts).  The film is titled El ser querido and will be directed by Sorogoyen from a screenplay he penned with Isabel…

The Rome Film Festival will fete Johnny Depp with its Lifetime Achievement award and screen the actor's latest directorial effort, Modi – Three Days on the Wing of Madness during its 2024 edition.  Described as a "seventy-two-hour whirlwind in the life of bohemian artist Amedeo Modigliani", the film…

José Luis Rebordinos, director of the San Sebastian Film Festival, has just over a week until opening night when he sits down for an interview with Deadline, and he is still plagued by one niggling organizational issue.  "It's always so difficult to close the jury," Rebordinos explains as he rushes…

Netflix released another round of viewership data Thursday afternoon revealing its most-watched films and shows across the first half of 2024. On the film side, the pack is led by the Millie Bobby Brown-starring Damsel, which clocked more than 143 million views globally, according to the data. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran British actress Adjoa Andoh (Bridgerton) and Jimmy Akingbola (Bel-Air) are among the names that have signed on to deliver keynote speeches at The Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa's (HACSA) Sankofa Summit set to run October 9 and 10 at Columbia University. This year's summit…

The Nordisk Film & TV Fond has teamed with the Göteborg Film Festival to launch the Nordic Series Awards, a new award to honor Nordic drama series.  The Nordic Series Award replaces the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, which has been awarded annually at Göteborg's TV Drama Vision since 2017. The award…

EXCLUSIVE: Rick Selvage, CEO of onphaya and best known as a Wheel of Time exec producer, has signed up veteran celebrity photographer Norman Seeff to work on two onphaya TV projects.  The company has said the two projects will fall under the company's unscripted A Journey to Make a Difference series…

Italy's National Cinema Museum in the northern city of Turin has named former Berlin Film Festival head Carlo Chatrian as its new director. Chatrian will be in post for five years.  Chatrian replaces Domenico De Gaetano. The museum's management committee thanked De Gaetano in a statement this…

EXCLUSIVE: Perfect Days, the comeback feature from legendary German filmmaker Wim Wenders, has become boutique operator Curzon Cinemas’s longest-running film after passing 30 continuous weeks this past Friday. Perfect Days has played at Curzon Bloomsbury in London for 206 continuous days. The film…

Respected arts and culture executive Michael Lynch has been appointed as Acting Sector Head for Media at Saudi Arabia's burgeoning Neom mega-city and audiovisual and tourism hub, in the wake of accusations of racism and inappropriate workplace behavior against other top execs on the project. "Michael…