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When it comes to the BAFTA Award for Best British Short Animation, the National Film and Television School (Nfts) is almost synonymous with success – it’s hard to think of a year when one of their graduation films wasn’t nominated. Over the past decade, filmmakers like Daisy Jacobs, Nina Gantz, and Paloma Baeza have all taken home the award. Hoping to follow in their footsteps in 2025 is recent graduate José Prats, whose film Adiós is a contender this year and stood out to us as one of the highlights of the Nfts’ 2024 graduate showcase. The grounded story of a father struggling to accept his adult son’s decision to move abroad, told through tactile stop motion, Adiós obviously carries personal significance for Prats, a Spanish director who came to the UK to study. In our conversation, he shares the inspiration behind his short, his shift from 2D animation to...

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced its selection of 20 film projects and four immersive projects for the 42nd edition of CineMart, Rotterdam’s co-production market. The 2025 CineMart runs from Feb. 2 to Feb. 5, 2025. Rotterdam’s industry section, the IFFR Pro Days, is scheduled from Jan. 31 to Feb. 5.

Among the highlights of the projects set for CineMart are Ukrainian auteur Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s Something Strange Happened to Me, the director’s follow-up to his acclaimed debut Pamfir; Kenyan filmmaker Angela Wanjiku Wamai’s neo-Western Enkop; and The Uganda Project, the new film from Daniel Mann, whose Under a Blue Sun screened in Rotterdam’s Tiger Competition in 2024.

As is to be expected from a Rotterdam lineup, the 2025 CineMart selection is thematically and geographically diverse. Cheryl Dunye’s Black Is Blue, which explores anxiety over AI, stands alongside Jazmín López’s Faust, an exploration into the origins of authoritarianism. Marcelo Gomes...

Projects by directors includingDmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Cheryl Dunyeare and Ashim Ahuwalia are among the 2025 line-up for CineMart, the co-production market of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

CineMart, part of the festival’s IFFR Pro offering, has revealed 20 feature film projects and four immersive projects for its upcoming 42nd edition, which runs from February 2-5, 2025.

Meanwhile, IFFR Pro’s work-in-progress strand Darkroom has doubled in size for 2025, with 10 feature projects and two immersive projects being presented.

The CineMart line-up includes Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk with Something Strange Happened To Me.His debut Pamfir premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2022.

UK-based filmmaker Daniel Mann,...

With November marking the return of the UK’s only Oscar-qualifying animation festival, we’re once again diving into the Manchester Animation Festival programme to highlight must-sees for attendees and flag standout shorts for those following along from afar. With a mixture of recognisable names and exciting new talents, Maf once again promises to be one of the highlights of the festival calendar. This year’s festival offers a range of features, talks, and events, but we’ve zeroed in on the short films and selected eight must-see titles for you to check out:

A Crab in the Pool – Alexandra Myotte & Jean-Sébastien Hamel

Synopsis: In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves.

Why to Watch: A regular fixture on the festival scene over the last couple of years, winning awards at Ottawa, SXSW and more, A Crab in the Pool might seem...

Una joven psicóloga y su paciente en un juego de espejos. © Proyecto Manhattan

Termina el rodaje de Ella en mil pedazos, el thriller psicológico de Ramón Luque, con guion del propio Luque y Ana Capella.

Ella en mil pedazos sigue ala doctora Nuria Lorenzo, una joven psicóloga, que llega a la clínica del Dr. Oliver, un moderno centro de salud mental situado en medio de la nada, para ayudar en la investigación y curación de una mujer completamente fuera de sí, Ella. A través de una terapia muy particular, Nuria intentará estudiar y curar a una mujer rota, en la que encontrará una amiga y también una enemiga, una mujer con la que establecerá un extraño juego de espejos, donde se mezclarán pasado, presente y futuro, locura y cordura, realidad y ficción.

El thriller psicológico está protagonizado por Julia Piera (Cuéntame cómo pasó), Ana Capella, Laura Cepeda (Adiós), Carlos Cabra...

Universal rectifica y estrenará la película en cines. © A24

¡Buenas noticias! Después del anuncio inicial de que “MaXXXine” no llegaría a los cines en España, el fervor en las redes sociales ha logrado cambiar las cosas. Ahora, la película sí será proyectada en la gran pantalla en nuestro país. “MaXXXine” es la película que concluye la trilogía de terror del guionista y director Ti West, que comenzó con “X” y “Pearl”, y protagonizada por Mia Goth.

En el Hollywood de los años 80, la estrella del cine para adultos y aspirante a actriz Maxine Minx (Goth) consigue por fin su gran oportunidad. Pero mientras un misterioso asesino acecha a las estrellas de Hollywood, un rastro de sangre amenaza con revelar su siniestro pasado.

Goth adelantó en enero algunos datos muy prometedores sobre la película: «Es la historia más importante de las tres, la que tiene más en juego, y Maxine ha pasado por muchas cosas.

Hollywood, los 80, y un asesino suelto. © A24

A24 ha publicado un nuevo tráiler de “MaXXXine”, la película que concluye la trilogía de terror del guionista y director Ti West, que comenzó con “X” y “Pearl”, y protagonizada por Mia Goth.

En el Hollywood de los años 80, la estrella del cine para adultos y aspirante a actriz Maxine Minx (Goth) consigue por fin su gran oportunidad. Pero mientras un misterioso asesino acecha a las estrellas de Hollywood, un rastro de sangre amenaza con revelar su siniestro pasado.

Goth adelantó en enero algunos datos muy prometedores sobre la película: «Es la historia más importante de las tres, la que tiene más en juego, y Maxine ha pasado por muchas cosas. Así que cuando la encontramos en este nuevo mundo, es una figura a tener en cuenta y vive algunas aventuras bastante salvajes».

A Goth la acompañan en “MaXXXine” un elenco estelar de...

Tráiler, póster y detalles del desenlace de la trilogía de Ti West. © A24

Ya se ha publicado el tráiler oficial de “MaXXXine”, la película que concluye la trilogía de terror del guionista y director Ti West, que comenzó con “X” y “Pearl”, y protagonizada por Mia Goth.

En el Hollywood de los años 80, la estrella del cine para adultos y aspirante a actriz Maxine Minx (Goth) consigue por fin su gran oportunidad. Pero mientras un misterioso asesino acecha a las estrellas de Hollywood, un rastro de sangre amenaza con revelar su siniestro pasado.

Goth adelantó en enero a Variety algunos datos muy prometedores sobre la película: «Es la historia más importante de las tres, la que tiene más en juego, y Maxine ha pasado por muchas cosas. Así que cuando la encontramos en este nuevo mundo, es una figura a tener en cuenta y vive algunas aventuras bastante salvajes».

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Big Machine Records and Surfdog Records have announced a reimagining of the late Glenn Campbell’s 2011 album, Ghost on the Canvas, out on April 19th.

Titled Glen Campbell Duets – Ghost on the Canvas Sessions, the star-studded project pairs the Rhinestone Cowboy’s original vocals with newly recorded contributions from the likes of Brian Wilson, Carole King, Dolly Parton, Elton John, and Dave Stewart. Also featured on the album are Hope Sandoval, Linda Perry, Sting, Brian Setzer, Daryl Hall, Eric Church, and Eric Clapton. Pre-orders are ongoing.

As a preview of the record, you can hear the reworkings of “Hold on Hope” with Church and “Nothing But the Whole Wide World” with Clapton below.

At the time of its release, the original Ghost on the Canvas was billed as Campbell’s farewell album. It saw the country legend teaming with a younger generation of songwriters, including Paul Westerberg, Guided by Voice’s Bob Pollard,...

As SAG-AFTRA nears its June 30 bargaining deadline amid the Writers Guild of America strike, the Canadian film and TV industry is closely watching for ripple effects of Hollywood’s production shutdown north of the border. Film studios across the country remain dark or filled with homegrown shoots and anxious local talent and crews, dependent on big-budget U.S. film and TV series for work, question when they’ll get back on set.

Montreal-based screenwriter Christine Rodriguez of Productions La Tigresse, who is continuing to work on her upcoming film projects outside of WGA restrictions, said she’s closely watching labor negotiations in Los Angeles. “What the WGA is doing is extremely important. What they do will have an impact for us in Canada. There needs to be a readjustment with the streamers and remuneration for writers where they’re fairly compensated,” Rodriguez tells The Hollywood Reporter as she develops a...

Molly Gordon and Ben Platt in ‘Theater Camp’ (Photo Courtesy of Sundance)

Theater Camp comes with the audience advisory that it contains strobe effects and may potentially trigger seizures. And in a unique twist, this humorous mockumentary from first-time feature film directors Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman incorporates that warning into the plot.

AdirondACTS theater camp founder Joan (Amy Sedaris) suffers a seizure from the strobe light in the camp’s production of Bye Bye Birdie. Joan lapses into a coma at the worst possible time for the struggling upstate New York theater camp. It’s also horrible timing for the documentary crew since Joan was supposed to be the focus of the film and her coma occurs on the first day of shooting.

Money is a major issue and after Joan is forced to make an unexpected exit from camp, her son, Troy (Jimmy Tatro), is put in charge.

One of the most delightfully villainous characters on TV right now also had one of the most delightfully musical numbers in a recent season finale — on Evil! The Paramount+ thriller capped off its third season with an episode that included a baby reveal (Michael Emerson’s Leland used the egg Katja Herbers’ Kristen was missing), a homecoming (Kristen’s husband Andy returned home but something’s off with him), and a whole lot of demons. Plus, to make it even better, Leland and Edward (Tim Matheson) took a page out of Bye Bye Birdie after getting thwarted by Kristen’s daughters. Here, Emerson discusses Leland’s recent actions and what he’d like to see in Season 4. The Kings said the scene with Leland and the monsignor’s blood is part of showing the evil side of Leland again. With that and what he did with Kristen’s egg, does...

The changes at HBO Max keep on coming as the streamer has now shelved six animated projects, including the Batman: Caped Crusader series from J.J. Abrams, Bruce Timm, and Matt Reeves. As reported by TV Line, the six projects are no longer being produced for HBO Max, though they will continue production while they are shopped to other outlets. These projects include Merry Little Batman, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Toons Movie, Bye Bye Bunny: A Looney Toons Musical, Did I Do That to the Holidays: A Steve Urkel Story, and The Amazing World of Gumball: The Movie. Batman: Caped Crusader, which was ordered straight-to-series in May 2021, was set to be an animated reimagining of the Batman mythology. Warner Bros Animation, Bad Robot Productions, and 6th & Idaho were behind the project, which also marked Batman: The Animated Series producer Timm’s return to the Batman animated franchise.

Adios, Season 5 of Young Sheldon! Laundromat/backroom casino partners Mee-maw (Annie Potts) and Georgie (Montana Jordan) “head down to Mexico in Georgie’s car to acquire a dangerous substance,” says exec producer Steven Molaro, while at home in East Texas, parents Mary (Zoe Perry) and George (Lance Barber) are less than thrilled to be job hunting. Sheldon (Iain Armitage), 12, feels the same about a milestone. “Puberty is change, and in Sheldon’s world, change is usually a bummer,” Molaro says. Expect cliffhangers and a “fun and colorful” Big Bang Theory Easter egg at the very end! Young Sheldon, Season 5 Finale, Thursday, May 19, 8/7c, CBS...

In true Y2K fashion, Freeform said "Bye, Bye, Bye" to one cast member, and hello to another! Cruel Summer's new leading lady has officially arrived: Lexi Underwood. The new addition will replace Eloise Payet in season two of the series. The recasting decision came after a table read earlier this month, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lexi previously starred as Pearl Warren in Little Fires Everywhere and currently portrays Malia Obama in Showtime's The First Lady, which premiered April 17. But Lexi isn't the only new face gracing our small screens. In fact, it was previously reported that season two of the Freeform series will feature an all-new...

The series Tales from the Fatherland: Films by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, including Lingui, the Sacred Bonds, is showing on Mubi in many countries starting March 8, 2022.Lingui, the Sacred BondsIn Lingui, the Sacred Bonds, the new film by Chadian filmmaking great Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, a potentially life-threatening situation is met with compassion and quiet solidarity by an affirming community. These connections are necessary, particularly so for women to survive in a world that fails to see them as priority. A teenage girl finds solace in her mother when she is kicked out of school for getting pregnant. They arrive at their decision soon enough: An abortion presents her only path out of poverty and pariah status. The problem is that abortion is illegal in Chad, not to mention frowned upon by the conservative dictates of the Muslim faith. To find a solution, both mother and daughter must rely on lingui, an altruistic philosophy...

‘The Good Boss’ leads Icíar Bollaín’s ‘Maixabel’ and Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’.

The Good Boss, directed by Fernando León de Aranoa and starring Javier Bardem, led the Goya nominations from the Spanish Film Academy with 20 nods, an all-time record.

The satire, also Spain’s entry for the Oscars, is ahead of Icíar Bollaín’s Maixabel and Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers, on 14 and eight nominations respectively.

The Good Boss is the fifth highest-grossing film in Spain this year with €2.6m. Written and directed by León de Aranoa, it follows the petty boss of an industrial scales factory, played...

The Avenue has claimed North American rights to Press Play, a romantic drama from Parasite producer Cj Enm, starring Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick), Clara Rugaard (I Am Mother), Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon franchise) and Matt Walsh (Veep), which it will release next year.

The film picked up by Highland Film Group’s domestic distribution arm centers on a young woman (Rugaard) who has a chance to save the love of her life (Pullman) when she discovers that the mixtape they made together can transport her back in time. It marks the feature directorial debut of visual effects editor Greg Björkman, who teamed up with James Bachelor (Hulu’s Into the Dark) to write the script.

Cj Enm’s Yeonu Choi produced the film with Josh Boone, Logan Lerman and Jonathan Schwartz, with Cj’s Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko serving as exec producers. Cj Enm is also handling international sales.

Squid Game now sits firmly atop the latest Nielsen streaming rankings, after failing to crack the Top 10 with its first (but only partial) week of release.

For the Week of Sept. 20, the Netflix megahit amassed 1.9 billion minutes viewed across its nine episodes, easily besting all other original streaming series.

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The previous week’s champ, Netflix’s Lucifer,...

If you were worried that Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop wouldn’t be as cool or as stylish as the original… stop worrying.

The streamer has offered us our first look at the reboot — premiering Friday, Nov. 19 — in the form of a new promo dubbed “The Lost Session,” which consists of specially created footage that won’t be seen in the series. Still, it’s a chance to see intergalactic bounty hunters/”cowboys” Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir) and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) in action… and “action” is definitely the right word for it.

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The Latin Grammy nominations are in and leading the charge are Camilo, C. Tangana, and Bad Bunny.

Camilo has a total of 10 nominations including Record of the Year for “Vida De Rico” and one for “Amén”; Song of the Year for “Vida De Rico” and “Dios Asi Lo Quiso”; Best Pop Song “Vida De Rico,” and Best Pop Vocal Album for Mis Manos, among others.

Spanish Urban star C. Tangana earned five nominations, among them: Record of the Year for “Te Olvidaste,” Album Of The Year for El Madrileño, and Best Pop/Rock Song: “Hong Kong.”

Bad Bunny received four nods this year bringing his total career nominations to 15. His 2021 nominations include Album Of The Year for El Último Tour Del Mundo, Best Urban Music Album for El Último Tour Del Mundo, Best Rap/Hip Hop Song for “Booker T,” and Best Urban Song for “Dákiti.”

Bachata artist Juan Luis Guerra...

No, you’re not dreaming: You’re about to enter The Dreaming.

The video above offers a first look at Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of The Sandman, starring Tom Sturridge (Sweetbitter) as the titular character, aka Morpheus, aka Dream of the Endless. First revealed at Netflix’s “Tudum” global fan event on Saturday, the footage gives us a glimpse into the world hinted at in a behind-the-scenes video released in June.

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Celebrated Andalusian production house La Claqueta, headed by producer Olmo Figueredo, will produce “Bella,” the debut animated feature from Spanish director Manuel H. Martín – with whom the company previously produced the award-winning documentary “30 Years of Darkness” and “El viaje mas largo,” and celebrated VFX supervisor Amparo Martínez Barco.

Martín also co-wrote the screenplay for “Bella,” working with award-winning filmmaker Carmen Jiménez, co-writer of 2019’s Spanish Academy Goya Award-nominated “Adiós,” starring Mario Casas.

“Bella” is inspired by the true story of Seville’s Ana Bella Estévez, an Ashoka España entrepreneur and a survivor of gender violence who founded the Ana Bella Foundation, a global network of more than 30,000 women survivors who work to create social change in 82 countries worldwide. Importantly, the film’s team chose animation as the medium to tell her story so that audiences of all ages can hear the important message Ana has dedicated her life to sharing.

Rock 'n' roll pioneer Don Everly has passed away. One half of the Everly Brothers alongside late brother Phil, Don served as a pioneer whose music served to inspire many notable singers and groups in the 1960s including the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Simon & Garfunkel. Sadly, the L.A. Times reports that Everly died at his home in Nashville on Saturday night, though a cause of death wasn't cited. He was 84 years old.

A statement released by the family reads: "Don lived by what he felt in his heart. Don expressed his appreciation for the ability to live his dreams ... with his soulmate and wife, Adela, and sharing the music that made him an Everly Brother."

The older of the two famous Everly Brothers, Don was born on Feb. 1, 1937, making him about two years older than brother Phil. After high school, the brothers relocated to Nashville to pursue a...

Jaden Smith has released a new song, “Summer,” which will appear on his upcoming project, CTV3: Day Tripper’s Edition, out August 27th via Msfts Music/Roc Nation.

“Summer” is a hazy ode to the hedonistic joys that always accompany the hottest, laziest months of the year. “I pop a pill and then we fuck until we slumber,” Jaden croons on the hook, “And now my handprint on your ass because you’re sunburnt.”

CTV3: Day Tripper’s Edition is described as a “deluxe alternative album” and seems...

FBoy Island is the gift that keeps on giving.

HBO Max’s highly entertaining reality dating series wrapped its first season with yet another twist: If the women chose a “nice guy,” that couple would split the $100,000 prize evenly. However, if one chose an “fboy,” said guy can choose to either stay in the relationship and split the money, or break up and keep it all to himself.

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Indie games keep getting better every single year, and those released in 2021 are a testament to how much the industry has evolved and continues to improve. With popular releases like Qomp, Loop Hero, and Adios, there are a plethora of indie games that players can choose from this year.

Related: 10 Most Anticipated Indie Games Announced At E3 2021

As is to be expected from the genre, a lot of excellent and innovative games have fallen by the wayside and haven’t really gotten the recognition they deserve. These indie games take fresh and creative approaches through their art style, storytelling, and even combat mechanics. Players ought to take a chance on these hidden gems that truly capture what it means to be a good indie game.

Have you seen The Empty Man? For a while there, Fox was probably hoping you would. Probably when it acquired the rights to the graphic novel from Boom! Studios. Probably when it gambled millions of dollars on David Prior’s big-screen horror debut. Probably before it knew that The Empty Man would be the last film to accidentally feature the original 20th Century Fox logo. Probably way before some very particular world events affected the global theatrical release schedule as we knew it.

Probably before all of that.

Have you seen The Empty Man? Prior and the former executive vice president of production at Fox, Mark Roybal, really wanted you to. The pair knew they were embarking on delivering a unique and ambitious horror movie, and Roybal was its studio champion – instrumental to getting that important initial greenlight. But during the final week of production when filming had to be halted due to bad weather,...

Jaden Smith has released “Bye,” a breezy summer track that also happens to be the first single of his upcoming collaborative album, CTV3 Day Trippers Edition.

Written by Smith and produced by Lido (Ariana Grande, Halsey, Chance the Rapper), “Bye” describes going for a drive to the beach in the hopes of repairing a relationship. “I’m feeling Santa Barbara strong/She got her face in a phone, she got places to go,” Smith sings. “Well, at least let me take you home/There’s some tequila in here, I’m not tasting it though.

Mouse Rat, the fictional “Parks and Recreation” band led by Chris Pratt’s character Andy Dwyer, will release a real-life record, titled “The Awesome Album.” The band’s social media accounts made the announcement Wednesday, and the album will release August 27.

The album, announced on the 10th anniversary of show’s memorial for the miniature horse Li’l Sebastian’s, opens with the series’ famous singalong “5,000 Candles in the Wind (Bye Bye Li’l Sebastian)” and features many of the other fake songs performed or mentioned in “Parks and Recreation.”

Released via DualTone and Entertainment 720, the fictional company created by Aziz Ansari’s character Tom Haverford, “The Awesome Album” will feature the grunge-rock anthem “The Pit,” inspired by Pawnee’s giant sinkhole in Season 1, and the jangly “Sex Hair,” which Mouse Rat performed at the Pawnee Cares Telethon in the show.

Featured artists include Duke Silver, the smooth jazz alter-ego...

The Original Django (1966) will be available on 4K Ultra HD with Texas Adios included on Blu-ray May 25th From Arrow Video

In this definitive spaghetti western, Franco Nero gives a career-defining performance as Django, a mysterious loner who arrives at a mud-drenched ghost town on the Mexico-us border, ominously dragging a coffin behind him. After saving imperilled prostitute Maria (Loredana Nusciak), Django becomes embroiled in a brutal feud between a racist gang and a band of Mexican revolutionaries

With Django, director Sergio Corbucci (The Great Silence) upped the ante for sadism and sensationalism in westerns, depicting machine-gun massacres, mud-fighting prostitutes and savage mutilations. A huge hit with international audiences, Django s brand of bleak nihilism would be repeatedly emulated in a raft of unofficial sequels.

The film is presented here in its 4K Uhd Blu-ray debut, with a wealth of extras. Also included is the bonus feature Texas, Adios on Blu-ray,...

Lee Aaker, who starred in the ABC series “The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin,” died this month near Mesa, Arizona of a stroke, according to a Facebook post from fellow former child actor Paul Petersen. He was 77.

Petersen confirmed Aaker’s passing to TheWrap and said that no service was currently planned.

Born in Inglewood, California, in 1943, Aaker was first found by director Fred Zinnemann and cast for his short film “Benjy,” which was commissioned as a fundraiser video by Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital and featured Aaker as a boy with scoliosis who is offered the chance to undergo a medical procedure that could cure him, but must first get permission from his parents whom have rejected him because of his condition. Despite being based on dramatized scenes, it qualified for the Best Documentary Short category at the Oscars and won in 1951.

Later that year, Zinnemann brought Aaker back for...

Last August, in the midst of a presidential battle that would determine the future of America, an upstart liberal group called MeidasTouch sent its supporters an urgent call to action. “Tonight is a huge night,” MeidasTouch declared on Twitter. “We are giving half of our contributions directly and immediately to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. We are proud to have already chipped in 25K to their campaign. Rt and chip in here.”

For MeidasTouch, the pro-Biden blitz was part of a rapidly expanding political action committee that turned viral tweets and posts into campaign contributions.

46th ceremony unfolded amid growing anger within French film industry over cinema closures.

Albert Dupontel’s Bye Bye Morons topped the awards at a politically-charged 46th Césars ceremony on Friday evening (March 12), marked by growing anger within the French film industry over the ongoing closure of cinemas and other cultural spaces as part of anti-Covid-19 measures.

Bye Bye Morons clinched seven Césars including best film, director, cinematography (Alexis Kavyrchine), best original screenplay (Dupontel), best supporting actor (Nicolas Marié), best production design (Carlos Conti) and the fledgeling César des Lycéens, which is voted on by 1,500 high school students.

Dupontel, who previously...

Bye Bye Morons was named Best Film at the Césars Photo: UniFrance After scoring a record total of 13 César nominations including best film and best director Emmanuel Mouret’s Love Affair(s) lost out to Albert Dupontel’s black comedy Bye Bye Morons which took the two top honours instead.

In the absence of director Dupontel, who also stars, it was left to actress Virginie Efira to receive the award on stage at the mythical Olympia music hall (capacity almost 2000) whose stage has been graced by the likes of Edith Piaf, Joséphine Baker, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Madonna … and many more. Efira plays a seriously ill woman on a mission to reunite with her long lost child.

Bye Bye Morons also took the prizes for best supporting actor for Nicolas Mairé as well as original screenplay, cinematography and set design.

Love Affair(s) was rewarded with a best supporting actress gong for Emilie Duquenne.

Selena Gomez has shared the tracklist for her first EP sung in Spanish, Revelación. The seven-song set will arrive on March 12th and it’s available for preorder.

The singer shared the song names in an Instagram post, which also features clips of her previously released EP singles, “De Una Vez” (“At Once”) and “Baila Conmigo” (“Dance With Me”) with Puerto Rican singer-rapper Rauw Alejandro.

“I am incredibly proud of my Latin background,” she said in a statement upon releasing “De Una Vez” in January. “It felt empowering to sing...

Leading Spanish sales company Latido Films has snapped up international sales rights to Violeta Salama’s directorial debut, “Alegria.” Argentina’s Leonardo Sbaraglia joins a stellar European-Latino cast that includes Mexico’s Cecilia Suárez (“La Casa de las Flores”), Spanish actresses Laia Manzanares (“Merlí”) and Mara Guill (“Caronte”) as well as French-born Sarah Perles.

“’Alegria’ is one of the opportunities a sales agency just cannot let pass,” Latido’s Antonio Saura declared. “It’s a funny, sad, charming and totally enjoyable story that dwells on the personal past of the film director, which is told with the ingenuity and charm of someone that cherishes memories and has accepted the multicultural richness of the little-known Spanish city of Melilla, where the story unfolds,” he added.

Seville-based La Claqueta, producer of Spain’s submission to the International Oscars race, “The Endless Trench,” co-produces the comedy with Clara Nieto’s newly-founded Powehi Films.

Announcement follows similar moves in Germany, Italy and Belgium.

French cinemas will close their doors for a second time this year as part of a new national lockdown to combat a second wave of Covid-19 in the country, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday (October 28).

”We are all being overwhelmed by a second wave which, we know, will doubtless be harder and more deadly than the first one,” Macron said in an address to the nation.

The new lockdown will take effect nationwide from midnight Thursday to Friday (Oct 30). It is expected to last at least until December 1 and could be extended.

16 regional and international features are competing for the festival’s $50,000 Golden Star award.

Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival kicked off its fourth edition against the Covid-19 odds over the weekend, feting French actor Gérard Depardieu and UK director Peter Webber with its special Golden Star Career Achievement Award at the opening ceremony.

Taking to the stage, Depardieu praised the festival for pulling off such a large-scale event and professed his admiration for late Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine.

A host of film and TV stars from Egypt as well as a smattering of international guests walked the red carpet at the glitzy opening event,...

With a list of credits that includes Annabelle, Hush and The Bye Bye Man, cinematographer James Kniest has spent a fair share of his career toiling in horror. “I somehow got into doing all these dark genre films and episodics, which I like a lot,” said Kniest, “but I often times say jokingly, ‘Can’t I just do a romantic comedy?’” The Haunting of Bly Manor fulfills half of that request. The second installment in Netflix’s Haunting Of anthology series, Bly Manor is a gothic romance that leans heavily into the latter. When the horror does arrive, it’s less jump scares and more […]...

With a list of credits that includes Annabelle, Hush and The Bye Bye Man, cinematographer James Kniest has spent a fair share of his career toiling in horror. “I somehow got into doing all these dark genre films and episodics, which I like a lot,” said Kniest, “but I often times say jokingly, ‘Can’t I just do a romantic comedy?’” The Haunting of Bly Manor fulfills half of that request. The second installment in Netflix’s Haunting Of anthology series, Bly Manor is a gothic romance that leans heavily into the latter. When the horror does arrive, it’s less jump scares and more […]...

Principal photography anticipated for first quarter 2021.

South Korean powerhouse Cj Entertainment has hired Deon Taylor to direct Grave Hill, the English-language remake of Vietnamese horror The Housemaid.

Taylor will direct from an adapted screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious) and Derek Nguyen, who wrote and directed the original film.

Cj Entertainment is financing, developing and producing the remake, which is expected to begin principal photography in the first quarter of 2021.

Grave Hill will be set in the American South during the Reconstruction Era in post-Civil War late 19th Century.

It will explore the same social and racial themes touched on in 2016 period horror romance The Housemaid,...

Updated on Friday, July 10, 2020 at 1:38 p.m. Pt:

Nielsen reversed its decision to postpone its implementation of out-of-home viewing into national ratings data, which is now again scheduled for the fall.

“While gratified by the speed with which Nielsen reversed their postponement plan, it was crystal clear that a quick reversal was Nielsen’s only viable option,” Vab President & CEO Sean Cunningham said in a statement. “Marketers are deep into planning and activation discussions with their multiscreen TV ad sales partners, the last thing advertisers need in 2020 is an unnecessary step backwards from a currency provider. The TV industry’s solidarity in always pushing for innovation made sure that potential delay was eliminated quickly.”

The ratings currency company’s Thursday announcement that it was delaying the implementation of viewership in bars, restaurants, airports and hotels, among other platforms, took networks by surprise. It was also not well-received. Cunningham blasted...

In an explosive forty-minute video -- marking her return to YouTube after a two-month absence -- beauty vlogger Tati Westbrook is shedding new light on her now-infamous feud with James Charles, which ignited the beauty community last year, and saw Charles lose millions of subscribers while dealing a substantial blow to his reputation.

Last May, in a video titled Bye Sister, Westbrook accused Charles of being a disloyal friend with an outsized ego, and for attempting to use his fame to seduce straight men.. Today, however, Westbrook alleges that Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star “used, coerced, and manipulated” her into making the Bye Sister video because they wanted to destroy Charles’ career.

Dawson, for his part, denied allegations that he orchestrated the Bye Sister video in a since-deleted memo posted to Twitter last week, where he announced his departure from YouTube's beauty community, explaining that the drama had become too much to bear.

Doordarshan movie review is here. The comedy drama is helmed by Gagan Puri and stars Mahie Gill, Manu Rishi Chaddha and Dolly Ahluwalia. The movie is released today ? February 28, 2020. Does it tickles our funny bones?. Let?s find out in the movie review of Doordarshan.

Immediate reaction when the end credits roll

Inspired from the 2003 Wolfgang Becker?s German classic Good Bye Lenin! Gagan Puri?s Doordarshan is the latest example of the fixation to tell stories from saadi Dilli (Delhi)/?ya toh phir?the Hindi heartland. Here Khosla Ka Ghosla meets Bareily Ki Barfi with an agenda to tell that Good Bye Lenin! story ignoring the imaginative glory, political insight and the required nostalgia.

The Story of Doordarshan

Sunil (Manu Rishi Chadha) is heading a dysfunctional family. His wife Priya (Mahie Gill) wants divorce. Son Sunny (Shardul Rana) is infatuated by his neighbor?s daughter played by Mehak Manwani.

There’s never been a more opportune time for Latinx artists to impact contemporary R&b than right now. Not that Latinos in R&b are an entirely new phenomenon — as evidenced by old school Chicano Soul artists like the Royal Jesters, or proto-rockeros Cannibal and the Headhunters, who once toured with the Beatles. Yet in recent years, a growing number of new voices have supplemented the genre with touches of Latinidad: including Chicano Batman, Kali Uchis, and Omar Apollo. Nevertheless, when you think of R&b hotbeds, Mexico isn...

Spain’s big shoot business is rocking, galvanized by more regional options and incentives that are highly competitive — at least in rates.

With a long tradition of hosting international productions, Spain earned larger global visibility after “Game of Thrones” filmed there from 2014 to 2018.

Production services has become one of the healthiest audiovisual sectors in Spain, driven by a golden age of local and international TV drama, as well as greater legal stability of its incentives. Spain’s mainland offers 20% tax rebates for international productions, capped at €3 million ($3.4 million); in the Canary Islands, the rate is 40%, with a €5.4 million ($6.1 million) ceiling.

“Tax advantages are attracting all kind of international productions,” says Nostromo’s Adrián Guerra, president of producers’ association Profilm.

“There are so many productions going on all over Spain that it’s becoming difficult to crew up on new productions,” he adds.

Challenges remain. The tax system is predominantly luring low-to-mid-range foreign projects.