While 2024 will be remembered by many in the entertainment biz as an uphill battle and a make-or-break transition time, for a number of talents working in international film and TV, it will be considered the year where everything changed — a breakout period when new doors opened, calls were answered and bigger projects started […]

By most standards, Sandhya Suri’s fiction feature debut “Santosh” is already a hit. After premiering in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar, the Hindi-language crime thriller about a widow who inherits her late husband’s police officer job in rural India, has gone on to win the Golden Frog for debut director in Camerimage, land a European […]

Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan may both have two films each vying for awards contention this year in Chalamet’s “A Complete Unknown” and “Dune: Part Two” and Ronan’s “The Outrun” and “Blitz,” but the pair took the time to reunite in London to discuss two films they appeared in together at the earlier stages of […]

Writer and executive producer Ed Solomon, whose extensive list of credits includes the “Men in Black” and “Bill & Ted” film series, has signed with London and L.A.-based management and production company 42. Solomon’s upcoming projects include Steven Soderbergh’s “The Christophers,” set to star Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel and James Corden and about the estranged children […]

Liverpool FC, one of the best known and most successful soccer clubs in the world and current leaders of the English Premier League, is getting the TV drama treatment from A24, with Jack Thorne (“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” “His Dark Materials”) attached to write. The series, being produced in association with sports content […]

Artem Vasilyev, the Russian producer and CEO of Metrafilms and its animation arm Studio Metrafilms, has launched the new label Lazy Sunday, based in Ireland and dedicated to developing and producing both animation and live-action projects for international audiences. The new outfit will serve as a bridge linking Western Europe with Eastern Europe, Vasilyev hopes, […]

It may still be early days in the awards race, but when it comes to the actual number of gongs won so far, a low-budget Irish-language comedy biopic about a rowdy Belfast rap trio can count itself among the leading pack of films. “Kneecap,” a wild and semi-autobiographical tale about the formation of the band […]

Paul Mescal’s next major project looks set to be Sam Mendes’ much-discussed four-part biopic film series about The Beatles for Sony Pictures. The casting — which was first rumoured in the summer — was brought up by Mescal’s “Gladiator 2” director Ridley Scott in a conversation with Christopher Nolan on Tuesday at the Directors Guild of America, […]

“There’s a real honesty and integrity to it all,” says Felicity Jones, looking out across a sea of concrete. “You can really see the correspondence between the psyche coming out of the Second World War and the architecture.” The British actress is taking in the view at the Barbican, perhaps London’s most famous Brutalist construction […]

Victoria Beckham’s upcoming Netflix documentary series is finally able to name its director. Nadia Hallgren, who directed the Michelle Obama doc “Becoming,” is helming the show, Variety can reveal. The as-yet-untitled series, which started production in August, will follow Beckham’s journey from Spice Girls superstardom in the ‘90s to modern fashion maven. As per the […]

David Tennant is set to make a BAFTA double and return as host of the British Academy’s next film awards. After hosting the 77th BAFTAs earlier this year, the “Doctor Who” and “Good Omens” star — recently seen in the hit Disney+ show “Rivals” — will be back on stage at the 78th awards, to be […]

“Kneecap,” the hit Irish comedy biopic about the Belfast rap group of the same name, has landed the top honor at the British Independent Film Awards and a total of seven BIFA awards overall. Writer/director Rich Peppiatt’s debut feature — which went into Sunday’s ceremony already having won four BIFA craft awards — was named best British […]

As one of a handful of actresses in Hollywood who have successfully crossed over into directing, Olivia Wilde claims one of the reasons for this small number was the messaging given to children when they express an interest in cinema. “I think for many young women, when we love movies as little girls, we’re told, […]

Since bursting on the scene in 1998 as a scruffier and scrappier distant cousin to the BAFTAs, the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) have been an early bellwether for future talent in front of and behind the camera. Giving a very early shout out to some of the biggest stars working today is the BIFAs […]