While the upcoming “Harry Potter” TV series may be mostly shrouded in a cloak of invisibility while the show is being carefully developed, the head of TV at Warner Bros. offered a few morsels of information. Speaking at Mipcom in Cannes, Channing Dungey who serves as Warner Bros. TV Group’s chairman and CEO, said that […]

Ireland has long been home to many major Hollywood productions, but an upcoming comedy series goes a little meta, turning the focus on the chaos that ensues when an actual big-budget Hollywood TV show comes to a small Irish town.  “Small Town Big Story” — Sky Studios, Playground, FilmNation and Hot Cod Productions — was written and […]

The feature debut of renowned music video director Colin Tilley will be shopped at the upcoming American Film Market. “Eye for an Eye,” a sinister revenge horror set in the marshlands of Florida and starring Whitney Peak (“Gossip Girl”, “Hocus Pocus 2”), is being launched at the market by HanWay Films, which is repping international […]

After claiming the Cristal at Annecy earlier in the year, Australian animation “Memoir of a Snail” has now won the top honor at the BFI London Film Festival. Adam Eliot’s acclaimed stop-motion feature won the best film award in the official competition, selected by a jury led by Alexandre O. Philippe. “Our jury was incredibly […]

A documentary exposing a network of far-right activists in the U.K. has been pulled from the BFI London Film Festival at the last minute over safety concerns.  Due to the content of “Undercover: Exposing the Far Right,” the film was yet to be formally announced by the festival, which was set to unveil it on […]

Brian Cox’s feature directorial debut “Glenrothan” — billed as his “love letter to Scotland” — has wrapped production, with a first look revealed showing the “Succession” star alongside Alan Cumming in a room full of whisky barrels. Alongside revealing a first look from the feature, Protagonist Pictures has come aboard for worldwide sales and is set to […]

Rising star Martin Bobb-Semple has signed with UTA. The 27-year-old British actor was recently seen on the CW’s sports drama series and “All American” spin-off “All American: Homecoming,” playing lead Orlando ‘Lando’ Johnson, a talented baseball player and one of the main characters across all three seasons. Bobb-Semple also starred in two seasons of Peacock’s […]

“The Brutalist” was one of the buzziest titles to come out of the Venice Film Festival, pushing filmmaker Brady Corbet immediately into many Oscar predictions lists for best director. Many might not be aware that, 20 years earlier, Corbet was the teenage lead star of the film “Thunderbirds.” This cinematic fact was revealed on stage […]

There’s an unexpected needle drop in Sean Baker’s screwball sex worker comedy “Anora” — and it kicks off the whole film. “Anora,” which won the Palme d’Or earlier this year and looks set to be a major awards darling, opens with a five-minute sequence set in a New York strip club, where Mikey Madison’s lead character […]

Jason Wong, the British actor best known for “Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves” and his frequent collaborations with Guy Ritchie (“The Gentleman,” “Wrath of Man,” “The Covenant”), has joined the cast of Lionsgate’s action-thriller “Mutiny” alongside Jason Statham and Annabelle Wallis. Being directed by “Plane” helmer Jean-François Richet, the pic is being produced by […]

Sound designer Johnnie Burn — a newly-minted Oscar winner for his acclaimed work on “The Zone of Interest” — has detailed the thorough and deeply considered process that went into recreating the sounds of Auschwitz for Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama. With the film telling the real-life story of German SS officer Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, […]

AMC’s genre streamer Shudder and picked up North American, U.K., Irish, Australian and New Zealand rights to “Fréwaka,” billed as the first Irish-language horror. Written and directed by Aislinn Clarke and starring Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain and Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya, the film — which features both the Irish and English language — recently world premiered at the 2024 […]

On a flight not so long ago, Ella Purnell managed to terrify the woman sat next to her after accidentally giving her a glimpse of the recent viewing history on her laptop. “It was basically 50 shows about serial killers,” she recalls, speaking over coffee in a café near her flat in East London (which […]

A24 has bought U.S. distribution right to “Pillion,” a film described as a “fun and filthy romance with heart” and starring Alexander Skarsgard (“The Northman,” “Succession”) and Harry Melling (“The Pale Blue Eye,” “The Queen’s Gambit”). Produced by multi-Oscar-winning powerhouse Element Pictures, “Pillion” — which wrapped earlier this summer — marks the feature debut of Harry Lighton, whose short “Wren […]

“Gladiator 2,” the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning epic, is set to begin its bloody campaign in London, where a global premiere will take place on Nov. 13. Paramount Pictures has teamed with The Film and TV Charity to make the world premiere a Royal Film Performance, a fundraising event that, as the name […]

Steve McQueen is set to open the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday night with a world premiere — and it’s not his first time doing so. But his new film “Blitz” is very different from crime thriller “Widows,” which lifted the curtain back in 2018. “Blitz” is set in WWII London as it came under […]

“Night of the Zoopocalypse,” the spooky animated family comedy featuring the voices of David Harbour (“Stranger Things”), Scott Thompson (“The Kids in the Hall”), Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (“The Mandalorian”) and Gabbi Kosmidis (“Unicorn Academy”) has been picked up by Viva Pictures for the U.S. The deal was brokered with Charades and Anton, who were handling […]

Mubi has acquired “Queer,” Luca Guadagnino’s trippy adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novel that recently bowed in competition in Venice, in a multi-territory deal. In another significant statement of intent, the fast-rising arthouse distributor, streamer and production company — whose festival acquisitions spree appears to still be on a major roll — picked up all rights […]

Neo Sora’s narrative debut “Happyend,” a dystopian portrait of rebellious youth fighting for a better future that first bowed in Venice’s Horizons section, has sold to multiple territories for Magnify, the international sales arm of Magnolia Pictures. In addition to Metrograph Pictures, which grabbed North American rights last month and will be releasing theatrically in […]