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Robert Duvall was a true original, on and off the screen, who had a multitude of quirks and interests as a person but was never anything less than a consummate professional and “marvelous…
Apple Podcasts is finally giving video a full embrace. The tech giant, which pioneered the podcast audio format and helped popularize it, has faced stepped-up competition from video…
Drop the definite article and you have a more apt title for “At the Sea,” a drab and laborious recovery drama with a mystifying amount of major-league talent behind it. The second…
Faraz Shariat’s thriller “Prosecution,” which had its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section, has been sold to Memento in France. New Europe Film Sales is handling world sales.…
The shortest, scariest movie of the year has arrived — and you can watch it right now. “Dead Grandma,” which is written and directed by Rachel Kempf and Nick Toti, is set to debut at the…
Two days after Rupert Grint’s candid, and possibly sarcastic, declaration — “Obviously I’m against (fascism)” — reverberated across Potsdamer Platz and became a meme, Berlin Film Festival…
After a stint on the big screen, SpongeBob SquarePants is heading back to the small screen. Paramount+ announced that “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants” will make its streaming…
Lars Eidinger has still gotten over the fact that he didn’t get to play a vampire in “The Blood Countess,” starring Isabelle Huppert and directed by celebrated German filmmaker Ulrike…
German-Lebanese thesp Kida Khodr Ramadan, the “4 Blocks” standout whose profile jumped internationally via Amazon Prime Video, is set to star in “GÖZ,” a radical contemporary reimagining…
International sales and production company EST N8 has acquired worldwide rights to “Janur Ireng: Sewu Dino the Prequel,” a supernatural horror feature from Indonesian filmmaker Kimo…
“Tehran” producer Dana Eden has died during the Season 4 shoot of the hit Apple TV+ series in Greece. She was 52. No cause of death has been confirmed but Shula and Donna Productions, the…
Branded entertainment executives Anthony Damianakis and Pete Fergusson are launching an ambitious startup called IPX headquartered in Dubai, with offices also in London and Sydney. The…
Chinese tech giant ByteDance has committed to strengthening safeguards for its controversial AI video generation tool Seedance 2.0 following a barrage of cease-and-desist letters from…
“The Taste of Salt,” a narrative feature from Deepak Rauniyar inspired by the life of renowned Nepali chef Santosh Shah, has debuted at the 2026 Berlinale Co-Production Market. Rauniyar’s…
Finance and sales outfit Global Constellation has boarded international sales on the upcoming live-action family feature “Emil and the Detectives.” The film is a contemporary adaptation of…
Japan‘s premium video-on-demand sector achieved $7.2 billion in total revenue during 2025, marking a 15% year-over-year increase, according to a new report from Media Partners Asia. The…
Emma Laird recalls a moment — not all that long ago — when she was stood on the rooftop of her apartment in Los Angeles, looking out across a picture-postcard sunset skyline and smoking a…
The Berlin Film Festival has issued a lengthy statement from head Tricia Tuttle over what it describes as a “media storm” that has swept over the festival. The note — sent out late on…
Rafael Manuel spent seven or eight years developing “Filipinana,” his debut feature about a teenage girl working at an elite Manila country club — years before HBO’s “The White Lotus”…
HBO has built its reputation on delivering some of the most recognizable TV of all time. The network has been home to culture-defining hits, including The Sopranos, Game of Thrones,Band of…
“Wuthering Heights” production designer Suzie Davies was excited to get a call from Emerald Fennell, since she’d worked on period dramas from this era before — not to mention on Fennell’s…
Dua Lipa made a surprise appearance at Berlin Film Festival on Saturday night to accompany her fiancé, Callum Turner, at the world premiere of his new film “Rosebush Pruning.” The couple…
When the time came for Karim Aïnouz to direct his first English-language feature a few years ago, few would have bet on it being “Firebrand.” A historical drama based on the life of Henry…
The Friday box office fell in love with Emerald Fennell’s sexy literary drama “Wuthering Heights,” which won out over fellow newcomers “GOAT” and “Crime 101” to claim the No. 1 spot.…
