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The Busan International Film Festival will expand its screening program by some 8% in what it calls “an effort to maintain a scale befitting...

Charades has taken international sales rights to “Il tempo che ci vuole” (The Time It Takes), directed by Francesca Comencini. The film will...

U.K.-based Blue Finch Films has acquired worldwide rights to the supernatural horror film “A Mother’s Embrace” from director Cristian Ponce....

Pulsar Content has boarded “A Survivor’s Tale,” produced by KG Prods. (“Custody”), the banner founded by Costa Gavras and Michèle Ray-Gavras...

In a landscape where South Indian cinema is reaching new heights, AGS Entertainment is poised to make its mark with its most ambitious proje...

Five years ago, French writer-director Claude Lelouch returned, for the second time, to the site of his greatest career success with “The Be...

Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua turns the lens on modern surveillance culture in his latest feature, ”Stranger Eyes,” which is vying for t...

Japan is one country in focus at the Venice Production Bridge, with Wallonia-Brussels & Luxembourg also under the spotlight. Projects with J...

Sarah Friedland isn’t done talking about the body just yet. “My next film will be centered around it too. I’m working on a script that blend...

A traditional way of life in the rural hinterlands of South Africa is put to the test when an upscale development arrives on the region’s do...

Manta, one of the leading platforms for subscription-based digital comics, says it will add over 300 webcomic titles over the next year. It...

The 51st edition of the Telluride Film Festival concluded on Labor Day, with three standout films generating significant Oscar buzz: Sean Ba...

Park Hoon-jung, an in-demand director of action-noir films, will begin production this month on “Tristes Tropiques.” The picture will be lau...

James Darren, who went from teen idol status acting in youth-oriented movies like “Gidget” to become an actor in TV shows such as “Star Trek...

The late Ian Holm — who played the role of android Ash, an antagonist in 1979’s “Alien” — has generated plenty of attention with his return...

Asif Kapadia sees a future vision of the world where “chairwoman” Ivanka Trump is celebrating her 30th year as leader of a nightmarish fasci...

Netflix’s “Unfinished Beef,” a live competitive-eating special follows in the plodding footsteps set forth by the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Ea...

Joey Chestnut defeated Takeru Kobayashi in Netflix’s hot dog-eating contest in Las Vegas, Nev., on Monday. Chestnut and Kobayashi, two of th...

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton stunned Venice Film Festival on Monday night with the premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” w...

People are falling in love with “Anora.” Sean Baker has made his mark on indie cinema with notable features such as “The Florida Project” an...

“The Piano Lesson” seems to be hitting all the right Oscar notes. With Black excellence, impeccable filmmaking, and towering performances, N...

Angelina Jolie received a thunderous, eight-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival following the world premiere of Pablo Larraí...

Giulio Donato’s “Labyrinths,” which plays in an Out of Competition slot at Venice Days, an independent sidebar to the Venice Film Festival,...

J.K. Rowling is among a number of voices including former Olympic athletes decrying the inclusion of a trans sprinter in the women’s sprinti...

you might say that the movies, in some grand collective way, are nothing less than a rehearsal for death. Yet it’s still rare to encounter a...