Specializing in European co-productions, Vienna-based boutique shingle Pont Pictures is spearheading an innovative initiative to boost international collaborations by leveraging Austrian film funding incentives. Pont Pictures head Philipp Mair Vargas has unveiled a model that utilizes the 60% co-production incentive offered by the Austrian Film
“Wicked,” “Conclave” and “A Complete Unknown” were among the film winners at the 40th annual Casting Society Artios Awards. The ceremony honors top casting in the year’s films, TV and theater. The celebrations were in person for the first time in three years, taking place in Los Angeles and
AGC Studios, Stuart Ford’s independent content studio, is promoting sales and distribution executive Sara Ghorra to vice president. Ford, chairman and CEO, said, “Since joining the company three years ago Sara’s drive and energy coupled with keen multi-cultural instincts have made her an important player
The 2025 awards season may still be a few weeks from its final hurrah, but it’s already had an impact on the film industry as buyers and sellers prepare to congregate once more at the European Film Market in Berlin. With a lineup of Oscar
New Europe Film Sales has pre-sold Hlynur Pálmason’s family drama “The Love That Remains” to multiple territories. Pálmason’s last film, “Godland,” debuted in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2022, and made it to the Oscar shortlist in the international feature film category. Following its appearance
He may be Hollywood’s newly-crowned It boy thanks to his starring role in “Babygirl” opposite Nicole Kidman, but Harris Dickinson has already made moves behind the camera. The British actor’s directorial feature debut “Urchin” — now in post-production — is heading to the European Film Market in
Oliver Hirschbiegel, the director of Oscar-nominated “Downfall” and European Film Award nominee “The Experiment,” and Peter Harness, the writer, creator and executive producer of Apple TV’s “Constellation,” have boarded the film adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s sci-fi novel “The Inquest of Pilot Pirx.” They join sci-fi
Blake Lively’s lawyers sent a subpoena on Wednesday for Justin Baldoni’s phone records, as they seek to buttress their allegation that he launched a smear campaign against her. Lively is suing her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star, alleging that he and his publicists