At one point in Fernando Eimbcke’s “Olmo” two adolescents are let into a party. Now, this isn’t the party the titular character and his trusty best pal are looking for, but the drinks are flowing, the mood is light and the music sounds good all
Malian director Souleymane Cissé, the African cinema pioneer who over five decades gained prominence for works infused with deep humanism and political engagement, died on Wednesday. He was 84. News of Cissé’s death was announced by his daughter, Mariam Cissé. “Papa died today in Bamako. We
Kirsten Sheridan, the Oscar-nominated writer who recently wrote several episodes of hit FX series “Say Nothing” and was an exec producer on the Sky/Peacock drama “Lockerbie: A Search for Truth,” is set to bring the story of one of Ireland’s national heroes to the big
You can see why Munir, a soul-sick writer from an unspecified country in the Middle East, chooses Germany’s remote Hallig Islands as the place to end it all. The soft, watery landscape serves as a suitably calm and scenic backdrop to one’s final days on
It’s time to “Check the Czechs” as the new Audiovisual Fund comes into force. “That’s what it says on my T-shirt. You should ‘check the Czechs’ because we are ready. There’re lots of good producers, so let’s go,” teased Vratislav Šlajer, chairman of the Association
Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision narrowed its losses in the fourth-quarter despite a $900 million non-cash impairment charge and declines in revenue at its Mexican operations after the company worked to streamline the merger that placed the Univision television network and the Televisa TV operations under
Piece of Magic Entertainment has acquired theatrical rights from Mercury Studios for “One to One: John & Yoko” across a broad swath of European territories, including France, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
France TV Distribution, the sales and co-production arm of public broadcaster France Televisions Group, is launching international distribution on Season 2 of comedy series “Aspergirl” at the upcoming edition of Mip London, set for February 23-27. Distributed worldwide by France TV distribution, the country’s biggest