Spike Lee has boarded as an executive producer on Chinese-Lebanese Spanish-born filmmaker Joecar Hanna’s short film “Talk Me,” which has been selected by Cannes Film Festival to run in its Cinef section, a selection of 13 live-action and three animated films from among the 2,700
Cannes Critics’ Week has revealed the jury for its Next Step program’s €2,500 ($2,835) development prize, with three key industry figures set to select the most promising debut feature project from the talent incubator. Priscilla Bertin, producer at Silex Films; Stefano Centini, producer at Volos
10 directors from eight countries are set to pitch their latest projects in development to a select group of VIP private investors in Cannes as part of the Marche du Film’s Investors Circle initiative. The list of filmmakers includes Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese, Belgian director
Held under clear skies, Canneseries kickstarted Thursday with much panache via the out-of-competition French premiere of Paramount+’s ‘”The Agency,” a remake of the French hit thriller “The Bureau.” For its eighth edition, the festival was slightly overshadowed, however, when jury president Norman Reedus of “The Walking Dead: Daryl
Canneseries’ Norwegian competition entry “Nepobaby,” showrun by Henriette Steenstrup (“Pørni”) and Siri Seljeseth (“Young & Promising”), has been picked up by Be.tv for Belgium and RÚV for Iceland. The news was broken by sales outfit Oble as the French series festival, running April 24-29, hit full
Some stories begin with a meet-cute, Norwegian series “Rebound” with a devastating break-up nobody saw coming. Premiering at Canneseries, it sees Alex (Mathilde Storm), back from a holiday in Bali. She’s happy to see her on-again, off-again boyfriend Mikkel, even though things have been rocky
Canneseries entry “How to Kill Your Sister” takes on “The Big C.” In the Belgian-German series, one of three Banijay Entertainment titles at Canneseries, terminally ill Anna (Emma Rotsaert) shows up at her sister’s doorstep after eight years of silence following their parents’ passing (Sofie
If the economic uncertainty of the past few weeks leads the U.S. into a full-fledged recession, studio and streamer marketing chiefs are confident Hollywood will hang tough against the headwinds. That was one of the major themes discussed Thursday by a half-dozen senior film and