Saudi Arabian film industry pioneer Faisal Baltyuor has been appointed CEO of the Red Sea Foundation which oversees the Jeddah-based Red Sea Film Festival, the Red Sea Fund, and its year-round Red Sea Labs. He will replace acting CEO Mohammed Asseri effective June 1. Baltyour has
International Emmy Award-winning Thai actor Aokbab Chutimon (“Hunger,” “Bad Genius”) will headline the upcoming supernatural horror film “Fortune Seekers,” with Bangkok-based Night Edge Pictures launching international sales at the Cannes Market. The horror thriller marks a genre departure for both Chutimon and director Yanyong Kuruaungkoul,
Copenhagen-based TrustNordisk has inked further deals and unveiled the first-look image to the dark comedy “The Last Viking” written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen (“Riders of Justice”). Toplining the cast are his usual “partners in crime” Mads Mikkelsen (“Another Round,” “Fantastic Beasts”) and Nikolaj
L.A.-based the Mediapro Studio U.S. & Canada has secured film adaptation rights to “The Museum of Cursed Artifacts,” an upcoming novel by Evan Spiliotopoulos, writer of 2017 Disney blockbuster “Beauty and the Beast.” Described by the Mediapro Studio as action-packed, blending suspense, adventure and supernatural
German stars Moritz Bleibtreu (“Call My Agent! — Berlin”) and Kida Khodr Ramadan (“Four Blocks”) are set to star in timely gay immigration drama “Hijiamat,” which Arthood Entertainment is pre-selling in Cannes. “Hijiamat” is to be directed by Germany-based Iranian director Nadar Seimar. Principal photography will start
Anna Hints, the Estonian director behind acclaimed documentary “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood,” is unleashing “Black Hairy Beast,” a folk story and body horror musical “inspired by a personal love story,” she revealed to Variety. “At its core, the film is about love set against the expectations and
FilmSharks has secured international sales rights for “The Woman in the Line” (“La Mujer de la Fila”), a dramatic thriller from acclaimed Argentine director Benjamín Ávila. Ávila is best-known for “Clandestine Childhood” (“Infancia Clandestina”), which premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and was Argentina’s official Oscar
Kelvin Harrison Jr. has been cast as Beetee in Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping,” an adaptation of the bestselling book by Suzanne Collins. He joins previously announced cast members Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy, Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird, Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner and