Indonesian filmmaker Angga Dwimas Sasongko is making a return to the director’s chair with “Queen of Malacca,” a crime-action thriller that melds Southeast Asian mysticism with gritty underworld violence. The project was unveiled at the Cannes market. Sasongko heads Indonesian studio Visinema. After spending two
“The Bondsman” has been canceled at Amazon after just one season, Variety has learned. The action horror series originally debuted its entire eight-episode first season on Prime Video on April 3. Amazon has not released any viewership information for the show, but it did make
Acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa, whose “Plan 75” earned a Camera d’Or Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival, is back on the Croisette with competition title “Renoir,” a coming-of-age drama set during Japan’s economic bubble of the late 1980s. The film follows Fuki, a
She presents Lidia Yuknavitch’s story as a series of impressionistic closeup moments that sear themselves into you as if every shot were a sentence ripped from a hidden diary. This is the beauty of what movies can do. They can be voyeuristic and honest —
Vertical has acquired North American rights to William Kaufman’s sci-fi thriller “Osiris,” starring Max Martini, Brianna Hildebrand, LaMonica Garrett, Linds Edwards and Linda Hamilton. Written by Kaufman and Paul Reichelt, “Osiris” follows “a team of Special Forces commandos in the middle of an operation who
Kate Mara didn’t know exactly what she was getting into with Tim Robinson before joining the cast of “Friendship.” She wasn’t familiar with “I Think You Should Leave,” the absurdist Netflix sketch comedy created by Robinson and Zach Kanin – and “Friendship” very much plays
Bono was on hand at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday night for the world premiere of his new Apple documentary, “Bono: Stories of Surrender,” where the U2 frontman received a 7-minute standing ovation following the screening. Bono grew emotional during the minutes-long ovation. As
The Department of Homeland Security is criticizing a report by the Daily Mail that suggests it might take part in a reality show that would offer immigrants a chance to compete for American citizenship. “Fake News Friday,” the DHS announced in a press release, where