Julie Gordon, a longtime music executive who is perhaps best known as the founder of the Velvet Rope, an influential, 1990s music-industry online communications network/ gossip hive, has died. She had been undergoing treatment for cancer for several years, chronicling her struggle on social media
Iranian cinema icon Jafar Panahi will mark the lifting of his 14-year travel ban by attending the 35th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF). The festival’s lineup spotlights rising Singaporean talent and international auteurs. The festival will open with Yeo Siew Hua’s “Stranger Eyes,” the first
Ron Hale, known for his role as Dr. Roger Coleridge on the ABC soap opera “Ryan’s Hope,” has died. He was 78. Hale, who lived in St. George, S.C. died Aug. 27, his family announced. A cause of death was not disclosed. Hale played Roger
Commissioners from four of Europe’s top public broadcasters assembled in Madrid on Tuesday for a roundtable discussion about what they’re looking for in potential scripted projects. Hosted by the Iberseries & Platino Industria forum and emceed by María Valenzuela, the panel included speakers Morad Koufane,
Chile’s Storyboard Media, run by Gabriela Sandoval and Carlos Nuñez, has boarded crime drama “Wildness” (“Salvajes”) by two of Latin America’s leading women filmmakers, Claudia Huaiquimilla from Chile and Peru’s Joanna Lombardi. Pact was sealed at Madrid-based confab Iberseries & Platino Industria where the project
Beta Film, one of Europe’s biggest and most ambitious independents, has unveiled its Mipcom sales slate, led by 10-part epic “Rise of the Raven,” plus a new pick-up, “Last to Brake,” based on the true story of Finnish motorcycle racing great Jarno Saarinen, and now
“Gomorrah,” the gritty Neapolitan mob series that became Italy’s biggest TV export, is back — albeit in a different time frame. Shooting is set to start in early 2025 in Naples on “Gomorrah – The Series. The Origins,” the hit crime drama’s previously announced origin
The European Film Academy has announced that documentaries and animated features will now be considered for the European Film prize at its annual awards. The category had previously only included fiction films. “The aim of this change is to better reflect the fact that documentaries