Prague-based doc specialist Filmotor has picked up the rights for Julien Elie’s “Shifting Baselines,” set to have its world premiere in the international feature competition at leading doc festival Visions du Réel. “I first encountered the project at VdR-Work in Progress last year and immediately
Believe it or not, Karla Sofia Gascón is still welcome on the Netflix lot. Despite creating a media firestorm around her groundbreaking film “Emilia Pérez’” and its run at this year’s Academy Awards, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos says the company would be open to working
Chris Monfette, a writer and producer on the television series “Star Trek: Picard,” “12 Monkeys” and the upcoming “Marvel’s Vision,” is set to release a genre-mashup book with comics publisher Dark Horse. With the first issue set for release July 23, “TexArcanum” follows Avery Belle,
In the late 1980s, Bilbao’s working-class suburbs were a microcosm of newly democratic Spain’s broader socio-economic transformation. Amidst this, Borja Cobeaga’s upcoming comedy, “Breaking Walls” (“Los Aitas”), heads comedically into the evolution of fatherhood during this pivotal era. “Breaking Walls” is produced by Sayaka Producciones
Swedish director Viktor Nordenskiöld’s “The Eukrainian,” which has its world premiere at Copenhagen’s documentary festival CPH:DOX, is an intimate portrait of Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Olha Stefanishyna, a key figure in the country’s push for European integration. Variety spoke to Nordenskiöld about the film, and
As the Malaga Film Festival’s Country Guest of Honor, the Dominican Republic has sent a number of standout productions, among them, family dramedy “Perez Rodriguez” from Lantica Studios. One of the key driving forces behind the Caribbean nation’s uptick in local filmmaking, Lantica Studios has
Taika Waititi, Mia Wasikowska, David Walliams, Richard Roxburgh, Penelope Wilton, Blake Harrison and Robyn Nevin are set to star alongside newcomer Iona Bell in the screen adaptation of David Walliams’ international best-selling children’s book “Fing.” Variety reported in November that Waititi was in talks to
A24’s “Warfare” is launching an Imax run with early screenings beginning April 9. The film, written and directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza and “Civil War” helmer Alex Garland, opens wide on April 11. Tickets are available for purchase now at the Imax website.