Category Archives: Variety

Rome Kanda (“Maniac,” “The Informant!”) and Kuroki Hitomi (“Tokyo Tower,” “Dark Water”) star in “Ohenro,” a Japanese-language drama written ...

Emotion Pictures, the newly launched English-language commercial film banner from Vendme Group, Path and Merit France, will produce the feature film “Muppets in Moscow” in partnership with...

A horror and dark genre film festival, the Yami International Film Festival, will hold its inaugural edition Nov. 20-26 at Human Trust Cinema Shibuya in Tokyo, organizers revealed at Cannes. The festi...

A curated slate of four feature-length documentaries exploring themes ranging from rural Indian healthcare to intergenerational family conflict has been unveiled by Bombay Berlin Film Productions (BBF...

Unifrance's 10 to Watch initiative, launched in 2014, recognizes rising French film talent - and the org works to boost their visibility beyond France. The 10 artists selected were chosen by a committ...

Spanish genre distributor Wild Duck Productions has acquired rights to Indian filmmaker Bhargav Saikia’s folk horror “Bokshi” for a Halloween theatrical release, following the film&#...

Lauded Brazilian director Carolina Markowicz, who won the TIFF Award for Best Directing in 2023 with "Charcoal," will start shooting "The Funeral" in Brazil from next week. Production starts in So Pau...

The Artemis Rising Foundation and Think-Film Impact Production are back in Cannes with the Golden Globes to present the Golden Globes Prize for Documentary. The juried prize honors a documentary filmm...

Five years since directing a segment of the anthology film "The Year of the Everlasting Storm," renowned Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor is back in Cannes with "La Perra." Premiering at Directors' ...

Italian director and producer Michela Scolari has acquired global rights to the story of Yassmin Pucci Pahlavi, granddaughter of the last shah of Iran - and cousin to Iran's exiled crown prince Reza P...