Category Archives: Variety
‘Spring Came on Laughing’ Director and Producer on Revealing the Secrets of Egyptian Women’s Lives and Why Flowers Dictated the Schedule
"Spring Came on Laughing," the only Egyptian film in competition at the Cairo Film Festival, is the debut feature of Noha Adel. It is rich in music and messy, full of noisy life, taking the form of a ...
Nov 21, 2024
‘A Want in Her’ Review: A Daughter’s Shattering Testament to Her Mother’s Absence, Presence and Endurance
On a busy Belfast shopping street, in broad daylight, filmmaker Myrid Carten observes a woman slumped on a sidewalk bench, her head hidden in a gray hoody, her right hand clasping a bottle of red wine...
Nov 21, 2024
Marrakech Film Fest Artistic Director on Why Having Jacob Elordi and Andrew Garfield as Jurors ‘Means a Lot’ for Young Filmmakers
For its upcoming edition, the Marrakech Film Festival is pulling out all the stops. After a more subdued edition last year due to the Israel-Hamas conflict and the effects of a disastrous earthquake, ...
Nov 21, 2024
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel to Step Down After Trump Takes Office
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced that she intends to depart the agency on Jan. 20, 2025, when President-elect Donald Trump assumes office. Trump has picked Brendan Carr, the senior Republi...
Nov 21, 2024
U.S. Government Seeks to Force Google to Sell Chrome Browser to Rectify Search ‘Monopoly’
In a proposal that could radically alter the internet, the Justice Department is seeking to break up Google — by forcing it to divest the popular Chrome browser — as a way to end its monop...
Nov 21, 2024
‘Stree,’ Indian Horror Hit Film, Set for Multiple Sequels, Targets Return to Madhya Pradesh
"Stree 2," already Bollywood's biggest hit film of the year, and India's second highest grossing film of 2024, is poised to be joined by one or more sequels, its director Amar Kaushik said on Wednesda...
Nov 21, 2024
How ‘Replica’ Director Chouwa Liang Fell in Love With an AI Bot — and Is Using the Experience to Convey What It’s Like to Be a Woman in China
In a modern world where work creeps further and further into one's personal life, eating away at time and energy alike, it is a familiar feeling to realize you don't have as much time as you would lik...
Nov 21, 2024
Spike Lee to Head Jury of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival
Spike Lee will preside over the jury of the fourth edition of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival. "Looking towards our fourth edition, we're honored to welcome the legendary Spike Lee as our p...
Nov 21, 2024
‘All Is Well’ Filmmakers on Chronicling the Life of Ukrainian Refugees in Amsterdam Amid Far-Right Rise: ‘Our Friends Ask How This Could Happen’
Dutch documentarians Peter Lataster and Petra Lataster-Czisch are veterans on their home turf of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam - where they won Best Dutch Film in 2014 and 2022...
Nov 21, 2024
Corsican Crime Drama ‘The Kingdom,’ Cannes Hit, Lands at Vertigo for U.K., Ireland (EXCLUSIVE)
Vertigo Releasing has acquired U.K. and Ireland distribution rights to “The Kingdom,” directed by Corsican filmmaker Julien Colonna. The organized crime thriller and coming-of-age drama is...
Nov 21, 2024