Category Archives: Variety

‘Monte Cristo’: Pathe Boss Ardavan Safaee Shares Strategy Behind French Box Office Reign, and Company’s English-Language Plans (EXCLUSIVE)
French studio Path has seen its marketing and programming strategy pay off with “The Count of Monte Cristo,” an epic adventure film adapted from Alexandre Dumas' classic which struck box o...
Elskes Sep 10, 2024

Screen Masters International Goes Global: Agency Expands to 11 Territories (EXCLUSIVE)
Screen Masters International, founded by Kelly Warnell, has expanded its operations to become a global ultra-agency, aiming to make an impact across the film, television, games, music, and arts indust...
Naman Ramachandran Sep 10, 2024

‘The Apprentice’ Trailer: Sebastian Stan Is Donald Trump in Ali Abbasi’s Biopic
The first trailer for the Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice,” starring Sebastian Stan as the businessman and former U.S. president, has been released. The film follows Trump’s rise...
Selena Kuznikov Sep 10, 2024

Religious Drama ‘Judas’ Gospel,’ Starring Rupert Everett, Paz Vega, John Savage and Abel Ferrara, Scores Latin American Sale (EXCLUSIVE)
Religious drama “Judas' Gospel,” directed by Italy’s Giulio Base and starring Rupert Everett, Paz Vega, John Savage and Abel Ferrara, has scored its first pre-sale with distributor P...
Nvivarelli Sep 10, 2024

Audrey Diwan, Florian Zeller and Patrick Wachsberger Join France’s Revamped Oscar Committee
France’s National Film Board has unveiled its revamped and expanded Oscar committee which is presided over by Charles Tesson, the former artistic director of Cannes’ Critics Week. Along wi...
Elskes Sep 10, 2024

NTR Jr’s ‘Devara Part 1’ Unveils Trailer
“Devara Part 1,” the next film from Indian star NTR Jr after the Golden Globe and Oscar-winning “RRR,” has unveiled a trailer. The action saga set in India’s coast lands,...
Naman Ramachandran Sep 10, 2024

CAA’s Roeg Sutherland to Receive Game Changer Award During Zurich Film Festival
Roeg Sutherland, CAA's co-head of the media finance department and co-head of the International Film Group, will be honored with the Game Changer Award for his “outstanding achievements and cont...
Leo Barraclough Sep 10, 2024

‘Call My Agent!’s’ Ophélia Kolb Portrays a Woman at Odds with Society in Jasmin Gordon’s Toronto Feature Debut ‘The Courageous’
"Call My Agent!"'s Ophlia Kolb plays a struggling mother on the edge of society in "The Courageous" ("Les Courageux"), Swiss-American Jasmin Gordon's first foray into narrative feature filmmaking, whi...
Anna Marie de la Fuente Sep 10, 2024

‘Young Stalin’ Biopic in Works From ‘Zone of Interest’ Producer Access Entertainment, Georgian Banner Independent Film Project (EXCLUSIVE)
“Young Stalin,” Simon Sebag Montefiore’s biography chronicling the life of Joseph Stalin as a bank-robbing gangster in pre-revolutionary Russia, is being adapted for film. The featur...
Alex Ritman Sep 10, 2024

El Estudio, Pablo Guisa, Pirotecnia, 4 Ways Co-Production ‘A Fisherman’s Tale’ to Bow at Spain’s Sitges Festival (EXCLUSIVE)
Edgar Nito, whose debut feature “The Gasoline Thieves'' won the Best New Narrative Director award at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, is taking his second feature, "A Fisherman's Tale," to world ...
Anna Marie de la Fuente Sep 10, 2024