Category Archives: Variety

It's a high-stakes gambit to assemble a cast of relative newcomers for a first feature film - especially when that film is set against the sprawling, kinetic, unpredictable backdrop of the Nigerian me...

India is mounting its most comprehensive presence at the Berlinale in recent years, with six films screening across the festival’s Generation, Forum, Forum Expanded and Classics sections while t...

In a bold move to take Spain's biggest comedy franchise to the world, Film Factory has secured international sales rights to "Torrente for President," created, directed and starring Santiago Segura as...

Rome-based TVCO has seized worldwide distribution rights – excluding Latin America – to "Hidden Island" ("Isla oculta"), a high-concept sci-fi series from Chile's Rio Estudios. "TVCO's lon...

Indonesian filmmaker Edwin makes his first proper foray into horror with “Sleep No More,” a darkly comic supernatural thriller that transforms labor exploitation into the source of terror ...

Dissident Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi - known internationally for works such as "Women Without Shadows,” “Travelogue" and "Son-Mother" - is at the Berlinale with “Roya," about...

Following the breakout success of her debut feature, “A Dance With Rainbows,” director Lee Yi-shan is developing supernatural crime thriller “Ghostbusters Club” (working title)...

France’s Blue Monday Prods. has boarded Kerala-set drama “Kurinji” as a co-producer alongside U.S.-based FilmKaravan and India’s Eastern Eagle Production. The partnership was u...

Casey Wasserman has decided to put his namesake talent agency and marketing firm up for sale while he grapples with the intense fallout from the revelations of his past relationship with Ghislaine Max...

Sony Pictures Animation's "Goat," opening in theaters Feb. 13, is an original action-comedy set in an all-animal world and centered on the high-stakes sport of roarball - a version of basketball that&...