Category Archives: Variety

Saudi-owned production powerhouse MBC Studios - which is the studio arm of MBC Group, the largest and leading media company in the Middle East - has announced its new lineup of Saudi film and TV ...

Pedigreed Argentine helmer Milagros Mumenthaler, a Golden Leopardo winner in Locarno for her debut "Back to Stay," and Rodrigo Teixeira of RT Pictures, producer of James Gray's "Palme d'Or entry "Pape...

Ken Loach and Rebecca O’Brien’s Sixteen Films has boarded “Forgotten Spaceman,” a documentary short written, directed and edited by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Elham Ehsas, with ...

It is a warm May evening on the Croisette and Huma Qureshi is, by her own cheerful reckoning, in the middle of everything. She is at Cannes for the fourth time. She has been to Berlin twice, Toronto o...

Christina Hendricks and Naomie Harris are set to lead "Reputation," a new celebrity-focused legal drama for BBC. The six-part series, from Banijay U.K. company The Forge, sees Harris ("Skyfall") play ...

Penlope Cruz disclosed at the Cannes press conference for “The Black Ball” (La Bola Negra) on Friday that she was warned of a potential brain aneurysm during the production of the film, an...

Tetsu Fujimura, the CEO of Japanese IP consultancy and production company Filosophia Inc. and a producer on Netflix’s “One Piece” live-action series, delivered a data-intensive keyno...

Paris- and Berlin-based sales company Salaud Morisset has closed multiple international deals on Eivind Landsvik's debut feature "Low Expectations," starring Norwegian singer-songwriter Marie Ulven (a...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Rio2C's wide-ranging 2026 program is set to feature top Brazilian creative industry speakers, such as helmers Wagner de Assis, Esmir Filho and Carlos Saldanha, journalis...

Steven Schneider, whose genre credits include “Hokum,” “Undertone” and “Paranormal Activity,” has boarded “Recluse” as executive producer through his in...