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Exclusive: Mackenzie Davis has joined the leading cast of the Untitled Newfoundland Project, from creator Jesse McKeown. Davis will star opposite Josh Hartnett, who also executive produces, in the limited series set in Newfoundland, Canada, where they will also shoot.

The 6-episode project follows a hard-bitten fisherman (Hartnett), who must fight to protect his family, his community, and his vanishing way of life when a mysterious sea creature terrorizes a remote Newfoundland town.

McKeown will serve as showrunner and will executive produce with Jessica Rhoades through her company Pacesetter UK. Chris Hatcher, Hartnett, Jamie Childs, Louise Sutton, and Sharon Hall also executive produce. The series’ writing team includes Karen Walton, Perry Chafe and Natty Zavitz; Jamie Childs, Helen Shaver and Stephen Dunn will direct. The writing team includes Karen Walton (Orphan Black), Perry Chafe (St. Pierre) and Natty Zavitz (Edging).

Canadian native Davis most recently...

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If Craig Conover was hoping to step away from the spotlight this summer, he’s not off to a good start.

Today alone, Craig has become the center of two trending stories, neither of which portrays him in a positive light.

First, ex-girlfriend Paige DeSorbo revealed that Conover was kicked out of a wedding for getting “belligerently drunk” early in their relationship.

And now, Craig is at the center of some sultry confessions from Kristin Cavallari.

Kristin Cavallari attends the Ewg x Uncommon Beauty event at Kimpton Aertson Hotel on August 13, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images for Environmental Working Group) Kristin says she hooked up with Craig during his relationship with Paige

Appearing on Watch What Happens Live Wednesday night, Kristin admitted that there was some “overlap” between her fling with Craig and his relationship with Paige.

“Okay, let’s talk about it.

Kristin Cavallari is kissing and telling!

During the premiere episode of her new E! series Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour on Wednesday (June 4), the 38-year-old reality star’s Bff Justin Anderson revealed that Kristin once hooked up with Glen Powell!

The revelation came up during Kristin‘s Let’s Be Honest podcast tour show in Atlanta where she took questions from fans and one asked about her love life.

Keep reading to find out more…“It’s been a lot with my kids in the last year,” Kristin answered. “I now have them a lot more than I did, so dating hasn’t been the priority. In nine years when my kids are off at college, I’m gonna be all over the world with all the guys doing all the things.”

After she shared her answer, Justin chimed in and spilled her brief tryst with the 36-year-old Twisters actor.

High school reunions are awkward enough. Now imagine throwing in 20-plus years of reality TV baggage, a live podcast taping, and a best friend named Justin Anderson. Welcome to Kristin Cavallari’s world. The reality star-turned-lifestyle guru heads back to Chicago in the latest episode of Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour, and if the title—Laguna Beach […]

Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour: Laguna Beach (Of Trust)...

The rest is still unwritten in the life of Kristin Cavallari. Someone who has grown up on reality TV from MTV’s Laguna Beach to The Hills and E’s Very Cavallari. However, the 38-year-old argues her latest iteration Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour is her most real yet. Premiering June 4 on E! (and simultaneously on Bravo), the show follows the star as she takes her popular “Let’s Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari” podcast on the road alongside Bff Justin Anderson with stops in Atlanta, Chicago, Boston and New York City. Cameras capture candid moments on stage and off with famous faces including Craig Conover and Austen Kroll, Brie and Nikki Garcia, fellow Laguna Beach alums, Harry Jowsey, Camille Kostek and Kim Zolciak. With Cavallari’s relationship status and other parts of her life constantly the subject of tabloid fodder, she plans to give people something to talk about.

One of reality television's most famous (infamous?) personalities is returning to the small screen the summer with a brand-new show, and it's time to get excited! Kristin Cavallari makes her highly anticipated comeback to reality TV complete with the nostalgic MTV reunion millennials didn't know they needed 20 years later.

Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour makes its premiere on Wednesday, June 4 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on E! with two half-hour episodes that will also be broadcast at the same time on Bravo. The series will also be available to stream on Peacock one week after each televised airing. What's more, each episode's corresponding podcast episode will also be released the following week.

In the series, Cavallari goes on tour to record live episodes of her Dear Media podcast Let's Be Honest, and every stop across the United States boasts surprise guests, celebrities, and friends. With Honestly Cavallari, the star looks...

The trailer for Kristin Cavallari‘s upcoming E! docuseries Honesty Cavallari: The Headline Tour debuted on Monday (May 5), and there’s a revealing detail within!

In it, she shares that Harry Jowsey, from Too Hot to Handle, reportedly sent her a graphic image of his privates.

Well, in the trailer, it shows a moment that he appears to react to the admission…looking a little embarrassed by it!

Keep reading to find out more…

In addition, after Kristin shares that news with her audience, a new clip pops up on screen with her apparently showing her bestie Justin Anderson the photo in question (though it’s not verified this is the exact image).

Justin can be heard saying, “It’s gigantic.”

The series premieres on June 4 at 10 p.m. Et on E!. If you didn’t see, Kristin once revealed her hottest Hollywood hookup.

Warner Bros The Accountant 2 leads the new releases in UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend as the Ben Affleck-starring crime drama opens in 573 locations.

The sequel is up from its 2016 predecessor which opened in 397 venues. That film had a debut of £1.6m and went on to clear £5m across its run.

Gavin O’Connor returns to direct The Accountant 2, which won the SXSW Headliner audience award earlier this year and sees Affleck return to the role of an autistic accountant for criminal organisations. In the sequel, he uses his unconventional methods to solve the murder of a Treasury chief.

Swimming Home

Director Justin Anderson's feature directorial début, Swimming Home, is an adaptation of Deborah Levy's novel of the same name. It revolves around Joe (Christopher Abbott), a celebrated poet who is struggling to write, and his partner Isabel (Mackenzie Davis), a war correspondent, who tolerates Joe's frequent affairs.

When they arrive at their rented Aegean holiday villa with Isabel's friend Laura (Nadine Labaki), their daughter Nina (Freya Hannan-Mills) surprises them by announcing that there's a naked lady in their pool. Unexpectedly, Isabel invites the stranger, Kitti (Ariane Labed), to stay. In turn, she exposes the fractures in Joe and Isabel's relationship and forces Joe to reckon with his repressed memories.

Justin Anderson

The theme of encounters is a common thread in Anderson's films, beginning with his 2014 short film Jumper, about the disruptive effect of a stranger on the lives of a bourgeois family. In 2016, he directed an adaptation of Guy.

Reality TV star Kristin Cavallari is an open book on her Let's Be Honest podcast. She talked in detail about her break-up with her much-younger boyfriend, Mark Estes, her feud with the Kardashians, and several conspiracy theories she deems to be true.

However, one thing that Kristin has kept private for the most part is her three children, especially when it comes to showing their faces on social media. People have had mixed responses to The Hills alum's decision to post her kids yet block their faces, but it's a common theme for some celebrities.

But, it appears that as her children have gotten older, she's been more open to showing how her sons, Camden and Jaxon, and daughter, Saylor, look just like her and her ex, Jay Cutler.

Related Kristin Cavallari Gives Morgan Wallen 'Fwb' Seal Of Approval

Kristin's one "complaint" was super unexpected.

Kristin Cavallari Shared A Photo...

Kristin Cavallari and her Bff Justin Anderson took part in the “Suspect” TikTok trend, where we learned some new information – though it remains unverified!

If you don’t know, the trend shows two people alternating camera angles to become the “suspect.” The “suspect” runs away while the other person says an identifying fact about them: in a similar way that the police might identify a suspect on the run.

However, the TikTok trend often has subtle burns, revelations, or disses as the lines of identification!

Keep reading to find out more…

We’ve listed out all of the info that Justin said about Kristin, and fans are really noting the Jason Statham hookup one!

About Kristin, Justin alleged: “Suspect let Morgan Wallen hurt her feelings, and she kept going back.”

About Kristin, Justin alleged: “Suspect has an Adam’s apple.”

About Kristin, Justin alleged: “Suspect prides herself on being independent,...

MTV star Kristin Cavallari made headlines when she went Instagram official with TikTok star Mark Estes in February. The couple, who had a 13-year-age gap, dismissed the negative headlines regarding their relationship and the reality TV star proudly showcased their romance on social media. Unfortunately, it only lasted for a few months.

Kristin has been an open book about her life. She detailed why the two split on her Let's Be Honest podcast and continues to update fans on her love life. As she has seemingly moved on from Mark, the Laguna Beach star has shared what dating might be like for her after their highly-publicized split.

Related Bobby Flay Addresses 'Chemistry' With Kristin Cavallari After Heated Podcast

Bobby confessed to invading Kristin's DMs when he went on her podcast.

Kristin Cavallari Isn't Interested In Dating Men In The Entertainment Industry, But Is Hoping To Meet Her Future Husband One...

For years, celebrities have been the focus of very bizarre controversies and conspiracy theories. Theorists have dubbed Beyonc and her husband, Jay-Z, as the Queen of King of the secret society the Illuminati, while stars like Rihanna and Madonna are also on the list.

There are also conspiracy theories surrounding dead Hollywood stars. Names like Elvis Presley, Tupac, and Michael Jackson are on a long list of celebrities that many people believe are not dead at all!

Laguna Beach and The Hills star Kristin Cavallari has her own conspiracy theories as well. The former reality TV star has been adamant that Britney Spears is not the real singer people have been seeing on social media. Although her comments may sound humorous and even extreme, she further fueled those rumors when she got to text "the real" Britney.

Related Kristin Cavallari's Ex Mark Estes And The Montana Boyz Land Their Own Unscripted Series,...

Greek officials sought to reassure local and foreign producers this week at the Thessaloniki Film Festival that the country’s 40% cash rebate is still on track, after the announcement last month that the Mediterranean nation was delaying plans to reopen its popular incentive scheme.

That decision came after Greece pressed pause on its cash-back program in May to clear more than €100 million ($107 million) in outstanding debts. Greek officials now insist the program is set to resume in January, with Leonidas Christopoulos, CEO of state audiovisual body Creative Greece, insisting the further delay was necessary for the government to square its accounts.

“You cannot be credible — especially abroad — if you have a huge backlog and reopen the platform,” Christopoulos told Variety. “It wouldn’t be credible.”

Since launching in 2019, Greece’s rebate scheme has helped the Mediterranean nation land high-profile productions including Rian Johnson’s Netflix blockbuster “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery...

What does Britney Spears think about Kristin Cavallari accusing her of being a clone … is a sentence we never thought we’d be writing, but here we are.

Sometimes, Kristin Cavallari can be downright sympathetic. Other times, she’s so infuriating that you keep hoping that she’ll admit that she’s joking.

In this case, it’s the latter. She criticized Britney Spears, accusing her of being a clone, in a wildly chaotic rant that defies definition.

And now Kristin is accusing Britney of not being gracious about the clone accusations. How about that, huh?

On her November 5 podcast, Kristin Cavallari spun wild conspiracy theories. It was not the first time. (Image Credit: YouTube) Sorry, Kristin Cavallari said What about Britney Spears?!

On the Tuesday, November 5 episode of Kristin Cavallari’s Let’s Be Honest podcast, she told bestie Justin Anderson about an interaction with Britney Spears.

However, there...

Has Kanye West really been cloned? This widespread conspiracy has been picking up a lot of traction in recent years. Even reality TV star Kristin Cavallari believes it’s true. Kristin rose to fame on a couple of hit reality TV shows during her teenage and young adult years. We’re referring to Laguna Beach and The Hills on MTV. Since then, she’s maintained relevancy with her Let’s Be Honest podcast. Kristin talks about tons of different topics on her podcast, but her decision to touch on the Kanye conspiracy is still jaw-dropping. Here’s what she had to say about everything.

Kristin Cavallari Is Convinced Kanye West Has Been Cloned

Kristin sat down to discuss the Kanye conspiracy with her co-host, Justin Anderson. She didn’t mince words when she started getting into it. She said, “Look at him. Compare old photos of him. It’s not the same f***ing person.

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil – South America’s largest festival, the Rio International Film Festival, wrapped Sunday, Oct. 13, consolidating its position as the main venue for Brazilian pics’ premieres and an important gathering of filmmakers from around the world.

Following a combination of an unsupportive government, a recession and the pandemic, Rio Fest resurged last year and expanded this year, screening about 270 pics.

“For the first time in years, we were able to invite this year international guests to attend our festival, some 50 filmmakers from different countries”, Rio Fest’s director Ilda Santiago told Variety. “We back on track.

Rio Fest’s Premiere Brasil, which included 90 features and short films, was once again the main showcase of local pics. Two features shared Redentor kudos for fiction film.

Marcelo Caetano’s “Baby,” a co-production between Brazil, France and the Netherlands, is centered on male prostitution in Sao Paulo. Joao Pedro Mariano received...

Exclusive: Acclaimed actor Willem Dafoe, who recently starred in Oscar-nominated pic Poor Things and can next be seen in Tim Burton’s upcoming Venice opener Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, has just wrapped filming tycoon family drama The Birthday Party from Greek production house Heretic.

The project, which has been kept under wraps until now, is directed by Miguel Angel Jimenéz based on the novel of the same name by Panos Karnezis. Dafoe stars along side Emma Suarez, Joe Cole and Vic Carmen Sonne. Additional cast includes Christos Stergioglou, Carlos Cuevas, Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos, Fransesc Garrido, Maria Pau Pigem, Pelle Heikkilä and Elsa Lekkakou.

The story is set in the late 1970s somewhere in the Mediterranean where Marcos Timoleon, an Aristotle Onassis-like tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extravagant birthday party for Sofia, his daughter and sole heiress, on his exclusive private island. The party is a perfect excuse for various people in his...

Exclusive: Tom Berenger (Platoon), Milo Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge), Mark Dacascos (John Wick: Chapter 3), Henning Baum, Sol Rodriguez (Devious Maids), and Patrick Cage star in crime/action film, The Sheriff, directed by Josh Tessier. Currently in production in Los Angeles, California, the filmmakers are preparing for an AFM premiere.

Written by Tessier, and Michael Edwards, the film is set in a rural town and follows a local sheriff (Edwards), as he pursues a recent homicide case that is seemingly linked to the death of his son five years prior.

“We’re thrilled to have such great actors joining this project,” says Josh Tessier. “The bodies of work between them all speak for themselves, and we know the finished film is going to be a fun ride thanks to their participation.

The picture is being produced by Roberto Ahumada, Josh Tessier, Omid, Zader, and Justin Anderson for Whiskey Panda Studios alongside Scatena & Rosner Films...

Jumper, Justin Anderson’s first short, opened on a naked man bathing in a pool. Conceived in 2014 for the tenth anniversary of British fashion designer Jonathan Saunders, the film was a riff on Pasolini’s Teorema; it followed a lunar stranger who shows up uninvited at a luscious Spanish villa and upends the frigid lives of its tenants. Ten years later, the same idea and shot survive more or less intact in Anderson’s feature debut, Swimming Home, based on a 2011 Man Booker-shortlisted novel by Deborah Levy. Except this time the setting is a summer home on an unidentified Greek island, the nude intruder a young woman, and her target is not a whole family but its taciturn, haunted patriarch.

His name his Josef (Christopher Abbott); hers is Kitti (Ariane Labed). He’s a poet and she’s a botanist––but this is his story, not hers, and for all...

There’s a luxuriantly sensuous quality to the prose of British novelist Deborah Levy — a tactile grasp of land, weather and flesh — that feels intensely cinematic while reading it, as well as an elliptical, concentrated interior psychology that feels liable to trip up any potential adapters. Those rewards and risks hold true in “Swimming Home,” a seductive but opaque adaptation of Levy’s Man Booker-shortlisted novel of the same name, in which the author’s knack for epigrammatic character portraiture and hothouse emotional conflict yields more superficially enigmatic results on screen. In his feature directing debut, British video artist Justin Anderson carries over a chicly serrated, off-kilter audiovisual sense from his commercials and short-form work; his scripting is less assured, as is his command of a fine but under-tested ensemble led by Christopher Abbott, Mackenzie Davis and Ariane Labed.

Recently premiered in competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival, “Swimming Home...

Swimming Home is an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2011 novel, written and directed by debut UK flmmaker Justin Anderson.

The UK-Dutch co-production premiered in the Tiger competition of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

The film centres around a war reporter played by Mackenzie Davis, on a family holiday with her husband (Christopher Abbott), a poet, and their teenage daughter. Returning home to their villa with a friend (Nadine Labaki) they find a naked stranger, Kitti (Ariane Labed) floating in the pool. Invited to stay, Kitti’s presence comes to emphasise the tensions within the family.

Anderson studied...

Swimming Home is an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2011 novel, written and directed by debut UK flmmaker Justin Anderson.

The UK-Dutch co-production premiered in the Tiger competition of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

The film centres around a war reporter played by Mackenzie Davis, on a family holiday with her husband (Christopher Abbott), a poet, and their teenage daughter. Returning home to their villa with a friend (Nadine Labaki) they find a naked stranger, Kitti (Ariane Labed) floating in the pool. Invited to stay, Kitti’s presence comes to emphasise the tensions within the family.

Anderson studied...

Exclusive: The producers of hit Netflix movie Nowhere, the streamer’s most-watched Spanish-language film ever, have found their next movie in the shape of supernatural horror Tooth Fairy, which UK sales firm Architect is launching ahead of the EFM in Berlin.

The Spanish-language movie follows a series of child disappearances in a tight-knit rural community in Spain. As a social worker begins to dig into the village’s myths and legends, she discovers she has unwittingly reawakened a terrifying, vengeful spirit. Filming is due to get underway this summer with casting underway.

Producers Miguel Ruz and Jordi Roca have locked financing on the project from writer-director Tony Morales. The movie marks the feature film directorial debut of Spanish filmmaker Morales, whose horror shorts include Abracitos, Black Eyed Child, Alicia, and Hada, on which Tooth Fairy is based.

Rock & Ruz are coming off their debut feature, the Netflix survival thriller Nowhere,...

Rotterdam film festival: A self-conscious adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel makes glib reference to the Bosnian war while it focuses on unsexy erotic tension at a luxury villa

Lugubrious, laborious and ridiculous – this movie version of Deborah Levy’s celebrated novel Swimming Home is frankly uncomfortable in the most wrong way possible. Film-maker and artist Justin Anderson has established himself as a creative visual talent but for this feature debut he has somehow conjured awful, torpid performances from his excellent cast, perpetually crowding up to them with pedantic, over-determined closeups. His film insists on a bafflingly unsexy and uninteresting type of erotic tension and conflates the result with a supposed repressed agony from the Bosnian war – which is invoked in the most glib and perfunctory way.

Joe (Christopher Abbott) is a famous poet of Bosnian extraction arriving at a luxurious holiday villa in Greece with his American wife Isabel...

Marriage Story: Justin Anderson Serves Up An Enigmatic Challenge Is His Feature Debut

A marriage in crisis cooks under the summer sun in filmmaker Justin Anderson’s enervating feature debut Swimming Home. Stripping away the narrative thrust and many of the characters in his adaptation of Deborah Levy’s excellent acclaimed novella, the director attempts to grapple more directly with the enigmas at its haunted core. But saddled with deliberately alienating and obfuscating symbolism, the resulting effort is a tedious, overly earnest po-faced slow burn.

Vacationing in a luxe villa in the Greek countryside, Joseph (Christopher Abbott), his wife Isabel (Mackenzie Davis), and their teenage daughter Nina (Freya Hannan-Mills) have barely had time to welcome the arrival of family friend Laura (Nadine Labaki) when the mysterious Kitti (Ariane Labed) is found pleasantly floating naked in their swimming pool.…...

Award-winning artist Justin Anderson’s debut feature “Swimming Home” has its world premiere in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam. Variety has secured access to the first clip from the film.

The film, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel, centers on poet Joe (Christopher Abbott) and war photographer Isabel (Mackenzie Davis), whose marriage is dying when Kitti (Ariane Labed), a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their sunny holiday villa in Greece, is invited to stay. Oscar nominated Lebanese actor-director Nadine Labaki plays a significant role in the film as does emerging actor Freya Hannan-Mills.

In 2014, Anderson directed “Jumper,” a short inspired by Pasolini’s “Teorema,” about a man emerging from a pool and standing naked in the window during a family dinner. A friend saw the film and suggested that he read Levy’s novel. The book resonated with Anderson and he contacted Levy.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) opens this evening with New Zealand director Jonathan Olgilvie’s coming-of-age tale Head South set against the late 1970s, post-punk music culture of his home city of Christchurch.

IFFR previously selected Olgilvie’s sci-fi thriller Lone Wolf for its Big Screen Competition in 2021.

“It’s the first time we’re going to meet him in person because it was during Corona,” says IFFR Artistic Director Vanja Kaludjercic of the first selection.

“When you put the two films side by side, you ask how can one filmmaker make two such different films,” she adds. “We really admire his creativity and ingenuity.”

Over the course of the next 10 days, Rotterdam will screen some 440 works.

The Main Competition for this 53rd edition is characteristically diverse.

The 14 features in the running for the main Tiger Award include Brooklyn-based filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, exploring the life of the titular,...

Debbie Harry, lead singer of Blondie, will be among those taking part in on-stage talks at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which runs Jan. 25 to Feb. 4.

Harry narrates the latest film by Amanda Kramer, “So Unreal,” an essay-documentary about the relationships between cinema, humanity and technology. On Jan. 27, the two will give an IFFR Talk discussing their work as artists with distinctive esthetics whose careers have developed across film and music.

As previously announced, other speakers in the IFFR Talk program include actor Sandra Hüller, and directors Anne Fontaine, Marco Bellocchio, Bill Plympton and Billy Woodberry.

Directors attending with their titles in the Limelight section, which is for films from established filmmakers, include Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante with “Lost in the Night,” Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland with “Green Border” and Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania with “Four Daughters,” which is shortlisted for an Oscar.

Fontaine will attend the world premiere of her 19th feature film,...

M. Raihan Halim’s “La Luna” will close the 53rd edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam, which has also revealed the lineup of its Tiger competition section, a platform for up-and-coming filmmakers, and Big Screen Competition, a program for more established talent.

“La Luna,” which has its European premiere at the festival, is a comedy about a conservative Malaysian village shaken by the arrival of a lingerie store.

Among the Tiger competition films is British director Justin Anderson’s “Swimming Home,” starring Mackenzie Davis, Christopher Abbott and Ariane Labed. Adapted from Deborah Levy’s novel, it centers on Joe and Isabel, whose marriage is dying when Kitti, a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their holiday villa, is invited to stay. Kitti collects and eats poisonous plants, and Nina their teenage daughter is enthralled by her. The film, which is being sold by Bankside Films, is described as...

International Film Festival Rotterdam has revealed its lineup for the Tiger, Big Screen and Tiger Short competitions. The festival runs from January 25-February 4. Scroll down for the full lists.

Head South by Jonathan Ogilvie will open the proceedings with M. Raihan Halim’s comedy La Luna on closing duties. The Tiger Competition jury will be comprised of Marco Müller, Ena Sendijarević, Nadia Turincev, Herman Yau and Billy Woodberry.

Also confirmed are the first names for the Talks lineup including Marco Bellocchio, Anne Fontaine, Alexander Kluge and Rachel Maclean.

Festival director Vanja Kaludjercic said today, “For over half a century, IFFR has stood as a haven for diverse voices – a convergence where artists share perspectives. Our program celebrates the resilience and creativity of global filmmakers, a testament to cinema’s power to transcend borders. From Indian to Japanese epics, a Kazakh thriller, Finnish Freudian reinterpretations, Dominican sci-fi and underground Iranian cinema,...

Head South.International Film Festival Rotterdam have announced the lineup for their 53rd edition, which will take place between January 25 to February 4. Opening FILMHead South (Jonathan Ogilvie)The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire.Tiger COMPETITIONThe Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich)Flathead (Jaydon Martin)Grey Bees (Dmytro Moiseiev)Kiss Wagon (Midhun Murali)Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others (Farshad Hashemi)MosesLa Parra (Alberto Gracia)Praia Formosa (Julia De Simone)Rei (Tanaka Toshihiko)Reise der Schatten (Yves Netzhammer)She Fell to Earth (Susie Au)sr (Lea Hartlaub)Swimming Home (Justin Anderson)Under a Blue Sun (Daniel Mann)Milk Teeth.Big Screen COMPETITIONAire: Just Breathe (Leticia Tonos Paniagua)Children of War and Peace (Ville Suhonen)Confidenza (Daniele Luchetti)Eternal (Ulaa Salim)Milk Teeth (Sophia Bösch)The Old Bachelor (Oktay Baraheni)Portrait of a Certain Orient (Marcelo Gomes)Seven Seas Seven Hills (Ram)Steppenwolf (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)TenementThe Worst Man in London (Rodrigo Areias...

‘Swimming Home’ is directed by Justin Anderson and stars Mackenzie Davies, Christopher Abbott and Ariane Labed.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the Tiger and Big Screen programmes for the 3rd edition, taking place January 25 – February 4, 2024 in the Netherlands.

Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home, starring Mackenzie Davies, Christopher Abbott and Ariane Labed, is among the titles world premiering in the Tiger Competition.

Scroll down for full line-up

The drama is adapted from Deborah Levy’s novel about a woman who implores the help of a naked stranger found floating in her pool. It is produced by Emily Morgan’s UK outfit Quiddity Films,...

Greek–Swiss co-production is feature debut of Harry Lagoussis

Greek production house Heretic has just wrapped filming on Harry Lagoussis’s feature debut Novak starring Zlatko Burić and Ella Rumpf.

The Greek–Swiss co-production follows an ageing Croatian neuroscientist who lives a reclusive life in Athens, having been branded paranoid for his radical research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans. Decades later, when he is rediscovered by a group of young dreamers who are trying to change the world through his ideas, he decides to join them in their scientific commune, risking his sanity in pursuit of a higher goal.

Our most anticipated feature debut films for this year is indeed ready but it’ll be dropping in 2024 instead. Perhaps a fest that is big on debut films might lasso Justin Anderson‘s Swimming Home. The commercials director grabbed the rights to adapt the book by (Deborah Levy) a good decade ago and managed to land quite the producing team and quartet of indie-auteur-world-cinema vets Ariane Labed, Christopher Abbott, Mackenzie Davis and Nadine Labaki for what is a vacation film in Greece that takes a turn for the best/worst? Production took place in October of last year.

Gist: This is a dark comedy about a troubled married couple and their teenage daughter whose holiday is transformed by the naked stranger they find floating in the pool of their villa.…...

Sofia Coppola, Emerald Fennell, Yorgos Lanthimos, Pablo Larrain, Michel Franco and Bradley Cooper could all be on the Lido.

Alberto Barbera is closing in on his Venice Film Festival selection, with buzz around Yorgos Lanthimos’ sci-fi Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, Matteo Garrone’s migrant drama Io Capitano and Pablo Larrain’s dark comedy El Conde about Augusto Pinochet for the Competition.

Also potentially Lido-bound are Michael Mann’s Ferrari with Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz, David Michod’s comedy Wizards! with Pete Davidson, Naomi Scott and Orlando Bloom, and Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers starring Zendaya and Josh O’Connor.

Michel Franco,...

Film is lined up for production later this year.

Distributors Curzon, Cineart and Madman have united on a multi-territory deal for post-Second World War film The Offing starring Helena Bonham Carter.

The trio have joined forces to acquire all rights for UK-Ireland, Benelux and Australia-New Zealand, from Germany-based sales company Beta Cinema.

Beta has reported “severe competition” on the title and says further deals in major territories will be confirmed shortly.

The Offing will go into production later this year. It will be the debut feature for New Zealand filmmaker Jessica Hobbs, who has directed extensively for television including seven episodes of The Crown,...

Swimming Home

In a surprising field of many first-time works on our list, this year’s most anticipated directorial debut goes to commercials director Justin Anderson lassoed the option for the novel back in 2014 so he has had close to a decade of thinking about the film before making the film. He made the move into fiction with the 2016 short The Idyll and moved into production back in October. Swimming Home sees Ariane Labed, Christopher Abbott, Mackenzie Davis and Nadine Labaki star in a tale about a vaca that goes astray. Filmed in Greece, Lemming Film, Quiddity Films, Rook Films, Reagent Media and Heretic are all prod companies involved with the project.…...

Lebanese actress and director Nadine Labaki enjoyed breakout success with Oscar-nominated and Cannes Jury Prize-winning third feature Capernaum in 2018 and there is now anticipation over what will be her next directorial feature project

However, the star, who is currently at the Marrakech International Film Festival as a member of its jury, told Deadline this week that it could be a while before she gets behind the camera.

“I have to start writing the next feature film. There’s nothing tangible I can talk about yet,” she said.

The weight of Lebanon’s political and economic crisis since 2019, which was exacerbated by the pandemic, and the deadly and devastating August 2020 Beirut explosion had made it difficult for her to focus on a personal project, she said.

“It has been a very difficult three years. We’ve all been sort of living like zombies. We’re alive but not really and it...

Titles acquired include ‘Club Zero’, ‘Hyakka’ and ‘Blue Jean’.

Leading Benelux indie distributors have revealed their latest acquisitions, including Pim Hermeling’s September Film Distribution which has added several films to its release slate.

Among them are Jessica Hausner’s latest Club Zero, starring Mia Wasikowska and sold by Coproduction Office. The film recently finished shooting in the UK. September has also picked up Saim Sadiq’s Joyland, which screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes and is handled internationally by Film Constellation.

Also new on the September slate is Genki Kawamura’s San Sebastián best director winner Hyakka, sold...

After spending two years as the Senior Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs at Blumhouse Productions and producing such films as Country Gold, Vengeance, The Voyeurs, and the poorly received 2019 version of Black Christmas, Zac Locke has now made his feature writing and directing debut with the supernatural slasher #Float, and Deadline reports that XYZ Films has acquired the North American distribution rights to the film. They’re planning to release it on December 8th.

#Float follows the young, beautiful, and full-of-life vlogger Kali and her pals, who are heading to the river for their annual lazy river float, the first one since their friend Chuy overdosed and drowned a year earlier. But their partying suddenly takes a dark turn when a mysterious force plunges them into a life-and-death struggle, forcing them to face their own fears as they turn on each other – and proceed to die one by one.

Exclusive: XYZ Films has picked up the North American distribution rights to the supernatural slasher #Float, written and directed by Zac Locke (Black Christmas) and starring newcomer Kate Mayhew.

The deal was negotiated by XYZ’s Executive VP of U.S. Distribution, James Emanuel Shapiro. XYZ Films will release the film domestically on December 8.

The film follows the young, beautiful, and full-of-life vlogger Kali (Mayhew) and her pals who are heading to the river for their annual lazy river float, the first one since their friend Chuy overdosed and drowned a year earlier. But their partying suddenly takes a dark turn when a mysterious force plunges them into a life-and-death struggle, forcing them to face their own fears as they turn on each other – and proceed to die one by one.

The flick is the first from Locke’s genre micro-studio Rotting Press and it recently had its festival premiere...

Melissa Gorga is addressing the heated interaction that occurred between her and her “Real Housewives of New Jersey” co-star Jennifer Aydin last weekend during BravoCon.

On this week’s episode of Gorga’s “On Display” podcast from PodcastOne featuring celebrity hair stylist Justin Anderson, the reality star explained what went down in the New York hotel lobby, where she was staying for the weekend’s festivities, that caused Aydin to throw her drink at her husband Joe Gorga, as seen in the now-viral video.

The TV personality began by noting that throughout the entire first two days at the convention, she had fans come up to her telling her that Aydin “was basically bashing [Melissa] the whole day,” saying “Melissa’s hanging on by a thread. I don’t even know why she’s on the show.”

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Kristin Cavallari is living it up in Sin City and having the time of her life as she stuns in a new look.

The reality star and Uncommon James founder has ditched her Tennessee base for some fun in Las Vegas, and she made sure to invite her social media followers along for the ride.

Posting to her Instagram Stories ahead of the weekend, Kristin shared footage of herself partying and enjoying a shot as she sizzled in a braless and killer evening outfit.

The mom of three let her hair down as she downed a shot with pal Justin Anderson.

Footage showed Kristin at a bar and with her friend. The jewelry designer and new podcast host looked incredible in a barely-there and dark evening dress just about held together by very fine straps.

Rocking the braless trend,...

The deals include on titles ‘Talk To Me’, ‘Swimming Home’ and ‘Raised Eyebrows’

London-based sales agent Bankside Films has closed numerous deals off the back of Cannes, on titles including Talk To Me, Swimming Home and Raised Eyebrows.

Horror Talk To Me is directed by Australian YouTube sensations Danny and Michael Philppou (aka RackaRacka), and is in post-production.

It has sold to Altitude (UK-Ireland), the Gp Cinema (Baltics), Premiere Distribution (Benelux), McF (Former Yugoslavia), Alba Films (France), Capelight (Germany), Vertigo Media (Hungary), Koch (Italy), The Coup (Korea), M2 (Poland), Scanbox (Scandinavia), Praesens (Switzerland), A Really Good Film Company (Taiwan and...

Screen is rounding up the key packages launched before and during this year’s Cannes Marche du Film (which runs May 17-25).

Screen is rounding up the key packages launched before and during this year’s Cannes Marche du Film (which runs May 17-25).

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Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh have signed on to star in Lynne Ramsey’s new thriller. The project is based on a short story by Margaret Atwood and is produced by John Lesher and JoAnne Sellar. Amazon are handling domestic rights. Studiocanal and Film4 are in final negotiations to board the project.

Following the tragic passing of Gaspard Ulliel, one of the projects he was attached to has found a new actor. 1917 star George MacKay will now lead Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast alongside Léa Seydoux, Variety reports. Set to begin in August, the decades-spanning dystopian romance thriller is set in both Paris and California and will film in French and English. “Set in the near future where emotions have become a threat,” the synopsis reads, “Seydoux stars as Gabrielle, a woman who has finally decided to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. But when she meets Louis (Mackay) and although he seems dangerous she feels a powerful connection to him as if she’d known him forever.”

After news broke earlier this year that Bong Joon-ho’s next film would be an adaptation of Edward Ashton...

The adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel will be directed by Justin Anderson.

Ariane Labed, Christopher Abbott and Mackenzie Davis have signed to star in Justin Anderson’s directorial debut Swimming Home, which Bankside Films is introducing to international buyers at Cannes. US rights are being co-repped by UTA Independent Film Group and WME Independent.

The film is an adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name by Deborah Levy and is a dark comedy about a troubled married couple and their teenage daughter whose holiday is transformed by the naked stranger they find floating in the pool of their villa.

Kristin Cavallari's future husband may be competing with Justin Anderson for her heart. The Laguna Beach alum, 35, shared photos of herself April 17 enjoying a day at the beach in the Bahamas with her Bff. Though the photos showed the two friends laughing and having fun, Kristin used the Instagram post as a chance to give her future husband advice. "Not to be too sappy but this guy has been my rock," Kristin, who was previously married to Jay Cutler, wrote. "My future husband has some big ass shoes to fill." And will Bachelorette alum Tyler Cameron be the man to do so? Well, not so fast… Just four days after the duo were seen...

Producers of ‘Supernova’, ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Spencer’ among those with projects to receive investment.

The first three projects to benefit from a £1.2m investment fund, created by UK distributor Curzon, Australian outfit Madman Entertainment and Benelux firm Cineart, have been revealed.

The Curzon Cm Development Fund is backing Justin Anderson’s feature debut Swimming Home, whose producers include Andy Starke and Emily Morgan; Brady Hood’s Sweet Maddie Stone, produced by Laura Jackson and Paul Webster; and The Ballad Of A Small Player, written by Rowan Joffe. No director is attached yet to the latter.

Curzon, Madman and Cineart each have...