Graham Greene, the Oscar-nominated actor from Dances With Wolves, died Monday in Stratford, Ontario, after a lengthy illness, his rep told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 73.

“He was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed,” Greene’s agent Michael Greene said in a statement to THR. “You are finally free. Susan Smith is meeting you at the gates of heaven,” referring to the actor’s longtime agent, who died in 2013.

Born on June 22, 1952, in Ohsweken on the Six Nations Reserve and a graduate of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre Program in 1974, the Canadian actor made his small-screen debut on the 1979 Canadian drama series The Great Detective and film debut in Running Brave (1983).

However, it was his role as Kicking Bird in the 1990 film Dances With Wolves that earned him a best supporting actor Oscar nomination. Out of its 12 nominations, Dances With Wolves won seven Academy Awards,...

Hollywood didn’t have a lot to celebrate during a muted Labor Day holiday weekend, as “Weapons,” now in its fourth weekend of release, took the top spot, and “Jaws,” a 50-year-old blockbuster, beat out two new films, “Caught Stealing” and “The Roses,” that failed to generate much heat.

“Weapons,” which lost its No. 1 position last weekend to Netflix’s “Kpop Demon Hunters,” reclaimed its crown, earning an estimated $12.8 million over the four-day holiday. So far, the horror hit has earned $135 million domestically and $235.2 million globally. That’s an impressive result considering it only cost $38 million to produce. It extends a winning streak for Warner Bros., which has recently fielded successes like “A Minecraft Movie,” “Sinners,” “Final Destination Bloodlines,” “F1: The Movie” (which the studio distributed for Apple) and “Superman.” It’s a remarkable comeback for the studio’s chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, who were on the...

During my journalism Ma, when I decided, “No, thank you, news journalism isn’t for me,” and “Yes please to the softer world of film journalism,” I did not imagine that film reviewing would ever entail passing artistic judgement on documentary evidence of war crimes. Nor that I would be doing so in a global climate in which the war criminals in question, far from being held to account, are continuing on in the same vein.

There is no distance at all between what Kaouther Ben Hania depicts and now. It would be sufficiently devastating if the atrocities in “The Voice of Hind Rajab” only existed in hyper-recent living memory, but no, the Israeli violence toward Palestinians has escalated since the date of its setting: January 29, 2024. Watching this film feels like RSVPing for a funeral of someone who is still alive. It is also an elegy for a child whose life force is heartrending,...

We often describe certain challenging or button-pushing films as hard to watch; fewer are categorized as hard to listen to. In “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” the voice in question is a small one, belonging to a young girl alone and in unconscionable peril, high and breathless with fear and confusion. But it cuts through Kaouther Ben Hania’s film with piercing clarity, largely because, in contrast to a surrounding chorus of frantic adult voices, it isn’t performed. Rather, it’s a real-life recording of the last words ever spoken by Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian child killed on January 29, 2024, after her family’s car was shelled by Israeli forces during their invasion of the Gaza Strip. In her final hours, the girl repeatedly phoned call-center volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society, pleading for a rescue vehicle that never made it to her.

Making that horrifying 70-minute audio file...

France’s box office took a nosedive in August with a 29.4% drop in ticket sales from the same month last year to 9.97 million admissions* (€73m) according to figures from the Cnc.

It extends a summer slump after a 17.3% drop in July, and a decline in admissions all year.

Since January 1, some 100 million admissions (€730m) have been clocked in France, down 15.1% compared to the same period in 2024.

Universal’s The Bad Guys 2, released on July 30, topped the month with just below 1.1 million admissions (€8m), followed by Disney’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, released July 23, with 825,300 ticket sales (€6m) adding to its 1.5m (€11m) tally,...

Sophie Cookson and Franka Potente have wrapped filming on espionage thriller “The Hive,” directed by Martin Rosete.

The Augenschein Film title has been boarded for sales by Architect, who will co-rep with Augenschein Sales for worldwide and with CAA for domestic.

The movie sees Cookson star as Maria Gomez, a rising star at Interpol, who is parachuted into The Hive – a high-tech, highly classified command unit — just as a bomb goes off during a summit in Tenerife. Headed by Potente’s notoriously ruthless Kate McKenzie, The Hive have just 90 minutes to scour the city, execute the shadowy threat before it strikes again, and neutralize an unexpected threat from within.

Jamie Bamber, Adam Pålsson, Gonzalo Bouza, Paul S. Tracey, Godeliv Van Den Brandt and Mundy Rieu also star.

“The Hive” was was shot between the Canary Islands, Spain, and Cologne, Germany. Maximilian Leo and Jonas Katzenstein produce for augenschein Filmproduktion, along with Scott Veltri,...

Actors’ union Equity has lost its long-running legal case against casting directory Spotlight over its use of membership fees.

The dispute between the two UK bodies has raged on for almost two years, with Equity calling for Spotlight to be considered an employment agency by law and criticising its charging of a fee regardless of whether the actor finds work.

In a decision handed down in London’s High Court, Judge Catherine Howells dismissed Equity’s claim that Spotlight should be classed as an “employment agency” and confirmed that the directory is “a marketing tool” and “a number of steps...

Following a world premiere at Cannes, Oliver Hermanus brought his “The History of Sound” to the east coast on Monday night for its New York City premiere. His historical wartime romance follows Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor as they journey through a post-World War America, and follows a decades-long quiet connection that reverberates through one man’s lifetime.

Early buzz of the film teased hot and steamy sex scenes between the co-stars. However, following its debut in France, the film’s approach opted to tell a softer love story without explicit intimacy. “There are many different kinds of sex scenes in the film, one of which is Paul’s character just walking around Josh’s character’s house, his apartment,” Hermanus told IndieWire on the red carpet. “I tried to, you know, suggest that queer people, gay people, can have relationships that are more than just hookups. This is about the deeper things.

The exclusive teaser trailer for Alexander Rodnyansky’s documentary “Notes of a True Criminal,” which premieres out of competition at the Venice Film Festival today, debuts here.

The film, helmed with Andriy Alferov, marks Rodnyansky’s return to directing after a 31-year hiatus. Rodnyansky’s producer credits include Oscar nominated films “Leviathan” and “Loveless,” Cannes award-winner “Beanpole,” and László Nemes’ “Orphan,” which also premiered at Venice this year.

Born in Kyiv, Rodnyansky was sentenced in absentia by a Russian court to 8.5 years in prison for his anti-war stance.

In his film, Rodnyansky contemplates key events in Ukraine’s history and how they have affected him and his family: the referendum on Ukraine’s independence, the mass execution of Jews at Babyn Yar, Chernobyl, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Germany, and, of course, the war—the full-scale invasion by the Russian army, which began on Feb.

Peter Carlton, the UK producer of Netflix series Adolescence, French-Senegalese producer Yanis Gaye,and Marie Garrett, SVP sales & acquisitions at XYZ Films, are among the speakers participating in the one-day Explorer Conference taking place at Filmfest Hamburg in Germany on October 2.

Carlton and Gräfe-Höft, whose credits include Spirit In The Blood, will join a panel about co-producing with the UK, while Garrett and further speakers including Ruby Walden, executive producer of Brady Corbet’s multi-award winning The Brutalist, will offer insights into the potential of tapping equity investment for European films in a roundtable.

They will be joined of European...

Kathryn Bigelow hasn’t directed a feature film since 2017’s “Detroit,” an eight-year hiatus during which our increasingly unstable world began to bear an uncomfortable resemblance to her geopolitical thrillers. Fortunately, fans of her distinct brand of filmmaking will have another white knuckler to stress over when “A House of Dynamite” premieres this fall.

Bigelow’s new film, which has been branded as one of Netflix’s strongest Oscar contenders of the season, follows a President of the United States (Idris Elba) as he meets with advisors to determine the “best” course of action in the face of a deadly nuclear missile strike.

“A House of Dynamite” is written by Noah Oppenheim, who enjoyed a lengthy TV career as a producer for and eventual president of NBC News before co-creating “Zero Day” and writing films like “Jackie” and “The Maze Runner.” In addition to Elba, the film stars Rebecca Ferguson,...

Austria’s FISAplus production incentive programme, which has recently supported projects includingCliffhanger 2,has been relaunched with an annual budget of €80m to support international film, TV and streaming service productions as well as Austrian TV and streaming projects shooting at home.

The programme had been originally launched in January 2023 and had ploughed some €180m into projects in the first two years of operations by offering up non-repayable grants of up to 30% on the Austrian spend plus the possibility of being awarded an additional 5% green filming bonus and gender gap financing lump sum of €25,000.

However, FISAplus did not have a yearly...

Netflix has released the trailer for “A House of Dynamite,” a new political thriller from the Oscar-winning director of “The Hurt Locker,” Kathryn Bigelow.

The film follows Rebecca Ferguson as Olivia Walker, a Situation Room senior duty officer who must locate the source of a lone nuclear missile heading toward the United States and stop it before it levels Chicago.

Other cast members include Idris Elba, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee and Jason Clarke.

The film received an 11-minute standing ovation after its Tuesday night Venice Film Festival premiere. Elba brought Bigelow to her feet as the claps rolled on. They politely joined in the applause themselves while Ferguson blew kisses to the audience at the Sala Grande Theater.

At a Venice press conference earlier in the day, Bigelow told reporters she hopes “the film is an invitation to decide what...

Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania has detailed how high-profile executive producers including Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix boarded her film The Voice Of Hind Rajab; and responded to a question about the ethics of the Venice Competition title.

“When we were at the end of editing, we asked Jim [Wilson] and Odessa [Rae], our producers on the movie,” said Ben Hania of attaching the high-profile names. “We tried to show the movie to several people, and they said yes, they are there to support the movie.

“I’m very happy, and I never in my life thought that can be possible. So...

WePresent, the arts platform of WeTransfer, has unveiled Academy Award and Emmy Award winner Riz Ahmed as its fifth guest curator, marking a reunion between the multi-hyphenate artist and the platform that helped bring his Oscar-winning short film “The Long Goodbye” to life.

The guest curatorship program allows WePresent to champion emerging and overlooked talent while collaborating on projects designed to spark cultural conversations. Previous guest curators include Olafur Eliasson, Russell Tovey, Marina Abramović and Solange Knowles.

The year-long collaboration will focus on what it means to “stretch culture” in contemporary society, with Ahmed championing fresh perspectives and disruptive stories across all corners of the arts. The curatorship launches with a manifesto and features spotlighting five artists: Imran Peretta, Nadir Nahdi, Raf Saperra, Sarah Ghazal Ali and Warda Mohamed.

“The filter I use for most creative choices has two parts to it. Does it stretch me? Does it stretch culture?...

Video game adaptations are having a moment on television. Animated heavyweights like "Arcane" and "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" have found a firm foothold on Netflix, while live-action juggernauts "Fallout" and "The Last of Us" are scooping up Emmy nominations for Prime Video and HBO. These series have dominated online discourse, hailed as benchmarks for how to translate gaming narratives to the small screen successfully. And yet, conspicuously absent from these virtual water cooler conversations is "Twisted Metal," Peacock's gonzo, blood-soaked demolition derby of a show that might just be one of the most self-aware and emotionally resonant adaptations of the bunch.

The ultra-violent vehicular combat comedy thrill ride is not only one...

Paul Mescal has been one busy man. Just days after celebrating the world premiere of Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” at Telluride, he flew across the country to attend the New York City premiere of Oliver Hermanus’ “The History of Sound,” which debuted at Cannes earlier this year, alongside co-star Josh O’Connor. All this while being in production for Sam Mendes’ Beatles biopic and in off-and-on production for Richard Linklater’s “Merrily We Roll Along.” Mr. Mescal, let’s hope you’re sleeping!

“Hamnet” reviews have been revelatory, coining it an instant awards contender. “It’s been such a relief for all of us, you know,” Mescal told IndieWire on the red carpet for his Mubi release. “Having a film premiere in any context is like giving a baby out into the world and we’re so, so thrilled that people seem to be, not [necessarily] responding positively, but people seem to...

Julian Schnabel has responded to calls from Gaza activists for Gal Gadot and Gerard Butler, two of the stars of his new film “In the Hand of Dante,” to be disinvited from Venice Film Festival over their support for Israel.

Just as the Venice Film Festival started, organizers were urged in an open letter signed by hundreds of international filmmakers and artists to take a “clear and unambiguous stand [in] condemning” the ongoing war in Gaza. Some even called to disinvite celebrities who have shown public support for Israel, including Gadot and Butler. Though Venice chief Alberto Barbera confirmed that they were not disinvited, neither actor is present at the fest.

“I think there’s no reason to boycott artists,” Schnabel responded when asked about the matter during “In the Hand of Dante’s” press conference on Wednesday. “I selected those actors for their merits as actors, and they did an...

South Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin is to preside over the first ever Competition section of the Busan International Film Festival (Biff), which will host its 30th edition from September 17-26.

The director of The Wailing and The Yellow Sea will lead a seven-strong jury that comprises Hong Kong star Tony Leung Ka-fai, Indian actor-filmmaker Nandita Das, Iranian director Marziyeh Meshkiny, Seoul-born US filmmaker Kogonada, Indonesian producer Yulia Evina Bhara and Korean actor Han Hyo-joo.

They will select the winners from 14 Competition titles and present the inaugural Busan Awards in five categories: best film, best director, special jury prize, best actor and artistic contribution.

In The Hand of Dante director Julian Schnabel has hit back against the request from the Venice4Palestine collective for his actors Gal Gadot and Gerard Butler to be disinvited from the festival over their perceived views on the Gaza conflict.

“There’s no reason to boycott artists,” said Schnabel, responding to the first question in the press conference for his Venice out of competition film. “I selected those actors for their merits as actors.”

Schnabel added that he had nothing else to say on the topic and was at the conference to talk about his film.

Venice4Palestine, a...

When you hear the word "alien" in reference to the film series begun by Ridley Scott in 1978, you probably think of one specific kind of alien: the Xenomorph. The ultra-violent extraterrestrial predator with two mouths and acid for blood is one of the most iconic creatures in the history of cinema, thanks to a timeless design from the legendary H. R. Giger. While there have been many different variants of the Xenomorph over the years, every major film in the franchise has a representative of the species at its center -- save for maybe "Prometheus," the only film in the series not to carry the "alien" name.

"Alien: Earth" follows...

Long before the video diary became the en vogue format of personal expression on YouTube and social media platforms like TikTok, Ross McElwee was America’s preeminent first-person filmmaker. While studying under cinéma vérité pioneers Richard Leacock and Ed Pincus in MIT’s graduate film program, McElwee developed his own style of memoir cinema informed by direct cinema, a Southern literary sensibility ingrained from his North Carolina upbringing, and an almost religious belief in elevating the mundane texture of daily life, previously the province of amateur home movies, to a large artistic canvas. His droll voiceover, which warmly blankets and contextualizes his imagery, provides viewers an entrée into an worldview effortlessly engaged with culture, politics, and the smallest details of his private life.

While many of his films feature traditional documentary premises — the lingering effects of the Civil War on the South in “Sherman’s March,” broadcast television’s warped view...

The festival marks the return of Day-Lewis to the screen in a film directed by his son, while a roster of urgent political films also form part of this year’s slate

As the curtain falls on the Venice and Telluride film festivals, and just before Toronto begins, the 69th London film festival has announced a programme that cherrypicks from all three predecessors.

The annual public festival takes place in London but offers virtual and brick-and-mortar opportunities for people to watch from all over the UK.

The 2025 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival has unveiled its opening and closing night selections, with Chen Yu-hsun’s “A Foggy Tale” getting its world premiere bow and Mariko Tetsuya’s “Dear Stranger” starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and Gwei Lun-mei closing the fest.

Chen Yu-hsun, the multi-Golden Horse Award winner behind “My Missing Valentine,” returns with “A Foggy Tale,” set against Taiwan’s White Terror era. The film follows a girl from Chiayi who travels north to retrieve her brother’s remains. The cast includes Caitlin Fang (“American Girl”), Will Or (“Drifting”), singer 9m88 and Tseng Jing-hua.

“When I was a little boy, I was always thrilled to see the opening of department stores, where everything seemed so bright and cheerful. And that becomes a little wish for me,” Chen said. “Now my dreams have come true to have my film opening the Golden Horse Film Festival, I’m deeply happy and truly honored.

Early in his career, William Shatner took a workman's approach to acting. Though he was considered a tremendously talented actor during his time at the prestigious Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario (where he impressed his colleague Christopher Plummer), once Shatner moved to New York City and, ultimately, Los Angeles, he made himself incredibly available. While he booked respectable work in major feature films like Richard Brooks' "The Brothers Karamazov" and Stanley Kramer's "Judgment at Nuremberg," he worked willingly and steadily in television — which, in the 1950s and '60s, was viewed as a haven for actors who couldn't quite crack the Hollywood nut.

On the one hand, this is admirable.

Women in Film (Wif) India has unveiled the six filmmakers selected for the country’s women-led delegation to the Toronto Film Festival, following a nationwide competition that drew more than 200 applications in just one week.

The winners, chosen through a rigorous selection process overseen by an international jury, represent diverse voices from across India’s film industries. The selected projects and filmmakers are: Arshaly Jose (“A Dandelion’s Dream”), Deepa Bhatia (“Rabbit Hole”), Katyayani Kumar (“Sons of The River”), Madhumita Sundararaman (“The Guest House”), Paromita Dhar (“Ulta”) and Pramati Anand (“A Late Autumn Dream”).

The initiative, part of the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s Waves Bazaar platform and facilitated by the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc), marks the first time Indian women filmmakers will collectively represent the country’s cinematic landscape at TIFF.

Applications flooded in from across India’s diverse film sectors, spanning states including Uttar Pradesh,...

“The Voice of Hind Rajab” director Kaouther Ben Hania and her cast were greeted at the film’s Venice Film Festival press conference on Wednesday with a standing ovation from journalists. The drama, which tells the true story of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was stranded in a car that was attacked by Israeli forces in Gaza and later found dead, has become a frontrunner for the Golden Lion.

One of the film’s stars, Saja Kilani, opened the press conference with a sobering statement. “On behalf of all of us actors: Isn’t it enough? Enough of the mass killing, the starvation, the dehumanization, the destruction, the ongoing occupation,” she said.

“Hind’s voice is one amongst tens of thousands of children that were killed in the last two years. It is the voice of every daughter and every son with the right to live, to dream, to exist...

Variety is exclusively unveiling the first clip from “The Sun Rises on Us All,” the latest film from Chinese director Cai Shangjun, ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival. The drama will also have its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and Asian premiere at the Busan International Film Festival.

The restrained drama stars Xin Zhilei as Meiyun, a woman whose life is upended when she encounters her former lover Baoshu (Zhang Songwen), who went to prison for a crime she committed. Feng Shaofeng co-stars in the emotional character study about guilt and the possibility of forgiveness.

Cai, who won the Silver Lion for best director at Venice in 2011 for “People Mountain People Sea,” explains in his director’s statement that the film follows Meiyun through a month of upheaval while deliberately avoiding dramatic plot twists. According to the filmmaker, the story focuses...

Germany’s filmmaking scene is vibrant, with a recent reform of the country’s film law boosting production incentives, but producers see room for improvement.

The Teutonic contingent in Venice is led by “Silent Friend” in competition, part of a pack of 21 German productions and co-productions in various sections, with a further four projects in Venice Production Bridge.

Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling” is Germany’s Oscar candidate Courtesy of Studio Zentral

Although “Silent Friend” is directed by a Hungarian, Ildikó Enyedi, it is a majority German production, and one of the country’s strengths is its willingness to embrace international talent. Another film to look out for is “Funeral Casino Blues” in Horizons, directed by Roderick Warich, who was in Venice in 2023 as the co-screenwriter of “The Universal Theory.”

Simone Baumann, managing director of German Films, which promotes German cinema abroad, describes the Venice films as “a mirror of contemporary German filmmaking,...

The unlikeliest horror franchise of the century is now getting ready to unleash its fourth film on unsuspecting moviegoers -- and, yes, a bone temple is once again involved. After taking just over two decades to arrive following Danny Boyle's original "28 Days Later", "28 Years Later" proved there was plenty of reason left to return to the zombie-ridden shores of the United Kingdom. Instead of Cillian Murphy's bicycle courier Jim, however, we ended up following the very different circumstances surrounding Aaron Taylor-Johnson's patriarch Jamie, his terminally-ill wife Isla (Jodie Comer), and their young son Spike (Alfie Williams). And rather than tell a straightforward story focused on killing...

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (Tghff) will kick off with the world premiere of Taiwanese director Chen Yu-hsun’s A Foggy Tale and close with Japanese director Tetsuya Mariko’s Dear Stranger, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima who will also be the festival’s Filmmaker-in-Focus, and Taiwanese star Gwei Lun-mei.

The directors and main cast will present their film at the opening and closing of Tghff, which runs from November 6-23.

A Foggy Tale is set in the era of Taiwan’s White Terror and follows the journey of a young girl from Chiayi City who travels to the north to...

This post contains spoilers for "Alien: Earth" episode 5.

It's been a good few years for big-budget science fiction on television. Between shows like "Andor," "Foundation," "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," and "Severance," the genre has thrived, though several of those series are now ending, or recently came to a close. FX's "Alien: Earth" (read our review here) hopes to keep the trend going, and so far, it's a strong contender to enter that same pantheon of 2020s sci-fi bangers. And speaking of "Severance," there's a bit of shared pedigree with that Apple TV+ show that you may have missed in the first episode, and now again in episode 5, "In Space,...

Screenis running this regularly updated page with the latest film festival and market dates from across the world.

To submit details of or alter your festival dates, pleasecontact us herewith the name, dates, country and website for the event.

Ongoing

Venice International Film Festival, Italy - August 27-September 6

Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival, US - September 2-7

Armenian Film Festival, US - September 3-7

September

Jakarta World Cinema, Indonesia - September 4-October 4

100% Manusia Film Festival, Indonesia - September 4-14

Toronto International Film Festival, Canada - September 4-14

Jakarta International Documentary Experimental Film Festival,Indonesia - Setptember 5-13

London Rolling Film Festival,...

The Philippines’ QCinema Project Market (Qpm), the industry wing of QCinema International Film Festival, has unveiled its lineup of 20 selected film projects for its third edition, chosen from 71 submissions across Southeast Asia.

The slate comprises 12 projects from the Philippines and eight from neighboring countries, showcasing what organizers describe as bold voices, distinctive genres, and globally resonant stories.

Several Qpm alumni are already making their mark on the international circuit. Malaysian auteur Woo Ming Jin’s “The Fox King” is set to world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this month, underscoring the market’s role as an incubator for globally competitive works. Alumni also include Dương Diệu Linh’s “Don’t Cry, Butterfly,” winner of the grand prize at Venice Critics’ Week, and Loeloe Hendra’s “Tale of the Land,” which earned the Fipresci Prize at Busan.

“Qpm is not just a platform — it’s a bridge,” said QCinema industry head Liza Diño.

Things are not as hetero as they appear in this handsome melodrama framing the postwar period as one of searching for meaning beyond the picket fence

Making a bid for awards credibility – somewhat tentatively – is this absorbing, detailed melodrama, adapted by screenwriter Bryce Kass from Shannon Pufahl’s 50s-set 2019 novel. Kass begins with a narrative feint: after some dutiful lovemaking with husband Lee (Will Poulter), young bride Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) spies Lee’s studly drifter brother Julius (Jacob Elordi) sprawling shirtless on a station wagon outside, the playing cards in his pocket signifying trouble. Things aren’t as hetero as they appear, however: Muriel is drawn to Julius for what...

The 69th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its 2025 program, featuring a star-studded lineup of films including Chloé Zhao‘s “Hamnet,” an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, and Bradley Cooper’s third directorial effort “Is This Thing On?” fronted by Will Arnett and Laura Dern.

“Moss & Freud,” James Lucas’s biopic of supermodel Kate Moss starring Ellie Bamber, will also get its world premiere at the festival. Isabella Eklöf’s series adaptation of Nick Cave novel “The Death of Bunny Munro,” featuring Matt Smith, is set to premiere at the festival in its series strand.

As previously revealed, Rian Johnson’s third instalment of his “Knives Out” trilogy, “Wake Up Dead Man” will open this year’s festival while Noah Baumbach will bring “Jay Kelly,” which stars George Clooney, Adam Sandler and Laura Dern, alongside Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut “The Chronology of Water.

The 69th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its full line-up, with six world premiere features, including Rowan Athale’s UK boxing drama Giant and James Lucas’ Moss & Freud.

Amir El-Masry and Pierce Brosnan star inGiant, a biopic of boxer Prince Naseem ‘Naz’ Hamed that follows his rise from the working-class streets of Sheffield and is produced by Tea Shop and AGC Studios. True Brit Entertainment will release in UK-Ireland from October 24.

Moss & Freud is a dramatised account of when, at the peak of her celebrity in the early 2000s, model Kate Moss decided to sit for famed British artist Lucian Freud.

Exclusive: Fortissimo Films has secured international sales to upcoming Chinese war drama 731 and will introduce the feature to buyers at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this week.

The Amsterdam and Beijing-based sales company will handle rights to the film for Europe, the Middle East and South America. It is scheduled for release in China on September 18.

Directed by Zhao Linshan, the story is inspired by one of the darkest and least-known chapters of the Second World War. It centres on the Imperial Japanese Army’s notorious Unit 731, which conducted biological and chemical experiments on human subjects in occupied China during the 1940s.

Trinity CineAsia has secured U.K. distribution rights to Jackie Chan’s latest action hit “The Shadow’s Edge,” setting an Oct. 3 theatrical release date for the thriller that has dominated the Chinese box office.

The Europe-wide distributor acquired U.K. rights from Golden Network Asia Limited for the Larry Yang-directed film, which has grossed $122 million worldwide in its third weekend of release. The film currently sits at No. 1 on both the Chinese box office and the global Comscore chart.

The film marks a reunion between Chan and Tony Leung Ka-fai, who last collaborated on “The Myth” 20 years ago. In “The Shadow’s Edge,” the 71-year-old Chan plays retired tracking expert Wong Tak-Chung, who mentors rookie officer He Qiuguo (Zhang Zifeng) to hunt down master criminal Fu Longsheng (Leung Ka-fai).

The action-heist film is a modernized remake of the 2007 Milkyway classic “Eye in the Sky,” updated to reflect how traditional police...

Macao’s emergence on the international stage as a location and co-production hub was discussed by executives from Asia, the UK and the US at a Screen International roundtable in Venice sponsored by the Galaxy Entertainment Group (Geg) Macao International Shorts Film Festival.

The roundtable, titled ’Thinking big: how co-productions and incentives are boosting the Macao film industry’, took place at a time of increasing film activity in Macao, the autonomous region on the south coast of China.

The Macao Special Administrative Region Government is actively involved in supporting the local industry and attracting international shoots.

Edward Berger’s Ballad Of A Small Player,...

Younger audiences are being lured back to the big screen in markets all over the world, said industry executives at a Venice Film Festival roundtable, hosted by Screen International and sponsored by the Saudi Film Commission (Sfc).

Despite widespread fears that younger audiences have turned their back on cinema since the pandemic, panellists at the “Young Audience & Cinema” roundtable provided reasons for optimism.

Mashary Al Khayyat, general manager of strategy, regulations and policy at the Sfc, pointed squarely at the demographics in emerging markets, noting that 60% of the Saudi population is 30 or younger. Comscore data compiled for the roundtable gave...

Amazon MGM Studios India has unveiled the trailer for “Nishaanchi,” an action-packed entertainer from acclaimed director Anurag Kashyap that promises to deliver a full-throttle theatrical experience when it hits cinemas.

Starring newcomer Aaishvary Thackeray in a twin role, the film centers on brothers Babloo and Dabloo (Thackeray) whose opposing worldviews drive the narrative set in early 2000s Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Vedika Pinto co-stars as Rangeeli Rinku, with Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Monika Panwar and Kumud Mishra rounding out the cast.

“Aaishvary, Vedika, Monika, Zeeshan, Kumud and every single actor in the film — they didn’t just act, they lived and breathed these characters,” the director said. “Their commitment to the story and the authenticity of their performances shines in the film.”

Jar Pictures’ Ajay Rai and Ranjan Singh produce alongside Flip Films, with Kashyap co-writing the screenplay with Prasoon Mishra and Ranjan Chandel. The project marks a collaboration between the...

Exclusive: Sophie Hyde’sSundance premiereJimpa, starring Olivia Colman and John Lithgow, has locked in key deals, including to Kino Lorber for North America and Icon Film Distribution for the UK-Ireland, for Protagonist Pictures and CAA Media Finance.

Jimpa is about amother who takes her non-binary teenager to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, with the teenager deciding they want to stay in the city for a year. This compels their mother to reconsider her beliefs about parenting.

Newcomer and Hyde’s own child, Aud Mason-Hyde, stars alongside Colman and Lithgow.

Further deals have been sealed with Bim (Italy), Spentzos (Greece...

Sony Pictures has released the first trailer for Nia DaCosta’s “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.”

The film will follow the events of “28 Years Later,” picking up after Spike (Alfie Williams) is introduced to Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) and his gang of acrobatic killers in a post-apocalyptic England. “Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a shocking new relationship — with consequences that could change the world as they know it — and Spike’s encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can’t escape,” the film’s official synopsis reads. “In the world of ‘The Bone Temple,’ the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival — the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.”

Cillian Murphy will briefly appear in the film, reprising his role as Jim from “28 Days Later,” alongside stars Fiennes, Emma Laird, Maura Bird, Erin Kellyman and Chi Lewis-Parry.

The first clip of Annemarie Jacir’s “Palestine 36” has been released as the film prepares for its world premiere at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.

The historical epic from Jacir is set amid the rising tensions of Palestinian uprising against Britain’s decades-long dominion of the region.

The story follows a young man who gets caught up in political upheaval as tensions rise in Jerusalem and his village amid British crackdowns prompted by the arrival of Jewish immigrants escaping antisemitism in Europe. “History is relentless,” reads the synopsis, which adds that “all sides spiral towards inevitable collision in a decisive moment for the British Empire and the future of the entire region.”

The film stars Hiam Abbas, Jeremy Irons, Karim Daoud Anaya, Saleh Bakri (“Blue Caftan”), Robert Aramayo, Billy Howle (“The Perfect Couple”), Liam Cunningham (“Game of Thrones”), Dafer L’Abidine (“Children of Men”) and Yasmine Al-Massri (“I Was a Stranger...

The Busan International Film Festival has assembled a heavyweight jury for its newly launched competition section, tapping Korean auteur Na Hong-jin as president alongside six international cinema luminaries for the festival’s landmark 30th edition.

Na Hong-jin, the visionary behind genre-bending thrillers “The Chaser,” “The Yellow Sea” and “The Wailing,” will preside over a seven-member panel that reads like a who’s who of global cinema. Joining the Korean filmmaker are Hong Kong acting legend Tony Leung Ka-fai, Indian actor-filmmaker Nandita Das, Iranian New Wave director Marziyeh Meshkiny, celebrated American helmer Kogonada, Indonesian producer Yulia Evina Bhara, and Korean star Han Hyo-joo.

The expanded jury — up from the traditional five members — will evaluate 14 Competition titles representing what organizers are calling “some of the year’s most outstanding Asian films.” Winners will be announced at the closing ceremony, with the newly minted Busan Award carrying a total cash prize of KRW...

The Korean Film Council has selected Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice” as the country’s submission for best international feature at the 98th Academy Awards.

The move positions the acclaimed filmmaker — whose credits include “Oldboy,” “The Handmaiden” and “Decision to Leave,” which was shortlisted in the category, — for a fresh run at Oscar glory.

The dark comedy, adapted from Donald E. Westlake’s novel “The Ax,” premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it is competing for the Golden Lion. Lee Byung-hun, best known globally from “Squid Game,” takes the lead as Yoo Man-su, a paper-industry veteran pushed to desperate, murderous extremes after 25 years of loyalty is abruptly discarded.

Critics have hailed “No Other Choice” as one of Park’s most humane and mordantly funny works to date. Reviewing the film for Variety, critic Jessica Kiang described it as a “delectable dark comedy “No Other Choice,” the latest exhibit...

A retrospective at the BFI celebrates how Wong – whether typecast in orientalist fantasies or breaking taboos with a kiss – could always steal the show

Anna May Wong is everywhere these days. The chic Chinese-American actor who first made a splash in the silent era has been fictionalised in films and TV shows, including Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood and Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, and an excellent novel, Amanda Lee Koe’s Delayed Rays of a Star. She has her face on the quarter, the first Asian-American to be honoured in that way, and she is the subject of a page-turner of a biography, Not Your China Doll by Katie Gee Salisbury.

Call My Agent!’s Ophélia Kolb leads a Swiss drama with morally ambiguous realism reminiscent of the Dardenne brothers

Just in time for the migration of children from their summer stations in front of phones, games consoles and laptops back to full-time education comes this Swiss-set tale of a mother on the edge. An outstanding Ophélia Kolb (arguably best known to anglophone audiences for playing the accountant Colette in Call My Agent!) stars here as Jule, a single woman trying to hold it together for her brood of three. Eldest child Claire (Jasmine Kalisz Saurer) is just entering puberty and is savvy enough to work out that mama isn’t...

Patrick Graham is making his return to Hindi-language horror, signing on to write a new feature film inspired by an real-life Indian tragedy.

Graham, who created the Netflix horror series “Ghoul” and “Betaal,” will pen the script for the untitled film being backed by Khyati Madaan’s Not Out Entertainment alongside Prashant Gunjalkar.

Ahan Shetty has been tapped to star, marking a genre shift for the actor following his debut in 2021 romantic action thriller “Tadap” and ahead of his role in the ensemble war epic “Border 2,” which also features Sunny Deol, Diljit Dosanjh and Varun Dhawan. The patriotic drama is scheduled for an Indian Republic Day 2026 release and is expected to be one of the year’s major theatrical events.

The project is being positioned as a theatrical horror experience mixing scares with romance, built around the real-life historical event. The casting of the female lead is currently underway,...