EXCLUSIVE: Billy Zane portrays Marlon Brando in the upcoming film Waltzing With Brando on set in the late 1960s and early ’70s when Brando purchased the private atoll Tetiaroa in the South Pacific. It was a time when Brando needed to keep working to fund the environmental projects that he and…

Jodie Whittaker Short Film Fund Raises Value To $50,000 EXCLUSIVE: The Empower Fund, an initiative that champions female and non-binary filmmakers, has seen its value rise to £40,000 ($50,000) after post-production house Picture Shop came onboard to support the Empower Fund with in-kind post services…

Working class representation in UK film and TV is at its lowest level for a decade, according to new research. The Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre found that just one in 12 people now working in film, TV and radio are from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. According to the government’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired Northern American rights for Joachim A. Lang's historical drama Goebbels and The Führer (aka Führer and Seducer) for a fall 2024 theatrical and digital release.   Beta Cinema, which launched sales on the feature at the EFM and brokered the North America…

The 2024 Cannes Film Festival is underway with Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act starring Léa Seydoux and Louis Garrel serving as this year’s opening-night film. This year’s lineup includes major Hollywood premieres like Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, Kevin…

EXCLUSIVE: ITV panel show Sorry, I Didn’t Know has sealed itself in the record books by becoming the network’s longest-running show from a production company led by Black creatives. Hosted by Bel-Air star Jimmy Akingbola and shot in front of a live audience in London, the series, which launched just…

EXCLUSIVE: Meryl Streep says that a meeting is "imminent" where she'll hear about the proposals for her to return for a third helping of Mamma Mia! The acting legend, honored with an Honorary Palme d'Or at an emotional presentation Tuesday night during the Cannes Film Festival’s opening ceremony the…

EXCLUSIVE: The starry packages keep on coming at the Cannes market. The latest is comedy The Temptation Of Gracie, starring Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers), Andie MacDowell (Maid), Rupert Everett (My Policeman), Franco Nero (John Wick Chapter 2), Viola…

The immediate cost of war is front and center these days, as the grim scenarios in Gaza and Ukraine continue to play out in front of us. But in his fiction debut, documentary filmmaker Jonathan Millet takes us beyond the headlines of the now to present the…

Cannes parallel section Critics' Week opens Wednesday with French director Jonathan Millet's psychological manhunt thriller Ghost Trail (Les Fantômes), starring Adam Bessa as man in in pursuit of a faceless, former torturer. Running from May 15 to 23, the compact line-up will showcase 11 first and…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Talk Studios, producer of Amazon/BBC series The Outlaws, has turned to Brontë Film & TV to find its first creative director of drama. Jenny van der Lande will join Big Talk in the newly-created role having developed all six seasons of J.K. Rowling’s BBC/Max series Strike, starring Tom…

Judith Godrèche has been a regular on the Cannes red carpet for close to 30 years for her performances in films such as Patrice Leconte's 1996 Palme d'Or contender Ridicule and Un Certain Regard cycling drama The Climb in 2019.  The popular French actress-turned-director touches down this edition…