EXCLUSIVE: ATX TV Festival has revealed the 10 finalists for its annual Pitch Competition & Mentorship Program, as well as the new advisers who will be lending their expertise to these up-and-comers. In alphabetical order by project title, here are the finalists: Divine Intervention, Zina Ellis (half-hour comedy) Friendliest, Drew Lausch & Jenny Leon (half-hour […] More
EXCLUSIVE: German TV market Seriencamp is taking on artificial intelligence this year in a big way. The Cologne-based confab is launching a Plot Next strand that will explore the “intersection between storytelling and technology.” More will be unveiled in due course but names so far unveiled include showrunner Pandora de Cunha Telles, who will present […] More
Brady Corbet’s touched down at Dublin’s Storyhouse screenwriting festival on Thursday where he teased details of his next feature film following his Oscar-winning 2024 title The Brutalist. “My new film is a film that is sort of about American mysticism and the history of the occult in America and I’ve been reading tons and tons of […] More
A record 103 world premiere feature films are on tap at the 25th edition of the Tribeca Festival in June. While celebrity-driven films have long been a staple of Tribeca (along with Oscar-destined documentaries and work by top-tier narrative filmmakers), this year’s bounty includes a number of recognizable names. Among them are Paul Rudd, Quentin Tarantino […] More
Amol Rajan will deliver the Edinburgh TV Festival Alternative MacTaggart lecture. Rajan is about to exit the BBC to set up a digital talent company and will talk about “the role of journalism in a post-truth world, and why now is the time to ‘jump into the great digital Narnia of the creator economy’.” One […] More
When actress Sonia Manzano goes out in public, bringing a hanky can be quite helpful. Fans tend to react to her with deep emotion. They know and love Manzano from Sesame Street, the show she graced as Maria from 1971 to 2015, an extraordinary 44-year run. Her impact on American culture — as the first […] More
Beta Cinema has posted deals for award-winning Austrian Berlinale 2026 Panorama title Four Minus Three as it enjoys a strong theatrical launch in its home territory and sweeps nomination in key local film awards. Directed by Adrian Goiginger, the film is adapted from the autobiographical bestseller by Barbara Pachl-Eberhart, telling her tale of loss as […] More
Spanish director Eva Libertad’s debut solo feature Deaf (Sorda), about a deaf woman expecting a child with her hearing partner, has won the 2026 European Parliament’s LUX Audience Award. The award continues a prizewinning run for the film which world premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in 2025, where it was feted with the audience award and […] More
The Marché du Film and Tokyo International Film Festival Content Market (TIFFCOM) have announced a three-day IP market, dedicated to Japanese intellectual properties with strong potential for film adaptation, during this year’s edition of the Cannes market. This initiative, running from May 15-17 in the Art Explora catamaran located in Vieux-Port harbor of Cannes, will […] More
EXCLUSIVE: Urban Sales has acquired international sales rights to Under A Bad Star (Mauvaise Étoile), which was announced on Tuesday as the opening film of Cannes parallel section ACID. The debut feature from French directors Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier follows 24 hours in the life of a couple, exposing the dysfunction at the heart […] More
EXCLUSIVE: Nyle DiMarco has boarded feature documentary The Way We Move, chronicling the life and work of acclaimed American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter Amber Galloway, as executive producer following its buzzy debut in SXSW last month. Galloway has made her mark specializing in live music events, signing at concerts for the likes of Kendrick Lamar, […] More
EXCLUSIVE: Urban Sales has acquired international sales rights to working-titled Born Under A Bad Star (Mauvaise Étoile), which was announced on Tuesday as the opening film of Cannes parallel section ACID. The debut feature from French directors Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier follows 24 hours in the life of a couple, exposing the dysfunction at […] More
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