Visit Films has acquired international sales rights to U.S. film "Mouse," which will have its world premiere in the Panorama section at the Berlin Film Festival, and will also screen at the …
International Film Festival Rotterdam has revealed its lineup of talks for its 55th edition, which runs from Jan. 29 to Feb. 8. Speakers include U.S. actor John Lithgow, Palestinian actress …
Actors and other performers working in film and TV in the U.K. have voted by a landslide to refuse to be digitally scanned on set in order to secure artificial intelligence protections. Memb…
Iranian-French actress Zar Amir, who won Cannes' best actress award for "Holy Spider," leads the cast of investigative thriller "Keep Her Quiet," alongside British actor Jonathan Pryce, an O…
Palestinian American writer-director-actor Cherien Dabis received the Variety International Vanguard Director Award at the Red Sea Film Festival on Wednesday. The award presentation preceded…
Egyptian-British actor Amir El-Masry was presented with the Variety International Vanguard Actor Award at the Red Sea Film Festival, recognizing a career that has moved fluidly between Arab …
Idris Elba opened his Red Sea Film Festival conversation with the screening of "Dust to Dreams," a short film shot in Lagos, starring Seal, Nse Ikpe-Etim, and Constance Olatunde, marking his…
Speaking at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, Anthony Hopkins explained how he approached the role of Hannibal Lecter in Jonathan Demme's "The Silence of the Lambs." Ho…
Nicholas Hoult, speaking at Red Sea Film Festival on Monday, touched on his upcoming Tom Ford movie, "Cry to Heaven," the adaptation of Anne Rice's 1982 novel. Hoult stars alongside Adele, A…
Has Nicholas Hoult gone over to the dark side? Speaking at Variety Lounge presented by Red Sea Film Festival, the actor acknowledged that characters such as Lex Luthor in "Superman," as well…
Films Boutique has closed further sales on Agnieszka Holland's Franz Kafka biopic "Franz," Poland's official Oscar entry for best international feature film at the 98th Academy Awards. Idan …
Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara have come on board as executive producers of "I'm Glad You're Dead Now," which won Cannes Film Festival's short film Palme d'Or this year. Palestinian Tawfeek…
The Match Factory has launched sales at AFM on Jane Schoenbrun's slasher movie "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma," which stars "Hacks" actress Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, at t…
The Egypt Film Commission aims to increase foreign shoots in Egypt, in the wake of recent high-profile productions, including Guy Ritchie's "Fountain of Youth," shot at the Giza Pyramids, Ne…
Beta Cinema has sold romantic dramedy "Rose's Baby," directed by Trudie Styler and starring Antonio Banderas and Eva Birthistle, to several high-profile distributors worldwide. Territories s…
"1001 Frames," which screened at Thessaloniki Film Festival this week, is composed of a series of creepy scenes from auditions conducted in Tehran, Iran. But it could be any city. During the…
HanWay Films is launching international sales on "The Species," the new period drama from British director Justin Chadwick ("Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," "The Other Boleyn Girl"), written…
Propagate Content announced Monday at Mipcom that Sky has come on board to co-produce the feature documentary "I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not," an authorized but unfiltered documentary on co…
The Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival will pay tribute to Isabelle Huppert at its 66th edition, and present 15 of her films. The actress, who will be the festival's guest of honor, will atten…
Ulrich Köhler's "Gavagai" has debuted its trailer with Variety ahead of the film's screening on Sunday at the Zurich Film Festival. International sales for the film, which had its world p…
Berlin and Lyon-based sales outfit Films Boutique has announced sales for Agnieszka Holland's Kafka biopic "Franz" to additional territories following its world premiere Friday at the Toront…
In hybrid documentary "Broken English," which premieres in Venice Film Festival's Out of Competition section, filmmakers Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth deliver an innovative and playful portr…
The Mexican director-writer-producer Michel Franco has come to the Sarajevo Film Festival with every one of his nine features. He returns "because he feels like part of the family," he said …
Actor and musician Jharrel Jerome ("Moonlight," "When They See Us," "Unstoppable") and actor Teo Yoo ("Past Lives," "The Recruit," "Karoshi") have joined the jury for the Golden Globes Impac…
"Vanilla," which will world premiere at Venice Film Festival in the Venice Days sidebar, has been picked up by Bendita Film Sales. The film is the feature directorial debut of Mexican actres…