4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (850+ words) International media executive and producer Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and AI filmmaker Mark Wachholz have launched Dreamkite Studios, a Munich- and Berlin-based AI-native film studio, developing premium films, high-end TV series and IP-based short-form content. Dreamkite will combine generative AI with traditional…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (933+ words) 'Oddity' Review: Casey Affleck's Plodding Sophomore Directorial Effort variety.com ‘Company’ Review: Casey Affleck’s Latest Directorial Effort Isn’t What It Initially Appears to Be, but Isn’t Very Interesting Either Way Emerging unexpectedly as a genre film from what seemed a…...

5+ day, 11+ min ago   (277+ words) Variety Ellen Burstyn Wipes Away Tears, Hugs Taika Waititi and Pamela Anderson as Heartfelt Drama ‘Place to Be’ Earns 6-Minute Venice Ovation Ellen Burstyn wept as Kornél Mundruczó’s heartfelt drama “Place to Be” was embraced at Venice Film Festival with…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (383+ words) Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó first worked with Ellen Burstyn on his 2020 drama “Pieces of a Woman,” and immediately knew he wanted to make another movie with her. “She was [on set] for two or three days only, and I loved…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (68+ words) variety.com ‘Company’ Stars Nick Nolte, Adelaide Clemens on the Film’s Power of Stillness The vital act of storytelling drives Casey Affleck’s “Company.” Knowing those stories and the people in them also passes on lessons learned involving grief, regret and…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (463+ words) Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem have proven that they aren’t afraid to speak out about politics, with the power couple being especially vocal about their support of Palestine. It was inevitable that the topic would come up at the Venice…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (290+ words) Indian filmmaker Anuparna Roy has been carrying Ameena’s story since childhood. International sales on the new film are being handled by Parallax. Roy says “Songs of Forgotten Trees” was a personal story made under difficult funding conditions, built around two…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (679+ words) Forty years into a career that has made him one of American cinema’s most recognizable character actors, John Turturro has a Cannes best actor prize, an enviable résumé and exactly zero Oscar mornings when his name was read aloud with…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (467+ words) Watch an exclusive first clip from that will premiere at the Venice Film Festival Marilyn Monroe would have turned 100 this year. So when Maggie Gyllenhaal was approached to make a movie about her, she asked for a weekend to daydream…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (209+ words) Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights to Radu Jude’s “The Diary of a Chambermaid,” the Romanian filmmaker’s first French-language feature, following its world premiere in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. The deal was announced by Film Movement president Michael Rosenberg and Kevin Chneiweiss…...