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Several new films and initiatives were announced in the entertainment industry. 'Small Talk' premiered at Locarno Film Festival, while RioFilme unveiled incentives for international co-productions. Netflix released a trailer for 'Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,' and details emerged about a documentary on Windows on the World.
Coverage timeline — 15 articles
Variety
Joey Jia, founder and CEO of vertical content shop ReelShort, is set to speak next month at the Vertical Media Summit, hosted in Hollywood by media research firm Owl & Co. Jia will take part in a conversation on June 3 with Owl & Co. chief Hernan Lopez, the former Fox executive and founder o
2026-05-08 13:15 UTC
Variety
Despite what the obligatory disclaimer before each episode may say, the Israeli thriller “Unconditional” — which aired on Keshet 12 in its country of origin last month before coming to Apple TV in the U.S. — is clearly inspired by real-life events. When 23-year-old Gali (Talia Lynne Ronn,
2026-05-08 13:15 UTC
Variety
Fusion Entertainment has signed Toronto-based filmmaker Sophy Romvari for management. Romvari is currently earning acclaim for her feature directorial debut, “Blue Heron,” which was released theatrically by Janus Films in the U.S. last month. The film is now rolling out to theaters acros
2026-05-08 13:17 UTC
Deadline
Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, Duncan Sheik’s new musical based on the Manga graphic novel, will premiere Off Broadway this fall, producers announced today. The production, featuring music and lyrics by Sheik, will open at a new Chelsea neighborhood venue called The Night Egg, named after a Fre
2026-05-08 13:28 UTC
Variety
Antti-Jussi Annila, the Finnish director behind “Codename: Annika” and the political drama series “Peacemaker,” is set to helm “Sands of Sarasvati,” a Finland-U.K. co-production eco-thriller adapted from Risto Isomäki’s best-selling novel. The screenplay is
2026-05-15 05:19 UTC
Variety
Now that the dust has settled on longtime strongman Viktor Orbán’s landslide electoral defeat last month, Hungarian industry figures are charting a course for what one leading producer describes as a “new day” after 16 years of Orbán’s authoritarian rule. The election-day shocker set off waves of j
2026-05-15 05:21 UTC
Variety
Isabella Rossellini, Emma Laird and Millicent Simmonds are set to star in “Vermillion,” a period piece set during the last days of the French Revolution to be directed by British director Jon Amiel. Based on the play by Joel Gross, “Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh,” which first played in New Yo
2026-05-15 05:25 UTC
Variety
Five years after the fourth and final season of the hit French series “Call My Agent!” won an International Emmy Award, the gang is back for a feature film that sends its beloved agent-turned-filmmaker Andréa Martel (Camille Cottin) into the south of France and straight into the chaos of a movie sho
2026-05-17 15:19 UTC
Deadline
At a Cannes where some have grumbled about a paucity of studio movies (and thus stars), the absence of Scarlett Johansson at last night’s premiere of Paper Tiger was notable. During the movie’s rousing 10-minute standing ovation director James Gray tried to make a call to the actress, ac
2026-05-17 15:21 UTC
Variety
Cate Blanchett and Selena Gomez are set to star in “The Brutalist” director Brady Corbet’s next film alongside Michael Fassbender. During a masterclass at Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, Blanchett let slip that she’s “about to work with Brady Corbet on a film.” Va
2026-05-17 15:27 UTC
Variety
RioFilme, the film-TV agency of Rio de Janeiro City, will launch a call for proposals amounting to R$15 million ($3 million) for up to four international co-production projects involving Rio-based companies. Leonardo Edde, president of RioFilme, told Variety that projects of fiction and animated fea
2026-08-11 15:57 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: SNL‘s Veronika Slowikowska is set to topline Stephanie, Bride to Be, a comedy marking the directorial debut of Allie Viti and the first narrative feature from exec producer John Wilson (How To with John Wilson). Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos), Amy Sedaris (Kevin), Lea DeLaria (Ora
2026-08-11 15:58 UTC
Variety
“Small Talk,” directed my Mateo Ybarra (“Over Our Hills,” “Summer Camp”), will have its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival on Aug. 11. The film stars Hélène Bares (“Evy & Me”) as Charlie, who signs up for a summer course at Switzerland’s only remaining etiquette school for women. Her re
2026-08-11 15:58 UTC
Deadline
Netflix has released the first trailer for the latest chapter in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s anthology series Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. The haunting 56-second clip begins with a theater curtain opening to reveal a nearly empty stage with just a piano and the C key playing repeatedly
2026-08-11 16:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: For 25 years, an international clientele dined in spectacular fashion at Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center’s north tower, where guests were served by an equally international staff. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 91 guests and 79 World employ
2026-08-11 16:00 UTC