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The New York Film Festival has added the world premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s concert film Cameron Winter At Carnegie Hall. Meanwhile, Abramorama acquired distribution rights to Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s documentary Miss Representation: Rise Up for North America.
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Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama has acquired North American distribution rights to Miss Representation: Rise Up, director Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s examination of the “backlash against women in the age of AI, social media, and rising misogyny.” The company plans to premiere the film at IFC Center in New York C
2026-08-31 15:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Documentary artists confronting media consolidation, a tightened acquisition market and other challenges are about to get a major lift from the Points North Institute, the nonprofit that puts on the Camden International Film Festival in Maine. On Monday, the institute announced its 2026 A
2026-08-31 15:00 UTC
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The New York Film Festival has added the world premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Cameron Winter At Carnegie Hall to the Spotlight section of its 64th edition. The concert capture from Geese frontman Winter’s sold-out solo run at Carnegie Hall last December will debut October 1 at Alice Tully
2026-08-31 15:02 UTC
Variety
You don’t have to hit hard to win pickleball — that’s the chief lesson to be taken from “The Dink,” a sports comedy titled for the dainty signature shot of the fast-growing racket sport, and it’s one that Josh Greenbaum’s film takes to heart with its own softball
2026-07-23 11:57 UTC
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Imax just released numbers for the second quarter ended in June, but eyes are on July – specifically, the massive debut of The Odyssey that just provided the big screen exhibitor with its most muscular opening weekend ever. The film also delivered the highest Imax international market share of any m
2026-07-23 11:59 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of scoring a spot on the Venice Film Festival lineup, the Robert Pattinson starring and produced Primetime will debut in theaters nationwide on Sept. 25. The movie from documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim follows Chris Hansen in 2006 as he sets to make TV history with To Cat
2026-07-23 12:00 UTC
Variety
Paradise City Sales has boarded worldwide sales on Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Gharaei’s latest feature, “Falling House” which is set to world premiere in the Horizons section at the Venice Film Festival. “Falling House” marks his follow up to “Blockage,” a 2017 dram
2026-07-23 12:00 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Colman Domingo (Michael) are among the leads of Chapter 51, the latest feature from American photographer and filmmaker Tyler Shields, which has been picked up for North America by Cineverse. Described as a “comedic thriller,” Chapter 51 was writ
2026-05-12 15:36 UTC
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EXCLUSIVE: Slow Horses’ Ruth Bradley is set to star alongside Bill Burr and Chris O’Dowd in Bender, the coming-of-age comedy shooting in Ireland this summer, which we announced last fall. Described as Superbad meets Derry Girls, Bender is based on the late-’70s, post-punk Dublin co
2026-05-12 15:42 UTC
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Jerome Levy and David Atlan-Jackson – co-founders of growing pan-European theatrical feature film-focused Vuelta Group – hit the Cannes Film Festival’s red carpet this evening with opening film The Electric Kiss. The group’s Paris-based subsidiary Playtime is handling international sales on Pierre S
2026-05-12 15:42 UTC
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UPDATED July 15: Ticket sales for the 2027 London revival of Sunday in the Park with George starring Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande will begin this fall, a several-month delay from the original May 2026 launch, Deadline has confirmed. The summer 2027 production date for the Sondheim musical, to b
2026-07-15 17:21 UTC
Variety
In the almost 30 years since Steven Spielberg’s “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” was shot in Costa Rica, much has changed in the country’s film industry. From a virtually nonexistent market in the late ’90s to a burgeoning powerhouse whose exports are sweeping awards at major festivals such as
2026-07-15 17:22 UTC
Rolling Stone
Death-metal and grindcore greats played a career-spanning set in only 20 minutes
2026-07-15 17:24 UTC
Variety
Juxtaposing the story of a young asylum seeker with that of a former drug addict, “The Lion at My Back” highlights the way in which perceived hierarchies of suffering feel somewhat irrelevant on an individual level. Or, rather, that they should: Everyone has more to gain in looking for similarities
2026-07-15 17:27 UTC
Variety
South Korean director Na Hong-Jin will make his San Diego Comic-Con debut with a panel celebrating his latest film “Hope.” The film premiered in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will be released by Neon in the U.S. this September. The special panel will feature an exclusive introd
2026-07-15 17:30 UTC