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Iranian Director Mohsen Gharaei’s ‘Falling House’ Boarded by Paradise City Sales Ahead of Venice Premiere

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 drama that portrayed contemporary Iranian society and won best film at Busan before going on […]

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Variety

‘The Dink’ Review: Pickleball Takes on Tennis in a Mild Underdog Sports Comedy

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 comic style. Following a conceited former tennis […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Imax Quarterly Revenues, Profit Rises on Premium Screen Gold Rush

It helps recent box office hits like Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ were shot using Imax's proprietary camera technology and command higher ticket prices for its giant screen theaters.

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Hollywood Reporter

TelevisaUnivision Quarterly U.S. Ad Revenue Drops 29 Percent, But World Cup Boosts Mexico Results

The Spanish-language media giant, led by CEO Daniel Alegre, said that advertising revenue in Mexico increased 23 percent in the second quarter.

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Variety

Imax Second Quarter Earnings Rise, as CEO Calls Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ a ‘Transformational Event’

Hits like “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” and “Michael” helped lift Imax’s second quarter earnings. During the three-month period ending in June, the big screen provider’s revenues increased 12% to $102.8 million, while net income improved 30% to $15.9 million. Imax recorded adjusted earnings per share of 43 cents, a 65% improvement over the prior-year […]

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Variety

Venice Film Festival Sees Sharp Drop in Female Directors in Competition, With May El-Toukhy Standing Solo

The Venice Film Festival has suffered its steepest decline in female representation in five years, with just one woman director selected for this edition’s main competition. It marks a dramatic fall from the six female filmmakers in last year’s edition, which saw Kaouther Ben Hania win the grand jury prize for “The Voice of Hind […]

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The Guardian Culture

‘My life’s work was being delightful. That really hurt me’: breakout Americana star Brennan Wedl on freeing herself through song

​With her roots stretching from the Catholic church to riot grrrl, the US singer-songwriter explains how sobriety and self-analysis powered her classic new Waxahatchee-produced albumThe songwriting on Brennan Wedl’s new album is so ironclad that I kept checking the credits to see if any of its songs were actually covers of peak Lucinda Williams tracks that I’d somehow missed. Nope: all originals by a 29-year-old songwriter whose radiant, hooky, tough Americana puts her toe-to-toe with genre godh

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Variety

Venice Lesbian Drama ‘Big Little Things’ Boards Moebius Entertainment for Worldwide Sales

Michelle Zhou’s debut feature “Big Little Things” has landed backing from Hong Kong-based Moebius Entertainment, which will handle worldwide sales and festival representation after the Hong Kong-U.S. co-production earned a berth in the Horizons section of the 83rd Venice Film Festival. The story centers on a woman who moves back to her native Harbin after […]

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Variety

Venice-Bound Serbian Protest Drama ‘Until the Day Ends’ Boarded by Heretic (EXCLUSIVE)

Heretic has acquired world rights to Jelena Maksimović’s fiction feature debut “Until the Day Ends,” set against the backdrop of Serbia’s student protests. The film will celebrate its world premiere as part of Venice’s Horizons section in September. The film follows Lena (Lena Trifunović), an anarchist student active in Belgrade’s anti-government movement, and Stefan (Stefan […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Peacock Turns Its First-Ever Profit in Q2 as NBCUniversal Split Looms

Comcast reported earnings early Thursday, with the NBCU streaming service reporting its first ever profitable quarter, but warned of softness in its theme parks business.

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Variety

Venice-Selected ‘Moonfish,’ Starring Morgan Spector and Lucy Liu, Boarded by New Europe (EXCLUSIVE)

New Europe Film Sales has acquired the animated film “Moonfish” by Daniel Zvereff, starring Morgan Spector (“The Gilded Age,” “Homeland”) and Lucy Liu (“Kill Bill,” “Charlie’s Angels”). The film will be screened in the Biennale College section at the 83rd Venice Intl. Film Festival. In “Moonfish,” a grieving astronaut who’s lost his only companion on […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Sarajevo Film Fest Unveils 51 Films in Competition, Including Sandra Wollner’s ‘Everytime’

British actress Emily Watson will serve as jury president at the 32nd instalment of the Bosnian film festival in August.

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The Guardian Culture

A grief therapist told me I should live to honor my son. How would I do that?

After my 22-month-old child died, music and poetry brought catharsis and comfortThe day Renzo had his aneurysm, in the afternoon before it happened, I distinctly remember telling him that it was going to be a pleasure to watch him grow up. It seems ridiculous to write that here, the foreshadowing so on the nose as to be unbelievable. But it’s true. To him and my wife Allegra, I said, “I love our little family.” After the struggles around his birth, job loss, the pandemic, it felt, finally, like

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Variety

TelevisaUnivision Posts Q2 Loss Despite Boost From Mexico World Cup Telecasts

Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision said it posted a loss in the second quarter despite a swell of revenue from its rights to air the World Cup in Mexico, a sign of the challenges the company, formed from the combination of Univision in the U.S. and Grupo Televisa in Mexico, continues to face. The company posted […]

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Variety

Venice Title ‘The Difficult Bride’ Taps Films Boutique for World Sales (EXCLUSIVE)

Films Boutique has boarded international sales on “The Difficult Bride,” Rubaiyat Hossain’s supernatural feminist drama selected for the Horizons competition of the Venice Film Festival, where it will become the first Bangladeshi feature film to screen. The cast includes three Bangladesh National Film Award winners – Azmeri Haque Badhon, Rikita Nondine Shimu and Sunerah Kamal […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk Documentary to Premiere in Venice — With a Nearly 4-Hour Runtime

Musk condemned the long-gestating doc in 2023, posting on X, "It's a hit piece" — to which Gibney replied: "How would you know?"

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Variety

Isabel Davis Named Director of BFI Filmmaking Fund – Global Bulletin

LOTTERY LEADER Isabel Davis has been appointed director of the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Funds, overseeing some £20 million ($26.8 million) a year in support for U.K. independent filmmakers. Davis joins the British Film Institute from Screen Scotland, where she has served as executive director for eight years, and begins a five-year fixed-term contract in […]

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Variety

Tom Holland Is Filming Fred Astaire Biopic Next and Plans to ‘Do All of the Dancing’ Himself: ‘I’ve Got So Much Work to Do’

Tom Holland is on the second of two consecutive blockbuster press tours in the space of a month – first for “The Odyssey” and now for “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” – but the actor is already gearing up for his next role: Fred Astaire. Holland, who is set to play the debonair dancer in an […]

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Variety

‘Oasis,’ Exploring Fear, Exclusion and Violence, Picked Up by Totem Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

Totem has picked up international sales rights for “Oasis,” by writer-director Jannis Lenz, which has its world premiere in the Horizons competition section at the Venice Film Festival. The film joins Totem’s sales slate as the company shifts its primary focus to production. The film centers on a school where a viral video of a […]

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Variety

Comcast Q2 Boosted by World Cup, Profits at Peacock

Comcast said its second quarter was boosted by revenue tied to World Cup telecasts on the company’s Spanish-language Telemundo network as well as the Peacock streaming service, which achieved profitability for the first time, but the company still faced headwinds in its cable and broadband business and saw profit in the period decline due to […]

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