Big update on Marilyn Manson’s legal troubles… As we’ve previously reported, the 54-year-old
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Naman Ramachandran Award-winning production company Ventureland has entered a first-look partnership with independent studio A24 for documentary projects. John Battsek, producer of Oscar-winning documentaries “One Day in September” and “Searching for Sugar Man,” who also serves as Ventureland’s managing director, will be both producing and executive producing as part of the deal, alongside Ventureland CEO Kerstin Emhoff, president Ali Brown, and co-founder Paul Hunter.
The two companies recently collaborated on freediving Netflix documentary “The Deepest Breath,” which premiered earlier this year at Sundance. Battsek and Emhoff said: “With our shared culture and ambition to broaden perspectives, we are thrilled to partner with A24.
This partnership will allow us to continue to push creative boundaries in making award-winning documentary features and series.” Headquartered in London and Los Angeles, Ventureland’s credits include PGA and BAFTA-nominated “The Rescue”; double Emmy-winning “Rising Phoenix”; Critics Choice nominee “The Real Charlie Chaplin”; Werner Herzog’s “Theater of Thought”; Mary McCartney’s “If These Walls Could Sing”; Chris Smith’s “Wham!” for Netflix; and “Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker” for Apple TV+; and “Bobi Wine: The People’s President,” which premiered at the Venice in 2022.
Upcoming projects include the untitled David Beckham docu-series directed by Oscar winner Fisher Stevens for Netflix and “Government Cheese,” a scripted series for Apple TV+ starring David Oyelowo. A24 scored nine wins at the Oscars earlier this year, including best picture for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” and also pulled off the rare feat of winning every major acting category, with three statuettes coming
.Big update on Marilyn Manson’s legal troubles… As we’ve previously reported, the 54-year-old
Alissa Simon Film Critic Sometimes films highlight little-known events in their country of origin that wind up catalyzing a re-evaluation of their nation’s history. Finnish director Klaus Härö’s “Never Alone” is shaping up to be that sort of film. It follows the deportation from Finland of eight Austrian-Jewish refugees by the Gestapo during World War II and the work of Abraham Stiller, a pillar of the Helsinki Jewish community, who tried to stop it from happening.
Disney+ has revealed the release date for the highly-anticipated documentary about Coleen Rooney's legal battle with fellow WAG Rebekah Vardy.
Showtime has set a November premiere date for comedy The Curse, starring Emma Stone, Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie. The 10-episode series will launch Friday, November 10 on streaming and on demand for Showtime and Paramount+ subscribers before making is linear debut on Showtime on Sunday, November 12 at 1 pm ET/PT. Showtime also has unveiled an expanded look at images from the series, which will have its world premiere at the 2023 New York Film Festival on Thursday, October 12, screening the first three episodes. You can see the images above and below.
As the weather begins to get cooler there will again likely be a rise in respiratory viruses - including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The virus, which is a common childhood illness, usually spreads in the UK each year from October and last for around five months - with infections peaking in December.
Baz Luhrmann has been named president of the Features Competition jury at the upcoming Red Sea International Film Festival. This third edition of the event runs from November 30-December 9 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
“PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” Sunday in Los Angeles set a new Guinness record for the “most dogs attending a film screening.”At the Autry Museum in Griffith Park, 219 dogs gathered to celebrate the release of the movie, which features an animated canine crew of search-and-rescue heroes. “We are thrilled to have worked with the team at Paramount Pictures to break the Guinness World Record for most dogs at a film screening,” Brittany Thorn, executive director for the Best Friends Animal Society in Los Angeles, said in a statement.
Naman Ramachandran Oliver Pearn’s feature directorial debut “On the Line” has been snapped up for U.K. and U.S. distribution by Trinity Creative Partnership and 101 Films.
A teaser image has been released ahead of a brand new factual series dropping next month on BBC Scotland and iPlayer which has been described as a "real-life version of US legal drama suits" swapping Hollywood for the streets of Glasgow.
The Bachelor franchise just got a facelift.
You’ll remember Apple TV+ was so gung-ho on its spy series, “Slow Horses” starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman, they greenlit it for two seasons and shot them back-to-back and then released them both within the same year (April and December of 2022). Well, they also did the same with the renewal, announcing that seasons three and four of the critically acclaimed espionage drama would be greenlight and shot concurrently.
Gary Oldman and the Slow Horses gang return with the first two episodes of Season 3 on December 1 with new episodes to be released individually each Friday through December 29 via Apple.
Rihanna may do a lot of photoshoots — but she never brings her whole family along! What a treat!
A top doctor has revealed three Covid symptoms that must be looked out for as cases continue to increase across the world.
K.J. Yossman BBC Studios has merged three areas of its formats business to create a new global entertainment division led by Matt Forde.
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Wu (American Born Chinese, Badlands) is co-writing and developing a comic book series with veteran Marvel, DC and Valiant artist Sean Chen, with plans to adapt the property for film and TV starring Wu.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Phil Johnston (Zootopia, Wreck-It Ralph) has adapted The Twits, the children’s novel penned by Roald Dahl in the 1980s, into an animated feature set to hit Netflix in 2025.
A disease commonly suffered in Victorian times is making a comeback across the UK.
A new trailer has arrived for “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”, the upcoming Apple TV+ series set in the world of mighty movie monster Godzilla.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor London- and Paris-based Film Constellation has boarded sales on 2D family animated feature “Carmen,” a contemporary adaptation of the opera, to be directed by 2023 Annecy Film Festival winner Sébastien Laudenbach. Variety revealed first details of the project last year exclusively.