‘Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story’ Director Luck Razanajaona Shines a Cinematic Light on Madagascar

Emily Longeretta The second season of “Shining Vale” will serve as the final season on Starz — though co-creator Jeff Astrof has begun writing a third season and is holding onto hope that the series will find another home. The Season 2 finale of the horror comedy, produced by Warner Bros. TV, aired on Dec.

Strictly Come Dancing fans have made a cheeky demand to Ellie Leach and Vito Coppola as they broke their silence on their spectacular win which saw Ellie make history as the youngest ever winner. It was an epic night on BBC One on Saturday (December 16) as the hit dance contest drew to a close for another year.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Veteran TV director David Nutter has been selected to receive the Directors Guild of America’s lifetime achievement award for distinguished achievement in directing. He will receive the honors at the 76th Annual DGA Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 10, 2024.

EXCLUSIVE: Kingdom Story Company, the production shingle behind Lionsgate‘s cash cow Jesus Revolution among other hits, has appointed Kevin Downes as CEO and Andrew Erwin as Chief Creative Officer ahead of its 2024 theatrical film slate with the studio.

Todd Gilchrist editor Even among James Cameron’s epic and frequently arduous productions, from “Titanic’s” nine months of filming to the three years spent on “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “The Abyss” was particularly ambitious — and difficult: The 1989 thriller was shot almost entirely underwater, requiring its crew and cast to learn how to shoot, and act, while using diving equipment with which many of them were completely unfamiliar. “You show up to do a diving movie, you’re going to have to dive,” says Cameron in a new clip from bonus features accompanying the film’s digital release on Tuesday.

EXCLUSIVE: Judy Greer (White House Plumbers) and Pete Holmes (Crashing) have entered production in Winnipeg on The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, an inspirational comedy that The Chosen’s Dallas Jenkins is helming for Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company.

Deadline, Adam Driver is reportedly is rumoured to be joining the cast of ‘Heat 2’, which will be helmed by the original film’s director Michael Mann. The trade reports that Driver would play a young Neil McCauley in the film, which Warner Bros.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor The third edition of the Red Sea Film Festival, wrapping Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, felt like a direct response to a burning question from executives and investors present at the festival’s market arm last year: Could Saudi Arabia step out from drama and comedy and head into genre filmmaking? The answer offered by the festival, it turns out, was a resounding yes. “Arabs are closer to fantasy than the Western world,” director Yasir Al-Yasiri told Variety of this year’s Red Sea Film Festival opening film, “HWJN.” The film, a sprawling fantasy about the Arab Jinn culture set and shot in Jeddah, comes at the “right time,” according to the director.

It’s nearly impossible to go on social media today and not see videos and pictures of war-torn Gaza. The massive amounts of bombings over the past couple of months in Gaza has chilled people to the bone.

K.J. Yossman A forum for directors and producers has launched in the U.K. Founded by directors body Directors U.K., producers body Pact, ITV Studios and BBC Studios, the joint working group will have its inaugural meeting on Dec.

Banijay Asia Unveils Leadership Team Following Endemol Acquisition

Naman Ramachandran “Sunday,” which has its world premiere at the Singapore International Film Festival, marks the feature directorial debut of Sean Ng. Ng previously directed a few shorts and his producing credits include feature documentary “André and His Olive Tree” (2020), which was Taiwan’s highest-grossing documentary that year. “Sunday” was developed at TorinoFilmLab.

A dad bought cheap plane tickets so that he could steal thousands of pounds' worth of duty free perfume at an airport. Gareth Colclough made two trips to East Midlands Airport this summer, where he went through security then swiped £5,700 of products.

Les Dawson's panto star daughter has told how he sent a "good luck message" from beyond the grave.

The festive season is upon us, meaning many people will be choosing to decorate their homes with Christmas trees adorned in sparkling lights.

A woman has told how her neighbours hate her extravagant Christmas lights and that she adds more every time they complain.

Chloe Madeley has told fans 'there is moree to this story' as she opened up in a major update about how she was feeling weeks after her split from James Haskell. The couple confirmed the end of their relationship in a statement issued at the end of last month (October).

Bomb squads swooped on a house after chemicals were discovered inside.

A body has been found after a large-scale search for a woman who was reported missing from her home at the weekend.

Cops have locked down a former market after "suspicious items" were discovered. Emergency services swooped on the old Splott Market in Cardiff this afternoon.