Mexican Berlinale Prize Winner & Sales Breakout ‘Tótem’ Posts Fresh Deals For Alpha Violet

Meghan Markle had connections with the Royal Family before she even met Prince Harry. The 41 year old was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and rose to fame when she landed the role of Rachel Zane in US legal drama Suits in 2011 - a part she went on to play for seven seasons. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex met in 2016 and went on to marry two years later .

EXCLUSIVE: Jesús I. Valles’ play Bathhouse.pptx has been awarded the prestigious 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize, with the honor’s judge Jeremy O. Harris calling the new work an exploration of “a queer history that is quickly being erased.”

Katie Price is officially back together with her ex-fiancé Carl Woods as the pair were spotted arm-in-arm in London after the glamour model returned from her family trip to Thailand.The 44 year old TV personality was in Thailand for three weeks, on an extended holiday with her two youngest children, Jett, 9, and Bunny, 8, who she shares with ex-husband, Kieran Hayler. Carl, 34, even joined them on the trip, with Katie posting plenty of snaps to social media, but he flew home before his on-off partner and her children did.The pair clearly wasted no time in reuniting though, as they headed to a nail bar where Katie got a manicure as Carl waited for her.

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired North American rights for Belgian director Bas Devos’s film Here which won best film in the Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters section last month as well as the Fipresci prize.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian sales company True Colours has closed a raft of sales following Berlin’s European Film Market. Italy’s box office hit “La Stranezza” (“Strangeness”) got picked up for a dozen territories and queer romantic drama “Norwegian Dream” also sold widely, including to North America. Directed by Roberto Andò, “Strangeness” (pictured) toplines Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”) as Nobel-prize-winning playwright Luigi Pirandello. This tragicomic period piece about how Pirandello found inspiration to write his masterpiece “Six Characters in Search of an Author” has been a sleeper hit at the Italian box office, coming from nowhere to pull more than €5.5 million ($5.8 million) and becoming the local 2022 box office champ.

, the model and actor shared a glimpse inside her budding relationship with girlfriend Leah Mason, the musician who performs under the stage name Minke. The pair started dating a little over a year ago but met much earlier in life, as students at Bedales, a prestigious liberal arts boarding school in Hampshire, England. The two lost touch after graduating but rekindled their bond 12 years later at an Alanis Morissette concert. Delevingne is currently navigating her first four months of sobriety following a tumultuous year that ultimately led her to .

Holly Jones France-U.K. sales-production-distribution house Alief (“Matadero”) has closed U.K. and Irish theatrical sales for on Tallinn Black Nights Grand Prix winner “Driving Mum, with Newcastle upon Tyne-based exhibition and distribution outfit Tull Stories (“A Clever Woman”) ahead of its bow in at the Glasgow Festival on Monday. Warsaw-based Aurora Films (“I Love My Dad”) has simultaneously snapped up Polish theatrical rights. “We could not be happier to have found the perfect match for ‘Driving Mum’ in the U.K and Ireland, key markets in our company’s DNA. What a joyful day, I’ll finally be able to take my mother to one of our movies in London,” Brett Walker, president of Alief, told Variety.

Sony Pictures Classics has picked up all rights in North America, Latin America and European Europe (excluding Hungary) to the Ilker Çatak drama The Teachers’ Lounge, which won both the Europa Cinemas Label award and the CICAE Arthouse Cinema award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

The Spare saga continues. In an event that, according to one source, “spells the end of” their time in the UK, Harry and Meghan are leaving Frogmore Cottage.

Yikes! King Charles was so done with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry once that memoir hit the shelves, he couldn’t wait to thrown them out of Frogmore Cottage!

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights for German director Christian Petzold’s new film Afire, following its award-winning world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.

EXCLUSIVE: The Match Factory has unveiled a slew of deals for German director Christian Petzold’s Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winner Afire.

Sideshow & Janus Films have snapped up North American rights for Mexican director Lila Avilés’s family drama Tótem following its world premiere in competition at the Berlinale last week.

Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art have set Savanah Leaf’s Earth Mama and Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s Sundance Special Jury Award winner Mutt, both debut features, as opening and closing film at the 52st edition of their collaboration, New Directors/New Films, running March 29–April 9 in NYC.

A Polish woman named Julia Faustyna shocked the world after she emerged on Instagram two weeks ago claiming she was missing Madeleine McCann. However, it's now looking increasingly unlikely that Gerry and Kate McCann will go ahead with a DNA test, the Irish Mirror reports.

EXCLUSIVE: Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Argentinian director and producer Nicolas Onetti’s slasher picture What The Waters Left Behind: Scars.

EXCLUSIVE: Love Island distributor ITV Studios has hired a Disney sales exec on the eve of the London TV Screenings.

The Mirror. READ MORE: Family of woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann 'refuse to take DNA test'However Julia has shared "evidence" on social media including a speck in her eye and a freckle on her leg in the same location as Madeline. Now a Polish charity called Missing Years Ago has released a statement on behalf of Julia's family.

South Park takes aim at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in the show’s 26th season.In the season’s second episode, titled Worldwide Privacy Tour, the Prince and Princess of Canada (modeled after Harry and Meghan) conduct TV interviews and set off firework displays around town in a demand for privacy.In the episode, the couple appear on Good Morning Canada to promote their book titled Waaagh. “We just want to be normal people, all this attention is so hard,” the characters remark.After the episode was released in the US last week (February 15), Harry and Meghan have denied rumours they are suing the show over the depiction.

Setting the record straight. Despite rumors, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are not taking legal action against South Park for their recent episode.