MPI Media Group & Dark Sky Take North America For Golshifteh Farahani Thriller ‘Hood Witch’

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights from sales company Films Boutique to tender coming-of-age drama “Young Hearts” by Belgian newcomer Anthony Schatteman, which recently launched from the Berlin Film Festival. Schatteman’s standout debut follows a 13-year-old boy named Elias, who feels attracted to his new neighbor, Alexander, and must overcome his conflicted feelings about being attracted to another boy.

EXCLUSIVE: June Zero, the latest from writer-director Jake Paltrow (Young Ones, The Good Night, De Palma) and producers Oren Moverman (The Messenger, Bad Education), Miranda Bailey (Swiss Army Man, The Diary of a Teenage Girl) and David Silber (Incitement, Junction 48), is set for theatrical release in New York on June 28, Los Angeles July 5 and nationwide July 12 by Cohen Media Group.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “East Bay,” a dark comedy film starring “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Crazy Rich Asians” star Constance Wu, has been picked up for North American distribution and world sales by Level 33 Entertainment. The film won the audience award last year at the Cinequest Film and Creativity festival in San Jose. Level 33 plans to release it next month in North American theaters, ahead of a later digital outing. Wu portrays a close friend of a man who feels let down by his immigrant parents and, after a string of personal and professional humiliations, is forced to accept that he is a failure.

Jamie Lang Leading French production-distribution outfit Le Pacte has boarded the upcoming 2D animated feature project “Conference of the Birds,” which will be spotlighted at the Marché du Film’s Animation Day during this year’s Cannes Festival. In addition to co-producing, Le Pacte will handle French distribution and serve as international sales agent on the film, part of the five-title Annecy Showcase at the Animation Day.

Netflix has announced the start of principal photography on action thriller Ad Vitam led by French star Guillaume Canet.

Future and Metro Boomin have announced their joint tour, ‘We Trust You’ – check out the full list of North American dates below.Last night (April 16), the duo took to social media to announce the tour, which is named after their pair of collaborative albums – March’s ‘We Don’t Trust You’ and April’s ‘We Still Don’t Trust You’. The tour will see the two musicians perform 27 dates across North America, including stops in Detroit, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Boston, Toronto and many more.They are due to kick off their trek on July 30 at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City before wrapping up north of the border on September 9 in Vancouver, B.C., at Rogers Arena.Tickets will be available to Cash App Card customers starting today (April 17), while the general public can cop their tickets on Friday (April 19) via the Live Nation website at 10am local time.JULY30 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center31 – Saint Paul, MN – Xcel Energy CenterAUGUST02 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum03 – Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza (Grant Park)04 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena06 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena08 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena10 – Columbus, OH – Schottenstein Center11 – Toronto, Ontario – Scotiabank Arena13 – Boston, MA – TD Garden14 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center15 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center17 – Washington, D.C. – Capital One Arena20 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center22 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center23 – San Antonio, TX – Frost Bank Center24 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center25 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center27 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena28 – Salt Lake City, UT – Delta Center30 – Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena31 – Inglewood, CA – Intuit DomeSEPTEMBER03 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center04 – Oakland, CA – Oakland Arena0

ONF have announced the North American leg of their upcoming 2024 ‘Spotlight’ tour, featuring concerts in Canada and the US.Over the weekend on April 13, ONF and tour organiser J&B Entertainment announced the North American leg of the boyband’s brand-new ‘Spotlight’ tour, which will take place from August to September 2024.ONF will kick-off their 2024 tour with a concert in the city of Toronto on August 16, before headed to Montreal for the second and last Canadian stop. Thereafter, the boyband will play a show in New York City.The US leg of the group’s tour will also include shows in Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and Denver in August 2024, before the boyband wrap-up their trek with a concert in Los Angeles, California on September 1.The venues and ticketing information of ONF’s 2024 ‘Spotlight’ tour have yet to be announced.

The 19th edition of the International Youth Media Summit (IYMS) will be held in Zanzibar in July. 

Dennis Harvey Film Critic At their least, the myriad serial-killer movies that followed in the imitative wake of “Se7en” three decades ago have gotten the grisly part down, but find compelling suspense, atmospherics and original narrative ideas harder to come by. Such is certainly the case with “Damaged,” which serves up a considerable number of victims’ severed limbs, yet is likely to leave scant impression — scarring or otherwise — on the viewer. Though Samuel L.

Disney is hitting back at Gina Carano‘s lawsuit over being fired from The Mandalorian.

A pub in a Scottish town has been "immortalised" after being used as a filming location for a Hollywood blockbuster. The Tower Bar in Livingston was asked to close up for a day by the team behind Damaged, a film set for release this month, Edinburgh Live reports.

Well Go USA has landed North American rights for Dutch action thriller Invasion about a daring military operation in the wake of a hostile attack on the Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curacao.

Crunchyroll has acquired North American and select EMEA and Latin America theatrical rights to the highly anticipated feature anime spinoff Blue Lock The Movie – Episode Nagi. Crunchyroll and Sony have set a North American release for June 28, 2024 with the international dates still to be confirmed. The buzzy title is currently dated for April 19 in Japan.

Thania Garcia Ahead of the release of her new “Funk Generation” album, slated for April 26, Anitta has announced she is going on tour. Starting May 18 in Mexico City, Mexico, the “Funk Generation Tour” will take the Brazillian singer to over 20 cities, including her first tour dates in North America. She’ll then hit South America and Europe in major cities like Paris, London, Bogota, Buenos Aires, biza and more.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Qatar-based powerhouse BeIN Media Group, a co-owner of U.S. indie studio Miramax, has taken distribution rights across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to live-action pre-school series “Saïd & Anna,” which has been nominated for this year’s Banff World Media Festival‘s Rockie Awards.

Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky are no longer working on their relationship — at least not with the help of therapy!

Smashing Pumpkins have announced a huge run of North American tour dates – see the full list of dates and cities below.Last night, Billy Corgan and co. took to social media to announce their tour, which apart from their own headline shows, will include festival appearances and shows as part of Green Day‘s The Saviors tour.

, it-girlies are moving away from beauty, and are instead embracing , sensuality, and “dark feminine energy."Dark feminine energy (DFE) is, of course, more of a mindset. But according to users on Pinterest, whose found that “dark feminine core” queries are rising ahead of spring and summer, the aesthetic consists of garments like elegant corset dresses and leather pants while corresponding glam features and smokey brown eyeshadow.Translation? It's essentially an elevated take on grunge, and vibes with a sexy, sensual, and elegant edge, and it's and Pinterest.“Dark feminine makeup focuses on creating a sultry, sexy, confident, and mysterious look” , professional makeup artist and Pro team member, tells Glamour, pointing to supermodel Gabbriette as a prime example.

EXCLUSIVE: A week after veteran talent agent Jed Abrahams resigned as KMR Talent’s SVP and head of the agency’s New York office, he has joined Los Angeles-based management and production company The Rosenzweig Group (aka The Rose Group) as a talent manager. He will open and head an office in New York, making The Rosenzweig Group — founded in 2018 by Marni Rosenzweig — officially bicoastal.

J. Kim Murphy It’s only been six months since the release of Liam Neeson’s last film, which means theaters are overdue for another thriller led by the prolific star. His latest vehicle, “In the Land of Saints and Sinners,” arrives with an unusual distinction: Directed by Robert Lorenz, the film premiered in Venice a month before another Neeson movie, the maligned bomb-threat thriller “Retribution,” hit U.S.