San Sebastian Entry ‘A Loose End,’ from ‘The Candidate’ Helmer Daniel Handler, Boarded by ‘Sleepwalkers’ Tarea Fina (EXCLUSIVE)

Netflix’s Teresa Moneo, Mubi’s Bobby Allen, Cinetic Media’s John Sloss, and Jeb Brody, President of Production at Amblin Partners, are among the names set for CAA Media Finance and the San Sebastian Film Festival’s second annual Creative Investors’ Conference. 

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent CAA Media Finance’s Roeg Sutherland, Goodfellas’ Vincent Maraval and Cinetic Media’s John Sloss look set to attend the San Sebastian Festival’s second Creative Investors’ Conference, co-organised once again with CAA Media Finance. Bringing to San Sebastian the biggest bevy of high-powered U.S. execs and industry movers-and-shakers to attend the Spanish Festival, further CIC attendees include Netflix’s Teresa Moneo, Amblin Partners’ Jeb Brody and Anonymous Content’s David Davoli as well as K&S’s Matías Mosteirín and Infinity Hill’s Axel Kuschevatzky, as the Conference opens up to Latin America.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s friendship is one of Hollywood’s most precious relationships. They have been friends since childhood and probably wouldn’t be where they are in their careers without each other. They both grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they first met as kids, living just two blocks away from each other.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent France’s UFO Distribution has acquired French rights to Venice Horizons entry “An Endless Sunday” by first-time Italian director Alain Parroni from Fandango Sales. The film will segue from Venice to Toronto where it screens in the fest’s Discovery section.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic It’s the moment of truth for Emerald Fennell, whose “Promising Young Woman” established the actor-turned-auteur (last seen playing pregnant doll Midge in “Barbie”) as a formidable new filmmaking talent. Building on the barbed sensibility she established with “Killing Eve,” the writer-director’s zeitgeist-throttling feature debut lured audiences like a bright red candy apple, leaving them with plenty to debate after the cyanide-laced sugar high wore off.

Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos looked stunning on their date night. The couple was photographed leaving the restaurant Giorgio Baldi in Los Angeles alongside some friends.Lauren Sanchez, Eva Longoria and Kim Kardashian attended the ‘This Is About Humanity’s’ fifth annual soiree in Los AngelesLauren Sánchez opens up about her touching volunteer work in TijuanaSanchez and Bezos left the restaurant while holding hands. Sanchez wore her hair loose and wavy and had on form fitting brown dress.

Marta Balaga Paula Hernández’s “A Ravaging Wind” (“El viento que arrasa”) has debuted a poster and trailer ahead of its premieres at Toronto and San Sebastian. Based on the novel by Selva Almada – and written by Hernández and Leonel D’Agostino – “A Ravishing Wind” will play Toronto’s Centrepiece program, before opening San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos, a showcase of many of the best Latin American movies of the last year. It sees Alfredo Castro as Reverend Pearson, an evangelical pastor who travels Argentina by car in the 1990s with his daughter Leni (Almudena González, seen in “Argentina, 1985”).

Carlos Santana is vowing to change his Evil Ways.

Jennifer Aniston‘s profile in WSJ. Magazine unearthed a tidbit that may surprise some people.

Good Morning Britain regular presenter Adil Ray has revealed he won't be featuring on the show for the foreseeable future as he takes an extended break. From Monday to Wednesday every week GMB is hosted by former BBC star Susanna Reid who is alongside a rotation of other presenters including Adil Ray, Ed Balls and Richard Madeley while Ben Shepard comes into the fray on Thursdays.

Jennifer Aniston's profile in WSJ. Magazine unearthed a tidbit that may surprise some people.While touching on Aniston's role in the Netflix film, the writer Ellen Gamerman mentioned that Adam Sandler plays her movie husband. And, in doing so, Gamerman also mentioned how Aniston's and Sandler's friendship goes way back.

San Sebastian Fetes Veteran Director Victor Erice

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Victor Erice, one of the greatest of Spanish filmmakers, will receive a prestigious Donostia Award, given for career achievement, granted by the San Sebastian Film Festival. The award will coincide with screening of Erice’s latest film, “Close Your Eyes” (Cerrar los Ojos), which world premiered at the Cannes Festival this May.

UK director James Marsh’s literary biopic Dance First, starring Gabriel Byrne as iconic Irish writer Samuel Beckett, will close the 71st San Sebastian Film Festival.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “Dance First,” a portrait of Irish writer Samuel Beckett starring Gabriel Byrne and directed by Oscar winner James Marsh, will close this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival, playing out of competition. Byrne, a memorable lead in “The Usual Suspects” and “Miller’s Crossing” who also won a Golden Globe for his performance in “In Treatment,” plays Samuel Beckett, driving into his deep contradictions and inner torment of a writer who was a Parisian bon vivant, a WWII Resistance fighter and then Nobel Prize-winning playwright who, however, became a recluse, living the last years of his life in a single room in a nursing home, ashamed of past actions and convinced that for much of his life he had been a failure.

Kim Kardashian is proud of her catchphrases.

Federico Veiroj, Theo Court, Alicia Scherson and Daniel Hendler head a muscular project lineup at September’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, the Spanish festival’s industry centerpiece which underscores this year a welling sea-change in the region’s filmmaking. “The Moneychanger,” the latest film from Uruguay’s Veiroj, was selected for Toronto’s 2019 Platform; “White on White,” from Chile’s Court, won a best director Silver Lion at 2019’s Venice Horizons; Chile’s Alicia Scherson’s debut “Play” snagged new narrative director at Tribeca in 2005: multi-hyphenate Hendler, from Uruguay, scooped best director at Miami for “The Candidate” in 2017.

A magazine is facing major backlash after it reported that Sandra Bullock and her late partner Bryan Randall broke up.

Scheana Shay wants to make one thing clear to the Vanderpump Rules fans: A picture doesn’t always tell the whole story!

Tom Sandoval appears to have a new lady in his life already. And it’s all thanks to one of his former Vanderpump Rules co-stars!