U.S. rights to Eran Riklis' "Zaytoun" have been picked up by Strand Releasing, the company announced yesterday. "Zaytoun" stars Stephen Dorff ("Somewhere") as an Israeli fighter pilot shot down over Beirut in 1982. After being shot down, he develops an unlikely...
Read More »The 63rd Berlin International Film Festival has officially kicked off, which 11 days of cinematic discovery in the German capital culminating on February 17th.
Read More »Former "IT Crowd" star and Irish comic Chris O'Dowd seems to have proven his international appeal in the last year, as his energetic comedic stylings have given him steady work as part of the next generation of Judd Apatow players. He's also the comic relief and bright standout in Wayne Blair's upco...
Read More »Distributor IFC Films has released the first trailer for Antonio Campos' long in development "Afterschool" follow-up, "Simon Killer."
Read More »Final voting for the Academy Awards is officially open as of today at 8 a.m. (PT). It will continue through to Tuesday, February 19th at 5 p.m. PT -- five days before the ceremony.
Read More »Giving hope to both TV shows inspired by podcasts and the nascent "surreal, deconstructed talk show" genre, IFC has renewed Scott Aukerman's "Comedy Bang! Bang!" for a second season, the network announced today.
Read More »There are eight more episodes left of "Breaking Bad" -- eight installments with which to close out the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), high school chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin. It's already been revealed that Cranston, who directed season two premiere "Seven Thirty-Seven" and season...
Read More »Director Jeremy Seifert's upcoming agriculture documentary, "GMO OMG," has been in production since reaching its funding goal in the summer of 2011 via a Kickstarter campaign. Now, after almost two years the film is nearing its release, and Indiewire has the exclusive first trailer.
Read More »While most of the attention for "Lincoln" has been devoted to three men -- director Steven Spielberg, writer Tony Kusher and lead actor Daniel Day-Lewis -- there's a woman without whom the film never would have happened. In fact, without her scores of some of the most popular movies ev...
Read More »Isabella Rossellini charmed the world with "Green Porno," the strange, funny and idiosyncratic short film/web series she did for the Sundance Channel in which she donned costumes to enact the mating rituals of a dragonfly, spider, bee, praying mantis, firefly, worm, snail and housefly...
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