The Hamptons International Film Festival's SummerDocs series will kick off on June 4th with a screening of Cindy Meehl's "Buck," winner of this year's Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. James Lipton is tapped to host the event's opening night.
Read More »The Hungarian Minister of Culture and the Hungarian Audiovisual Producers Association (HAPA) used Cannes as a platform to announce the launch of the Budapest International Film Festival. The first edition is planned to kick off in late 2012.
Read More »In addition to Tom Hanks, "Cloud Atlas" will star Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving and Ben Whishaw.
Read More »Michael Winterbottom's next movie will star Jack Black.
Read More »FilmDistrict has acquired all US rights to "Playing The Field" from Nu Image/Millennium Films. The film stars Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Judy Greer, Dennis Quaid, Uma Thurman and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Read More »Today Cannes kicked off, Oprah debuted her new doc club on OWN and much more.
Read More »The Los Angeles Film Festival made a slew of announcements regarding its 2011 edition today, including the appointment of Guillermo del Toro as the festival's guest director, as well as selections for closing night ("Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark"), a special screening ("Green Lantern"), galas (includ...
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Read More »Colin Firth and Emily Blunt will star in an untitled dark comedy to be directed by Dante Ariola from an original script by Becky Johnston. It's being sold at Cannes by Focus Features International, with UTA and CAA representing North American rights.
Read More »Strand Releasing has acquired Braden King's debut feature "HERE." The video artist and music video director debuted his Ben Foster-starring film at this year's Sundance and went on to screen at the Berlinale. "HERE" follows a satellite-mapping engineer played by Foster fall for an Armenian photogr...
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