Working in his native country seems to enliven New Zealand-born director Lee Tamahori, whose best film remains his 1994 debut feature Once Were Warriors. His Hollywood career has been a mixed bag, including such clunkers as the Nicolas Cage starrer Next and the ill-fated xXx: State of the Union, not to mention Die Another Day, …
Rumer Willis has boarded director Rohit Karn Batra’s gun crisis drama, The Gun on Second Street. The indie, which already stars Poppy Delevingne and Tom Arnold, follows two Pittsburgh police partners and best friends called to an uneventful domestic violence dispute on Second Street. A violent scuffle quickly ensues as officer TJ Meadows III accidentally …
Fremantle, part of media giant Bertelsmann’s RTL Group, has struck a first-look drama development deal with Roughcut Television, the production firm co-founded by CEO Ash Atalla, the producer of the original British version of The Office and The IT Crowd. The agreement follows the companies’ recent team-up on Paramount+ U.K. & Ireland psychological thriller series …
Three Days of Fish, the sophomore feature outing from Dutch director Peter Hoogendoorn (Between 10 and 12) had its world premiere in the main competition of the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) this weekend. “Just as he does every year, dad flies from sunny Portugal for a three-day visit to …
Stuff the British Stole, the popular Australian-Canadian documentary series exploring the controversy surrounding cultural objects purloined by British colonialists, is set to be reimagined as a big-budget scripted heist series. The new version is backed by Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia (The Twelve, Love Me) and Wooden Horse (The Clearing, Mother & Son). The partners describe …
Going back to the immigrant/foundling who became Superman, the superhero genre has often been used as an exploration of what happens when people from variably disenfranchised groups find themselves with unexpected levels of power. Whether the result leads to enhanced altruism or diabolical megalomania is the difference between a hero and a villain. Not all …
Paramount+’s spy thriller The Agency has found its lead spy. Michael Fassbender will star in the espionage thriller (formerly titled The Department), which is based on the French series Le Bureau des Legendes and has started production. The two-time Oscar nominee will also serve as an executive producer of the show, which will stream on …
Indian cinema triumphs at the 23rd Transylvania International Film Festival, which took place June 14-24 in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca. First-time director Shuchi Talati won the Transylvania Trophy, the top prize of the International competition, along with its $11,7000 (€10,000) bursary for her feature Girls Will Be Girls, a mother-daughter drama that premiered at …