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AMC Networks International (AMCNI) has hired Tom Keaveney as executive vp and managing director of its U.K. business. Based in London, he will report to Eduardo Zulueta, president of AMC Networks International and succeed Kevin Dickie. In the role, Keaveney will “lead the company’s business operations in the region, overseeing programming, marketing, as well as…
Tom Burke and Eve Hewson will lead the cast of a new untitled film written and directed by Normal People director Lenny Abrahamson for Element Pictures, a Fremantle company. The movie, which will start shooting in Dublin on March 2, is set within the city’s Jewish community in the late 1970s. Newcomer Shane Meagher also…
Oscar-nominated Mexican star Salma Hayek Pinault (Frida, Tale of Tales) joined Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo this week to announce a new tax incentive aimed at boosting the local film industry and drawing big production south of the border. The incentives include a new 30 percent tax incentive for projects shot in Mexico, making the…
ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok outside the U.S., said it will “strengthen current safeguards” on its AI video-generating tool Seedance, following threats of legal action from Disney and other Hollywood studios over the use of their intellectual property in short-form videos that are taking over social media. Seedance 2.0 has caused an…
Photography and film interact and converge in The Hidden Face of the Earth (La Face cachée de la Terre), the feature documentary directorial debut of Arnaud Alain about a photographer losing his eyesight. Alain wrote and directed the film, which was produced by Mathilde Raczymow, and also handled the cinematography. The Hidden Face of the…
The British Film Institute, BFI, unveiled an increase in its support of U.K. documentary filmmaking on Monday. The BFI said it would “continue to prioritize dedicated support of the U.K. documentary filmmaking sector, thanks to National Lottery funding.” As part of the BFI National Lottery Funding plan 2026-2-29,Doc Society will receive £7.2 million($9.8 million) over…
Last Week Tonight returned with its 13th-season premiere on Sunday night after three months off the air, and host John Oliver quickly acknowledged the multiple news events that happened during that time. “We’ve been off for the last three months, and we have missed a lot, and I mean a lot, a lot,” he told…
Stephanie Pratt is calling out brother Spencer Pratt‘s campaign for Los Angeles mayor, saying a vote for the reality television star is a “vote for stupidity.” In a series of tweets shared over the weekend, the former star of MTV‘s The Hills launched a tirade of posts against her brother containing her reasoning for why…
In the fluorescent glare of a rundown Indonesian wig factory, vats of human hair simmer in huge cauldrons, stirred by hunched laborers as rows of mannequin heads watch blankly from the dark. Indonesian auteur Edwin has spent much of his career examining the quiet absurdities of modern life with a cool, deadpan detachment. But with…
It’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu as we all remember him, and as we’ve never seen him before. Tutu, the new documentary from Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI, 4 Little Girls), is a behind-the-scenes look at the life of the smiling, joyous rebel clergyman who helped end Apartheid. Tutu premieres as a Berlinale Special screening, at the Berlin Film…
