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Netflix Dan Brown Robert Langdon Series Starts Production; First Look
Production has officially begun in Prague on the new Netflix TV series adapted from the Dan Brown novel The Secret of Secrets, featuring Morgan Spector as Robert Langdon. In...
FCC Asks Court To Dismiss ABC’s First Amendment Lawsuit
The Federal Communications Commission has asked a court in Washington D.C. to toss a First Amendment lawsuit by ABC that accuses of agency of a “retaliatory campaign” on the...
Ira Sachs To Preside Over San Sebastián’s Competition Jury
Ira Sachs will lead the competition jury at this year’s San Sebastián Film Festival.  The American filmmaker will be joined on the jury by Japanese filmmaker and author Genki...
‘Game Of Thrones: The Mad King’ Stage Show Announces London Transfer
The Royal Shakespeare Company‘s sell-out stage production in Stratford-upon-Avon of Game of Thrones: The Mad King will transfer to London next year, the company and George R. R. Martin...
Netflix Hikes UK Prices, With Cheapest Plan Jumping A Third
It’s become pricier to watch Love Is Blind and The Gentlemen in the UK after Netflix upped its prices, hiking the monthly cost of its cheapest package by a...
International Insider: Ciao, Venice; ‘Bake Off’ Battle Heats Up; Leslie Odom Jr. Chat
Buongiorno, my good reader. It’s a Venice-heavy Insider this week, as the A-lister festival got underway amid the cameras and gondolas of the canal-strewn city. Back here in the...
Venice Competition Filmmaker May El-Toukhy On Gender Imbalance: “I’ve Been The Only Woman In Many, Many Settings”
May el-Toukhy is in competition at the Venice Film Festival with post-World War Two psychological thriller Woman Unknown as one of just two female directors in the running for...
Tony Gatlif Dies: Director Whose Work Celebrated Roma Culture Was 77
Director Tony Gatlif, who was known for films such as Gadjo Dilo exploring Roma culture, died in the Southern French town of Arles on September 3. He was 77....
Ron Perlman, Peter Facinelli & Mark Elias Starring In Indie Film ‘We Could Be Heroes’
EXCLUSIVE: Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Peter Facinelli (The Twilight Saga) and Mark Elias (9-11: Lone Star) are starring in comedy-adventure We Could Be Heroes, which is soon to wrap in Ontario, Canada....
Jack Huston On The Tough Questions About Sexual Abuse Posed By Paul Schrader’s Film ‘The Basics Of Philosophy’: “It’s Almost Become A Taboo Subject” – Venice Film Festival
Paul Schrader writes great parts for great actors, and has been doing so for 50 years, since Robert De Niro played Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Since...
Raffaele Annecchino Dies: Former Viacom & Paramount Int’l Boss Was 55
Raffaele Annecchino, the former international chief at Paramount and its predecessor Viacom, has died aged 55 from acute meningitis. The Italian executive, known for his negotiating skills and business...
Lorenzo Mieli Talks AI-Made Diesel/Renzo Rosso Bio-Doc ‘Be Brave’
Italian producer Lorenzo Mieli is one of the guests of the CAA and Finch & Partners The Future of… Creativity forum unfolding today on the fringes of the Venice...