ACFM Talk: Film Market Bosses Agree The Need For Change

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentJapanese film sellers are once again out in force at TIFFCOM, which is completely online for the second year in a row. Buyers will find much familiar from the Busan market, but new titles are on offer as well.Japan’s oldest continuously operated studio, Nikkatsu is bringing Matsui Daigo’s “Just Remembering,” a romantic drama selected for the TIFF competition.

told Deadline. The “Notebook” hunk, 40, would be getting dolled up to play the iconic Mattel character opposite Margot Robbie, 31, who has signed on to play the leading lady in the live-action Warner Bros.

A live-action “Barbie” movie has been in the works for ages going back to 2016 when comedian Amy Schumer (“Trainwreck“) was initially attached only to be replaced with Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway (“The Devil Wears Prada“). At one point, screenwriter/director Diablo Cody (“Juno“) attempted to pen a script while she was writing “Tully.” The most recent incarnation at Warner Bros.

Ryan Gosling is in final negotiations to play Ken in the upcoming Warner Bros' live-action movie, The actor will co-star alongside Margot Robbie as the titular doll, with Greta Gerwig set to direct.Mattel and Warner Bros.

Ryan Gosling has joined the cast of the upcoming Barbie movie!

Angelique Jackson Margot Robbie’s Barbie has seemingly found her Ken in Ryan Gosling.The Oscar-nominee is in final negotiations to star in the upcoming film, directed by Greta Gerwig for Warner Bros. and Mattel.

EXCLUSIVE: Margot Robbie’s Barbie movie looks to have found its Ken as sources tell Deadline Ryan Gosling is in final negotiations to play the iconic Mattel character in Warner Bros. movie centered on the classic doll line.

M. Night Shyamalan will serve as jury president at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival.

Jamie Lang Expanding on their already fruitful non-fiction partnership, ZDF Enterprises and Studio Hamburg Production Group have agreed to a closer working relationship in fiction production starting in January of next year, when ZDF Enterprises will acquire a 49% stake in Real Film Berlin, a Studio Hamburg subsidiary.

Lise Pedersen A non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the exhibition of restored and classic cinema, the Foundation has overseen the restoration of over 900 films to date. In her keynote address at the Lumière Festival’s Classic Film Market, Bodde explained how it came about.“It was 1990 and Martin Scorsese and a group of his fellow filmmakers like Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Kubrick and Pollack were really agitated at the idea that the cinema they grew up loving was

To suggest that France had an abundance of quality candidates for its International Film Oscar submission this year is beyond an understatement.

Screen Daily. “It has no meaning whatsoever… I flew in from Spain.

Asteroid City, during the premiere of their current film The French Dispatch at the London Film Festival yesterday (October 10).The film will see a number of recurring collaborations for Anderson, with his cast including Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody and Scarlett Johansson.New actors joining the film will include Tom Hanks, Margot Robbie and Rupert Friend.

Scotland's First Minister will deliver a Ted Talk about the country's climate change ambitions in the run-up to Cop26.

Was Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (director of the , which won best screenplay at Cannes) referencing the tarot when he wrote his Berlinale Silver Berlin Bear winning, and 2021 New York Film Festival selection, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy?

Ed Meza @edmezavarSwedish cult film streaming service Cultpix, which launched in April, continues to beef up its catalogue while expanding deals with distribution partners.Company co-founders Rickard Gramfors and Patrick von Sychowski will be attending the Lumière Festival’s International Classic Film Market (MFIC) in Lyon, France, where they will be on the lookout for new acquisitions.“This is the first time that either of us are attending and we are already in discussions via email with other

Ed Meza @edmezavarThe Lumière Festival’s International Classic Film Market (MIFC) in Lyon, France, bows Tuesday, again bringing together distributors, exhibitors, streamers, TV programmers, film restorers and festival reps for one of the world’s leading heritage cinema events.This year’s market looks set for a much more upbeat atmosphere compared to the 2020 edition, which took place right before the pandemic’s second wave that led to months-long cinema closures.“It’s more about getting back on

Måneskin have released their blistering new single ‘MAMMAMIA’ – you can hear the Italian band’s latest offering below, and read what they had to say about the pressures of success and inspiring the next generation during a press conference they held yesterday (October 7).Måneskin frontman Damiano David explained during their press conference – which was held at Berlin’s legendary SO36 Club (home of the city’s punk movement that was frequently visited by David Bowie and Iggy Pop) – that they