BBC Launches First Fully-Owned U.S. Streamer With BBC Select (EXCLUSIVE)

Normally, when we talk about films being released after a long delay, the word “pandemic” is mentioned. That’s because, for the past year, studios have been pushing films because theaters aren’t open at full capacity and the pandemic is still wrecking lives.

Michele Amabile Angermiller Grammy-winning mastering engineer Emily Lazar has launched a new initiative aimed at increasing the number of women audio engineers and producers working in music today. Dubbed “We Are Moving the Needle,” the foundation’s advisory “soundboard” includes such luminaries as Brandi Carlile, Maggie Rogers, HAIM, Linda Perry, Liz Phair and Sara Quinn of Tegan and Sara.

Forrest Gump was used to argue for the release of the “QAnon Shaman” by his lawyer.Jacob Chansley – aka Jake Angeli, dubbed the “QAnon Shaman” – is currently in custody in Arizona, after being arrested for his involvement in the storming of the US Capitol in Washington D.C. in January.Chansley is facing charges of interfering with police during a civil disorder, obstruction of Congress and several counts of various misdemeanours.

A federal courtroom is a lot like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.

Thomas Jane tracks down his prey in this exclusive first-look image from upcoming western thriller The Last Son. The film — previously entitled The Last Son of Isaac LeMay and being sold at Berlin's virtual European Film Market by VMI Worldwide, which first announced it at the AFM in 2019 — also stars Sam Worthington, Machine Gun Kelly and Heather Graham.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterPat Mitchell, a pioneering media executive and the first woman president and CEO of PBS, Is launching a new interview series about women changing the world.“Dangerous Women: Leading Onward” is coming from the Emmy winner via Finetch.TV, a tech platform for thought leadership and investment news with a combined global reach of 850 million households.The inaugural season will see Mitchell sit down with the likes of Gloria Steinem, Thandie Newton, esteemed

Veteran screen legends Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) and William Shatner (Star Trek) get stopped by the police in this exclusive first-look image from upcoming comedy Senior Moment, from which Film Mode Entertainment is screening footage at the virtual European Film Market.

Girls creator secretly made the film, Sharp Stick, in compliance with coronavirus protocols in Los Angeles over the past months.Variety reports that the independent film, financed by FilmNation, screened footage for potential buyers yesterday (March 2) at the European Film Market.

Lena Dunham has just wrapped production in Los Angeles on Sharp Stick for FilmNation Entertainment. Her first movie sinceTiny Furniture 11 years ago, Dunham will star alongside Kristine Froseth, Taylour Paige, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jon Bernthal and Scott Speedman.

Jamie Lang Brussels-based Best Friend Forever Sales has given Variety exclusive access to the international trailer for Berlin Panorama player “All Eyes Off Me,” the sexually charged sophomore outing of actor-director Hadas Ben Aroya.Told in three distinct yet related chapters, the film begins at a party in Tel Aviv where young Danny is trying to find Max to let him know that she’s pregnant with his child.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first trailer for UK drama A Bird Flew In (previously known as Alone), the Goldfinch-backed drama shot during lockdown.

Remember a few weeks ago, when we reported that Lena Dunham was returning to the director’s chair of a feature film for the first time in 11 years for the upcoming project, “Catherine, Called Birdy?” Yeah, apparently, that’s not the truth.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterLena Dunham just wrapped her first feature film as a writer-director in over a decade.“Sharp Stick,” an indie financed by FilmNation that will screen for potential buyers on Tuesday out of the Berlin International Film Festival, was shot successfully in secret and in compliance with COVID-19 protocols in Los Angeles over the past months.While plot details are under wraps, the film stars Kristine Froseth (“The Assistant,” “Looking for Alaska”), Taylour Paige

Christopher Vourlias Russian SVOD More.tv is unveiling a slate of original series for foreign buyers at the European Film Market.The four series are a sign of the fast-growing streaming service’s rising ambitions since launching in 2019.

Naman Ramachandran Director Christian Schwochow and writer Thomas Wendrich’s “Je Suis Karl,” due to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival’s Berlinale Special strand in June, is a chillingly timely film.On Aug. 29, 2020, dozens of assailants from the far right attacked the Reichstag building, the home of German parliament in Berlin, the burning of which in 1933 heralded the rise of Hitler’s Nazi rule.

Naman Ramachandran Jack Giarraputo, the veteran Hollywood executive who co-founded Happy Madison with Adam Sandler, is launching advertising agency Slice Collective at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.The company, co-founded with former Lazard private equity executive Abhishek Som, is a full-service creative advertising agency aiming to produce Hollywood-level campaigns for clients around the world.Films that Giarraputo has produced have collectively grossed more than $4 billion at

EXO member Kai has unveiled his first-ever capsule collection with luxury fashion house Gucci.The K-pop idol revealed the Kai x Gucci Capsule Collection for the first time in the pages of Esquire Korea‘s March 2021 edition.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Ray Halbritter, an Oneida Indian Nation Representative, CEO of Oneida Nation Enterprises, and a trustee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Museum, has launched Standing Arrow Productions, a privately-funded, independent film and TV production company aimed at increasing the representation and championing the narratives of Native American and Indigenous peoples on screen.

“Bumpy Johnson is gonna be dead by the end of the day.”