Bille August To Direct Karen Blixen’s ‘Ehrengard’ For Netflix & SF Studios

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFabrice du Welz, whose latest film “Inexorable” (pictured) played at Toronto, is reteaming with his Belgian producer Jean-Yves Roubin at Frakas Production on his next project, “Maldoror.”Inspired by a true story, “Maldoror” follows Paul Chartier, a young policeman who became obsessed with a case involving a notorious child abuser after coming close to catching him.

A Los Angeles jury convicted Robert Durst on Friday of murdering his best friend 20 years ago, a case that took on new life after the New York real estate heir participated in a documentary that connected him to the slaying that was linked to his wife’s 1982 disappearance.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLudacris will release the soundtrack to the Netflix series “Karma’s World,” the official companion to the animated kids’ series from the Grammy-winning rapper. The show, produced by Karma’s World Entertainment and 9 Story Media Group.

EXCLUSIVE: Ted Melfi, whose new film The Starling premiered last night at the Toronto Film Festival, has been set to adapt, direct and produce for Netflix Underworld, based on the seminal novel by Don DeLillo. The novel is a sprawling tapestry spread across decades that has a through line of the home run Bobby Thomson hit in 1951 to win the pennant for the New York Giants in 1951, breaking the hearts of crosstown fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Emiliano De Pablos Spain’s Borja González Santaolalla, who co-penned Jaume Balagueró’s movie “Way Down,” and Ángel Agudo, a scribe on Atresmedia’s “Luimelia,” have boarded the family TV series project “Harrogate Detective Agency” as its director and co-scribe respectively.Inspired by Agatha Christie novels, the TV series project has been created by C.J.

has earned Marvel Studios its first Emmy -- and its second. The series has picked up two awards at the Creative Arts Emmys so far, for Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Program (Half-Hour) and Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes. The awards were just two of WandaVision's 23 total Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Outstanding Directing, a trio of Outstanding Writing nominations and Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics for the hit song, «Agatha All

There’s no escape for the women in Hany Abu-Assad’s blistering new film “Huda’s Salon,” a fearless statement on gender oppression shaped as an edge-of-your-seat thriller. Back in top form, the acclaimed director behind stunners such as “Paradise Now” and “Omar” returns to dissecting the perilous Palestinian experience under Israeli control.

Jess Redden has resumed her wedding planning while spending time on a holiday with her family and fiancé Rob Kearney in Portugal.

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Lindsey Buckingham has announced his first ever solo European dates.The 2022 tour will begin in Dublin, before he plays three UK shows in Glasgow, Liverpool and London. The self-titled tour then goes on to dates through Belgium, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.Pre-sale tickets will be available from September 1 from 10am for registered users on Buckingham’s website here.

Naman Ramachandran Bille August, director of Oscar and Palme d’Or-winning film “Pelle the Conqueror,” is adapting Karen Blixen’s “Ehrengard” as a Netflix feature film. “Ehrengard” is one of the last works from Blixen (1885-1962), the author whose autobiographical memoir was filmed as “Out of Africa.” The story is set in the fairytale kingdom of Babenhausen where a young, self-appointed expert on love, Cazotte, is hired by the scheming Grand Duchess to help her secure an heir.

Alexandra Billings, a trans actor who made Broadway history when cast as Wicked‘s Madam Morrible in 2020, has issued a strong rebuke to Cameron Mackintosh over comments the British theater producer made opposing the casting of trans performers in classic roles.

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