Distrib Films Acquires U.S. Rights to Studiocanal’s ‘The Perfect Nanny,’ ‘Someone Somewhere’ (EXCLUSIVE)

By Dade Hayes

Dyanne Thorne, the star of a number of controversial sexploitation movies in the 1970s, has died.

Ashley Judd, Gloria Steinem, Diane Von Furstenberg and Time's Up CEOTina Tchen will join designer Tory Burch for a women's summit next month in New York,The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.Burch — whose starry fans range fromMindy KalingtoEmily Blunt — will host the second Embrace Ambition Summit: Confronting Stereotypes and Creating New Norms on March 5 at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

The films of Pedro Almodóvar are an international treasure, and the only real tragedy of the director not working in the English language is that it really limits the actresses he can work with. Imagine the possibilities!

Hearts broke around the nation as Rob Kearney revealed he was officially off the market when he announced his engagement to long-time girlfriend Jess Redden.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

The teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from the viewing platform of the Tate Modern gallery in London told of plans to push someone off a high building a year earlier, it has been reported.

Come for the animals, but stay for the friendships.

Tom Paul can finally exhale. At the end of each November, for more than 20 years, the New York-based sound designer turns nocturnal. Forgoing sleep means he’ll have just enough time to complete the sound edit and mix for the multitude of films he was hired to work on that are premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, the most recent edition of which wrapped on Sunday.

Spotify has purchased The Ringer, Bill Simmons’ sports and culture site, the companies announced today (February 5). The move follows the streaming service’s expansion into podcasts. (The Ringer has 30 podcasts.) The Ringer, which was previously in partnership with Vox Media, also has a video network, film production division, and book imprint, as The New York Times notes.

Amazon Studios has picked up Sundance love story Sylvie's Love, starring Tessa Thompson andNnamdi Asomugha,sources familiar with the deal tell The Hollywood Reporter.Eugene Ashe wrote and directed the movie, which follows a saxophone player (Asomugha) and aspiring TV producer (Thompson) as they fall in love and continually cross paths in late 50s/early 60s New York.Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King, Wendi Mclendon-Covey and Jemima Kirke also star.The movie premiered in the U.S.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

Amazon Studios has picked up Alan Ball's family dramaUncle Frank.The Six Feet Under showrunnerwrote and directed the movie, which is set in 1973 and follows teenager Beth (Sophia Lillis), who leaves her rural hometown to study at New York University, where her estranged uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a revered literature professor.

The Mr. MAL Contest – Photo: Todd Franson

New York-based sales company Visit Films has acquired worldwide rights for Mexican feature “Summer White,” world premiering in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition on Sunday Jan. 26. Visit will also be screening the film at Berlinale’s European Film, Market.

© Getty Victoria Bekham and David Beckham are seen at Gare du Nord station on January 18, 2020 in Paris, France. It seems Victoria Beckham has evened the score between her and husband David, with her latest Instagram post.

Netflix has acquired exclusive streaming rights to the full film catalog from beloved Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli for everywhere in the world outside North America and Japan.The landmark deal, unveiled Monday through French distribution partner Wild Bunch International, represents the first time that all 21 Ghibli films — including Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, among others — will be made available via streaming on a worldwide

Bac Films has closed several deals on Bernard Stora’s “The Case,” a psychological thriller set in the South of France starring Niels Arestrup (“At Eternity’s Gate,” “A Prophet”). The film had its market premiere at the UniFrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris, a five-day showcase of French movies wrapping on Jan. 20.