‘Girls Can’t Surf’ Doc About Renegade Female Surfers Locks Sales Deal With Film Constellation – Cannes

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Dave Evans’ feature doc My Grandfather The Spy, which chronicles the director’s exploration of his own family’s long-buried secrets, has been boarded by SMP Distribution for international sales.The pic, financed by Film Cymru and BBC Wales, has been five years in the making. It follows how director Evans uncovers that his grandfather Eric, seemingly a quiet unassuming shopkeeper, actually had a connection to Cold War espionage.

straight to your inboxHere are the Manchester United evening headlines for Monday July 6.Manchester United have handed Nemanja Matic a new contract which will keep him at the club until 2023.The former Chelsea man has been rewarded after impressing since returning to the first-team fold around the turn of the year, having previously been linked with a move away from Old Trafford.Eleven of the Serbian’s 14 Premier League starts this season have come in 2020, and he has started each of the Reds’

The Braverman brothers are back together again!

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: The S.H.U., a social thriller starring Edi Gathegi of the Twilight Saga and X-Men: First Class fame, has been picked up for world sales by Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group.The pic follows an affluent African American psychiatrist (Gathegi) into federal prison after he is found guilty of murdering his wife.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: MPI Media Group has acquired international sales right to U.S. found footage horror film Followed.The film stars Matthew Solomon (Ballers), John Savage (The Deer Hunter), Sam Valentine, Caitlin Grace, Tim Drier, and Kelsey Griswold.

Margot Robbie will star in a new female-fronted Pirates Of The Caribbean film, it has been reported.

Christopher Vourlias When the Six-Day War broke out in his native Congo two decades ago, documentary filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi—whose film “Downstream to Kinshasa” is the first Congolese film to be an official selection in the history of the Cannes Film Festival—was living in the Musicians’ Quarter in downtown Kisangani, “relatively untouched by the belligerent shells that clashed mainly in the outskirts of the city,” he tells Variety.But the devastating toll of that conflict between Ugandan and

charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a man and his two children died in a horror smash on Father's Day. David Logan is accused of knocking down and killing Joshua James Flynn, 37, his son Coby-Jay Flynn, 15, and his daughter 12-year-old Skylar Flynn.

Pink as a pop of bubblegum and only a little more substantial, Magnus von Horn’s “Sweat,” one of the Cannes 2020 Official Selections that plays during this week’s Cannes Virtual Market is, despite all the cardio, a curiously low-blood-pressure affair.

Manori Ravindran International EditorU.S. documentary specialists Cargo Film & Releasing have snapped up world rights to an Alec Baldwin-narrated feature documentary investigating the water poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan.

Barry Jenkins is one of the most in-demand filmmakers working today.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE:Italian producer Emanuele Moretti (Bite) is launching LA and Rome-based production and sales firm Motus Studios.Out of the gate, Moretti has set up a strategic partnership with Ellen S. Wander’s Film Bridge International to produce and sell movies together.

drink driver on Father’s Day. Joshua James Flynn, 37, his son Coby-Jay Flynn,15, and daughter Skylar Flynn, 12, all lost their lives in the horror incident which took place on Sunday, June 21.

Whitney Cummings, who has worked with the comedian, Chris D’Elia, in the past, is now addressing the accusations against him. Just Jared said today that in her series, Whitney and Chris played an unhappy unmarried couple.

the collaboration with Moi and an accompanying video earlier this year. ‘The Difference’ was Flume’s first new music of 2020, following his 2019 ‘Hi This Is Flume’ mixtape and a collaborative EP, ‘Friends’, with Reo Cragun.Listen to ‘The Difference (Jon Hopkins Remix)’ below:Hopkins’ remix follows the release of his ‘Singing Bowl (Ascension)’, a track the producer created using a 100-year-old singing bowl found in an antique shop in Delhi.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorComedian/actor Chris D’Elia has spoken out about allegations that he harassed underage girls on social media.“I know I have said and done things that might have offended people during my career, but I have never knowingly pursued any underage women at any point,” D’Elia said in a statement obtained by Deadline.

Comedian and actor Chris D’Elia has come under fire after several women came forward with stories of sexual misconduct against the star.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterStaged, the lockdown comedy series written and directed by Simon Evans which debuts on BBC One on Wednesday, has been boarded by the newly-launched Rainmaker Content for international distribution. David Tennant and Michael Sheen lead the cast of the six-episode show, which chronicles the cast of a play as they try to keep rehearsals on track after being furloughed.