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Super LTD, Neon's boutique distribution division, has acquired the North American rights to Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary Notturno after a debut at Venice and play at the virtual Telluride, Toronto, New York film festivals. The film, shot over three years across Lebanon, Iraq, Kurdistan and Syria, was named by Italy to represent the country in the 2021 Oscar best international feature race.

When COVID-19 first emerged as a global threat, it was truly a "novel" coronavirus. It did not resemble the typical coronaviruses, like the common cold, that regularly circulate.

Naman Ramachandran A fascination with Vice-President elect Kamala Harris could drive American audiences towards Mira Nair’s mini-series “A Suitable Boy,” the director says.Based on Vikram Seth’s epic 1993 novel, the series follows the Mehra family and their associates as they go about the process of finding a husband for 19-year-old university student Lata Mehra (newcomer Tanya Maniktala), against the backdrop of the 1951 general elections in newly independent India.The series aired on the BBC

Naman Ramachandran Veteran Indian producer Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP and Ramesh Krishnamoorthy’s Global One Studios will produce a series based on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.The companies have optioned the audio-visual rights to eminent authors’ Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro’s 2001 book, “Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster.”A cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, in 1984, in the central Indian city of Bhopal.

The Undoing has drawn in a bigger audience for its debut than Game Of Thrones when it premiered in 2011.The Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant-starring miniseries – which airs on HBO in the US – follows a psychotherapist who begins to question her life after a death, her husband disappearing and an affair.It has now been confirmed that the show’s premiere achieved a cumulative 28-day audience of over 2.78 million viewers following its debut on October 25.

Prince Harry is helping launch the new conservation streaming platform WaterBear with an in-depth chat.

Greenwich Entertainment has picked up the North American rights from XYZ Films to Patrick Trefz’s Man in the Field: The Life and Art of Jim Denevan, a feature documentary about a multimedia artist best known for staging elaborate outdoor meals. Greenwich plans a 2021 release after the film completes its festival circuit run.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerWell Go USA Entertainment has closed a deal for the North American distribution to Arclight Films’ Here Are the Young Men, an Irish teen drama starring Travis Fimmel (Ridley Scott’s HBO MAX series Raised by Wolves, History Channel’s Vikings), Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones, 1917), Finn Cole (Peaky Blinders, Animal Kingdom), Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit, A24’s The Witch), and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Sing Street, Vikings).

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe Los Angeles-based East West Players, the nation’s first professional Asian American theatre organization, is teaming with musician AJ Rafael again for the holiday edition of Crazy Talented Asians, the ninth edition of the live show celebrating represenation of Asians in the arts.

Kate Mara recently looked back on her short cameo in Iron Man 2. During a new episode of Collider Ladies Night, the 37-year-old actress spoke about the small part and how Marvel teased her about how it could’ve become something bigger, but didn’t in the long run.

Kate Mara is looking back on that itty bitty role she played in Iron Man 2.