Karan Johar, Sara Ali Khan, Emraan Hashmi Indian Freedom Fight Film ‘Ae Watan Mere Watan’ Sets Prime Video Bow (EXCLUSIVE)

The champagne may be flowing at the kickoff for the 27th Annual Sonoma International Film Festival – for more reasons than one.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Following its world premiere in the competition section of the Berlin Film Festival, Beta Cinema has revealed first sales across Europe and to Australia and New Zealand for Andreas Dresen’s “From Hilde, With Love.” The drama about anti-Nazi activists in Berlin, which is led by “Babylon Berlin’s” Liv Lisa Fries and introduces Johannes Hegemann in his first big screen appearance, will be released in France by Haut et Court, in Italy by Teodora and throughout Scandinavia by Angel Films. Beta Cinema also closed deals for Benelux (September Film), Portugal (Outsider), former Yugoslavia (Discovery), Hungary (Cirko) and Czech Republic (Film Europe). Palace Film picked up the film for Australia and New Zealand.

EXCLUSIVE: Beta Film has has sold a slew of dramas to Australia’s SBS including big-budget TIFF entry Estonia as part of the pair’s multi-year license deal.

Married At First Sight Australia has made a welcome return to TV screens, with a new set of singletons hoping to meet their perfect match at the end of the aisle.The Australian edition landed on screens in the UK on Monday, 26 February on E4 - delighting MAFS fans. In the first episode, we saw Cassandra and Tristan get hitched as well as Sara and Tim. However, it was Sara and Tim who had viewers talking, as things between them quickly took a downwards turn.

Michaela Zee Hollywood’s biggest stars hit the red carpet for the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night in Los Angeles. The star-studded list of attendees includes Margot Robbie, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Lily Gladstone, Oprah, Jodie Foster and Ryan Gosling and so many more. “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” lead the film nominations with four nods apiece; both features will compete for outstanding performance by a cast alongside “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “American Fiction” and “The Color Purple.” On the television front, “Succession” has a leading five nominations, while “Ted Lasso,” “The Bear” and “The Last of Us” each have four nominations.

Ernst Lubitsch, Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski are among eight older titles set to play at next month’s Hong Kong International Film Festival. Lubitsch’s 1920 farce “Kohlhiesel’s Daughters,” will be presented with a live music accompaniment by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. And, despite rumors to the contrary, Kubrick’s first feature, “Fear and Desire,” has been preserved intact and will play at the festival with nine minutes of previously deleted footage.

In a brand-new OnlyFansTV series called In Real Life, soap star Sarah Jayne Dunn is opening up about her move from Hollyoaks to content creating.The series is hosted by Australian reality TV star Casey Boonstra and sees her get to know the creators behind the OnlyFans content, like Kerry Katona, models Lottie Moss and Eliza Watson and boxers Ebanie Bridges and Elle Brooke. During the show, Sarah goes ice skating with Dancing on Ice pro Colin Grafton, and also opens up about how OnlyFans has changed her life. “I had such a nice day,” says Sarah.

Christopher Vourlias Africa’s growing screen industries are making their mark on the global stage, with three titles in the main competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, but how to unlock the continent’s still-untapped potential was a question on the minds of many at a conference hosted on Saturday by the European Film Market. A partnership between EFM and Prudence Kolong’s Stockholm-based consulting firm Yanibes, AfroBerlin was launched to give a platform to filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora and “to find a place where they can share stories and experiences and be heard,” said Kolong, who also organizes the Cannes Film Festival’s AfroCannes industry showcase.

PVRIS have returned with their new single ‘Burn the Witch’, a collaboration wtih Tommy Genesis and Alice Longyu-Gao. Check it out below.The track is the lead single from PVRIS’ forthcoming project, which is due to be released this spring via Hopeless Records.

When Australian writer Lily Brett published her novel Too Many Men in 2001, critics marvelled at the light, comic tone she had managed to strike in a novel about the lasting impact of the Holocaust, passed down from one generation to the next. Families have their customary jokes; they squabble over the dinner table; they may be funny characters but, underneath it all, there is a consciousness of pain. That’s not an easy balance to strike, as a writer or as an actor.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Australian Alexander Volkanovski is looking to defend his UFC Featherweight Championship belt against Georgian Ilia Topuria during the main card of UFC 298, which is tonight, Saturday, Feb. 17.

Australian Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor and producer Toni Collette (Knives Out) has been announced as a Master at the 10th edition of the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent incubator, running from March 1 to 6.

Natalia Bryant is making a name for herself in the modeling industry while a full-time student at the University of Southern California. The 21-year-old is the eldest daughter of Vanessa and the late Kobe Bryant, proving to be a dedicated and successful woman.Natalia made her runway debut with Versace at Milan Fashion Week, and while people tell her what to wear when on the job, she’s been finding her unique style. In a recent interview with PEOPLE, the model revealed how her mom Vanessa, has inspired her style.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Variety is premiering the trailer (below) for feature documentary “Transition,” which follows Australian filmmaker Jordan Bryon, a trans man, as he embeds with a Taliban unit as they retake control of Afghanistan. The film, directed by Monica Villamizar and Bryon, will be released in the U.S. on March 26 by Gravitas Ventures.

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. Today we’re talking to Stephen Kelliher, co-founder and MD of established London-based sales and film finance outfit Bankside Films. The company played a key role in getting Australian horror hit Talk to Me off the ground and Kelliher walks us through how that project came together as well as Bankside’s hefty EFM slate this year.

Iranian filmmakers Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghadam’s new feature My Favourite Cake world premieres at the Berlinale on Friday but the directors are not at the festival having been slapped with a travel ban by Iran’s authoritarian Islamic Republic regime.

unmasked during the third season of “The Masked Singer” following a hilarious rendition of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back,” Sarah Palin popped up on another Fox reality singing competition show.The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and former governor of Alaska surprised viewers when she appeared on Wednesday night’s episode of “We Are Family.” Hosted by actor and comedian Anthony Anderson and his mother, Doris Bowman, who are both fresh off of their joint appearance at the 2024 Emmys, the guessing game show features non-famous relatives of celebrities performing solo. Later in the show, they return to the stage to duet with their secret famous family member.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Beta Cinema has sold political thriller “Hammarskjöld — Fight for Peace,” which is a box office hit in its home territory Sweden, to multiple key territories. Sales include Italy (Rai Cinema), France (Swift Prods.), Spain (Twelve Oaks), Portugal (Outsider Films) and former Yugoslavia (Discovery). A U.S.

Sarah Snook revealed that her co-star Brian Cox was subject to a “diabetic rage” while filming the hit HBO show “Succession.”“He has a habit of sometimes going into a false — or could it be real, who knows? — diabetic rage where he’ll go [growl] all of a sudden,” Snook, 36, told the Sunday Times Tuesday. “I think part of it’s a little of trying to just jolt the energy of the set and rustle a few feathers, get it going and moving faster,” the Australian actress added.

Tatiana Siegel Joe Biden didn’t score an endorsement from Taylor Swift on Super Bowl Sunday, as some had predicted. But her boyfriend Travis Kelce is using the president’s renewable energy tax credits to finance the film “My Dead Friend Zoe.” The SXSW-bound indie, which stars Natalie Morales, Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman, marks Kelce’s first foray into movies, with the Kansas City Chiefs tight end serving as an executive producer.