Le Pacte Boards Venice-Bound ‘Out of Sync,’ ‘Inferno Rosso’ (EXCLUSIVE)

There has been a lot of debate surrounding who should be the next person to play James Bond and some fans have been campaigning for a woman to land the role.

John Lennon playing an unreleased song in Denmark in 1970 is going up for auction in Copenhagen this month.The 33-minute recording is being sold by four Danish men who met Lennon when they were teenagers.The Beatles star was spending the winter of 1969-1970 in a small Danish town on the west coast, spending time with wife Yoko Ono’s daughter Kyoko, who was living with her father in Jutland.The audio, which was recorded after a press conference, includes a conversation between the four teenagers,

Awkwafina just meet her love match?On Wednesday's new episode, Nora (Awkwafina) fears that her maniacal imaginary friend is taking things too far when he helps her plot revenge against Wally's (B.D. Wong) sweet-natured girlfriend, Brenda (Jennifer Esposito), during a weekend trip to the country.In ET's exclusive sneak peek, a hot stranger named Chuck ('s Ross Butler) unexpectedly appears just as Nora struggles to light her cigarette late in the evening at her family's retreat in the woods.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Barcelona-based production-distribution outfit Filmax has sold the German-speaking Europe rights to Telepool for ‘Beyond the Summit’ by Ibon Cormenzana (“Guilt”), marking its first international deal for the adventure thriller.The film was first presented at this year’s Berlinale.

Family ties. Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian‘s daughters seem to be bonding as their relationship continues.

Family ties. Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian‘s daughters seem to be bonding as their relationship continues.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEli Roth, who is known to have a passion for Italian B-movies, is at the Venice Film Festival to help promote biographical doc “Inferno Rosso: Joe D’Amato on the Road to Excess,” directed by Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin, in which Roth features as a talking head.The doc, which premiered on the Lido as a special screening, sheds light on Aristide Massaccesi, known as Joe D’Amato, the under-the-radar producer, director and cinematographer who

EXCLUSIVE: Buchwald and Anonymous Content have signed actress Cassandra Sanchez-Navarro in the United States.

Manori Ravindran International EditorHBO Max is coming to Europe on Oct. 26, and the first launch markets will be Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra, Variety can reveal.The next crop of 14 European countries will receive the WarnerMedia-owned streamer in 2022.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAnissa Bonnefont, who latest film “Wonder Boy” won a Special Jury prize at Tribeca in 2020, has recently completed “Nadia,” a timely documentary feature about Nadia Nadim, the Afghan-born Danish soccer star.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEgyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy’s production shingle Film Clinic –– at Venice with “Amira,” Mohamed Diab’s drama about Palestinian children conceived behind bars with smuggled sperm –– is getting a financial boost that will triple its resources just as two new film and TV projects go into production.Film Clinic is having an outstanding festival presence this year.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBerlin-based sales agency Picture Tree International has boarded “Farha,” the debut feature from Jordanian writer-director Darin J. Sallam, which world premieres in the Discovery section of Toronto Film Festival.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAfter winning the Platform prize in Toronto in 2018 with his “Cities of Last Things,” Malaysian director Ho Wi Ding’s latest effort “Terrorizers” will get its premiere at the Canadian festival this month.

star Simu Liu, «and whether or not there's a post-credit sequence, that's up to fans to discover for themselves when they watch the movie in theaters on September 3.»What with this being a Marvel movie — and not just any MCU movie, but the first big indicator of Phase 4 on the big screen — there is, of course, a post-credits scene. Two, in fact.

James Bond in No Time To Die later this month, speculation continues to be rife over who will be the next 007. The current bookies' favourite is Regé-Jean Page, the rising star of Bridgerton who is taking Hollywood by storm.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentJason Isaacs (“The Death of Stalin”), Olafur Darri Olafsson (“The Deep”), Clare-Hope Ashitey (“Children of Men”) and David Hewlett (“The Shape of Water”) lead the voice cast of “The Last Worker,” which is world premiering at Venice in the competitive VR Expanded section.“The Last Worker” is directed and produced by Jörg Tittel at Oiffy, whose upcoming credits include “A Winter’s Journey” with John Malkovich and Martina Gedeck.The only video game to play

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorVariety has been given exclusive access to the first footage to be released from Slovak director Peter Kerekes’ “107 Mothers,” which world premieres in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival. Films Boutique is handling world sales on the film.“107 Mothers” features mostly real-life female prisoners and prison guards in an Odessa women’s jail acting out their true stories.