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Tatiana Leite at Bubbles Project has unveiled a fulsome production slate which suggests a beginning of tentative film production renaissance in Brazil, driven by renewed state subsidy lines and the promise of regime change at October’s general elections.According to Leite, one of Brazil’s most energetic international co-producers, Bubbles has currently three feature films in post-production and seven in development. The titles in post are:*Horror film “A Herança” (“Birthright”), the feature debut of João Cândido Zacharias, in which Bubble teams as a majority producer with Sony Pictures International Production and Kromaki Filmes.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterEmma Roberts has been cast in “Madame Web,” the latest movie set in Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters.The actor is joining a star-studded ensemble, which includes Dakota Johnson as the title hero and “Euphoria” breakout Sydney Sweeney in an undisclosed role. As previously announced, Celeste O’Connor (“Ghostbusters: Afterlife”), Isabela Merced (“Dora and the Lost City of Gold”) and Tahar Rahim (“The Mauritanian”) are rounding out the call sheet.S.J.

EXCLUSIVE:  The Serpent star Tahar Rahim is set to join Dakota Johnson in Sony Pictures’ Madame Web. Also on board are Sydney Sweeney,  Celeste O’Connor and Isabela Merced for director S.J. Clarkson. Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless penned the screenplay, with Kerem Sanga also penning a previous draft.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefGuillermo del Toro and Thierry Fremaux on Wednesday resumed their colloquium on the future of cinema with leading filmmakers. The discussion shifted from anxiety about technology and streaming to the need for diversity and creativity.After the complete absence of women on Tuesday, the Wednesday session rectified that with the inclusion of France’s Rebecca Zlotowski and the U.K.’s Lynne Ramsay.Zlotowski quickly got into impact of the economics on film making. “You need a lot of money to represent your ideas [through cinema].

EXCLUSIVE: After a seven-year stint at the studio, John Friedberg, President of STXinternational, is set to transition to a consultancy role with the company as he pursues new opportunities, we can reveal.

EXCLUSIVE:  IFC Films and AMC+ have snapped up the U.S rights to Freegard from directors Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn.

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off her second BAFTA win last night for British drama Help, Killing Eve and The Last Duel star Jodie Comer has found her next project in the shape of feature thriller The End We Start From, which will be a hot package at next week’s Cannes market.

Naman Ramachandran “Father & Soldier” by Mathieu Vadepied, starring Omar Sy, Alassane Diong and Jonas Bloquet will open Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18.The Franco-Senegalese co-production, shot in France and Senegal, tells the story of Bakary Diallo, a father, who enlists in the French army in 1917 to join Thierno, his 17-year-old son, who was drafted by force. Sent to the front, father and son will have to face the war together.

EXCLUSIVE: U.S.-based Wonder Street and New Zealand-based Stripe Studios have struck a deal to team on a slate of unscripted TV series, kicking off the partnership with Snow Patrol as well as New Zealand Gold Diggers.

K.J. Yossman Award-winning South African drama “Good Life” is set for a U.S.

EXCLUSIVE:  Seoul Street is adapting Suzanne Park’s best-selling novel Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous for the big screen.

EXCLUSIVE: The Amazing Spiderman, 500 Days of Summer and Disney’s Snow White director Marc Webb has been set to direct supernatural thriller Day Drinker.

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA Award-nominee Tahar Rahim is set to co-star alongside Academy Award-winner Joaquin Phoenix and Academy Award-nominee Vanessa Kirby in Napoleon, the latest film from esteemed director Ridley Scott, who is directing.

Greenwich Entertainment announced today the acquisition of North American distribution rights to The Revolution Generation directed by Sundance Award Winning eco film team Josh and Rebecca Tickell.

Kevin Macdonald (The Mauritanian, Whitney) has been set to helm The Iceman, which will star Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) as the larger-than-life extreme athlete Wim Hof.

Naman Ramachandran BAFTA and Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald (“The Mauritanian”) will direct true story “The Iceman” written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jeff Pope (“Philomena”).The film stars Joseph Fiennes (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) as prolific and larger-than-life extreme athlete Wim Hof, who is best known for his breathing-focused workout in freezing temperatures called the Wim Hof Method.Cornerstone has boarded the project for worldwide sales and will launch the title at next month’s virtual European Film Market.A widower who worked as a postman and struggled to support his four children, Hof turned to the cold and breathing to find peace and strength. Locals would discover him delivering their letters with bare feet in the dead of the Netherlands winter, or swimming alone in ice-cold lakes.

Naomi Campbell and Manu Rios were among the many stars who stepped out for the Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2022/2023 fashion show.

EXCLUSIVE: A day before the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, Cinema Libre Studio announced the acquisition of a documentary about one of the most famous men to be held at the U.S.-operated prison.

Hannibal started in Tunisia's opening game of the Arab Cup against Mauritania on Tuesday afternoon.

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Ammonite, Apples, Promising Young Woman, Supernova, The Dig, The Father and The Mauritanian are among the first wave of movies recommended by a European Film Awards committee for nomination at this year’s event.

The 2021 Cannes Film Festival jury stepped out together one last time while attending the festival’s closing ceremony.

Catalan auteur Agustí Villaronga swept pretty much every prize out at Spain’s Malaga Film Festival with “The Belly of the Sea.”The plaudits prized Villaronga’s large artistic ambition in re-creating arguably the most ghastly shipwreck in history — the 1816 sinking of French frigate Meduse off the coast of modern Mauritania — in a film shot in an abandoned wine cellar.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMK2 Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to “Don Juan,” Serge Bozon’s comedy weaving singing, dancing and romance with Tahar Rahim (“The Mauritanian”) and Virginie Efira (“Benedetta”). Rahim stars as Laurent, a stage actor who gets jilted on his wedding day and embarks on a quest to seduce every woman he meets in order to mend his broken heart and ego.

Cobra Kai and Diary Of A Wimpy Kid star Peyton List is set to lead sci-fi-horror film The Friendship Game from producers Daniel Bekerman (Falling) and Zak Kilberg (The Mauritanian).

Naman Ramachandran Anne Hathaway (“The Witches”), Tahar Rahim (“The Mauritanian”), Marisa Tomei (“Spider-Man: Far from Home”), Joanna Kulig (“Cold War”) and Matthew Broderick (“Love is Blind”) headline the cast of writer/director Rebecca Miller’s romantic comedy “She Came to Me.”A multi-generational story in New York, the film follows a composer suffering from writer’s block who rediscovers his passion after an adventurous one-night stand, a couple of gifted teenagers who fight to prove to the

The Mauritanian. Woodley admitted she never thought she’d marry a professional athlete or, as she hilariously put it, “someone who throws balls.”“So, it’s kind of funny.

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Black Bread” director Agustí Villaronga, is arguably the most ghastly shipwreck in the history of seafaring.On July 2, 1816 French frigate Méduse ran aground on the Bank of Arguin, off the coast of present-day Mauritania, with 400 passengers on board.147 men were forced onto a makeshift raft, only 66 feet by 23 feet, cut adrift on the open sea. A storm swept many overboard; others, rebellious, were shot by officers; as rations dwindled, some resorted to cannibalism.

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NOMINATIONS AND WINNERS 2021

Guy Lodge Film CriticAwards season can often feel like a months-long echo chamber in which the same handful of films and names are discussed to death.

Benedict Cumberbatch says he plans to call on Joe Biden to close Guantanamo Bay after studying the prison for his latest movie "The Mauritanian."  The actor produced the drama and portrays Lt. Colonel Stuart Couch.

EXCLUSIVE:  The famed Easter candy Peeps is being turned into an animated feature film The Mauritanian producers Christine and Mark Holder of Wonder Street.

Following his role in the Guantanamo Bay detention centre drama “The Mauritanian”, Benedict Cumberbatch tells the Guardian he’s more than “hoping” President Biden will close Guantanamo.