M. Night Shyamalan Named 2022 Berlin Film Festival Jury President

Emiliano Granada Berlin-based Pluto Film has acquired international sales rights to Augusto Sandino’s “A Vanishing Fog” which world premieres mid-November at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, playing in main competition.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesIn 1997, Jeff Friday, founder and CEO of Jeff Friday Media, was working as the film division president of UniWorld Group, a prominent multicultural advertising agency headquartered in New York and founded by legendary ad world maven Byron E. Lewis.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorTo the uninitiated, Princess Diana biopic “Spencer” might appear like the quintessential British film, albeit with a Chilean director and an American star. But it is, in fact, German, Simone Baumann, managing director of German Films, says.

Avril Lavigne has announced a UK and European tour for 2022 – check out the full schedule below.The Canadian singer-songwriter will hit the road next February for shows in Amsterdam, Munich, Milan, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and other cities.Lavigne will touch down in the UK on March 25, when she’ll take to the stage at the O2 Apollo in Manchester.

Jeff Friday Media, the company that organizes the American Black Film Festival, has struck a first-look deal with WarnerMedia.

PVRIS have announced details of a UK and European headline run, set to take place in early 2022.The string of shows kicks off in Hamburg on April 24 before hitting the likes of Berlin, Hamburg and Milan. The 13-date run will finish off with a show at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on May 10.“Get ready for a brand new show,” said the band alongside the announcement.

Ed Sheeran is causing Saturday Night Live producers to panic.

Almost 80 years after the end of World War 2 Hitler’s final order from his Berlin bunker has been found.

Coldplay have added extra London and Paris shows to their 2022 world tour.Chris Martin and co. will head out on the road next March in support of their new album ‘Music Of The Spheres’, which came out last Friday (October 15).The European leg of their eco-friendly tour is due to begin in July, with concerts scheduled in Frankfurt, Warsaw, Berlin, Paris and Brussels.

Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn, which scooped this year’s Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, has been selected by Romania as its entry for the 2022 International Oscar race.

Jamie Lang Expanding on their already fruitful non-fiction partnership, ZDF Enterprises and Studio Hamburg Production Group have agreed to a closer working relationship in fiction production starting in January of next year, when ZDF Enterprises will acquire a 49% stake in Real Film Berlin, a Studio Hamburg subsidiary.

“This is a petty and vindictive move. It is actually an insult to the industry,” said Critics Choice Awards President Joey Berlin of the Hollywood Foreign Press’s rescheduled January 9 date for its show. That happens to be the same night of the annual Critics Choice event which, unlike the Globes this year, will be telecast (on the CW).

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaScreen Media has acquired all North American rights to “La Soga Salvation” following its premiere at 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, where it screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section.

To suggest that France had an abundance of quality candidates for its International Film Oscar submission this year is beyond an understatement.

Rebecca Souw International film market organizers may collaborate more in the future as they attempt to bring back in-person events by next year.Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market, which was operated online only for the second year, hosted a high-powered panel on Monday involving Oh Seok Geun, co-director of Busan’s ACFM, Jerome Paillard, executive director of Cannes’ Marché du Film, Dennis Ruh, director of Berlin’s European Film Market and Jacob Wong, director of Hong Kong’s HKIFF Industry

Benedict Cumberbatch revealed the biggest challenge of playing a American rancher in his new film was learning how to roll a cigarette with one hand while sitting on a horse - as he walked the red carpet at its UK premiere. The actor plays a domineering bully who responds with mocking cruelty when his brother brings home a new wife and her son in western drama The Power Of The Dog, which is Oscar-winning director Jane Campion's first film since 2009.

Was Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (director of the , which won best screenplay at Cannes) referencing the tarot when he wrote his Berlinale Silver Berlin Bear winning, and 2021 New York Film Festival selection, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy?