Michal Englert on Evoking Mystery on Oscar Entry ‘Never Gonna Snow Again,’ Starring Alec Utgoff

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentStrand Releasing has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Majid Majidi’s “Sun Children,” which competed at Venice and represents Iran in the international feature film race at the 2021 Academy Awards.Represented in international markets by Hengameh Panahi’s Celluloid Dreams, “Sun Children” has been critically acclaimed in the festival circuit, and its young leading actor Ruhollah Zamani won Venice’s Marcello Mastroianni Award for best young actor.

remaining open for a 24 hours, it didn't stop enthusiastic bargain hunters flocking to the store to shop for the first time since the national lockdown started. Dubbed 'wild Wednesday', retailers were expecting swathes of shoppers to head to the high street as they welcomed customers back after a month of closure.  And while many stores reported less footfall than expected, Primark saw hundreds descend on the Trafford Centre branch in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Swizz Beatz has said he won’t write off a prospective Verzuz battle between Diddy and Dr Dre.The musician and producer, who works with Timbaland on the rap battle web series for Instagram Live and Apple Music, said in a new interview that a face-off between the veteran rappers could happen.With Timbaland joining him in the TMZ Live chat, Beatz said he wasn’t “gonna say no” to the possibility of a Dre and Diddy battle because previous fights between rap stars have happened that were beyond what

China has selected Peter Ho-Sun Chen’s volleyball drama Leap starring Gong Li as its international Oscar entry.

EXCLUSIVE: Spanish directing trio Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga, whose The Endless Trench is representing Spain in this year’s Oscar race, have signed with The Gotham Group.

Carter Rubin has wowed the coaches all season long on “The Voice”— and Monday’s live shows were no different!

Carter Rubin has wowed the coaches all season long on — and Monday's live shows were no different!The 15-year-old crooner took the stage to show off his jaw-dropping range once again, with a cover of Mariah Carey's «Hero» that left coach Gwen Stefani brushing back tears.«I'm just so honored to get to know you,» Gwen gushed. «You're so talented -- he just turned 15, he was 14 a second ago -- and it's so fun to watch you shine and know that you're good at that.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentTopic, the fast-growing streaming service from First Look Media, has acquired North American streaming rights to Anabel Rodriguez Rios’ documentary feature debut, “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela.” The film, which explores the decline of the Venezuelan fishing village of Congo Mirador and, more broadly, the country’s complicated current political and social climate, made its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

The Baltimore Ravens' bout with a COVID-19 outbreak has forced the NFL to postpone the team's trip to Pittsburgh for a second time. The league announced Friday the Ravens (6-4) against the unbeaten Steelers (10-0) will now take place on Tuesday night.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItaly has selected Gianfranco Rosi’s observational documentary ‘Notturno’ as its candidate for the Oscar in the international feature film category.“Notturno,” which launched from the Venice Film Festival and has since played at a slew of other top international fests, including Toronto and New York, was selected out of a roster of 25 titles by a committee convened by the Italian motion picture association, ANICA.Other top contenders comprised Sophia

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentLili Horvát’s “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” has been selected as the official Hungarian entry for the international feature film category at the Academy Awards.The film had its world premiere as part of the Venice Days lineup, and premiered in North America at the Toronto Film Festival.

Marta Balaga Camera crews can be very heteronormative and there is a lot of toxic masculinity, argued DP Michael Filocamo during the online IMAGO and Digital Orchard Foundation Diversity and Inclusion Roundtable at Camerimage.

Kino Lorber has picked up North American rights for Polish comedic drama Never Gonna Snow Again from Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert, for North America. The film stars Alec Utgoff of Stranger Things fame as a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East who becomes a masseur for the rich residents in a bland, gated community.

Also Read: Neon Acquires 'Night of the Kings,' Ivory Coast Oscar Submission, After Venice PremierePoland has been a roll at the Oscars, picking up nominations for the country’s last two submissions, including Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War” in 2018 and Jan Komasa’s “Corpus Christi” in 2019.Szumowska made her first English language feature with “The Other Lamb,” which premiered at TIFF in 2019, and Kino Lorber previously released her film “Elles.”Mariusz Włodarski, Viola Fügen, Agnieszka Wasiak

Dave McNary Film ReporterKino Lorber has acquired the North American rights to Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s drama “Never Gonna Snow Again,” Poland’s Academy Awards entry.“Never Gonna Snow Again” follows a Russian masseur — played by Alec Utgoff of “Stranger Things” — who enriches the lives of the rich, unfulfilled residents living in a walled-off community.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterKino Lorber has picked up North American rights to Never Gonna Snow Again, Malgorzata Szumowska’s Polish drama which is representing the country in this year’s International Oscar race. The distributor is lining up a theatrical release in Spring, 2021.The film debuted in competition at Venice this year.

Alex Stedman News Editor, Variety.comCD Projekt Red’s music director Marcin Przybyłowicz was hardly finished with the Polish developer’s last major tentpole, “The Witcher III: Wild Hunt,” when he had to start thinking about its next, “Cyberpunk 2077.”In fact, when CDPR announced “Cyberpunk 2077” in 2012, he was still working on the music for “The Witcher III’s” expansions.

Buddy Valastro is opening up about his intense recovery process after suffering a serious injury to his right hand in September, and what it could mean for his future.The star was hospitalized after an accident at his home's bowling alley. His rep told ET at the time that there was a malfunction with the bowling pinsetter, and after Valastro tried to release the bowling pin from the cage mechanism, his right hand became lodged and compressed inside the unit.