MIPTV: Fremantle Takes Full Control of 'Shtisel' Producer Abot Hameiri

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticOver the course of the past century, Monsanto discovered a way to farm the American farmer by developing, patenting and supplying genetically modified seeds. Instead of getting its hands dirty in the fields, the company cultivates its yield directly from the land workers, who have virtually no choice but to buy the agrochemical company’s seeds.

Lily Collins is taking in some art in Chicago.

Anthony Hopkins has won the best actor Oscar at the 93rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Hopkins, 83, won for his performance as an elderly man with dementia in The Father, directed by French novelist and playwright Florian Zeller, who also wrote the acclaimed stage play on which the film is based.

While the night featured some surprises, there was no surprise when Oscar-winner Rita Moreno announced the Best Picture winner with Searchlight’s Nomadland taking home the top prize and completing its historic season long sweep of the top award. It was the film’s third win of the night with director Chloé Zhao making her own history by becoming the first female Asian-American women to win best director.

James Corden just recalled a funny story about the paparazzi after he first rose to USA stardom for hosting The Late Late Show on CBS.

James Corden is recalling a hilarious encounter with the paparazzi.

Justin Timberlake has taken a stand against an oil pipeline that could be built under his hometown of Memphis.The Byhalia Pipeline has been proposed by the Valero Energy Corporation and the Plains All American pipeline company, putting the drinking water from the Memphis Sand Aquifer at risk.The water source supplies water to more than 1million people in the southern Memphis area, predominantly made up of Black and low-income neighbourhoods.In an Instagram post, Timberlake shared a video

Netflix has acquired Blackspace, a new Israeli thriller series set during a high-school shooting, for most of the world. The eight-part series, written by Anat Gafni and Sahar Shavit and directed by Ofir Lobel, follows the police investigation into a massacre of four students at an Israeli high school carried out by anonymous masked figures.

A popular gay character on “The Simpsons” is getting a brand new voice.

Some movies cram a whole load of exposition into their trailer — “The Man in the Hat” is not one of those movies. The upcoming film manages to tell a story in just a minute and a half with music and meaningful glances.

Over the last few years, more and more Super League sides have opted to fly in and out of Perpignan on the same day when facing Catalans - to mixed results.

EXCLUSIVE: Following its Oscar nomination, Elvira Lind’s short film The Letter Room has been racking up the sales. The movie, which stars Oscar Isaac and Alia Shawkat, has sold to France and Germany (ARTE France), Spain (Telefonica), Denmark (TV2), Russia (Shot TV), Poland (New Europe Film Sales), Airlines (JetBlue) as well as an international deal with Kanopy for the educational circuit.

AMC Networks has picked up U.S. rights to European espionage dramaSpy City in one of the first big domestic deals announced at the digital MIPTV market.

Fremantle has taken full control of Israeli producer Abot Hameiri, which makes the local versions of Got Talent and Survivor, as well as the Netflix series Shtisel.