New Europe Film Sales Picks up Hamy Ramezan’s ‘Any Day Now’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Berlin-based sales agent M-appeal has picked up Norwegian children’s film “Sisters: The Summer We Found Our Superpowers,” ahead of the European Film Market in Berlin, where it will screen.

On Wednesday (Feb. 5), GLAAD announced that Ben Platt will join the 31st annual GLAAD Media Awards as a guest performer.

A wide range of Scandinavian films, including the politically-charged Danish drama “Shorta,” the supernatural Icelandic drama “Lamb” with Noomi Rapace, and the Finnish-Iranian refugee tale “Any Day Now,’ were some of the highlights at this year’s Nordic Film Market.

Husband and wife duo The Dryes kick things up a notch in its infectious new single “Take You Dancin’,” which Billboard premieres today (Jan. 30). The feel-good tune has Derek and Katelyn Drye sharing harmonies on the foot-stomping number where the band sings of not being able to wait until Friday for a night of dancing.

Three-time Grammy nominee Mali Music is back with a new single and label, Billboard has learned.

By Andreas Wiseman

Anne Hathaway enjoyed a rare public night out with her husband, Adam Shulman, on Monday night. 

On Monday (Jan. 27), Wynn Nightlife announced its 2020 residency roster, with the lineup including a collection of longstanding Wynn residents DJs and the introductoin of a few fresh faces. 

Imagine a high-ratings, high-stakes game show that trivializes a convict’s life-or-death fate for public consumption. As wild as it sounds, a version of this reality TV entertainment apparently really exists in modern-day Iran, where writer-director Massoud Bakhshi’s “Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness” is set, and where a wildly popular edition of it has been airing for nearly a decade.

Netflix has released the new trailer for Dee Rees’ new film The Last Thing He Wanted. Rees’ last film was the superb Mudbound from a couple of years back. That movie also debuted on the streaming platform.

Anne Hathaway and Ben Affleck are coming together for the first time in the new Netflix political thriller,. The streaming platform debuted the first trailer for Dee Rees’ adaptation of the Joan Didion novel about various characters caught up in the Iran-Contra scandal.

By Andreas Wiseman

Lara Jean is caught in the middle of a love triangle and it's about to get a little messy.

After a decade of taking on different stages, from opening on folk-rock duo Indigo Girls' live jaunt to Justin Timberlake's Man of the Woods Tour, The Shadowboxers are no longer straddling the different sounds that have impacted their decade-spanning career.

Massoud Bakhshi’s second feature, “Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness,” has its world premiere in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition, to be screened without the director.

Vision Distribution, the Italian theatrical distributor jointly operated by pay-TV operator Sky Italia and five prominent Italian production companies, is expanding into international film sales with a new company called Vision Distribution International, to be headed by veteran sales agent Catia Rossi.

After delivering two of the highest-grossing French films of last year, Alain Attal’s Paris-based production company Tresor Films (“Sink or Swim,” “Little White Lies 2”) is kicking off 2020 with its most ambitious project yet, Guillaume Canet’s “Asterix & Obelix: The Silk Road.”

New Orleans-based sextet Sweet Crude unveiled the video for their new single, "Déballez" on Friday (Jan. 17), exclusively via Billboard.

The Grahams make only a brief, blink-and-you-miss-it appearance in their new "Painted Desert" video, premiering exclusively on Billboard today (Jan. 16), for the latest track from their upcoming third album, Kids Like Us. And that's just the way Alyssa and Doug Graham prefer it.