Taylor Swift is a proud cat lady and a big supporter of Zoë Kravitz’s Catwoman. The 32-year-old Grammy Award winner took to social media to praise her bestie for her performance as Selina Kyle in the newly premiered and record-breaking film The Batman.“@zoeisabellakravitz is the Catwoman of my dreams,” Swift wrote with an image of the 33-year-old actress.
NFT Film Platform Cineverse Promises to Boost Indie Film
16.02.2022 - 17:51 / variety.com
Ed Meza @edmezavarThe founder of the blockchain-based film sales platform Cinemarket is launching Cineverse, an ambitious start-up that will make it possible for filmmakers, distributors and producers to market films directly using blockchain and NFT tech.Established by Cinemarket CEO Adrian Lugol and partners Vincent Lopez and Daniel Siegler (pictured), Cineverse will allow users to buy, share, gift, sell and resell films over the platform.The idea for the project came to Lugol during Christmas of 2020, when he wanted to give his young nephew some DVDs of his favorite films. The plan was thwarted when he learned the family no longer owned an old-fashioned DVD player.“I was like, wow, how am I going to give you these movies in a simple way?” Lugol recalls.
Online access to some of the films was also limited, and unless you are still using DVDs, it’s not possible to give someone a movie as a gift, he adds. Later, while running Cinemarket, Lugol realized that film licenses could be exchanged between two people.
Already working with NFTs, or non-fungible tokens – non-interchangeable units of data stored on a blockchain – he began to explore how this technology could be used to also support independent filmmakers.“It was funny that at the same time we were developing that, the NFT trend exploded.”The growing frustration among indie filmmakers with the state of the industry has become very evident in recent years, Lugol says, from the bad deals offered by the major streamers and the increasing legal complexities of doing business to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on film festivals.“As soon as we threw out this idea to two or three groups of producers and directors, they all loved it. So then we had to build it.”Lugol
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deadline.com
03.03.2022 / 20:19
Cannes Film Fest Sidebars Directors’ Fortnight, Critics’ Week & ACID Will Not Boycott Russian Filmmakers
The three key side events of the Cannes Film Festival – Critics’ Week, ACID and the Directors’ Fortnight – will not be joining the boycott of Russian cinema.
nme.com
03.03.2022 / 01:03
‘The Sparks Brothers’ wins Best Music Film at the BandLab NME Awards 2022
The Sparks Brothers has won Best Music Film at the BandLab NME Awards 2022.The Edgar Wright-directed documentary about the band Sparks beat out Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, Oasis Knebworth 1996 and Questlove’s Summer Of Soul for the win.“We’re so honoured to be given the finger by NME,” Russel Mael said while accepting the award remotely. “Thanks to the great director Edgar Wright and the whole team who made this wonderful film,” he added.His brother Ron Mael, also shared his “thank you”, noting that he was “deeply appreciative of this award” before throwing up a celebratory middle finger.
justjared.com
01.03.2022 / 11:05
Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards 2022 - Complete Winners List Revealed!
It was another big night for CODA for the second evening in a row!
etcanada.com
26.02.2022 / 21:05
Piers Morgan Promises New Talk Show Will ‘Cancel Cancel Culture’ By Confronting ‘Ultra Woke Lunatics’
Piers Morgan will be targeting the woke in his new talk show.
deadline.com
26.02.2022 / 19:51
Ukrainian Film Academy Calls For Boycott Of Russian Cinema From Festivals, Producers & Financiers
The Ukrainian Film Academy, the membership body comprised of film professionals and cultural figures from across the country, has released a petition calling for an international boycott of Russian cinema.
variety.com
16.02.2022 / 13:35
Berlin Film Festival: The 12 Biggest Takeaways
Berlin Film Festival has staged its first in-person edition since 2020, soldiering on amid a wave of the COVID omicron variant in Germany and a last-minute virtual pivot for the European Film Market. Here are our main takeaways below:Film Industry Pining For In-Person Meetings Despite the EFM being online, a clutch of buyers and sellers made the trek to Berlin where they held a mix of online and physical meetings in the Marriott and a very bare Gropius Bau.
deadline.com
16.02.2022 / 13:27
Melbourne Film Festival Launches $100K Best Film Prize; Southern Hemisphere’s “Richest” Feature Competition
Melbourne Film Festival Launches $100K Best Film Prize; Southern Hemisphere’s “Richest” Feature CompetitionThe Melbourne International Film Festival is introducing a feature film competition ahead of its 70th anniversary edition.
deadline.com
11.02.2022 / 16:59
Berlin Film Festival Gives Reason For Opening Film Disruption; Hanna Schygulla Explains Absence
EXCLUSIVE: Organizers of the Berlin Film Festival have told us that the world premiere screening of opening film Peter Von Kant was disrupted last night due to “a server problem”.
variety.com
10.02.2022 / 09:39
Chile’s European Film Market Highlights
Anna Marie de la Fuente Key Chilean projects being moved at this year’s European Film Market:AlisDirectors: Clare Weiskopf and Nicolás van HemelryckCasatarántula produced this Chile-Colombia-Romania doc along with Pantalla Cines and Defilm. Produced by Alexandra Galvis and Radu Stancu, it world premieres at Berlinale’s Generation 14plus sidebar.
deadline.com
09.02.2022 / 04:25
‘Licorice Pizza’, ‘West Side Story’, ‘Belfast’ Among Oscar Best Pic Nom Wide Expansions, But It’s Another Season Sans A Big Box Office Boost
Those theatrical motion picture studios earning Oscar Best Picture nominations today will put their best foot forward at the box office, and increase the cinema footprint of their contenders in an effort to capitalize on their success and raise the pics’ profiles.
variety.com
08.02.2022 / 20:51
Berlin Film Festival Receives Global Support from Film Community Despite Omicron Threat
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe leadup to the 2022 Berlin Film Festival has been a veritable rollercoaster ride for co-directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian due to the global spread of the Omicron variant.But while other top fests such as Sundance and Rotterdam went online again, Berlin has stayed the course due to the two chiefs’ determination to not go virtual and also to keep their February slot, albeit in its current reduced Feb. 10-16 form.
variety.com
07.02.2022 / 19:11
IFC Midnight and Shudder Buy Psychological Horror Film ‘She Will’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIFC Midnight and Shudder have closed a multi-territory deal for “She Will,” a psychological horror directed by artist and filmmaker Charlotte Colbert.The film is a gothic fairy tale about Veronica Ghent who after a double mastectomy, goes to a healing retreat in rural Scotland with her young nurse Desi. There, she discovers that the process of such surgery opens up questions about her very existence, leading her to start to question and confront past traumas.
deadline.com
07.02.2022 / 18:05
Museum Of The Moving Image Announces First Look Festival Lineup, Including “Simmering, Sexually Charged” Opening Night Film ‘Murina’
EXCLUSIVE: New York’s Museum of the Moving Image announced the full lineup today for the 11th edition of First Look, its annual festival showcasing adventurous cinema from around the world.
deadline.com
06.02.2022 / 23:15
‘The Worst Person In The World’ Bests Arthouse In Upbeat Weekend For Indie Film – Specialty Box Office
Neon’s racked up a few bests this weekend with a cume of $135,042 at four NY/LA theaters for a popping per screen average of $33,768.