Outsider Pictures Nabs U.S. Distribution Rights to Colombian Nina Marín’s Debut ‘Broken Land’ (EXCLUSIVE)

EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear Pictures, the Los Angeles-based production outfit behind pics including I Care A Lot and The Imitation Game, has promoted a trio of executives.

Carlos Marín, one-fourth of the vocal group Il Divo, has sadly passed away. He was just 53.

Sony Pictures Classics has set a March 25 theatrical release date for The Duke, directed by the late Roger Michell. The film starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren will open in theaters in New York and Los Angeles before expanding in the following weeks. The dramedy is currently playing at the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles for a one-week awards qualifying run through Dec. 16. 

Drake agreed to squash his longstanding beef with Kanye West after being clued in to “the bigger picture” surrounding the forthcoming ‘Free Larry Hoover’ benefit concert.Set to go down in Los Angeles tonight (December 9), the show will mark Drake and West’s first time onstage together since 2016 (when West was brought out as a surprise guest at that year’s OVO Fest).West will headline the show, confirming Drake’s appearance as a special guest last month.

Arctic Monkeys, Nine Inch Nails, Lorde and more acts have been announced for the debut edition of Primavera Sound Los Angeles next year.The festival, which was meant to launch last summer before plans were shelved due to COVID-enforced restrictions, takes place from September 16-18 at the LA State Historic Park.James Blake, Mitski, Arca, Khruangbin, Bicep, Clairo, Darkside, King Krule, Low, PinkPantheress, Kim Gordon, Fontaines D.C., Helena Hauff, Tierra Whack, John Talabot and Dry Cleaning are

Jamie Lang Los Angeles-based Outsider Pictures has picked up North American rights to the award-winning Brazilian stop-motion feature “Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People,” this year’s Best Film winner from Annecy’s Contrechamp section for innovative and outside-the-box toon features and the Best Animated Feature at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.Outsider is currently planning an Academy qualifying run for the film.São Paulo-based Coala Filmes impressed early on with their claymation

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Jamie Lang Co-producers on the recently finished dystopian thriller “Tomorrow Before After,” Apollo Pictures and Sivela Pictures are teaming on an entire slate of genre feature films with top Colombian producers 64-A Films, starting with a Spanish-language remake of Apollo founder Chad Barager’s most recent directorial feature “The Inheritance.”The new joint venture was established with long-form, feature content in mind for both the English and Spanish-language markets, with production to be

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorLeah Newman, a former Harpo Entertainment executive and daughter of WME partner Robert Newman, died Nov. 24 in Los Angeles at the age of 33, two days after giving birth to a daughter.In an unbelievably tragic turn of events, Leah Newman died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, just two days after the birth of her first child, Beatrice Violet.

Jon Burlingame editorOne expects a Disney animated film to have great music. But when the setting is outside the United States, it’s especially crucial that the musical backdrop be true to the locale.

NHC, the supergroup featuring Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, Jane’s Addiction’s guitarist Dave Navarro and bassist Chris Chaney, played their first full gig in Los Angeles this week (November 23) – watch them cover David Bowie below.The supergroup had made their live debut in September with a set at the Ohana Festival in California, but made their full bow with a show at The Troubadour in LA on Tuesday.For the finale of the show, the band – who played with Foo Fighters and Nirvana

Madonna has shared many provocative pictures of herself throughout the years, but Wednesday's might just be her most shocking yet.READ: Madonna sets pulses racing in nothing but fishnets and stilettos in revealing new photoThe 63-year-old took to Instagram to post ten pictures showing her posing in revealing underwear and nude inside her Los Angeles bedroom.WATCH: Madonna has the sweetest mother daughter moment with EstereThe singer posed on top of her bed that featured a black bed frame, white

LOS ANGELES -- Helen Mirren is oddly absent from the Harry Potter film franchise that proved close to a full-employment act for Britain's acting greats. But she's found her own path into its magical world.Dame Helen, as the Oscar, Emmy and Tony-winning actor is properly addressed, makes her debut as a quiz host with “Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses.” The weekly, four-part series begins 8 p.m.

Selome Hailu editorJared Leto has spoken — he says he thinks it’s time that Warner Bros. release David Ayer’s cut of “Suicide Squad.”“Absolutely! Why not?” the actor, who played the Joker in the 2016 film, told Variety‘s Marc Malkin on Thursday night at the Los Angeles premiere of “House of Gucci” at the Academy Museum.