Selena Gomez waves to fans while she’s on the set of Only Murders in the Building on Saturday (March 2) in Los Angeles.
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Marta Balaga Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu and his Bucharest-based company Mobra Films will join forces with Poland’s Kijora Films on “Tales of the Golden Age – The Warsaw Pact,” a follow up to his 2009 sketch comedy referencing urban legends from the Ceausescu regime. Expanding to accommodate stories from different ex-communist Eastern European countries, including Poland, it will be written by Mungiu and directed by Ioana Uricaru.
France’s Les Films du Worso is also on board. “Perhaps the most important function of comedy is to help us confront negative emotions and terrible events, and give us a way to talk about them that makes them less frightening.
The most effective comedies are set in tragic situations,” Mungiu and Uricaru said in a statement. “The stories presented in the script take place at a dark moment in history and talk about very grim issues in that comical and absurd way – one that Romanians and other Eastern Europeans have, over the years, perfected as their way of survival,” they added, promising to recreate “the unique, unmistakable atmosphere of the 1980s, which some viewers will recognize with nostalgia and others, younger ones, with curiosity.” The “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” and “R.M.N” director will continue his collaboration with Kijora also on Tomasz Wolski’s “The Incident.” It will mark Wolski’s first foray into fiction after Visions du Réel winner “1970” or Berlinale premiere “In Ukraine.” “There is a certain freshness and boldness that comes from filmmakers who are starting out.
We encourage them to think about the audience and to choose ideas that have the potential to interest as many spectators as possible,” Mungiu told Variety. Lensed by Tudor Vladimir Panduru – Mungiu’s regular
.Selena Gomez waves to fans while she’s on the set of Only Murders in the Building on Saturday (March 2) in Los Angeles.
The 60th Cinema Audio Society Awards are underway Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton, with the group honoring the year’s best in feature film and TV sound mixing.
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Have you ever watched a show and wished you could go back and enjoy it all again for the first time? Well, you can – kind of. Previously released television shows often have a way of finding new generations of viewers through word of mouth or via streaming platforms. Viewers who have already tuned into the classes may be on the hunt for something new but similar in premise.
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Holidaymakers can embark on an adventure into the unknown as a budget airline is offering people the chance to fly to a mystery destination. Wizz Air is sending travellers on what could be the trip of a lifetime with its #LetsGetLostwithWIZZ campaign.
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Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. Today we’re talking to Stephen Kelliher, co-founder and MD of established London-based sales and film finance outfit Bankside Films. The company played a key role in getting Australian horror hit Talk to Me off the ground and Kelliher walks us through how that project came together as well as Bankside’s hefty EFM slate this year.
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EXCLUSIVE: Beloved BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey is set to return for another a bite at the Christmas cherry.