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The DGA’s Women’s Steering Committee (WSC) has announced the 2023 class of its WSC Squad Mentorship Program. The latest class, which began in September, pairs 13 mid-career directors with well-established director-mentors. 

Marta Balaga Denmark’s “Norwegian Offspring,” by Marlene Emilie Lyngstad, from Den Danske Filmskole, was chosen as the winner of the 26th edition of La Cinef. In the story, a mother passes away and her estranged son – obsessed with theories about the repression of male sexuality in modern society – starts longing for offspring of his own. “The jury was captivated by this bold filmmaker,” said Ildikó Enyedi, who presided over the jury. “It made us laugh and cringe at the same time.”

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has taken worldwide rights to action-thriller Hellfire, starring Stephen Lang, Harvey Keitel and Dolph Lundgren here at the European Film Market. 

It’s been too long since a show like “Masters of Horror” allowed twisted auteurs a platform to explore the themes and images that haunt them. Enter Guillermo del Toro, the Oscar-winning director who has gifted his fans with Netflix’s “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” even writing two episodes and introducing each of them like a modern Rod Serling.

Kate Hudson is stepping out for the premiere of her new movie!

It’s been a while since Ana Lily Amirpour‘s one-two punch of “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night” and “The Bad Batch” made her a woman filmmaker to watch. But five years passed between “The Bad Batch” and the world premiere of Amirpour’s latest at Venice last year.

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has picked up worldwide rights (except Italy) to Yale Entertainment’s thriller The Last Girl.

“I knew something freaky was going to happen tonight,” Kate Hudson says in the new trailer for “Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon.” “With a full moon, I feel it in my ovaries, I swear to god.” The film is the latest hallucinogenic nightmare from Ana Lily Amirpour, known for the celebrated indies “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” and “The Bad Batch.”  Starring Kate Hudson, Jun Jong Seo, Ed Skrein, Evan Whitten, and Craig Robinson, ‘Blood Moon’ has been described as a “mind-bending adventure set in the humid, neon-lit streets of New Orleans.

Horror fans have reacted to the creepy first look of Netflix's new series Cabinet of Curiosities after the teaser trailer dropped on Monday (August 15). The horror show is produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro who is bringing a "four day event" to Netflix starting on October 25.

Netflix series Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities – check it out below.The anthology series brings together a number of directors who have each helmed one of the eight episodes, including Jennifer Kent (The Babadook), David Prior (The Empty Man), Guillermo Navarro (Hannibal), Keith Thomas (The Vigil), Panos Cosmatos (Mandy), Catherine Hardwicke (Red Riding Hood), Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night) and Vincenzo Natali (Splice).Two of the episodes are based on original works by del Toro, while the others are based on short stories written by H.P. Lovecraft, Michael Shea, Emily Carroll and others.The show’s cast includes Andrew Lincoln, Ben Barnes, Chloe Madison, Crispin Glover, Eric Andre, F.

Michaela Zee editorSomething sinister is lurking in the shadows. Netflix has shared a special first look at “Cabinet of Curiosities,” its upcoming horror anthology series from Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.

Netflix has released a teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities during the show’s Geeked Week presentation Monday.

Wilson Chapman editorGuillermo del Toro is inviting some friends to tell scary stories. Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” an upcoming anthology series created by the Oscar-winning “The Shape of Water” and “Pan’s Labyrinth” director.Each episode of the series tells a different horror story “curated” by del Toro, who hosts the series and introduces each episode. Two of the episodes feature stories developed by del Toro, with different writers and directors taking on each episode.

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has acquired U.S. rights to the Mel Gibson thriller On The Line, in which the Oscar winner portrays a radio host confronted by a hostile caller.

Back in 2019, when it was announced that filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour was set to helm a new remake of “Cliffhanger,” the classic action film starring Sylvester Stallone, it was described as “female-focused.” When I reported about it, I even used that term in the headline. Let’s hope Amirpour didn’t notice that because she’s not a big fan of labeling a film with such gendered terms.

Kate Hudson crouches down on the red carpet to play with director Ana Lily Amirpour‘s dog at the premiere of Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon during the 2021 Venice International Film Festival on Sunday (September 5) in Venice, Italy.

Like finding a grubby, balled-up bill in your spangly g-string and uncrumpling it to discover doughy old Ben Franklin staring benignly back at you, Ana Lily Amirpour‘s third feature is a sweet, scuzzy surprise made all the sweeter/scuzzier because you don’t know quite what you did to deserve it.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon” opens where any good stylishly ironic demon-out-of-water fairy-tale thriller should: in an insane asylum. That’s where Mona Lisa (Jeon Jong-seo), a catatonic waif, is seated on her knees in a straitjacket.

A pop-culture pastiche artist, filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour has anchored her now three-strong filmography less around a shared a visual aesthetic or thematic concern than around a very singular vibe: It’s as if the girl walked home alone one night, music in her ear buds, perspective chemically altered, imagination running wild and decided, in that moment, to spend the rest of her career exploring it in film. Which is a noble project, don’t get me wrong, especially given the ways Amirpour takes

Panelists at the press conference for Ana Lily Amirpour’s Venice Film Festival competition title Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon today said they have experienced feeling like an outsider, a theme that runs through the story.

Alissa Simon Film CriticProducers Adam Mirels and Robbie Mirels of 141 Entertainment, the team behind Ana Lily Amirpour’s hotly anticipated “Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon,” which plays Sunday in competition at the Venice Film Festival, have signed an option to remake director-writer Sameh Zoabi’s 2018 Venice Horizons Award entry “Tel Aviv on Fire.” The adaptation will be set on the border between the Sonora region of Mexico and a small Arizona town.Zoabi’s original film nabbed the best actor

You might remember a while ago that Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water“) would be teaming with streaming giant Netflix for a horror anthology series formerly titled “10 After Midnight,” and would have a wave of hand-selected directors shooting various episodes including del Toro and Aussie director Jennifer Kent (“The Babadook“).

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actress Jun Jong-seo (aka Rachel Jun) in all areas.