Premiere Entertainment Boards Ron Perlman Thriller ‘This Game’s Called Murder’ – Cannes

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterImagine Entertainment, the production banner run by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, has been the subject of renewed acquisition talks in recent weeks, multiple sources told Variety.Investors and potential buyers include an undisclosed sovereign wealth fund from the Middle East, which has been quietly exploring American media investments of late.

Lots of stars were in attendance for the closing ceremony of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival!

EXCLUSIVE: Seasoned TV director-producer Jason Ensler has been tapped to direct and executive produce the opening episode of Fox’s straight-to-series country music dynasty drama Monarch, produced by Fox Entertainment, and NBC’s drama pilot Dangerous Moms, from Warner Bros. TV and Universal TV. He is shooting the two pilots back-to-back in Atlanta.

Like father like son, and just like that, there’s competition in the Panahi family for the best filmmaker.

annual event on the Riviera will file past a pair of sniffer dogs posted at the entrance to the Palais where screenings are held, Cannes town hall has said. The hounds handled by the local Municipal Police have been trained to detect Covid-19 through human sweat as part of a prevention program trialled in France.

Israeli writer/director Nadav Lapid has been on the international radar for quite some time, 2011’s “Policeman” made international waves, and 2014’s ‘The Kindergarten Teacher” was so well regarded, Hollywood, Netflix, and Maggie Gyllenhaal made a remake in 2018. But things started to really take off for Lapid after “Synonyms” won the Golden Bear award at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2019 and introduced most of the world to breakout star Tom Mercier.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItalian genre outfit Minerva Pictures has teamed with New Zealand’s Black Mandala Films to co-produce and launch international pre-sales at Cannes on horror/slasher “What the Waters Left Behind: Scars,” to be co-directed by Argentine helmers Nicolas Onetti and Matías Salinas (“Omen”). Shooting is set to start in Argentina in September.Pic is a sequel to “What the Waters Left Behind,” which was co-directed by Nicolas and Luciano Onetti and won them the

When we talk about fast, prolific filmmakers that are able to get a film made in a short amount of time and never sit around and let years go by without a new feature, we often talk about Steven Soderbergh, for example. However, you could argue that no one is as prolific or as fast as filmmaker Hong Sang-soo.

After gaining prominence with American studio films such as “RoboCop,” “Total Recall,” “Basic Instinct,” “Starship Troopers,” and “Hollow Man,” it’s clear Dutch director Paul Verhoeven has gone in a different direction with his later works. He made a big transition with the WWII Dutch resistance film “Black Book” led by future “Game of Thrones” and “Valkryie” actress Carice van Houten.

EXCLUSIVE: Avatar Entertainment has taken foreign sales rights on Charon, Jennifer Zhang’s mobile-shot feature, and will be shopping the pic this week in Cannes.

Ed Sheeran almost moved to Ghana for three years.

During his year-long hiatus from music, Ed Sheeran had a number of ideas of how to occupy his downtime.

Ed Sheeran has revealed how he’s had to be talked out of some major life decisions, including buying private islands and moving to Ghana for three years.The singer explained that manager Stuart Camp is always on hand when he comes up with ambitious plans in order to “talk him down” from them.“Musical stuff I never get talked down from,” he said alongside Camp on James and Oliver Phelps’ podcast Normal Not Normal, per Metro.“Stu, what’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve talked me down from

Even if you’re not well-versed in international cinema, there are names that stand out that surely will attract film fans. One of those names is Léa Seydoux, the acclaimed French actress that has been a dominant force in film over the past two decades.

The Speaker of Parliament in Ghana has backed a new anti-LGBTQ bill and warned that the struggle for LGBTQ equality is an evil “pandemic” that’s worse than Covid-19.

Apple Studios has secured the rights to Donald Spivey’s non-fiction book, If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige, for drama development with an eye toward a series order. The high-profile Negro League Baseball project comes from Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Mandelay’s Peter Guber, and Oscar nominee Ron Shelton, who is behind such sports film classics as Bull Durham and White Men Can’t Jump.

Recently, during a big press event, Paramount revealed the next “Transformers” film in the franchise would be the ‘90s-set “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” which would combine the Robots in Disguise that we’ve come to know and (not really) love through Michael Bay’s long-running franchise with the “Beast Wars” franchise that saw the Autobots and Decepticons take on the forms of animals when they, uh, transform.