Rio Film Festival Rebounds With Strong Brazilian Pic Lineup, Including a Surge in Pics on Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous Peoples

Brazilian reality star and influencer Luana Andrade has passed away at the shockingly young age of just 29 years old — reportedly after getting liposuction.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Paramount+ has signed a partnership with Microsoft for the streaming service to be available on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S across several international markets. Under the deal, Paramount+ will roll out on Xbox consoles in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latin America (including Brazil), Switzerland and the U.K.

Warner Bros/Heyday Films’ Wonka has been granted a December 8 release in China, a week ahead of the domestic start and as part of an early overseas rollout for the Timothée Chalamet-starrer. Wonka will be going the same day as Universal/Illumination’s Migration in China.

Machine Gun Kelly has responded to a wave of criticism online after taking part in an “awkward” interview at the Brazilian Grand Prix.The moment took place when the musician was approached by Sky Sports’ presenter Martin Brundle, who went up to him on the grid walk at the Formula One event and caught him for a quick chat.In the footage – which has been shared to the Sky Sports F1 Twitter page – the 33-year-old rapper was asked about how his career was going. Here, he began fiddling with the poppy on Brundle’s shirt, and responded: “I don’t think about my career.”From there, the host said “Well good luck with it, whatever you do”, before discussing Formula One and the ties between the motor racing world and the music industry.

Rio Ferdinand insists Antony could have no arguments with being dropped in the future after another woeful performance in Saturday's 1-0 win over Fulham.

Amid rumors that they could be a couple, Dove Cameron was seen leaving a Maneskin concert alongside lead singer Damiano David.

Naman Ramachandran Bangladeshi filmmaker Nuhash Humayun’s “Pett Kata Shaw” won best international feature at the 31st Raindance Film Festival‘s jury awards. British documentary filmmaker Kit Vincent won best U.K.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent U.K. based sales agency Film Republic has picked up Peru’s 2024 Oscar entry “The Erection of Toribio Bardelli,” the latest film from Adrián Saba, one of Peru’s most prominent auteurs on the festival scene. Film Republic has also shared a first international trailer with Variety.

Holly Jones Ventana Sur’s esteemed Animation! and Blood Window forums are teaming to present a fresh competition strand, Fantasmática. Aimed at creating an industry-wide synergy between animation and genre cinema that centers short film projects in development, the initiative kicks off at this year’s Buenos Aires Ventana Sur market, held Nov.

Anitta is getting in on the Halloween festivities.

Emiliano De Pablos In standout results that suggests the strength of select Spanish arthouse films on the current international market, Bendita Films Sales, the Santa Cruz de Tenerife-based boutique world sales agency, has closed a formidable raft of deals to Galician auteur Lois Patiño’s multisensory journey film “Samsara.” Winner of a Special Jury Award at Berlin’s 2023 major sidebar Encounters and the Audience Award at Mexico’s Ficunam festival, “Samsara” has just screened in main competition gathered “Samsara”(Oct. 20-28), running up more than a dozen international film festival selections. Bendita Film Sales has clinched commercial release pacts in the U.K.

Brazilian soap opera star Amaury Lorenzo has come out as part of the LGBTQ community during an interview with his gay co-star Diego Martins. Photo: Amaury Lorenzo Instagram

Refresh for latest…: Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s is gaming its way to an estimated $130.6M global opening, higher even than we had it yesterday as this phenom is now eyeing a $52.6M bow from 64 international box office markets. As Anthony has chronicled, the domestic $78M opening is a stunner — and amid the day-and-date Peacock bow. Overseas, the play is purely theatrical and has set a number of records.

Beyoncé is gearing up for the release of her concert film Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé!

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Rodrigo Sorogoyen, director of ‘The Beasts,’ the Best Foreign Film winner at France’s 2023 Cesar Awards, has gone into production on a new series, “The New Year’s Eves.” Following on Sorogoyen’s acclaimed “Riot Police,” and his episode in “Offworld,” chosen by Variety as one the best international series of 2022, “The Beasts” is produced by Movistar Plus+, the biggest Spanish pay TV/OTT operator, in collaboration with Madrid-based independent production house Caballo Films (“Riot Police,” “The Route”), co-founded by Sorogoyen. Movistar Plus+ International will handle distribution outside Spain.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Chile’s “The Devil’s Vein” and “Lucila” and Mexico’s “Ch’ulel” figure among a 14-title lineup at Animation! Pitching Sessions, part of Ventana Sur, the Cannes Festival and Marché du Film’s biggest annual event organized beyond its May event on the Riviera – in this case in Buenos Aires hand in hand with Argentina’s INCAA film agency. Among bigger names, “The Devil’s Vein” is a 2D family-targeting fantasy adventure, from the director, German Acuña, and producer, Sebastián Ruz, of “Nahuel and the Magic Book,” a 2020 Annecy standout.

sit-down interview following the release of Netflix’s documentary about David Beckham and Victoria Beckham, in which Loos’ 2004 claims that she had an affair with the soccer star were discussed.Loos, who was David’s former personal assistant, now claims that she once found the athlete in bed with another woman during their own alleged affair.At the time, Loos had allegedly just arrived to the Madrid home of Brazilian striker Ronaldo Nazário in September 2003 when she claims she saw David “hiding at the bottom of the garden” and chatting with a Spanish model.“That hurt,” Loos, now 46, told the Daily Mail in an interview published on Saturday.Later that night, however, she allegedly received a phone call from Victoria.“She’s upset because she’s calling David and he’s not answering. I said I didn’t know where he was… And she says, ‘Don’t hang up, go and find him,'” she alleged.“I was like ‘Okay…’ ‘So it’s a bit awkward.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Rome Film Fest opener “There’s Still Tomorrow,” a bold period dramedy that marks the directorial debut of popular Italian actor Paola Cortellesi, has scored a slew of international sales. The film, shot in black-and-white and set in post-World War II Rome, riffs on Italy’s neorealist past, albeit with a female empowerment element angle and a contemporary A-list Italian cast.

music festival in Israel that was targeted by Hamas terrorists last week, leaving hundreds of attendees dead, have released their first statement after the tragedy.Producers of Supernova Sukkot Gathering – the Israeli offshoot of the Paralello Universo psytrance festival launched in Brazil two decades ago – have opened up about the “unspeakable tragedy” that unfolded in Re’im early on Saturday, October 7.Billboard reports that roughly 260 attendees were murdered in the terror attack launched by militants of the de facto government of Palestine in the Gaza Strip. October 7 also marked the start of Hamas’ infiltration of Israel elsewhere, including a massacre at the Israeli Be’eri kibbutz, and then Israel Defense Forces’ deadly retaliatory responses.Around 3,000 people were at the psytrance festival.

Emiliano Granada In a pivotal move underscoring the international appeal of Brazilian narratives, Rafael Primot’s “Black Rain” is set for an exclusive global launch through The Creators Bridge. The series, which delves into contemporary themes such as unconventional families, fraternal love and diversity, does so with a mature and nuanced lens.