Searchlight Acquires Sundance Short Film 'Wiggle Room'

Daniel Avery has soundtracked a new short film that seeks to illustrate the mental toll of spending a year away from dancefloors and friends.VOID, made by together by London-based filmmakers Tom Andrew and Sam Davis, was released earlier today (March 23) on the one-year anniversary of the start of England’s first coronavirus lockdown.The 14-minute film is partnered with CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) and shows scenes of empty club spaces and bedroom raves with Avery’s soundtrack

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentFrench multi-hyphenate Amanda Sthers (“Holy Lands”) has recruited the U.K.’s Kelly Reilly, Italy’s Pierfrancesco Favino and France’s Jean Reno for English-language romantic drama “Promises,” set in Italy and London, which started shooting in Rome on Monday.Based on Sthers’ novel by the same title, “Promises” turns on an unfulfilled love affair between Alexander, played by Favino — who won best actor at Venice last year for his role in Italian drama

A UK-produced short parable about race just won big at the SXSW Film Festival.

Charli XCX, The 1975 and No Rome have shared an animated video for their debut single ‘Spinning’ – watch below.The newly-formed supergroup shared their first song at the start of the month after Charli announced that she was “forming a supergroup” with the Dirty Hit acts.The new video, created by Japanese artist Hideyuki Tanaka and designer Samuel Burgess-Johnson, is “a video inspired by the art that inspires me,” according to Rome.Watch the video, an animated wonderland that sees the trio

That’s something we really need now, when so many countries are dealing with manipulative, corrupt and incompetent politicians.”Also Read: 'Collective' Named Top Documentary at Cinema Eye Honors“Collective” follows a team of Romanian journalists in the aftermath of a 2015 nightclub fire that killed 27 people.

Overall, 93 movies were eligible for this year's Academy Awards in the best international feature film category. When the five Oscar nominees were unveiled on Monday morning, two countries could celebrate earning their first-ever nods in the category.

Patrizia Reggiani served 17 years of a 26-year prison sentence for ordering the 1995 killing of her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci, who had run off with another woman.  Known in Italy as the ‘Black Widow’, she is being portrayed by Gaga in a film about the murder called House of Gucci.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDirector Erick Oh spent six years working as an animator at Pixar, working on titles such as “Finding Dory and “Inside Out” before joining Tonko House.His nine-minute long animated shortlist contender “Opera” is inspired by the great Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo and Botticelli.

BERLIN -- Judges at the Berlin Film Festival announced Friday that the satirical movie ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ by Romanian director Radu Jude has been awarded this year’s top prize, saying it has the “rare and essential quality of a lasting art work.”The film about a teacher facing scrutiny over a sex tape “captures on screen the very content and essence, the mind and body, the values and the raw flesh of our present moment in time,” the Berlinale jury said as it awarded the film its

Jimmy Fallon is putting his own unique spin on some of TikTok’s most well-known songs.

Hours after his Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn won the Golden Bear for best film at the first-ever virtual Berlin International Film Festival, Romanian director Radu Jude took aim at what he called the "bullshit of red carpets" and the false glamour of in-person film festivals.Jude said he was "quite happy" not to have had to attend a fancy awards gala in Berlin on Friday to receive his Golden Bear.

Emiliano Granada Having forged strategic co-production alliances for film and TV with Gaumont, Spain’s Planeta and Amor y Lujo, Colombia’s Fidelio, one of the quickest growing production houses in Latin America, has launched development on a Mexico and Romania-set crime drama.The move comes as it is also unites its four international units into a single entity, the first steps in the growth of a new and powerful regional entity with strong international ambitions.As strong IP ownership becomes

Naman Ramachandran “Us Kids,” a documentary set in the aftermath of the tragic 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has been acquired by New York-based global documentary film sales agent ​Cargo Film & Releasing​.On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and injuring 17 more.

Lady Gaga is continuing to stun with her style.

Charli XCX, The 1975 and No Rome have shared their new single ‘Spinning’.The upbeat pop track, which you can listen to below, comes after Charli announced last Sunday (February 28) that she was “forming a supergroup” with the aforementioned Dirty Hit acts, saying that she was “v excited” about the joint project.Last night (March 3), Charli posted a 17-second black-and-white clip in which she was seen dancing to the upbeat single at home.

Davide Abbatescianni Rome-based sales agency TVCO has acquired worldwide sales to Igor Drljaca’s fourth feature “The White Fortress,” which world premiered this week in the Generation 14Plus strand of this year’s Berlinale.Drljaca’s previous credits include several award-winning shorts such as “Woman in Purple” (2010) and “The Archivists” (2020), as well as his critically-acclaimed debut feature “Krivina” (2012), his sophomore film “The Waiting Room” (2015) and his first documentary feature,