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Eight films battled it out in competition at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival, but Austrian director Sebastian Meise’s jury—including French director Lucile Hadžihalilović , Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Serbian actor Milan Marić and Israeli producer Katriel Schory—spread the love quite widely.

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Christopher Vourlias Croatian production house Antitalent has signed an option agreement to develop and produce a local version of the best-selling global format “Your Honor,” the hit drama whose American remake for Showtime stars Emmy winner Bryan Cranston.The series follows a judge who must deal with the fallout when his son is involved in a hit-and-run that gets him embroiled with an organized crime family. Facing impossible choices, he discovers how far a father will go to save his son’s life.The Balkan remake will travel across the former Yugoslavia with a story that spans Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, according to Antitalent’s Danijel Pek.

Phageborn by developer Games Revolted.Phageborn is a free card game that’s set to re-launch in Steam Early Access on August 23, as part of Gamescom.Phageborn‘s twist on standard card games is that players must choose one of four factions with “a unique set of innovative mechanics and exciting play-styles,” along with a variety of Avatars that can be assigned to each deck.Within matches, Phageborn follows a two-lane system that means players will need to choose which part of the playing field they summon their units onto. Players will also be able to upgrade their Avatar each turn, which can unlock powerful abilities to use.There are currently 16 Avatars listed on Phageborn‘s website, along with four factions.

Christopher Vourlias Croatia’s Drugi Plan and Bulgaria’s Agitprop, two of the leading production outfits in Southeast Europe, have been attached to co-produce the upcoming drama series “Sabre,” a political thriller revolving around the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic produced by Belgrade-based This and That Productions.Created by Goran Stanković and Vladimir Tagić, the series will star Serbian-Danish actress Danica Curcic, known to international audiences for her lead role in the Netflix psychological thriller “The Chestnut Man,” as a reporter investigating the shocking murder.The companies announced the deal on Monday at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where This and That’s “Bad Blood” and Drugi Plan’s “The Silence” were among the top Balkan drama series vying for Heart of Sarajevo TV Awards, which were handed out at a ceremony in the Bosnian capital on Sunday night. “Sabre” was first pitched in Sarajevo three years ago during the CineLink Drama co-financing forum, where it was named best drama project.

Victoria Beckham has been spotted sporting a very lavish monogrammed dressing gown while soaking up the sun during a family holiday to Miami. The Spice Girls singer, 48, looked glamorous as she was pictured on the family’s luxury superyacht on the latest leg of the Beckhams’ extended summer holiday after recently setting sail in Croatia and Italy.

Microsoft has alleged that Sony has a practice of paying developers “blocking rights” to stop games from being launched on Xbox Game Pass.The statement has been filed in response to Sony’s recent comments on Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Speaking to a Brazilian regulatory body, Sony claimed  Microsoft acquiring Call Of Duty would make it challenging to rival; which would in turn have an effect on what console gamers chose to play their titles on.Now (via The Verge), Microsoft has argued that Sony is still large enough to rival the company, and claims ongoing business practices show Sony is actively doing so.“Microsoft’s ability to continue expanding Game Pass has been hampered by Sony’s desire to inhibit such growth,” claimed the company, explaining that “Sony pays for ‘blocking rights’ to prevent developers from adding content to Game Pass and other competing subscription services.”Microsoft went on to say that Sony’s concerns over the acquisition are “incoherent,” and says it reveals “a fear about an innovative business model that offers high-quality content at low costs to gamers.”How Microsoft’s ongoing acquisition of Activision Blizzard will affect the games industry has been under scrutiny since it was announced.

Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison has given fans a sneak peek into her Croatian holiday by sharing a series of fun photos on Instagram. Vicky, 34, is currently sunning it up in Croatia with fiancé Ercan Ramadan, who she got engaged to in February 2022.The pair have been dating for several years and are enjoying spending time together in the run-up to the big day, which has no confirmed date as of yet. Until then, Vicky has been seen looking happy with her other half as they enjoyed a sunny holiday.

Victoria and David Beckham, who’ve been spending the summer on board a superyacht fittingly named The Madsummer.Victoria and David Beckham have been enjoying their luxury getaway, sailing to dreamy destinations such as Croatia, Saint-Tropez and the Amalfi Coast. On board the lavish boat – which costs £1.6million a week to charter – the couple have been joined by family and friends, including their two youngest children, Cruz, 17, and Harper, 11, and Cruz’s new girlfriend, Tana Holding.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSebastian Lelio’s “Wonder,” starring “Black Widow’s” Florence Pugh, “Winter Boy” with Juliette Binoche and directors Hong Sang-soo and Ulrich Seidl will compete in main competition at September’s San Sebastian Film Festival, the biggest film event in the Spanish-speaking world.In “Wonder,” the latest from Academy Award winning director Lelio (“A Fantastic Woman”),Pugh plays an English nurse brought in to the Irish Midlands in 1862 to observe the alleged miracle of girls going months without food.Binoche co-stars in “Winter Boy,” from resilient French auteur Christophe Honoré who won at Cannes Un Certain Regard with 2019’s “On a Magical Night.” Hong Sang-soo, the prolific South Korean director, will present “Walk Up,” a film which is billed as taking a gently delightful new perspective on themes dear to his poetics. Seidl’s “Sparta” forms part of a diptych with 2022 Berlin competition contender “Rimini,” both movies turning on men who cannot escape their past.The 12 competition titles announced on Tuesday by San Sebastian join its four Spanish contenders, unveiled last month.A brief breakdown on the new competition entries:San Sebastian Main Competition: Newly Announced Titles“Il Boemo,” (Petr Václav, Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia)The passions and ambitions, breakthrough and tragic fall from grace of Czech opera composer, Josef Mysliveček,a mentor to Mozart.

Doing business together. Meghan Trainor is giving an update about her unique bathroom routine with husband Daryl Sabara and their side-by-side toilets.

EXCLUSIVE: Dominic Purcell (DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow), Nick Stahl (Let The Right One In), Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns), and Mel Gibson (Braveheart) are set to lead thriller Informant.

that’s coming.A brazen couple has been busted having public sex at a filming location from “Game of Thrones.”The shocking incident occurred last week in the Old Town area of Dubrovnik, Croatia — which served as the set for the fictional city of King’s Landing in the hit HBO show. A passerby flipped out their cellphone to record the romping pair, with the X-rated footage looking like a scene from the notoriously naughty fantasy series.In the video, the kinky couple is seen standing against a stone wall in the historic square, with the woman bent over as her partner penetrates her from behind.

Actor Tony Dow, best known for portraying Wally Cleaver on iconic family sitcom “Leave It to Beaver”, is still alive after earlier reports that he had died.