Timur Bekmambetov To Adapt Julian Terry Short ‘Don’t Peek’ Into Feature Film – SXSW

On paper, the idea of Screenlife technology could be written off as a gimmick. Why would anyone want to see an entire film take place on a computer screen? However, when done in a clever way, as in the recent thriller “Searching,” the format is inventive and shocking.

New Jersey may be the first state to pitch itself as an alternative to Georgia production but won’t be the last amid national furor at the Peach State’s restrictive new voting law. Atlanta’s booming entertainment infrastructure has so many advantages from rebates to infrastructure, yet the state is making itself a liability again less than a year after passing a highly controversial state abortion law (struck down by a federal judge as unconstitutional).

Georgia's potential loss could be New Jersey's gain. At least that's what the Garden State hopes.

Jimmy Fallon and Addison Rae caught backlash after performing dances on "The Tonight Show" without crediting the Black creators that came up with the routines.  The TikTok star appeared on the late-night show Friday to perform a series of eight dances that have been taking the popular social media site by storm.

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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterVillage Roadshow Entertainment Group has appointed Tristen Tuckfield as the company’s executive VP of feature film.Tuckfield will work with Jillian Apfelbaum, executive VP of feature film, to co-run Village Roadshow Pictures film content across all platforms.

Tristen Tuckfield has joined Village Roadshow Entertainment Group as EVP, Feature Film.

Focus Features has taken the worldwide rights for Timur Bekmambetov's Profile, setting a May 14 release. It's the filmmaker's latest movie in the "screenlife" format— a feature that looks as if it plays out entirely on a computer screen.Profile follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself.

“R#J,” a new take on “Romeo & Juliet” for the TikTok era that also used Screenlife and premiered at Sundance.Also Read: How 'R#J' Cast and Filmmakers Brought Shakespeare Into the Diverse, Digital Age (Video)The story of “Profile” follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself.

Focus Features has taken global rights to Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov’s thriller Profile which made its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018 and won the Audience Award. A theatrical release date of May 14 has been set. Universal Pictures will distribute internationally, excluding CIS/Russia.

In the latest development of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's divorce proceedings, the actress filed court documents in which she along with her 6 kids offered "proof and authority in support" after alleging Brad of domestic violence during trials. According to what a source told Page Six, Brad is ‘heartbroken’ after hearing the news.

Angelina Jolie, 45, and her ex-husband Brad Pitt, 57, are battling over custody of their minor children — Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14, and 12-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. And, in court documents filed on March 12, Angelina accused Brad of domestic abuse. Just days after the actress revealed she has “proof and authority” to support her allegations, a source close to Brad told Page Six that he was “heartbroken”.

Five Eyes, the spy thriller follows MI6 agent Orson Fortune (Statham) who is recruited by a global intelligence agency to track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.Reluctantly paired up with CIA tech expert Sarah Fidel, Fortune sets off on a globe-trotting mission where he will have to use his charm, ingenuity and stealth to infiltrate billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds.In addition to Statham, the film also stars Aubrey Plaza,

Don’t Peek, a short horror film inspired by Animal Crossing: New Horizons is set to become a full feature film after making its world premiere at SXSW Online.Unaffiliated with Nintendo, the short film was shot and directed by Julian Terry during quarantine in 2020.The film is set in a young woman’s bedroom while she is playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons on her Nintendo Switch late at night.While playing with her virtual house, which resembles the layout of her real bedroom, she’s at first

Emerald Fennell made her feature film directorial debut with Promising Young Woman, and on Monday, she earned her first Oscar nomination, becoming one of only seven women to ever earn a nomination in the directing category. The U.K.-based writer-director also earned noms for screenplay and best picture.

EXCLUSIVE:  Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories, who are behind the recent award lauded success of the HBO series The Undoing, are partnering again, this time for the feature film adaptation of Gordon Reece’s debut YA novel Mice.

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