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Naman Ramachandran U.K. independent film showcase, the Raindance Film Festival, has partnered with international legal firm Guernica 37 Group (G37) to develop films based on human rights cases. This collaboration aims to produce up to six documentary and fact-based features, using G37’s archive of justice and accountability cases.

Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling struggled to get along on the set of 2004’s “The Notebook.”As the rom-com celebrates its 20th anniversary on June 25, the director, 65, expressed his regret for ever discussing their dynamic in a new interview.“It caught me on a bad day, but if [McAdams and Gosling] are around, I apologize to you guys. I shouldn’t have spilled the beans,” he told Entertainment Weekly in a story published Tuesday. In a 2014 interview with VH1, the director disclosed: “Maybe I’m not supposed to tell this story, but they were really not getting along one day on set.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Bridgerton” author Julia Quinn has taken to social media to address upset fans of the Netflix series following the Season 3 finale, which included a dramatic change from Quinn’s novels in gender-flipping Francesca Bridgerton’s love interest. While Season 3 was primarily devoted to the blossoming romance between friends Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), it also tracked the courtship of Francesca (Hannah Dodd) by John Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin (Victor Alli).

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More than 25 years later, some of the biggest names in The Challenge history are going for gold once again to celebrate a major milestone for TV’s longest running reality competition series.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Fantastic Pavilion, the genre business hub launched at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023, announced a slew of deals closed at the venue this year, with L..A-based Severin Films, a boutique Blu-ray and DVD label, inking a pact to release eleven Special Edition physical discs of the most popular Originals and licensed features from horror subscription streamer Shudder and IFC Films. Initial titles include Joko Anwar’s “Satan’s Slaves”; Brandon Cronenberg’s “Antiviral”; Can Evrenol’s “Baskin”; Franck Khalfoun’s 2012 remake of “Maniac”; Douglas Buck’s 2006 remake of “Sisters” and André Øvredal’s “The Autopsy of Jane Doe.” The deal was brokered by Severin Film’s co-founder-CEO David Gregory, Shudder’s Vice President of Programming Sam Zimmerman, and AMC Networks Director of Content Sales Lucas Verga.

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told the “Today” show on Monday. “And I don’t want to take those parts away from them just ’cause I can place my own children in.”“Horizon” currently has a rating of 43% on Rotten Tomatoes.BBC wrote in their scathing review that a movie “needs to have a plot, a bit of credible characterization, and a structure that preferably includes a beginning, middle and end. ‘Horizon’ doesn’t have any of those.”Variety slammed Costner’s film as “meandering,” and said it “seldom seems to aim in a clear direction,” while IndieWire said, “These aren’t characters so much as the spokes of a plot in human form, each of their storylines moving as if being pulled by horses across the entire span of the American West.”The Daily Beast’s headline, meanwhile, declared the film “a misogynistic, racist .

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Teresa Azcona, a driving force behind the build of the Spain Film Commission’s emergence as one of the key institutional players on Southern Europe’s locations scene, has been named general manager of the Madrid Audiovisual Cluster. While Barcelona has a thriving new generation of auteurist movie directors and producers and a building animation scene, Madrid has reaped the largest benefit of Spain’s building, decade-long TV boom. Spain’s Mediaset, Atresmedia, Movistar Plus+, The Mediapro Studio, Secuoya Group and Netflix’s European Production Hub are all located in a golden triangle stretching from northern Madrid to satellite town Tres Cantos, a 25-minute drive north of the Spanish capital.

Annika Pham Under the auspices of Comunidad de Madrid and the prestigious ECAM film school, the four day ECAM Forum co-production market got off to a flying start with its inaugural session, closing June 13 with an awards ceremony at Madrid’s historical Matadero cultural space. One of eight features in work in progress, the creative documentary “Gods of Stone” (“Deuses de Pedra”) by the Spanish Iván Castiñeiras Gallego scooped the new Comunidad de Madrid award and its €15,000 ($16,000) cash prize earmarked towards its post-production.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language film debut “The Room Next Door” for key international territories, including the U.K., Spain, Italy, Germany and Latin America. Starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton and John Turturro, “The Room Next Door” will also be released by Warner Bros.

Annika Pham Over June 10-14, Madrid is welcoming 300-plus industry delegates for the inaugural ECAM Forum, which is shaping up as the next go-to market for Spanish projects and co-productions, considering the stellar list of projects and attendees lined up. Hosting the event is not a private company nor the industry arm of an A-list festival, but a film and audiovisual school-Madrid’s prestigious ECAM.

Tom Hardy has shared that his teenage son often critiques his acting performances.Speaking recently with E! Online, the actor spoke about his 16-year-old son Louis, who takes an active interest in Hardy’s work, even offering constructive criticism about his acting.However, Hardy shared that Louis doesn’t explicitly admit whether he likes a film or not: “I mean, he wouldn’t ever tell me,” the Venom actor shared.“He’s 16, you know what I mean? He told me what I’m getting right or wrong.”Hardy did share that the advice is given in a constructive and helpful way, adding: “That doesn’t mean he doesn’t back me or support me or look out for me, and offer information that’s useful in order to be better with what I do.”He continued to describe how Louis goes about critiquing his work, saying: “It comes from a position of like, ‘Look, you know this.’”“He deconstructs what I’m doing like a peer would,” the Mad Max: Fury Road star added.In other news, Hardy will lead the cast of the upcoming film The Bikeriders, out in UK cinemas from June 21.Starring Elvis’ Austin Butler, Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer and Challengers’ Mike Faist among others, the film follows a rebellious fictional Midwest motorcycle club in the ’60s and ’80s.In a four-star review of the film, NME wrote: “Eschewing melodrama for a more low-key register, it may not satisfy those looking for quick thrills.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck ignoring the rumors about their marriage, reports of a possible separation have continued to grow. This past weekend, news surfaced that the couple had put their shared house up for sale, fueling the ongoing speculation about the state of their relationship.According to TMZ, Jennifer and Ben’s former home, which they acquired after their wedding and lived in until a few weeks ago, is now up for potential buyers to view through real estate agent Santiago Arana of The Agency in California.

Ed Meza @edmezavar Madrid-based Begin Again Films has nabbed Santiago Maza’s Mexican documentary “State of Silence,” produced by Diego Luna and La Corriente del Golfo, the shingle he runs with Gael García Bernal. The sales agency and distributor, which acquired international rights with the exception of North America and Latin America, has also unveiled the film’s first trailer.

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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Spain will be the Country of Honor at 2024’s Mipcom, the biggest TV content market in the world. Celebrating Spanish creativity, the Country of Honor program will mix events will feature panels and screenings of first-look new content, focusing on opportunities for co-production and relocation to Spain, Lucy Smith, director of Mipcom, announced Thursday at a press conference in Madrid. The honor recognises “the country’s increased prominence in recent years on the global stage” which is “inescapable and is incredibly impressive,” Smith added.

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Annika Pham Toronto-based Syndicado Film Sales has picked up international rights to “Petroleo,” the fiction debut of doc Spanish filmmaker Álvaro F. Pulpeiro, lauded worldwide for his sensory and lyrical filmmaking, most recently displayed in the CPH:DOX-selected “So Foul a Sky.” The Galician-born filmmaker said the project was significantly influenced by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s unfinished book “Petrolio,” will draw inspiration “from Michelangelo Antonioni’s “The Passenger” (1975), the visual intensity of “Apocalypse Now” (1979) and the digital noir of “Miami Vice” (2006).” “Petroleo” will compete for the €30,000 ($32,700) Filmin Award for best title in the Film to Come section at the inaugural ECAM Forum co-production market, unspooling June 10-15 in Madrid.

Annika Pham Programmers from Sundance, Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, Toronto, and Rotterdam, sales agents such as Goodfellas and Coproduction Office and U.S. distributor Magnify Pictures are among 50 top international guests expected at the inaugural ECAM Forum co-production market in Madrid, which is due to unspool June 10-14.