Wild Bunch International Takes World Rights to Venice-Bound ‘Mama, I’m Home’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Cynthia Erivo looks stunning in her final look at the 2021 Venice Film Festival!

“Bodies are heavier after death, my pop told me.” So says a child at the beginning of Mama I’m Home, setting the scene for Vladimir Bitokov’s compelling second feature which premiered in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival.

season 3 star Ellie is opening up about completely upending her life for her boyfriend, Victor, despite him having cheated on her. ET's Melicia Johnson spoke with Ellie about her journey this season, which includes leaving her successful pizza shop in Seattle to move to Providencia to be with Victor.Ellie tragically lost her first husband just 11 months into the marriage after he died of an accidental overdose from a prescription pain killer.

Real psychiatric hospitals haven’t used straitjackets for decades, but no self-respecting genre filmmaker is going to let that get in her way. From the moment Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon provides a ceiling’s-eye view of Jeon Jong-seo writhing on the white floor of her white hospital room, buckled up inside a canvas wrap, we know exactly where we are. Man, that chick is crazy, blip city! That’s what that straitjacket is telling you.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentFilm Movement has acquired U.S.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Madeleine Collins,” a psychological thriller headlined by “Benedetta” star and Venice jury member Virginie Efira, has been sold by Charades to a raft of buyers.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLebanese director Mounia Akl’s long-gestating first feature, “Costa Brava, Lebanon,” which screens in Venice Horizons, is about her relationship with Beirut and Lebanon “and the complexity of this love/hate relationship that is becoming more and more complicated as our country is falling apart,” she says.The country’s complications came literally crashing into the pic’s production when Beirut, on Aug.

A poetic meditation on film, history, and loss, “Three Minutes – A Lengthening” gives a glimpse into a lost world and then unpacks just how much can be learned from that brief fragment. While on a grand tour of Europe in 1938, David Kurtz, a Polish-American man, traveled to Nasielsk, the town of his birth, and brought with him a 16mm camera filled with Kodachrome, a novelty at the time.

There are shades of Ruben Ostlund’s “The Square”, if it were remade to target the film world, in Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat’s crowd-pleasing Spanish comedy “Official Competition” starring Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas. Controlled pacing, visual punchlines, and an insider knowledge of the varied pretensions within filmmaking make this a consistently amusing – if never downright hilarious – vehicle for the well-honed comic sides of two of Spain’s most famous exports.

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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s “I and the Stupid Boy,” the new title in the Prada-commissioned Miu Miu Women’s Tales short film series directed by women, was unveiled Sept.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor“True Things,” which world premieres Saturday in Venice’s Horizons section, is the fruit of a collaboration between the production companies of two stars, Jude Law and Ruth Wilson, the first feature film that she has produced, as well as The Bureau, a production company with a stellar track-record for delivering arthouse hits.

Ben Croll Thanks in part to his work with auteurs Benoit Jacquot, Claire Denis and Stéphane Brizé, Vincent Lindon had long become something of a festival-world habitué, a sturdy and reliable fixture on the international circuit.

Maná will be honored with the Billboard Icon Award during the 2021 Billboard Latin Music Awards. During the show, the best-selling Latin music artists will perform their new single, a reimagined version of their classic hit “El Reloj Cucú,” featuring 12-year-old vocalist sensation Mabel.Airing live on Telemundo on Thursday, September 23rd, beginning at 7 pm/6c, viewers will be part of this historic moment for Maná.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLe Pacte has boarded Juanjo Gimenez’s drama “Out of Sync,” which makes its world premiere at Venice Days, and the documentary biopic “Inferno Rosso: Joe d’Amato on the Path of Excess,” which will world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the Special Screenings section.“Inferno Rosso: Joe d’Amato on the Path of Excess,” directed by Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin and presented by Danish helmer Nicolas Winding Refn, sheds light on Aristide

We are on the verge of the Opening Night of this year’s Venice Film Festival. Unlike last year, the event is going to feature many in-person screenings and discussions, as the industry hopes that the end of COVID is coming soon.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorCOVID-19 can’t kill the movies.

Dolce and Gabbana’s Venice show proved memorable for all the wrong reasons as a sudden storm left models and celebrities scurrying to stay dry when the heavens opened. Stars including Dame Helen Mirren and Kourtney Kardashian had to huddle from the rain in St Mark’s Square on Monday.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorVariety has been given exclusive access to the first footage to be released from Slovak director Peter Kerekes’ “107 Mothers,” which world premieres in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival. Films Boutique is handling world sales on the film.“107 Mothers” features mostly real-life female prisoners and prison guards in an Odessa women’s jail acting out their true stories.

Jamie Lang French sales agent Wild Bunch TV has acquired “The Rope,” a new fantasy drama series produced by Les Films de l’Instant and co-produced by Arte France and Versus Production which is premiering at this year’s Series Mania festival in Lille.In the fantasy thriller, co-written and directed by Dominique Rocher (“The Night Eats the World,” “A Breath Away”), a small group of scientists working at a remote Norwegian base discover a seemingly endless piece of rope just outside their