Zeitgeist Films & Kino Lorber Take North American Rights To Amei Wallach Art Doc ‘Taking Venice’

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired North American rights from Sobini to the drama, Lola, written, directed by, and starring Nicola Peltz Beckham (Transformers: Age of Extinction). Marking Peltz Beckham’s directorial debut, the film also stars Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Trevor Long (Ozark), Luke David Blumm (Where the Crawdads Sing), Raven Goodwin (The Station Agent), Richie Merritt (Euphoria), and Will Peltz (The List).

Manchester United's protracted takeover saga could finally be set for a conclusion.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff continued their visit in Los Angeles Thanksgiving week, making an unscheduled pit stop at the Venice Bakery for Small Business Saturday where the former addressed the current hostage exchange between Hamas and Israel.

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s migrant crisis drama Green Border.

The Rolling Stones are returning to the road for another spin.From April through July 2024, the 1989 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees will play stadiums and festivals all over North America as part of ‘The Stones Tour ’24 Hackney Diamonds’ in support of their recently released record “Hackney Diamonds.”Along the way, Mick, Keith and Ronnie will stop into East Rutherford, NJ’s MetLife Stadium for a huge show on Thursday, May 23.And if you want tickets to sing along to “Paint It, Black,” “Start Me Up,” “Miss You,” “Wild Horses,” “Sympathy For The Devil” as well as tracks from from their latest record, you can grab them as soon as today.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, Dec.

The Rolling Stones – with a little help from AARP – will play 16 cities across the United States and Canada in a new spring-summer 2024 tour, with stops including L.A.’s SoFi Stadium and New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium outside New York City.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music As expected, the Rolling Stones have announced they are going back on the road in 2024 behind their recently released “Hackney Diamonds” album. The group, led by core members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wood, will perform in 16 cities across the U.S. and Canada, playing a combination of classics, deep cuts and songs from the new album, according to the announcement.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “Green Border,” Agnieszka Holland’s Venice Special Jury Prize-winning refugee drama, has been acquired by Kino Lorber in the U.S. (“Scrapper”) and Modern Films in the U.K. (“Drive My Car”).

Disney+ has dropped a teaser trailer for BTS Monuments: Beyond The Star, an eight-part documentary series about the global K-pop superstars, as well as announcing a launch date of December 20. 

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, who was an influential partner to her husband, Jimmy Carter, in his unlikely rise to the Georgia governor’s mansion and then the White House, died today at the age of 96, the Carter Center announced.

EXCLUSIVE: Korean American comedian, writer and producer Cathy Shim is the latest to join the cast of the film K-Pops! from first-time director and eight-time Grammy winner Anderson .Paak (who also stars). She will play Diamond, the energetic iconic host of a K-pop competition show in Seoul, and .Paak’s hard-to-please boss.

Emiliano De Pablos Disney+ has picked up Latin American rights to Diego Yaker’s Argentine-Spanish revenge thriller “Una jirafa en el balcón” and is planning a theatrical release in Argentina and Uruguay. Barcelona-based indie studio Filmax is handling Spanish distribution and international sales rights on the film. Hitting the final straits of its shoot, “Una jirafa en el balcón” is filming in Barcelona over Nov.

OnlyOneOf have announced the dates and stops for the North American leg of their upcoming world tour in 2024.OnlyOneOf announced last week that they would be embarking on a world tour next year, with concerts set for cities across North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. It will mark the band’s first-ever world tour.On November 14, the group announced that the world tour will kick off with its North American leg with 10 shows unveiled to take place in Vancouver, Chicago, New York City/New Jersey, Toronto, Atlanta, San Juan, Orlando, Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Deep Sea,” an innovative Chinese-made animation film that has played the international festival circuit throughout this year, will release in North American theaters later this month. Theatrical rights were acquired by Viva Films from Netherlands-China sales outfit Fortissimo Films. Viva plans an outing on Nov.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Specialty distributor Ariztical Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to New Zealand-set wholesome gay love story ‘Mysterious Ways.’ Ariztical plans a multi-platform digital release in 2024. Written and directed by New Zealand’s Paul Oremland, the film follows a media storm that threatens the marriage between a Vicar, portrayed by Richard Short (“The Tragedy of Macbeth”) and his Samoan boyfriend, portrayed by Nick Afoa (“The Lion King”), after they announce their intentions to have a traditional wedding in the church.

Mannequin Pussy have shared their latest single ‘Sometimes’, along with dates for a 2024 North American tour.‘Sometimes’ is the third single to be released from the band’s forthcoming fourth studio album ‘I Got Heaven’. The track follows ‘I Don’t Know You‘ and the lead single ‘I Got Heaven‘.

Fantasia Barrino did when the original “Color Purple” star approached her in 2021 to play Celie, an abused and uneducated Southern Black woman at the turn of the 20th century, in a big-screen musical reimagining of the classic film and Alice Walker’s novel. Sixteen years ago, when she was in her early 20s, Barrino had played the role on Broadway, but it had been a traumatic rather than triumphant experience. “My life was in shambles,” Barrino, now 39, says, explaining how draining it was to portray Celie’s harrowing journey for eight shows a week.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced South American, UK, European and North American tour dates for next year – see the list of dates below.Yesterday (November 7), King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard took to social media to announce the upcoming 2024 tour, which will see the six-piece perform 58 concerts across South America, Europe and North America, beginning in March and ending in November.Announcing 58 new shows for 2024 WOO!Argentina, Chile, Brasil, Colombia, Belgium, Germany, Czechia, Austria,…Posted by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on Tuesday, November 7, 2023Tickets to all of King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard’s announced tour dates go on public sale on Friday (November 10) with pre-sales going live today (November 8) at 9am GMT via the band’s official website.The band most recently released their 25th studio album, ‘The Silver Chord’, last month.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival has revealed details of the Red Sea Souk, the fest’s industry market that will offer meeting and networking opportunities revolving around new Arab and African product. The Souk will take place Dec. 2-5 alongside the Nov.

Crunchyroll has acquired the North American and select global theatrical rights for SPY x FAMILY CODE: White.Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment will bring the first film installment of the  television series that’s directed by Takashi Katagiri. written by Ichiro Okouchi, and the original story by Tatsuya Endo. The television series SPY x FAMILY originally debuted on April 9, 2022 and was quickly embraced by fans across the globe. The second season launched on October 7 on Crunchyroll.