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Monday, Sep. 11, 2023
Park Pictures Signs Director Caroline Koning For U.S. Representation
Director Caroline Koning has signed with Park Pictures for U.S. representation. The self-taught writer and director’s approach to commercial filmmaking is shaped by her experience within fashion and the agency world. Her extensive portfolio of work speaks to Koning’s voracious appetite for creative...
Monday, Sep. 11, 2023
Director Jeana Khoury Joins Tessa Films For Commercials, Branded Content
Director Jeana Khoury--whose work for the Joburg Ballet and her powerful “Bride Armour” anti-domestic violence spot for Carling Black Label have won awards and raised eyebrows--brings her talent for visual storytelling to the roster of Tessa Films for U.S. representation spanning commercials and...
Monday, Sep. 11, 2023
Cord Jefferson Makes Auspicious Directing Debut With "American Fiction"
Fifty pages into Percival Everett's "Erasure," Cord Jefferson knew he wanted to adapt it into a movie script. Halfway through, he began to see Jeffrey Wright playing the book's academic protagonist, Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. By the time he was finished, he knew he wanted to direct it, too. As...
Sunday, Sep. 10, 2023
Paul Simon Takes A Bow After Career-Spanning Documentary Debuts At Toronto Festival
After a three-and-a-half-hour documentary on his life, Paul Simon had only sympathy for the audience. "You're probably exhausted," Simon told the crowd after the premiere of Alex Gibney's "In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon" on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival. The 81-year...
Sunday, Sep. 10, 2023
Vicky Krieps Delves Into "The Dead Don't Hurt" and How She Leaves Behind Past Roles
Vicky Krieps noticed that while there's plenty of instruction for getting into a role, there's curiously little about getting out of one. For Krieps, the disarmingly natural Luxembourgish actor of "Phantom Thread,""Corsage" and "Bergman Island," it's not a small issue. It may even be the most...
Sunday, Sep. 10, 2023
"The Nun II" Tops Weekend Box Office With $32.6 Million
Like many horrors before it, bad reviews didn't scare off moviegoers from buying tickets for " The Nun II." The sequel to the 2018 hit, released in 3,728 theaters by Warner Bros., topped the box office in its first weekend in North American theaters earning an estimated $32.6 million, the studio...
Saturday, Sep. 9, 2023
Director Yorgos Lanthimos' "Poor Things" Wins Golden Lion At 80th Venice Film Festival
"Poor Things," a film about Victorian-era female empowerment, won the Golden Lion on Saturday at a Venice Film Festival largely deprived of Hollywood glamour because of the writers and actors strikes. The film, starring Emma Stone, won the top prize at the 80th edition of the festival, which is...
Friday, Sep. 8, 2023
Sanctuary Signs Director Dylan Duclos For Spots, Branded Content, Music Videos
Australian/Maori director Dylan Duclos is officially entering the U.S. market as the new addition to the roster at Los Angeles production company Sanctuary, which will rep him for commercials, branded content and music videos. Duclos is known for his photographic and surreal style that’s earned him...
Friday, Sep. 8, 2023
Quentin Tarantino's Final Feature Taps Into California's Tax Credit Program
The California Film Commission (CFC) will welcome three big-budget feature film projects and a diverse roster of 13 independent films to the state’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program 3.0. In all, the projects are on track to bring $670 million in total production spending to California, including an...
Friday, Sep. 8, 2023
Hayao Miyazaki Invites Audiences To Dream With Him--Perhaps One Last Time In "The Boy and the Heron"
The loudest applause on opening night at the Toronto International Film Festival was for Totoro. When the Studio Ghibli logo of the magical creature from Hayao Miyazaki's "My Neighbor Totoro" appeared on the screen Thursday night, it meant to the audience the premiere of Miyazaki's latest and...