Hollywood Reporter

Beatles Films Producer Pippa Harris, ‘The Zone of Interest’s James Wilson to Headline London Film Festival Industry Forum

Two of Britain's most successful producers will take a deep dive into the challenges of development and production in a rapidly changing industry, as well as their upcoming, much-anticipated projects.

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

Variety

A Female Sniper Battles ISIS in First Teaser for Venice Title ‘No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman’ (EXCLUSIVE)

The fight against the Islamic State has been give the Hollywood-style revenge thriller treatment in Halkawt Mustafa’s “No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman,” as revealed by the film’s first teaser trailer. The feature — which will have it world premiere out of competition at the Venice International Film Festival next month — follows a […]

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

Variety

Netflix Sets ‘Ad Vitam’ Sequel With Guillaume Canet

Netflix has started production on a sequel to “Ad Vitam,” its 2025 French action thriller starring Guillaume Canet. The sequel has the working title “Ad Vitam Eternam,” which is Latin for “to eternal life.” Canet is returning as Franck Lazareff, a former operator for the GIGN, the elite tactical unit of the French National Gendarmerie. […]

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

Variety

Latin Quarter Distribution Acquires World Rights to José Dell’Acqua Uruguayan Crime Thriller ‘Maltrato Animal’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Latin Quarter Distribution has acquired world sales rights to José Dell’Acqua’s Uruguayan crime thriller “Maltrato Animal” (“Animal Budget”). The deal was closed after a screening of “Maltrato Animal” at Locarno’s First Look, a pix-in-post competition focused on rough-cut screenings of emerging and established talent from a territory around the world, this year Uruguay. Presented in […]

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘I am left grinning’: why The Dish is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers picking their most loved comfort films is a 2000 Australian gem featuring the late Sam NeillAfter the shock of Sam Neill’s death, I was surprised just how hard the news hit me. I don’t usually take a celebrity death so deeply to heart and yet here I was struggling to stem the weeping. There is no denying he holds a special place in my movie-watching life: he’s Dr Alan Grant from Jurassic Park, for goodness sake. I first saw the Spielbergian masterpiece at the

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Convince an AI it’s not alive in psychological horror game Prove You’re Human

Sunset Visitor studio’s founder tells us about their new, unnerving Captcha-filled world which prompts players to ask what it means to have a ‘meat body’Sunset Visitor is a studio that has long engaged with the idea that video games are an effective vehicle for ruminating on societal problems. Its Peabody award-winning project, 1000XResist, incorporated the development team’s complex feelings about the Covid pandemic. “We’re pretty used to absorbing the world into the work,” says studio founder

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

Variety

Alessandra Sanguinetti on Her Dreamy, Grounded Directorial Debut ‘The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer’

In the Argentine Pampas, cousins Guillermina and Belinda cannot wait to grow up. When they are not swimming in the river and dancing through the long, breezy afternoons, they re-enact funeral ceremonies and feign surgery on dead animals. This quotidian desire to accelerate the inevitable passing of time animates photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti’s debut feature, “The […]

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Marco Perego, in the Presence of Wife Zoe Saldaña, Tells Locarno Pro: Don’t Produce Indie Film for the Money

...but trust the vision of the director and stay out of their creative way, said the man, who had three Cannes competition titles this year and who described himself as "a disruptor."

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

Variety

‘Brave New Love’ Review: Infidelity Isn’t the End in an Unusual, Open-Minded Marital Drama

“I would never fall in love if I was in a good relationship.” So says one participant in the women’s church group where Copenhagen-based wife and mother Kate (Kathrine Thorborg Johansen) confesses that she’s been having a three-year affair with another man, and doesn’t much regret it. It’s a line that sounds like sturdy, suitably […]

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben review – the literary equivalent of free jazz

Combining hilarious detail with harsh observation, this rediscovered novel takes the reader on an exhilaratingly strange journey ‘But after all, writing is nothing more than a guided dream,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges. Dreams and dreaming are fertile concerns for Rosalind Belben, too. Her fourth book, originally published in 1979 and reissued last year, was titled Dreaming of Dead People. It was followed, a decade later, by Is Beauty Good. Now available in a new edition from the Sheffield indie And

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Ancestral Visions of the Future review – visceral cine-memoir is a haunting return to Lesotho

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese pairs his literary-grade voiceover with propulsive, prophetic images to interrogate his identity and that of his colonialism-carved homelandHere is a captivating stream of consciousness film about exile, roots and identity by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, director of the lauded 2019 activism story This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection. It’s ostensibly a cine-memoir looking back from the vantage point of present-day Berlin to his upbringing in Lesotho, narrated by Mosese’

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

Variety

Sadhguru, Graphic India Team on Animated Epic ‘Shiva: The Adiyogi’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Indian yogi and mystic Sadhguru is teaming with Graphic India on “Shiva: The Adiyogi,” an animated feature retelling the origin story of Hindu God Shiva as the first yogi. Sadhguru and Sharad Devarajan share story credit on the film. Graphic India is the studio behind India’s animated mythology franchise “The Legend of Hanuman.” Devarajan, who […]

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Tear Gas’ Is a Fiction Film Shot Inside Georgia Anti-Government Protests. And It Is “an Act of Resistance”

Writer-director Uta Beria discusses the inspiration for his Locarno-premiering movie, the challenges of shooting it and the importance of standing up for freedom of expression, no matter the consequences.

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Men have 30 seconds to get a laugh. Women have 10’: standup Bella Hull on proving herself in rough clubs

She started standup at 17 playing ‘unsafe basements’ and braving revolting hecklers – and even worse headline acts. Now she writes for SNL and is giving Edinburgh a blast of her surreal comedyComedy isn’t just a career for Bella Hull. It’s a compulsion. “Standup for me is like – I have to do it,” says Hull, who first picked up a mic aged 17. “Regardless of what the response is.”A decade in, the response is resoundingly positive. The 28-year-old had a sell-out show at last year’s Edinburgh fringe

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Why is poetry booming? It’s the only language for times of violence and chaos | Charlotte Higgins

From the Odyssey to conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, we can see how poetry fills the gap when ordinary ways of writing or speaking aren’t enoughThe biggest sales of poetry since records began are expected this year. The reason? The movies, of course. UK print sales of The Odyssey increased by 1,400% in the four weeks to 25 July compared with the same period last year. In the US, year-to-date sales of The Odyssey are up 76% so far. Christopher Nolan is doing miracles for Homer – whatever problems o

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

Variety

‘Primo Viaggio,’ Presented Last Year at Locarno’s Alliance 4 Development, Has Wrapped and Heading for Venice Gap-Financing Market (EXCLUSIVE)

Less than one year after the producers met at the Locarno Film Festival’s Alliance 4 Development co-development platform, “Primo Viaggio,” produced by Italy’s Sacher Film and France’s Halley Production, has wrapped after shooting on location in Naples, Málaga and Marseille between June and July of this year. Written and directed by Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey […]

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

Variety

‘Letters From the Silenced Country,’ Documentary About Oppression in Belarus, Boarded by Filmotor Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

Filmotor has picked up world sales rights for “Letters From the Silenced Country” by Belarusian writer-director Andrei Kutsila, which has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The partly animated documentary, screening in the Venice Open – Out of Competition section, is a portrait of contemporary Belarus told through stories of individuals who have […]

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Sanctuary review – tender, uplifting portrait of love in the Aids crisis

Pleasance Dome, EdinburghJacob Sparrow’s award-winning two-hander finds hope and humanity amid the prejudice and loss of the 1990sOne of the highlights of the Edinburgh international festival is a revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, an era-defining play set at the height of the Aids crisis. In a smaller room of the same city is Jacob Sparrow’s debut – an award-winning two-hander that captures the desperation and hope of young men with Aids in the 1990s.It is a miniature piece, relativel

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

Variety

Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar Launch Excel Origins, Initiative to Discover Filmmakers Under 30, as India’s Excel Entertainment Marks 25th Anniversary (EXCLUSIVE)

Excel Entertainment is marking its 25th anniversary with the launch of “Excel Origins,” an initiative from co-founders Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar dedicated to discovering, developing and backing the next generation of Indian filmmakers under 30. Sidhwani and Akhtar were 26 years old when they founded Excel Entertainment and began work on their first film, […]

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

China Box Office: ‘Spider-Man’ Holds No. 1 as ‘The Odyssey’ Storms Previews

Christopher Nolan's epic took $6.9 million from Imax-only previews before its Friday release, while Sony's superhero sequel pushed its 12-day total past $185 million.

entertainment  Aug 10, 2026