Scott Roxborough

With no end in sight to the ongoing war in Iran — both Iran and the U.S. this week seized ships trying to move through the Strait of Hormuz — the country’s filmmakers say they […]

Cannes Film Festival regular Bruno Dumont (Slack Bay, Flanders) is returning to the Croisette this year with his latest, Red Rocks, screening in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. Directors’ Fortnight added the feature, described as a […]

Bernard Loiseau, the iconic French chef who served as an inspiration for Pixar’s Ratatouille, is set to get the biopic treatment. Chi-Fou-Mi Productions, the Paris-based production company behind such French box office hits as Beating […]

Cannes has topped up its Official Selection for the 2026 festival with a fresh round of titles for its 79th edition, adding James Gray’s Paper Tiger to the Competition line-up and Judith Godrèche’s A Girl’s Story […]

James Gray‘s Paper Tiger is heading to Cannes. The new crime drama from the director of The Immigrant, Two Lovers and We Own The Night, is a late addition to the competition line-up at the […]

Take that, Timothée! Naomi Watts has signed on to play ballet legend Margot Fonteyn in Margot & Rudi, the new romantic drama from Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris director Anthony Fabian that is set in […]

Payal Kapadia, the Indian filmmaker whose All We Imagine as Light won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2024, will serve as president of the jury for the 65th Cannes Critics’ Week, running May 13-21 […]

Martin Scorsese, it’s fair to say, is team Pope. The Vatican on Monday announced it would be hosting a private screening of the Scorsese-produced documentary Aldeas, The Final Dream of Pope Francis, in Rome on […]

Sorda (Deaf), Eva Libertad’s Spanish drama about a deaf woman expecting a child with her hearing partner, has won the LUX Audience Award from the European Parliament, beating out Joachim Trier’s Oscar champion Sentimental Value […]

Cannes‘ Marché du Film and the Tokyo Film Festival content market TIFFCOM are joining forces to launch a new IP market dedicated to Japanese intellectual properties. The inaugural Japan IP Market will run May 15-17 […]

The official Cannes Film Festival feels a bit low-wattage in terms of star power this year, but the bold-faced names are turning out in force for the 58th edition of festival sidebar Directors’ Fortnight, which […]

Mario Adorf, the German-Italian actor who achieved legendary status in Europe by playing charismatic baddies in crime thrillers, spaghetti Westerns and dramas like the Oscar winner The Tin Drum, has died. He was 95. Adorf, […]

On a weekday night in Riyadh, close to 10 p.m., the lobby of a newly built multiplex hums with the low roar of a city that has discovered the movies. Teenagers cluster around concession stands, […]

In Waves, Phuong Mai Nguyen’s animated adaptation of AJ Dungo’s cult graphic novel, will open the 65th edition of Cannes Critics’ Week, the sidebar that runs alongside the main Cannes festival from May 13 to […]

Indie production giant Fremantle today unveiled Art Awakens, the first native AI production from Fremantle’s new AI production label Imaginae Studios. The short-form educational TV series uses generative AI to take viewers into the inner […]

International television festival Canneseries, will honor K-Pop superstar and actress Jisoo, Severance star Adam Scott and Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd at this year’s event. Jisoo will receive the Madame Figaro Rising Star Award, Gadd […]

For an industry still recalibrating after the boom and bust of Peak TV, this year’s Series Mania offered that rarest of commodities: Hope. The executive side may have lacked some of its usual star power […]

Burden of Justice is already a hit. More than a million Swedes — a tenth of the total population — caught the first episode of the legal drama, about a pack of ethically-challenged defense lawyers […]

Alexander Kluge, the German filmmaker, whose career spanned more than six decades and helped define the New German Cinema movement, has died. He was 94. Kluge’s family confirmed his death to German media on Wednesday. […]

Mubi has snatched up Nicolas Winding Refn’s upcoming feature Her Private Hell, taking all rights for the film in the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Spain and Latin America. Mubi said it will announce its release plans […]

After outlining its European drama plans at Series Mania earlier this week, Disney+, at an event in Munich on Thursday, quietly unveiled its originals slate for Germany, Europe’s biggest TV territory. The new lineup runs […]

British media executive Martin Sorrell of S4 Capital is teaming up with Fernando Sulichin, a producer on the notorious Melania documentary, for a feature documentary on the 2026 World Cup made with the “collaboration and […]

The creators of The Best Immigrant thought they were making science fiction. The Belgian series, which screens at international television festival Series Mania this week, imagines a near future where a far-right party wins power […]

Saying European television can be a force “for cooperation and democracy,” Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset unveiled a historic co-production agreement at the Series Mania television festival on Thursday. The treaty, the Convention […]

Disney+ is “ramping up production” across Europe, increasing commissioning for both scripted and non-scripted content, including a high-profile documentary on Welsh soul singer Duffy, a murder mystery set in Italy and a Turkish comedy featuring […]

Marianne Furevold-Boland has spent her career shaping some of Norway’s most influential television. As head of drama at NRK, she oversees a slate that has helped define the modern Scandinavian series boom, from Exit and […]

Series Mania’s 2026 lineup spotlights a restless, risk-taking global TV scene including shows about a gritty outback procedural, a Belgian near-future dystopian drama, and an offbeat British comedy featuring Michael Palin and some soothsaying homunculi. […]

The ex-wife of German actor and comedian Christian Ulmen has filed a criminal complaint accusing the Berlin Blues star of creating and decimating fake sex videos and nude photos of her online. Collien Fernandes, a […]

For Dune: Part Three, director Denis Villeneuve had anamorphic lensmaker Atlas Lens hand-craft a custom Imax lens designed specifically for the aesthetics of the sci-fi franchise. The custom lenses were designed to capture Villeneuve’s specific […]

Berlin-based independent producer/distributor DCM has acquired leading Swiss indie distributor Ascot Elite Entertainment, the two companies announced Thursday. In a deal between Swiss-born DCM founders Dario Suter, Christoph Daniel, Marc Schmidheiny and Joel Brandeis, and […]

Daniela Elstner, managing director of French cinema and TV export agency Unifrance, has filed a police complaint against French actor and singer and actor Patrick Bruel, accusing him of attempted rape and sexual assault dating back […]

First, the reality check. Some of the year’s most anticipated titles are almost certainly skipping the Croisette. Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, Pixar’s Toy Story 5 and Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian & Grogu look destined for more […]

“I’m just a film nerd from Norway,” said Sentimental Value director Joachim Trier, in his typically self-effacing manner, as he accepted the Academy Award for best international feature on Sunday — Norway’s first-ever Oscar win. […]