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American filmmaker Mike Flanagan will be the featured guest at Quebec's Fantasia International Film Festival, where he will receive the festival's Cheval Noir Career Achievement Award. Flanagan has a long history with the Canadian genre festival. He screened his first feature, Absentia, at the…

Steve McQueen will debut his latest feature Blitz, an exploration of London during World War 2, on opening night at this year's London Film Festival. The pic will screen as a world premiere.  Directed, produced, and written by McQueen, the film follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan)…

“I’m sorry for you, and I’m sorry for me," Viggo Mortensen quipped to an Italian journalist Sunday morning before a press conference at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The comment was a reference to the European Football Championships, currently taking place over the Czech border in Germany, and…

American filmmaker Nicole Holofcener is relaxed. Her legs are crossed in the yoga pose and she reclines into a large armchair with a glass of white wine perched on the side.  "I’m out of practice talking about my films, especially the older ones," she joked. "I’ll try to remember them." We're in…

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov's latest feature Real, his first since the 2021 Venice comp title Rhino, opens with a messy GoPro shot of Ukrainian soldiers taking cover in a shallow trench in the Donbas, the country's front line in its defense against Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the…

The 58th Karlovy Vary Film International Film Festival kicked off with a very personal milestone, commemorating 30 years since the event was taken over by the programming team of Jiří Bartoška and the late journalist Eva Zaoralová. The veteran actor, now 77, gave the festival cause for concern last year…

EXCLUSIVE: Edward Norton has signed on to narrate Fasting And The Longevity Revolution, a health and wellness documentary directed by Barry Alexander Brown, best known as a longtime editor on projects directed by Spike Lee.  The doc, which is currently in production, is produced by Chiara Tilesi…

EXCLUSIVE: Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired world rights to the murder mystery comedy Best Man Dead Man starring Molly Bernard (Hit Man, Younger).  The film, directed by Verner Maldonado, is set to premiere at Dances with Films next week. Bernard stars in the pic as an eccentric private…

EXCLUSIVE: Australian talent management company Ignite Elite Artists has opened a UK division. The first clients on the company's UK books are Peter Andre, Amanda Clapham (Hollyoaks), and Ethan Dillon (Vikings). Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, the company was set up in 2011. The firm said…

Quebec filmmaker Érik Canuel, best known for the cult black comedy Bon Cop, Bad Cop, has died. He was 63 years old. Annexe, a Montreal-based communications firm confirmed the news of Canuel's death with local press Monday. The director's cause of death has been reported as complications related to…

EXCLUSIVE: Online Canadian film journal Panorama-cinéma has set plans in motion to launch Montreal Critic's Week (Semaine de la critique de Montréal), a new film festival, in January 2025. Billed as the "first of its kind in Canada," Montreal Critic's Week will host single screenings and double-bills…

Nestled on a quiet street a stone’s throw away from the bustle of Paris' fifth arrondissement, La Clef cinema, one of the city's most enduring rep houses, has been saved from closure following a five-year battle involving lawyers, developers, and government officials.  Cinéma Revival, the activist…