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Netflix has officially boarded “The Sand Castle” that sees Lebanese multi-hyphenate Nadine Labaki reunite on screen with “Capernaum” siblings Zain and Reman Al Rafeea. The streaming giant has set a Jan. 25, 2025, global drop date for the hotly anticipated thriller. U. S. director Matty Brown — whose shorts have won accolades — makes his feature film […]

Film Bazaar, the film market that runs alongside the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa, is partnering with Film Independent’s Global Media Makers program to launch a television writing workshop led by “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Army Wives” writer-producer Marlana Hope and Indian filmmaker Bikas Mishra, director of upcoming feature “Bayaan.” The four-day Episodic Storytelling […]

MEGASTAR, MAESTRO Veteran Indian actor Kamal Haasan‘s 234th film “Thug Life,” directed by Mani Ratnam, has locked a worldwide theatrical release for June 5, 2025. The announcement came on Haasan’s birthday alongside a first-look teaser featuring the actor as his character Rangaraya Sakthivel Nayakar. The pair previously teamed on gangster epic “Nayakan” (1987).

Recent Asian feature films including Makbul Mubarak’s “Autobiography,” Lan Pham Ngoc’s “Cu Li Never Cries,” Nelson Yeo’s “Dreaming & Dying,” Jeremias Nyangoen’s “The Women of Rote Island” and Lyda Leak’s “The Night Curse of Reatrei” adorn the non-competitive lineup of the 2024 edition of the Blue Chair film festival in Luang Prabang, Laos.

Oscar-winning film editor William Goldenberg–who recently made his feature directorial debut with “Unstoppable”–will be honored with the Camerimage Award for an Editor, during the 32nd EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival, which will be held Nov, 16-23 in Toruń, Poland. Goldenberg won an Academy Award for Ben Affleck’s historical thriller “Argo,” which traced the rescue of […]

Seth Meyers is worried about more than just Donald Trump’s second term. “Well, Donald Trump has won the 2024 election and he’ll be president again for four more years, or eight, or 12, or whatever,” he said with a worried laugh while opening his first “Closer Look” segment after Election Day.