Celebrity

EXCLUSIVE: Precious Metal Productions and Black Fawn Distribution, two of Canada’s buzziest indie film companies, are joining forces on a three-picture genre slate. Precious Metal Productions’ co-founding heads Canadian producer Christopher Giroux and actress-producer Ann Pirvu say the deal marks a milestone for their company which they launched earlier this year. The first project under the new agreement […]

“You can’t make this shit up… and most of it, we didn’t,” Courteney Cox’s latest directorial outing prefaces, an appropriate warning for the chaotic nature of the unbelievable true-crime saga at the center of Evil Genius. In Evil Genius, adapted by screenwriter Courtenay Miles from the 2018 Netflix docuseries, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong (Patricia Arquette) orchestrates the […]

Oprah Winfrey’s AHA, a new live immersive experience created in collaboration with a global collective of musicians, artists and storytellers will debut at Sphere in Las Vegas for one weekend, April 2-4. The project will see Winfrey appear live on stage alongside a variety of performances in what the announcement calls a “brand-new visual, musically […]

Beta Cinema has unveiled a raft of new deals for Trudie Styler’s comedy Up Against It ahead of its world premiere as a gala presentation in Toronto later this week. The fresh deals include to Spain (Youplanet Pictures/Caramel), Greece (Spentzos Film), Turkey (Mars Production), Bulgaria (Beta Film) and Latin America (A2 Filmes). Beta Cinema reports […]

Tributes from across the industry have been rolling in this weekend following the death of veteran producer Jeremy Thomas. He died on September 11. He was 77 years old. His family announced his death in a statement on Saturday, September 12. “Jeremy Thomas, the celebrated British producer of The Last Emperor and of over 40 […]

EXCLUSIVE: Taz Skylar, best known for Netflix’s One Piece and Amazon’s Brit gangster film Gassed Up, has joined Craig Fairbrass, who returns as Eddie Franks, in crime sequel Villains, which has wrapped principal photography in London. Canadian sales and production company Double Dutch International is launching sales at the TIFF market. The movie is a […]