Grace Passô is a creative fueled by exploring the malleability of form. The actor, director and playwright adapted her own play into her feature debut “Our Secret,” premiering in Berlin seven years after her medium-length film “Dazed Flesh” — also adapted from the stage — played at the same festival. “Our Secret” is set in…
Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore’s docufilm “Brunello: The Gracious Visionary” — about Brunello Cucinelli, the fashion designer known as Italy’s “King of Cashmere” — has been acquired for North American distribution by Blue Fox Entertainment. A U.S. premiere is planned in New York on April 14. “Brunello: The Gracious Visionary” chronicles Cucinelli’s rise from being a…
Jimmy Kimmel went after Donald Trump on Monday for his scathing review of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. “Bad Bunny got a bad review from our bad president, unfortunately,” Kimmel said during Monday’s broadcast of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “He wrote, ‘The Super Bowl halftime show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst ever. It…
Former Sundance CEO Joana Vicente and her partner, the Oscar-nominated producer Jason Kliot, have launched a new tech-focused film accelerator and production company. Called Open Cities, the new shop seeks to empower independent filmmakers on a global stage with ethical AI tools, financing and creative mentorship. Based in Portugal and New York, the company was…
Susan Grode, a fine art and entertainment lawyer who spent decades championing the rights of artists and creators, died Feb. 8 in Los Angeles of natural causes. She was known for her independent thinking and for challenging industry norms in pursuit of fair outcomes for the artists she represented. Over a career that spanned several…
Germany’s Zeitsprung Pictures and MMC Studios are partnering with an award-winning up-and-coming producer-director duo to launch Peak Point Pictures in Cologne with the aim to develop and produce high-end international and domestic series and feature films, while also fostering German and European debut filmmakers. Peak Point Pictures was set up by Zeitsprung Pictures managing director…
“Highguard” maker Wildlight Entertainment has laid off multiple members of its staff less than a month after the release of its debut video game. “Today we made an incredibly difficult decision to part ways with a number of our team members while keeping a core group of developers to continue innovating on and supporting the…
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively failed to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit on Wednesday, after a daylong mediation in federal court. The co-stars of “It Ends With Us” entered the New York courthouse on Friday morning and spent much of the day in separate courtrooms on the 14th floor. At the end of the day,…
“The Wheel of Time” IP owner iwot Studios and VFX company Framestore have struck a deal to launch an AI-enabled platform that will offer brands asset management tools to ease collaboration on projects across multiple platforms. The first IP to utilize the platform will be Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time,” which iwot is currently…
A massive, modern new studio is headed to New Jersey. Alan Mruvka, a real estate developer and the co-creator of E! Entertainment Television, announced today the launch of Filmology Labs: Content Creation Studios. The $250 million studio complex will be located in Paterson, New Jersey, and will focus on next-gen content creation like vertical micro-dramas,…
