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Nov82025 by cineverseNo Comments

WGA Names John August and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel to Lead Negotiating Committee

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By Gene Maddaus According To The variety Here’s something that will be interesting to screenwriters. John August, the co-host of the “Scriptnotes” podcast, has been named a co-chair of the negotiating committee for the Writers Guild of America. The other co-chair is Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, the showrunner of the Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest.” The WGA is set to begin bargaining next spring for the first time since the five-month writers strike in 2023. The current deal expires on May 1, 2026. As in 2023, the chief negotiator for the writers will be Ellen Stutzman, who is also the executive director of WGA West. She will be negotiating with Greg Hessinger, the new president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. August and Sanchez-Wit...

Nov82025 by cineverseNo Comments

Nina Hoss on Playing a Queer Icon in ‘Hedda’, and Why ‘It’s Our Time Now’ for Women Over 50 in Hollywood

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By Clayton Davis According To The variety Nina Hoss enters a conversation about “Hedda” the way her character Eileen Lövborg enters that fateful party: She commands the space, is unapologetically present and utterly impossible to overlook. The German actress, who spent six years performing “Hedda Gabler” on stage in Berlin’s demanding repertoire system, now takes on Nia DaCosta’s bold reimagining of the Ibsen classic — playing a character that didn’t exist in the original text. It’s a transformation that reflects Hoss’s artistic fearlessness and the kind of creative risks that make century-old material feel urgent again. “When I read the script, I thought, why has no one ever thought about that?” Hoss tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast of DaCosta’s decision...

Nov82025 by cineverseNo Comments

Cannes Winner ‘The President’s Cake’ Among 10 Films Competing for ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal at India’s IFFI Goa Festival

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety The 56th International Film Festival of India has unveiled the 10 films competing for the ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal, an international honor that recognizes cinema promoting peace and inter-cultural dialogue. Instituted at IFFI‘s 46th edition, the award is presented in collaboration with ICFT (International Council for Film and Television) Paris under the aegis of UNESCO, celebrating work that honors Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of non-violence and peace Leading the lineup is Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi’s directorial debut “The President’s Cake,” which won both the Audience Award and Caméra d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight section. The film, selected as Iraq’s entry for the international feature Oscar at th...

Nov52025 by cineverseNo Comments

Kristen Stewart Slams Hollywood’s Treatment of Women Filmmakers After ‘Brief Moment of Progress’ Post-MeToo: ‘It Is Devastating’

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By Marc Malkin According To The variety Kristen Stewart delivered rousing remarks Tuesday afternoon during the keynote address at the Academy and Chanel’s Women’s Luncheon in Los Angeles. The actress and director – her feature film directorial debut, “The Chronology of Water,” is in theaters next month — slammed Hollywood for failing to live up to its post-MeToo goals and efforts. “In a post-MeToo moment, it seemed possible that stories made by and for women were finally getting their due, that we might be allowed or even encouraged to express ourselves and our shared experiences, all of our experiences without filter,” she said after being introduced by Academy president Lynette Howell Taylor. “But I can now attest to the bare-knuckle brawling that it tak...

Nov52025 by cineverseNo Comments

TAICCA Sets Partnerships With Japan’s K2 Pictures, Taiwan’s Lunta Ventures at Creative Content Fest

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By Lin Ying-Hsuan According To The variety Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) rolled out two major industry partnerships at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF), marking a renewed push to expand Taiwan’s presence across film, television and digital entertainment. The agency sealed a co-production memorandum of understanding with Japan’s K2 Pictures Inc. and unveiled the Digital Games Fund with Taiwan’s Lunta Ventures, reflecting a strategy that pairs global collaboration with targeted investment to accelerate the globalization of Taiwanese content. The pact with K2 Pictures outlines frameworks for co-investment, co-production and content financing aimed at enhancing the global visibility of Taiwanese screen projects. The agreement was signed by TAICCA deputy...

Nov22025 by cineverseNo Comments

We Are the Fruits of the Forest’ Review: Rithy Panh Insightfully Captures Another Facet of Cambodia’s Marginalized Peoples

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By Ryan Swen According To The variety Rithy Panh can credibly hold the title of both Cambodia’s most important film director and one of the greatest documentarians alive. A survivor of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime that claimed the lives of his family members, he began studying filmmaking in France before returning to his native country in the late 1980s. His nonfiction output largely focuses on the aftermath of the Cambodian genocide and moves fluidly between brutally direct vérité (“S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine,” 2003), archival material (“Irradiated,” 2020) and, in the case of the his most celebrated film “The Missing Picture” (2013), claymation. With his most recent film, “We Are the Fruits of the Forest,” Panh opts for a more restrained but still incisive approach to t...

Nov22025 by cineverseNo Comments

Rithy Panh and Miyake Sho Discuss Cinema, Labor and Current Viewing Habits at Tokyo Talk

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety At the Tokyo International Film Festival’s TIFF Lounge, two of world cinema’s most distinctive voices — Cambodia’s Rithy Panh and Japan’s Miyake Sho — shared the stage for a conversation about filmmaking, memory, and work. Panh, speaking in French, served as president of the Locarno Film Festival jury that awarded Miyake’s “Two Seasons, Two Strangers” the Golden Leopard earlier this year. Miyake responded in Japanese. Panh said he was pleased to see Miyake again after Locarno and recalled that the jury had been unanimous. “That doesn’t happen often,” he said. “I don’t usually watch many films, but this one impressed me. It speaks about solitude and the beauty of everyday gestures. When a director places the camer...