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Feb182025 by cineverseNo Comments

Sony Pictures Classics Buys Jodie Foster Murder Mystery Movie ‘Vie Privée’ for North America and Latin America (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Elsa Keslassy According To The variety In one of the first major deals unveiled at the European Film Market, Sony Pictures Classics (“I’m Still Here”) has bought “Vie Privée,” a highly anticipated, humor-laced murder mystery movie starring Jodie Foster and directed by Rebecca Zlotowski (“Other People’s Children”), for North America and Latin America territories. The Oscar winner stars in the film as renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner who mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered. Foster last starred in a French-language film 20 years ago in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Oscar-nominated “A Very Long Engagement.” Foster, who recently won an Emmy and a Golden Globe her turn in HBO’s “Tr...

Feb172025 by cineverseNo Comments

Ukraine’s Kateryna Gornostai Finds Hope in Berlinale Doc ‘Timestamp’: ‘This Generation Needs to Live’

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By Marta Balaga According To The variety Ukrainian filmmaker Kateryna Gornostai makes a case for optimism with the Berlinale doc “Timestamp.” “It’s a sad film, but there’s a lot of hope in these kids and in our education system that still works. It was crucial to make a film about war, but war is not in the frame,” she told Variety. Bowing in Berlinale’s main competition, “Timestamp” follows Ukrainian students and teachers, trying to maintain normalcy despite constant danger and the world’s waning interest in their plight. “We were afraid of [Donald] Trump winning the [U.S.] presidential seat again. But you know, the worst has already happened: we lost our people and our families. At this point, we’re a bit fatalistic. So now … We just observe,” she said. Sometimes, whe...

Feb162025 by cineverseNo Comments

Pablo Trapero’s ‘Malinche’ Set for Morena, Talipot

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By John Hopewell According To The variety Mexico’s Talipot Studio, a co-producer on Ruben Östlund’s triple Oscar nominee “Triangle of Sadness,” has boarded “Malinche,” a historical epic produced by Spain’s Morena Films and directed by Pablo Trapero (“The Clan,” “ZeroZeroZero”). Prestigious Mexican historian Enrique Krauze also produces. Shaping up as one of the biggest movies from the Spanish-speaking world this year, “Malinche” is written by Trapero and Daniel Krauze, a writer on “Luis Miguel: The Series It could be described as a conquistador epic, set in 1519 as Hernán Cortes’ troops are supposedly welcomed by Aztec lord Moctezuma in Tenochtitlan. It centers, however, on the figure of Malinche, Cortés’ interpreter and consort who bore him a son.&nbs...

Feb162025 by cineverseNo Comments

Films Boutique Sells Sundance Award Winner ‘DJ Ahmet’ to Multiple Territories (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Leo Barraclough According To The variety Berlin-based sales agency Films Boutique has secured the first international deals for Georgi M. Unkovski’s “DJ Ahmet” following its world premiere in the World Dramatic Competition of the Sundance Film Festival, where the film won both the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision and the Audience Award. Films Boutique has sold the drama to Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand, September Film Distribution in Benelux, Films We Like in Canada, Filmin in Spain, Lev Cinema in Israel, Leopardo Filmes in Portugal and Discovery in former Yugoslavia with further territories already in negotiation. Julien Razafindranaly, head of sales at Films Boutique, said: “We are particularly thankful to Sundance for having been...

Feb162025 by cineverseNo Comments

Berlin’s Teddys Give Queer Cinema a Boost as LGBTQ+ Rights Erode Around the Globes

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By Gregg Goldstein According To The variety This year marks the 39th annual Teddy Award honors, the longest-running LGBTQ+ prizes at any major film festival. While the Feb. 21 closing ceremony is business as usual for the Berlinale, global events could make this one of the most important years in Teddy history. U.S. President Trump is implementing numerous anti-transgender policies, withdrawing President Biden’s executive order making federal agencies enforce a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that sex discrimination laws include LGBTQ discrimination, and even declaring that there are only two sexes – seemingly oblivious to children born intersex, a plot point in one of this year’s biggest Oscar contenders. His appointee Elon Musk regularly makes anti-trans statements and endorsed Germany’s...

Feb122025 by cineverseNo Comments

New Berlinale Chief Tricia Tuttle on Political Furor and ‘Bold, Exciting’ Cinema: ‘Filmmakers Are Noting That We Live in a Crazy, Divisive WorldBy

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By Leo Barraclough According To The variety The Berlin Film Festival prides itself on being a political event, which dates back to its inception in 1951 as a beacon of democracy in West Berlin, surrounded by Communist East Germany in the Cold War era. This year’s edition, the festival’s 75th, takes place in the final two weeks of a federal election in Germany that is expected to see a lurch to the right, with the right-wing Alternative for Germany party doubling down on its anti-refugee rhetoric. This makes the position of the director of the Berlinale, as it is known locally, all the more challenging, especially as the director reports to the German federal government and the festival derives the bulk of its funding from the federal government and the state of Berlin....

Feb122025 by cineverseNo Comments

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Takes Top VFX Society Award; ‘Dune 2’ Claims Three Trophies as VES Spreads the Wealth

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By Carolyn Giardina According To The variety Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” won the top Visual Effects Society Award for outstanding VFX in a photoreal feature at the 23rd Visual Effects Society Awards. Yet Tuesday at the Beverly Hilton, the Society spread the wealth, awarding three trophies, the most in the live-action feature categories, to “Dune: Part Two.” In “Kingdom,” VFX studio Weta FX led by its production VFX supervisor Erik Winquist worked to advance the realism of its emotive apes in areas such as facial animation and muscle simulation, while placing them in environments including rapids and a great flood. The sequel to 2021’s VFX Oscar and top VES winner “Dune”, which again features key work by DNEG led by production VFX supervisor Paul Lam...