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Henriette Steenstrup’s ‘Nepobaby’ Racks up New Sales to CBC, SBS

RobertSeptember 29, 2025

Norwegian showrunner Henriette Steenstrup’s latest TV drama “Nepobaby” which won best screenplay and ensemble cast at April’s Canneseries, has lured a new round of buyers ahead of October’s global content market Mipcom in Cannes. Nordisk Film Distribution, in charge of Nordic rights, has closed with TV2 Denmark and SVT Sweden, while global distributor Oble which […]

Bruce Springsteen Gives Surprise Performance at New York Film Festival

RobertSeptember 29, 2025

Bruce Springsteen delivered a surprise performance after the New York Film Festival premiere of “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” the “Nebraska”-centered biopic starring Jeremy Allen White as the Boss. The film, out Oct. 24 via 20th Century Studios, made a big splash in Manhattan, where Springsteen joined White and his co-stars Jeremy Strong, Stephen Graham, Odessa […]

Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter Star on Broadway

RobertSeptember 29, 2025

Forget the tree. That iconic lone tree from the stage directions in Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic masterwork “Waiting for Godot” is offstage in Jamie Lloyd’s re-envisioned revival. The polarizing British director who has placed his conceptual stamp on “A Doll’s House,” “Sunset Boulevard” and “Evita,” again challenges the norms in his latest production, taking on the […]

Dolly Parton Postpones Las Vegas Shows, Citing Health Issues

RobertSeptember 28, 2025

Dolly Parton has announced that she’s postponing her Las Vegas concerts at Caesars Palace scheduled for December, revealing that she’s dealing with health issues and that her doctors advised her that she needs “a few procedures.” In a post shared to social media, the country icon shared that she won’t be able to properly rehearse […]

Manager of a Fading Vienna Hotel Spirals

RobertSeptember 28, 2025

Gastón Solnicki’s latest film “The Souffler” is, like his previous work, entrancing and mercurial. There is a straightforward plot here (a hotel manager learns his place of employment will soon be no more), but the Argentine filmmaker uses such a threadbare storyline to string together a broader meditation about a changing world. Told through clipped […]

Engrossing Meta-Drama About On-Set Racial Tensions

RobertSeptember 28, 2025

A smart, withheld story about the borders between people, Ulrich Köhler’s self-reflexive “Gavagai” chronicles on-set tensions between the cast and crew of a filmed update of “Medea” and subtle fissures caused by a racist skirmish during its premiere. Its reinterpretation of Euripides’ play has its symbolic limits — intentional and otherwise — but it makes […]

Ulrich Köhler’s ‘Gavagai’ Debuts Trailer as Film Plays at Zurich

RobertSeptember 28, 2025

Ulrich Köhler’s “Gavagai” has debuted its trailer with Variety ahead of the film’s screening on Sunday at the Zurich Film Festival. International sales for the film, which had its world premiere at New York Film Festival on Saturday, are being handled by LuxBox. The film unspools during the turbulent shoot of a “Medea” adaptation in […]

Bangladesh Selects ‘A House Named Shahana’ as Oscar Entry

RobertSeptember 28, 2025

Bangladesh‘s Oscar committee has chosen Leesa Gazi’s debut feature “Barir Naam Shahana” (“A House Named Shahana”) as its submission for the best international feature film category at the 98th Academy Awards. Based on Gazi’s 2011 novella, the film is set in rural Bangladesh in the 1990s and follows Dipa, a young woman forced into a […]

Lola Young ‘OK Now’ After Collapsing During All Things Go Performance

RobertSeptember 28, 2025

British singer Lola Young posted that she is “OK” after collapsing onstage during her performance at the All Things Go festival in New York on Saturday. Young suffered an unspecified medical emergency as she sang her song “Conceited” and was carried offstage by a medical unit. Her labelmate Remi Wolf appeared onstage shortly afterward and […]

Hostile Political Climate Threatening Cinema, Say Industry Reps

RobertSeptember 27, 2025

Journalists and filmmakers and cinema itself are facing growing political threats and increasing difficulties, according to film industry reps at the Zurich Summit on Saturday. Taking part in a discussion on the political turmoil engulfing the entertainment industry at the Zurich Film Festival industry event were Kathleen Fournier of Charlotte Street Films, producer of the […]