In the days after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, I remember seeing the boats. Boats off all kinds. Civilian boats. Dozens of them. Rushing into the smoke and panic in lower…
Anne Hathaway has come on board to star in the independent science-fiction thriller “O2,” with shooting planned for the fall. IM Global is financing. Producers are Suzan Bymel and Hathaway with Echo…
This week Luc Besson stops by to discuss his new film "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets."
Freestyle Digital Media has acquired the North American rights to John Asher's family drama “A Boy Called Po,” starring Christopher Gorham, Julian Feder, and Kaitlin Doubleday, Variety has learned…
Fathom Events and co-owners AMC Entertainment, Cinemark Holdings, and Regal Entertainment Group have tapped Ray Nutt as new chief executive officer for Fathom Events. Nutt will be transitioning from…
Teenage bullying and supernatural horror neatly combine in this juicy outing from talented Taiwanese filmmaker Giddens Ko.
Driving into new talent, Loic Magneron's Paris-based Wide Management has swooped on world sales rights to Dominik Locher's "Goliath," the only majority-Swiss film in main competition at this year's…
New York-based independent distributor, Film Movement has secured U.S. and Canadian rights for Indian festival title "Hotel Salvation." Written and directed by Shubhashish Bhutiani, the…
There are some unintentional laughs to be had from this hectic, silly, defiantly un-scary mashup of stock "cabin in the woods" and alien-invasion formulae.
Artscope, Paris-based Memento Films Intl.'s label for new talent, has boarded Ilian Metev's eagerly-awaited "3/4," his follow-up to "Sofia's Last Ambulance," which won the France 4 Visionary Award at…
SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate Esai Morales has urged members of the performers union to vote down the proposed tentative agreement on a three-year successor deal to its master contract. Morales…
