Tag: Girls of the Sun

  • Tanya Seghatchian, Nicola Shindler to produce ‘Playdate’ drama series for Disney+ UK

    Tanya Seghatchian, Nicola Shindler to produce ‘Playdate’ drama series for Disney+ UK

    ‘Girls Of The Sun’ filmmaker Eva Husson will direct the five-part seriesNicola Shindler’s Quay Street Productions is teaming with Tanya Seghatchian and John Woodward’s UK outfit Brightstar to produce a five-part series called Playdate based on Alex Dahl’s novel of the same name for Disney+ UK. French filmmaker Eva Husson, whose credits include Cannes 2021…

  • Film Review: ‘A Private War’

    Film Review: ‘A Private War’

    From Vietnam to the Iraq War, Hollywood has struggled to find the appropriate way to depict ongoing wars, typically taking years, if not decades, to put the proper perspective on modern political quagmires. In the case of such conflicts as the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war — front and center in “A Private…

  • Ari Folman Set to Direct ‘The Horse Boy’ With Lea Seydoux, Joel Kinnaman (Exclusive)

    Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, whose 2008 “Waltz With Bashir” nabbed a foreign-language Oscar nom, is set to write and direct “The Horse Boy,” an English-language feature based on Rupert Isaacson’s New York Times bestseller that will topline current Cannes jury member Léa Seydoux and Joel Kinnaman.Gaumont has come on board to co-produce, take international sales…

  • Fintage House Launches New App; MovieChainer Enlists MK2, Charades

    Fintage House is set to launch Fintage Cam Live, a new online platform aimed to allow the collecting agency’s of their numerous users – ranging from producers, sales agents, talents, financiers — to track down their revenues in real time.Fintage Cam Live was created using a software developed by MovieChainer, the cloud-based app allowing right-holders…

  • 2018 Cannes Film Festival Lineup: Spike Lee, Jean-Luc Godard, and More to Compete for Palme d’Or

    The 71st Cannes Film Festival has announced its official lineup in a morning press conference. The festival revealed the films in this year’s Competition lineup, as well as in sidebars such as Un Certain Regard, Midnight Section, and Special Screenings.Read More: Asghar Farhadi to Open Cannes 2018 With ‘Everybody Knows,’ Starring Penélope Cruz and Javier…

  • Cannes Lineup Includes New Films From Spike Lee, Jean-Luc Godard

    Cannes Lineup Includes New Films From Spike Lee, Jean-Luc Godard

    New movies from Spike Lee, Jean-Luc Godard and “Ida” director Pawel Pawlikowski join previously announced “Solo: A Star Wars Story” at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.Cannes president Pierre Lescure and general delegate Thierry Frémaux unveiled the lineup of the world’s most prestigious film festival in Paris early Thursday morning.Refresh this page for the latest, which…

  • Cannes Lineup Reaches From Spike Lee to Jean-Luc Godard

    Cannes Lineup Reaches From Spike Lee to Jean-Luc Godard

    The 2018 Cannes Film Festival will include new films from directors Spike Lee, Pawel Pawlikowski, David Robert Mitchell and Jean-Luc Godard, as part of a lineup light on American films and long on international auteurs both young and old.Lee’s “BlacKKKlansman” and Mitchell’s “Under the Silver Lake” are the only American movies in the 18-film main…