Comment on SF Bay Area: Sunday Nov 2nd, Give Me Fiction One Year Anniversary

“Pieces of a Woman” filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó is set to direct “The Revolution According to Kamo,” an epic drama about the early life of Joseph Stalin. The Hungarian filmmaker’s last feature, “Pieces of a Woman,” earned an Oscar nomination for Vanessa Kirby. Oscar-winning filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski (“Cold War,” “Ida”) and scriptwriter Ben Hopkins (“Limonov: The […]

Jack Brett Anderson (“Wolf Blood,” “The Great”) is set to play the male lead in upcoming feature film “The Insect Life.” The project marks the feature debut of writer/director James Hughes and his production banner Sunset Aperture. Hughes previously directed various award-winning shorts starring the likes of Georgina Campbell and Tobias Menzies.

Plans for a “Gomorrah” series prequel are moving forward, with shooting now scheduled to start in winter 2025 on the hit crime drama’s previously announced origin story. News that the “Gomorrah” prequel show is firmly on track surfaced as Sky Italia celebrated the 10th anniversary of the country’s top TV export, with a special aired […]

CANNES-DO The imminently upcoming Sydney Film Festival has added eight titles that premiered at Cannes to its lineup. They are: Guan Hu’s “Black Dog”; Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”; Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project “Megalopolis”; Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson’s “Rumours,” starring Australia’s Cate Blanchett; documentary “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” Jia Zhangke’s “Caught […]

SkyShowtime has revealed its upcoming content slate for 2024 and beyond, including the anticipated new series “Landman” from Taylor Sheridan and “The Day of the Jackal” starring Eddie Redmayne. “Landman,” starring Billy Bob Thornton and Demi Moore and described as a “modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs,” is coming exclusively […]

Siddharth Roy Kapur’s Roy Kapur Films (RKF), in collaboration with Trickitainment Media, is set to produce a biopic on Sukumar Sen, India’s first Chief Election Commissioner. RKF’s latest project follows the success of SonyLIV series “Rocket Boys,” a fictionalized version of the story of Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, who engineered India’s nuclear program and Dr.