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Production has begun on a second season of “Scrublands,” the Australian crime thriller series starring Luke Arnold (“Black Sails”) and Bella Heathcote (“The Neon Demon,” “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”). With action set a year after the events of the first season, award-winning investigative journalist Martin Scarsden (Arnold) has returned to his coastal hometown, Port […]

The Newport Beach Film Festival will return to London Feb. 13 2025 for its U. K. Honors, recognizing outstanding work by British and Irish actors across film and television. The U. K. Honors will take place at Raffles London at The OWO in partnership with Variety, which will unveil Variety’s 10 Brits during the event, highlighting the […]

Toronto-based Syndicado Film Sales has picked up international rights to “Petroleo,” the fiction debut of doc Spanish filmmaker Álvaro F. Pulpeiro, lauded worldwide for his sensory and lyrical filmmaking, most recently displayed in the CPH:DOX-selected “So Foul a Sky.” The Galician-born filmmaker said the project was significantly influenced by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s unfinished book “Petrolio,” […]

Programmers from Sundance, Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, Toronto, and Rotterdam, sales agents such as Goodfellas and Coproduction Office and U. S. distributor Magnify Pictures are among 50 top international guests expected at the inaugural ECAM Forum co-production market in Madrid, which is due to unspool June 10-14. More than 300 delegates have signed up for the co-pro […]

Going all-in on its exploration of the role of artificial intelligence in filmmaking, South Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) has unveiled a 15-title AI Film competition. The films will compete for jury-selected and audience awards and cash prizes of up to KRW1.5 million ($11,000). “We were able to see the new creative possibilities […]

In April 2014, a tape was leaked of 80-year-old then-Clippers owner Donald Sterling making racist comments to his 31-year-old mistress, V. Stiviano, an incident that ballooned into one of the biggest scandals in the NBA and changed the league forever. The recording incited a media frenzy—which led to Sterling selling the team and earning a lifetime ban from the NBA—and brought to light Sterling’s long and uncomfortable history of racial discrimination, pushing long overdue conversations about race and structural power in not only the NBA, but the world at large. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Read more: The NBA’s Response to Donald Sterling’s Racism Got Everything Right Now, a decade later, this shocking story is still making waves in Clipped, a new six-episode mini series that revisits the scandal that rocked the NBA.