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In a long-shot move, two Republican attorneys general are hoping the Supreme Court will step in to stop the antitrust lawsuit filed by 12 Democratic state AGs…
Four newly 4K-restored features by Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul have been acquired by The Match Factory for international sales, the company has…
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna reduced its work force by roughly 30 employees. The producer of A24’s hit arthouse comedy The Invite counts around 189 staffers. We…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix made a preemptive buy of Wingmom, a comedy film script by Sam Laybourne. Deal was high six figures, and Jeff Robinov is producing alongside…
Annapurna, the indie media company founded by Megan Ellison, has enacted a significant round of layoffs representing over 15% of its workforce. Approximately…
“9 Temples to Heaven,” directed by Sompot Chidgasornpongse, has been chosen as Thailand’s submission for the international feature film category at the 99th…
EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz has launched her next project – a feature documentary based on an extraordinary 2017 article in The Atlantic…
In the past two years, Jack O’Connell has played a vampire in “Sinners” and a cult leader in the “28 Years Later” films. But to take on the role of tabloid…
Brad Bird, Andrew Haigh and Aleshea Harris will be honored at Texas’ 2026 Austin Film Festival on Oct. 31. Bird, who is the creator of “The Incredibles”…
France’s Oscar submission race for 2027 is shaping up around one particularly thorny question: What happens to a major film by an exiled filmmaker when no…
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based documentary specialist CAT&Docs has acquired international sales rights for Iranian director Afsaneh Salari’s Tehran, Under The Skin…
Updated, August 26, 7 a.m.: A new trailer for Prime Video’s The Love Hypothesis film adaptation has arrived, set to Reneé Rapp’s “Messy.” Olive Smith (Lili…
Neon's horror road trip movie made $61,287 from just 5 screens this weekend.
The big-screen romantic comedy is unfashionable enough these days that it tends to come dressed up in at least one of two ways: with a quasi-absurd high…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a fun first clip from Martin McDonagh‘s anticipated crime-dramedy Wild Horse Nine, which launches next week at the Venice Film Festival…
The "Dog Stars" director has commanded armies and shot epics with more than a dozen cameras at once, but he tells IndieWire that writing is still the hardest…
French sales company MMM Film Sales has acquired the international rights to “Agata the Writer,” starring Mia Wasikowska, which will have its world premiere at…
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. sales firm Mavryk has acquired worldwide rights ahead of the TIFF market to sell And Her Body Was Never Found, the experimental…
GameSquare is rebranding its gaming and esports-focused livestreaming measurement platform Stream Hatchet into Hatchet, which it describes as “the first…
EXCLUSIVE: Global Constellation has boarded international sales rights to TIFF world premiere Magazine, the feature debut of writer-director-producer…
