“Pep playing himself is a bit like having Robert De Niro play a football coach.” Those are the musings of Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald, who has just spent two years charting the exploits of Pep Guardiola and Manchester City for A Beautiful Obsession and yet had barely heard of…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired the North American distribution rights to the Japanese drama Nagi Notes, written and directed by Kōji Fukada (Harmonium). The film had its world premiere in Competition at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, Fukado's first time in Competition…

Having secured rights to Marília Mendonça’s music and life story, Prime Video is preparing its own ‘Marília-verse’ of projects about the late Brazilian superstar singer, who tragically died in a 2021 plane crash at 26. The streamer has found its leading lady for the biopic, plucking an unknown…

EXCLUSIVE: DramaBox is going deeper into the Latin American verticals world. We can reveal the microdrama platform has put into production a Brazilian series starring telenovela actor Duda Reis with regional production powerhouse Cimarrón and is rolling out a trio of productions from Colombia: Mi…

Bleiberg Entertainment will be selling worldwide rights at the TIFF market to historical drama People of The Book, we can reveal. Directed by Michael Haussman (Edge of the World), and based on the book of the same name written by Pulitzer prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks, filming has…

Hirokazu Kore-eda, Carol Morley and Lili Horvát are among the directors in official competition at the London Film Festival (LFF). Ten titles will compete, with the winner unveiled at the LFF Awards on Sunday October 18. Countries represented include the UK, Ireland, Brazil, Denmark, France…

EXCLUSIVE: It might not be the most conventional business plan, but disposing of a body might be the kickstart that Prime Video’s Clean Up Company needs. In a Hindi-language trailer for the MX Player/Prime Video comedy-drama, we see friends Raju (Vishal Jethwa), Swapan (Amey Wagh), and Goldie…

Here’s your first look at Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie in Season 3 of BBC police drama Vigil. A teaser shows the pair trekking across a frozen tundra, long-range rifle strapped to their backs, as their latest high-stakes investigation takes them to a remote Arctic research station. “In the…

Diane Kruger and Dany Boon will play Nazi hunters on the trail of Tim Roth's Klaus Barbie, in Projet K for Netflix. Kruger and Boon will portray Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, the real-life husband-and-wife Nazi hunters in the Netflix France film. The couple spent years tracking down Nazis after the…

Actor-director Kenneth Branagh arrived in Edinburgh to accept the festival's inaugural Outstanding Contribution to Cinema award from festival director Paul Ridd and immediately joked that he would break it up into little pieces. "Actually, I wouldn't," he told the audience, "but if I did, I would…

EXCLUSIVE: Babita Singh Reporting, Prime Video’s next pic out of India, will launch globally on August 28. Directed by Ambiecka Pandit and written by Amita Vyas, the investigative drama features stars Nimisha Sajayan, Barun Sobti, and Anshumaan Pushkar. Saurabh Malhotra, Manuj Mittra, and Tina…

On the face of it, Finlay Pretsell's first feature, Time Trial (2017), seemed like any other underdog sports movie, chronicling the last hurrah of disgraced Scottish cyclist David Millar in his last year as a professional rider at the Tour De France. Others might have taken the easy option and milked…