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Jonathan Glazer’s innovative Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest picked up the Film of the Year gong at the London Critics' Circle Awards Sunday evening. The German-language drama also won prizes for director and awards for music and sound. The pic's leading haul was matched by Andrew Haigh's…

EXCLUSIVE: A growing list of 200+ film professionals, largely from within the German industry, have signed an open letter protesting the Berlin Film Festival's decision to invite members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to this year’s opening ceremony. The open letter was launched…

Focus Features has dropped the first full trailer for Back To Black, filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson's biopic of musical trailblazer Amy Winehouse, starring Industry breakout Marisa Abela. Watch above.  The studio has also shared a new US release date for the pic. It will drop stateside on May 17…

The Berlinale Film Festival has unveiled the jury members for its main International Competition, which will be presided over by Lupita Nyong'o.  The members of the International Jury are American actor and filmmaker Brady Corbet, Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, German director Christian Petzold…

The box office success of Oppenheimer signals a new era of global cinema that is less defined by franchises and stories shaped by intellectual property, according to the film's director, Christopher Nolan.  Nolan, fresh off a leading 13 nominations at BAFTA, passed through the awards body's new…

"My role is to sometimes talk to the press or to fight with policemen," Cannes Delegate General Thierry Fremaux joked during a keynote this evening at the Göteborg Film Festival. Fremaux had been making a comedic reference to his altercation with a local police officer on the pavement outside the…

Jellyfish Originals, the kids and family content arm of animation, and VFX studio Jellyfish Pictures is moving into production on the animated series Stan & Gran. Bangalore-based Xentrix Studios has partnered as co-producer and will provide animation services for the show. Banijay Kids & Family…

"It's a small production company, and we're very much about developing our own ideas and fresh takes on existing ideas," Sarah Lancashire told a crowd of industry heads inside the sparkling new Draken Hotel at the Göteborg Film Festival when quizzed on her new indie shingle Via Pictures.  Lancashire…

UPDATE 5.05 am PT Saudi Arabia's Royal Commission for AlUla (RCA) has said it is “continuing with business as usual' following news of the arrest of its CEO Amr Al-Madani on corruption allegations. The organization said an acting CEO had been put in place in the wake of the legal proceedings against…

British singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor will perform her 2001 chart-topper “Murder on the Dancefloor,” most recently known as the concluding viral song from Emerald Fennell's Saltburn, at the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards. Returning to the charts 22 years after its first release, “Murder on the Dancefloor” and…

Writers Johan Fasting, Silje Storstein, and Kristin Grue are the recipients of the 2024 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for their political drama Power Play (Makta). The trio were awarded the prize Tuesday evening during a ceremony on the first day of the Göteborg Film Festival's series focused sidebar…

Hanway Films will represent worldwide sales at next month's EFM on Winter Of The Crow, a Cold War thriller starring Oscar-nominated actress Lesley Manville. The film is currently shooting in Warsaw. Based on a short story by Nobel Prize and International Booker-winning Polish author Olga Tokarczuk…