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‘Past Lives’ Director Celine Song on How She Landed Her Directorial Debut: “I Knew The Things That Only I Could Know’
Celine Song has thought long and hard about how her current choices will ripple out into the future. “Who we are now cannot escape from who we were once,” says the director behind this year’s indie breakout Past Lives. To make her point, she starts to script a scene between her future self and mine. […]
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Focus Sets Kobi Libii Directorial Debut ‘The American Society of Magical Negroes’
Focus has set The American Society of Magical Negroes, the directorial debut from Kobi Libii, for a March 22, 2024 release. The film is described as a “fresh, satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost […]
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Next Gen 2023: The Hollywood Reporter’s 35 Rising Executives 35 and Under
In 1993, Jurassic Park (the first one) was the No. 1 movie at the box office, The X-Files went to air and THR debuted its first list of the top 35 Hollywood execs 35 and under. In the 30 years that followed, Next Gen alums have created cinematic universes (Kevin Feige was selected in 2003) […]
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‘Fire of Love’ Producers Sandbox Films Opens New York City Office Space
Sandbox Films — the non-fiction studio behind Oscar nominee Fire of Love — has opened new New York City offices, featuring an ATMOS theater. In addition to the 22-seat theater, the studio, located in the Flatiron District, includes two edit suites and a multimedia facility designed to support a variety of production needs. “We put […]
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Will Packer Launches Management Firm, Shayla Cowan to Run (Exclusive)
Producer Will Packer has launched a management company, Collective Edge, set to be run by longtime Will Packer Productions exec Shayla Cowan. Packer will be managed by Collective Edge which, Cowan said in a statement, will be “dedicated to creating a community of innovators who continuously push boundaries, inspire one another, and redefine what is […]
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AFM: Interim Agreements Complicate Dealmaking, Challenge Indie Financing Models
Getting an independent movie made these days is hard enough but for producers piling into the halls of Santa Monica’s Le Méridien Delfina Hotel for the American Film Market this week, the SAG-AFTRA strike has added another layer of complication. SAG-AFTRA’s Interim Agreements, or IAs, the contract required for independent producers to produce or talent […]
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Taylor Swift Has Set the Stage for a Concert Film Boom
To get this out of the way up top: No one is Taylor Swift. This was the unanimous refrain among players who make and distribute concert films and music documentaries when asked what Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour means for the space. Nonetheless, insiders note that Swift’s is a rising tide that lifts all boats, […]
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Tyler Perry Sets First-Look Film Deal With Netflix
The ever-busy Tyler Perry has signed a multiyear, first-look feature pact with Netflix, with the multihyphenate planning to write, direct and produce films for the streamer. Perry is already working with Netflix on several titles, including Six Triple Eight, a World War II period film about the only all-Black, all-female battalion stationed overseas in the […]
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Tessa Thompson, Pete Nicks Join Sundance Board of Trustees
Tessa Thompson, Pete Nicks, Nina Fialkow, and Kimberly Steward have been named to the Sundance Institute’s Board of Trustees. They join a board of trustees that includes Jason Blum, Lulu Wang and Philipp Engelhorn, along with chair Ebs Burnough and vice chairs Sean Bailey and Gigi Pritzker. “As Sundance Institute continues to respond to the needs […]
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Meg Ryan Rom-Com Return ‘What Happens Later’ Lands Interim Agreement (Exclusive)
Meg Ryan’s much-anticipated return to the rom-com, What Happens Later, has landed an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA ahead of its Nov. 3 theatrical release. Bleecker Street is releasing the film nationwide, which stars David Duchovny and Ryan as a former couple who get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. The synopsis of the film reads: […]
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Skydance Animation Leaves Apple for Netflix Pact
Skydance Animation has signed a multiyear pact with Netflix to develop and produce animated movies for the streamer. First up for release under the deal is Spellbound, a title that was previously set up at Apple, where Skydance Animation signed a pact in 2021. Now, the animation arm of the David Ellison-run studio has found […]
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Michael Chow Shares the Pain Behind the Glamour in New Documentary ‘AKA Mr. Chow’
Michael Chow is meant to be in Riyadh. But as drones spell out his name in the sky above Saudi Arabia’s capital, heralding the Oct. 5 opening of the latest outpost of his eponymous restaurant, the charismatic restaurateur, artist and bon vivant is in his Los Angeles home, grounded with a positive COVID-19 test. He is […]
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