Minnie Driver is “so grateful to be alive” after suffering a neck injury in a “really bad car accident” in France. The Oscar-nominated actress shared the news on Thursday in a video on Instagram, in which she is laying in bed and wearing a neck brace. “I got into a really bad car accident a
Toronto Midnight Madness selection “Half,” the Malayalam vampire action thriller from Fragrant Nature Film Creations (FNFC), has been boarded by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment, which will present and distribute the film in Hindi across North India in association with AA Films. “Half” will be Excel’s first release from the Malayalam-language film industry.
The Zurich Film Festival will pay tribute to filmmaker Martin McDonagh as it gives a gala premiere to his latest film, “Wild Horse Nine,” starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell. The London-based director will receive the festival’s prestigious A Tribute To … Award in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to cinema,” and will also take
Fox ad sales rose 78% (108% for the TV division) during from April-June due to the FIFA Men’s World Cup. Overall profit dipped 3% year over year to $696 million. Distribution revenue was up 7%. Wall Street forecast earnings per share (EPS) of $1.34 on $3.6 billion in revenue, according to analyst consensus data provided
The U.K. has cleared Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. on competition grounds. The British government added that it would not intervene in the transaction on public interest grounds after Paramount beefed up promises about programming and news provision in the U.K. In a statement, the U.K.’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport
Boutique sales company Odd Slice Films has acquired worldwide rights to documentary “Concrete Land,” the debut feature of Palestinian-Jordanian director Asmahan Bkerat, ahead of its world premiere in Locarno Film Festival‘s Semaine de la Critique. Eight years in the making, “Concrete Land” follows one of the last Afro-Palestinian Bedouin families living on the outskirts of
