India’s Epic Studios has partnered with Rusk Media Private Limited (RMPL) to produce 50 original vertical drama series, aiming to build the country’s largest library of owned vertical-drama intellectual property. The slate will span genres including mythology, drama, mystery, thriller and romance. The series will premiere on Alright! TV, Rusk Media’s platform for original vertical-drama
Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Visar Morina returns to the Sarajevo Film Festival — the scene of a previous triumph — with the biting social drama “Shame and Money,” which won the top prize in Park City earlier this year and is playing in the festival’s main competition. The director’s third feature wowed audiences at Sundance,
GRAMADO, Brazil — Vet Brazilian helmer-producer Paulo Nascimento will lense “A Chocolate Christmas,” a Portuguese-language holiday-themed feature film in the mountain resort of Gramado, in southern Brazil, and New York City, he told Variety. The film will shoot over December and January. Nascimento is set announce the film project t his panel on Sunday at
Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning’s upcoming legal thriller series “Discretion” at Paramount+ is officially in production, with the series adding two new cast members. Both Stephan James (“I Play Rocky,” “If Beale Street Could Talk”) and Colton Ryan (“The Girl From Plainville,” Broadway’s “New York, New York”) are joining Kidman and Fanning in the show,
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Goya-nominated actress Zoe Bonafonte (“El 47”) will play Spain’s first female soccer player, Ana “Nita” Carmona Ruiz, in “Veleta,” a Spain-Argentina co-production directed and co-written by Paco Torres (“The Magic of Hope”) and now shooting in Andalusia. Goya winner Dani Rovira and “Vikings” actor Moe Dunford also star. Amaya Muruzábal, creator of “Hernán” and showrunner