The trailer for Christian Gudagest's Den of Thieves 2: Pantera has arrived. Written and directed by Gudegast and based on characters created by Gudegast and Paul Scheuring, the clip watches Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr. reunite after their tense history for a sequel to 2018's action-heist Den o…

EXCLUSIVE: Scandi crime master Jo Nesbø is adapting his recent novel The Night House, a Stephen King-esque tale set in small town America in the mid-eighties, into a horror movie to film next spring. The project combines Nesbø with veteran producer Fredrik Wikström Nicastro (A Man Called Otto) of…

EXCLUSIVE: Drafthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to Ebony and Ivory, the latest surreal comedy from writer-director Jim Hosking, ahead of its world premiere at Fantastic Fest. The move puts Drafthouse back in business with the filmmaker following their collaboration on the darkly comedic…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to the fantasy pic In the Lost Lands, reuniting Resident Evil filmmaker Paul W.S. Anderson and star Milla Jovovich, from Constantin Film. Based on a short story by Game of Thrones‘ George R.R. Martin, the film also stars Dave Bautista of the Guardians of…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Beals (Flashdance) has wrapped a lead role opposite Chloe Bennet and Phil Dunster in the New Mexico-set alien dramedy Hello Out There, marking the first feature from writer-director Otis Blum. Shot over the summer in New Mexico, the film centers on Minnie (Bennet), a young…

Global soccer star Lionel Messi is launching a production company. 525 Rosario is named after the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner’s Argentina hometown and has been formed with Smuggler Entertainment, which produced Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend and Messi Meets America. The JV will make…

EXCLUSIVE: Flavor Unit Entertainment, Westbrook Studios, and Jesse Collins Entertainment are teaming to produce a slate of Hip Hop biopics about iconic artists, the first of which will be about the rise of Queen Latifah. Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere will produce on behalf of Flavor Unit…

Netflix’s all-out assault on the Spanish-language content market is paying off. The latest Netflix ‘What We Watched’ data dump — or ‘engagement report’ in the streamer’s lexicon — shows seven Spanish-language TV shows, including Money Heist spin-off Berlin, were in the 100 most-watched for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first footage for under-the-radar North American indie pic The Chinatown Diner, whose cast is led by Alien: Romulus breakout Aileen Wu. Curtis Lum (The Night Agent), Andrea Bang (Kim's Convenience), Olivia Cheng (Warrior) and Tzi Ma (Mulan) also star. The coming-of-age…

Apple Original Films on Thursday unveiled the first trailer for Blitz, its WWII drama from Oscar- and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), in which four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan stars opposite newcomer Elliott Heffernan. Hitting select theaters November 1 and debuting…

Norway has selected Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s Armand, starring Renata Reinsve, to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Oscars. The drama was selected from a short list of three films that also included Erik Poppe's psychological drama Quisling – The Final Days and…

Rome’s MIA Market has seen a 20% increase in submissions for its Co-Production Market and Pitching Forum, with 60 of the 600 received selected to be presented. The number of submissions rose from 80 to 90, with a 12.5% increase in the number of countries of origin. Genres span drama, docs, film and…