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EXCLUSIVE: Following successful runs at the Royal Opera House in London and the LA Phil, the buzzy English-language opera Last Days has been adapted for the big screen by artist and filmmaker Matt Copson, who co-created the original opera with Oliver Leith.  Inspired by Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name and financed by Mubi, Spain’s AF Films, and LUMA, with additional support from Nina Pictures and Artemis Rising Foundation, the film is currently in production in Spain. Copson will direct the screen adaptation, with Agathe Rousselle (Titane) signed on to star. Rousselle also starred in the original…

Beta Cinema stalwart Thorsten Ritter is stepping down from his role as Executive Vice President Acquisitions, Sales & Marketing after 13 years in the role. Ritter, who joined the German company in 2012, played a played a key role in shaping Beta Cinema’s international strategy and contributed to the worldwide success of numerous award-winning productions. Titles handled by Beta Cinema under his watch include Child’s Pose, Jack, Sand Storm, The Happy Prince, Never Look Away, Styx, Calibre, Woman at War, System Crasher, Nowhere Special, I’m Your Man, One Last Evening, With Love, Hilde, William Tell and most recently Amrum. “It…

Although New York Magazine popularized the term ‘nepo baby‘ in 2022, Ben Stiller has long been familiar with criticism over having famous parents. The Emmy winner, who pays tribute to his parents in the documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, explained that he understands arguments “about access,” but considers it “a selling point” to have grown up around the industry. “I think it’s kinda like that Brat Pack thing, right? New York Magazine, they coined a phrase, and then it just became a thing,” he said on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show. “But it’s always been what it is,…

Although most marriages end in divorce, Wedding Crashers is celebrating 20 years strong with a return to theaters. Marking the movie’s porcelain anniversary, Warner Bros. Pictures is teaming up with Fathom Entertainment to bring the 2006 Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn-starring comedy back to the big screen on December 4 and 11. With Wedding Crashers‘ return to theater, audiences will also be treated to 10 minutes of deleted scenes that were included in the original home release. Tickets are now available online. Related Stories In Wedding Crashers, Wilson and Vaughn star as lifelong friends John and Jeremy, who have a tradition…

The hour is upon us, and Insider is back again. As always, we’ve got the top headlines from international film and TV. Jesse Whittock on the buttons. Let’s begin, and sign up to the newsletter here. Euro C-Suite Turbulence Getty Images Shareholders strike: The jockeying at the top of some of Europe’s biggest content makers will prove hugely consequential. With streaming rocking the European TV sector to its core over recent years, the likes of ProSiebenSat.1 Media, MediaForEurope (MFE) and Mediapro have been realigning their strategies to pivot to the digital revolution. Perhaps no single network has encapsulated the struggle…

Daniela Ruah To Direct ‘My Type’ With Sadie Stanley & Jacob Ward EXCLUSIVE: NCIS: Los Angeles star Daniela Ruah is directing romantic short film My Type, starring Sadie Stanley (Cruel Summer) and Jacob Ward (The Summer House). Inspired by a true story, My Type follows two twenty-somethings whose shared experience with Type 1 Diabetes sparks an unexpected love connection. Shot on 16mm film, the project reunites Ruah with cinematographer Rafael Leyva (Narcos: Mexico). It is produced by Nicole MacNaughton, who is also a manager at Untamed Artists, and her sister, Kimberly Pinkson, under their High High Productions banner. Filming is currently underway on location…

Irish-Scottish filmmaker Mark Cousins will curate the 38th European Film Awards ceremony to create “a live film essay” alongside a creative team also including film composer Dascha Dauenhauer and stage director Robert Lehniger. The announcement by the European Film Academy, which oversees the awards, comes as it attempts to reposition and expand the footprint of the European-cinema focused prizes and event within the wider awards season. The 38th ceremony will take place at the House of World Culture in Berlin on January 17 2026, rather than its previous traditional December slot. The date change first announced in 2023 to come…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Spruell, Honor Swinton Byrne and Jessica Madsen will topline Tidepools, a coming-of-age wartime feature from Marius D’Gasco. International sales will kick off at AFM. The pic was filmed along Croatia’s Adriatic coast. Set during a time of escalating war in Europe, the story follow two boys from opposite sides of a modern-day conflict who form an unlikely bond. Alongside Spruell (A Knight of the Seven Kingdom), Swinton Byrne (The Souvenir), and Madsen (Bridgerton), an ensemble cast includes rising stars Charlie Hodson-Prior (Dune: Prophecy) and Tom Mulheron (Black Mirror) as the two 13-year-old protagonists. The film follows Pasha (Mulheron), a young refugee sent to live with his aunt (Swinton-Byrne). He befriends Misha (Hodson-Prior), the son…

The Red Sea Film Festival is set to make cinema history for Saudi Arabia at its upcoming edition as it hosts the country’s first silent film screening accompanied by a live musical accompaniment. The UK’s silent film musical specialist Neil Brand will provide live accompaniment to three silent slapstick shorts from Buster Keaton (One Week), Charlie Chaplin (The Immigrant) and Laurel & Hardy (Liberty). The live music screening event comes as Saudi Arabia continues to grow its film culture and industry in the wake of the lifting of its 35-year cinema ban in 2017. It was announced as part of…

Recently elected Writers Guild of America West President Michele Mulroney delivered a rousing speech at the No Kings protest in Los Angeles, decrying President Donald Trump and his administration’s recent actions curtailing Hollywood writers’ freedom of expression, specifically via the targeting of late-night shows. “I’m here today representing our union, the Writers Guild of America West, and its 11,000 film, television, and news writers,” Mulroney began. “As writers, our currency is words and stories. The freedom to express ourselves is a fundamental American right and the very core of our democracy. And it’s under attack by this administration. They are using…