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Lionsgate International will begin sales talks in Cannes next month on The Blair Witch Project reboot at Lionsgate and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster. Dylan Clark, who has built up a YouTube following through his horror shorts, will direct from his rewrite of an original screenplay by Chris Devlin. Sources said the project brings “the full mythology and legacy of the franchise to a new generation of storytelling”. The 1999 original remains a pioneering found-footage horror film about an ill-fated documentary crew that set out to investigate the folklore surrounding a witch inhabiting the Maryland woods. Made for less than $60,000 and distributed in…

EXCLUSIVE: Tessa Thompson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Owen Cooper are attached to star in Foxfinder, a psychological thriller from Severance director Aoife McArdle. Production will begin this summer in Bavaria, Germany on the film, which is based on Dawn King’s 2011 play of the same name, with a screenplay co-written by McArdle and King.  Foxfinder will follow Jude and Sam, a grieving couple clinging to routine and survival, whose lives are upended when William, a coldly devout government “foxfinder,” arrives at their struggling farm with a mission to root out the designated enemy – the fox. As paranoia festers and absurd regulations tighten their grip,…

Annecy International Animation Film Festival has unveiled its 2026 lineup, which includes 11 features in the main competition and previews of upcoming work from studios including Pixar, Universal and Netflix. The festival will open on June 21 with the world premiere of Pierre Coffin’s Minions & Monsters, ahead of its worldwide rollout from July 1 through Universal. It is the seventh feature in the Despicable Me/Minions franchise, and follows the small yellow creatures in the 1920s as they search for creatures for their monster movie, but must then save the planet after unleashing monsters. Scroll down for the Official, Contrechamp…

San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF) has announced that Maialen Beloki will replace José Luis Rebordinos as director in 2027. Rebordinos, who has been in charge of the festival since 2011, previously confirmed that the upcoming edition (September 18-26) will be his last in the post. Beloki will start in her new role on January 1, 2027. The festival’s executive board – comprised of City Council of San Sebastian, the regional government of Gipuzkoa, the Basque government, and the Spanish ministry of culture – voted unanimously. The formal process to name the successor to Rebordinos began in March. Born in San…

Movistar Plus+ chief exec Daniel Domenjó has been dismissed from his role at the Spanish pay TV and streaming giant. The move from Marc Murtra, president of Movistar parent Telefónica, comes 14 months after the former Satisfaction Iberia boss took up the position. According to Spanish business title El Economista, the position will be filled by Alfonso Gómez Palacio, currently the executive president of Telefónica in Latin America. In addition to becoming the new chief exec of Movistar Plus+, the Colombian-born executive will also join the management committee of Telefónica Spain. Rumours that Domenjó would be dismissed began circulating in…

South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook will direct the English-language western The Brigands Of Rattlecreek starring Matthew McConaughey, Pedro Pascal, and Austin Butler. 193 will commence pre-sales in Cannes next month. Park, whose credits include recent South Korean Oscar submission No Other Choice, Oldboy, and Decision To Leave, will helm from a screenplay by S. Craig Zahler. Bradley J. Fischer is producing. McConaughey plays Sheriff Bill Adams, who witnesses the massacre of his wife and their townspeople by a gang of gunslingers led by Henry Lee (Butler). Adams must team up with the enigmatic Dr. Abraham Weiss (Pascal) who is himself hell-bent…

Switzerland’s Visions du Reel documentary film festival has selected the winners for its 57th edition, with Xisi Sofia Ye Chen’s From Dawn To Dawn taking the top prize. Chen’s debut feature, a Spain-France co-production, won the 20,000 CHF ($25,486) Grand Jury Prize in the International Feature Film Competition. It depicts Chen’s brother A Wen, now a family man in Barcelona, who was involved in the Chinese criminal community in Spain in his youth. Scroll down for the full list of festival, industry winners The jury for the International Feature Film Competition consisted of Marrakech Film Festival artistic director Remi Bonhomme,…

Ignasi Camós, who served as director general of Spain’s film body ICAA since June 2023, has died. He was 56. Spain’s culture ministry confirmed the news on Thursday (April 23) and paid tribute to Camós’s “commitment and public service”. Camós, who died of cancer, was appointed to his role following the departure of Beatriz Navas and remained in the post under successive culture ministers, including Miquel Iceta and current minister Ernest Urtasun. A doctor in law, Camós combined an academic career with long experience in public administration. He was a tenured professor of labour and social security law at the…

The Drama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson has crossed $100m at the worldwide box office, becoming A24’s fifth film to do so after Everything Everywhere All At Once, Civil War, Materialists, and Marty Supreme. The romantic two-hander directed by Kristoffer Borgli reached the milestone on Tuesday (April 21) and as of the morning of April 22 stood at $101.3m worldwide, $60.2m internationally, and $41.1m in North America, The film, budgeted at approximately $25m, has grossed $11.1m in the UK through Entertainment, $5.6m in France through Metropolitan, $5.4m in Italy through I Wonder and CIS through Volga, $4.2m in Mexico through…

EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Ackie, Alison Oliver, Éanna Hardwicke and Armande Boulanger are leading the cast of To Make Ends Meat, the second feature from Hoard filmmaker Luna Carmoon, which wrapped a six-week shoot in and around London last month. To Make Ends Meat follows three women, all in debt to despicable men, their pasts, and each other. The women find themselves bargaining to survive in the only language these men seem to understand: consumption and violence. Goodfellas is handling international sales and will launch the film at Cannes, with True Brit holding UK-Ireland distribution rights. The film reunites Carmoon with Hoard…