Newton Cinema Unveils Prestige South Asian Slate Headed By Salim Ahamed’s ‘Leftover’ & Prasanna Vithanage’s ‘The Gambler’

Cannes is ready to welcome some scream-worthy titles to the Fantastic Pavilion Gala Screenings, which are set to take place over May 12-18 at Cannes’ Marché du Film.  The section, spotlighting international genre filmmaking, will feature an abundance of “horror, elevated thrillers and dystopian narratives,” promised the organizers. It will open with “El Convento” and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ireland-UK producer Mike Downey and Istanbul-based Emir Külal Haznevi have joined forces on boutique film financing outfit Saudade Ink to develop, produce and invest in arthouse cinema from across the world. The film production and development fund, which has been pulled together with a consortium of private individuals from Turkey and the Middle East, […]

EXCLUSIVE: James Badge Dale (World War Z), Elena Anaya (Wonder Woman) and Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) have been set to star in writer-director Mel Rodriguez III’s (In Stereo) crime thriller Interference. Set in Spain, Interference “follows a successful American expat whose carefully constructed life with his wife and son begins to unravel after he is arrested for […]

Maxence Voiseux's feature debut, world premiering in Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, follows the titular young man in northern France from age 8 to 18.