EXCLUSIVE: Gabin, set to premiere Thursday in Cannes, tells a classic coming of age story, a boy growing up in Northern France who must choose whether to follow a path prescribed by his family or strike out on his own. The documentary directed by Maxence Voiseux bows in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, alongside fictional titles…
Reflecting on the breakout success of Mackenzie Crook’s Small Prophets, BBC comedy chief Jon Petrie is pleased that his team failed to land an American co-producer. With nearly eight million views after its first 28 days, Small Prophets is the BBC’s biggest scripted launch of 2026 and one of its biggest of the decade. Petrie…
“The Incomer,” Louis Paxton’s debut feature starring Domhnall Gleeson, has been picked up by Focus Features for international rights and is now also set to open this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival. The Scottish folk-comedy-drama, focussing on the clash between a pair of isolated siblings and a government worker on a remote, windswept island, premiered in…
Mel B, the former Spice Girl and a judge on “America’s Got Talent,” musician Jacob Collier, TV host Padma Lakshmi, actor Natalie Dormer, best known for “Game of Thrones,” U.K. TV hosts Ant and Dec, and Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, are among the latest star names to be added as speakers…
Amazon is taking center stage at this year’s RTS London and will chair the bi-annual convention, with international chief Kelly Day set to keynote. Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios have been named principal sponsor of the storied event for the first time and Tara Erer, Head of Northern European Originals, will chair. Joining Day…
It is ironic, in a film of precious little irony, that Marie Kreutzer’s intelligently made but unremittingly bleak “Gentle Monster” — the Austrian director’s Cannes competition-selected follow-up to her Un Certain Regard prizewinner “Corsage” — should not only begin and end with a trampoline, but should to some degree pivot on the uncomplicatedly happy image…