EXCLUSIVE: Kôji Fukada makes his Cannes Competition debut this month with Nagi Notes and Deadline can reveal a first clip. Takako Matsu stars as Yoriko, an artist living in rural Nagi, nursing the wounds of a failed love affair she cannot bear to mourn. Friend and former sister-in-law Yuri (Shizuka Ishibashi) travels from Tokyo to…
Culver City has sweetened the pot. Six months after the the Culver City Council voted for a package of incentives to support film and TV production, the city has waived key fees and parking restrictions in an effort to attract more production activity in the area that was once known as “the Heart of Screenland.”…
After publicly supporting Donald Trump and the Republican Party in recent months, Nicki Minaj is opening up about why she became vocal in her support for the President. During an interview with Time, Minaj says a major reason that she was turned off to Democrats was that after her home was “swatted” several times after…
British-Australian indie powerhouse See-Saw Films has signed a multi-year strategic slate production financing partnership with Paris-based investment firm Entourage Ventures. Under the deal, Entourage will invest up to $50 million in equity over the next three years across a slate of features for See-Saw, recently acquired by Mediawan. See-Saw is behind hit TV shows such…
Allegations that “Storage Wars” star Darrell Sheets was being cyber-bullied continue to be investigated in the wake of his April 22 death, Lake Havasu Police said Tuesday. Additionally, Sheets’ death has been officially ruled a suicide, said Lake Havasu Police Sergeant Kyle Ridgway. The 67-year-old reality TV star was found dead of what appeared to…
EXCLUSIVE: Variance Films has boarded The Cycle Of Love, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel (Virunga), for theatrical distribution in the U.S. this August. Exec-produced by Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, the film charts the “true story of PK, a 23-year-old street artist from Delhi who sets off with a handful of paintbrushes and a second-hand bicycle on a 6,000-mile journey across…