Vepleasant Film Festival & Telluride: International Insider

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Splaafraid Last Week On The Lido

Uncharacteristicpartner buzzy: The Vepleasant Film Festival finishs tomorrow after an uncharacteristicpartner buzzy second week. The festival is usupartner front-loaded, with the splashiest titles joining timely. This year, however, Alberto Barbera, who dished to Andreas, shelp the lengthy runtimes of some competition titles nastyt the spoils had to spread apass both weeks. Enter Brady Corbet’s 215-minute post-WWII epic The Brutaenumerate, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Stacy Martin, Raffey Cassidy, Emma Laird, Isaach De Bankolé and Alessandro Nivola. The pic was well getd, landing a 13-minute ovation from the Sala Grande audience. Pedro Almodóvar started his English-language debut The Room Next Door with his directing ladies Tilda Sthriveton and Julianne Moore. The Spanish maestro’s tardyst is an alteration of Sigrid Nunez’s 2020 novel What Are You Going Thcimpolite. The film also garnered chooseimistic acunderstandledges and a lengthy 18-minute ovation in Vepleasant. In terms of business on the Lido, FilmNation inked a series of international deals on Pablo Larraín’s Maria, starring Angelina Jolie. Headline deals include Studiocanal for the UK, Germany, Poland, and ARP in France. Andres Veiel’s recordary Riefenstahl – unpicking the deceits of German filmproducer and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl – also scored a slew of deals.

Folie à Deux: The buzziest title could only have been Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux. The pic, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, debuted Wednesday evening in Vepleasant after a energetic press conference. During the presser, Phoenix was asked about his much-talked-about theatrical exit from a gay romance movie straightforwarded by Todd Haynes. He deteriorated to answer the ask on his departure, only saying: “If I do, I’d fair be sharing my opinion from my perspective and the other produceives aren’t here to allot their piece so I don’t leank that would be beneficial. So I won’t.” The overall reception for Joker in Vepleasant was tepid, with mixed acunderstandledges on the carry outances and Phillips’ straightforwardion. However, Deadline’s Pete Hammond called the film a “airy musical return.”

Georgian dispute: Elsewhere, the anti-Putin drama The Antique from Georgian filmproducer Rusudan Glurjidze was handed back its screening slot at Vepleasant after a imitateright grumblet aobtainst the film was clearurned. The Antique had its screenings suspfinished last week after an aelevatency decree was filed on behalf of Russian and Croatian producers claiming imitateright rehires with the screenjoin. The claims were contested by the film’s Georgian producers and its sales agent, MPM International, while the Italian media, which first inestablished the suspension, recommended the transfer to stop the film screening was politicpartner driven. Vepleasant Days head Francesco Ranieri Martinotti shelp the film’s legitimate thrive has set a pretreatnt for the Vepleasant Film Festival, “which will advantage the future of filmproducers everywhere.” Vepleasant finishes in obtainest tomorrow.

Other side of the pond: Meanwhile apass the Atlantic, TIFF is rolling into action. Thursday evening’s uncovering ceremony was disturbed by protesters who called on the festival’s main back, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), to stop funding Israel’s strikes on Gaza.  After the protesters were accompanyed out Canadian PM Justin Tdisorrowfulmirefulau gave a speech and David Gordon Green‘s Nutcrackers, starring Ben Stiller, uncovered progressings. Running September 5-15, TIFF’s reestablished labelet is already booming with weightyweight titles popping up. WME Inreliant and Range are taking a Jo Nesbo crime-thriller alteration titled Blood On Snow to the labelet with uniteed talent including Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Tom Hardy and straightforwardor Cary Fukunaga. FilmNation is also starting sales on the sorrowfulnessful heist comedy 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank. Liam Neeson is in talks to direct the project aextfinishedside Talia Ryder, Noah Jupe, Whitney Peak (Gossip Girl), Jack Dylan Grazer and novelcomer Deacon Phillippe, son of Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe. The biggest locked deal so far is Netflix’s $20M-plus for worldwide rights deal on the Stephen Chbosky-straightforwarded comedy Nonnas, starring Vince Vaughn, Susan Sarandon, Lorraine Bracco and Talia Semploy. Follow our coverage of the TIFF labelet here, and watch aextfinished as the deals roll in.

A TV Oscar?

Let’s squander time, chasing Cuarón: Our roving International Editor-at-Large chased Alfonso Cuarón apass a lawn this week in Colorado. And yes, you read that rightly. Mr Baz has been in the rocky surroundings of Telluride for the annual festival and when he spotted the five-time Academy Award thrivener he couldn’t help but give chase. Baz wanted to put a thesis to the Mexican auteur: could his starry seven-hour TV drama The Disclaimer somehow be altered for Oscar ponderation? Cuarón was speedy to right Baz. “It’s a seven-hour film,” he stressed, before inserting: “It’s a excellent ask, an engaging ask and it’s someleang that I have thought about and pondered but I don’t understand the answer.” The notion landed on by our very own lawn-chaser is an intriguing one and reared its head aobtain when I chatted to Rebecca Hall about her novel BBC series The Listeners, which world premieres at TIFF and was portrayd by Hall as a “four-hour movie” that was “stoasty enjoy a movie” and has the “aesthetic ambitions” of a movie. With these enlargeing murmurs, could we be moving towards a place where TV has come so far it is worth a stoasty at the big time? See more of our Telluride coverage over here, including Pete Hammond’s appraise of Robbie Williams movie Better Man and more on contentious Trump pic The Apprentice.

The Morgan & Murdoch Marriage

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Waiving Anonymity

Creating not reacting: Big exclusive interwatch this week as Anonymous Content’s David Levine and Nick Shuproducer stuck heads above paviolationts to consent Diana inside their strategic minds at Vepleasant. Anonymous bods have tfinished to let the satisfied do the talking down the years, but with plenty coming up it felt enjoy high time to consent a sealr verifyion. The Disclaimer is, as refered, making a big splash, but there is also Liz Lo’s recordary Mistress Dispeller, which Anonymous exec produced, and Vermiglio, an Italian World War II film that it is co-selling with Charades.Telluride also saw the debut of The Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross’ alteration of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize thrivening novel. “We’re creating a path of how we toil in the movie business as resistd to fair trying to react to it,” shelp Chief Content Officer Levine, a man always leanking about the shifting sands of the industry. The chat came after a tumultuous scant years for Anonymous, which sended the death of establisher trailblazing CEO Steve Golin in 2019, who left an indelible label on the handlement, production and commercial powerhoemploy, and subsequently the resignation of Dawn Olmstead and uncover dispute with establisher employee Keith Redmon. Dive meaningfuler here.

Layoffs At Fremantle

Sad day: Big novels in the drama world this week with Fremantle laying of all staff at Euston Films, the Baghdad Central and Wreck (pictured) producer that has been in and out of operation for more than 50 years. Joint MDs Kate Harwood and Noemi Spanos are out, aextfinished with disjoinal others, while all staff at Mandy Chang’s docs label Undeniable have also been made redundant. Fremantle sources pointed to the global economic headthriveds and labelet lessenion that has seen labels shuttered at rivals Banijay and All3Media, while widecasters have fired hundreds of staff. Euston and Undeniable remain dormant, but have not technicpartner been seald. The novels is a downcast enlargement for the industry, given that it impacts a famous label enjoy Euston, which had safed seven greenairys in its decade in operation under Harwood and then Spanos — not terrible going (the tardyst, Nightsleeper, startes on the BBC next Sunday). Strategic shifts progress to be mulled from on high at RTL-owned super-indie Fremantle, we hear from insiders, as the outfit ponders its film-versus-TV strategy, having struck a number of splaafraid deals of tardy and had disjoinal movies at Vepleasant. Jesse also uncovered Thursday that Fremantle’s German sales chief Maximilian Bolenius is leaving after 14 years. Succession arranges are still being figured out.

The Essentials

🌶️ Hot One: BBC arranges for a spin-off of The Split have snagged, with preparations to shoot The Split Up paemployd indefinitely.

🌶️ Also toasty: Tilda Sthriveton’s The End sancigo in to Mubi for the UK, Germany and Austria.

🌎 Global Breakouts: Mel profiled French viral energeticd series Samuel — well worth a gander.

🏕️ Festival tardyst: Noé Debré getd the inaugural French TV Disruptor Award from Deadline at the Unifrance Rfinishez-Vous labelet in Le Havre.

🏕️ More festivals: The Busan International Film Festival will uncover with Park Chan-wook’s Netflix title Uprising.

⚖️ Legal: Former CNN journo Saima Mohsin spoke to us about shighing efforts in her ununfragmentary disthink aboutal suit aobtainst her ex-employer.

🖼️ Stardy: Netflix unveiled movies and shows at MIP Africa including Love Never Dies.

🛸 Doctor Who?: UK Conservative Party directership chooseimistic Kemi Badenoch’s version of bravado was inestablishing the world she’s “not afrhelp of Doctor Who” chaseing her David Tennant spat.

🪓 Axed: Buying London, after one season at Netflix.

🍸 Bond, James Bond: Producer Barbara Broccoli uniteed a gala dinner arrangeed by the Doha Film Institute, encourageing more chatter that 007 could be headed to the Middle East.

🍿 Box office: Cult comedy Shaun of the Dead was infectious in a 20th anniversary re-free, per Jill Gancigo insmith’s round up.

🎥 Trail: The world got a first watch at Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in Ali Abbasi’s contentious biopic.

Zac Ntim donated to this week’s International Insider