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‘Troublemaker’ Review: Antoine Fuqua’s Rushed Nelson Mandela Documentary Is Elevated by Evocative Animation
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (434+ words) The 'Training Day' and 'Equalizer' director's 94-minute Sundance premiere covers Mandela's life, with a boost from artist Thabang Lehobye. Watch enough biographical documentaries on film and television and it becomes difficult not to think that filmmakers are making a tacit…...
Leonardo DiCaprio Says Jane Goodall “Led With Hope” While Paying Tribute at Memorial Service
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (275+ words) The Oscar winner recalled his friendship and work with the late conservationist and environmental advocate during a ceremony at the Washington National Cathedral. Leonardo DiCaprio on Wednesday paid tribute to fellow environmental advocate Jane Goodall during a memorial service for…...
Netflix South African Crime Drama ‘Bad Influencer’ Gets Action-Packed Trailer
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (217+ words) Jo-Anne Reyneke and Cindy Mahlangu star in the series, created by Kudi Maradzika, about a luxury bag counterfeiter who teams up with a self-obsessed influencer to sell her bags and get herself out of debt. A single mother and luxury…...
Jack White Goes Scorched Earth on Donald Trump: “How Petty and Pathetic and Thin Skinned Could This Administration Get?”
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (428+ words) White issued a lengthy statement after a Trump Administration official called him a "washed-up, has-been loser" this week after White critiqued Trump's design choices at the Oval Office. The Trump administration is in yet another feud with a major musician…...
Locarno Pro Boss on Building Long-Term Relations, Solving Investment Challenges, the Success of ‘Flow’
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (483+ words) Markus Duffner, director of the Locarno Film Festival's industry strand, also shares his, maybe surprising, networking and pitching tip and why the Oscar win for Latvia's 'Flow' is also part of Locarno's legacy. Welcome to the2025 editionof theLocarnoFilm Festival'sLocarno Proindustry strand,…...
Three Six Zero Names Aimee Jessiman U.K. Head of Management
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (230+ words) She has been working with the likes of Calvin Harris'and'Swedish House Mafia. Music management company Three Six Zero Group, led by founder and CEO'Mark Gillespie, has named Aimee Jessiman U.K. head of management. Jessiman arrives having worked extensively with global acts…...
Max’s Best-Performing Local Original Production Is… Turkey’s ‘The Prince’
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (313+ words) "The response to 'Prens' just shows how strong the demand for high-quality, locally produced originals is and highlights Max as the home of this type of content," says top executive Deniz Sasmaz Oflaz. And the best-performing local original production, or…...
Hollywood Payroll Firm GreenSlate Shakes Up Leadership
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (217+ words) Founder and chief John Finn steps back as the company promotes longtime president Mike Leiba to CEO. GreenSlate, a Hollywood payroll company that offers software and services to production companies to track payments, process residuals and streamline accounting, is making…...
Nickelodeon Acquires Animated ‘Mr. Crocodile’ Series, Based on French Children’s Book
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (233+ words) Paramount Global's Nickelodeon'has acquired Mr. Crocodile, a new animated kids series based on the beloved French children's book'Monsieur Crocodile a Beaucoup Faim'(Mister Crocodile Is Very Hungry) by author Joann Sfar and published by Gallimard. The series, produced by Sfar's…...
Presley Chweneyagae, Star of South African Oscar-winner ‘Tsotsi’, Dies at 40
8+ mon, 18+ hour ago (324+ words) Chweneyagae also starred in the popular television drama 'The River.' Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who came to international prominence as the star of the Academy Award-winning feature Tsotsi, has died. He was 40. "It is with profound sadness that…...