Film

Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo and CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz are among the investors in production payroll startup Wrapbook, which just raised $27 million in Series A financing. In a blog post, co-founder and CEO Ali Javid said other investors include Equal Ventures, and Uncork Capital and venture capital firm…

IFC Films has acquired the North American rights to Sonia Kennebeck's (National Bird) documentary thriller Enemies of the State which is executive produced by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War). The docu will be released this summer. Enemies of the State, which made its world premiere at…

Norton Juster, author of the acclaimed modern classic children’s books The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line, died last night. He was 91. His death was confirmed by Penguin Random House. Additional details were not immediately available. Both of Juster’s most well-known works of the early 1960s were adapted…

What a difference a year makes. After last year's BAFTA film nominations sparked outrage due to a lack of diversity, the organization’s top brass couldn’t be more thrilled with this year's dramatic U-turn in nominations. Speaking to Deadline, BAFTA chair Krishnendu Majumdar and film committee chair Marc Samuelson both…

Nomadland and Rocks lead the diverse list of BAFTA Film nominees for 2021. Scroll down for the nominations in full. Chloé Zhao and Sarah Gavron’s films scored seven nominations each, including nods for the filmmakers in the best director category. Nomadland was one of five nominations in the best film category…

UPDATE This livestream has now finished. You can check out the full list of nominees here. EARLIER: Nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards are being announced today in London via a livestream [above] that begins at 14:00 GMT/6:00AM PST. BAFTA Chair Krishnendu Majumdar will be joined by actresses Aisling…

Arthouse streamer and distributor Mubi has acquired all rights for Céline Sciamma's well-received Berlin Film Festival title Petite Maman for the UK, Ireland and Turkey. Sciamma's follow-up to Cannes hit Portrait of a Lady on Fire, tells the story of 8-year-old Nelly who has just lost her beloved grandmother and is…

Thanks to decreased case numbers and changes implemented by the state in response to vaccination efforts, Los Angeles County officials said Monday that they are preparing to advance to a less-restrictive tier of the state’s Covid-19 economic reopening blueprint as early as next week. But whether the county will…

Women in Film Los Angeles has a half-dozen new board members. New to the board are Niija Kuykendall, EVP Production at Warner Bros Pictures; Michelle Lee, Director of Domestic Programming at AppleTV+; film producer Monica Levinson (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; Doc McStuffins creator and EP Chris Nee; Shivani Rawat…

"I mean, Jim Brown always been Jim Brown," laughs One Night In Miami star Aldis Hodge of the NFL legend he portrays in the Regina King-directed film. "The fact that he is still with us adds a different degree of pressure for me because I know that he is going to see it," Hodge added. "And any time you do a biopic, you…

Leon Gast, the veteran filmmaker who won a Documentary Feature Oscar for helming the 1996 “Rumble in the Jungle” pic When We Were Kings, died Monday. He was 85. The news was confirmed by the Woodstock Film Festival, of which Gast was a founding advisory board member and a 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree. Gast…

As much as the first hour of the Zack Snyder’s upcoming four-hour director’s cut of Justice League was leaked on HBO Max on Monday, the streaming service confirmed, with some subscribers who attempted to watch Tom & Jerry getting a major glimpse of the secret project 10 days before the film was to premiere. Twitter…