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In the upcoming episode of “Sue Thomas F.B.Eye,” titled “Concrete Evidence,” the stakes are high as the team dives into a complex case that could change everything. This episode, airing at 11:00 Am on Friday, September 20, 2024, on Ovation, promises to keep fans on the edge of their seats.

The story centers around a man who has already served five long years in prison for the murder of an FBI agent. As the team investigates, they uncover new evidence that could challenge the original conviction. Sue and her colleagues work tirelessly to piece together the facts, determined to find the truth behind the crime. The tension builds as they race against time, knowing that the wrong decision could lead to an innocent man remaining behind bars.

Viewers can expect plenty of twists and turns in this gripping episode. With Sue’s keen instincts and the team’s dedication, “Concrete...

HollyShorts Film Festival is returning for its 20th edition with a star-studded lineup.

400 films have been selected from over 6,000 entries with films from Zoe Saldana, Bella Thorne and Jamie Lee Curtis making the final cut.

HollyShorts includes four Oscar-qualifying categories, including documentary short film, best short film grand prize, best short animation and best short live-action.

The live-action short film entries include “How Can I Help You” directed by Eliza Scanlen and starring Thomasin McKenzie, Marco Perego’s “Dovecote” with Zoe Saldana, “Dammi” starring Riz Ahmed and Isabelle Adjani, Ken Cheng’s “Summons” starring Jimmy O. Yang and Alexandra Shipp, “Midnight” from legendary Japanese director Takashi Miike, Louisa Connolly-Burnham’s “Sister Wives” featuring Mia McKenna-Bruce, “Hearts of Stone” with Noomi Rapace and Jessica Barden, “French” directed by Dylan Joseph, produced by Shira Nagan and exec produced by Kobi Mizrahi, “Vlog” starring and directed by Yvonne Strahovski, “Edge of Space” directed by Jean de Meuron,...

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week we’re talking to leading German producer Fabian Gasmia, whose credits include Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper, Leos Carax’s Annette and, more recently, Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry starrer Treasure, which had its North American premiere at Tribeca last weekend. Gasmia, who set up production banner Seven Elephants in 2018 with directors Julia von Heinz, Erik Schmitt and David Wnendt, talks us through building that outfit, his “special relationship” with France and why he thinks German cinema is having a “renaissance.”

International relationships are proving more significant than ever in what is now a fragile and economically strained independent film market and Fabian Gasmia is proving to be a European partner with clout. The German producer, who recently produced Lena Dunham...

Holidays and awards season collide with a plethora of Oscar contenders vying for screens––whether it’s The Color Purple (December 25), Ferrari (December 25), or George Clooney’s latest, The Boys in the Boat (December 25).

The latter I only heard about last week, courtesy of a poster standee in the back of my local Regal Cinemas, but they’ve each been given a rather generic marketing campaign thus far due, the pedigree of their source material and / or director doing most of the heavy lifting. It’s the indies below that needed to go above and beyond to throw their hats in the ring and make sure some of that box-office money moves their way.

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A24 and GrandSon come in to try their best that The Iron Claw (December 22) gets a fighting chance. They do so with an unconventional cast photo wherein no one’s face is visible. Yes,...

Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.

Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.

The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...

Universal’s ‘Oppenheimer’ nears $650m worldwide.

Worldwide box office Aug 11-13, 2023 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) 3-day (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. No More Bets (various) $87.9m $231.9m $87.9m $231.9m 1 2. Barbie (Warner Bros) $78.8m $1.18bn $45.1m $657.6m 76 3. Meg 2: The Trench (Warner Bros) $56.4m $256.9m $43.7m $202.8m 76 4. Oppenheimer (Universal) $50.7m $649m $31.9m $384.8m 80 5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount) $26.2m $94.7m $10.4m $21.9m 48 6. Creation Of The Gods: Part 1 (various) $23.9m $275.6m $23.9m $275.6m 1 7. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount) $15.6m $522.5m $10.9m $362.9m 68 8. Gran Turismo: Based On A True Story (Sony) $10.7m $10.7m $10.7m...

Exclusive: As production on his new actioner Den of Thieves 2: Pantera continues, Christian Gudegast has been set to write and direct a new film on mixed martial artist Royce Gracie and the birth of the Ultimate Fighting Championship for frequent partner Tucker Tooley Entertainment.

The Untitled Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Project takes place on the night that Gracie proved Brazilian Jiu-jitsu as the most effective fighting style, one that would ultimately become a major component of today’s UFC mixed martial arts. It more specifically chronicles Gracie’s debut in UFC 1 on November 12, 1993, when the fighter achieved the unthinkable during the organization’s inaugural competition. This night that had him besting three competitors is considered to be that on which the UFC was born.

Derived from Japanese jiu-jitsu, which is rooted in samurai traditions, Gracie Jiu-jitsu formed in Brazil in the 1920s when Japanese fighter Mitsuyo Maeda moved from Japan to...

To no one’s surprise, Edward Berger’s epic WWI drama All Quiet on the Western Front is the front runner for this year’s German film awards. The Netflix feature, which picked up nine Oscar nominations and won four — both records for a German movie — received 12 nominations on Friday for Germany’s top cinema honor, known as the Lola.

The film, the first German-language adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque classic 1929 anti-war novel, is the clear favorite going into this year’s Lolas. In addition to the Oscar sweep — the film won best international feature, best cinematography, best production design, and best score at this year’s Academy Awards — All Quiet on the Western Front dominated the 2023 Baftas, taking seven trophies, including for best film and best director.

All Quiet was nominated in every Lola category it qualified for, including best film, best director for Berger, and best actor...

Festival to also honour French cinematographer Caroline Champetier with honorary Berlinale Camera.

The Berlinale has added the world premiere of documentary Love To Love You, Donna Summer and a tribute to a century of Disney animation to its upcoming 73rd edition.

The additions complete the lineup for the Berlinale Special sidebar at the festival, set to run February 16-26.

Love To Love You, Donna Summer is co-directed by Roger Ross Williams, Oscar nominated in 2016 for Life, Animated, and US actress Brooklyn Sudano, who is the daughter of Summer and makes her directorial debut with the film.

The documentary will explore...

Event took place in Trieste from January 22-25

Projects from Spain, Ukraine and Belgium shared the top prizes at this year’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum, which was held in Trieste from January 22-25.

Spanish filmmaker Enrique Buleo’s Still Life With Ghosts won the €5,000 Center Serbia Award. Produced by Spain’s Quatre Films and France’s Ikki Films, the film tells the story of ghosts and humans who seek to resolve their everyday problems in a small village in rural Spain. Buleo’s short Hell and Such received a Special Jury Mention at the 2019 Clermont-Ferrand festival.

Welcome to Antoine Bourges’ love letter to the Thorncliffe Park apartment complex, better known as “Arrival City”—the usual landing spot for new immigrants coming into Toronto. Titled Concrete Valley and starring a mix of professional and amateur actors blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction, Bourges’ film spends a lot of time with residents to help flesh out their motives and narrative in the form of Rashid (Hussam Douhna) and Farah (Amani Ibrahim), a Syrian couple who have already been living there for five years. The palpable tension in their marriage as he lies in bed while she readies for work reveals things haven’t been easy. There’s little warmth shared between them beyond their love for their young son (Abdullah Nadaf’s Ammar).

Instead it’s mostly tired exasperation as they attempt to survive what has proven an impossibly frustrating transition due to both having to give...

Home will return for a second season at Apple TV+.

Unveiled on Tuesday, the streamer shared that it will continue to highlight elevated home design across the world with Season 2 of the Emmy-nominated docuseries Home, which will premiere on Friday, June 17.

Home‘s second season will feature new destinations and offer viewers unprecedented access into the world’s most innovative living spaces. Each episode in the second season will unveil the boundary-pushing imagination of the visionaries who dared to dream and build them around the world, including the Netherlands, South Africa, Indonesia, Australia, Mexico, Iceland, and more. Through these unique stories from the homeowners, their deep intention and unique vision is unveiled in the remarkable homes they’ve created, leaving an indelible impact on those around them.

Home is produced for Apple by A24 and is executive produced by Matthew Weaver, Kim Rozenfeld, Ian Orefice, Alyse Walsh, Collin Orcutt, Ben Cotner,...

The Asian titles for the September edition of Monthly Indie Shorts have been announced. They can be watched from September,1 till September 15, at monthlyindieshorts.com.

Ekjon Esshorer Golpo:The Story Of God

Directed by

Layek Ahmed Pobon

Bangladesh

Synopsis

Esshor dash Speaks to God alone in his mind, he has various questions about God in his mind, it is basically a movie of some simple questions.

Nafiri

Directed by

Mohammad Sadegh Ghahremani

Iran

Synopsis

Mr. Nafiri is responsible for revoking the birth certificates of those who have died … After forty years of work in this office, he suffers from mental problems and feels that he is approaching death.

Will You Bury Me

Directed by

Noor Eldine Aboud

Lebanon

Synopsis

Sophia, a young unorthodox mother and wife, sets out to help her family after her bigoted husband accuses her of hiding money from him. With a dread induced by her husband,...

Exclusive: Gina Carano will have her revenge. In her first project since The Mandalorian, we can reveal that the actress is set to star as a traumatized woman who hires a long-hauler to track down an infamous serial killer.

The Hitcher and Near Dark scribe Eric Red has written the script for the untitled action-thriller, which is based on his novel White Knuckle. The story follows a strong-willed woman who survives an attempt by serial killer-trucker “White Knuckle.” Haunted by her encounter and the cops’ inability to catch her tormentor, she partners with a trucker to end the killer’s reign of terror.

Carano is producing and will star in the movie, which is said to be in the vein of Duel, Breakdown and True Grit. Filming will take place in Tennessee, Utah and Montana beginning in October.

Also producing are Dallas Sonnier (Bone Tomahawk) and Amanda Presmyk (Dragged Across Concrete) of Bonfire Legend,...

The 24th Annual Reel Black Men Short Film Festival kicks off on Saturday with films from Charles Burnett, David M. Massey, and 19 other Black filmmakers. The festival, which will be held virtually through August 22, is put on each year by the Black Hollywood Education Resource Center. The 21 films being screened came from 500 semifinalists that were culled from 1,700 entries submitted from across the globe.

This year’s line-up is “truly outstanding,” said John Forbes, Bherc’s executive director. “They are great stories that include drama, horror, romantic comedy, documentary, and sci-fi. The content is diverse and tells both historical and contemporary, fictional and non-fictional stories. They are compelling in many cases, including the issue of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

Sandra Evers-Manly, president of the Bherc, is a former president of the Beverly Hills/Hollywood branch of the NAACP, and the cousin of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Last year, she became...

Byron Bowers (Concrete Cowboy) and Tom Sturridge (Sweetbitter), in a recasting, have joined Alicia Vikander in HBO’s Irma Vep, a limited series based on Olivier Assayas’ 1996 feature film.

The series, loosely based on the film, will be written and directed by Assayas and produced by the team behind HBO’s Euphoria: A24, Sam Levinson and Kevin Turen.

Feature film Irma Vep starred Maggie Cheung as herself and Jean-Pierre Leaud as a middle-aged French film director. It screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

The series, which is set against the backdrop of a lurid crime thriller, follows Vikander’s Mira, an American movie star disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup who comes to France to star as Irma Vep in a remake of the French silent film classic, Les Vampires. Mira struggles as the distinctions between herself and the character she plays begin to blur and merge.

Mark Ronson has released a completely reimagined version of Foo Fighters’ Medicine at Midnight track, “Making a Fire.”

For the so-called “Re-Version,” Ronson stripped away Foo Fighters’ big guitars and instead crafted a groove that feels more like Let It Bleed-era Stones crossed with Primal Scream’s Screamedelica. Ronson also enlisted an array of guests to help out, including members of Antibalas, the Budos Band, the Dap-Kings, El Michels Affair, La Buya, Menahan Street Band, the Tedeschi Trucks Band and Tuatara.

Foo Fighters released Medicine at Midnight back in February,...

A unique short film from student filmmakers in Switzerland to enjoy. Concrete is an animated 3D and 2D mix short from the Lucerne School of Art and Design, and it originally premiered at film festivals in 2018, picking up a few awards along the way. It's now online thanks to Short of the Week and it's a must watch for animation fans. The story follows a "traveller lost in an alien land open", a restless backpacker trying to find his place in the world who discovers a concrete building in the midst of a barren swampland. There he discovers a painted fox and chases him around the building. Directed by Pirmin Bieri, Aira Joana, Nicolas Roth and Luca Struchen. This is very abstract filmmaking, but I adore it anyway. Especially that magical fox on the walls. What does it all mean? Who knows... You can take a guess and let us...

Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin discusses his new role in Netflix’s Concrete Cowboy in the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s The Breakdown.

In the film, McLaughlin plays Cole, a teenage boy living in Detroit who is taken by his mother to live in Philadelphia with his estranged father, Harp (Idris Elba), after getting expelled from his high school for fighting. Reluctant at first, Cole eventually integrates with the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club — the same club that his father, whom he initially holds in disdain, is a part of.

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists.

Rob Leines, “Drinkin Problem”

Occasional welder, full-time country-rocker Rob Leines dials up the Tele and the pedal steel on this undeniable barroom banger. There’s hints of Skynyrd and the Allmans, and a whole lot of Wet Willie’s Southern soul, as...

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Teyana Taylor is opening up about her decision to step away from the music industry. In an Instagram Live on Dec. 5 - a day after announcing her retirement - the 29-year-old vocalist doubled down on her resolution while also clarifying the reason behind it. While many believed that Teyana's initial statement was a reaction to her Grammys snub, she explained that it was actually in response to feeling neglected by her record label, G.O.O.D. Music, a subsidiary of Def Jam.

"I'm not quitting, I'm leveling up."

Near the beginning of the live video, Teyana stated that her frustrations are tied to feeling unappreciated and overlooked by "the people that are supposed to support me most." According to the songstress, her label hasn't been reciprocating the level of care that she gives and she has "little to no push." She then compared...

The Foo Fighters take a long trip down memory lane in a new short film tied to their 25th anniversary, Times Like Those.

The 25-minute video was filmed during some recent pandemic downtime and features the whole band gathered in a little theater to flip through a slideshow of memorable moments from throughout their career. The photos, of course, are accompanied by plenty of meandering commentary, like when Dave Grohl discusses the origins of his BBQ fascination, which leads to him and Taylor Hawkins recalling how they used to be...

The Trial of the Chicago 7 writer-director Aaron Sorkin, Stephen Colbert, Sienna Miller, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Lee Isaac Chung have been set for Montclair Film Festival‘s first Storyteller Series during the virtual fest, set to run October 16-25 in Montclair, NJ. All events will will streamed on the Montclair’s Virtual Cinema platform.

The “2020 Filmmaker Tribute to Aaron Sorkin” will be available as of October 17 and will be moderated by Colbert, who will also be the subject of a live read of his 1998 pilot script Sometimes Live, a comedy set behind the scenes at a fictional variety show.

The fest will also have conversations with Miller, whose Lionsgate pic Wander Darkly screens in the lineup; Ben-Adir, whose Regina King-directed One Night in Miami is the closing-night film; and Chung, whose Minari is the the Virtual Centerpiece.

The full 2020 Montclair lineup will be announced October 2.

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The Middleburg Film Festival will...

There is a moment of surreal wonder near the start of Concrete Cowboy, the TIFF premiere co-starring Idris Elba, that is never equaled again, a sequence of unexpected radiance conjuring a sense of astonishment. A troubled teenager has been sent from Detroit to Philadelphia to spend the summer with his long-absent father. He arrives at night to a nearly empty, rather foreboding street. Eventually he finds his (seemingly) menacing father and is led into a ramshackle, messy home. Suddenly he sees a large horse and responds appropriately: “There’s a horse… in your house.”

It’s a surreal, beautifully shot scene. If only Concrete Cowboy had more moments like it. This is not to say Cowboy is a poor film—it is, in fact, watchable, well-acted, occasionally moving. It’s also overly predictable and never transcends the tropes of the standard coming-of-age drama, making for a forgettable disappointment.

While the...

Sam Morrow doubles down on the muscular country-funk of his 2018 album Concrete and Mud with “Rosarita,” the first release from the California performer’s upcoming LP. Titled Gettin’ By on Gettin’ Down, the project is due October 30th via Forty Below Records.

Morrow penned “Rosarita” with fellow Californian Jaime Wyatt and it makes use of a strutting drum groove, interlocking rhythmic guitar lines, and dive-bombing, wah-wah slide guitar leads to set the stage for Morrow’s gritty vocals. He sings of a favorite source of pleasure, which turns out to...