Film

He is “the most fascinating director to emerge from Egypt’s ever-fertile film culture in the last quarter century,” says IFFR festival director Vanja Kaludjercic.

Premiering at the London Film Fest, Samuel Abrahams’ satiric debut feature stars Sian Clifford as a noblewoman wanting to feel seen who hires a crew to film her — and her slow disappearance.

“Biodestructors are microfungi that existed millions of years before humans and will likely outlive us,” reads a synopsis of Aistė Žegulytė’s essayistic sophomore doc, premiering at Amsterdam.

The superstar performer names the film and director and tells Howard Stern why she passed on the script: “I didn’t even know what the hell was going on in my mind at the time.”

Jake Gyllenhaal’s agent at WME reccommended that his fellow client Jared Leto take a look at Arturo for ‘Tron.’ Says Arturo: “He had nothing to gain from it.”

Displacement forced a shift in storytelling — and created a stunning, human-first documentary now featured at the BFI London Film Festival.

Vertical has acquired director Alfredo Barrios Jr.’s film that counts ‘Entourage’ creator Doug Ellin as a producer and also stars Chris Diamantopoulos and Jay Mohr.

Her credits included two turns on Broadway and the films ‘Valentino,’ ‘Endless Love’ and ‘Heathers.’

The move comes after the Netflix animated film arrived in theaters for a weekend-long engagement in August.

The feature is inspired by the true-life friendship of Health-Ade Kombucha founder Daina Trout and internet personality Sharzad Kiadeh — both of whom star.