L.A.-based production company Electric Entertainment will produce Dana Elazar-Halevis best-selling young adult book series Secret Mission for TV. Electric unveiled the news out of MIPCOM on Tuesday with the Co-Production Company, a subsidiary of Frances Superprod Group, co-producing shows in France, Italy, and the U.K., and Ananey Studios also teaming up on the project. Elazar-Halevis fast-paced, live-action YA thriller blends...

Dr. Lindsay Simon, the chief medical examiner for the city of Philadelphia, has found Ellen Greenbergs death to be a suicide. Hulu miniseries Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg? recently brought to light the unusual circumstances surrounding Greenbergs death. The three-part documentary series also served among the Materials Reviewed for Dr. Simon to reach her conclusion. Greenbergs...

Lionsgate has kicked off MIPCOM Cannes with a string of early international deals for its unscripted and factual formats slate. The company announced multiple international sales for unscripted titles, including for music documentary Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe to Yes (Israel) and HRT (Croatia); Married to the Game, at look at the wives and girlfriends of Premiere League soccer stars,...

The question that Murdaugh: Death in the Family, the latest true crime miniseries from Hulu, aims to answer is not who was behind the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. It knows you probably know, and while it flirts with misdirection, it does not stray far from the facts as previously reported. Nor is it really about the why, at...

While some young Roald Dahl fans, like me, preferred the cozy creepiness of The Witches or the weird whimsy of James and the Giant Peach, other readers were decidedly Twits kids. They liked that novels gross-out stuff about glass eyes placed at the bottom of beer glasses, worms swapped in for spaghetti, and so on. The very conception of the...

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) on Tuesday unveiled the lineups for its international competition and Envision sections. It also completed its IDFA DocLab program and unveiled the final Luminous and Frontlight programs, while also announcing the nominations for all cross-section awards for its 38th edition. With that, the IDFA 2025 official selection is complete with close to 250...

The following is excerpted fromTHE BIGGER PICTURE by Jon Landau (Hyperion Avenue, out Nov. 4). As anyone who has seen Titanic knows, one of the stars of the movie is the ship. And, like with casting our leads, we had to get it right. We had historical images to go by, along with Jim [Cameron]s vision and immense research, but...

Zoe Saldaa wants audiences to truly understand the skill and talent that go into motion capture performances, like in James Camerons Avatar movies. The Oscar-winning actress shared during a recent interview with Alicia Keys for Beyond Noisethat the filmmaker is considering a documentary about the making of Avatar finally giving us a chance to explain, in a meticulous way, why...

Stranger Things co-creator Ross Duffer is finally setting the record straight about the season five runtimes. After rumors swirled that every episode in the fifth and final season of the hit Netflix series would run over 90 minutes long (as Duffer previously compared the new episodes to eight blockbuster movies), he has now revealed the actual run times for the...

Skys six-episode adaptation of the Nick Cave novel The Death of Bunny Munro, starring Doctor Who and House of the Dragon star Matt Smith, was in the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) spotlight on Monday. DirectorIsabella Eklf(Kalak,Holiday,Industryseasons 2 and 3), BAFTA-winning writerPete Jackson(Somewhere Boy) and producerEd Macdonaldfrom Clerkenwell Films (Baby Reindeer, The End of the F***ing World) discussed the show...

Thingsjust arent what they used to be! Or are they? And is that good, bad, or ugly? Nostalgie, a fiction short directed by Kathryn Ferguson, the Belfast-based filmmaker known for the likes of Sinad OConnor documentary Nothing Compares, will raise questions like that in your mind. And more! A 1980s popstar receives a surprising invitation to perform, pulling him out...

In a fitting tribute to the late Diane Keaton, AMC Theatres is bringing back Annie Hall and Somethings Gotta Give to 100 cinemas across the U.S., The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Keaton died unexpectedly on Oct. 11 at her home in Los Angeles at age 79, less than a month after Robert Redfords passing. As THR wrote in a critics...

Whats happened? Theres more to love than romance novels: some people are actually marrying AI chatbots or getting involved in deeply romantic relationships with AI personalities. In response, an Ohio state representative has introduced a bill that would ban such digital unions and stop AIs from ever being treated as persons under the law. Introduced by Rep. Thaddeus Claggett, the...