#African Content Is Ready for Its “Global Moment,” MultiChoice Executive Tells MIP Africa (Exclusive)

#African Content Is Ready for Its “Global Moment,” MultiChoice Executive Tells MIP Africa (Exclusive)

“There’s a good chance that Africa’s film industry is about to have its own global moment.” That’s the bullish take shared on Monday about the state of African film and TV programming by Nomsa Philiso, CEO of general entertainment at African pay-TV giant MultiChoice Group, the owner of African streamer Showmax, in her opening speech at…

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#Director Brady Corbet Gets Emotional Discussing Staggeringly Ambitious Post-War Epic ‘The Brutalist’

#Director Brady Corbet Gets Emotional Discussing Staggeringly Ambitious Post-War Epic ‘The Brutalist’

The Venice Film Festival is buzzing over director Brady Corbet’s monumental historical drama The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce. The film won’t officially premiere until Sunday night, but the thunderous applause and rapt excitement that followed the film out of its first press screenings on the Lido has many festival-goers speculating that it’s the…

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#Nicolas Winding Refn on Revisiting His Origin Story With ‘Pusher’ and Why He Won’t Be Making That ‘Barbarella’ Adaptation

#Nicolas Winding Refn on Revisiting His Origin Story With ‘Pusher’ and Why He Won’t Be Making That ‘Barbarella’ Adaptation

Nicolas Winding Refn, is one of the few directors who deserves the enfant terrible label. The Danish filmmaker, best-known for his neon-drenched tales of sex, violence and revenge — Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon — is at the Venice Film Festival this year with two works that, he says, represents both his “classic…

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#No Brad, No Angelina, No Lady Gaga: Stars Snub Venice Film Festival Press, Drawing Protest

#No Brad, No Angelina, No Lady Gaga: Stars Snub Venice Film Festival Press, Drawing Protest

This year’s Venice Film Festival is the most star-studded in recent memory. The list of A-listers heading to the Lido’s red carpet — Brad Pitt and George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Jenna Ortega, Daniel Craig, Joachim Phoenix and Lady Gaga — boggles the mind. But the international film journalists attending this year’s festival…

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#Louis Theroux-Produced Series ‘Boybands Forever’ With Simon Cowell, Robbie Williams Set for BBC

#Louis Theroux-Produced Series ‘Boybands Forever’ With Simon Cowell, Robbie Williams Set for BBC

BBC Two will air a new series on the boyband mania of the 1990s and 2000s featuring interviews with Take That‘s Robbie Williams, Westlife’s Brian McFadden, and music mogul Simon Cowell. Boybands Forever, a three-episode series, will air later in 2024. Produced by Mindhouse Productions (Louis Theroux Interviews, Lockerbie) and from producer-husband-and-wife pair Louis Theroux…

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#Ex-Soccer Star David Beckham to Speak at Royal Television Society’s London Convention

#Ex-Soccer Star David Beckham to Speak at Royal Television Society’s London Convention

Former soccer star David Beckham has joined the lineup of industry leaders speaking at the Royal Television Society‘s (RTS) London Convention this year. On Sept. 17, Beckham will be joined in conversation by Jane Featherstone, co-founder and chief creative officer of content company Sister. The ex-sportsman, who is married to Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, captured…

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