‘The Riverbank,’ ‘Elza’ Top Rio Film Festival Awards as ‘On Behalf of My Son,’ ‘The French Teacher’ and ‘London’ Scoop Key Prizes

Fourteen authors in the New Directions stable have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, including this year and last. How does this small press pack such a punch?

Pat McAfee is taking his Field Pass show from college football to the NFL. The network’s marquee talk show talent will be doing a version of Field Pass with the Pat McAfee Show during next year’s Super Bowl LXI. It will be one of three alternate telecasts for the big game. The others are Super […]

Amanda Seyfried is opening up about recently passing on a potential new television role. The 40-year-old actress may be more […] The post Amanda Seyfried Reveals Why She Passed On a TV Role, Explaining Her Decision appeared first on Just Jared - Celebrity News, Entertainment News & Photos.

Five independent producer organizations from Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan launched a coalition, the Asian Producers Alliance (APA), at Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM). The five bodies include the Producers Guild of Korea (PGK), Indonesian Film Producers Association (APROFI), Philippine Independent Producers Group (PIPG), Hong Kong Movie Production Executives Association (HKMPEA) […]

For several years after the biggest run of her career, Moon Choi, known in Korea as Choi Hee-seo, kept her trophies out of sight. The haul was substantial. Her turn as Japanese anarchist Kaneko Fumiko in “Anarchist from Colony” swept Korea’s new actress prizes, and her lead role in independent feature “Our Body,” which bowed […]

Austin North just got engaged! The 30-year-old Outer Banks star and former Disney Channel actor proposed to his girlfriend Cali […] The post ‘Outer Banks’ Star Austin North Engaged to Cali Fuller, Co-Stars React to Big News appeared first on Just Jared - Celebrity News, Entertainment News & Photos.

A homecare nurse whose working day stretches from 12 hours to 72 sits at the center of “Selvi,” the first feature from Tamil filmmaker Sailesh Rathnakumar, which premieres in the Busan International Film Festival’s Vision–Asia section. Anjali Patil plays the title role and produces through her banner Anahat Films. Rathnakumar wrote the screenplay with cinematographer […]

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Three filmmakers at the forefront of China’s women-led cinema boom – Shao Yihui, Yang Lina and Yin Lichuan – have new titles on the slate of sales agent Parallax Films, which is shopping them to buyers at the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) in Busan. In the short “Winning at Sleep,” Shao turns her […]

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A villager maimed by a mining blast and his wife’s fight for compensation open up a story of exploitation, complicity and indigenous belief in “Veil of Dust,” the new project from “Rapture” director Dominic Sangma. The project is part of the Asian Project Market, which runs within the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & […]