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Some films are appreciated from the start — the big blockbusters find their audiences or the acclaimed indies find the critical raves right out of the gate. Then there are films that are ahead of their time, that find a bigger audience as they age, where the appreciation might come a little later thanks to DVDs or television viewings.

When “A Knight’s Tale” opened in theaters on May 11, 2001, it wasn’t without fanfare. It featured rising star Heath Ledger in the lead, a writer-director hot off an Oscar win and a lot of buzz for the fact it mixed modern music with its medieval setting. It made its money back, had its fans and was notable for its fresh-faced cast who would go on to prominent careers. But it wasn’t a runaway hit; some were confused by the anachronisms and simply couldn’t get past a film about jousting that...

L.A. and Berlin-based producer Gabriela Bacher, CEO of media company Film House Germany, is attached to executive produce Witcraft Filmproduktion’s mystery drama project “Snow,” selected for this year’s Co-Pro Series at the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

Bacher, a former Fox International Productions executive and principal of Studio Babelsberg, joined the company in 2011 as both CEO of Film House Germany and managing director at Fhg’s subsid Summerstorm Ent..

Set-up at Witcraft, a company co-founded by Ursula Wolschlager, “Snow” is a mystery drama created by Michaela Taschek, and co-directed by distinguished Austrian cineaste Barbara Albert (“Mademoiselle Paradis”) and Sandra Wollner (“The Impossible Picture.”)

Aimed to start principal photography in fall 2021 in Italy’s South Tyrol, the German language project is currently in treatments for all six episodes of Season One.

With Elisabeth Moss-starrer TV series “Top of the Lake” as a reference, “Snow” is set in the mountain village of Rotten,...

Netflix is expanding its unscripted offerings in 2020 with the launch of The Goop Lab and Cheer.

The Goop Lab takes viewers inside the life of Gwyneth Paltrow as well as her wellness compay, Goop when it hits the air Friday, January 24.

Paltrow will be front and center, but the series will also follow chief content officer of Goop, Elise Loehnen, as well as editors of the company.

Based on the official trailer, the topics on offer are female sexuality, energy healing, among others.

“What we try to do at Goop is explore ideas that may seem ‘out there’ or too scary,” Loehnen explains in the trailer, before opening up about having an exorcism while trying out energy healing.

Goop exploded on to the scene in 2008, as an email newsletter filled with information on health and wellness, but thanks to Paltrow's unique take on things, it blossomed into so much more.

If you hear "Mailchimp" and instantly think of emails, you're not alone. But as of today, the company best known for sending billions of business missives is no longer only an email marketing service. Now, with new venture Mailchimp Presents, it’s also content production hub and streaming service -- or, a self-described “digital business entertainment platform.”

Mailchimp Presents launched today with more than 50 pieces of content produced by Mailchimp. That content -- produced with partners like Vice, Pineapple Street Media, Scout Productions (Netflix’s Queer Eye), and Caviar (Nymphomaniac) — includes original scripted and unscripted shortform series, films, and podcasts.

All Mailchimp Presents originals are designed to both entertain and inspire the world’s small businesses and entrepreneurs. Dozens more pieces of content are due to be added in the latter half of this year, some original and some licensed.

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Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s Sundance hit and local box office sensation Queen Of Hearts, is one of 10 features by European female directors selected to screen as part of the fourth edition of Europe! Voices of Women in Film at the Sydney Film Festival (Sff) in June.

Trine Dyrholm stars in the film about a happily married woman who falls in love with her teenage stepson. Dyrholm also features in the zombie film Endzeit-Ever After by Swedish-born, Berlin-based Carolina Hellsgard which is also screening at Sff as part of the programme.

A line-up of 22 projects were presented at first edition of event.

Azerbaijan-born Elmar Ivanov’s debut feature End Of Season took home the main award of €20,000 in postproduction services from Mmc Film & TV Studios at the first edition of the new market platform European Work in Progress (Ewip) in Germany’s Cologne last week (October 10).

“We really need this prize!” said Ivanov who had shot the film about a family drama over 24 hours on location in his native Azerbaijan last autumn.

He and his partner Eva Blondiau of their company Color of May presented footage at Ewip to find support...

Elena Satine and Australian actor Matt Levett will star in the indie revenge thriller, Caviar, along with Anna Baryshnikov (Manchester by the Sea), Toby Leonard Moore (John Wick), Bill Sage (Hap and Leonard), and Rade Serbedzija (Proud Mary). Directed by Joseph Mensch, pic is based on the memoir Career Criminal. Set in a Russian mafia of 90s era Brooklyn, the plot revolves around Misha “Mike” Markovich (Levett), a gifted young stockbroker who gets betrayed by his people and sentenced to six years in prison. When he gets out, his need for vengeance puts him in the crosshairs of Alexander Pushka, Mike’s former mentor and the head of New York’s Russian mob. Satine will play Katiuska, the only woman in the Russian mob who has ambitions of her own. Mensch and Metin Aksoy cowrote the screenplay, which is...

Exclusive: Broadway Video has announced the cast for their feature comedy Vampires Vs. The Bronx which includes Sarah Gadon (Netflix’s Alias Grace), Chris Redd (Saturday Night Live), The Kid Mero (Desus & Mero), Method Man (HBO’s The Deuce), Shea Whigham (HBO’s Boardwalk Empire), Vladimir Caamaño (Lie Detector), Jaden Michael (Wonderstruck), Gregory Diaz IV (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Gerald W. Jones III (Catch 22) and Coco Jones (Facebook’s Five Points).

The pic, which is currently in production, was written and directed by Saturday Night Live film segment director Osmany ‘Oz’ Rodriguez who is behind such hysterical shorts as last season’s “Complicit” with Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka Trump, and the faux Levi’s Woke commercial featuring Ryan Gosling, Pete Davidson, Leslie Jones, Kenan Thompson and more showing off a new line of baggie jeans.

The logline for Vampires Vs. The Bronx: When gentrification from an unlikely and deadly source creeps into the Bronx,...