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The 12th edition of Rome’s MIA Market came to a close on Friday with market head Gaia Tridente heralding “a stronger, renewed edition of MIA, with a more ambitious and expanded program,” that saw a high-powered cohort of European and global industry guests — including Banijay Entertainment CEO Marco Bassetti, Studiocanal CEO Anna Marsh, Bad…

Prominent Polish documentarist Michał Marczak – a Sundance Film Festival prizewinner with “All These Sleepless Nights” – is set to make his narrative feature debut with “Perfection,” a buzzy drama about hipster millennials in Berlin, based on Italian author Vincenzo Latronico’s eponymous novel that was shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize.

Paloma Negra, one of Mexico’s most prominent production companies, founded by producer Cristina Velasco and distinguished directors Rigoberto Perezcano (“Carmin Tropical”) and Jorge Hernandez Aldana (“The Night Buffalo”), has boarded Michael Rowe’s “Last Weekend,” a topical cross-border child custody battle drama shot in Southern California and Mexico.

The red-feathered hero of “The Angry Birds Movie 3” looks reassuringly familiar, but DNEG Animation had to rebuild much of him to bring the franchise back to theaters. And as the studio reconstructed Red’s fur, facial rig and expressions, it also developed a system that ultimately automated character-effects work on roughly 75% of the film’s…

The Coen brothers could be heading back to their hometown in Minneapolis for a reunion movie eight years after their last joint film, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”

“Demon Hunters,” Mei-Juin Chen’s India-Taiwan action-comedy, will open in cinemas across the Netherlands on Oct. 29n Taiwan and continued on streaming and digital platforms in India and the U.S

A boy’s devotion to his uncle, a man with an intellectual disability, curdles into shame as he grows up and away from home in “Uncle,” the first feature written and directed by Taiwan’s Yen Hao-hsuan.

Chinese martial arts star Xie Miao (“The Furious,” the “Eye for an Eye” series) is set to lead an English-language action crime thriller set in the U.S., which Los Angeles-based Stars Collective has in development.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Two of Brazil’s biggest screen stars, Rodrigo Santoro (“The Blue Trail”) and Camila Pitanga (“Basic Sanitation, the Movie”), are set to star in “Garota da Urca” (“Girl From Urca”), the new film by renowned director Marcelo Gomes. “Oxygen Masks Will Not Drop Automatically” writer Leonardo Moreira and veteran writer-actor Luciana…

The Vancouver International Film Festival’s Institute for the Moving Image has announced a new partnership with Spain’s Málaga Film Festival to launch an exchange between their respective emerging-talent programs – the Málaga Talent program and VIFF Catalyst.