- SiriusXM to Acquire Pandora
SiriusXM will acquire Pandora in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.5 billion, creating the world’s largest audio company, the companies announced Monday morning. According to the announcement, the deal will create the […]
- BBC’s ‘Bodyguard’ Bows Out Ahead of Netflix Launch With Massive 47.9% Share in U.K.
The BBC drama “Bodyguard” bowed out on a high Sunday with 11 million viewers at its peak on BBC One, for a whopping 47.9% audience share. The six-part series, which Netflix is about to launch globally, is Britain’s most […]
- San Sebastián Film Review: ‘Midnight Runner’
In an era of reckoning that is rapidly running out of new ways to describe the evil men do, “toxic masculinity” has become all too familiar a buzz term. But it could hardly be more aptly applied to the simmering psychopath at the center […]
- ‘Operation Red Sea’ Floated as Hong Kong’s Oscar Contender
“Operation Red Sea,” the most successful film of the year at the mainland Chinese box office, has been selected by Hong Kong as its contender in the foreign-language Oscars category. The selection was made by the Federation of Motion […]
- San Sebastian Festival Signs Gender Parity Pledge
SAN SEBASTIAN — Spain’s San Sebastian Festival signed a pledge on gender parity Sunday, following in the footsteps of other major festivals in Europe such as Cannes, Locarno, Sarajevo and Venice. San Sebastian Festival director […]
- Danny DeVito Receives San Sebastian Donostia Award
SAN SEBASTIAN — At a ceremony held on Saturday evening inside San Sebastian’s iconic Kursaal theater, American actor, director, producer and you-name-it Danny DeVito received the Donostia Award, given in recognition of his decades-long […]
- M-appeal Closes Sales on Pair of San Sebastian Titles (EXCLUSIVE)
SAN SEBASTIAN — Berlin-based M-appeal has secured additional sales deals for two titles, Toronto’s Netpac winner “The Third Wife”; Bafici’s best Argentine picture winner “The Daughters of Fire,” both […]
- Hirokazu Kore-eda on ‘Shoplifters’ Polemics, Shooting in France
When Hirokazu Kore-eda returned to the San Sebastian International Film Festival to accept his Donostia Award on September 23rd, it marked a fitting bit of symmetry for a story that began twenty years earlier. In 1998, Kore-eda […]
- San Sebastian: Natalia Meschaninova on ‘Core of the World,’ Inhibited Masculinity
In one scene in Natalia Meschaninova’s “Core of the World,” animal rights activists free some caged foxes from a hunting dog training farm in the forests of Russia. A few days later, two of the foxes reappear at the farm and climb […]
- Creative Europe’s Media Program: 5 Pointers to Its Future
SAN SEBASTIAN – One of the biggest single public-sector funding systems in Europe, the European Union’s Creative Europe-Media Program, is up for renewal. On May 30, the European Commission, the E.U.’s administrative arm, set out a […]
