The award-winning studio Laika is expanding its live action slate with an original film written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jon Spaihts (Dune, Passengers, Doctor Strange), who makes his directorial debut with this sci-fi thriller. The as-yet untitled film tells the tale of a woman investigating a mystery that took place during a week she cannot remember.
Will Mauricette began working on his short film Spare Me in the summer of 2022, just before his junior year at Ringling College of Art and Design. It has since been selected for entry to more than 20 film festivals and earned a number of awards—including 2024 Best Picture from the Mometu College Shorts Film Festival in Los Angeles. Mometu, a streaming service specializing in independent and international titles, subsequently awarded funding to adapt Spare Me into a full-length film.
The 19th edition of the Tasveer Film Festival & Market will be held October 15-20 in Seattle, Washington. The festival will feature the exclusive premiere of Tasveer Film Market, the first of its kind outside of South Asia to facilitate South Asia, designed to facilitate global representation of the South Asian film industry while boosting the local creative economy of the region.
Ryan’s World the Movie: Titan Universe Adventure marks the first-ever wide theatrical distribution of a digital-creator driven film, starring a digital-creator cast with a massive global following of 207 million subscribers across YouTube accounts. The international expansion will allow kids and families in Canada, the UK and Ireland the opportunity to experience this first-of-its-kind film, while solidifying the Ryan’s World brand as a powerhouse in family entertainment and the strong demand from fans beyond the U.S. market.
Submissions are open for the 2025 Big Sky Pitch. The film festival’s headline event of the DocShop Filmmaker’s Forum, the Big Sky Pitch is held during the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and invites up to ten film teams the chance to pitch their feature length documentary works-in-progress to a panel of top commissioning editors and funders of documentary film.
The Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media has announced that its 2023-2024 cohort of 21 fellows have completed fund-sponsored workshops and labs, including story development, film production, and screenplay writing, and are currently in production of their individual projects. This year's diverse cohort brings unique backgrounds and points of view, a hallmark of The Fund's dedication to bringing greater diversity of participation and objectivity to the film industry
The award-winning studio Laika is bolstering its live action slate by acquiring Crumble, an original script by Brian Duffield (Spontaneous, No One Will Save You), who will direct. Oscar winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller as well as Aditya Sood will produce through their Lord Miller banner. Duffield will also produce. Lucy Kitada and Nikki Baida from Lord Miller will serve as executive producers.
Christie is sponsoring the Lavazza IncluCity Festival, presented by ICFF, for the fifth consecutive year. The film and cultural festival is running now through July 21 in Toronto’s Distillery Historic District.
AMC Theatres, REI Co-op Studios, the outdoor specialty retailer’s in-house content division, and Mountainfilm, one of North America’s longest-running documentary film festivals, today announced an all-new content and marketing partnership that will bring a collection of festival-favorite short films to AMC locations across the country this fall.
Spin Master's PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, has won the Golden Screen Award for feature film. Presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the Golden Screen Award recognizes the Canadian film that grossed the highest in domestic box office over the period of January 1, 2022, to February 24, 2023.
