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After conquering the Dceu, riding shotgun in the Fast and Furious franchise, and taking hackers to task in Netflix’s Heart of Stone, Gal Gadot is locked into a race against time in director Kevin Madonald’s The Runner, an upcoming thriller set up at Amazon MGM Studios. David Kosse produces through his newly established Rockwood Pictures, with Amazon MGM Studios holding the worldwide rights.

Macdonald, whose films include One to One: John & Yoko, The Last King of Scotland, The Mauritanian, and more, directs The Runner from a script by Mark Gibson. According to Deadline, the plot finds Gadot playing “a high-powered attorney who must race through London, following the cryptic commands of a mysterious Caller, as she fights against time to save her abducted son.”

Before Gal Gadot laced up her sneakers for The Runner, she played the Evil Queen in Disney’s live-action adaptation of its first animated classic,...

Exclusive: Gal Gadot has been set to star in The Runner, a London-set action thriller that will be directed by Kevin Macdonald. Amazon MGM Studios has acquired worldwide rights to the film which was developed and will be produced by David Kosse under the veteran exec’s new venture, Rockwood Pictures.

Prolific award-winning filmmaker Macdonald is directing from a script by Mark Gibson.

Gadot plays a high-powered attorney who must race through London, following the cryptic commands of a mysterious Caller, as she fights against time to save her abducted son.

Wonder Woman star Gadot’s recent credits include Netflix’s Red Notice and Heart of Stone. She will next be seen starring as the Evil Queen in Disney’s live-action Snow White which is due for domestic release...

More than a hundred songwriters, composers, perfomers and films are represented in the nominees’ list for the 2024 Hollywood Music in Media Awards — from pop luminaries like Elton John & Brandi Carlile, Miley Cyrus, Lainey Wilson and Pharrell Williams to celebrated scorers like Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Kris Bowers and Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross.

The list of nominees was unveiled Wednesday, in advance of a ceremony due to take place Nov. 20 at the Avalon in Hollywood.

“Emilia Pérez” led all films with five Hmma nominations. “Blitz” and “A Complete Unknown” have three nominations apiece. Other films picking up multiple noms include “Wicked,” “The Wild Robot,” “Moana 2,” “The Idea of You,” “Challengers” and “Elton John: Never Too Late.” (Scroll down to see the full lineup of 2024 nominees.)

The Hmma lineup of categories is the most expansive of any awards program recognizing musical achievements in the movies, between breaking down different genre categories for feature films,...

Nostalgia tends to tint our view of the past a rose-colored hue, casting a glow over intense conflict and deep angst, as if those sentiments weren’t fundamental to the experience of people alive in earlier times.

In the case of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the rose-colored (granny) glasses might be appropriate, at least when looking back at the early 1970s when the famous couple moved to New York City and took up residence in a very modest apartment in Greenwich Village. That’s the era examined in One to One: John & Yoko, the acclaimed new documentary directed by Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald.

The filmmaker joins the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss his film and the burst of idealistic energy John and Yoko felt in their adopted home. But around John and Yoko swirled protests over the Vietnam War, political conflict over the...

In 10 short years, Sffilm’s Doc Stories has established itself as one of the premiere documentary festivals in North America, perfectly timed on the calendar to showcase work with Oscar ambitions.

This year, its lineup included The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, from director Benjamin Ree, Robinson Devor’s Suburban Fury, Kevin Macdonald’s One to One: John & Yoko, Raoul Peck’s Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, and No Other Land, the Berlin Film Festival award winner directed by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.

Doc Stories also featured special events including – we are proud to say – a taping of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, hosted by Oscar winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) and Matt Carey, Deadline’s documentary awards editor. We gathered at Sffilm offices for a conversation with Anne Lai, executive director of Sffilm, and the organization’s Director of Programming, Jessie Fairbanks, discussing the...

By the early 1970s, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had established themselves as artistic pioneers through their boundary-pushing conceptual works and music with the Beatles and Plastic Ono Band. Yet when they moved from London to New York in 1971, seeking a change of pace after the turmoil of that last year with the Beatles, they plunged headfirst into the radical ferment shaping American society.

Settling in a small Greenwich Village apartment, Lennon and Ono immersed themselves in the social and political disputes of the day, from opposition to the Vietnam War to the emerging feminist and civil rights movements.

Directors Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards shine a light on this transformative period through their documentary One to One: John & Yoko. Using archived audio recordings, television footage, and home movies in addition to a film of a pivotal 1972 benefit concert, they reconstruct the couple’s immersion in the protests and provocations that surrounded them.

While there’s a few more fall film festivals popping up in the next month, the major ones are behind us, which means we have a strong sense of the films to have on your radar in the coming months and even through 2025. We’ve asked our writers from across the globe to weigh in on their favorite world premieres from Locarno Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and BFI London Film Festival.

Our coverage will continue with a few more reviews this week, and far beyond as we provide updates on the journey of these selections, so continue to explore all of our festival coverage here. In the meantime, check out top picks from our writers below and return soon for our extensive year-end coverage.

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I’ve seen documentaries reveal fascinating dimensions of John Lennon — films like “The U.S. vs. John Lennon” (2006), which chronicled his political activism and the Nixon administration’s attempts to deport him, or “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story” (2022), a portrait of Lennon’s relationship with May Pang. But “One to One: John & Yoko,” despite its rather nondescript title, may be the most accomplished and arresting of these tightly angled Lennon profiles. “The Lost Weekend” showed us a side of Lennon that had been somewhat under the radar. “One to One” deals with the period just before the Lost Weekend, starting in August 1971, when John and Yoko moved from their country estate outside London to New York City, where they spent 18 months living in a small apartment in the West Village. (It was after that that they moved into the Dakota.)

Lennon was out and about, digging the city,...

Exclusive: Sffilm’s prestigious Doc Stories is set to welcome a slew of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmakers to its 10th anniversary event next month, along with industry heavyweights Keri Putnam, Laura Kim, Carrie Lozano, and Justine Nagan.

The documentary festival, which runs from October 17-20 in San Francisco, unveiled its full lineup this morning, highlighted by new work from Kevin Macdonald, Ben Proudfoot, Raoul Peck, Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, and Pedro Kos, as well as a classic from Amy Berg about a singer who stunned San Francisco with her talent more than 50 years ago. [Scroll for the full program]

Macdonald opens the festival with One to One: John and Yoko, co-directed by Sam Rice-Edwards, “which chronicles John and Yoko’s musical, personal, artistic, social, and political world set against the backdrop of a turbulent era in American history.”

The closing night film belongs to Suburban Fury,...

The 2024 edition of Sffilm Doc Stories is celebrating a milestone year as the festival toasts its 10th anniversary.

This year’s four-day program will take place from October 17 through 20, and open with Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ “One to One: John & Yoko,” about John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 18 months living in the U.S.

The festival will close out with a full circle moment, marking the premiere of Robinson Devor’s “Suburban Fury,” which was funded in part by a 2012 Sffilm Rainin Grant. “Suburban Fury” tells the story of Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford on a crowded sidewalk in San Francisco’s Union Square in September of 1975.

The 2024 Sffilm Doc Stories lineup includes 10 features, two shorts programs, two filmmaking and industry talks, and a documentary filmmaking workshop for teens.

The Doc Stories weekend will kick off with a free, retrospective screening of Amy Berg...

Leading documentary festival IDFA has added more than 100 films to the program of its 37th edition, which runs from Nov. 14 to 24 in Amsterdam, as it unveiled the first titles for the Signed, Best of Fests and Paradocs selections, as well as the Short Documentary and the Youth Documentary sections.

The Signed section includes Radu Jude’s found-footage documentary “Eight Postcards from Utopia,” showing the commercials from Romania’s transition to a capitalist democracy, and impressionist desktop film “Sleep #2,” capturing live stream recordings of Andy Warhol’s grave. Mati Diop’s “Dahomey” examines questions of repatriation of African artefacts from Europe.

Several renowned directors push the boundaries of music film in this year’s program. Andrei Ujică revisits 1965 in “Twst – Things We Said Today,” offering a poetic look at the Beatles as they captivate New York while the Watts riots erupt in Los Angeles. Kevin Macdonald’s “One to One: John & Yoko...

Ukrainian-Russian filmmaker and anti-Putin activist Vitaly Mansky will be returning to IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) with his short film The Iron, a portrait of Europe in wartime, which screens in the festival’s competition for short documentary.

Mansky’s documentary portait of former leader of the Soviet Union Gorbachev. Heaven previously played in competition at IDFA in 2020.

Also in the short documentary section, Theo Panagopoulos’s archive-based doc Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing celebrates Palestine’s floral splendour from the 1930s, showing the complex relationship between the land and its inhabitants.

The same section will feature Pat Heywood’s mixed media project,...

The 2024 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony has wrapped up after a sweltering week and a half on the Lido.

The prestigious Golden Lion award for best film went to Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door. The Spaniard’s first-ever English-language feature received a whopping 17-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the festival. Almodóvar said in his acceptance speech Saturday: “I would like to dedicate it to my family, who is here now… This movie The Room Next Door, it is my first movie in English.. but the spirit is Spanish.”

His film, an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, follows best-selling writer Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) as they rekindle their friendship after losing touch. As they immerse themselves in past memories, anecdotes, art and movies, Martha, battling terminal cervical cancer, wants to die with dignity and asks Ingrid to be...

Exclusive: Jayne Sullivan has been hired as a literary manager at Cinetic Media, the esteemed management and media advisory company founded and overseen by John Sloss.

New to management, Sullivan comes from a producing background, having previously worked alongside Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Paul Giamatti while under a deal at Showtime, and Brigham Taylor while under a deal at Disney. She’ll be based out of Cinetic’s New York office and will focus on growing a roster of exceptional writer, director, and multi-hyphenate clients.

Observed Kate Hurwitz and Alec Ring, Co-Heads of Cinetic Management, “Jayne was doing all the things a great manager does well before it was her official title. She has incredible taste, a strong work ethic, and her experience across the indie and studio landscape equips her to excel with artists at all stages of their careers. We are thrilled to have her join our team.”

Added Sullivan,...

George Clooney has commented for the first time on his New York Times op-ed asking Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race.

“I’ve actually never had to answer that question so I suppose I will do it here,” Clooney said when asked about it at the Venice press conference for his new film “Wolfs.”

“The person who should be applauded is the president, who has done the most selfless thing a president has done since George Washington,” he said, adding: “What should be remembered is the selfless act of someone who, it’s very hard to let go of power — we know that, we’ve seen it all over the world — and for someone to say I think there’s a better path forward, all the credit goes to him. And that’s really the truth … I’m just very proud of where we are in the...

John & Yoko in NYC! Mercury Studios has revealed a first look teaser trailer for a compelling documentary film titled One To One: John & Yoko, which is premiering now at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. The doc is a time capsule that takes us back to the year of 1972, when John Lennon & Yoko Ono appeared in New York City and riled up the culture and politics by getting involved in activism and showing up on TV (also see: Daytime Revolution). Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent era. Centered on the "One to One" charity concert for special needs children, it features unseen archives, home movies, and restored footage. A unique take on a seminal time in the lives of one of music’s most famous couples, One To One: John & Yoko explores the 18 months that John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent living...

In the fall of 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved into an apartment on 105 Bank Street in the West Village of Manhattan. It had been two years since Lennon told his Beatles bandmates that he wanted “a divorce,” and the recently married couple craved a fresh start in America away from the oppressive shadow of the group he founded. By this point, Lennon and Ono’s lives were completely intertwined—they were not merely lovers, but also close creative collaborators whose artistry was developing in tandem. Her background in the avant-garde and gallery world intermingled with his experience with pop music and celebrity until their work became inseparable from persona. Together they garnered a more focused political conscience as the Vietnam war continued unabated amidst an increasingly fractured, hostile social environment. They wished to put theory into action, to commit to activist politics, and what better place to do that...

Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ limited series Disclaimer is gut-wrenching, beautiful and solidly conventional.

Based on the bestselling 2015 novel of the same name by Renée Knight, the seven-episode show written and directed by the two-time Oscar winner opens with a long shot of teenage sex on a European train and a warning. A Christiane Amanpour-delivered warning to “beware of narrative and form” at a fictional Royal Television Society award ceremony for acclaimed documentarian Catherine Ravenscroft, played by Cate Blanchett.

Intentionally full of the contradictions of its dark cupboard of secrets and lies, the dual opening of Disclaimer gives away all that is to follow, both with skill and a distinct lack of subtlety. In that sense, with a seemingly perfect life shattered, betrayal, human frailty, grief and a mysterious novel that cuts too close to home, the series is intentionally aware of what it is.

Related: ‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie...

If a cross-section of documentary filmmakers were offered access to live performances, behind-the-scenes footage and even private phone calls during a couple of years in the life and career of John Lennon, it’s unlikely that many of them would choose the period of 1971-1972. That was when Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, got heavily into political causes and made “Some Time in New York City,” an unwieldy and hamfisted slice of rock ‘n’ roll agitprop that long ago secured its reputation as the worst album of Lennon’s career.

But that’s the period that director Kevin Macdonald and co-director Sam Rice-Edwards had to work with to make “One to One: John & Yoko,” which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Friday and will also play in Telluride this weekend. The filmmakers have managed to make a bracing, scattered and somewhat revelatory look at...

Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence and Stanley Tucci as Cardinal Bellini in ‘Conclave’ (Photo Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024)

The 51st Telluride Film Festival announced its lineup just days ahead of the festival’s opening on Friday, August 30, 2024. The festival, which runs through Monday, September 2nd, will include the world premieres of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, Edward Berger’s Conclave, and Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson.

This year’s festival includes 60 feature films, shorts, and revival programs.

“This brief weekend of cinematic bliss reminds us every year that movies really are magic,” stated Telluride Film Festival director Julie Huntsinger. “The process of assembling our line-up is both daunting and rewarding, and it never fails to bring the most fantastic sense of satisfaction once we’re finished. Our anticipation matches that of the audience. We’re delighted to now share what we found to be the most exciting, interesting and...

Are you ready to be transported back to one of the most influential periods in music history? Kevin Macdonald is willing to take you there, and he’s bringing John Lennon and Yoko Ono along for the wild ride. Macdonald’s upcoming documentary One to One: John & Yoko brings audiences back to John Lennon’s only headlining show after leaving The Beatles before he was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman, a disturbed fan who took the life of a legend far too soon. Today’s One to One: John & Yoko teaser trailer set to John Lennon’s “New York City” is a rush of memories and footage from Lennon and Ono’s collaborative relationship. As history pushes the world into unforgiving times, the legendary couple strives to share their gift of music with eager ears to influence the voices of change.

Here’s the official synopsis for...

Shortly after they moved to New York in 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono became so paranoid that the authorities were bugging their phone that they decided to record their calls. More than 50 years on, a selection of these never-before-heard recordings form what Kevin Macdonald describes as the “beating heart” of his new documentary, “One to One: John and Yoko,” premiering in Venice Aug 30.

In one call, Ono candidly describes what it was like to be blamed for breaking up the Beatles. In another, Lennon describes his idea for a tour around the U.S. that would raise bail money in each town they play, alongside efforts to get Bob Dylan onboard (and persuade Dylan aggravator A.J. Weberman to please leave the musician alone). In some of the film’s most amusing moments, there are endless back-and-forths concerning Ono’s efforts to procure some flies for a new art installation

For Macdonald,...

John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s legacy during their 18 months stateside in Greenwich Village is captured in new documentary, “One to One: John and Yoko.”

The feature, helmed by Kevin Macdonald, is set in in 1971 and 1972 New York as Lennon prepares for his One to One charity concert for children with special needs. The iconic performance, which took place on August 30, 1972, was Lennon’s only full length concert between the final Beatles show in 1966 and his death in 1980. “One to One” boasts unseen home videos filmed by Lennon and Ono, as well as archival personal phone calls and photos.

The iconic couple’s son Sean Ono Lennon is also involved as the music producer.

The official logline reads: “Set in New York in 1972, the film explores John and Yoko’s musical, personal, artistic, social, and political world set against the backdrop of a turbulent era in American history. While much...

Telluride Film Festival has announced the line-up before the festival starts on Friday, with world premieres for Edward Berger’s Conclave, RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, and Robbie Williams musical biopic Better Man.

Also making the cut in the main programme are documentaries Leonardo Da Vinci from Ken Burns, Kevin Macdonald’s One To One: John & Yoko, and R. J. Cutler’s Martha Stewart film.

Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 and Joshua Openheimer’s The End are in the main programme, alongside Cannes favourites Anora, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, All We Imagine As Light, and Emilia Pérez.

The 51st...

Unless you’re a major studio or willing to pay for a rent-spiked ski lodge––and even then––few festivals ring more exclusive than Telluride, which has the distinction / misfortune of firing the starting gun for fall festivals and that ever-deleterious phenomenon we call “Oscar buzz.” Their 2024 lineup nevertheless features some films of note: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson’s Rumours; Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia; Payal Kapadia’s All That We Imagine as Light; Sean Baker’s Anora; and Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple series Disclaimer.

On a repertory end, Kenneth Lonergan’s been anointed this year’s Guest Director and has programmed the following: Arch of Triumph, Barry Lyndon, Doctor Zhivago, Grand Hotel, and My Darling Clementine. And Telluride’s 2024 Special Medallion goes to Les Films du Losange, who will represent Misericordia and have their history celebrated with the following screenings: Beauty and the Beast; Charles, Dead or...

Edward Berger’s “Conclave,” Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” Malcolm Washington’s “The Piano Lesson,” RaMell Ross’s “Nickel Boys,” and Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The End” will world premiere at the 51st edition of the Telluride Film Festival, fest organizers announced on Thursday.

In addition to the world premieres, several expected awards contenders will have North American bows in the small Colorado town over Labor Day weekend, including Pablo Larrain’s “Maria” (which premieres Thursday at the Venice Film Festival), Sean Baker’s “Anora” (this year’s Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner), and Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez” (a Cannes winner for its ensemble of actresses and a jury prize winner at the prestigious event).

In addition to its lineup of features, Telluride organizers also bestow the Telluride Silver Medallion to “a trio of artists who have made significant contributions to the film industry.” This year’s honorees are the French filmmaker Audiard,...

Angelina Jolie hit the Lido today, ahead of the world premiere of Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas biopic, Maria. Speaking with the Venice Film Festival press corps this afternoon, the star said that embodying the legendary opera singer gave her a “new relationship” to the term “diva.” The word “comes with a lot of negative connotations… I think (Callas) was one of hardest working people, who didn’t hurt anybody.”

Maria, a creative imagining and a psychological portrait of the eponymous legendary opera singer, takes place in the 1970s near the end of Callas’ life. It’s a story about a woman who lived from the ’20s to the ’70s, burning her voice and her life by doing what she loved.

This is the third portrait of a famous woman as seen through Larraín’s lens, following 2016’s Jackie and 2021’s Spencer, both of which also premiered in Venice.

On Wednesday,...

Accepting his party’s nomination for president for a third time, Donald Trump addressed the Republican National Convention in July, returning to a familiar theme.

“We… have an illegal immigration crisis, and it’s taking place right now, as we sit here in this beautiful arena,” he told delegates. “It’s a massive invasion at our southern border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease and destruction to communities all across our land. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it.”

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Never mind that ABC News fact checkers called his assertion false, writing, “There is no evidence of a major surge in crime caused by recent arrivals and Trump’s claims ignore the fact that crime is down across the country overall.” Never mind, either, that Trump tanked a bipartisan bill that would have addressed immigration reform. When you’ve...

1970s New York.

Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, Studio 54, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

It’s a period that has been explored to death, with countless works on the ‘scene’ across the city. Is there really anything fresh or engaging to be said about that time or its main protagonists? Scottish filmmaker Kevin Macdonald offers an interesting answer with his new feature documentary One To One: John & Yoko, which debuts tomorrow at the Venice Film Festival.

Set in New York in 1972, the ambitious and formally experimental film explores the time through the musical, personal, artistic, social, and political worlds of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. At the core of the film is the little-known One to One charity concert for special needs children, John Lennon’s only full-length concert between the final Beatles gig in 1966 and his death. The film includes a collection of previously unseen Lennon archives, including personal phone calls,...

The first four episodes of Alfonso Cuarón’s limited series, Disclaimer, are world premiering today at the Venice Film Festival. Oscar winners Cuarón, Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline convened with the press ahead of the screening.

The show marks Cuarón’s first directorial credit since his 2019 Best Picture Oscar winner Roma and a rare foray into TV.

He wrote and directed the seven-part show from the best-selling novel of the same name by Renée Knight. The final three episodes screen in Venice tomorrow.

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The Oscar-winner said he had approached the production as if he were making a film: “I don’t know how to direct TV. Probably at this stage of my life, it’s too late to learn how to do TV… we approached this whole thing as a film.”

That had its downside in that it made for a lengthy shoot,...

Of all the policies implemented by the Trump administration, the most outrageous — at least to many critics — was Family Separation.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris, for one, doesn’t mince words in his assessment of it.

“The policy, when you really look at it square in the face, is appalling,” Morris tells Deadline. “Not a policy of deterrence, not a policy as some would argue of ‘just following the law,’ whatever that means. A policy of cruelty.”

Morris’s new documentary, Separated, premiering at the Venice Film Festival later today, investigates the Trump administration mandate that ordered the pulling apart of migrant families who crossed the Mexican border into the U.S. Parents were detained and sent for criminal prosecution; their children, taken from them, were detained separately, under the jurisdiction of the Dept. of Health and Human Services. Some of the children were infants.

Cinetic Media has signed Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin MacDonald for management.

Macdonald won the Academy Award for Best Documentary for “One Day in September,” a look at the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics In Munich. MacDonald’s narrative feature, “The Last King of Scotland,” earned the best actor Oscar for Forest Whitaker for his chilling performance as Idi Amin.

MacDonald will be attending the Venice Film Festival, where he will premiere a “One to One: John & Yoko,” a documentary about the music legends’ relationship from Mercury Studios. His recent documentary “Klitschko: More Than a Fight,” a look at Vitali Klitschko, a boxing champ turned the mayor of Kyiv, opened the 2024 Sheffield DocFest. Previous work in the non-fiction space include “Marley,” a portrait of reggae great Bob Marley; “Whitney,” an examination of pop sensation Whitney Houston; and “High & Low — John Galliano,” which charts the controversial fashion designer’s fall.

Mediawan has taken a majority stake in Our Films, the production and film financing company launched earlier this year by top Italian producers Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli.

Rome-based Our Films reunites Gianani and Mieli who have worked together on productions including HBO’s The Young Pope, The New Pope and My Brilliant Friend.

Recently, Mieli has produced films such as Paolo Sorrentino’sThe Hand of God and Parthenope, Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All and Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla.

Gianani’s recent film credits include The Eight Mountains by Felix Von Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, Italian box office smash...

Mediawan, the European parent company of Brad Pitt’s Plan B, is taking a majority stake in Our Films, a new production and film financing company led by film and TV producers Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli.

Launched in 2024 and based in Rome, Our Films is focused on working with established and emerging European, U.S. and international filmmakers and talent across features documentaries and series.

Mediawan, which is home to over 80 production companies, has produced projects like “Call My Agent,” “Three Body Problem,” “Bob Marley: One Love,” “Miraculous Ladybug,” “Rhythm and Flow France,” “The Agency,” “The Count of Montecristo,” “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” “Hip/High Potential,” and “One Day.”

Its investment in Our Films comes as part of the company’s strategy to create a truly pan-European studio with an increasingly growing presence, which now spans 13 countries including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Benelux, and the UK in Europe,...

Mediawan has made it official that their majority stake in Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani’s Our Films has closed as the Venice Film Festival gets underway. News of both parties’ union began to emerge out of Cannes.

The investment is in line with Mediawan’s strategy of creating a Pan-European studio, home to more than 80 production companies. The Paris-based studio made a majority investment in Brad Pitt’s Plan B back in December 2022 with four of that shingle’s projects premiering on the Lido: Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the Apple Jon Watts directed Pitt-George Clooney comedy noir Wolfs, and documentaries One to One: John & Yoko, directed by Kevin Macdonald, and Apocalypse in the Tropics directed by Petra Costa.

Mieli and Gianani departed as CEOs of their respective Fremantle labels, Wildside and The Apartment, in January, and launched their Rome, Italy-based Our Films earlier this year.

"People tend to think that somebody will save them. There's only – people can save us. Only us all deciding to do something about it." Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for a documentary called Daytime Revolution, a look back at a major cultural moment in the 70s. This fascinating film, Daytime Revolution, will look at all that went into John Lennon and Yoko Ono's legendary weeklong 1972 residency as guests on The Mike Douglas Show — the most-watched daytime talk show at the time — and their impact. This is very similar to another doc premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival called One to One: John & Yoko - which is also a time capsule film about John & Yoko in 1972. Daytime Revolution is more specific, focusing on this very moment and their TV appearances. A document of the past that speaks to our turbulent present, Daytime Revolution is a time capsule...