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May 25, 2026
Netflix Brazil Unveils Its First Medical Series, Plus an Evangelical Special, a Third Melodrama and an Open Marriage Comedy (EXCLUSIVE)
In the run-up to Brazilian mega creativity forum Rio2C, Netflix Brazil has unveiled five new titles which show it still exploring new genres and launching new industry partnerships. At stake for Ne...
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May 21, 2026
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight: Clio Barnard’s ‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ Wins People’s Choice Audience Award
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight has served some compensation for a scant presence of U.K. filmmakers in major sections at those year’s festival, awarding the highest profile among them, Clio Barnard, t...
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May 21, 2026
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Prizes: Sarah Arnold’s Debut ‘Too Many Beasts ’ Wins the Best European Film Award
Hailed by critics as “grippingly offbeat,” “as extravagant as it irresistible” and “impactful and very funny,” French director Sarah Arnold’s Too Many Beasts” (“L’Espèce explosive”) has scooped thi...
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May 15, 2026
Oscar-Nominated Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas to Star in ‘The Outsider,’ With Wagner Moura (EXCLUSIVE)
Oscar-Nominated “Sentimental Value” star Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas will join “The Secret Agent” lead Wagner Moura on Brazilian film “The Outsider,” where Ibsdotter Lilleaas will have the central role...
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May 14, 2026
Catalan’s Cannes Bounty Ranges From Dramas to Animation to Crowd-Pleasing Comedies
With six productions selected for the Cannes Festival and 11 titles at the Marché, Catalonia is once more punching above its weight on the Croisette. Companies mentioned below are the Catalan produ...
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May 13, 2026
Spain Takes Off, Packs Historic Cannes Punch
Over 2025-26, no country anywhere in the world outside France, not even the U.S., has had more Cannes Palme d’Or contenders than Spain. Pedro Almodóvar, Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Javier Ambrossi and Ja...
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May 13, 2026
Strength in Depth: Top Titles From Spain
Spanish titles to track at Cannes: 5 More Minutes Director: Javier Ruiz Caldera A Movistar Plus+ Original comedy written by top Spanish comic Berto Romero that follows a couple in crisis experie...
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May 10, 2026
‘Money Heist’ Set to Return With Expansion of Series Universe at Netflix
“Money Heist” is set to return with an expansion of the series universe, Netflix announced Saturday. It also issued a teaser. Along with that came a statement which suggests what Netflix is aiming...
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May 6, 2026
‘Money Heist,’ ‘Nowhere’ Director Albert Pintó Helms Revenge Thriller ‘Lions in Winter,’ Acquired for World Sales by Film Factory
Albert Pintó, a director on Netflix global blockbusters “Money Heist,” “Berlin” and “Nowhere” is re-teaming with producer Álvaro Ariza at Esto También Pasará, Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia and...
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May 6, 2026
Cannes Best Director Winner Miguel Gomes’ Long-Awaited War Drama ‘Savagery’ Brought to Market by Luxbox (EXCLUSIVE)
Finally. First announced in 2020, “Savagery” (“Selvajaria”) the most ambitious and long cherished project of Cannes Best Director Award winner Miguel Gomes (“Grand Tour, “Arabian Nights,” “Tabu”) w...
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April 30, 2026
San Sebastián, Goya Best Film Winner ‘Sundays’ Acquired for U.S. Distribution by Outsider Pictures (EXCLUSIVE)
Alauda Ruíz de Azúa’s San Sebastian and Goya best film winner “Sundays” (“Los Domingos”) has been co-acquired for U.S. distribution by Outsider Pictures. The deal announcement comes just weeks afte...
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April 30, 2026
‘Resurrection’ Director Bi Gan Reveals His Fourth Feature Film Will ‘Focus on Human Existence’ From a ‘More Minor Perspective’ in Response to AI
Chinese auteur Bi Gan has completed the story of his fourth feature film, which will “focus on human existence itself,” following “Resurrection,” the Cannes prize winner that drew international att...
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April 29, 2026
Canneseries Takeaways From Jisoo, Adam Scott and Richard Gadd to Powerhouse Speakers, This Year’s Big Winner and TV’s Pivot to IP and International
CANNES, France — When Cannes’ MipTV disappeared in 2025, some pundits wondered if Canneseries, running parallel to MipTV, could now last as a go-it-alone event. One year later, Canneseries has deli...
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April 29, 2026
Canneseries YA Show ‘Sneakermania,’ From ‘Icebreaker’ Producers, Boarded by Norsekey Distribution (EXCLUSIVE)
Canneseries competition entry “Sneakermania,” helmed by Ima Iduozee, choreographer of Netflix’s “Dance Brothers,” has been swooped on by Norsekey Distribution which has acquired global distribution...
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April 28, 2026
Disney+ Squirm-Inducing Comedy ‘Alice and Steve’ Sweeps Canneseries
Disney+ series “Alice and Steve” swept Canneseries on Tuesday night, scoring best series as well as a Special Interpretation and Student Award. A Disney+ commission by its U.K. office and part of ...
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April 28, 2026
Annecy’s 2026 Lineup Celebrates the Range, Excitement and Power of Animation Worldwide
Led by France and Japan, the packed, wide-ranging lineup of the 2026 Annecy Animation Film Festival hardly hints at the rampant market crisis suffered by much of animation production worldwide. “W...
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April 28, 2026
Brad Bird’s ‘Ray Gunn,’ Pixar’s ‘Gatto,’ Ricky Gervais’ ‘Alley Cats’ and a ‘Rick & Morty’ Spinoff Headline Annecy’s Packed Special Events Program
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival has unveiled a stacked Special Events program led by Brad Bird’s “Ray Gunn,” Pixar’s “Gatto,” Ricky Gervais’ “Alley Cats” and a “Rick & Morty” s...
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April 27, 2026
Maialen Beloki Named Director of the San Sebastián Festival
Maialen Beloki has been appointed director of Spain’s San Sebastián Film Festival. Beloki, who has served as one of the deputy directors of the San Sebastián Film Festival from 2016, will take over...
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April 27, 2026
Dan Stevens and Scott Free’s David W. Zucker Talk ‘The Terror: Devil in Silver,’ the U.S. Mental Health System and Why Stevens Loves Genre
Series can have unreliable narrators, “Money Heist,” for example. But what about unreliable heroes? Just cast in a lead role in “Dexter Resurrection” Season 2, Dan Stevens delivers one, playing Pep...
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April 27, 2026
‘Minions & Monsters’ Set to Open the 2026 Annecy Animation Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE)
Universal’s “Minions & Monsters,” the latest installment in the “Minions” franchise from Illumination, is set to open this year’s Annecy Animation Film Festival June 21. Directed by Academy Awa...
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April 26, 2026
Ron Leshem at Canneseries: ‘There Are So Many Reasons Why Today Must Be the Golden Age of Global Drama’
Oscar-nominated for “Beaufort” and co-creator of the original Israeli series which inspired Sam Levinson’s “Euphoria,” the second most-watched series in HBO history, writer-creator Ron Leshem rank...
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April 25, 2026
Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo and Movistar Plus+ Bow Produce ‘I Always Sometime,’ A Vision of Breadline Motherhood in Gentrified Barcelona
Produced with Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo (“Veneno,” “La Mesías”), now Cannes Festival main competition contenders as directors of “La Bola Negra,” Movistar Plus+ Original “I Always Sometimes”...
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April 24, 2026
Sweden’s Queen of Crime Camilla Läckberg Talks ‘Fjällbacka Murders’-Based ‘Shadow of Guilt,’ Swooped on by Reinvent Yellow (EXCLUSIVE)
Camilla Läckberg, the Swedish Queen of Crime whose novels have sold more than 40 million copies across 60 countries, has shared exclusively with Variety a few ingredients of her anticipated SVT ser...
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April 24, 2026
Oscar-Nominated Martin Zandvliet Talks Canneseries ‘Harvest,’ His ‘Succession’ with Tractors
Venerable Danish pubcaster DR Drama, behind “Borgen,” “The Killing” and “Cry Wolf,” is set to thrill the audience of the Cannes Grand Theatre Lumiere April 24 with its latest ambitious drama “Harve...
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April 24, 2026
From ‘A Woman Was Killed’ to ‘The Deal with Iran,’ ‘Godvergeten’: Flanders’ Docu Surge
At Canneseries, fiction and non-fiction projects hail from all corners of the globe. And, as Flanders features a strong TV drama industry, so it is the case with non-fiction and documentary series....
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April 24, 2026
A Whodunit Featuring Dali and Magritte, ‘This is Not a Murder Mystery’ Raises the Bar for Flanders
It takes a very special kind of creative mind to bridge surrealist art and whodunit TV productions. But it’s also fitting that “This is Not a Murder Mystery,”, a surprising crime drama set in the f...
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April 24, 2026
Canneseries Buzz Title ‘The Deal With Iran’: A Deep Dive Into Realities of Hostage Diplomacy
Reality more often than not surpasses fiction: It is yet again the case with “The Deal with Iran”, a three-part Belgian docuseries by Lennart and Maarten Stuyck, shedding light on the little known ...
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April 24, 2026
Nordisk Film Production, Reinvent Yellow Strike Distribution Deal on Prime Video’s ‘Snake Killer,’ TV2 Norway’s ‘Sogn Murders,’ Third Title (EXCLUSIVE)
Scandinavian major Nordisk Film Production and leading Nordic sales, financing and production outfit Reinvent Yellow have just inked a distribution deal on three high-end crime series. The series p...
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April 24, 2026
Movistar Plus+ CEO Daniel Domenjó to Exit in New Management Shakeup
In the second management shakeup in just over a year at Movistar Plus+ the biggest Spanish pay TV and SVOD operator, Daniel Domenjó is set to exit as CEO. Appointed in March 2025, Domenjó will be ...
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April 23, 2026
China’s Bi Gan To Be Honored at Spain’s Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Festival With Retrospective and Carte Blanche Program
Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan will receive an Honorary Golden Lady Harimaguada at the 25th edition of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival, which is also hosting a full retrospecti...
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