It is a tale nearly as old as time — but enough about the creative differences that have conspired to keep this ambitious Middle Eastern Western away from movie screens since it went into production four years ago. Looking at it now, and knowing what we know about the shooting conditions, it’s a miracle Desert…
“In periods of great challenge come periods of great opportunity and I think we’re living through that right now,” Megan Colligan, President of new U.S. distributor Row K Entertainment, told a panel on the economics of indie distribution at the Zurich Summit on Saturday. The former Imax Entertainment President, and before that Paramount Pictures exec,…
“I think we’re in the middle of a big sea change,” said Toronto International Film Festival chief Cameron Bailey during a Zurich Summit panel about the role of film festivals. “Certainly, there’s much more media coverage on the business of film and the screen industry generally than there used to be. This is not as…
Dakota Johnson To Receive Zurich’s Golden Eye The Zurich Film Festival will fete Dakota Johnson with its Golden Eye award for career achievement. Johnson will accept the award live on opening night and present her 2025 feature Splitsville. In Splitsville, Johnson plays the character Julie. When her friend Ashley (Adria Arjona) tells her husband Carey (Kyle…
The Zurich Film Festival has set the first crop of its gala titles for this year’s event, which runs from September 25 to October 5. Titles include Benny Safdie’s latest feature, The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson. The Rock is MMA fighter Mark Kerr. The film’s synopsis reads: Kerr, an icon of the…