- Jack Black and Tim Robbins have signed on to star in HBO’s upcoming series The Brink. The dark comedy will follow three men as they deal with a geopolitical crisis. Black will play a Foreign Service officer, while Robbins has been cast as the U.S. Secretary of State. The two will also serve as producers on the series. For more information on the project, click here.
- Will Smith and director Shawn Levy are on board for 20th Century Fox’s The City That Sailed. Audrey Wells is set to write the screenplay about the island of Manhattan as it breaks away from the mainland and sails across the Atlantic. Smith will star in and co-produce the project. To read more on the film, click here.
- The European Commission has reupped film subsidies and preserved territorial obligations, after 18 months of lobbying from film boards and guilds. The regulations were first created in 2011 in order to level out state aids across Europe and prevent subsidy races between countries. The new policy will still allow producers to raise up to half their film budgets via subsidies, which can be used for costs related to production, script-writing, development, film distribution and film promotion. The previous policy only took production costs into account. For more information, click here.
- Katrin Gebbe’s Nothing Bad Can Happen has been given the New Auters critics award at AFI Fest. “Many, many bad things happen,” the jury said in their award statement. “But the blessing is discovering first-time filmmaker Katrin Gebbe and her incredible ensemble who have braved their own tests – boos and walkouts, nothing too bloody – in order to bring us this powerful movie and faith and sacrifice.” To read more about AFI Fest award winners, click here.
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