FAME is happy announce Oliver Hirschbiegel, the director of Oscar-nominated “Downfall” and European Film Award nominee “The Experiment,” and Peter Harness, the writer, creator and executive producer of Apple TV’s “Constellation,” have boarded the film adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s sci-fi novel “The Inquest of Pilot Pirx".

They join sci-fi novelist Adrian Tchaikovsky on the project, having been tapped by producers Nafta Films and Film and Music Entertainment to write and update Lem’s original story.

The English-language film tells the story of Commander Pirx, who leads a small group of androids and humans into space. It’s a double Turing test as the crew discover if they are artificial life themselves as well as identify if their fellow crewmates are too. Events turn dangerous when the mission is disrupted by an unknown saboteur.

"Private Property" narrative short is among the 10 selected for this year's Concorso Corti d'Autore - Locarno Film Festival's highly selective competition for established directors.

Fame is very happy to complete filming on Winter of the Crow.

Lesley Manville, most recently seen as Princess Margaret in the final seasons of “The Crown,” is to lead “Winter of the Crow,” now shooting in Warsaw, Poland.

Ahead of the European Film Market in Berlin, HanWay is launching worldwide sales on the feature, based on the short story by Olga Tokarczuk, a Nobel Literature Prize and International Booker Prize winner and one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland.

Alongside Manville, soon to be seen in “Back to Black,” the sporting cast includes Tom Burke (“True Things,” “The Souvenir,” “Only God Forgives”), Zofia Wichłacz (“World on Fire” and a European Shooting Star winner at the Berlin Film Festival in 2017) and Andrzej Konopka (“The Lure,” “Nina”).

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Signature Entertainment is set to release the film in September. 

The BFI has made a further 14 awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, boosting global opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. Financed through the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the awards allocate over £2.2 million through the fund’s International Co-production strand, supporting UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions and help create new global projects.

This latest round of awards sees the UK co-producing with 18 territories and will be the first time the fund has supported projects with Czech Republic, Georgia, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania,  Saudi-Arabia, Ukraine and USA. The funding will also support partnerships closer to  home with Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland and Luxembourg.

"Winter of the Crow", starring Lesley Manville, lands a U.S. distribution deal with Cohen Media Group.

TIFF 2025: Wasteman, Winter of the Crow, Charlie Harper | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

Thank you to our friends at COCO for inviting Sam Taylor to attend on November 9-11: we look forward to connecting with our fellow producers from the East and pledge our support to the filmmakers from Ukraine.

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Abacus Media Rights has acquired the Sky Original feature documentary “The Ghost of Richard Harris,” about the Hollywood star and notorious hell-raiser, for worldwide distribution. The release of the film, directed by Adrian Sibley, coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Irish actor’s death.

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Winter of the Crow is "one to watch out for".

Oscar-nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland (Charlatan, In Darkness) is re-teaming with her Charlatan team, including Marek Epstein and producer Sarka Cimbalova, on Kafka, a biopic on legendary Jewish-Czech writer Franz Kafka.

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Half a decade after this promising thriller, led by the reputable Lesley Manville, was announced, a release date has finally been set.

Agnieszka Holland has signed on to direct a biopic of 20th century novelist Franz Kafka. Titled “Kafka,” the film will cover the writer’s life in a series of standalone vignettes, from his birth in 19th century Prague through to his death in Berlin just a few years after the close of World War I.

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