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Last December, bystanders filmed as a man who allegedly set a homeless woman on fire calmly sat down to watch her die. No one intervened—not even the police officer who strolled by as the woman, later identified as Debrina Kawam, was engulfed in flames. Many have tried to make sense of how passengers could film

At next month’s European Film Market in Berlin, the first footage will be shown to buyers from medieval fantasy epic “The Stolen Child.” Variety spoke to the writer-director Sebastian McKinnon about the film, whose international rights are being represented by Picture Tree Intl. The film’s trailer debuts below. The synopsis for “The Stolen Child” is

European TV giant Banijay Entertainment — whose more-than 60 labels have produced recent shows such as “Rogue Heroes,” “Ripley” and “The Rig” — has expanded the roles of two execs as it rejigs its global scripted division. As part of a new combined leadership structure, Steve Matthews has been named head of scripted, creative and Johannes

Arte France, the upscale French public service broadcaster, has made the Nordic region one of its biggest shopping destination of TV drama with the U.K., since the Danish cult series “The Killing” (2010) and “Borgen” (2012).  “Occupied”, the Norwegian futuristic political thriller was another landmark show which kick-started in 2015 the channel’s venture into event co-productions

Have we ever wondered how people become bad? What leads them to a point where they inflict pain and suffering on others? No one is born with cruelty or malice in their heart. So, how do they end up on that path? It’s a question I often think about. The world, as we know, isn’t

Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a Gates Foundation-backed group of donors, pharmaceutical manufacturers and African government institutions will invest $1.6 million in 15 healthtech startups across the continent.  The initiative will give $50,000 equity free grants to ten early stage startups and up to $225,000 each to five early stage startups who are solving problems

The FAA published a final rule last week that allows online submission of aircraft registration documents. Previous regulations required registrants to submit original documents and ink-signed documents to register aircraft, but the new rule does away with almost all of that. In some cases, certified or true copies will be needed. It’s hoped the modernization

HELSINKI — China’s space agency has accepted the participation of a commercial space company in a lunar exploration mission for the first time in a move which may foreshadow greater commercial lunar activity. STAR.VISION Aerospace Group Limited, engaged in areas including satellite design, intelligent satellite platforms and AI data analysis, will team up with Zhejiang