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In today’s film news roundup, Cinema Guild starts its virtual cinema initiative,  Mucho Mas Media  announces a partnership,  Amazon  hires a  Netflix  veteran and “ Pot Luck ” gets released. Virtual Cinema Cinema Guild is launching its virtual cinema initiative with 2019 Cannes Film Festival prize winner,  Albert Serra ’s “ Liberté ” in partnership with arthouse theaters. “We’re grateful for the opportunity to continue our partnership with arthouse theaters and institutions around the country during this difficult time,” said Cinema Guild President Peter Kelly. “We’re also very happy that U.S. audiences won’t have to wait any longer to experience the audacity and artistry of Albert Serra’s singular vision.” “ Liberté ” will launch May 1 in partnership with Film at Lincoln Center, and a national rollout will follow on May 8. The film premiered last year at Cannes, where it won a Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section. Set just befo...

The world’s second best lawyer is making moves. “ Better Call Saul ” star  Bob Odenkirk  has launched Cal-Gold Pictures, a new production company, and has signed a first-look deal with  Sony Pictures Television . Cal-Gold’s mission is to develop compelling stories with dynamic characters and social relevance. Per the company, Cal-Gold’s slate of projects aims to be as unique, distinct, and varied as Odenkirk’s career itself — all with an eye towards breaking through the clutter in sketch comedy, drama, and beyond. More from IndieWireThe Average American Is Streaming 8 Hours of Content Daily -- ReportPeacock Streaming Service Launches for Select Comcast Customers April 15 “I started in this grand charade called showbizness as a writer, it’s my default mode, so whenever I’m not onscreen you will find me in ‘development hell,’” Odenkirk said in a statement. “It’s wonderful to finally have partners as good-natured and experienced

Legendary Entertainment  has hired  Sirena Liu  as the CEO of its China subsidiary,  Legendary East . Legendary is the studio behind the “ Pacific Rim ,” “ Jurassic World ” and the “ Godzilla ” movie franchises. Liu was most recently managing director for  Twentieth Century Fox ’s China office, a post she’d held since October 2015 until mid 2019. The post became redundant following  Fox ’s acquisition by Disney. After a stumbling start in 2011, Legendary East was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary based in China. Its mission was to produce large-scale local films using Hollywood expertise and globally-targeted co-productions that would avoid China’s film import restrictions in their home market. In 2016, Chinese conglomerate Dalian  Wanda  spent the eye-watering sum of $3.5 billion to acquire the  Burbank -based parent company, in one of the largest cross-border deals of its kind in the cultural sector. The mega deal caught the...

Buckle up for some steamy teen romance. The trailer for the streaming service’s “ Never Have I Ever ” has arrived. Mindy Kaling ’s upcoming series, inspired by the former “ The Office ” star’s childhood, hits Netflix on April 27. Per the streaming service, “ Never Have I Ever ” centers on the complicated life of Devi ( Maitreyi Ramakrishnan ), a modern-day first-generation Indian American teenage girl. Devi is an overachiever with a short fuse that often gets her into difficult situations. More from IndieWire'Outer Banks' Review: Netflix Teen Drama Is a Lively, Soapy Adventure Story' #blackAF ' Review: Netflix's New Series Is a Drab Vanity Project for  Kenya Barris Difficult as those situations may be, the series’ new trailer promises that Devi’s high school struggles will offer plenty of genuine laughs. There’s the hilarious would-be erotic dream sequence, Devi dressing up as an “Indian Kardashian” to impress boys, and someone who eats

This uncanny story of preppy drug dealers has a touch of  Heathers  and a bit of  Bret Easton Ellis , and an intriguing take on what high school is really like Tayarisha Poe , like her partial namesake, has a gift for the uncanny. She is the photographer and film-maker behind this feature debut, which began as an online multimedia project and was developed as a conventional movie through the Sundance screenwriters and directors labs. What has emerged is an intriguing, opaque, tonally elusive story that seems weirdly unfinished. It is set in a privileged high school – a world of ivy-covered stone buildings and shady quadrangles where rich kids are separated into malign and mutually hostile cliques. It has a touch of  Donna Tartt  and Bret Easton Ellis, a hint of  Heathers  and a bit of the elegant, disdainful satire of  Dear White People . Somehow, though, it is odder, more stylised and contrived,

More than 5,000 Chinese film and TV companies have cancelled or revoked their business registrations so far this year, nearly twice the tally for the entirety of 2019, a state-run media outlet said Wednesday. That is a signal of the devastating impact of the coronavirus outbreak on China’s film industry. Shut since January with high expenses and no revenue streams, cinemas have been the sector hardest hit. They have now starting to lay off staff in droves, with  Cgv  recently laying off as much as 30% of its workforce, according to the financial magazine Economic Weekly. China’s Economic Daily, a paper backed by the country’s top administrative body, the State Council, said that 5,328 film and TV companies have disbanded so far in 2020, 1.78 times the number who did so in all of last year. Furthermore, there were less than 8,000 registrations of new movie theater industry-related companies in the first two months of the year,