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Robin Campillo on Losing Friend Laurent Cantet and Finishing His Coming of Age Drama ‘Enzo’: ‘It Was About Joyfully Continuing What He Started’
Above all, Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo were friends. Close since their student days, the duo soon began a keen creative partnership - co-writing films that Cantet directed and Campillo edited. W...
May 14, 2025
Ukraine’s Sergei Loznitsa on Cannes Competitor ‘Two Prosecutors’ and Budding Trump-Putin Alliance: Totalitarian Threat ‘Looming on the Horizon’
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa returns to the Cannes Film Festival with the gripping Soviet period drama "Two Prosecutors," marking the first time in nearly a decade that the celebrated filmmaker ...
May 14, 2025
Film Factory Nabs Barcelona Attacks Thriller (EXCLUSIVE)
Film Factory has picked up worldwide sales rights to "Operation Cronos," a high-stakes thriller centering on the 2017 terrorist Barcelona attacks. Produced by Nostromo, the shingle behind Netflix hit ...
May 14, 2025
Buzzy Sentient AI Thriller ‘Hot Spot’ From Agnieszka Smoczynska Finds French Distribution With The Jokers (EXCLUSIVE)
Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyska's ("The Silent Twins") highly anticipated sentient AI thriller "Hot Spot" has found French distribution with The Jokers, in a deal that was brokered by Jan Naszewsk...
May 14, 2025
Ukraine’s Film.UA Scores Deals on Slate Led by Live-Action Fantasy Feature ‘Mavka. The True Myth,’ Horror Film ‘The Witch. Revenge’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Ukrainian production powerhouse Film.UA has racked up a raft of deals at the Cannes Market, with "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" distributor ITN Films taking North American and Latin American right...
May 14, 2025
Thai Musical ‘Dream!’ Lands Distribution Deal as the Thailand Creative Cultural Agency Readies Its Cannes Debut (EXCLUSIVE)
Hollywood Thailand has inked a theatrical distribution deal with Commercial Films Siam for “Dream!," an English-language musical that will hit cinemas across Thailand and the Southeast Asia regi...
May 14, 2025
‘Tinsel Town,’ Starring Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson, Closes First Deals, Debuts First-Look Image (EXCLUSIVE)
Mister Smith Entertainment has closed the first international deals for "Tinsel Town," which stars Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson, and has released the first-look image. The first-look depicts Bra...
May 14, 2025
Fatih Akin’s ‘Amrum’ Sells to First Territories Ahead of World Premiere in Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)
Beta Cinema has closed several deals for Fatih Akin's "Amrum" ahead of the film's world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival. The drama, which plays in Cannes Premiere, has been sold to France (Dulac ...
May 14, 2025
Prada Foundation Launches Film Fund Managed by Former Directors’ Fortnight Chief Paolo Moretti (EXCLUSIVE)
Italian fashion house Prada is entering the film production space by setting up the Fondazione Prada Film Fund to sustain independent cinema. The new fund will be managed by former Directors’ Fo...
May 13, 2025
Cercamon Launches Genre Label Vorteks (EXCLUSIVE)
Dubai-based sales agency Cercamon has launched Vorteks, a new genre label running the gamut from horror to sci-fi, thriller, fantasy, dark comedy and action movies. Handling 8-10 features a year, Vort...
May 13, 2025