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Paradise City Sales has boarded worldwide sales on Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Gharaei’s latest feature, “Falling House” which is set to world premiere in the Horizons section at the Venice Film Festival. “Falling House” marks his follow up to “Blockage,” a 2017 drama that portrayed contemporary Iranian society and won best film at Busan before going on […]
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You don’t have to hit hard to win pickleball — that’s the chief lesson to be taken from “The Dink,” a sports comedy titled for the dainty signature shot of the fast-growing racket sport, and it’s one that Josh Greenbaum’s film takes to heart with its own softball comic style. Following a conceited former tennis […]
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Hits like “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” and “Michael” helped lift Imax’s second quarter earnings. During the three-month period ending in June, the big screen provider’s revenues increased 12% to $102.8 million, while net income improved 30% to $15.9 million. Imax recorded adjusted earnings per share of 43 cents, a 65% improvement over the prior-year […]
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The Venice Film Festival has suffered its steepest decline in female representation in five years, with just one woman director selected for this edition’s main competition. It marks a dramatic fall from the six female filmmakers in last year’s edition, which saw Kaouther Ben Hania win the grand jury prize for “The Voice of Hind […]
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Michelle Zhou’s debut feature “Big Little Things” has landed backing from Hong Kong-based Moebius Entertainment, which will handle worldwide sales and festival representation after the Hong Kong-U.S. co-production earned a berth in the Horizons section of the 83rd Venice Film Festival. The story centers on a woman who moves back to her native Harbin after […]
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Heretic has acquired world rights to Jelena Maksimović’s fiction feature debut “Until the Day Ends,” set against the backdrop of Serbia’s student protests. The film will celebrate its world premiere as part of Venice’s Horizons section in September. The film follows Lena (Lena Trifunović), an anarchist student active in Belgrade’s anti-government movement, and Stefan (Stefan […]
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New Europe Film Sales has acquired the animated film “Moonfish” by Daniel Zvereff, starring Morgan Spector (“The Gilded Age,” “Homeland”) and Lucy Liu (“Kill Bill,” “Charlie’s Angels”). The film will be screened in the Biennale College section at the 83rd Venice Intl. Film Festival. In “Moonfish,” a grieving astronaut who’s lost his only companion on […]
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Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision said it posted a loss in the second quarter despite a swell of revenue from its rights to air the World Cup in Mexico, a sign of the challenges the company, formed from the combination of Univision in the U.S. and Grupo Televisa in Mexico, continues to face. The company posted […]
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Films Boutique has boarded international sales on “The Difficult Bride,” Rubaiyat Hossain’s supernatural feminist drama selected for the Horizons competition of the Venice Film Festival, where it will become the first Bangladeshi feature film to screen. The cast includes three Bangladesh National Film Award winners – Azmeri Haque Badhon, Rikita Nondine Shimu and Sunerah Kamal […]
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LOTTERY LEADER Isabel Davis has been appointed director of the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Funds, overseeing some £20 million ($26.8 million) a year in support for U.K. independent filmmakers. Davis joins the British Film Institute from Screen Scotland, where she has served as executive director for eight years, and begins a five-year fixed-term contract in […]
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Tom Holland is on the second of two consecutive blockbuster press tours in the space of a month – first for “The Odyssey” and now for “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” – but the actor is already gearing up for his next role: Fred Astaire. Holland, who is set to play the debonair dancer in an […]
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Totem has picked up international sales rights for “Oasis,” by writer-director Jannis Lenz, which has its world premiere in the Horizons competition section at the Venice Film Festival. The film joins Totem’s sales slate as the company shifts its primary focus to production. The film centers on a school where a viral video of a […]
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