Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights in North and Latin America, India and Southeast Asian TV to Iron Boy, Louis Clichy’s hand-painted animated feature. Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the childhood drama has drawn some enthusiastic notices from critics. The French-language film is co-written by Clichy […]

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Scott (All Of US Strangers) and George MacKay (1917) have been set to lead the voice cast in Russell Tovey’s (American Horror Story: NYC) debut novel Starlings, which is being published as an Audible Original. Set in the heart of Clapham in London, the drama will explore family estrangement and queer identity. Release is set […]

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first footage of Al Pacino in political thriller Killing Castro, which is getting its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The feature “reimagines Fidel Castro’s 1960 Harlem stay as a charged encounter between surveillance and solidarity. As converging forces close in, a young translator is pulled into a tightening web of power and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Thai actress and singer Ally Nitibhon is signing with management firm Industry Entertainment for U.S. representation. Nitibhon stars as a series regular in Netflix’s popular Thai crime-drama The Believers, which won the Best Series prize at the country’s 2025 Nataraja Awards. The Believers follows three young and ambitious entrepreneurs who must find a way […]

EXCLUSIVE: Newly formed production and financing company Laurel Canyon Pictures, founded by producer Dan Fried, has officially launched with a focus on financing and producing a slate of premium documentaries each year. The company’s inaugural title, Jean-Michel, directed by Quinn Whitney Wilson and Viridiana Lieberman, will make its world premiere in the Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Festival this Friday, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, Vertical has acquired North American distribution rights to drama Clean Hands, the latest feature from writer-director Jake Allyn (Ride). Zach Braff, Esther McGregor, Abigail Spencer, Holt McCallany and Lucas Till star in the film which explores America’s war on drugs from the opposing eyes of […]

Minotaur marks the first film from acclaimed Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev in the best part of a decade. At the film’s Cannes Film Festival world premiere today it received a heartfelt ten-minute standing ovation, one of the longer ovations of the festival so far. Deadline’s Stephanie Bunbury hailed the movie as “a great piece of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Florence Pugh fantasy drama The Midnight Library, which will be directed by Lion filmmaker Garth Davis, is being chased by multiple studios in what will likely be the biggest deal out of this year’s Cannes market. We understand Paramount, Focus and Sony are in the mix for domestic and select international markets on the circa $70M movie, […]

Here’s your first teaser trailer for Maika Monroe horror Victorian Psycho, which debuts today in Cannes’ UCR section. Based on the novel by Virginia Feito, the synopsis reads: “When eccentric governess Winifred (Monroe) arrives at a remote gothic manor in Victorian England, her unnerving charm hides a deadly secret. Strange, unsettling incidents become harder to […]

Cannes Palme d’Or front runner La Bola Negra looks set to be acquired for the U.S. in a record-breaking domestic deal for a non-English-language title in the $4-5 million-range. We hear the deal being brokered by Goodfellas and CAA Media Finance comes with a multi-week theatrical obligation and plans for an awards campaign, with the […]

EXCLUSIVE: CAA teamed up with Charles Finch’s Finch & Partners to host an exclusive film symposium in Cannes and the teams are now eyeing an expansion of the event to other festivals/cities including Venice and Doha. Additional locations are also being discussed, alongside a return to the same venue in Cannes next year. The private […]

EXCLUSIVE: A Ghostbusters update on Ghostbusters Day: making-of documentary Too Hot To Handle: Remembering Ghostbusters II has wrapped after an eight-year production journey. The sequel to doc Cleanin’ Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) features interviews with Dan Aykroyd, the late Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, the late director and producer Ivan Reitman, and ILM’s […]