EXCLUSIVE: Dreamworks has set Nikolaj Arcel to direct Rebecca, a remake of the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film. The picture, which has a script draft by Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight, is being produced by Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Arcel is coming off A Royal Affair, a film that was Oscar…

David Mermelstein is an AwardsLine contributor If one thing links all five of this year's nominees for the foreign film Oscar, it's that the director of each picture was driven to make his movie because of strong, deeply personal feelings. These five films — a varied batch if ever there was one — have nothing in…

European Film Promotion, the network that brings together promotional and export bodies from 34 countries, has unveiled the 10 young actors who will be featured at the 2013 Shooting Stars showcase during the Berlin Film Festival. Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, last year’s Silver Bear winner for best actor in Berlin, is on the…

Brian Brooks is managing editor of MovieLine. Chasing Ice froze out the specialty competition among newcomers on this Skyfall weekend. The documentary released by sales company Submarine’s distribution label grossed $21,000 in a single theater, NYC’s Cinema Village. The company’s Dan Braun noted the film had a big…

Brian Brooks is managing editor of MovieLine. Foreign and domestic titles from the festival circuit will make their theatrical debuts this weekend. Bernadette Peters and French actress Isabelle Huppert will open their latest respective films Coming Up Roses and In Another Country. Starlet with Dree Hemingway has a San…

The Foreign Language Film race for the 85th Annual Academy Awards kicks into high gear tonight at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre with a double feature. Denmark’s  period costume drama, A Royal Affair will be followed by the Dominican Republic entry Jaque Mate, the first two of a…