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A24's Lamb hit the top ten for the second week running (No. 8) at the North American box office, surging past $2 million. The Rescue expanded to 552 theaters, the widest documentary screen count since Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, said distributor Greenwich Entertainment, anticipating it will ultimately…

IFC presents Mia Hansen-Løve's Cannes entry Bergman Island, Film Movement brings Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy to the arthouse this weekend, as A24's surprise hit Lamb and Greenwich Entertainment's The Rescue go wider week two after a strong open. It’s early days but a nascent specialty revival may be in the works…

Mia Hansen-Løve’s long-gestating Bergman Island finally took its world premiere bow this week at the Cannes Film Festival, and quickly became one of the highlights of this year’s Competition. The film’s story follows Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps, who joined Hansen-Løve at Deadline’s Cannes Studio, and who star as a pair…

Breathing in the air that the master breathed, staying in his home and becoming saturated with all manner of first-hand Bergman-iana has in no way qualified Bergman Island writer-director Mia Hansen-Love to be mentioned in the same breath as the late Swedish master Ingmar Bergman, much less make a film about his aura…

Nearly three years after she began filming it, Mia Hansen-Løve's seventh film, Bergman Island, finally arrives in Cannes to mark the Parisian director's Competition debut. Filmed on location in Sweden, and starring Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth, it takes place on the island of Fårö, where the Swedish auteur Ingmar…

Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie will be busy in Cannes with two films world premiering in Competition. It's not a new phenomenon for onscreen talent to be supporting various movies, but Lie stands out as likely the only professional actor who will be heading to the Palais while taking time off from his other job…

IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island, ahead of the film’s world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The acquisition marks IFC’s fourth collaboration with the writer/director, on the heels of the features Father of My Children, Goodbye First Love and Things to…