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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. distributor Adopt Films has provided Deadline with its first official trailer for Yuval Adler’s Bethlehem. The director’s feature debut won six Israeli Academy Awards earlier this year and is Israel’s entry for the Foreign Language Oscar. The film focuses on an Israeli Secret Service officer and his…

Last year, I offered up a preview of the 15 films that had the most buzz going into the unveiling of the Foreign Language Oscar shortlist. Somehow this year, with a record 76 entries (last year it was 71), I whittled down another 15 films that have a shot at the shortlist which is expected to be finalized later this…

Adopt Films Picks Up ‘Zurich’ For U.S. New York-based Adopt Films has acquired all U.S. rights to Frederik Steiner's Zurich. The drama had its world premiere at the HOF Film Festival in Munich last month and is scheduled for a wide theatrical release in Germany in the spring. Zurich is Adopt's third German acquisition…

Adopt Films has acquired all U.S. rights to Yuval Adler‘s debut feature Bethlehem. The movie premiered in Venice before heading to Telluride and Toronto. It’s also received 12 nominations at the Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Taking place largely in Jerusalem and the West Bank, it focuses on an…

EXCLUSIVE: Yuval Adler, who co-wrote and made his feature directing debut on the Toronto entry Bethlehem, has inked with WME after being pursued by several agencies and management companies up north. The pic, which had its North American debut this week in the festival’s Discovery section, centers on a young…

Universal has bought the Black List script Bethlehem, scripted by Larry Brenner. Joe Roth is producing and Cedric Nicolas-Troyan is directing. Nicolas-Troyan makes his feature directing debut after putting together a presentation and pitching it to the studio in a fashion similar to how Roth set up Universal’s Snow Whi…