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Romance pic Charlie Harper, starring CODA actor Emilia Jones alongside Toby Wallace (Babyteeth), has inked a series of international deals out of last week's Cannes Market. Reported deals include Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Israel (Forum Film), South Africa (Empire), Japan (Kinoshita), Latin America…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino (Shining Vale, American Crime Story: Impeachment) and Geza Rohrig (Son of Saul) have joined the spy thriller Fog of War from Yale Entertainment. We understand filming has just wrapped on the project. Also starring are Jake Abel (Malignant, Walker), Briana…

Chinese actress Zhou Dongyu, who is in Cannes with Anthony Chen's Un Certain Regard title The Breaking Ice, has had a fairytale career trajectory.  Although she had no desire to act, she was plucked from obscurity by Zhang Yimou when still a high school student in 2010, and became one of China's most…

EXCLUSIVE: The producers of indie feature Some Nights I Feel Like Walking, directed by the Philippines' Petersen Vargas, have revealed a first look of the film, which started shooting in Manila at the end of April.  The first look image features three of the lead cast – Miguel Odron, a musician and…

EXCLUSIVE: The biggest deal thrashed out so far at this year’s Cannes market is nearing completion with Amazon Prime Video set to pre-buy international rights — excluding Germany — to Liam Neeson action sequel Ice Road 2: Road To The Sky in a pact pegged around $17M. Deal isn’t done but is heading…

Mubi has picked The Settlers, the latest pic from Chilean filmmaker Felipe Gálvez for North America, the UK, Latin America, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Benelux, and India. The pic debuted in the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard section last night. Mubi has said it will…

Three French energy workers were arrested on Tuesday following power cuts in parts of Cannes, which is currently in the second week of the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27) According to local media reports, the town's main police station as well as a number of beachfront…

Chinese director Wei Shujun has just premiered his third film, neo-noir thriller Only The River Flows, in Cannes Un Certain Regard to positive reviews.  While he's now had three features selected for the festival, this is the first time he's been able to walk the red carpet in person, at least with a…

EXCLUSIVE: Leading Egyptian independent production company Film Clinic is gearing up for the shoot of The Inevitable Journey Of Finding The Wedding Dress by Jaylan Auf. Yasmin Raeis (Looking for Oum Kulthum) and newcomer Asma Galal co-star as a bride-to-be and her best friend who embark on a mad dash…

EXCLUSIVE: French director Jean-Bernard Marlin made waves in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2018 with Marseille-set feature debut Shéhérazade about the relationship between a young prostitute and an underage ex-convict who becomes her pimp. The film went on to win best first film alongside most promising…

Historical feature film Lioness, starring Aditi Rao Hydari (Jubilee) and Paige Sandhu (Emmerdale), has been set as the first official India-UK co-production under a treaty signed in 2008.  Directed by Kajri Babbar, the film tells the story of two British Punjabi women living in the UK a century…

Chinese streamer Youku is teaming with Beijing-based producer-distributor Hishow Entertainment to produce high-end drama series My Dearest Stranger, starring Wang Luodan and Bosco Wong.  The 16-part suspense drama will be directed by Golden Horse Award-winning Taiwanese filmmaker Lin Yu-Hsien Hsien (J…