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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter) and Oscar winner Riz Ahmed (The Long Goodbye) have joined Christos Nikou's (Apples) anticipated English-language feature film debut Fingernails, we can reveal. FilmNation is launching sales on the hot package at the Cannes market next week and is co-repping…

Christos Nikou's feature debut Apples was already a buzzed about title heading into its premiere at the Venice Film Festival last September, and ultimately emerged with a very notable champion in that edition’s jury president Cate Blanchett. Her company, Dirty Pictures, boarded the movie not long after as executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan is set to star in Fingernails, the English-language feature film debut for Greek filmmaker Christos Nikou, whose current movie Apples premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival and is Greece’s submission in the International Feature Oscar race. The new pic reteams Nikou and Dirty…

UPDATED with video: Greek dramedy Apples was one of the buzz films of last year's depleted festival circuit, debuting in Venice where it opened the festival's Horizons section. It’s now Greece’s entry into this year’s International Feature Oscar race. Six years in the making, the prescient movie is set amidst a…

EXCLUSIVE: Cate Blanchett and her team at Dirty Films are coming on board as executive producers on the Christos Nikou-directed Apples, the film which opened Venice Orizzonti section to strong reviews and was also a selection of Telluride and TIFF and is a potential for the Greece’s choice for Best International…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Greek director Christos Nikou, whose debut feature Apples is on sales this week in the Cannes virtual market. French sales outfit Alpha Violet is handling international sales on the Euro co-pro, which is produced by Hercules Mavroeidis, who produced acclaimed Greek movie Attenberg and was an…