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EXCLUSIVE: Fox International Productions, the local-language production and acquisitions arm of 20th Century Fox, is being phased out from its perch as a separate entity, Deadline has learned. As a result, FIP President Tomas Jegeus is being brought into the main studio where he will continue to develop international…

Fox International Productions has set Ale Damiani to direct Latino comedy Upgraded, a wish-fulfillment story written by Eduardo Cisneros and Jason Shuman. Damiani made the sci-fi short-film M.A.M.O.N., a satirical critique of the U.S. president’s immigration policies that gained an international following after it was…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox International Productions has acquired James Luckard’s WW II serial killer thriller Silent Night from Nigel Sinclair and Guy East's White Horse Pictures. The original screenplay is Luckard’s first and will be one of FIP's most ambitious projects to date. The studio intends to co-finance with White…

M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, a biopic of Indian cricketing legend Mahendra Singh Dhoni, bowled over audiences at the local and international box office this weekend. From Fox International Productions and Fox Star Studios, the sports drama grossed $14M on 4,200 screens at home to score the No. 2 opening of 2016, behin…

Lantica Media and AMBI Group have entered a multi-picture co-production and co-financing deal for English- and Spanish-language features. The partners have committed to making three films over the next three-to-five years which they will fully finance. AMBI Distribution, will handle worldwide sales. Lantica’s…

Fox International Productions is teaming in an exclusive first-look deal with film industry veterans Paul Heth and Michael Schlicht for Russian-language movies. The arrangement encompasses both co-productions and acquisitions and adds to Fox's continuing co-production and acquisitions relationships and activities in Ru…

In the latest tie-up between Hollywood and China, Fox International Productions has inked a memoradum of understanding with Huace Media Group to explore co-production opportunities on Chinese-language films. Huace and FIP are working to identify projects, including mining Fox’s catalogue for potential remakes. FIP has…

Bollywood audiences have embraced the love and family themes of Salman Khan’s latest blockbuster. Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, from Fox International Productions and Fox Star Studios, was poised to do record-breaking business, as I reported last week. And so it has. The reteaming of Khan with director Sooraj R. Barjatya…

This week has ushered in the Diwali holiday, and that sets up the latest film from Bollywood blockbuster titan Salman Khan. Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (loosely translated to Found The Jewel Of Love) opens tomorrow in India and the diaspora including 270+ screens in North America. The film, from Fox International…

Tomas Jegeus has been tapped to run Fox International Productions as its new president. The announcement was made today by 20th Century Fox chairman and chief exec Jim Gianopulos and co-chairman Stacey Snider. FIP launched in 2008 and quickly grew under departed former head Sanford Panitch into one of the more dynamic…

EXCLUSIVE– Acclaimed international commercial director Antony Hoffman has set up his feature directorial debut Fox Hunt with Fox International Pictures’ president Sanford Panitch. Panitch, widely respected as one of the savviest studio execs working in the international arena, sparked to Hoffman’s pitch about making a…

A few days after Fox broke a domestic box office record for its highest-grossing year ever, Fox International has now set a new industry benchmark for box office earned in a calendar year. With a cume so far of $3.254B, the studio division says it has bested previous record-holder Paramount and its 2011 $3.21B haul…