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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first trailer for Berlin Film Festival premiere The Day After I’m Gone from Israel’s Spiro Films, the local producer of critical hit Foxtrot and fellow Berlin Film Festival movie The Operative, starring Diane Kruger. Paris-based sales outfit Luxbox is handling sales at the EFM on the drama about…

UPDATED at 11:45AM PT with more numbers and analysis. A handful of limited-release Best Picture nominees are going into tonight's awards with some box-office wind in their sails, placing most of tonight's contenders on par with most recent recipients of the top prize. All of the specialty Best Picture nominees still…

With awards season hitting its peak this weekend, a new crop of Specialty releases will do its best to vie for attention. Stanley Tucci, along with Addison Timlin and Kyra Sedgwick, stars in drama Submission, opening with an exclusive engagement in New York. The film is one of two from distribution label Paladin this…

One of nine foreign language films that made the Oscar shortlist this year, Samuel Maoz’ Foxtrot is screening at Sundance this year in the Spotlight section, following a successful run at premier festivals around the world. Taking the prestigious Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the Israeli film subsequently…

While Samuel Maoz’s Israeli Oscar entry Foxtrot was tremendously popular at the Venice Film Festival, taking the Grand Jury Prize, among other recognitions, it hasn’t been quite so popular in Israel itself, generating a great deal of controversy in Maoz’s homeland. “Someone wrote me an email that said he was waiting…

UPDATE: Sony Pictures Classics has firmed its deal for North American and other rights to Foxtrot, confirming a Deadline scoop that broke just as the film won eight Ophir Awards in Israel, including Best Picture and Best Director for Samuel Maoz. This comes on top of its Grand Jury Prize win at Venice and gives SPC a…