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EXCLUSIVE: Following its well-received debut in Cannes Film Festival's inaugural Premieres section, Andrea Arnold's latest feature, Cow, is recording brisk business for Paris-based Mk2 Films. Streaming service and theatrical distributor Mubi has boarded the movie for Italy, Germany, Austria and Latin America, adding…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's your first look at The Braves, which debuted in Cannes' Directors' Fortnight program today (July 14). The pic is Anaïs Volpé's debut feature. It stars Souheila Yacoub (Climax) and Déborah Lukumuena (Divines). The story explores the ride-or-die friendship between two modern heroines facing adversity…

Welcome to the first edition of Deadline's International Distruptors, a feature where we'll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. With the Cannes Virtual Market warming up and July's physical Cannes Film Festival looming, we're kicking off with a…

Shameik Moore is newly attached to lead upcoming feature Silver Star opposite Sydney Sweeney, we can reveal. The Spiderman: Into The Spider-Verse and Wu-Tang: An American Saga actor will play Buddy, a 20-year-old Civil War re-enactor who is fresh out of jail and struggling to root himself in today's world. Buddy is…

Moviegoing kicked off again in the UK and France this week, with the former reopening cinemas on Monday and the latter on Wednesday. And so far, signs are very positive after roughly seven months of darkened screens in each market. Advance sales are strong and exhibitors in both are encouraged at the early results. In…

Now that France's borders are poised to open up to travelers from around Europe and the United States, there's an intriguing new lodging option in Paris for cinephiles — and industry folk perhaps making a pit stop ahead of or after the Cannes Film Festival in July. Hotel Paradiso, a four-star venue that bills itself…

EXCLUSIVE: Star Wars star Daisy Ridley and Brit national treasure Stephen Fry have boarded the voice cast of The Inventor, a feature stop-motion animation about Leonardo da Vinci written and directed by Jim Capobianco, the Oscar-nominated scribe of Ratatouille. Fry will voice da Vinci and Ridley will be the French…

A Russian virtual content market will be held in June to showcase the country's latest productions to international buyers. Roskino, the national film body dedicated to promoting Russian film globally, is organizing the event, which will include live presentations and pitches, a screening room with 150+ hours of…

EXCLUSIVE: Mk2 Films, the sales wing of French major Mk2, is creating a private online market that will launch initially with its latest slate of documentaries. Titled ‘Reality Beyond Fiction’, the five-day event will be available to registered buyers and will focus on completed films including Helmut Newton: The Bad A…

EXCLUSIVE: Nathanaël Karmitz, CEO at Paris-based Mk2, which operates the biggest art-house cinema network in France, is preaching patience for the re-opening of theaters. Speaking to Deadline, Karmitz said that a mid-July opening, which has been bandied around Europe in the last two weeks, initially as a provisional…

Netflix has struck a deal with French company Mk2 to stream a selection of classic library titles, including Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and François Truffaut's Jules et Jim, in French-speaking territories throughout 2020. Netflix will host a total of 50 films from filmmakers such as Charlie Chaplin, Alain Resnais…

Juliette Schrameck is leaving her role as managing director of Paris-based sales and distribution outfit mk2 films after 13 years at the company. In an email to industry announcing her departure, also shared with Deadline, she said she would tell unveil her next moves soon. "After 13 wonderful years at mk2, acquiring…