Neon has acquired North American rights to writer-director Julia Ducournau’s Titane, a new French film about, well, we’ll find out later. Titane‘s plot “is being kept under wraps,” Neon says, and casting has yet to be announced.
What is known is that the acquisition marks Neon’s second of a French film this year…
Monos, Alejandro Landes’ Spanish-language survival thriller that Neon acquired after its world premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival, is Colombia’s selection for the International Feature Film race at the 92nd Oscars. The news comes as Neon and co-distributor Participant Media ready for Monos‘ September 13…
Bong Joon-ho’s multi-genre comedy-thriller Parasite is Korea’s submission for the International Feature Film prize at the 92nd Oscars.The Korean Film Council announced the selection today, giving Bong his second potential shot at a place in the final race after 2006’s Mother which was also submitted.
Parasite, about a…
For Tim Wardle, director of the documentary Three Identical Strangers, the last 18 months have been head-spinning.
"To be honest," he tells Deadline, "from Sundance onwards, life has been a bit of a blur."
That's what happens when you make one of the most acclaimed nonfiction films of recent years—a hit not only with…
NEON has set Dec. 6 as the opening date for its Cannes Film Festival winner Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The pic directed by Celine Sciamma won best screenplay at the fest last weekend.
NEON will take the period feature out in LA and NY first before platforming into the heat of awards season.
NEON and Hulu acquired the…
NEON has just dated the stateside release for Bong Joon-ho’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Parasitefor October 11 in New York and Los Angeles. The distributor will give the pic a traditional art house theatrical release, positioning Parasite for awards season. It remains TBD if South Korea selects Parasite as their…
Céline Sciamma’s (Girlhood) well-received Cannes Competition drama Portrait Of A Lady On Fire has sold to NEON and Hulu for North America in a competitive situation.
Adèle Haenel (The Unknown Girl), Noémie Merlant (Heaven Will Wait), Luana Bajrami (School’s Out) and Valeria Golina (Human Capital) star in the…
South Korea's Bong Joon-ho has been a familiar sight in Cannes since 2006, when word of his delirious Han River monster romp The Host swept the Croisette after screening in Directors’ Fortnight. Since then, while his English and dress sense quietly improved, director Bong has always returned with a surprise, making…
EXCLUSIVE: Chinonye Chukwu's Clemency, which took the Sundance Grand Jury Prize Award and was acquired at the fest by NEON, will open on Dec. 27, just in time for awards season.
The film stars Oscar nominee Alfre Woodard as prison warden Bernadine Williams, who has become hardened over the years by her job on Death…
Participant Media has teamed with indie distributor Neon on the upcoming U.S. distribution of Monos, the Spanish-language drama directed by Alejandro Landes that Neon acquired after its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
The pic, about a young group of soldiers and rebels training on a remote…
A new trailer for Amazing Grace, the long lost Aretha Franklin concert documentary set for an April 5 release by Neon, showcases the late singer delivering a stunning performance of the title song.
Filmed by Sydney Pollack in 1972 at the then-29-year-old Franklin’s concert in the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts…
