New York-based private equity group KKR has continued its remarkable German buying spree with the acquisition of leading local film producer Wiedemann & Berg, whose films include 2019 Oscar nominee Never Look Away and Oscar winner The Lives Of Others. The pact marks the fourth German media company acquisition by KKR…

EXCLUSIVE: France’s Noe Productions announced today that they have acquired the television rights to Linwood Barclay's thriller, Never Look Away. The story follows David Harwood, a stressed-out reporter in Promise Falls, New York, whose newspaper is outsourcing jobs to India. He can't get a solid lead on the corrupt…

UPDATED with more numbers and analysis. It's a bit of a forgettable weekend on the specialty side of the box office, though not as worrisome as the mainstream retreat from multiplexes on the worst Super Bowl weekend gross in nearly two decades. Sony Classics' second-weekend holdover, Never Look Away, took bragging…

Veteran cinematographer Caleb Deschanel last week scored his sixth Oscar nomination, for his work on Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Never Look Away, one of the three Foreign Language nominees that crossed into other key categories this year. Deschanel, a respected DP who has surprisingly never won the Academy…

UPDATED with more numbers and analysis. Oscar nominated title Never Look Away stood out in another subdued specialty weekend, grossing an estimated three-day total of $26,270, easily topping the small number of newcomers.  Greenwich Entertainment bowed docudrama The Invisibles by Claus Räfle in four locations Friday…

German filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmark made a splash in the foreign language box office over a decade ago with The Lives of Others, which took the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film. He is back again with Sony Pictures Classics for Never Look Away, which is also vying for Oscar this year. Also out in…

It’s been a big morning for foreign language films — and their filmmakers. Alfonso Cuaron's Roma today became the 11th foreign language movie to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar (though not all previous titles were nominated in the Foreign Language race). It also tied with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for the…

UPDATED, writethru: From a field of 87 submissions to the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar category, nine movies have now advanced to the shortlist. Working with one of the strongest years in recent memory, the Phase I Committee and the Executive Committee have settled on such favorites as Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, Pawel…

Today’s Golden Globes nominations for the Best Foreign Language Film include some of the leading favorites with potential to be in the mix for the similar category at the Oscars like Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away. But there is one glaring…

The Lives Of Others writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck returns to Venice, the setting for his second film The Tourist, with the world premiere of big-canvas European co-production Never Look Away (Werk Ohne Autor). Tom Schilling, Paula Beer, Sebastian Koch and Saskia Rosendahl star in the period epic…

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's psychological thriller Never Look Away has been chosen as Germany's official entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar race. The film, which has its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, was recently picked up by Sony Pictures Classics for the U.S. Inspired by…