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The good news for Specialty Box Office is that the dollar is strong, so as execs head to France this week for the Cannes Film Festival, they can toss back a few (or more) rosés and try and forget this weekend — or just blame it on Avengers: Age Of Ultron. There are a couple of somewhat silver linings. Tribeca Film’s…

UPDATE, 4:50 PM PT: At nearly four hours, tonight's César Awards ceremony was one of the longest I can remember, but oddly also one of the most entertaining. Host Edouard Baer kept things moving for the Canal Plus broadcast even if he started to sweat as things started to draw out. Nevertheless, the Césars are often…

UPDATE, 2:25 AM PT: Last year’s dueling Yves Saint Laurent biopics each picked up several nominations this morning for France’s César Awards. Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, the country's entry for the Foreign Language Oscar, leads the pack with 10 mentions, followed by Thomas Cailley's Directors' Fortnight title Les…

Here’s the final entry in my annual assessment of movies that have a chance to pass the first stage of the Foreign Language Oscar race. We expect the shortlist to come out tomorrow and I’m expecting a number of the films I’ve profiled below, and here and here, will make the grade. I spoke with the directors of the…

The shortlist for France's Louis Delluc Prize, one of the country's highest film honors, has been released with 14 films making the cut across two categories: Best Film and Best Debut Feature. Among the eight main movies, six hail from this year's Cannes crop. Saint Laurent – which is France's entry for the Foreign…

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this week that a record 83 countries had submitted an eligible film for the 2014 Foreign Language Film Oscar. A volunteer group of several hundred members now will trudge through those movies beginning Monday night with Poland’s much acclaimed Ida and wrapping…

The selection of the Foreign Language Oscar entry from France has been one of the more interesting to follow this year given all the controversy surrounding 2013's ultimate decision. The committee that chooses the picture that will represent France has gone with Bertrand Bonello's biopic Saint Laurent, which will…

In its first pick-up of the just underway Cannes Film Festival, Sony Pictures Classics has taken North American rights to Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent. The film is running in Competition here and is a biopic of the fashion designer set during the period 1965 to 1976. EuropaCorp and Mandarin Cinema are producers…