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EXCLUSIVE: Well Go USA Entertainment has expanded its slate of Korean films, acquiring North American rights to titles including Alienoid, Hansan: Rising Dragon, Gangnam Zombie, The Ghost Station and The Assassin. While the international and indie distributor has set theatrical releases in place for Alienoid and Hansan…

Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s period martial arts drama The Assassin, Taiwan’s (unsuccessful) entry for the Foreign Language Oscar race, picked up the FIPRESCI Prize at the Palm Springs Film Festival, which announced its juried winners today. The fest, which officially wraps Monday, will announce its audience awards winners…

The Foreign Language Oscar race consistently serves up a cornucopia of interesting auteur fare from around the world. And with every year's increasing embarrassment of riches, it's more difficult to predict how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Phase One and Executive Committees will weed out the lead…

Taiwan’s The Assassin, from this year’s Cannes Film Festival best director Hou Hsiao-Hsien, has been voted the top movie of 2015 in the British Film Institute’s poll of 168 critics for the organization’s Sight & Sound magazine. No. 2 and 3 were Todd Haynes’ Carol and George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. Sight & Sound…

There are 81 films vying for the Foreign Language Oscar this year, two fewer than last year's record 83 but no less rich with subjects and auteurs from around the world. Each year the Foreign Language Film Award Committee faces an increasing embarrassment of riches, which it has to whittle down to just nine films for…

A new pack of titles boasting heavy-hitter casts and awards ambitions hits theaters Friday. A24 is opening the simply titled Room with Brie Larson, Sean Bridges, William H. Macy and newcomer Jacob Tremblay in NYC and L.A., hoping the film will catch awards buzz with its acclaimed performances. Also vying for attention…

Here’s another title that started its career in Cannes and now has been selected to rep its country in the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar race. Taiwan has gone with master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin. The film won Hou the Best Director prize in Cannes and next will travel to Toronto, the New York Film…

UPDATE, 12:30 PM PT: Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan, a drama about a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and works as a caretaker outside Paris, scooped the Palme d’Or this evening. The win for Audiard, an acclaimed French filmmaker who has previously taken the Grand Prize for 2009’s A Prophet and the Screenplay…

Well Go USA Entertainment couldn’t wait for Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s martial arts pic The Assassin to hit Cannes. The distributor has just acquired North American rights to the Chinese competition film that has its world premiere next week on the Croisette. The Chinese auteur has been working on the film for close to a…