Netflix is moving ahead with Escape From Hat, an animated feature from two-time Oscar-nominated director Mark Osborne, who directed The Little Prince and co-directed Kung Fu Panda. Production will start this month in New York for a scheduled release in 2022. Osborne will direct and produce with Jinko Gotoh. They…

The Night Manager producer The Ink Factory has hired Film 4's Tracey Josephs as Head of Production. Josephs, based in London, is one of six new hires for the firm after it secured a $180M funding boost earlier this month. Overseeing all physical production at the TV and film company, Josephs was previously Head of…

In 2016, French film admissions at home hit their second-highest number in 50 years — including an increase of 3% for local pics versus 2015. Abroad, it's a different story. Unifrance, the organization that promotes French film overseas, reports today that ticket sales in foreign markets dipped to 34M, down 69% on…

EXCLUSIVE: The Little Prince director Mark Osborne is getting a very special honor from France in recognition of his work in making the first-ever animated feature adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic. He will be conferred the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in March at a ceremony…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. And now it is crunch time. Oscar nomination ballots went live yesterday and are due back a week from today on Friday the 13th. Hope that date doesn’t mean scary things for some contenders, but it is clear the campaigns are taking nothing for granted…

"It's an incredibly challenging book to adapt because it is incredibly poetic and it really lives in the imagination of the reader,"The Little Prince director Mark Osborne says of bringing Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 children’s classic to the big screen. "Everyone who reads it get a different experience." Joined…

“It's an incredibly challenging book to adapt because its incredibly poetic and it really lives in the imagination of the reader,” The Little Prince director Mark Osborne said today at Deadline’s the Contenders event. “That's one of the magical things about the book — everyone who reads it gets a different experience…

A long-time fan of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's 1943 literary classic, The Little Prince, director Mark Osborne brought his own unique approach and visual style to his adaptation of the literary classic. Combining tactile, paper-based stop motion and a CG world familiar to younger generations of movie viewers, the film…

I actually first saw director Mark Osborne’s animated feature adaptation of Antoine de Saint Exupery’s 1943 children’s book Le Petit Prince when it had a splashy premiere at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Since then, The Little Prince has played around the world and made more than $100 million to date, but only now is…

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company says it had a $35 million-plus deal for an animated movie based on the Playmobil toys, and today the company went to court to make sure that agreement is enforced or some hefty damages are paid out — even though Open Road now has picked up the pic. “The Producer Defendants materially…

The Little Prince is gearing up for its stateside debut. Netflix announced today the animated film will be released in select theaters and streaming on Netflix in the U.S. on August 5. Netflix picked up the pic in March after Paramount Pictures unexpectedly dropped the film from its schedule only days before its…

Paramount has announced two release date changes. Richard Linklater’s ensemble comedy Everybody Wants Some, the spiritual sequel to his earlier Dazed And Confused that opened the South By Southwest film festival last week, is now hitting theaters two days earlier, moving its limited release to March 30 from April 1…