Globalgate Entertainment, the local-language film and TV production and financing consortium closely aligned with Lionsgate, has added The Philippines' Viva Communications to its worldwide network of 13 production and distribution companies. Other Globalgate partners include Televisa, Gaumont, Nordisk, Tobis, Rai…

Well Go USA has set a June 3 U.S. release for Na Hong-jin's Korean box office smash The Wailing. The thriller is an Official Selection here in Cannes and screens out of competition on Wednesday. Fox International Productions and Ivanhoe Pictures co-produced and co-financed the pic, which debuted in Korea on Friday. It…

Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Viva, the coming-of-age pic about a young gay man’s reconciliation with his estranged and disapproving father. The movie is from Irish director Paddy Breathnach and is set in Cuba; Ireland made it their submission into the foreign-language Oscar race. A 2016…

EXCLUSIVE: Viva, a Cuban-set Spanish-language film which rocked the Telluride Film Festival during its world premiere over Labor Day weekend, has been selected as Ireland’s official entry for the 2015 Foreign Language Film Oscar competition. Although the subject matter and location of this film is anything but Irish…

EXCLUSIVE: Although he is not here in Telluride, Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro’s presence will be felt as the official start of the film festival gets under way in the early evening hours  in the Rockies. Del Toro has come aboard as Executive Producer of Viva, director Paddy Breathnach’s new film having its World…