What to watch for in the overseas film industry in 2019: 1. Staying alive One of the most common refrains I hear from independent sales and distribution companies is how tough it is just to survive these days. As Netflix soars and studios, theaters and audiences continue to gravitate toward sequels, prequels and spinof…

Wild Bunch has come aboard to handle worldwide sales on Cities of Last Things, Ho Wi Ding’s new film that is world premiering next month in the Platform section of the Toronto Film Festival. The international sales outfit will rep sales for North America, Japan and most of Europe. Excluded is France, Taiwan, China and…

Following a period of uncertainly surrounding it financial health, Wild Bunch has announced an injection of capital into its business which should boost confidence at the firm. Wild Bunch Group AG, the iconic label’s German parent company, has received approval from the Commercial Court of Paris to move forward with a…

Cannes Palme d'Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda will make his first film outside of Japan later this year with starry drama La Vérité (The Truth). Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, Catherine Deneuve and Ludivine Sagnier are due to star in the largely French-language pic, the film’s producer has confirmed to Deadline. Binoche…

Gaspar Noé is back in Cannes with his first French-language film since Irréversible. The Love director is appearing in the Official Selection for the first time with Climax, a secretive film about dancers. You can watch the first trailer above. The film is based around a group of young, street dancers who come…

A very public controversy at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 involving Netflix, the event's organizers, and the French film industry continues to rage in 2018. On the eve of the festival revealing its main lineup in April, Netflix said it was removing its titles from consideration. After last year's flap, the…

Genre market Frontières Platform (May 12-13), the co-presentation between the Fantasia International Film Festival and Cannes’ Marché du Film, will this year feature projects from Denis Côté, Ben Wheatley and Can Evrenol. The Frontières Buyers Showcase (Sunday May 13 at 4pm in Palais K) will feature 6 films, with…

Longtime Wild Bunch executive, Jérôme Rougier, has been appointed head of the company’s Wild Bunch Distribution arm. He replaces Thierry Lacaze who left for Studiocanal last month. Rougier, who began his career at Studiocanal, was previously co-director of marketing and head of acquisitions at Wild Bunch Distribution…

In an unprecedented alliance meant to stoke an appetite for prestige films in China, the online ticketing and marketing giant Beijing Weying Technology has acquired Chinese distribution rights to nine Wild Bunch films that are playing at the Cannes Film Festival, most in competition. The Cannes films in the deal are…

The Scary Movie franchise duo of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are set to write and direct their next spoof, Star Worlds Episode XXXIVE=MC2: The Force Awakens The Last Jedi Who Went Rogue. The film will take on the iconic Star Wars franchise and is in pre-production, targeting a fall 2017 shoot. It will be up for…

EXCLUSIVE: While CAA comes to the Berlin Film Festival with its own slate of films (the hot tickets for promo footage includes the Peter Landesman-directed Watergate drama Felt with Liam Neeson and Gaumont’s Armando Iannucci-directed Death Of Stalin), the agency for the first time will also be handling North American…

On the eve of this weekend's upcoming UniFrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the world's biggest national film market, Eva Diederix has been made head of international sales at Wild Bunch. The company announced the news on Tuesday and said she will kick off the new role this weekend at the event in Paris. In the…