TUESDAY AM UPDATE, WRITETHRU with actuals: Illuminating lightsabers in 54 material overseas markets, Disney/Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Last Jedi showed its force with a $230.8M opening at the international box office. The figure came in slightly higher than the Sunday estimate and combined with domestic, it puts the…

In September, the Chinese release of Feng Xiaogang's Youth, a coming-of-age drama about young people making peace with the past, was abruptly shelved ahead of the Middle Kingdom’s lucrative National Day holiday. In the wake of that move, U.S. distributor China Lion was obliged to postpone its planned run. Both are now…

China Lion Film Distribution announced that it has acquired Emperor Motion Pictures and Wanda Media’s Namiya as well as Global Road titles Youth, Explosion, and Ex-File 3. Namiya will be released in Mainland China, the United Kingdom, and Ireland on December 29. The film will open on January 5 in Canada, the United…

One of China's most acclaimed filmmakers, Feng Xiaogang, did not comment during the closing session at today's 2017 U.S.-China Film Summit in Los Angeles – where he is being honored – about the sudden delay in the release of his latest movie, Youth, in both China and the U.S. Success at the box office seemed to be the…

Earlier this week, Deadline reported the release of respected Chinese filmmaker Feng Xiaogang's Youth, a coming-of-age drama about young people making peace with the past, was kiboshed in China. U.S. distributor China Lion has now followed suit. The period epic was due for release tomorrow in North American cinemas…

Respected Chinese filmmaker Feng Xiaogang’s Youth, a coming-of-age drama about young people making peace with the past, was due for release in the Middle Kingdom this weekend, in time for the lucrative National Day holiday. The movie recently screened at the Toronto Film Festival, but on Sunday it emerged that its Chin…

At Deadline’s big day-long awards-season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline last month,   Youth composer David Lang explained his process to a packed DGA Theatre audience of AMPAS and guild voters. Speaking on the Fox Searchlight panel, Lang focused on his collaboration with director Paolo Sorrentino in…

Youth is Italian director-writer Paolo Sorrentino’s European Film Award-winning follow-up to his 2013 Foreign-Language Oscar winner The Great Beauty. The new film opened December 4 and stars Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel as two friends on holiday in the Swiss Alps. Caine plays Fred, an acclaimed composer and…

2ND UPDATE, WRITETHRU: In a ceremony marked by calls for freedom of speech, democracy and a united Europe, prizes were spread out amongst various countries at tonight’s European Film Awards in Berlin, including Greece, France, Sweden and Ireland. The top winners, however, hailed from Italy and England. Paolo Sorrentino…

Youth, Oscar winning director Paolo Sorrentino’s lilting rumination on aging – and other things – begins its theatrical run through distributor Fox Searchlight today in LA and NY exclusive engagements. The film, which was first seen as part of the main competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in May, has won…

Publicists and marketing execs no doubt are working overtime this week to get their films attention in what is shaping up to be a very busy first weekend of December. One film that packed quite a punch in the news this week is Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, which is the first Amazon Studios title to make its bow. Roadside…

After more than 50 years in the biz, Jane Fonda is looking, and, I suspect, feeling more youthful than ever. So it seems entirely appropriate that Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's perfectly titled Youth should bring her roaring back into the Oscar conversation. It's been almost three decades since Fonda's last…