International

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has bought U.S. rights to Cannes Un Certain Regard winner The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão ahead of its North American premiere at Toronto. European arthouse stalwart The Match Factory and CAA Media Finance brokered the deal for the well-received Brazilian film. CAA has also signed the…

VIX, the multi-platform Latino digital media company that reaches more than 34 million U.S. Hispanic unique users on its VIX.com, has acquired Pongalo and its Latino-focused advertising video on demand streaming services Pongalo NovelaClub, Pongalo TV and Moovimex. The trio of AVOD platforms recently passed 1 billion…

When a marriage fails, never trust just a single source about what went wrong. That’s the impetus behind the two new teasers for Marriage Story, writer-director Noah Baumbach’s drama starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver that will bow at Venice this month. The dual teasers focus on one parent’s side of the…

French director and actress Mati Diop will receive The Toronto Film Festival’s inaugural Mary Pickford Award “which recognizes an emerging female talent who is making groundbreaking strides in the industry.” Pickford was the pioneering actor, producer, and co-founder of United Artists, and the award is being launched…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s affecting first footage for Italian-Polish drama Sole, which will get its world premiere in Venice’s Horizons section before playing at Toronto. The Italian-language film follows two very different teens involved in a surrogate motherhood scheme. Italian director Carlo Sironi's feature debut is…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s attractive first footage for Venice and Toronto drama Balloon, which will have its world premiere in the Horizons section of the former. Set on the Tibetan grasslands, the film follows a family whose peaceful existence is disrupted by the appearance of a condom. The film is produced by Tang Dynasty…

Here’s a first look at Johnny Flynn (Beast) as the late music icon David Bowie in biopic Stardust. Set in 1971, the UK film follows a 24 year old Bowie as he embarks on his first road trip to America with struggling publicist Ron Oberman (Marc Maron). During the journey Bowie discovers his alter ego Ziggy…

Fred Kogel's ambitious new German production and distribution group has bought Rian Johnson’s star-studded murder mystery Knives Out for Germany and Austria. The deal with Lionsgate International and MRC is for all-rights in the two territories. A release date has yet to be set. The newly founded media company, which…

Twitter said Monday that it has suspended 936 accounts it said originated from within state-backed operations in China designed to spread disinformation related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. Facebook, meanwhile, said that based on its own investigation it removed several pages, groups and accounts for similar…

Viacom and CBS followed last week’s merger news with regulatory filings Monday that laid out some key details of their long-awaited reunion, including executive compensation, board makeup and breakup fees. Breakup fees are always part of the mix when it comes to mergers, but forgive the skeptics in media and on Wall…

EXCLUSIVE: Beauty And The Beast and Legion star Dan Stevens is joining Will Ferrell, Rachel McAdams and Pierce Brosnan in Netflix comedy Eurovision. Currently in production in the UK and Iceland, the spoof about the campy Euro singing contest reunites Ferrell with his Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin. Stevens…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Silverman and Howard Owens’ Propagate has acquired international rights to select series produced by youth-culture media collective Complex Networks, already licensing 95 hours of content to Africa’s M-Net for its music network Channel O. The three series are Blueprint, Complex Cover and Everyday Struggl…