Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa returns to the Cannes Film Festival with the gripping Soviet period drama “Two Prosecutors,” marking the first time in nearly a decade that the celebrated filmmaker will compete for the Palme d’Or. The film world premieres in Competition on May 14.
Dubai-based sales agency Cercamon has launched Vorteks, a new genre label running the gamut from horror to sci-fi, thriller, fantasy, dark comedy and action movies. Handling 8-10 features a year, Vorteks will be run by David Kwok, the Tribeca Film Festival director of programming for
Italian fashion house Prada is entering the film production space by setting up the Fondazione Prada Film Fund to sustain independent cinema. The new fund will be managed by former Directors’ Fortnight chief Paolo Moretti in collaboration with film programmer Rebecca De Pas. The Prada
Mister Smith Entertainment has closed the first international deals for “Tinsel Town,” which stars Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson, and has released the first-look image. The first-look depicts Bradley Mack (Sutherland) with his daughter Emma (Matilda Firth), alongside Jill (Wilson) and her daughter Cara (Theodora
Beta Cinema has closed several deals for Fatih Akin’s “Amrum” ahead of the film’s world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival. The drama, which plays in Cannes Premiere, has been sold to France (Dulac Distribution), Spain (A Contracorriente), Japan (Bitters End), Benelux (Cherry Pickers), Czech
Hollywood Thailand has inked a theatrical distribution deal with Commercial Films Siam for “Dream!,” an English-language musical that will hit cinemas across Thailand and the Southeast Asia region in December. The production, directed by Paul Spurrier, marks the first Thai musical in over 50 years
Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s (“The Silent Twins”) highly anticipated sentient AI thriller “Hot Spot” has found French distribution with The Jokers, in a deal that was brokered by Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales. Focus Features previously acquired worldwide rights to the film, excluding France, Poland
Ukrainian production powerhouse Film.UA has racked up a raft of deals at the Cannes Market, with “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” distributor ITN Films taking North American and Latin American rights to the forthcoming horror film “The Witch. Revenge,” and Germany’s Splendid Film snatching