EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired North American rights to animated feature Into The Wonderwoods, in a deal struck with Paris-based Urban Sales. The movie brings together the talents of Vincent Paronnaud, co-director of Cannes Jury Prize winner and Oscar-nominated, Iran-set work Persepolis…

Sydney-based production company Aurora Films is developing an adaptation of late French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert's 1989 novella Crazy for Vincent. The autobiographical work charts the author's infatuation with the titular Vincent Marmousez, a young tearaway who came in and out of…

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures is taking North American rights to Kevin Macdonald’s documentary One to One: John & Yoko, which after making its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and playing at Telluride is making a pit stop in the Spotlight section this week at the Sundance Film Festival. One t…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to UnBroken, the award-winning documentary that tells an extraordinary story of survival from Nazi Germany. The distributor plans a February 21 theatrical release of the film from first-time director Beth Lane (watch the…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Urban Sales has acquired worldwide rights for Canadian animation Space Cadet by DJ, music producer and visual artist Kid Koala, ahead of its premiere in Berlinale's Generation Kplus section in February. The futuristic, dialogue-free CGI work is described as a fable about…

EXCLUSIVE: New Europe Film Sales has boarded Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason's upcoming feature The Love That Remains, his latest work after Oscar-shortlisted work Godland. The sales acquisition sees the Warsaw-based company team once again with Icelandic production company Still Vivid and…

EXCLUSIVE: In keeping with its start-of-the-year tradition, Goodfellas has rolled out the bulk of its French-language slate for 2025 ahead of the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris next week, and it's a hot one. The line-up features fresh additions An Affair by Arnaud Desplechin and Prime Rush by…

The former head of the Berlinale series has joined German network ZDF to oversee acquisitions for the international fiction team. Julia Fidel replaced the retiring Ingrid Gränz in November. She joins a feature film and series acquisitions department that is responsible for licensing for ZDF…

EXCLUSIVE: After co-producing and co-financing Magic Farm, the latest film from writer-director Amalia Ulman (El Planeta), which is set to world premiere in the Premieres section of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, Mubi has locked down distribution rights to the dark comedy in North America and the…

EXCLUSIVE: In a strong year-end book deal, Apple Studios has paid seven figures for the Elliot Ackerman novel Sheepdogs for Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman to develop as a series. The book will be published summer 2025 by Alfred K. Knopf/Penguin Random House. Eleven bidders were in the…

EXCLUSIVE: MAD Distribution, the theatrical arm of Cairo-based studio MAD Solutions, has acquired MENA rights to Tunisian director Amel Guellaty's coming-of-age road movie Where The Wind Comes From ahead of its world premiere in Sundance. The movie – described by MAD Distribution as "a…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has preemptively acquired “H.A.V.E.N.”, a sci-fi short story by Carter Blanchard, who will pen an adaptation for the big screen. While plot details for the film are under wraps, we’ve heard the short story described as Men in Black meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind…