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The third Global Production Awards (GPAs) was held tonight (May 19) at Mademoiselle Gray Plage Barrière, with 14 competitive awards and one special recognition prize handed out to the finalists. Scroll down for full list of winners The GPAs, presented by Screen International in association with sister brands Screen Global Production and Broadcast, celebrated outstanding, sustainable work and highlight the best global locations, outstanding studio facilities and creative crews and ideas, reflecting the value they bring to local and  international production teams. The winners included Focus Features and Universal Pictures’ Touch, which collected the award for Outstanding Use of Locations,…

In the first on-site acquisition of a Competition title in Cannes this year, Mubi has paid $24m for North America and multiple territories on Lynne Ramsay’s Palme d’Or contender Die, My Love starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. Mubi has also acquired rights in UK & Ireland, Latin America, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Turkey, India, and Australia & New Zealand – the territories where it distributes directly. Black Label Media, Excellent Cadaver, and Sikelia Productions produced the story of a new mother with postpartum depression in an isolated rural community. The cast includes LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek. Mubi…

Toronto International Film Festival’s inaugural TIFF: The Market will take place from September 10-16, 2026. Eight members have been added to the global advisory committee. TIFF announced the market in Cannes last year and said it would run concurrently with the festival, sparking immediate speculation over whether it would push back the dates to afford sales agents more time to package projects after Cannes and the summer break. Screen understands TIFF brass gamed out pushing back the dates and stuck with the second-week slot after they decided a short delay would not have a material impact, and wanted the festival…

Ryan Werner, the marketing, publicity and awards season veteran, has joined Neon in the new role of president of global cinema. Werner will focus full-time on theatrical distribution and work closely with senior leadership to enhance marketing and release strategies as the company continues to expand into production and global distribution. Cinetic Marketing, the company he founded in 2014, will continue to operate independently under the leadership of Courtney Ott. It represented six of the last 10 Palme d’Or winners in Cannes, and worked on Oscar-winning campaigns for five best pictures, 10 best documentaries, seven best international features, and three…

Marvel leads the new releases in UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend as Disney’s Thunderbolts* launches in 668 locations. The 36th title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is in more sites than predecessor Captain America: Brave New World, which debuted in 616 sites back in February for a healthy £6.4m opening. Along with last summer’s mega-hit Deadpool & Wolverine, which debuted on £12.6m from over 700 sites, Marvel is hoping for an upward trend after what has been a bumpy few years for the franchise. In 2023, The Marvels scored the third-lowest MCU opening on £3.5m and followed Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania and Guardians Of The Galaxy…

Robert De Niro criticised president Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on films made outside the US at the Cannes Film Festival’s opening night ceremony, which took place tonight (May 13). De Niro, receiving the honorary Palme d’Or, said: “In my country, we’re fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted. And that affects all of us here because the arts are democratic. Art is inclusive. It brings people together, like tonight. Art looks for truth, art embraces diversity and that’s why art is a threat — that’s why we are a threat — to autocrats and fascists.” Referencing…

General delegate Thierry Fremaux bristled at the notion that Cannes Film Festival always selects the same filmmakers for its Competition, saying that “it’s really not true.” At the pre-festival press conference, Fremaux was asked why the Dardenne brothers are in Competition for the ninth time, with their film The Young Mother’s Home. “This question hides another one,” said Fremaux, mimicking those who say “‘the Dardenne brothers yet again, it’s always the same people!’” “If you look at the statistics, it’s not,” said Fremaux, citing the first-time filmmakers in Competition this year, including Ari Aster with Eddington, Carla Simon with Romeria…

Michelle Yeoh will star in the action title The Surgeon, which has become the latest sales title to join Patrick Wachsberger’s Cannes slate at his fledgling outfit 193. Yeoh, who won the lead actress Oscar in 2023 for Everything Everywhere All At Once, will play the titular character, a retired surgeon, who must fight her way out after she is abducted and coerced into operating on a mystery patient. Roshan Sethi wrote and will direct the project, which reunites Wachsberger and John Wick producers Iwanyk and Erica Lee of Thunder Road – that franchise began when Wachsberger ran Lionsgate’s motion…

Warner Bros The Accountant 2 leads the new releases in UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend as the Ben Affleck-starring crime drama opens in 573 locations. The sequel is up from its 2016 predecessor which opened in 397 venues. That film had a debut of £1.6m and went on to clear £5m across its run. Gavin O’Connor returns to direct The Accountant 2, which won the SXSW Headliner audience award earlier this year and sees Affleck return to the role of an autistic accountant for criminal organisations. In the sequel, he uses his unconventional methods to solve the murder of…

Demi Moore and Colman Domingo will star in Roger Ross-Williams’ Strange Arrivals which Rocket Science and Cross City Films are launching at Cannes. The film is based on the eponymous podcast about an interracial couple who were the first reported case of alien abduction in 1961 while travelling back from their honeymoon in Niagara Falls. CAA Media Finance and Cross City Films, See-Saw’s sales arm, are co-repping US rights. Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Samantha Lang and Anne Carey of See-Saw Films are producing Strange Arrivals which was developed by See-Saw’s Label I Am That, and is produced in association with…