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EXCLUSIVE: Concourse Media has announced a raft of international pre-sales in Toronto on Parish, the post-apocalyptic action thriller starring Nicolas Cage, Dane DeHaan, and Alexandra Shipp. Ahead of a production start in Minnesota next week (week of September 21), deals have closed with Wild Bunch for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Energia for Latin America, and Eagle Pictures for Italy. In other deals, Concourse has licensed rights in Middle East (Falcon Films), Greece (Tanweer), South Korea (Noori Pictures), Turkey (Siyah Beyaz), India (Dimension Pictures), and CIS (Paradise). CEO Matthew Shreder and president of sales Jack Sheehan negotiated the sales.  Concourse is negotiating a…

May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown won the Golden Lion for best film at the 2026 edition of the Venice Film Festival. The Danish Egyptian filmmaker’s third feature is set shortly after the Nazi occupation of Denmark and follows a young housekeeper with a secret prepares to marry her wealthy employer. Scroll down for full list of winners It is the only feature in Venice competition by a sole female director, and is el-Toukhy’s first feature since Denmark’s 2020 Academy Award submission Queen Of Hearts. TrustNordisk is handling sales. The film’s lead Mathilde Arcel also won the best actress prize, with John Malkovich…

EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s WestEnd Films has closed a raft of deals on Australian filmmaker Richard Hughes’s Scorpion and unveiled a first-look image. The action thriller, which stars Alex Pettyfer, Reda Elazouar and Clive Owen, has landed deals in Spain (Twelve Oaks), Portugal (NOS), Latin America (Swen), Greece (Spentzos), the Middle East (Falcon), Former Yugoslavia (VTI), Czech Republic & Slovakia (Foxx Media Group), Poland, Hungary and Romania (Mediasquad), Russia and the Baltics (Paradise), Bulgaria (Nu Boyana), Israel (United King) and Turkey (Vagon). HBO has also acquired Pay-TV rights across Eastern Europe. A young police officer on his first assignment with a UK…

Oasis documentary Don’t Look Back In Anger will headline this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, opening in just under 670 cinemas for Disney. The film opened for previews yesterday (Wednesday, September 9), and topped the chart for the day with £675,000. That bodes well for a strong weekend showing; while hardcore fans may have caught first-day screenings, the weekend will open up audiences who will have been at work during the week. The film will be playing on a flexible basis, not consistently in all 670 cinemas across the three days. Don’t Look Back In Anger was welcomed with a rapturous…

Bunker actors Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Stephen Graham and Paul Dano discussed the sociopolitical themes in Florian Zeller’s Venice competition title Bunker during the film’s press conference on the Lido on Tuesday, September 8. Bunker is a thriller about an architect who accepts an offer from a tech billionaire to build a survivalist bunker, causing the architect’s wife to re-evaluate their 17-year marriage. Real-life couple Bardem and Cruz play the on-screen couple, with Dano as the billionaire and Graham as the couple’s working-class neighbour who embarks on his own projects of converting his garage into a studio. “When I read…

A who’s who of the global film industry has gathered in the French resort of Saint-Paul-de-Vence today (September 7) for the Lumière Summit, which is aiming to find solutions for the screen sector amid disruptions from AI, streaming and the creator economy. Organised by French cinema body the CNC, the summit was opened by French President Emmanuel Macron and Lee Jae Myung, President of South Korea The daylong event is being held at the modern art museum Fondation Maeght amid tight security. Macron said he wanted the summit to mark the start of a new era of co-operation in the global…

The UK-Ireland box office has recorded its highest-grossing summer of all time, with year-to-date takings now up on the last full pre-pandemic year of 2019. The year-to-date has reached £902.8m, up 0.3% on the £900.4m at the same stage in 2019. It is also up 23% on the same stage in 2025 and up 33% on 2024. The 18-week summer period from May 1 to September 3 brought in £527.8m, up 7% on the £491.9m from summer 2019. UK-Ireland August 2026 top 10  Rank Film (origin)Distributor  Release date 7/8/26-3/9/26 Total 1  Spider-Man: Brand New Day (US)  Sony  31/7/26  £41.6m  £94.7m …

Don’t Look Back In Anger, Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern’s film about the 2025 Oasis reunion tour, had to be a documentary to convey the unpredictable nature of the UK rock band, according to the film’s creators. “As opposed to writing fiction where you’re in control of the structure, of the three acts, here you’re dependent on reality, and real people and their relationships,” said Steven Knight, creator and writer of the project. “We didn’t really know how this was going to go. We’re filming what happened.” Asked why the film is a documentary instead of fiction, Knight said, “I think…

True Brit Entertainment’s The Death Of Robin Hood is leading the new releases over the UK National Cinema Weekend, and there are plenty of re-releases from studios hoping to take advantage of the 530 cinemas offering £4 tickets. It marks a return of the initiative after it was paused last year and is also the first time it will run across two days. National Cinema Day was last held August 31, 2024, and posted over 1 million admissions at 630 venues. The Death Of Robin Hood is opening in 490 locations. It has been eight years since the last major film to…

The 53rd Telluride Film Festival lineup is out and features awards contenders Elsinore starring Andrew Scott, The Liberation with Carrie Coon, Rose starring Sandra Huller, Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard, Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, and a Pete Townshend documentary. Wild Horse Nine, Danny Boyle’s Ink and Bucking Fastard are among the Venice world premieres on show at the Colorado Rockies festival running September 4-7. Upcoming Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, September 10-20) selections include Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut, the Zellner brothers’ Alpha Gang, Guy Nattiv’s The Liberation, and Mike Leigh’s Tender Loving Care. Huller, Andrew Haigh with A Long Winter, and Wild Horse Nine lead John Malkovich will…