Breaking Glass Pictures, Brazil’s O2 Play Forge Two-Way Distribution Partnership (EXCLUSIVE)

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAmazon is thinking outside the box for ways to promote its new sci-fi action movie ‘The Tomorrow War.’ Literally.For the first time, Amazon will be branding its shipping boxes to promote an Amazon Studios film. The boxes will be used in the United States, Canada, Brazil and Australia beginning Friday, June 18.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaYellow Veil Pictures is launching a new North American distribution arm and has secured its first release in Frida Kempff’s “Knocking.” The announcement comes in advance of the Cannes market this month and marks an important step forward in the evolution oof the sales outfit, which has carved out a niche for itself in the arthouse genre sector. Now it will move into self-distributing its movies.

Christopher Vourlias The CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator, a training program for women documentary filmmakers conceived with a focus on Southern and Eastern Europe, has selected the four projects that will take part in its showcase as part of the Cannes Docs program of the Cannes Film Market, Variety can reveal.Hailing from the program’s backyard in the Balkans to as far afield as Brazil and Taiwan, the selection reflects the growing ambition of a program now in its third year.“Although CIRCLE

2 min read Readers are invited to travel virtually to São Paulo in Brazil and get to know a cross-section of local gay, bi, queer, and trans men through intimate photography and personal storytelling in the latest Elska project.

Emilio Mayorga Brazilian producer-director Andrés Lieban is set to direct his first animated feature, “My Big Big Friend – The Movie.” It is set up at his 2DLab label, which has specialized to date in TV animation production.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media1091 Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to “Varginha: The Roswell of Brazil,” James Fox’s follow-up to “The Phenomenon.”The film is another exploration of potential extraterrestrial encounters, this one centered on a series of events in 1996 when citizens of Varginha, Brazil, reported seeing one or more strange creatures and a UFO crash.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSony Pictures has boarded Alê Abreu’s buzzed up animated feature “Perlimps,” the acclaimed Brazilian director’s follow up to “Boy and the World” which was nominated for best animated feature at the 2016 Academy Awards.A best animated feature-winner in the independent category at the 43rd Annie Awards, “Boy and the World” also took the top Cristal at the 2014 Annecy Festival.Several excerpts for the film will be screened on June 17 in this year’s

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentBrussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired “Medusa,” a timely drama directed by rising Brazilian helmer Anita Rocha da Silveira. The film will world premiere at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.

Paul Mescal certainly deserved to let his hair down this week after he picked up the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. And the Maynooth native did just that with fellow Irish actor Nicola Coughlan and his girlfriend, Phoebe Bridgers.

boxing and is set to make his third appearance in the ring in the early hours of Monday morning when he takes on Floyd Mayweather. Many have blasted the YouTuber's attempt to become a boxer as a farce, with Mayweather widely expected to easily defeat his fellow American.

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has put in development Leftover Daughters, a comedy from Jude Weng (Finding Ohana); Paul Feig and his Feigco Entertainment; Janet Yang (The Joy Luck Club); and Lionsgate Television, where Feigco is based.

Jamie Lang Blue Fox Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Brazilian lockdown thriller “The Pink Cloud,” a timely and prescient hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema – Dramatic section.The distributor, which recently opened Julie Delpy’s Toronto Platform title “My Zoe,” plans to release the film in theaters across North America this fall.UTA Independent Film Group handled the North American sales of “The Pink Cloud,” negotiating with Blue Fox.