Cannes Hidden Gem: A Samurai and a Female Pro Wrestler Team up in Revenge Thriller 'Dogman'

NieR Re[in]carnation, the upcoming mobile spin-off from the NieR series.The Japanese trailer gives fans a look at gameplay for the upcoming title. Throughout the footage, fans are given a preview of the environments they will be able to explore as they progress through the game.The teaser also focuses on the combat in NieR Re[in]carnation, where waves of enemies attack the player in what appears to be turn-based combat, which is new for the series.

While traveling isn’t an option right now, let the dark and moody trailer for “Lost Girls & Love Hotels” transport you to Japan. The film, based on Catherine Hanrahan’s 2006 book of the same name, follows an American English teacher named Margaret, played by Alexandra Daddario (“True Detective”), in Tokyo.

Billboard Argentina’s online Argentina En La Casa (Argentina at Home) fest.The festival, which is the first-ever of this scope in the country, will take place over a 24-hour period beginning at midnight today (July 8) through July 9, the day of Argentina’s Declaration of Independence.It’s produced in collaboration with the Unidxs Por La Música project of SI foundation, and will be streamed on Billboard Argentina’s YouTube channel.The festival was born from the desire to help a local stricken

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerGravitas Ventures has obtained the North American rights Machine, a documentary about the rise of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning from I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead filmmaker Justin Krook.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Pablo Larrain’s Princess Diana movie Spencer, which is set to star Kristen Stewart as the former royal, was a hot seller for FilmNation out of the Cannes virtual market.The New York-based firm all but sold out on the project, closing deals for the UK, France, Italy and Benelux (STX Entertainment), Germany and Switzerland (DCM), Australia/NZ (Roadshow), Latin America, Spain and Portugal (Sun), South Korea (Green Narae) and Japan (Tohokushina).Buyers

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Following news last week that Stage Mother, Thom Fitzgerald’s comedy starring Jacki Weaver and Lucy Liu, had sold to Momentum Pictures for North America and Altitude for UK, sales agent Film Mode Entertainment has inked a series of further Cannes deals on the title.The pic has now gone to Australia and New Zealand (Madman), Italy (Eagle Pictures), Japan (Regents), Taiwan (Deepjov), Middle East (Eagle Films), and South Africa (African Entertainment

In the three-minute market teaser for Limbo, a group of Middle Eastern refugees sit in stony silence in a classroom while watching a middle-aged and drably dressed couple grind to Hot Chocolate’s 1982 hit "It Started With a Kiss." The somewhat bizarre and awkward routine is cut short when the bald and considerably shorter male dancer goes too far and grabs the woman’s buttocks — getting a firm slap in the face in response.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentSales agency Arclight Films has closed multiple key distribution deals for “Tomiris,” the epic action-adventure about the legendary Kazak warrior queen, directed by Akan Satayev (“The Liquidator”).

Tim Dams Projects about biohacking, werewolves, Kung-Fu and even killer fingernails and the menopause are among those being presented at this week’sFrontières Platform Cannes for genre films.A co-presentation between the Cannes Film Market and Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival, this year’s Frontières selection is also notable for featuring a large number of genre projects by female filmmakers and centered on female characters.

Martin Dale ContributorOne of Latin America’s biggest genre propositions, the Latido Films-sold “Virus 32,” from Uruguayan director Gustavo Hernandez (“You Shall Not Sleep”), was unveiled Tuesday on the A Demain Cannes market platform.The $1 million pic is a 50-50 Argentina-Uruguay co-production between Aeroplano, run by Sebastian Aloi, and Mother Superior Films, run by Hernandez and Ignacio García Cucucovich.In addition to subsidy support from Argentina and Uruguay, the horror-thriller has

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Mark Amin’s U.S. based Sobini Films (Good Kill), Japanese producer Motoko Kimura (L.D.K), and Lifeng Wang’s (Skiptrace) Yintai Investment are teaming up to launch the ACJ Film Fund.ACJ is a joint venture to develop and finance wide-release theatrical films that will appeal to the American, Chinese, and Japanese markets.

Two feet, filmmaker Jon Wright and his team have established, is the optimum height for a creature you don’t want to find in your bedroom. "For something coming around the foot of the bed," the Northern Irish director of Grabbers, Tormented and Robot Overlords clarifies.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentTokyo-based Flag Co. has acquired all Japanese rights to François Ozon’s “Summer of 85” from Playtime.

Amelia Moses says she never aimed at big screen jump scares and buckets of blood with her female-driven body horror pic Bloodthirsty. With her second feature, set to debut at Cannes's first-ever virtual film market, where 775 Media Corp is handling sales, the Canadian director instead blends a werewolf tale with slow-burn spookiness and dread to explore female anxieties.

J-pop artist Gen Hoshino released a song he wrote and recorded on his own during quarantine called "Oriai / Halfway" on Friday (June 19), along with the accompanying music video.

Jamie Lang Chile’s Forastero has shared with Variety the first trailer for it is highly anticipated, pan-Latin American co-production “My Tender Matador,” staring the country’s most prolific lead actor Alfredo Castro “The Club”).Co-produced by Forestero in Chile, Tornado in Argentina, Caponeto in Mexico and Zapik Films in Chile, the feature is directed by Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa and based on the the novel by celebrated Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel, a figure decades ahead of his time is his