Damned Films Acquires Venice Title ‘Careless Crime’ From Dreamlab (EXCLUSIVE)

Netflix has snatched up another hot French film, acquiring English-language rights in North America, the U.K., Australia/New Zealand, South Africa and the Middle East for DNA, the latest drama by and starring multitalent Maïwenn (Polisse). In her sixth feature as a director, Maïwenn stars as Neige, a divorced mother of three who retains a close connection to her Algerian grandfather, visiting him regularly in the nursing home where he lives.

Also Read: 'Cuties' Director Blames Poster for Right-Wing Attacks: 'People Judged Without Understanding the Real Message'“DNA” stars Fanny Ardant, Louis Garrel, Dylan Robert, Marine Vacth, Caroline Chaniolleau, Alain Françon, Florent Lacger, Henri-Noël Tabary, Omar Marwan and Maïwenn.Maïwenn directed from a screenplay she wrote with Mathieu Demy. “DNA” is a production of Why Not Productions and Arte France Cinéma.

Not since Jeff Goldblum stocked his penis in a jar or Bryan Cranston tore apart his meth lab has a fly played such a pivotal role on screen as in Mandibles (Mandibules), the latest comic whatchamacallit from French one-man-band Quentin Dupieux.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentParis-based Bac Films has closed multiple territories across Europe and Africa as well as Canada on family adventure “Yakari,” an animated feature reboot of the cult 1970’s franchise.Based on the French-Belgian comic strip first published in 1969 and created by Job, Derib and Dominique, “Yakari” has also been adapted into two popular TV series, the first in the 1980s and another one running from 2005.

Also Read: 'Shiva Baby' Director Turns Her Jewish, LGBT Background Into Comedy (Video)“It’s really hard to make smart look stupid but Quentin Dupieux has managed the feat spectacularly,” says Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles in a statement to TheWrap. “‘Mandibles’ had me howling.

Adam Levine admitted he took the late Kelly Preston by surprise after giving her a real French kiss in Maroon 5’s “She Will Be Loved” music video.

VENICE, Italy -- Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a recession-era road trip drama starring Frances McDormand, won the Golden Lion for best film Saturday at a slimmed-down Venice Film Festival, which was held against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.Zhao and McDormand appeared by video from the United States to accept the award, given virus-related travel restrictions made reaching the Lido in the Italian lagoon city difficult if not impossible for many Hollywood filmmakers and actors.“Thank you

Nomadland.The movie sees the award-winning actor play Fern, who becomes a modern-day nomad after losing everything in the 2008 financial crisis.While working on the film, director Chloé Zhao (The Rider) wanted the star to “blend in” with a real nomadic community.

Nomadland, Chloé Zhao's look at America's van-dwelling community, starring Frances McDormand, has won the Golden Lion for best film at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. McDormand plays a widow from a collapsed Nevada mining town who finds new life on the road in Zhao's film, based on Jessica Bruder's 2017 nonfiction book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century.

By Hanna RantalaVENICE (Reuters) - "Nomadland", a U.S.

Frances McDormand and Chloe Zhao are two names you’ll probably be hearing throughout the upcoming awards season!

Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland”, a recession-era road trip drama starring Frances McDormand, won the Golden Lion for best film Saturday at the Venice Film Festival, held against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.

In almost no way does Chloé Zhao‘s quiet, enormous, deep breath of a movie, “Nomadland,” resemble “Blade Runner.” Except there’s this one moment: an outstanding speech in a film as attuned to vast wild silences as to conversation. Fern (Frances McDormand) is talking to her friend and fellow nomad Swankie (played, like many of the other roles by the real person on whom she is based).

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMusic Box Films has scooped U.S. rights to French auteur Francois Ozon’s “Summer of 85,” a highlight of Cannes 2020’s Official Selection which is set to play at Toronto and San Sebastian film festivals.

Lise Pedersen “Harvest” (“Jana”) by Lebanese artist and filmmaker Ely Dagher is one of six films from Africa and the Middle East selected for the Final Cut section in Venice Film Festival industry event, Venice Production Bridge.The film’s producers at France’s indie outfit Andolfi are hoping to pick up prizes in Venice, in kind or in cash, that will allow them to fill their funding gap and wrap up post-production by the end of the year, with the goal of returning to Cannes in 2021.Dagher won

festival over her role heading the panel of actors and filmmakers that will hand out this year’s top prize.“A lot of things go through your mind,” she says. “It’s an important role.

Ed Meza @edmezavarParis-based Kinology has acquired world rights for Finnish director Aino Suni’s psychological thriller “A Girl’s Room.”Cannes-based Adastra Films is teaming on the project with Hamburg shingle and “System Crasher” producer Oma Inge Film and Helsinki-based Made.Suni’s feature debut follows Elina, a 17-year-old aspiring Finnish rapper forced to leave her home for the south of France after her mother finds a French boyfriend.

Over a year after Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant loosed each other’s corsets and fell in love in a French Cannes film, and less than a week before Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet are due to do the same in coastal England at TIFF, Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby play American, mid-19th century secret lesbian lovers in Mona Fastvold‘s Venice competition title “The World to Come,” a beautiful and quiet, seasons-spanning tale of poetry and pining pioneerwomen.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentDaniele Luchetti’s “The Ties” (“Lacci”), the first Italian film to open the Venice Film Festival in 11 years, garnered warm reviews on its world premiere on Wednesday evening, and has been sold by MK2 Films in a raft of territories around the world.MK2 Films has been able to lure major distributors in key markets, notably France (Pyramide), Spain (Caramel), Latin America (Synapse), China (Huanxi), Portugal (Midas), Greece (Weirdwave), Austria (Thim),