EXCLUSIVE: Israeli romcom drama series The Baker and the Beauty is being remade for France’s TF1, with French singer-songwriter Amir Haddad playing the lead in his debut TV role.
03.06.2024 - 21:57 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: The movie Donald Trump doesn’t want people to see is going global.
While intrigue continues to surround the film’s U.S. release prospects, Cannes Competition title The Apprentice, about Trump’s rise to power, has been sold to key independent distributors in a host of international markets where demand has been strong.
International sales firm Rocket Science has set deals for the film’s release in Italy (BIM), Spain (Vertigo Films), Scandinavia (Nordisk), Benelux (The Searchers), Greece (Odeon), Portugal (Lusomundo), Eastern Europe (M2), Japan (Kino), Latin America (Sun), Israel (Lev Cinema), Airlines (Skeye) and Australia & New Zealand (Madman).
Deals were recently announced for UK (Studio Canal), France (Metropolitan) and Germany, Austria & Switzerland (DCM). Mongrel is releasing in Canada via a pact sealed by producers.
Some of these deals were set before Cannes while others were inked on the Croisette where the film debuted last month to largely positive notices — stars Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong came in for particular praise — and became one of the talking points of the festival.
Deals for remaining international territories are said to be in “final negotiations”. Among them is understood to be Russia, where the film could have an interesting reception and campaign.
Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Gabe Sherman, The Apprentice stars Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy) as Donald Trump, Emmy winner Jeremy Strong (Succession) as the firebrand Roy Cohn, Martin Donovan (Tenet) as Fred Trump Sr, and Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) as Ivana Trump.
The film charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential
EXCLUSIVE: Israeli romcom drama series The Baker and the Beauty is being remade for France’s TF1, with French singer-songwriter Amir Haddad playing the lead in his debut TV role.
The Grand Jury Prize for International Competition at Sheffield DocFest has gone to At the Door of the House, Who Will Come Knocking, the feature directorial debut of Maja Novaković, a filmmaker from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham, called one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation, has posted a reply today to a New York Times opinion piece by Michelle Goldberg that ran Friday.
Inside Out 2” just scored the biggest box office previews of 2024. Disney and Pixar‘s latest animated outing grossed $13 million in Thursday previews domestically, with $22.3 million worldwide. The family-friendly sequel is projected to launch between $80 million and $90 million this weekend.
Donald Trump rarely meets a microphone he doesn’t like, but today the usually volatile former president backed off being bumped off TV by Joe Biden.
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Saturday Night Live‘s James Austin Johnson channeled former president and felon Donald Trump in a conviction day reprise of his most famous SNL impression.
Donald Trump‘s tab during filming for Home Alone 2: Lost In New York.The former US president famously made a cameo in the 1992 movie in which Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin MacAllister asks Trump for directions to the hotel lobby.Stern, best known for his role as hapless criminal Marv alongside Joe Pesci (Harry) in Home Alone and the sequel, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain [via The Independent] yesterday (May 28): “I had met [Trump] that day on the shoot and that night, me and the stunt guys and some crew guys were at the hotel bar and Mr Trump walked through.“He pointed and was very appreciative and said, ‘Drinks are on me’ and so we bought drinks for the entire bar, for the entire night. We hit him pretty good on the bill.
Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” is stalling at the international box office with $33.3 million from 75 territories. The fifth entry in director George Miller’s post-apocalyptic series has generated $58.9 million globally in its first weekend of release, a rough start given its $168 million production budget. Domestically, the Warner Bros.
Often, the juries at the Cannes Film Festival will try to make a political statement in their choices for the winners of the world’s most famous film festival. Not this year. At least, not in the way they might have.
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Anita Gou is no stranger to the festival circuit. Her L.A.-based Kindred Spirit banner saw a raft of its first projects debut at Sundance (think Lulu Wang’s Mandarin-language comedy The Farewell, which made $23M worldwide, Shia LaBeouf-starrer Honey Boy and Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation) but, more recently, her co-production Silent Twins was selected in Un Certain Regard in 2022, while Dominic Savage’s Close To You premiered in Toronto last year. The company’s Mubi-acquired doc The Last Year of Darkness, which explores the lives of alternative Chinese youth, was awarded a Special Mention prize in the Next:Wave section at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival last year.
Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s regular strand that shines a light on breakout series and films that are shaking up the international market. In a globalized industry, a hit show can come from anywhere and local success stories can become international sensations.
The Splendour of Life” (“Une splendeur de vivre”) is set to start principal photography at locations across Canada and the Philippines, the producers revealed at the Cannes Film Festival. The ensemble cast includes Camille Rutherford (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Garance Marillier (“Raw”), Sue Prado (“Your Mother’s Son”), Kyrie Samodio (“Hito”) and Amaryllis Tremblay (“Genesis”). Set against a lush countryside backdrop, Marie (Rutherford) questions her relationship, while Noée (Marillier) grieves her father.
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The stars of the movie The Apprentice are continuing to promote the film at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival amid criticism from the Trump campaign.