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Jake Kanter International TV EditorStarzplay has acquired the second season of Ramy Yousseff’s Golden Globe-winning comedy Ramy for the UK, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. The streaming arm of U.S.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorAGC has closed a raft of Cannes virtual market deals on Nick Jonas-Laurence Fishburne action-thriller The Blacksmith.Sizeable pre-sales have closed in Germany & Switzerland (Constantin), France (Metropolitan), UK (Entertainment Film), Latin America (CDC & CVT), Russia (Paradise/MGN) and South Korea & Vietnam (Joy’N’Content).Pacts have also been sealed with Benelux (The Searchers), Greece (Odeon), Middle East (Salim Raima), Eastern Europe (Prorom), Asian Pay TV

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentStarring actor-singer-songwriter Nick Jonas and Laurence Fishburne, action thriller “The Blacksmith,” which is financed and produced by AGC Studios, has become the first major new U.S.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentSolveig Langeland’s Stuttgart-based sales agency Sola Media has sold CGI animated feature film “Moonbound” to multiple territories.The film, directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi on a production budget of around $9 million, will be released in Germany and Austria by Little Dreams and Warner Bros.

Soko is sharing an exciting, live performance of her new song “Are You A Magician?” exclusively for Just Jared readers.

Also Read: Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' Anthology Series in Development at HBO Max, Dr. Fauci Set as First SubjectThis “Perry Mason” stars Matthew Rhys as Perry Mason, a low-rent private investigator who is living check-to-check and is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage; John Lithgow as Elias Birchard “E.B.” Jonathan, a struggling attorney and a semi-regular employer of Mason; Juliet Rylance as Della Street, E.B.

Also Read: Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' Anthology Series in Development at HBO Max, Dr. Fauci Set as First SubjectThis “Perry Mason” stars Matthew Rhys as Perry Mason, a low-rent private investigator who is living check-to-check and is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage; John Lithgow as Elias Birchard “E.B.” Jonathan, a struggling attorney and a semi-regular employer of Mason; Juliet Rylance as Della Street, E.B.

Daisy Ridley and Stephen Fry have joined the voice cast of a new stop-motion animation about artist and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci.The Star Wars actress and beloved British funnyman have signed up to star in The Inventor, a new movie about the Renaissance era polymath, which will be written and directed by Ratatouille co-writer Jim Capobianco, according to Deadline.com.Fry will voice da Vinci, who leaves Italy to join the French court, where he has an outlet for his curiosity and genius and can

Kad Merad, star of Dany Boon’s “Welcome to the Sticks,” the highest-grossing film of all time in France, will star in Stéphane Berthomieux’s “Playback,” which has been picked up for international sales by Paris-based Luxbox.Produced by director Mathieu Demy, whose credits include Salma Hayek-starrer “Americano” and TV series “The Bureau,” “Playback,” the fiction feature debut of documentarian Berthomieux.

Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand baited Arsenal fans on Twitter with a simple three-word message on Sunday morning.Arsenal were defeated by Brighton on Saturday after French forward Neal Maupay netted deep into injury time to condemn Mikel Arteta to his second loss in two games since the Premier League restarted.The defeat leaves the Gunners 10th in the table, eight points adrift of fourth placed Chelsea having played a game more and six points behind Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's United.

Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand baited Arsenal fans on Twitter with a simple three-word message on Sunday morning.Arsenal were defeated by Brighton on Saturday after French forward Neal Maupay netted deep into injury time to condemn Mikel Arteta to his second loss in two games since the Premier League restarted.The defeat leaves the Gunners 10th in the table, eight points adrift of fourth placed Chelsea having played a game more and six points behind Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's United.

Ann-Marie Corvin France Televisions has confirmed its commitment to animation spanning all ages with the Paris-based public broadcaster announcing a raft of series and putting a call out for more animated education and edutainment content.Speaking during an online press conference on the third day of this year’s Virtual Annecy animation festival, the broadcaster’s CEO Delphine Ernotte Cunci revealed the education service it launched for school children during lockdown has doubled its audience

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Star Wars star Daisy Ridley and Brit national treasure Stephen Fry have boarded the voice cast of The Inventor, a feature stop-motion animation about Leonardo da Vinci written and directed by Jim Capobianco, the Oscar-nominated scribe of Ratatouille.Fry will voice da Vinci and Ridley will be the French Princess Marguerite.

Jamie Lang On Wednesday, Les Femmes s’Animent (LFA), the French arm of Women in Animation (WIA), hosted and streamed “Confinement Votre” (Your Confinement), a global video conference, as part of this year’s WIA Summit at the virtual edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.LFA reached out to women working in the animation industry across Europe about how being confined to working from home affected them, and what they have learned so far from the experience.In the video,

Ben Croll French animation house My Fantasy, a 2P2L Group subsidiary dedicated to new media animation, has unveiled its first feature project at Annecy’s MIFA pitch forum.

Ben Croll The sole French animated title in this year’s Cannes Official Selection and now screened by sales agent The Party Film Sales at next week’s Marché du Film, “Josep” marks the feature debut of editorial journalist Aurélien Froment.

Christopher Vourlias The worldwide disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic is creating both massive challenges and unprecedented opportunities for the animation industry, according to a panel presented Tuesday as part of a weekly discussion series hosted by UniFrance.The session, “Successful Strategies to Promote French Animation Worldwide,” included Benoit Berthe Siward, of the curated screening event The Animation Showcase (U.K.); Charlotte Boucon, of sales agent SND Films (France);

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn one extract from the Annecy online presentation of banner French production “The Summit of the Gods,” a climber steels himself to jump over a huge, gaping, seemingly bottomless crevasse, its ice walls tinged a lethal dark blue – cold that will kill you quickly.Running at the crevasse, the climber flings himself into the air.

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