Meikincine Closes International Sales on Top Chilean Box Office Draw ‘Jailbreak Pact’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: You Cannot Kill David Arquette, the SXSW doc chronicling actor Arquette’s extraordinary life and return to professional wrestling, has been picked up for UK distribution by Blue Finch Films.The company has also acquired the project’s international sales rights ahead of the AFM.

Lali Esposito wants her fans to know that “we are the change we need.” With Election Day around the corner, the Argentine singer shares with ET exclusively her determination to be part of a generation that uses its voice and strength to achieve greatness, a generation that believes in unity and a generation that wholeheartedly cares about who is going to be the next president of the United States. Election Day is near...The entire world (no joke) is talking about it.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefFor the portion of Western audiences previously stuck behind the one-inch barrier of subtitles, the multi-Oscar haul by Bong Joon Ho’s dark and provocative “Parasite” was a revelation.

StoryLab and Telecom SVOD platform Flow have announced that the country’s first new post-COVID 19 series, “Post Mortem,” will be available to stream on Oct. 8.Starring Julieta Zylberberg (“Wild Tales”), Esteban Pérez and Alejandro Awada (“Nine Queens”), “Post Mortem” is created and produced by Nacho Viale and Diego Palacio for StoryLab in co-production with TECtv, the channel of Argentina’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.

Huge congrats are in order to the seven members of the hit K-pop band BTS – they are all officially multi-millionaires!  This latest development took place after “their label, Big Hit Entertainment, pulled off South Korea’s biggest stock market listing in three years,” according to reports via CNN. CNN also reported that the company is issuing its “shares at 135,000 won (USD 115) each, raising 962.55 million won (USD 822 million) and valuing the company at 4.8 trillion won (USD 4.1 billion)” in

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorThe first major blockbuster of the pandemic era, The Eight Hundred this week became the No. 1-grossing movie of 2020 worldwide, jumping ahead of Bad Boys For Life ($430.3 million global, per Sony).

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentOutsider Pictures has acquired “90 Minutes,” Aeden O’Connor’s feature debut which won the audience award at the Miami Film Festival. The Honduran movie will be represented in international markets and distributed in the U.S.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorRefresh for latest…: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet handily passed $200M overseas this weekend with a $25M offshore frame to bring the overseas box office to $214M. Including domestic, the global cume is now $250.1M.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorEXCLUSIVE: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet added a handful of markets this weekend after beginning overseas rollout in August. While the domestic performance has been hampered by the coasts being closed, offshore markets have had a bit more leeway, and in some ways been robust even with capacity restrictions.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn a deal struck on the cusp of San Sebastian Film Festival, Germany’s Pandora Filmproduktion has boarded “Riders,” the latest project from Martín Rejtman, hailed as the founding father of the New Argentine Cinema.Written by Rejtman, “Riders” (“El Repartidor Está en Camino”) will be presented to further potential partners at this weekend’s 9th’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum.Set up at Buenos Aires’ Un Puma, headed by María

Eli Countryman Three K-pop bands are represented on Twitter’s list of the top 10 most tweeted-about artists in the U.S. during the past six months.Twitter released a trend report  on Tuesday under the banner “Twitter From Home.” It analyzes tweet activity made between March 1 and Sept.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentParis-based company Indie Sales has sealed a flurry of deals on Jasmila Žbanić’s drama “Quo Vadis, Aida” which world premiered in competition at Venice and is part of Toronto’s official selection. The film is based on real events and is set in the Bosnian summer of 1995 during the Serbian occupation of Srebrenica, declared to be safe zone by the United Nations.

The numbers are still coming in for Tenet.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: LA-based Film Bridge International has boarded international sales rights to crime series Big Dogs, which it will begin selling during the Toronto virtual market.The eight-part series premiered domestically on Amazon Prime in July and stars Brett Cullen (Joker), Manny Perez (The Night Of), Michael Rabe (Homeland), and Lance Henriksen (Falling).Filmed in New York, the series charts intersecting stories of organized crime, white collar felonies, and

Tom Grater International Film ReporterOrganizers of the Busan International Film Festival have opted to delay the major Asian festival by two weeks due to ongoing COVID-19 related concerns.The festival will now run October 21-30.

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are ready to take viewers on another amazing trip.The adventurous friends previously chronicled their epic motorcycle expeditions from London to New York in 2004's, and from Scotland to South Africa in 2007's.

Peter White Television EditorThe courageous march, led by activist John Feal and helped by Jon Stewart, to ensure 9/11 first responders were able to pay for healthcare, is being explored in a new documentary that has just scored a significant international sales deal.Paradox Pictures is producing the 90-minute doc No Responders Left Behind, which will explore the long and arduous process of getting the U.S.