North America Makes Slow Production Recovery

Neon has picked up North American rights to New Order,the new feature from Mexican director Michel Franco that won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month. The feature, which also played at the San Sebastián and Toronto fests, and is screening at the upcomingLondon and Chicago film festivals, is a look at a violent uprising against the wealthy ruling class.

Dave McNary Film ReporterNeon has acquired North American rights to Michel Franco’s dystopian social thriller “New Order.” The movie was this year’s winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.Set in a near-future Mexico City while protests rage, “New Order” focuses on a high society family preparing for a wedding when a former employee seeking emergency medical funds intrudes on the festivities.

Dave McNary Film ReporterNorth Carolina officials have approved a quintet of film and television projects to being filming as a part of its 25% rebate on production expenses, with shooting starting by the end of October.The news was announced Tuesday, six months after almost the entire entertainment industry halted production due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Screen Media Ventures has acquired all North American rights to the boxing doc Lennox Lewis: The Untold Story and plans a Q4 launch. The documentary, originally titled Tough Love: The Lennox Lewis Documentary, was set to premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival before the fest was cancelled due to the pandemic. The film chronicles the childhood, rise and domination of Lewis, the last boxer to hold the undisputed heavyweight title.

BTS ARMY was waiting with bated breaths ever since it was announced that their idols were making their return to America's Got Talent after two years since their Idol performance in 2018. Moreover, the septet was going to perform their latest hit Dynamite which has been setting several records in the US.

Lionsgate has picked up the North American rights to Tara Miele’s Wander Darkly, starring Sienna Miller and Diego Luna as they explore the afterlife of their broken relationship. The drama, which debuted at Sundance, is set for a multi-platform release in the fall by Lionsgate and an awards season campaign to tout Miller's performance.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmIFC Films announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to MLK/FBI, directed by Emmy® Award-winner and Oscar® nominee Sam Pollard. MLK/FBI was part of the Official Selection for the 2020 edition of the Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival.

Naman Ramachandran Film and television studio and independent AVOD streamer FilmRise has acquired exclusive North American theatrical and digital rights to award-winning feature documentary “Deep In Vogue.”Voguing is a stylized dance form that originated in the late 1980s that harks back to the Harlem ballrooms of the 1960s. Interestingly, it has enjoyed renewed popularity in the north of England, spawning a movement known as Northern Vogue.

BBCStudios, the commercial arm of U.K. public broadcaster BBC, on Tuesday reported record financial resultsand said its BritBox streaming service has crossed the 1.2 million subscriber mark in North America.

Moviegoing audiences in North America are not rushing back to the theater just yet. In the second major weekend for U.S.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has acquired North American rights to conspiracy thriller Wander starring Aaron Eckhart (Midway), Katheryn Winnick (Vikings), Heather Graham (Desperados) and Oscar-winner winner Tommy Lee Jones (No Country For Old Men).The completed film follows Arthur Bretnik (Eckhart), a mentally unstable private investigator who, after being hired to probe a suspicious death in the town of Wander, becomes convinced the case is linked to the same

Jamie Lang On May 11, Uruguay became the first country in Latin America to resume shooting following shutdowns. Several international productions relocated to the country where revenues from commercial shoots have already surpassed 2019’s, says Roberto Blatt, director of Uruguay’s Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual.Hernán Musaluppi, producer at Cimarrón, confirms its first production service begins Sept.

The ARMY can continue to boast about being "fans of Billboard Hot100 No1 singers" as BTS continues to reign the Billboard's Hot 100. The band's recently released song Dynamite debuted on the top spot of the prestigious international chart last week resulting in the band making history.

For years, box office analysts have been predicting when China would surpass North America as the world’s largest theatrical film market. In 2015, when movie ticket sales in the Middle Kingdom grew an astonishing 49 percent, the country's ascendance was thought to be just one or two years away.