Park Chan-Wook’s Cannes Title ‘Decision To Leave’ Sells To Mubi For North America

Ed Meza @edmezavarWriter-director Tinna Hrafnsdóttir’s critically acclaimed Icelandic psychological-mystery drama “Quake” has sold to Juno Films for North America and the U.K. as well as to Njuta Films for Sweden.British-French production, distribution and sales company Alief is presenting the film at the upcoming Cannes Marché du Film.Anita Briem (“Beautiful Beings,” “Journey to the Center of the Earth”) stars as Saga, a single mother fighting to keep her young son while trying to piece together her life after losing her memory.

(G)I-DLE have announced a 2022 world tour that will take the Korean girl group to North America, Asia and more.The group took to social media on Wednesday (May 11) to announce the tour, titled ‘Just Me ( )I-DLE’. The tour, which so far runs from June to October, will see the group perform in the United States, Mexico, Chile, South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan and Singapore.

South Korean director Park Chan-wook is set to premiere his new film, “Decision to Leave,” at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. A detective murder mystery with a romantic twist, the film is widely regarded as one of the most anticipated premieres of the festival.

EXCLUSIVE: AMC’s genre streamer Shudder has picked up Northern Irish folk horror Mandrake, which debuted earlier this year at FrightFest Glasgow.

It’s been 6 years since Park Chan-wook’s last feature-length film, “The Handmaiden,” swept critics’ groups and became an instant classic among erotic thriller fans. In that time he’s made several successful forays into TV, directing the 2018 BBC drama series “Little Drummer Girl”—a John Le Carré adaptation starring Michael Shannon, Alexander Skarsgård, and Florence Pugh—and producing 20 episodes of TNT’s “Snowpiercer.” He was also recently announced as the director for the upcoming A24 TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner “The Sympathizer” starring Robert Downey Jr.

Katie Price has been captured on video not wearing a seatbelt while in a car driving through Scotland.

A listed park that appeared in a Netflix drama has 'fallen into disrepair', residents say - despite the council receiving money to spend on the place. Stamford Park, in Altrincham, Trafford, featured in The English Game, about two 19th Century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide.

Good Morning Britain viewers were not impressed with host Richard Madeley, who they suggested was sympathetic towards porn watching MP Neil Parish.

Variety curated a list of film schools that are definitely worth a good look. Art Center College of Design Pasadena, Calif. With core principles revolving around a learn-by-making attitude, Art Center provides students with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities located in Los Angeles, with the film and television world a moment away from campus. Film students utilize the latest in production and post-production tools and are encouraged to begin shooting immediately.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Decision to Leave,” the detective mystery by Korean director Park Chan-wook that will debut in competition in Cannes next month, is to be given theatrical releases in the U.S. and U.K.

EXCLUSIVE: Park Chan-wook’s anticipated Cannes Competition title Decision To Leave has sold to arthouse streamer, theatrical distributor and producer Mubi in what we understand to be the company’s biggest film deal to date.

K.J. Yossman Protagonist Pictures have boarded Riley Keough’s directorial debut “War Pony” (previously known as “Beast.”) Keough (“Mad Max: Fury Road”) co-directed the feature with Gina Gammell (“Manodrome”).

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNew York-headquartered documentary distributor Icarus Films has picked up all North American rights to Hong Kong protest film “Blue Island.” The film plays this week at the HotDocs Documentary Festival in Toronto, Canada.Directed by Chan Tze Woon (“Yellowing”), the film confronts the large-scale protests in Hong Kong, describing events through a mix of documentary footage and filmed reenactments. The distributor has not yet elaborated release plans, but says that it is taking booking requests from museums, arts organizations, film festivals and theaters across North America.“A new wave of young people took back the streets, as one generation after another has done throughout Hong Kong’s history.

Katie Price is set to face trial after she denied being in breach of a restraining order against her ex-husband’s fiancee over a message in which she accused the pair of having an affair.