SMF Studio Seals ‘Captain Kraken’ Pact With PlayBig, Bill Melendez to Distribute ‘Pirate School’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Will Thorne Staff WriterTaskovski Films is making moves ahead of the Cannes Film Festival next week.The sales and production outfit has acquired “Aya,” the debut feature from Belgium-based director Simon Coulibaly Gillard, Variety has learned exclusively.“Aya,” a co-production between Belgium’s Michigan Films and France’s Kidam, is set to bow in the ACID section of Cannes on July 10, with four subsequent screenings spread across the next few days.The film centers around Aya, a young woman

SEOUL, South Korea -- The freshest faces among South Korean influencers are no longer the usual, 20-something celebrities.

If you’re a fan of absurd, offbeat filmmaking, you definitely should already know about the work of French filmmaker, Quentin Dupieux. The writer-director has spent his entire career taking strange concepts and ludicrous characters and making it all work in features such as “Rubber,” “Wrong,” “Reality,” and the recent “Deerskin.” But “Mandibles” takes his trademark surrealism and adds slightly new layers.

South Korean dance group Dokteuk Crew are bringing their A-game to the “AGT” stage this week.

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Bella Hadid poses for photos while arriving for the Dior Homme fashion show on Friday (June 25) in Paris, France.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorWattpad, a top user-contributed fiction app, is combining its TV, film and books division with the studio operations of digital comics platform Webtoon.

croquembouche, a French dessert tower made from cream-filled choux pastry puffs, is a fantastic way to bring people together.

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentBrussels-based company Best Friend Forever has closed major territories on Hadas Ben Aroya’s daring sophomore outing, “All Eyes Off Me,” which world premiered at Berlin in the panorama section. The drama, which is set in contemporary Tel Aviv, was sold to Film Movement for North America, and also lured buyers in France (Wayna Pitch), Japan (Klockworx), Spain (Filmin), Portugal (Nitrato) and South Korea (Lumix Media).

French media giant Vivendi has reached a deal to sell a 10% stake in Universal Music Group to hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square in a deal that values the music company at more than $42 billion.

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Ian Bailey has hit out at the Netflix documentary on Sophie Toscan du Plantier comparing the streaming site to vultures ‘trying to feed off my carcass.’

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentTF1 Studio has unveiled a raft of major pre-sales on “Superwho,” an action-packed comedy directed by Philippe Lacheau, in the run up to the Pre-Cannes Screenings, where the film will have its virtual world premiere on June 23.Lacheau, who stars in his movie, is behind some of France’s biggest comedy hits in recent history, including the “Babysitting” franchise, “Alibi.com,” “City Hunter,” “All Gone South,” as well as Amazon’s French adaptation of

IFC Midnight has boarded U.S. rights to UK genre pic Burial.