Film Industry Developments

EXCLUSIVE: Bow Street Academy Los Angeles, the first overseas campus of Ireland’s Bow Street Academy acting school, will be based at the The Lot at Formosa. The 11-acre campus in West Hollywood was originally built in 1912 and acquired in 1918 by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as Pickford

Patrick Wachsberger’s 193 has posted a handful of deals on its Cannes slate. There are more deals in the works but for now Sun Distribution has secured multiple territories for The Brigands of Rattlecreek in Latin America, Art in Latin America and Spain, and Bitco

Action sells. And it’s what has driven leading Mexican producer Francisco González Compean (“Amores Perros,” “Instructions Not Included”) and director Chava Cartas to launch action drama outfit Durango Films after the overwhelming success of their high-octane thriller “Counterattack” (“Contraataque”

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” will open on more than 20,000 screens across mainland China, including some 90% of the territory’s Imax footprint of nearly 800 sites, distributor data shows. Presale box office of the Universal title reached RMB39.5 million ($5.9 million) as

Following the international festival run of her acclaimed short “Infantaria” which bowed at the Berlinale, Brazilian director Laís Santos Araújo is developing the project into a feature, with producer Pedro Krull of Aguda Cinema steering the project through the prestigious Cannes Cinéfon

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is launching action-comedy Vibe in Indian cinemas on September 18. Produced by Kunal Kemmu and Chirag Nihalani through their Drongo Films banner, Vibe centers on two inseparable friends whose ordinary, unassuming lives spiral into an unpredictable, high-energy adventure

MK2 Films has acquired films by Michael Haneke, Ang Lee and Xavier Dolan as part of its strategy to reposition auteur classics as global theatrical events. Among the headline deals, MK2 has secured worldwide rights, except for Germany, Italy, France, the U.S., the U.K., Spain and Australia, to Hanek

Leading German producer Martin Moszkowicz has teamed up with Philipp Keel, the owner of Europe’s largest independent fiction publisher, Diogenes, and a filmmaker in his own right, to adapt titles from Diogenes’ catalog. Among Diogenes’ authors whose works have been adapted in the past are Patr

Academy Award winners Amy Madigan (“Weapons”) and Chris Cooper (“Adaptation”) are set to star in “I Passed This Way,” a Western from two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Sayles (“Passion Fish,” “Lone Star”) that marks his first feature in more than a decade. “I Passed This Way” will begin princip

Having joined forces on WWII drama-thriller “Frontier,” a Menemsha Films U.S. pickup, Catalan director Judith Colell and Barcelona-based studio Filmax are reuniting on another war tale.  This time, however, it will be told through an animated feature and the story of the friendship between Moss