Netflix has scooped up the global rights to Cannes Grand Prix Winner Atlantics from female director Mati Diop and the Cannes Critics' Week Award Winner I Lost My Body from Xilam Animation. That pic reps director Jérémy Clapin's Animated Feature Debut. For Atlantics, the deal doesn’t include China, Benelux…

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights excluding France and German-speaking Europe to The Climb, the Michael Angelo Covino-directed buddy comedy that premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. The deal comes after SPC acquired Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor, another Cannes…

EXCLUSIVE: With an eye toward a theatrical release this year, Magnolia Pictures has acquired the North American rights to The Whistlers, the inventive crime thriller from Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu that just premiered in Competition in Cannes to glowing reviews. Porumboiu won the Camera d'Or at Cannes in…

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Kaplan and his Ace Entertainment, which produced the hit Netflix YA movie To All the Boys I've Loved Before and its upcoming sequel, has acquired feature film rights to 10 Blind Dates, the upcoming YA novel by Ashley Elston. The Age of Adaline and Everything, Everything scribe J. Mills Goodloe is…

Gkids has acquired out of Cannes Weathering with You, director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura’s follow-up to Your Name, which is Japan top-grossing animated movie ever and is getting a Hollywood remake from J.J. Abrams. Watch a Japanese-language teaser for the new film above and check out the poster…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinedigm has acquired North American rights to Madness in the Method, the feature directing debut of Jason Mewes, who teams to star with his Jay and Silent Bob buddy Kevin Smith in the meta comedy. The distributor now plans an August 2 day-and-date platform release in theaters and digital. In the film…

RLJE Films has secured the distribution rights to Aaron Harvey’s action-thriller Into The Ashes, which will get a day-and-date release July 19. The cast includes Luke Grimes (Yellowstone), Robert Taylor (Longmire), James Badge Dale (13 Hours), and Frank Grillo (Captain America). The plot centers on Nick Brenner who…

EXCLUSIVE: Utopia, the newly launched sales and distribution company, has acquired world rights to Mickey and the Bear, the father-daughter drama written and directed by Annabelle Attanasio in her feature debut. Robert Schwartzman’s company plans a fall theatrical release timed to awards season. The pic, set in…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix will adapt Erin Entrada Kelly’s Newbery Award-winning novel Hello, Universe into a family film. Playwright and screenwriter Michael Golamco (Always Be My Maybe) will adapt the book and Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi (Fruitvale Station, Roxanne Roxanne) of Significant Productions will…

EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired world rights to Eco-Terrorist: The Battle for our Planet, Peter Jay Brown's follow-up to his 2010 feature documentary Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist. The deal, made at the Cannes film market, has the film targeting a September theatrical release in the U.S. The pic (see…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon has beaten out several buyers to take world rights (excluding Germany, Austria and Switzerland and free TV in France) to the Joseph Gordon-Levitt hijacking thriller 7500. In the completed pic, Inception and Looper star Gordon-Levitt plays the co-pilot of a plane hijacked by terrorists. Patrick…

EXCLUSIVE: Terrence Malick’s Cannes Film Festival competition drama A Hidden Life has been hailed as an impressive return to form for the U.S. writer-director. Buyers immediately began circling after the film’s debut here yesterday, and Fox Searchlight has come out on top for U.S and a number of international markets…