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Art house distributor and streamer Mubi has struck a deal to buy the rights to Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, for North America and additional territories in a first big deal at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The territories also include the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Latin America, India, Turkey, Australia, Germany, and Austria. It is understood that the deal has a $20 million-plus price tag. Patrick Wachsberger’s 193 brokered the deal with CAA Media FinanceIt is the first big deal for 193 since Wachsberger launched his new company earlier this year. Related Stories The…

Sissy Spacek brought her Texas charm to Cannes, where the Oscar winner regaled an intimate crowd with stories from her 50-plus- year career. The conversation was lively and funny, with the actress discussing her defining role in 1976’s Carrie and nearly missing out on Lynne Ramsay’s current Cannes title, Die, My Love. It was all part of the fourth annual live Cannes taping of the Awards Chatter podcast, hosted by Scott Feinberg, THR’s executive editor of awards. Spacek first met Carrie director Brian De Palma through her husband, famed production designer Jack Fisk. The night before her audition, she stayed…

Jiangshi X creator launched dystopian sci-fi manga last May Image via Amazon© Norihiko Kurazono, ShogakukanNorihiko Kurazono’s Moon River o Watatte manga ended on March 16. The manga’s third and final compiled book volume will ship on June 18. The dystopian science fiction manga centers on high school girl Manatsu, and the trouble she gets into when one of her casual photographs ends up showing something that should not be shown in their society. Soon, she will have an encounter with “the outside world” that will upend her world completely. Kurazono launched the manga in Shogakukan’s Manga ONE app in May…

Anne Emond’s Peak Everything (Amour Apocalypse) is a personal letter as much as a movie to recall the Quebec director’s severe COVID-era depression in Montreal. “I would say in the beginning, I had to save myself, a little bit. That’s how it started,” a candid Emond tells The Hollywood Reporter about the inspiration for her sixth movie, a dark romantic comedy, set for a world premiere in Cannes. Peak Everything centers on Adam, a French-speaking and overwhelmed kennel owner played by Patrick Hivon who struggles with deep depression and high eco-anxiety about the end of the world as if an…

Twenty-three years after the animated film became a hit, Lilo & Stitch is back as a live-action adaptation, once again exploring the friendship between a young Hawaiian girl and the blue alien she adopts. Though Disney’s recent live-action remakes have had varying levels of success, Lilo & Stitch is estimated to be headed for a four-day domestic debut of $120 million over Memorial Day weekend, marking one of the best showings ever for the studio’s reimaginings. It opens the same weekend as Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (on course for an $80 million debut), which star Courtney B. Vance played…

Kadokawa unveiled the teaser visual, main staff, television format, and 2026 premiere for the anime of Takako Shimura’s Awajima Hyakkei manga on Tuesday. Kadokawa also started streaming the anime’s “ultra teaser” promotional video: Image courtesy of Kadokawa©志村貴子・太田出版／淡島百景製作委員会Morio Asaka (Chihayafuru, NANA, Galaxy Angel) is directing the anime at Madhouse. Kunihiko Hamada (Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, Chihayafuru, NANA) is designing the characters, and Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Chained Soldier, Shy, My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999) is in charge of series scripts. Hideki Nakamura (INU-OH film, Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway film, Inuyashiki Last Hero) is the art director, Junko Sakai (My Love Story…

In a third consecutive win, Warner Bros. is doing scary great business at the box office thanks to New Line’s critically acclaimed Final Destination Bloodlines. The supernatural horror-thriller pic topped the weekend with a franchise-best domestic opening of $51 million, ahead of expectations. Overseas, it likewise earned $51 million for a global start of $102 million. That’s more than enough to successfully revive a long-dormant franchise that was first introduced to audiences a quarter of a century ago. The last installment, Final Destination 5, was released in 2011 and opened to $18 million, not adjusted for inflation. (On Saturday, the…

Kadokawa announced a new cast member for the second television anime season based on Kei Sazane and Ao Nekonabe’s Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World (Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjō, Arui wa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen) light novel series on Tuesday. Yū Kobayashi will be in the anime’s sixth episode on Thursday as Grugell, a witch who uses the astral power of Snow, and is also known as the “Midnight Sun Witch.” Grugell can create blizzards and produce golems out of snow, and she once destroyed a whole company of the Empire by herself.…

The Trump administration and congressional officials are scrutinizing a deal between Apple and Alibaba that would bring Alibaba-powered AI features to iPhones sold in China, according to The New York Times. Citing anonymous sources, the NYT says White House officials and members of the House Select Committee on China have asked Apple executives directly about the deal, with questions focused on what data would be shared with Alibaba and whether the company was making any commitments to Chinese regulators. The executives were reportedly unable to answer most of those questions. In a statement, Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (the ranking Democrat on…

More than eight years ago, Nicole Kidman made a commitment to herself, and to the careers of women behind the camera, that she would work with a female director every 18 months. In the years since, Kidman blew the original mission far and away and has since worked with 27. “I was going to make it possible,” Kidman said of the lofty ambition during a headlining conversation on Sunday as part of Kering’s Women in Motion talks at the Majestic Hotel during the Cannes Film Festival. “For me, at this stage of my life, to have that purpose and to…