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One French thriller, four prebuyers: Netflix and Paramount+ sign on to Le grand réveil
Ciné+ OCS and W9 join them on Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas’ film, which has started shooting.
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Paramount’s Warner Bros. takeover closes, and the parent is now Skydance
The merger completed on 6 October under David Ellison. Two studio brands stay; one owner now sets the terms for partners everywhere.
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TorinoFilmLab’s Boost IT selects eight projects from 61 applications
The teams, from a field spanning 24 countries, prepare online in October before meeting partners in Turin in November.
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Kusha Kapila and Sheeba Chaddha lead a 14-episode Instagram microdrama
Tulsea’s Likhe Jo Khat Tujhe is another case of recognisable talent packaged for short-form storytelling.
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Fremantle and Roseberry are remaking Neighbours as a vertical series
The AI-assisted project bets that an established world can carry its recognition into a different viewing habit.
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MKO: a documentary gets a national release built around Independence Day
Ose Oyamendan’s film about M.K.O. Abiola premieres on 1 October and opens in cinemas through Nile the next day.
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Korea’s 73% week: local films retake the top two, and Tazza passes 2 million
Domestic films took 73.1% of the late-September week. Five weeks on, Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub has crossed 2 million admissions.
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Arte France Cinéma backs Olivier Assayas’ Spiritual World
Kristen Stewart, Riley Keough, Vicky Krieps and Wagner Moura star. Shooting is planned for 2027.
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Argentina sends The Virgin of the Quarry Lake to the Oscars
Laura Casabé’s Argentine–Mexican–Spanish adaptation of Mariana Enríquez is the country’s international feature submission.
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Endgame’s reissue opens to $86m, and 70% of it came from outside North America
The Avengers: Endgame re-release took a reported $86m worldwide, most of it abroad. A month on it has reached about $142m.
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France’s film financing system faces a 2027 budget fight
A proposed VAT rise on pay-TV could cut Canal+’s film spending sharply. Filmmakers have written to Macron; the amendment is still unsettled on the floor.
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Red Sea Fund backs 30 projects from 916 submissions
The Saudi fund selected 30 of 916 applicants across two cycles. Its earlier picks are already winning at Cannes and Toronto, even as the 2026 festival is postponed.
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Québec’s SODEC will lend up to 95% of a production tax credit in advance
A new direct-loan programme lets qualifying Québec productions borrow against the tax credit they expect to receive.
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Chinese cities are competing to recruit AI-video companies
Local officials are courting businesses in the emerging sector. The prize is firms that stay and employ people, not a single shoot.