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(From Left) Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, Co-Founder and Co-Presidents of Sony Pictures Classics, Dylan Leiner, EVP of Acquisitions, Production and Business Affairs at Sony Pictures Classics and Matt Brennan of the Los Angeles Times during the "How Sony Pictures Classics Navigates the World of Indie and International Cinema" panel on March 18, 2026 at the 2026 Marché du Film alongside the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

The Long Game: How Sony Pictures Classics Still Wins at Cannes

There are easier ways to make a living than selling independent and international cinema in 2026. There are safer businesses than theatrical distribution, quieter ones than acquisitions, and certainly more predictable ones than building a release strategy around festival discovery, Oscar momentum, r…

2026 Cannes Film Festival - Palais des Festivals

Cannes 2026: Strong Films, Thin Buzz and a Market Finding New Footing

A strong competition without a consensus breakout, a Marché reshaped by private capital, and a Hollywood no-show that raised uncomfortable questions about the festival’s global reach. The 79th Cannes Film Festival closed on May 23 the way it opened — with defiance. No major Hollywood studio tentpole…

2023 Sundance Film Festival Acquisitions

The Deal With Sundance 2023 Acquisitions

Each year the annual film sales and acquisitions cycle is kicked off in January by the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, followed swiftly by the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) and its accompanying European Film Market in February. Sundance itself has long been used as a barometer for the…

A Quiet Place, Blockers, Chappaquiddick

“Ready Player One” Scores $53.2 Million Domestic Opening While “Pacific Rim” Sinks. This Weekend at the Box Office.

Our first week without Jim Amos to handle our weekly box office column and yours truly drew the short straw in trying to fill his big shoes. We not only hope to live up to the high bar Mr. Amos managed to set, but iterate the column additional resources of value to our readers. Don’tRead More

Menashe Lustig and Ruben Niborski

Translating “Menashe” Into A Yiddish Success Story

When setting out to direct his first narrative feature, filmmaker Joshua Z Weinstein certainly didn’t make it easy on himself. A well-regarded director and cinematographer with a rash of commercial and documentary credits to his name, Weinstein decided to set his first fiction film, “Menashe,” withi…

2017 Mid-Year Studio Market Share Projections

2017 Mid-Year Studio Market Share Projections

Now that we’re halfway through 2017 it seems as good a time as any to project out how the Hollywood box office market share race will wind up by the end of the year. Can Disney hang onto its lead and make it back-to-back wins? Can one of the new micro studios crack the top 10?Read More