As 2024 draws to a close, Deadline's film critics have each chosen their Top 3 international movies of the year. A trio of those selected recently made the International Feature Oscar shortlist — though not all titles below were put forth by their country of origin. Overall, as Deadline's Awards…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts fueling the year's most talked-about movies continues with Flow, Janus Films and Sideshow’s dream-like animated feature from director Gints Zilbalodis. Matīss Kaža and Zilbalodis crafted a 35-page cinematic script featuring no dialogue, solely…

Cannes premiering Santosh from Metrograph Pictures joins Neon's 2073 in limited release with comedy horror Bloody Axe Wound from RLJ Entertainment/Shudder on several hundred screens for the last weekend of the year. Some of the highest profile films from Searchlight Pictures' A Complete Unknown to Focus…

Brandy Corbet's The Brutalist from A24 hammered its way into theaters this weekend with one of the best limited openings of 2024 (no. 3 after Anora and Kinds of Kindness). It sold out nearly 30 showtimes in New York and Los Angeles for a gross of $266.8k on four screens for a per screen opening of…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has whittled down a field of 85 eligible films to a shortlist of 15 which will now advance to the next round of voting, looking to secure a nomination for the International Feature Oscar.  In the mix on Tuesday’s shortlist are such expected titles as…

Awards kudos, critics’ lists, varied nominations and wins are boosting indie film standouts this weekend. The market is crowded as indies vie with each other, studio tentpoles and fare from Pusha: The Rule – Part 2 and the remastered Daft Punk & Leiji Matsumoto: Interstella 5555. But many specialty…

This was a notable specialty weekend with Latvian animated Flow powering on and Luca Quadagnino's Queer starring Daniel Craig rocking its expansion. A notable trio of concert films popped. Telugu Pushpa: The Rule – Part 2 had a super opening, the biggest for an Indian film in some time, as did Solo Levelin…

Somehow I missed Flow when it premiered in Un Certain Regard in May at the Cannes Film Festival. Now having seen it just as it is about to open nationwide, it exceeds the various pockets of praise I had heard. It is a magical mystery tour into a sinking…

A record-breaking Thanksgiving frame is lifting all boats, tentpoles the most evident, with boom, boom, boom for Moana 2, Wicked and Gladiator II. Some 30 million moviegoers went to see one of these. In the weird post-Covid shift, tentpoles can slay, and indies can disappear. This weekend, however, they…

UPDATED Monday with some final grosses: Starting small on two screens but with surprising spring is animated Flow from Sideshow and Janus Films, setting the distributor's highest per screen average of circa $25.4k, or $50.8k at two theater in NY and LA. Gints Zilbalodis' feline tale, Latvia's Oscar submiss…

It's a quiet but quality indie weekend led by documentaries and a few features in limited release as Gladiator 2 and Wicked storm in, other independents hold over, and ahead of anticipated specialty debuts next week like Queer, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig and Maria. Docs out today follow artists in…

Gints Zilbalodis' Flow, the animated film that had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to win four trophies at the Annecy animation festival, has been selected to represent Latvia in the 2025 Oscars International Feature Film race. Zilbalodis (Away) co-wrote and directed the…