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Heretic co-founder Giorgos Karnavas stepped into Deadline's Zurich Summit Studio to talk about the company's growing slate of co-productions, which include Willem Dafoe starrer Inside, Take That movie Greatest Days and Anthony Chen's English-language debut Drift. The Athens-based producer, whose company also has a…

European Film Academy CEO Matthijs Wouter Knol said he was encouraged by the number of Balkan films that have started to surface in the last few years, pointing to last year's Kosovo project Hive. The Oscar-nominated feature debut from Blerta Basholli made history last year as the first Kosovan director to make it to…

Opportunities for foreign language titles to cross borders has never been better, said a host of top industry execs this weekend at Deadline's Zurich Summit Studio. "It's possible to be a foreign language film in the mainstream even more so now because of streaming and because of series," said Neon's Tom Quinn…

The indie film confab Zurich Summit took place Saturday as the marquee industry event alongside the Zurich Film Festival. More than 100 film pros took part in the all-day session that drilled down into the state of the industry. A who’s who of executives in attendance included former Lionsgate film chief Patrick…

Brett Morgen's Moonage Daydream swept up a cool $922,000 at the domestic box office this weekend, while an impressive array of top industry players took Saturday to mull the global future of arthouse film. The real test — of specialty’s core adult audience willingness to return to cinemas — starts this fall, according…

Sony Pictures Classics co-chiefs Michael Barker and Tom Bernard joined CAA Media Finance co-head Roeg Sutherland in Deadline's Zurich Summit Studio to talk about their favorite Oscar moments, the strength of theatrical and how the Zurich Film Festival has evolved into a "retreat" for top industry execs from around the…

Jason Loftus says his latest documentary Eternal Spring, which is Canada's submission for the International Oscar this year, presented a unique opportunity for him to explore the inner journey of an artist through his own animation. The project, which screened at the Zurich Film Festival this weekend, follows the…

The Whale and The Good Nurse producer Scott Franklin put a positive spin on the ongoing above and below-the-line crew shortages impacting production on both sides of the Atlantic in a panel at the Zurich Summit on Saturday (September 24). The long-time Darren Aronofsky collaborator, who works under the banner of the…

Stay in tune with younger generations and be open to fresh perspectives while remaining true to a core remit were among tips meted out by top film execs on a Zurich Summit panel on Saturday, exploring how to future-proof independent film businesses in an era of rapid change. "You need to listen to the younger people…

Sony Pictures Classics co-chiefs Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, who are being feted by the Zurich Film Festival with the event’s Game Changer Award, took part today in a Zurich Summit panel about their careers and the state of the specialty business. The duo have spent their lives dedicated to the theatrical sector…

The beleaguered Hollywood Foreign Press Association had a good piece of news this week with the announcement that the landmark 80th edition of its Golden Globe awards will return to primetime TV after a year off the air. Under a one-year deal with NBC and Peacock, the show will be broadcast and streamed across the…

The pressing post-pandemic issue of how to find a theatrical audience for arthouse films was the subject of a morning panel at the Zurich Summit. Among speakers were A24 acquisitions and distribution executive David Laub, Sierra/Affinity exec Kristen Figeroid and Christian Bräuer, MD of top German indie exhibition…