Courtesy of Paramount Pictures / Eagle Pictures press materials
Ti West’s Dickens adaptation took an estimated $19m in North America and topped Italy, while Fall 2: Deadpoint outsold Chiikawa per showing in Korea.
Courtesy of Reason8 Films / Fantascope Films
Amazon MGM took 11 territories on Russell Crowe’s Bluefly in a single deal. Films sold to independent distributors, such as Woman Unknown, needed 8 to 17 separate deals.
Read the analysis: At AFM, studios bought several countries per deal; most other films sold country by countryAFM 2026, deals reported 9–13 November
Six deals in which one buyer took several countries or films at once
Announced deals only. Territory groups (for example Scandinavia or Benelux) count as one. No prices were disclosed.
Sources: Screen; Deadline; Variety. Compiled by FilmBunch from its own reports.
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Photo: Dean Rogers. Courtesy of Big Talk Studios and Altitude
Cinema ticket sales are up in 2026, but money to make new films is falling in the UKCourtesy of Disney / Disney+
Local hits are rewriting the floor while franchises still buy the ceilingCourtesy of Sony Pictures
Box office outside North America and China is back in dollars, not tickets. Who’s winning?
Toei’s drama based on a young mother’s cancer diary has sold 2.84 million tickets in 43 days. It spent at least three weekends at No. 1 before Godzilla took the top spot.
A 12-member jury picked the features from 404 entries. Five selected titles also compete for IFFI’s international prizes, and four of the five web-series nominees are still unnamed.
The bill would give films and series a credit of up to 30% of US labour costs. It has 78 backers in Congress, but no hearing, vote or official cost estimate since its introduction on 24 September.
The film is said to be with China’s censors already. No dates or local distributors have been named, and neither the producer nor Sony has confirmed the plan.
Seven projects got the C$750,000 maximum. The round is three projects smaller than last year’s, and the two bodies’ own figures for that earlier round do not match.
Sales held almost flat, but weaker licence sales, a softer Stopklatka TV and currency losses cut profit, as a minority fund puts dividend policy on the agenda.
The untitled film pairs the RRR star with a director whose last three Sankranti releases each grossed more than ₹200 crore. No cast or release date is set, and both men have other films first.
The comedy reached about EGP24m ($451,000) in three days. Two trackers count Friday a little lower, but even the lower figure beats the previous non-holiday high, set in 2024.
The film, shot in secret in Iran, took best film and best director. Brazil’s The French Teacher won two prizes, and Andrew Scott was named best actor for Elsinore.
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