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August 17, 2026
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Cleared in Nearly 70 Jurisdictions and Still Unable to Close: The Paramount Warner Bros. Position in Mid August
Paramount Skydance announced in mid August that it had satisfied every regulatory condition required to close its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, with clearances across nearly 70 jurisdictions including the US, EU, China and the UK. It still cannot close, and the reason is instructive about where merger risk now lives.
Locarno 2026: Florin Serban's You Don't Belong Here Takes the Golden Leopard, and a UK Sales Agent Gets a Very Good Fortnight
The 79th Locarno Film Festival closed on August 15 with the Golden Leopard going to Romanian director Florin Serban's You Don't Belong Here, with UK sales agent Reason8 handling international. What a Locarno win is actually worth, in territories rather than prestige.
Locarno Pro Passes 2,000 Accreditations for the First Time: 2,140 Delegates, 1,463 Meetings, and Why Mid Summer Is Becoming Central
Locarno Pro closed its largest edition to date, registering 2,140 industry delegates from nearly 100 countries, up 10% on 2025. The growth of a mid August industry programme is a small statistic that says something real about how the market calendar is rebalancing.
Locarno Opens Its 79th Edition: The Mid Summer Market That Sells Discovery Rather Than Scale
The 79th Locarno Film Festival runs August 5 to 15, with the Locarno Pro industry programme alongside it. Locarno does not compete with Cannes or Toronto on deal size, and that is precisely what makes its industry programme useful to a specific kind of seller.
Cannes 2026 by the Numbers: What the Official Selection Tells Distributors and Rights Holders
Five data-driven signals from the 2026 Cannes Official Selection — France dominating financing, co-productions peaking, auteur fortress hardening — and what each one means for the distributors, sellers, and rights operations teams heading to the Marché.
Pathé's Cannes Play: Boarding Bong Joon Ho's $60M Animated Feature 'Ally'
Pathé has boarded Bong Joon Ho's debut animated feature 'Ally' as international sales agent, positioning the $60M piglet squid adventure as a hot Cannes Marché title with CJ ENM co-financing and a 2027 worldwide release.
Netflix Closes Multi-Territory Deal for Sci-Fi Thriller
Netflix has acquired rights across 190 territories for 'Meridian,' a high-concept sci-fi thriller from a breakout European production team, in a deal worth an estimated $18M.
StudioCanal Pre-Sells Horror Title Across European Territories
StudioCanal has closed pre-sale deals for 'Beneath the Floorboards' across 12 European territories, generating an estimated EUR 6.5M ahead of the film's EFM market premiere.