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    Peter Giles and Paul Briggs, who joined Ware, U.K.-headquartered Cintel International Limited in January as investors/managers, have entered into a deal to buy the company’s business and assets as well as shares in U.K.-based telecine CRT supplier Brimar Limited, for $11.3 million (translated from British pounds). As previously reported (SHOOT, 8/11, p. 1), Cintel had been in receivership in the U.K. while continuing to do business internationally and in the U.S. The transaction is expected to be finalized by month’s end….Director Marcos Siega, who helmed the recent MTV Awards’ Best Group Video winner, Blink 182’s "All the Small Things," through Bonfire Films of America, Los Angeles, has signed with bicoastal/international hungry man for spot representation….Larry Byrne, executive producer of Chicago-based Ebel Productions, has taken over as the new president of the Midwest chapter of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP). Byrne, who succeeds former Midwest AICP president Alan Sadler, began a two-year term on Sept. 1….Hollywood-based Orbit Entertainment Group, the parent of commercial production house Orbit Productions and feature shop Orbit Pictures, both also in Hollywood, has formed an interactive division, endtheory. Based in Seattle, the new venture is headed by multimedia specialist Jerry White….In order to create a more distinct identity for its graphics department, Santa Monica- and Chicago-based postproduction house Avenue has split that operation off into a separate entity, known as Somersault….Chicago-based music/sound design house Steve Ford Music is launching a youth-oriented division of the shop; the as-yet-unnamed venture features composers Kurt Festge, Joel Corelitz and Dave Winer…. Director Cosimo Cavallaro of Emerald Films, New York, is in preproduction for the feature film Slap, for which he also wrote the screenplay. The film will be produced by Claudio Luca (The Boys of St. Vincent)….

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    “Emilia Pérez” Wins Big At Césars, With Under-Fire Karla Sofia Gascón In Attendance

    Saturday, March 1, 2025

    Oscar contender "Emilia Pérez" was named the best French film of the year at the Césars awards — France's equivalent of the Oscars — and under-fire Karla Sofia Gascón, the star of Jacques Audiard's Mexico-set melodrama, made a rare public appearance.

    The musical is one of the most celebrated films of the year but has also been criticized for its depiction of Mexican culture and engulfed in controversy because of Gascón's previous social media posts disparaging Muslims, George Floyd and diversity at the Oscars.

    Although Gascón, who was nominated in the best actress category along with her co-star Zoe Saldaña, did not win a César, the night in Paris was triumphal for "Emilia Pérez," which swept seven trophies.

    Audiard, who previously condemned Gascón's comments, thanked his "marvelous team" and his female actors.

    "When I say my team it's not in the sense of ownership, but a declaration of love," he said. "The same goes for the actresses. My darling Zoe, my darling Karla, Adriana (Paz) who is not here, Selena (Gomez) who is not here. I loved working with you, I love you."

    Old posts from Gascon's X account resurfaced in January, some going as far back as 2016, that took aim at Muslims' dress, language and culture in her native Spain. She also suggested that Islam be banned. And less than a month after George Floyd, a Black man, was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020, Gascón offered her assessment of Floyd — whose death prompted widespread reckoning with police brutality and racism — as a drug addict who "very few people ever cared" for.

    Gascón, who stars as the titular transgender ex-cartel boss in "Emilia Pérez," has withdrawn from promoting the film, which has 13 Oscar nominations.... Read More

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