EXCLUSIVE: Japanese thriller Exit 8 will be opening in theaters nationwide on April 10, 2026 via Neon.   Directed by Genki Kawarmura, Exit 8 world-premiered in the midnight section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival where it received an 8-minute standing ovation.  The pic went on to play the…

EXCLUSIVE: With a slew of crowd-pleasing fare at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, studios are buying movies again. We’re hearing at this point in time that bids for Olivia Wilde’s latest feature as director, The Invite, have exceeded $10 million. Following the world premiere of the sexual rom-com…

Alex Ullom’s sophomore horror feature 4 X 4: The Event isn’t playing Sundance, but the global deal for it was just hatched here by Neon. Sources say Neon made an aggressive deal to preemptively acquire the project ahead of production which begins later this year. The genre and…

Neon dominated the International Feature Film Oscar nominations on Thursday with its films It Was Just An Accident, Sentimental Value, The Secret Agent and Sirāt making it onto the final list of five titles for France, Norway, Brazil and Spain respectively. Kaouther Ben Hania's Gaza War-themed…

After becoming the first Brazilian to win the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, for his star turn in Neon’s The Secret Agent, Wagner Moura has become the first nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. Moura is up against Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)…

EXCLUSIVE: Neon will open Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers in New York and Los Angeles on Friday April 10 before a nationwide break this spring. The Parasite and Anora multi Oscar winning studio acquired the movie following its world premiere at TIFF. Previously Neon released Soderbergh’s…

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, which is shortlisted for the Oscar International Feature category this year, is poised to be the multi Cannes Film Festival-winning filmmaker’s biggest box office breakout at the North American office in his 34-year directing career. Already, the dark comedy…

It’s been a good couple of years for Brazilians at the Golden Globes. Last year, Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres became the first to win Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for I’m Still Here — and now, Wagner Moura has become the first Brazilian to win Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for The Secr…

Amid noise that Neon is for sale in a motion picture industry that’s shrinking with Warner Bros bound to get acquired, the indie distribution label’s co-founder and CEO Tom Quinn isn’t sweating any of this. Back at the Zurich Summit, Quinn said on stage in response to the swirling for-sale…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year's most talked-about movies continues with the Cannes Film Festival-premiering Sentimental Value, Neon’s complex, multilayered drama from writer Eskil Vogt and co-writer/director Joachim Trier. Renate Reinsve, Stellan…

Here's your first official look at the Cannes award winner and Spanish Oscar hopeful Sirat.  Directed by Oliver Laxe, Neon will release the film in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, February 6, followed by a nationwide rollout in late February. The surprise Oscar contender has been…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year's most talked-about movies, continues with Sirāt, Neon's drama by writer-director Oliver Laxe. The acclaimed film had its world premiere in the main competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the…