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“Autumn and the Black Jaguar” presents a tale where a determined young girl leaves the familiarity of city life to return to the lush wilds of the Amazon. The film fits into the family adventure genre, appealing to viewers who enjoy stories of nature conservation intertwined with a coming-of-age narrative.

The central plot follows Autumn, a spirited teenager who embarks on a mission to rescue a beloved jaguar she bonded with during her childhood in the rainforest.

The film is the work of a director and writer known for their commitment to family-oriented, nature-themed storytelling. Their previous projects have consistently highlighted environmental concerns and the importance of protecting wildlife.

In this film, the production creatively contrasts the bustling urban environment of New York City with the untamed, mysterious atmosphere of an Amazonian setting. This juxtaposition is evident in the carefully chosen locations that serve as backdrops for both modern life...

Exclusive: Studiocanal has unveiled first images for French director Gilles de Maistre’s upcoming feature The Desert Child retelling the true story of a youngster raised by ostriches in the Sahara, ahead of launching the movie at the EFM.

Currently in post-production with a planned 2026 release, the feature follows Maistre’s hit Autumn and the Black Jaguar, which grossed $30M at the international box office, and upcoming release Moon The Panda, which hits French cinemas in April.

As with most of Maistre’s previous features, which also include The Wolf and the Lion and Mia and the White Lion, the production involved working with children and real-life animals, in this case ostriches and young Fennec foxes.

The movie follows 14-year-old Sun who has written and successfully published a story based on an incredible story told by her late grandfather about a wild child called Hadara, who is saved by a...

It not a blockbuster MLK weekend but indies are out in force with The Brutalist continuing to surprise, The Substance adding theaters and Nosferatu, A Complete Unknown and Babygirl holding at nos. 7, 8 and 10 at the domestic box office.

Robert Eggers’ vampire fest from Focus Features had a $4.3 million weekend with a cume of $89.4 million for Nosferatu; Searchlight Pictures Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown starring Timothee Chalamet is at $57.6 million after a $3.8 million weekend; and A24’s psycho-sexual Nicole Kidman-starrer Babygirl is estimating $2 million and a $25.4 million cume. All cumes are for the three-day weekend. Monday is the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.

Meanwhile, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, also from A24, grossed $1.98 million for the three-day weekend and $2.4 million for the four-day MLK holiday frame in a big expansion to 338 screens – up from $1.39 million on 68 screens last weekend. It’s seeing strong exits and sold-out shows, especially 70mm and Imax,...

After such films as “Mia and the White Lion” and “The Wolf and the Lion,” director Gilles de Maistre’s “Autumn and the Black Jaguar” reinforces the French filmmaker’s dedication to superficial family-friendly movies with an environmentalist cause at their heart. But as his latest shows, noble principles about the protection of wildlife and animals don’t automatically translate to a good screenplay or a watchable movie. You want to be moved by this seemingly conservation-minded affair, but “Autumn and the Black Jaguar” sadly turns into a cringe-inducing experience fast in a number of ways, undermining the intelligence and taste level of its young audience in the process.

Written by Prune de Maistre, the story follows Autumn (Lumi Pollack), a 14-year-old junior high student in New York City, being lovingly raised by his single father Saul (Paul Greene). Clunky flashbacks take us back to Autumn’s childhood while she...

The total box office at German cinemas in 2024 fell almost 8% year-on-year, according to provisional figures from Comscore.

Overall ticket sales totalled €792.5m, down 7.8% on 2023’s € 859m, while total admissions slipped year-on-year by 7.3% from 87.2m to 80.9m.

This compared to the 23.7% year-on-year increase in box-office takings and 18.5% in admissions that had been posted between 2022 and 2023.

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Walt Disney Pictures’ Inside Out 2 was the year’s most successful new release, grossing $56.9m and garnering 5.7m admissions since its opening week on 678 screens on June 12.The performance of Inside Out 2 as well as other releases such asDeadpool & Wolverine,...

"There's only jaguar left and its days are numbered..." Blue Fox is releasing this uplifting animal friendship movie in theaters later this month. Autumn and the Black Jaguar is an adventure movie from the same French filmmakers behind Mia and the White Lion and The Wolf and the Lion previously. So pretty much the same thing all over again - another girl and a wild cat becoming friends and saving each other. This also has a few other different titles including Ella and the Black Jaguar, or Le dernier Jaguar, because it's a French production and the her original name in that version Ella (but in this it's Autumn). However, the film is entirely in English anyway. A new adventure in the heart of the Amazon, the story follows a girl who befriends a black Jaguar in the Amazon, and returns years later to find the Jaguar and save her...

French films took an estimated €250.2m in overseas markets in 2024 from 38.1 million admissions, according to projected annual figures released by Unifrance today (January 13).

This represents an 11% drop from 2023’s final tally of €271.4m and 42.7 million admissions although the final 2024 figures won’t be announced until October. Last year’s January predicted figures for 2023 (€234m and 37.4 million admissions) ended up being surpassed by the final numbers.

Dramatic films led the way with 26.1% of ticket sales abroad, followed by comedies at 21.8%, and action and adventure films with 21.3%;animation – 2023’s top genre – dropped to 17.7%.

Europe remains the continent with the largest appetite for French fare,...

French movies had a banner 2024 on home turf with a 44% market share at the French box office, which broke a 15-year record; meanwhile, Gallic films saw a 11% year-on-year drop in international revenues, according to figures unveiled by the National Film Board (Cnc) and Unifrance during the Rendez-Vous in Paris market on Monday.

During the first 50 weeks of 2024, French movies generated 222.8 million euros ($227.2 million) from 33.4 million admissions outside France. Taking into account tickets sales during the second half of December, Unifrance anticipates the final box office for international will be closer to 38 million admissions and 250 million euros ($255.2 million) in revenues.

While it doesn’t represent France in the Oscar race, “The Count of Monte-Cristo,” a three-hour epic adventure film adapted from Alexandre Dumas’ classic, ranks as the biggest French film export in 2024.

The movie, produced by Dimitri Rassam’s Mediawan-owned banner Chapter 2 and sold internationally by Pathé, has grossed an...

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Emily Bett Rickards & Ash Avildsen speak to MovieWeb's James Melzer about their new film, Queen of the Ring, which has been making the film festival run and premiered at the 25th annual Newport Beach Film Festival.

Queen of the Ring is an extraordinary, true-life tale that follows Mildred Burke, the legendary professional wrestler and single mom who defied incredible odds to become the first million-dollar female athlete and longest reigning champion at a time when the sport was banned across most of America.

Queen of the Ring will be hitting the following film festivals soon:

October 25 Minneapolis, Mn Twin Cities Film Festival

October 27 Wichita, Ks Tallgrass Film Festival

November 8 Ft. Lauderdale, Fl Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Cast Q&a

November 10 Coronado Island, CA Coronado Island Film Festival

November 16 St. Louis, Mo St. Louis International Film Festival

Emily Bett Rickards has become...

Studiocanal is moving into the Big Apple.

The Paris-based production-distribution house will launch an office New York City, with Anne Chérel promoted to Chief Commercial Officer to oversee the base.

Studiocanal, which is in throws of making Paddington in Peru, already has an office in LA and a stake in Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman’s U.S.-based The Picture Company. The NYC office will focus on work with American distribution partners.

According to the Canal+-owned company, the plans form part of a strategy to “systematically” combine distribution and global sales of all of its film projects, working with third-party distributors. Besides the third Paddington movie, which is being released in partnership with Sony Pictures, Back to Black is being released with Focus Features, We Live in Time and Huntington with A24 and Wicked Little Letters with Sony Pictures Classics. “Advanced discussions” with an American partner around Paris Has Fallen are happening.

Hallmark Channel Wcth spoilers reveal Hallmark alum Paul Greene is sharing behind-the-scenes stories about his Hallmark movies-Greene’s last Christmas movie for Hallmark was “Christmas CEO” in 2021. Since then, he has appeared in a variety of films for other producers and networks, including making some movies for Great American Family.

Hallmark Channel Spoilers: Greene Is Sharing His Stories On His Website

Greene has been showcasing his beloved tales from shooting Hallmark Christmas movies on his website, known as the Greene Room Blog.

The stories feature a reflection on filming “When Calls the Heart,” and a recount of a moment when he made a selfless gesture to film a Christmas movie. He has announced his intention to release a total of 12 posts and has already posted six at the time of this article’s publication.

Although he hasn’t been a part of the Wcth cast for quite some time now,...

Exclusive: Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired Autumn and the Black Jaguar from Studiocanal. Blue Fox will release the family-friendly adventure film in theaters nationwide later this year.

Directed by Gilles de Maistre (Mia and the White Lion), the film stars Lumi Pollack (The Fallout), Emily Bett Rickards (The CW’s Arrow), and Paul Greene (Somewhere), with Wayne Charles Baker (Indian Horse), Kelly Hope Taylor (Good Sam), and newcomers Lucrezia Pini and Airam Camacho rounding out the cast.

​​Growing up in the Amazon rainforest gave Autumn the rarest of friendships – a lost jaguar cub she names Hope. When a tragic event forces Autumn to leave Hope for the unknowns of New York City, she dreams for years of going back to the rainforest and her friend. At 14 and having grown accustomed to city life, Autumn discovers her childhood village is under threat from animal traffickers and decides she must return to...

Admissions to German cinemas in the first quarter of 2024 were only slightly down on the same period last year, with Dune: Part Two the dominant title so far.

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According to ComScore, 22.45m tickets were sold in the first three months of this year, a 1.1% decrease on 12 months ago, while box office takings of €217.88m were 6.6% below the first quarter of 2023.

The larger year-on-year discrepancy in the box office takings could be explained by higher ticket prices for 3D blockbuster Avatar: The Way Of Water last year. The average ticket in 2023 Q1 was €10.26 compared to €9.70 this year.

The French box office dropped 16.4% in February compared to the same month in 2023, according to the Cnc, due to a lack of major US releases.

Some 28.6 million tickets have been sold in France since January 1, down 12.9% on the same period last year. In February, total admissions were 15m for a box office gross of €1.1bn based on an average ticket price of €7.20. In January, 13.5m tickets were sold for a gross of €97.5m.

February 2023 saw the release of French titles Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom via Pathé)and Alibi.com 2 for Studiocanal, while Disney’s Avatar: The Way Of Water...

Stars: Corteon Moore, Keeya King, Elizabeth Saunders, Ryan Bommarito, Gabriel Darku, Vanessa Jackson, Amanda Ip, Chimwemwe Miller | Written by Matt Wells, Ian Carpenter, Aaron Martin | Directed by Amelia Moses

With their new horror thriller Guess Who, Tubi may finally have come up with a fairly original idea for one of their films. As far as I can tell, it’s the first film to use mummering as a major plot point. No, not mummies, mummering. What is mummering? Mummering is a Christmas-time house-visiting tradition practised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ireland, and the City of Philadelphia. It adds a touch of Halloween to the season as people would dress in disguise and go door to door. If they were invited in, they’d give some kind of performance while their hosts tried to guess who they were.

Michael and Kaitlyn, his fiancée, are driving out to meet his family when they have to stop for gas.