Dirty Monkeys’ war comedy-drama “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East” retained its grip on the top spot at the mainland China box office for the sixth consecutive weekend, taking in RMB28.1 million ($4.1 million) over the Sept. 18–20 frame, according to data from Artisan Gateway. Directed by Wen Muye (“Dying to Survive”) and
“The Odyssey” continued its voyage at the summit of the South Korean box office during the weekend of Sept. 11–13. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the Christopher Nolan-directed tentpole generated $3.9 million from 449,474 admissions over the three-day frame across 1,648 screens, capturing 51.4% of the
International distributor Balanga has announced its first major international sales of its documentary “Beasts of the Colosseum,” produced by Antoine Henriquet’s AH! Production and Jean-Luc Berlot’s Adline for Novo 19 in France, in association with Mediaset in Italy. ZDF/Terra X in Germany, SVT in Sweden and Radio-Canada have acquired the history documentary, which tells the
Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to buy Nvidia’s AI chips that it will lease to Microsoft, Bloomberg reports. The terms of the deal, which Bloomberg says was arranged by JP Morgan Chase, signal that Lambda is betting
Spur Intelligence, a Lake Mary, Florida-based cybersecurity startup, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners. Spur, founded by two former Department of Defense engineers in 2017, five years before the public launch of ChatGPT, was prescient. The startup’s technology helps companies distinguish legitimate human users from increasingly hidden bot traffic to help
“Chrysalis” has secured a theatrical distribution deal in Vietnam through CJ CGV Vietnam, the country’s leading multiplex operator and distributor, with a nationwide release scheduled for September 11. The film will be released locally as “Mãi Nợ Một Lời Tạm Biệt,” translated into English as “The Farewell I Never Gave.” The international title remains “Chrysalis”.
