Cohen Media Group Acquires North American Rights to Bejo’s Heist Film “The Last Diamond”

Bérénice Bejo’s heist film is headed to U.S. theaters…

Cohen Media Group has acquired the North American distribution and English-language remake rights to The Last Diamond, starring the 37-year-old Argentine actress.

Berenice Bejo in The Last Diamond

Written and directed by Eric Barbier (The Serpent, Toreros), the French suspense drama centers on paroled jewel thief Simon (Yvan Attal) as he plots the heist of a legendary diamond, put up for auction by the family of gem expert Julia (Bejo).

Masquerading as a securityconsultant, Simon leads the beautiful but vulnerable Julia down a seductive, dangerous path toward a fate neither of them suspected.

Jean-Francois Stévenin also stars.


The Last Diamond / Le Dernier Diamant (2014… by unifrance

The Last Diamond will have its North American premiere at the Colcoa Film Festival in Hollywood.

It’s set to open in France at the end of the month followed by an early 2015 release in the U.S.

Spain’s “Blancanieves” to Be Released in the U.S. Next Month

Spain’s reimagining of Snow White will be hitting theaters in the United States next month…

Blancanieves Poster

In October, Cohen Media Group acquired the rights to Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves, which has been described as an homage to the black-and-white Golden Age of Europe’s silent cinema. But now they’ve announced plans to release the film in January.

Blancanieves, Spain’s entry in the Oscars’ Foreign-Language Film category, tells the story of Snow White in 1920s Spain. It stars Macarena García as Carmen and Maribel Verdú as her stepmother Encarna.

The film will open in the U.S. on January 18th.

Berger’s “Blancanieves” to be Released Stateside

Pablo Berger’s critically acclaimed Blancanieves, a re-telling of Snow White set in 1920s Spain, will be distributed in the United States…

Blancanieves Poster

Cohen Media Group has acquired the rights to the 49-year-old Spanish director’s silent, black-and-white film, which has been selected as Spain’s official entry in the Academy Award’s foreign language category.

Blancanieves recently won the Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and a best actress nod for the film’s 24-year-old Spanish star Macarena Garcia.

No word yet on when the film will make its way to U.S. theaters.