Gaumont Movie Updates

Paul McCartney’s long-in-the-works animated film High In The Clouds will have to wait a little longer.

Anne Fontaine's The Grandmothers, starring Naomi Watts and Robin Wright, is to receive a slice of the $A17 million ($17.4 million) fund doled out by government agency Screen Australia.

The Weinstein Co. has acquired distribution and remake rights to the French-language film Untouchable, based on the true story of a wealthy paraplegic who develops an unlikely friendship with a guy from the street whom he hires to be his aide.

French toon studio Gaumont-Alphanim is prepping Santa's Apprentice 2, a sequel to its successful 2010 feature that plays in competition at the Annecy Animated Film Festival this week.

French shingles Gaumont and Wild Bunch are partnering to co-produce, co-finance and share international sales rights to Danish helmer Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives.