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Kinology is heading to Cannes with a single title in Copacabana – the Isabelle Huppert starring with her daughter comedy is a focal point in the Critic's Week section this year. It's the projects that they've got on the sales slate that have got my ears perked up in an upright position – beginning with Juan Solanas' next - he is currently shooting Upside Down in Montreal, while Andrew Niccol is still in pre-production mod with The Cross. - Kinology is heading to Cannes with a single title in Copacabana – the Isabelle Huppert starring with her daughter comedy is a focal point in the Critic's Week section this year. It's the projects that they've got on the sales slate that have got my ears perked up in an upright position – beginning with Juan Solanas' next - he is currently shooting Upside Down in Montreal, while Andrew Niccol is...

Kinology is heading to Cannes with a single title in Copacabana – the Isabelle Huppert starring with her daughter comedy is a focal point in the Critic's Week section this year. It's the projects that they've got on the sales slate that have got my ears perked up in an upright position – beginning with Juan Solanas' next - he is currently shooting Upside Down in Montreal, while Andrew Niccol is still in pre-production mod with The Cross – if I remember correctly it was first announced at last year's Cannes and they are trying to bring down the price tag on the 50 million dollar-ish production. French items worth keeping an eye out for are Benoît Philippon's Lullaby for Pi – which was shot in Canada and would logically find a spot at Tiff. Mathieu Kassovitz also has a project in development . Buried by Rodrigo Cortes - Post-Production Heartbreaker (L'arnacoeur) by Pascal Chaumeil...

Deathly premonitions ruled the overseas boxoffice during the weekend as "The Final Destination" in 3D emerged as the international circuit's No. 1 boxoffice title for the second consecutive round, extracting $17.7 million from 2,880 screens in 28 territories.

A 10-territory increase in markets played by the fourth title in New Line's horror-thriller franchise resulted in a $2.2 million boost from the previous weekend's gross. Even so, the weekend take for the tale of young people's lethal forebodings was the eighth lowest this year for a No. 1 title, indicating a generally slow post-summer session overseas.

Warner Bros. is handling "Destination" overseas along with independent distributors. A No. 1 Russian opening yielded $6.5 million from 600 sites for a mighty $10,833 per-screen average. Accumulated U.K. boxoffice over three rounds is $17.5 million.

"Destination's" international cume from all distributors is $55.6 million; worldwide, the gross is $113.9 million. Korea opens Oct. 1 and a Mexico debut is set for Oct. 9.

No. 2 on the weekend was a German-language title,...