marketplace have pushed many top-notch foreign-born directors (Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Luc Besson) toward Hollywood and English-language filmmaking. As he notes, a number of the “French” films in the official selection for Cannes 2014 - such as Olivier Dahan’s “Grace of Monaco,” Olivier Assayas’ “Clouds of Sils Maria,” Michel Hazanavicius’s “The Search,” and Pascale Ferran’s “Bird People” - are partly or completely in the English language.Īnd the demands of the U.S. ticket sales in 2013, “I’m So Excited” earned just over $1 million.įoundas’ piece does highlight some key challenges to international cinema. (This doesn’t count films catering specifically to immigrant or diaspora populations, whether Spanish-language films for Hispanic Americans or Bollywood films for Indian-Americans.)Įven acclaimed foreign directors have seen a precipitous fall in 2006, Pedro Almodovar had his most successful release with “Volver,” which saw $13 million in U.S. box office in 2007, the take was $38 million.
In 2013 the top five foreign-language releases earned collectively just $15 million at the U.S. According to data culled from, foreign-language box office has shown a steady decline.
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