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“Holy Motors” auteur Leos Carax has been making genre-defying, mind-bending movies for 40 years, since 1984’s “Boy Meets Girl.” Now he’s accomplishing another first: The first day-and-date theatrical/streaming release to take place on the Criterion Channel, courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Films.

Carax’s latest film “It’s Not Me” will be released December 10 via limited theatrical engagements in New York and Los Angeles while simultaneously streaming on Criterion Channel following a live-stream premiere that day. At the same time, you can purchase “It’s Not Me” on Amazon, Apple, Google Play, and Fandango at Home for $14.99. IndieWire is proud to exclusively debut the trailer and poster for “It’s Not Me” below.

This follows the exclusive streaming premieres on Criterion Channel for “Evil Does Not Exist” and “The Beast.” And it’s unique because Carax has previously indicated his qualms with streaming, even despite the support of Amazon Studios...

Libération, France Soir and Les Inrocks are among the news outlets reporting that the Russian-born actress Yekaterina Golubeva, best known for performing alongside the late Guillaume Depardieu in Léos Carax's Pola X (1999), has died at the age of 44. She'll be also be remembered for her performances in Claire Denis's I Can't Sleep (1994) and The Intruder (2004) and Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms (2002).

A mother of three, Golubeva also appeared in Three Days (1991) and Few of Us (1996), both films directed by her Lithuanian husband, Sharunas Bartas. Her funeral is to be held on Saturday morning at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

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Indie film distribution unit Wellspring is coming aboard French writer-director Bruno Dumont's upcoming 29 Palms as the film's co-producer and U.S. distributor. Starring Katerina Golubeva (Pola X), Palms centers on a young couple scouting photo locations in Southern California's Joshua Tree National Park whose lives are shattered by a shocking confrontation in the desert. The film is being shot in English and French. Wellspring rolled out Dumont's Life of Jesus and Humanite, both of which screened at the Festival de Cannes. Wellspring said that Palms, in production, will be ready as a Cannes entry this year and that the company will roll out the project next year. Palms is being made through the 3-B Prods. and Thoke Moebius shingles, with Canal Plus and Flach Pyramide International also co-producing. The deal was brokered by Wellspring's Krysanne Katsoolis and Marie Therese Guirgis, with 3-B's Jean Brehat.