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07 June 2012

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Lonely Island

Dir: Peeter Simm. Belarus-Estonia-Latvia. 2012. 100mins
A Fantastic Fear Of Everything

Dirs: Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell. UK. 2012. 100mins
Being Venice

Dir/scr: Miro Bilbrough. Australia. 2012. 89mins
Camille Rewinds

Dir: Noémie Lvovsky. France. 2012. 120mins
Cosmopolis

Dir: David Cronenberg. France-Canada. 2012. 108mins
Cross Creek Pictures to back Todd Field's The Creed Of Violence

The filmmaker is set to direct his first feature since 2006 drama Little Children when he adapts the novel of the same name by Boston Teran. Universal will distribute in the US through its deal with Cross Creek.
Dead Europe

Dir: Tony Krawitz. Australia. 2012. 83mins
Film Distribution picks up Citadel

Irish Ciaran Foy’s agoraphobia inspired horror picture won the Midnighter Audience Award at the 2012 edition of SXSW.
Film Finances sets up shop in Germany

The completion guarantees specialist has set up shop in Germany with Cologne-based subsidiary Film Finances Germany (FFG).
FilmNation adds Taylor Lautner thriller Tracers to Cannes slate

Glen Basner and his team will commence talks with buyers this week on the parkour project. WME Global holds US sales rights.
Final Cut – Ladies and Gentlemen

Dir: Gyorgy Palfi. Hungary. 2012. 84mins
Gimme The Loot

Dir/scr: Adam Leon. US, 2012. 80mins
Granny's Funeral

Dir: Bruno Podalydes. France. 2012. 100mins
Hunger Games to open in 67 Imax sites in China

The film will open under the recent revenue-sharing deal announced by the WTO.
iLL Manors

Dir/scr: Ben Drew. UK. 2012. 121mins
In The Fog

Dir: Sergei Loznitsa. Germany-Latvia/Russia/Dutch/Belarus. 2012. 128mins
Le Grand Soir

Dirs/scr: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern. France. 2012. 92mins
Lockdown: Red Moon Escape

Dirs/scr: Mohammed Alibrahim, Ahmed Al Baker. Qatar. 2012. 60mins
Madagascar 3 scores $76m debut to dominate int’l arena

A rousing launch through Paramount Pictures International saw DreamWorks Animation’s family package tackle the European Championships head-on to bring in an estimated $75.5m from 10,148 theatres in 28 countries and secure top spot in nearly every one.
Maniac

Dir: Franck Khalfoun. France-US. 89mins
Media Content Capital takes stake in QED International

Bill Block has sold a portion of the company in an eight-figure deal that will enable him to grow the development, production and financing business and boost the agency side of his sales operation by paying minimum guarantees for more projects.
Michelle Monaghan joins Owen Wilson on Crime Scene’s The Coup

Pierce Brosnan will also star in the thriller about an American family who move to Southeast Asia and get caught up in a violent uprising. Sierra / Affinity is handing international sales in Cannes next week.
Miss Lovely

Dir: Ashim Ahluwalia. India. 2012. 115mins
Mission To Lars

Dirs: James Moore, William Spicer. UK. 2012. 78mins
Not Suitable For Children

Dir: Peter Templeman. Australia. 2012. 96mins
Outsider Pictures brings Fat Kid Rules The World to Cannes

Matthew Lillard’s SXSW premiere is adapted from K L Going’s young adult novel about a suicidal teenager who is plucked from despair by a high school drop-out and embarked upon a friendship that concerns his father.
Piranha 3DD

Dir: John Gulager. US. 2012. 83mins
Pusher

Dir: Luis Prieto. UK. 2012. 86mins
Red Sea Media adds two more to Cannes slate

CEO Roman Kopelevich has acquired international sales rights on the eve of the market to Singaporean sexual thriller Hotel De Sade and horror comedy Julia X 3D.
Renoir

Dir: Gilles Bourdos. France. 2012. 111mins
Snow White And The Huntsman

Dir: Rupert Sanders. US. 2012. 127mins
The Central Park Five

Dir/scr: Ken Burns, David McMahon, Sarah Burns. US. 2012. 119mins
The Glass Man among Spotlight Pictures market slate

Announcing the company’s biggest Cannes line-up yet, president of international Scott Bedno said the Neve Campbell thriller centres on a man whose seemingly normal life slowly descends into madness.
The Suicide Shop

Dir: Patrice Leconte. France-Canada-Belgium. 2012. 79mins
The Taste Of Money

Dir/scr: Im Sang-soo. South Korea. 2012. 114mins
Thérèse Desqueyroux

Dir: Claude Miller. France. 2012. 110mins
Weinsteins pick up US rights on The Oath of Tobruk

The Weinstein Company has picked up US rights for French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy’s documentary about the 2011 Libyan revolution, The Oath of Tobruk.
XLrator Media launches action label Turbo

The slate kicks off with Hong Kong action title Naked Soldier, Blood Money and US production Brawler.
“Don’t sign co-production treaty with US,” Weinstein tells French

Harvey Weinstein talks US-Franco filmmaking cooperation at Champs-Elysées Film Festival in Paris.
108 Media steppes into epic Myn Bala

Toronto-based sales and distribution outfit 108 Media has picked up international rights to Kazakh epic Myn Bala: Warriors Of The Steppe and will commence sales in Cannes.
11/25 The Day Mishima Chose His Own Fate

Dir: Koji Wakamatsu. Japan. 2012. 119mins
22 new projects by Greenaway, Lungulov, Amati and Nikonova to be pitched in Moscow, 15 features presented in Sochi

New films by Peter Greenaway, Darko Lungulov, Martina Amati and Angelina Nikonova are among 22 projects to be pitched at next week’s fourth Moscow Co-production Forum.
3

Dir: Pablo Stoll Ward. Uruguay-Argentina-Germany. 2012. 120mins
66th EIFF ramps up industry programme

The 2012 edition of the Edinburgh Film Festival will feature a series of film-maker interviews and panel discussions aimed at up and coming film-makers and producers.
A Contracorriente flies to Chaumeil’s Moon

EXCLUSIVE: Spanish distributor picks up rights to comedy starring Diane Kruger and Dany Boon.
A family affair

Journalist-turned-filmmaker Kate Spicer talks about documentary Mission to Lars.
A Happy Ending?

Dr Who actress Karen Gillan is in Cannes to promote her first feature, the Glasgow set indie romantic comedy Not Another Happy Ending, directed by John McKay and produced by Claire Mundell of Synchronicity.
A Respectable Family

Dir/scr: Massoud Bakhshi. Iran-France. 2012. 90mins
Abu Dhabi launches 30% production rebate

EXCLUSIVE: Abu Dhabi’s twofour54 and the Abu Dhabi Film Commission are launching a production rebate from September 1, marking the first major incentive scheme in the Middle East.
Ad Vitam charmed by Fortissimo’s Miss Lovely

Ad Vitam has snapped up French rights to Un Certain Regard title Miss Lovely, directed by India’s Ashim Ahluwalia, from Fortissimo Films.
Adam Smith boards Polly Stenham’s Tusk

EXCLUSIVE: Rising UK director is attached to Polly Stenham’s Origin/Film4 Brit List script which is gearing up to shoot this year.
AFI Silverdocs to honour documentary duo

The AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival will honour Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky on Jun 19 at the Charles Guggenheim Symposium “for their collective and individual contributions to the documentary genre.”
After Lucia

Dir/scr: Michel Franco. Mexico. 2012. 103mins
After The Battle

Dir: Yousry Nasrallah. France-Egypt. 2012. 125mins
Agnes B catwalks to Films Boutique with feature debut

EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based sales outfit Films Boutique has just snapped up worldwide sales rights to My Name Is Hmmm, the debut feature from French fashion designer Agnès Troublé (better known to the outside world as Agnès B.)
Al Mansour reveals struggles of directing Wadjda

Saudi Arabia’s first female filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour reveals the difficulties she faced while making Wadjda, the first feature to be shot in Saudi Arabia.
Alamode Film boards two German projects

Munich-based distributor Alamode Film is already lining up its next projects after making its first foray into production by serving as the German co-producer on Alain Resnais’ competition title You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet (Vous N’Avez Encore Rien Vu).
Alan Rickman joins CBGB for Miller / Savin

The British veteran will portray Hilly Kristal, owner and founder of the legendary New York nightclub which played a pivotal role in the birth of the US punk scene.
Aldamisa International closes deals on Machete Kills

EXCLUSIVE: Aldamisa International kicks off Cannes with a slew of multiple territory deals on hot title Machete Kills as Robert Rodriguez (pictured) prepares to start shooting in June.
Alix Tidmarsh, Andy Byatt, Amberjack Films

Alix Tidmarsh and Andy Byatt’s new UK production company will make ambitious, entertaining films with a message, with the first project to come out of the company set to be the $20m Dolphin: A 3D Adventure, being sold by Salt at Cannes.
Aliyah

Dir: Elie Wajeman. France. 2012. 90mins
Alliance Films pounces on Dead Man Down, Zero Dark Thirty

EXCLUSIVE: The company has swung into action on the eve of Cannes with pre-buys on two hot market titles.
Alps wins top prize at Sydney Film Festival

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has won the fifth Sydney Film Prize with Alps, an offbeat film starring Aggeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis and Johnny Vekis.
AMC Networks swoops on US rights to On The Road

The company’s distribution labels IFC Films and Sundance Selects will jointly release Walter Salles’ upcoming Cannes competition entry in theatres in late autumn following a seven-figure deal.
Amour

Dir/scr: Michael Haneke. France-Germany-Austria. 2012. 127mins
Amour set for Dec 19 US launch

Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has set Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner Amour for a Dec 19 US launch.
AMPAS appoints new tech head

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has promoted Megan Clarke to the newly created post of managing director, information technology.
Amy Adams in talks for Paquet-Brenner thriller Dark Places

Amy Adams is in negotiations to star in writer-director Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s thriller Dark Places.
Anchor Bay acquires US rights to Andy Garcia's Admissions

Following their collaboration on City Island, Anchor Bay and Andy Garcia’s CineSon Productions are reuniting on the rom-com to star Garcia and Vera Farmiga.
Anchor Bay, Red Sea strike deals on Officer Down, Pawn

Anchor Bay has swooped on all English speaking territories for action a pair of action films, Officer Down and Pawn. Red Sea Media is handling international sales on both titles Cannes.
Andrew Cripps and Richard Gelfond, IMAX

Imax CEO Richard Gelfond and new EMEA president Andrew Cripps talk to Wendy Mitchell about their blockbuster summer ahead and the international territories that could see the most growth.
AngelWorld boards The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea

Film financier AngelWorld, which yesterday announced backing for new title The Big Shoe, will back drama starring Jessica Biel.
AngelWorld, HanWay wear Big Shoe with Sturgess, Sarandon

Steven Shainberg to direct comedy-drama backed by new fund AngelWorld Entertainment. HanWay to handle sales.
Antena 3 locks Miramax titles

Spanish channel Antena 3 completes licensing deal for Miramax films.
Anthony Bourdain adaptation headed for big screen

Maggie Monteith’s LA-based Dignity Film Finance has unveiled a development slate of four films led by Joshua Michael Stern rom-com Closer To Fine.
Antiviral

Dir/scr: Brandon Cronenberg. Canada. 2012. 110mins
Antiviral spreads to IFC for US

IFC Midnight has acquired US rights to Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral, which had its world premiere at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.
Arab Spring makes way for new look Cairo Film Festival

The 35th Cairo Film Festival will implement a new structure in order to benefit from state support.
ARC adopts Red Dog for North America

ARC Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to hit Australian family adventure Red Dog.
ARC Entertainment takes world on Nitro Circus The Movie 3D

Nationwide release set for Aug 10 on the adventure title. Dennis Rice will oversee marketing and distribution and ARC president Rich Goldberg will oversee international distribution.
ARC Entertainment to handle ancillary on Fat Kid Rules The World

The distributor’s presence will boost theatrical plans as first time director Matthew Lillard and producer Whitewater Films line up a campaign through The Vans Warped Tour and Tugg.com this summer.
Arclight acquires international sales to While We Were Here

Kat Coiro’s Ischia-set romance premiered at Tribeca and stars Kate Bosworth, Jamie Blackley and Iddo Goldberg. Gary Hamilton will commence talks with buyers in Cannes. WME Global represents North American rights.
Arclight Films licenses UK rights on Best Men to BVI

The sales agent has licensed Stephan Elliot’s comedy A Few Best Men to Buena Vista International, who plan a late August release.
Arclight to handle sales on Ethan Hawke thriller Predestination

Michael and Peter Spierig Brothers will direct the sci-fi tale from their own screenplay and Brisbane-based Patrick McDonald of Wolfhound Pictures and Tim McGahan of Blacklab Entertainment who brought the project to Arclight are producing.
Arnon Milchan to receive Locarno's producer award

Three of his films will be shown at the 65th edition, including the newly restored Once Upon A Time In America.
Arri goes to Marrakech with Caroline Link

At the start of Cannes, German outfit Arri Worldsales has announced it will handle international sales on Exit Marrakech, the latest feature from Oscar winning German director Caroline Link (Nowhere In Africa.)
Artificial Eye gets investor commitment for bigger funding vehicle

Curzon Artificial Eye announces second acquisition funding vehicle, expects to acquire 40 films in next three years.
Artificial Eye picks up Holy Motors, Therese Desqueyroux

UK distributor Artificial Eye has completed a further four acquisitions in Cannes.
Artificial Eye snaps up Sally Potter drama

EXCLUSIVE: Artificial Eye has snapped up UK rights to Sally Potter’s new untitled drama from The Match Factory.
Arts Alliance Media signs VPF deal with Medusa

Digital cinema integrator Arts Alliance Media has struck a deal with Italian distributor Medusa Film.
Arts Alliance Media strikes new partnership with Thailand's Goldenduck

Deal includes 500 screens.
Arts Alliance strikes 400-screen deal with Ster-Kinekor

Arts Alliance Media and South Africa’s leading exhibitor Ster-Kinekor have announced a partnership for digital conversion of all of Ster-Kinekor’s sites.
Aruba lineup includes Stolen, The Magic of Belle Isle, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Polanski doc

Rob Reiner’s The Magic of Belle Isle starring Morgan Freeman, Virginia Madsen to open the third Aruba international film festival.
ASC names Lighthill president

Stephen Lighthill has been elected president of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).
Ashim Ahluwalia

Ashim Ahuwalia talks about making his first fiction feature Miss Lovely, which screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes.
Asian buyers click with Showbox horror

Korean studio Showbox has pre-sold horror title Don’t Click to a slew of Asian distributors including Barkarat Cineleisure Group for China, Hong Kong and Vietnam.
Atlas bears Stephen King thriller A Good Marriage

EXCLUSIVE: Atlas International has added Stephen King adaptation A Good Marriage to its Cannes slate.
Ausfilm appoints UK-based McMullan as chairman

Ausfilm, the organisation that helps to sell Australia as a filmmaking partner, a location and a service provider, has appointed London-based former politician Bob McMullan as its chair.
Australia’s AMPCO continues to build ties with China

Mario Andreacchio, the producer of the first official Australia-China co-production The Dragon Pearl, says he is involved in the development of $60m worth of features with China and is expecting cameras to roll on two projects before the end of the year.
Autlook geeks out with Spurlock's Comic-Con doc

EXCLUSIVE: Autlook Filmsales has snapped up worldwide rights - except North America - for Comic-Con: Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, the latest film from Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?)
Avengers becomes fourth biggest US film in India

The Avengers is now the fourth highest-grossing Hollywood film of all time in India, according to distributor Disney UTV.
Avengers brings in further $55.1m at US box office

Another mighty haul saw Marvel Studios’ action epic soar to $457.1m and hold on to its number one rank for the third consecutive weekend.
Avengers eyes $1bn global as int'l session reaps $152m

Another thunderous performance from Marvel Studios’ superhero soup boosted the running total to $441.5m through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International. The record-breaking domestic launch combined for a $641.8m global tally.
Avengers scores second biggest US weekend on $103m

Marvel Studios’ superhero soup has reached $373.2m after a mere two weekends and combines with the $628.9m international running total to reach $1,002.1m at the global box office. It is now the eleventh biggest global release in history.
Ayoade’s The Double gets cast, shoot dates

Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor, Wallace Shawn, James Fox join Wasikowska, Eisenberg; shoot kicks off May 20.
Backgammon starts production

3:1 Cinema and Fischer Productions have started production on psychological thriller Backgammon.
Backup and marche pact on new Cinando rights monitoring service

Backup and Cannes market partner on new rights management service called MoveChainer.
Bae launches Tokyo production, distribution outfit

Former Stylejam executive Soojun Bae has launched a Tokyo-based production and distribution outfit, Synca Creations.
Baldwin, Blanchett, Hawkins and Sarsgaard cast for next Allen film

Woody Allen has announced that Alec Baldwin (pictured), Cate Blanchett, Louis CK, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Michael Emerson, Sally Hawkins and Peter Sarsgaard will feature in the cast of his next film.
Baltic Bridge East by West announces co-production slate

Producers include Amour Fou, Aurora Films, CTB Film Company; Bakur Bakuradze among directors.
Barker tackles Zombies vs Gladiators for Amazon

Hellraiser creator Clive Barker is to rewrite action horror project Zombies vs Gladiators for Amazon Studios, the content development division of Amazon.com that uses audience feedback to develop original entertainment projects.
BBC Films announces new projects with Simon Curtis, David Heyman

Saoirse Ronan to star in adaptation of Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, Simon Curtis to direct drama based on struggle for Klimt paintings
BBC secures TV rights to Spanish language feature San Cristobal

The UK-Spanish co-production is being written and directed by UK film-maker James Rogan.
Beresford, Leigh among Screen Australia recipients

Sleeping Beauty director Julia Leigh, veteran Bruce Beresford and Kriv Stenders, who made last year’s local box office hit Red Dog, have all scored development dollars from Screen Australia for new films.
Bertrand Bonello to direct Yves Saint Laurent biopic project

EXCLUSIVE: French director Bertrand Bonello has signed to direct a biopic on legendary French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, Paris sales outfit Films Distribution and production companyMandarin Cinema have announced.
Beta reports strong sales on Siberia, Suskind

Beta Cinema reports sales on a number of titles including Lost in Siberia, Suskind, Bliss and In Darkness.
Beyonce joins Epic voice cast

Beyonce Knowles, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amada Seyfried and Johnny Knoxville have joined the voice cast of Epic, the upcoming 3D computer animated adventure comedy from Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios.
Beyond The Hills

Dir/scr: Cristian Mungiu. Romania-France-Belgium. 2012. 150mins
Beyond The Walls

Dir/scr: David Lambert. Belgium-Canada-France. 2012. 98mins
BFC gets new backing from BFI

The UK’s promotional agency for film The British Film Commission is to get an additional £100,000 from the BFI.
BFI acquire Children's Film Foundation catalogue

Collection features directors and actors such as Michael Powell, Francesca Annis & Sadie Frost.
BFI London Film Festival to shorten duration, increase screenings

The festival will also make use of more venues during its shorter 12 day run.
Bilge Ceylan, Kaplanoglu attend memorial ceremony for Seyfi Teoman

The 35 year old director of Our Grand Despair who died in a traffic accident was considered one of the most exciting young film-makers in Turkey.
Bill Holmes earns business development stripes at Netflix

Holmes joined Netflix in 2008 and rises from vp of business development to the new role of chief business development officer.
Billion dollar baby: Avengers crosses threshold on Day 19

Marvel Studio’s The Avengers nudged past the $1bn worldwide milestone on Sunday (13) according to Disney estimates following another mighty international weekend that generated $95.4m and a $103.2m second session in North America.
Birch Tree, Astro Shaw team for martial arts slate

Malaysia’s Astro Shaw and US-based sales agent Birch Tree Entertainment are joining forces to produce and distribute a slate of martial arts action films.
Birks Canadian Diamond to go to Sarah Gadon, Emily Hampshire

Honourees Sarah Gadon and Emily Hampshire will receive the inaugural Birks Canadian Diamond at the Cannes Film Festival during the Telefilm Canada’s first tribute to Canadian talent press event on May 23.
BiteSize developing Isaac Newton action film

Director Rob Cohen and producer Gene Kirkwood are to develop a new action franchise based on the life of Sir Isaac Newton for BiteSize Entertainment.
BiteSize Entertainment launches with Rebekah Brooks project

Online entertainment hub Mevio chairman and CEO Ron Bloom has launched the vertically integrated studio BiteSize Entertainment and brought in producer Gene Kirkwood and Ross Elliot’s Kirkwood-Elliot to handle exclusive production.
Bitter Ends picks up Karakara for Japan

Japanese distributor Bitters End has picked up all rights to Canada-Japan co-production Karakara, directed by Claude Gagnon.
Blanchett, Wasikowska, HanWay board Number 9’s Carol

Cate Blanchett, Mia Wasikowska and HanWay Films have boarded Number 9 Films’ version of Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt.
Bleiberg boards The Letter with Winona Ryder, James Franco

The Beverly Hills-based company will introduce the psychological drama to the Cannes market this week. Jay Anania directed the film, which will open in the US later this year through a distributor to be announced shortly.
Bona Film Group boosts credit facility to $80m

China’s Bona Film Group has increased its revolving credit facility with Bank of Beijing from $15.8m (RMB100m) to $79m (RMB500m), which it will use over the next two years for content production.
Bona Film Group to open 3D production base in Tianjin

China’s Bona Film Group has unveiled plans to set up a 3D production centre in the city of Tianjin where it will produce Tsui Hark’s upcoming 3D projects Tracks In The Snowy Forest and The White-Hair Witch.
Brandon Cronenberg

Brandon Cronenberg, son of David, makes his feature directorial debut with Antiviral in Un Certain Regard, about a man who sells celebrity diseases to the obsessed public. TF1 handles sales.
Branson's Current Sponge rebranded as Sundog Pictures

Sam Branson unveiled details of his newly rebranded UK production outfit Sundog Pictures, at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Brave

Dirs: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman. US. 2012. 100mins
Breaking Glass picks up four for US

Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired all US rights to four titles offered at the Cannes market: BAFTA-nominated British thriller Shifty, Jose Campusano’s dark Argentinian drama Twisted Romance, documentary Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era and Simon Chung’s Hong Kong film Speechless.
Breaking Glass Pictures hits Cannes with eclectic slate.

CEO Rich Wolff and the team have boarded sales rights to a roster led by serial killer thriller Cyrus: The County Line Cannibal. Anchor Bay holds US rights to the story of a reported on the case of missing students and Brian Krause and Danielle Harris star.
Breakthrough corrals Think Of Me, A Wake for Cannes

The Toronto-based sales company’s roster is led by Bryan Wizemann’s single mother drama Think Of Me with Lauren Ambrose and dark comedy A Wake starring Nicholas Campbell.
British Council launches Short Support Scheme

It includes a Travel Grant Fund that will support short film-makers from the UK in showing their work at international film festivals.
Broken

Dir: Rufus Norris. UK. 2012. 90mins
Broken goes to Le Pacte and Why Not Productions

Wild Bunch has sold British Rufus Norris’s Critics’ Week opener Broken to a French consortium of Le Pacte and Why Not Productions.
Broomfield to launch Sky Atlantic doc strand Footprints

Sky Atlantic has handed Nick Broomfield the first commission in its documentary feature film strand Footprints.
Brussels hosts Bidegain, Greenaway, Zentropa masterclasses

Tenth Brussels Film Festival bookended by Jean-Paul Rouve’s Quand Je Serai Petit and Trishna; events include Zentropa day; programme includes Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love.
Buska crowned by Kaurismaki

EXCLUSIVE: Rising Swedish actress Malin Buska has been crowned as the lead in Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki’s Kristina of Sweden, stepping into the shoes of Swedish screen legend Greta Garbo, who played the part in US director Ruben Mamoulian’s 1933 Queen Christina.
Buyers court StudioCanal’s I Give It A Year

EXCLUSIVE: Buyers are feeling the love for Working Title and comedy writer Dan Mazer’s romantic comedy I Give A Year, which is being sold internationally by StudioCanal.
Buyers go Into The Dark for Epic Pictures

Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berenson’s Epic Pictures Group has licensed the Mischa Barton supernatural thriller Into The Dark to Tiberius for Germany, Eagle for the Middle East and Eurofilms for Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.
Buyers run on eOne's Bank

eOne Films International has seen strong demand for its new slate and has secured a number of deals on upcoming thriller Cut Bank starring Armie Hammer.
Buyers swoon to Chiesa's Poet

Early in the market, Adriana Chiesa is enjoying brisk sales on Andrea Segre’s Shun Li And The Poet.
Buyers track down Vinterberg’s Hunt

TrustNordisk strike deals for US, Germany, Australia, Spain, Brazil, Japan, South Korea among others.
Buyers wake up for Five Star’s 3AM

Thailand’s Five Star Production is lining up a second 3D horror, 3AM, following the Asian box office success of its first such production, Dark Flight 3D.
BVI, IM Global's Apsara confirm pan-Asian output deal

Buena Vista International and IM Global’s pan-Asian acquisitions arm Apsara Distribution confirmed on Monday (18) that they have signed a deal for select territories, as first revealed by Screendaily in Cannes.
Calls for clarification of EC's draft Cinema Communication

Many European film organisations have called for more clarification and precision in the European Commission’s (EC) draft Cinema Communication in their responses submitted by the 14 June deadline and now obtained by Screen.
Calls for reforms to German spend incentive DFFF

Also, German reaction to EC’s proposed Cinema Communication at Film Industry Summit.
Camel on the Croisette..

Sacha Baron Cohen pulled off his latest publicity stunt to promote The Dictator in Cannes, with the help of a very obliging camel.
Camelot seals Scavengers deal with Splendid for German-speaking Europe

Camelot Distribution Group president Jess Kelly has announced a slew of sales on the Cannes slate, leading with a sale to Splendid for German-speaking territories and Benelux rights to California Pictures’ sci-fi adventure Scavengers.
Canadian Academy names council members

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has named the members of its National Advisory Council.
Candida Brady

UK journalist turned film-maker Candida Brady’s first feature documentary Trashed follows Jeremy Irons on a world tour as he discovers issues surrounding waste. The film screened out of competition in Cannes.
Cannes announces five for Un Certain Regard jury

Actress Leïla Bekhti, filmmaker Tonie Marshall, Argentinian critic Luciano Monteagudo and Sylvie Pras, head of cinemas at Centre Pompidou and artistic director of La Rochelle Film Festival, join previously announced president of the jury Tim Roth.
Cannes deals roundup: DC Medias, Jinga, Hawthorn, Delacheroy

Deals include Jinga Films selling romantic comedy Timer and Hawthorn selling UK sci fi feature UFO.
Cannes European Rendezvous talks Creative Europe

New EU initiatives for European cinema such as the Prix MEDIA and the proposed Creative Europe programme are at the focus of the 10th edition of the European Rendezvous in Cannes from May 20-22.
Cannes market buoyed by new equity, new titles

There were two deluges in Cannes. The torrent of scripts from new sales companies heightened the sense of anticipation heading into the market, but by the rain-soaked midway point a clearer sense of reality had set in.
Cannes titles Rust & Bone top opener at French box office

Jacques Audiard’s competition title Rust & Bone was the topo pening film at the French box office in it first five days on release starting May 16.
Cargo boards Greg Mclean’s Kill Me Three Times for Cannes

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Lindsay, president of distribution at the US sales, financing and production company, will kick off pre-sales on the thriller starring Alice Braga, Abbie Cornish (pictured), Ben Mendelsohn and Sullivan Stapleton. WME Global represents US rights.
Cargo escorts Hendricks film Zipper into Cannes

EXCLUSIVE: Cargo Entertainment sales chief Mark Lindsay has been talking up the thriller Zipper starring Patrick Wilson and Christina Hendricks, which Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures is on board to produce.
Cargo takes hold of The Angriest Man In Brooklyn

EXCLUSIVE: Robin Williams, Mila Kunis and Peter Dinklage will star in comedy The Angriest Man In Brooklyn, which Cargo Entertainment sales chief Mark Lindsay is introducing to Cannes buyers.
Cargo to handle sales on Hemingway & Fuentes

Financier-producer Edward Walson of Sunrider Productions, Andy Garcia and Cargo Entertainment CEO-managing partner Marina Grasic announced on Tuesday (15) that financing is place for the project. The Paradigm Motion Picture Finance Group arranged the financing and will represent domestic rights.
Carol Polakoff, Susan Wrubel unveil strategic alliance

EXCLUSIVE: New York and Paris-based producer Carol Polakoff is ramping up efforts to attract talent, funding and partnerships to her eclectic slate and has struck a strategic alliance with veteran acquisitions and packaging executive Susan Wrubel.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung-Hun Lee join cast of Red 2

UPDATE: Lionsgate will commence pre-sales in Cannes on Summit Entertainment’s action-comedy sequel to the $200m worldwide box office hit as it emerged the sales force will also commence talks with buyers on its Dirty Dancing reboot.
CBS Films takes US rights to Ends Of The Earth

IM Global’s genre title has been swiped off the shelf on the eve of the Cannes market following a buyers screening in Los Angeles last week.
CEG launches fund, earmarks three projects

Capstone Entertainment Group (CEG) and private equity partners have launched Capstone Pictures to place approximately $18.5m into a trio of films that will shoot in Louisiana and Ontario in 2012-13.
Celebrating 65 years of the CNC

The Cannes Film Festival is not the only French cultural institution feting its 65th anniversary this year. Melanie Goodfellow talks to CNC president Eric Garandeau.
Celluloid Nightmares to fire up Cannes buyers with Raze

The sales partnership between Celluloid Dreams and XYZ Films will kick off international sales on the Croisette on the action film starring Zoë Bell and Rachel Nichols.
Chapman debuts with thriller Trigger

Chapman Filmed Entertainment, the micro-budget production company launched by California’s Chapman University, will make thriller Trigger its first production.
Chernobyl Diaries

Dir: Brad Parker. US. 2012. 86mins
Chicorel launches Chinese banner under Shoreline

Taipei-based producer and sales agent Steve Chicorel is launching a banner under Shoreline Entertainment, Asia Bridge, to handle international sales of Chinese films.
Children Of Sarajevo

Dir/scr: Aida Begic. Bosnia Herzogovina-Germany-France-Turkey. 2012. 90mins
China approves June release for The Hunger Games

Lionsgate’s behemoth has amassed close to $620m worldwide and will open in dubbed and subtitled versions through The China Film Group in association with Lionsgate’s promotional partner Talent International.
China Film to roll out giant screen technology

China Film Group Corporation has announced that it will start rolling out its China Film Giant Screen (CFGS) technology this year, starting with 15 screens in cinemas in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and several other Chinese cities.
China’s new global strategy

Liz Shackleton analyses the rapidly changing international strategies of China’s biggest players, and looks at the hottest US-China collaborations in the works.
China’s NFC to back The Annihilator

Chinese state-run fund National Film Capital (NFC) has unveiled a slate of ten US-China co-productions, including Stan Lee’s Chinese superhero project The Annihilator.
China’s Wanda group in buyout talks with AMC

China’s Wanda Group is in talks with AMC Entertainment to buy part or all of the US exhibitor’s shares, according to sources close to the Chinese company.
Chomet goes back to Belleville

Sylvain Chomet is re-teaming with Paris-based animation house Les Armateurs for a prequel to Belleville Rendez-vous (Les Triplettes de Belleville).
Chong steps down as CEO of Media Asia

John Chong has stepped down as CEO of Hong Kong-based Media Asia Group, becoming the last of the seven original founders to leave the company.
CI KTN’s Frank Boyd discusses convergent media

Frank Boyd of the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network talks to Screen about the future of convergent media.
Cinema Libre lines up Algerian co-pro for Karl Marx project

Cinema Libre Studio has closed a co-production deal with the Algerian Ministry Of Culture to make a feature starring Maximilian Schell about the last days of Karl Marx.
CinemaNX in talks to merge into Pinewood Shepperton

UPDATED: The Isle of Man government is in negotations to acquire a 19.9% stake in Pinwood Shepperton, whilst Pinewood would advise on film investment opportunities for the Isle of Man’s £25m Media Development Fund.
Cinemas Guzzo first multiplex to add second IMAX screen

Quebecois chain is first venue to offer two IMAX screens; facilitates dual language screenings and ticket demand on blockbuster opening weekends.
Cinemavault dances with Starz

EXCLUSIVE: Cinemavault closes slew of deals including Cinderella 3D to Starz/Anchor Bay for US, Canada, UK and Australia.
Cinemavault leaps onto Stranded

EXCLUSIVE: Christian Slater stars in Roger Christian’s sci-fi thriller.
City Screen adds Bath venue

The Little Theatre Cinema and City Screen are teaming for a screen within live entertainment Komedia venue on Westgate Street.
CJ Soars with broad set of sales

CJ Entertainment has unveiled a raft of sales on its two upcoming high-concept action pictures, Soar Into The Sun and The Tower, and K-pop documentary I Am: SM Town Live.
Cluzet and Canet board Gaumont's Turning Tide

EXCLUSIVE: €17 million production headlines a packed Gaumont slate also featuring a live action adaptation of Belle and Sebastien and Michael Youn’s comedy Vive La France.
Colin Firth to play Noel Coward for BiteSize

Colin Firth will play Noel Coward in newly announced BiteSize Entertainment’s dramedy Mad Dogs And Englishmen.
Columbus acquires Grisham's Calico Joe

Chris Columbus’ 1492 Pictures has acquired the rights to John Grisham’s best-selling novel Calico Joe. Columbus (pictured) will adapt the novel to direct as a feature.
Company 3 takes the fire out of Prometheus with DaVinci Resolve

Colourist used DaVinci Resolve’s tools to desaturate sequences in the sci-fi film.
Competition Commission reverses ruling over Sky Movies dominance

The Competition Commission has reversed its stance that Sky Movies holds an unfair advantage in the pay TV movie space, as a result of the emergence of online players Lovefilm and Netflix
Comweb Corp chair joins board of Academy Of Canadian Cinema & Television

Paul Bronfman is also chairman of William F White International Inc and also serves as chairman of Pinewood Toronto Studios.
Confessions Of A Child Of The Century

Dir: Sylvie Verheyde. France-UK-Germany. 2011. 121mins
Constantin Film enlists more cast members on Tarzan

Following the news that Kellan Lutz and Spencer Locke will play Tarzan and Jane in the Germany company’s 3D animated feature, it emerged on Thursday that Jaime Ray Newman and Trevor St John have come on board.
Constellation sets Juliette Lewis for Cabiria remake

The Days Of Mary is styled as a re-imagining of Federico Fellini’s Italian neorealist classic and 1957 foreign language Oscar winner Nights Of Cabiria. Little Film Company handles international sales will introduce to buyers on the Croisette this month.
Content acquires international sales rights to All Is By My Side

André Benjamin will star in the Jimi Hendrix biopic from Darko Entertainment, Subotica Entertainment and Matador Pictures.
Content boards Ironclad: Battle for Blood

Content boards international rights to Ironclad sequel ahead of Cannes; shoot set for summer 2012.
Content Media Corporation unveils plans to go private

The Content board wants to execute a de-listing from the London AIM stock exchange as part of share capital restructure that it said would result in a single class of shareholder and improved balance sheet.
Content takes piece of Gibney's Jigsaw

Content Media Corporation is buying a 50% stake in documentarian Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions and plans to help the company expand its film and TV development and production operations.
Cool Kids Don't Cry to get Norwegian remake

Norwegian production company Cinenord has bought the rights to the Dutch family film.
Corsan teams with Haggis on Third Person

Corsan is to produce and finance new project Third Person from writer-director Paul Haggis; Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde in talks.
Creative England launches Elevator programme

The programme, which was launched today in Cannes, is aimed at helping short film-makers to make the leap into features.
Creative England re-launches West Midlands production fund

The £450,000 fund will go towards feature film production from producers or co-producers based in the West Midlands.
Crime and punishment

Andrew Dominik talks about the making of his Cannes competition film Killing Them Softly starring Brad Pitt.
Cross Channel Film Lab 2 launches in Cornwall

Cornwall Council has secured £1.2m of EU funding to launch Cross Channel Film Lab 2, a research and development project designed to help UK and French filmmakers make the most of modern technology.
Curzon, RADA in programming partnership

Curzon and RADA are collaborating on the programme for The Screen @ RADA.
Daly, Pitts, Maoz to take part in Berlinale Residency

Rebecca Daly, Rafi Pitts and Samuel Maoz are among six filmmakers who will be the first participants of the Berlinale Residency.
Daniel Fridell to direct A Private Story

The film about Swedish porn king Berth Milton Jr is being packaged by William Morris Endeavor and produced by Wanted Pictures and Revelin Studios.
Danny DeVito wraps shoot on Jersey Films, Shangri-La’s thriller

The untitled project stars William Fichtner, Lance Reddick and Constance Zimmer. Locomotive’s Colleen Seldin will commence sales in Cannes next week.
DAR gets ugly with Kashyap, Phantom

India’s DAR Motion Pictures is partnering with Phantom Films to produce Ugly, the next project from Anurag Kashyap, whose Gangs Of Wasseypur is screening in Directors Fortnight.
Dario Argento’s Dracula

Dir: Dario Argento.Italy. 2012. 106mins
Dark Shadows

Dir: Tim Burton. US. 2012. 113mins
Dead Europe to premiere at Sydney Film Festival

Next month’s Sydney Film Festival, the first under new festival director Nashen Moodley, will feature the world premiere of Tony Krawitz’s Dead Europe, one of 12 films in official competition.
Deals round-up: Cinedigm digs hip-hop, Tribeca Film finds Comedy

Cinedigm Entertainment Group has signed a deal with Brian & Barrett Pictures to distribute Battlefield America: Where Kids Rule. Archstone Distribution, Well Go USA and Film Movement also announced new titles on Monday (13).
Deals round-up: SPWA buys into Predestination

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has picked up US and most of international rights on the Ethan Hawke sci-fi thriller. Arclight Films handles international sales.
Death For Sale, Clip among winners at Brussels Film Festival

Tenth edition ran June 8-16.
Delhi Belly to receive mainstream release in Hong Kong

UTV Motion Pictures and Aamir Khan Productions’ Delhi Belly is receiving a mainstream theatrical release in Hong Kong through the UA Cinemas circuit.
DFI unveils first funding round of 2012

The Doha Film Institute (DFI) has unveiled the 23 features, documentaries and short films that will receive funding as part of its 2012 grants programme.
DIFF partners with Lincoln Center for Arab showcase

The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) is partnering with the Film Society of New York’s Lincoln Center to showcase Arab cinema in a special DIFF Focus (August 24-30).
Digital Domain Productions names Jason Dowdeswell head of production

The Vancouver native will oversee operations for the Vancouver-based subsidiary’s productions, talent and teams as well as collaborations with Digital Domain’s effects teams in California, Florida, London and Mumbai.
Digital Domain to open studio in Abu Dhabi

US-based Digital Domain Media Group (DDMG) is collaborating with twofour54 to establish a media school and purpose-built studio in Abu Dhabi, with the aim of driving development of the production industry in the Middle East.
Dimension to release Sin City 2 on Oct 4, 2013

Robert Rodriguez is scheduled to start production this summer at his Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas. Aldamisa International is handling sales outside North America.
Director Olivier Megaton lines up Land Of The Living

Stone Village subsidiary Scott Pictures will fully finance the abduction thriller from Emjag Productions, Stone Village, Battleplan Productions, Film 360 and Dro Entertainment.
Distrify pacts with BFI to make classics available online

Distrify has struck a partnership with the British Film Institute to set up an online platform for the BFI Production Board Collection, offering global audiences the chance to see films that are part of the collection. In all, the Collection includes 300 films that were co-funded by the BFI from 1950-2000, as well as short films acquired after 2000.Titles include works by Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Terence Davies [pictured], Bill Douglas and others. The off
Distrify teams with Creative Scotland for new Scottish film service

Film promotion and distribution service Distrify is teaming with Creative Scotland on a website dedicated to Scottish films.
Divisions at Cannes

Critics, audiences and jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival agreed on a few titles, but were keenly divided on those which dared to subvert storytelling traditions.
Dixie Linder names joint head of Cuba Pictures

Dixie Linder has been named joint head of the film and television at Cuba Pictures, alongside Tally Garner.
Documentaries enjoyed bumper year at UK box office in 2011

The number of documentaries being released theatrically in the UK has steadily increased during the last five years, with the total box office takings of documentaries in the UK rising dramatically in 2011, it was revealed during a panel at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Dogwoof sells Marina Abramovic doc

Dogwoof Global sells doc to Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria.
Dogwoof's Jason Becker doc goes to Canada

Dogwoof Global Sales has sold documentary Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet to KinoSmith for Canada.
Double Trouble

Dir: David Hsun-Wei Chang. Taiwan-Hong Kong-China. 2012. 89mins
Drafthouse to re-release Miami Connection

Drafthouse Films has acquired North American rights to eighties martial arts film Miami Connection.
Duhamel, Hough set for Relativity's Safe Haven

Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough are to star in Relativity Media’s upcoming adaptation of Nicholas Sparks novel Safe Haven.
Dupieux and Bernard unveil footage from Wrong Cops

Quentin Dupieux and producer Gregory Bernard of Réalitism Films are in Cannes drumming up finance for the director’s third film Wrong Cops starring Marilyn Manson and Marc Burnham.
East End Film Festival to open with Amy Winehouse doc

The 11th edition of the festival runs July 3-8.
Economic report paints optimistic picture for New York

Data compiled by the Boston Consulting Group reveals strong growth over the last decade as filmed entertainment in the city generated direct spending of $7.1bn in 2011, marking a rise of more than $2bn annually since 2002.
Ed Pressman hires Catfish duo for The Monkey Wrench Gang

The New York-based producer has brought on Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman to write and direct the adaptation of Edward Abbey’s 1975 novel.
Ed Pressman to adapt graphic novel Feeding Ground

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is set to direct and screenwriter Carlos Coto will adapt Archaia Entertainment’s celebrated werewolf story, which was originally published in hardcover simultaneously in English and Spanish.
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Glasgow Film Theatre and Distrify get £90,000 fund

Scottish companies receive funding injection for digital R&D; second round of funding in autumn.
Edinburgh's revival?

After a 2011 edition plagued with problems, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is back this year with an eclectic line-up and a renewed focus on British and upcoming talent. Screen talks to the festival’s new artistic director Chris Fujiwara - and the industry - about how the 66th edition (June 20-July 1) is shaping up.
EFP backs seven projects at Shanghai International Film Festival

Film Sales Support awarded to the likes of Excuse Me [pictured], Isztambul and Chrysalis.
Elevado consultancy opens offices in Beverly Hills

Senior advisor Richard Kiratsoulis has negotiated financing transactions on behalf of clients including The Tomb starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Grey starring Liam Neeson.
Emerging Pictures, Cinemark pact for ballet programme

US alternative content specialist pacts with cinema chain Cinemark on six ballets.
Encounters Film Festival receives MEDIA backing

The festival will run in its new earlier slot this year.
Endorphine, Augustus wake up for Sunrise

EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Endorphine Production and Dutch production company Augustus Film have boarded Indian filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise (Arunoday), alongside India’s Independent Movies and the National Film Development Corp (NFDC).
eOne board in discussions with Alliance shareholders, posts 103% profit increase in 2012

eOne CEO Darren Throop says board has held discussions with Alliance Films shareholders, outlines possible acquisition structure.
eOne boards Errol Morris dark comedy Freezing People is Easy

EXCLUSIVE: Production set for autumn 2012 on dark comedy starring Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig and Christopher Walken.
eOne promotes Lara Thompson to new filmed entertaiment role

Lara Thompson has been promoted to the newly created role of evp of filmed entertainment at Entertainment One, effective immediately.
eOne takes Australia/New Zealand on Samsara

eOne and Hopscotch have acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to Samsara, the follow up to Baraka.
eOne, Cohen Media Group seal home entertainment pact

The agreement covers DVD/Blu-ray and digital rental and sell-through rights in the US for Cohen’s theatrical slate and the Cohen Film Collection (formerly The Rohauer Library) of Buster Keaton titles, British films, Hollywood classics and experimental cinema.
eOne, RKO Pictures plan joint US release on A Late Quartet

The partners have earmarked an autumn release for Yaron Zilberman’s debut starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Christopher Walken.
eOne's Inch'Allah finds buyers

eOne has sold drama Inch’Allah to five territories; film is third instalment in micro_scope Middle East trilogy.
Eric Christenson to head sales at Hyde Park International

The industry veteran becomes the third president of chairman and CEO Ashok Amritraj’s sales company within nine months.
Ernest And Célestine

Dirs: Benjamin Renner, Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar. France-Belgium-Luxembourg. 2012. 80mins
Eurimages commissioned report on co-production convention calls for "modest modifications"

Also freezes distribution support after cases of fraud revealed.
Eurimages to hold meeting at Dubai film festival

European funding body Eurimages will hold a board meeting in Dubai during this year’s edition of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), which runs December 9-16.
Europa Distribution's Isabelle Obadia dies at age 47

Isabelle Obadia died on June 17 after a nine-month battle with cancer.
Europe's regions have their say on Creative Europe

As EU culture ministers prepare to travel to Brussels this week for a two-day session of the Education, Youth Culture and Sport Council, Europe’s regions also have their say on the proposed Creative Europe framework programme fron 2014.
Eurozone crisis will see MEDIA Mundus funding limited

The present Eurozone economic crisís has prompted the European Commission (EC) to propose that planned expenditure on MEDIA Mundus projects to be capped at € 4.5m in its draft budget for 2013.
Exclusive boards Agent: Century 21 action-comedy for Cannes

Cameron Diaz and Benicio Del Toro will star in the caper, which Exclusive will produce and finance. Alex Walton will introduce to buyers in Cannes and CAA represents North American rights.
Exclusive Media commences Cannes talks on Still Of Night

Michelle Monaghan will star for Jonathan Mostow in the thriller, which Exclusive Media has added to its sales slate.
Exclusive Media eyes Millennium Entertainment acquisition

EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Sinclair (pictured) and Guy East’s ambitious company is said to be in early talks with a view to entering the domestic distribution arena as it emerged that at least another three new domestic distributors plan to launch within the next 12 to 18 months.
Exclusive Media to introduce Cannes buyers to At Any Price

Alex Walton and his team will kick off talks with international buyers here on Ramin Bahrani’s drama At Any Price starring Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron. CAA represents domestic rights.
Exclusive Media, Cross Creek unveil major partnership

Exclusive Media and Cross Creek Pictures have formalised their relationship with a three-year deal to jointly finance, produce and develop at least two features a year budgeted up to $65m.
Facebook VOD app Cinecliq searches for friends in Cannes

EXCLUSIVE: VOD platform Cinecliq is in Cannes to lock up content deals after launching at Berlin.
Fantasia unveil Off-Frontières projects

Selection includes seven from Canada, with five from Quebec.
Feeling Positif

French film magazine Positif celebrates its 60th birthday this May.
Ferrari Ki Sawaari

Dir: Rajesh Mapuskar. India. 2012. 140mins
Festival of Mediterranean Film, Split, Croatia

Audiences and attendees at the fifth Festival of Mediterranean Film, Split, Croatia, June 2 - 8.
Film Base Berlin turns lens on Cambodia

German production house Film Base Berlin is developing a Cambodia-themed drama Game Park, to be directed by French-Cambodian filmmaker Vanessa Ly.
Film Base Berlin, Shaftesbury Films team for Paul Black's The Same Eyes

Don 2’s German co-producer Film Base Berlin is teaming up with Patrick Cassavetti of Canada’s Shaftesbury Films to produce Paul Black’s second feature The Same Eyes.
Film London greenlights four new artist films

Now in its third year, Film London’s Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) is investing £145,000 of production funding in four new moving image projects from London-based artists.
Film London secures €1.9m to develop Screen Tourism

The grant will launch EuroScreen, a project which aims to bring together the screen and tourism industries to capitalise on the economic opportunities.
Film Movement checks into Bar-Ziv’s Room 514

Film Movement has acquired domestic rights to Sharon Bar-Ziv’s directorial debut Room 514 in Cannes.
Film Movement takes Directors' Fortnight entry Aliyah

Film Movement has picked up North American rights to Elie Wajeman’s directorial debut starring Cedric Kahn.
Film Sales Company closes deals on Bones Brigade

Hopscotch/eOne has acquired rights in Australia and New Zealand and King Records will handle Japanese distribution on Stacy Peralta’s skateboarding documentary.
Film4 launches short film competition

Film 4 is launching Scene Stealers, a creative talent search under its innovation banner Film4.0.
FILMCLUB to screen 60 great British films to schoolchildren

The initiative has been launched to coincide with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
FilmDistrict acquires US rights to Intrepid horror Oculus

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Flanagan will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jeff Howard, based on Flanagan’s acclaimed short film of the same name. Focus Features International is handling sales on the rest of the world in Cannes.
FilmDistrict adds three in marketing

FilmDistrict has added three more executives to the marketing department headed by recently appointed president of marketing Christine Birch.
FilmDistrict takes US rights to Dead Man Down

FilmDistrict has picked up US rights to Dead Man Down starring Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace and has set an autumn 2013 release.
FilmNation boards Lava Bear, Porchlight's The Rover

FilmNation has acquired the majority of worldwide sales rights to David Michôd’s follow-up to Animal Kingdom, and will jointly represent US sales with UTA.
Finecut scares up The Profane

EXCLUSIVE: Korea’s Finecut is teaming with the UK’s Rook Films and India’s Reel Illusion Films to co-produce Indian horror title The Profane, written and directed by Sidharth Srinivasan.
Finecut seals further deals on In Another Country

Seoul-based sales company Finecut has sold Hong Sang-soo’s Cannes competition In Another Country to Spain (Golem Distribucion) and Japan (Bitters End).
Finnish showcase planned for September

The Helsinki International Film Festival will launch the Finnish Film Affair, the first industry showcase for new domestic films.
FIP Germany hires Marco Mehlitz to head development, production

Lago Film’s Marco Mehlitz has joined Fox International Productions Germany as head of development and production.
First European shoot for Korean action director Ryoo

South Korean action specialist Ryoo Seung-wan is shooting in Europe for the first time with his $9m spy thriller In Berlin which is filming in the German capital for nine days before moving to Latvia’s Riga for another 15 day of shooting.
Focus Forward expands to platforms including Amazon, Comcast, iTunes, Vudu

First 10 shorts go multi-platform on July 9.
For Greater Glory

Dir: Dean Wright. Mexico. 2011. 143mins
For Love's Sake

Dir: Takashi Miike. Japan. 2012. 134mins
Former Screen editor Colin Brown joins Slated

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Brown joins New York-based Slated, the private marketplace for accredited investors to track and back independent film projects online.
Fortaleza awards led by Violeta Went To Heaven

Rat Fever, A Love Story, Bertsolari among other winners at the Brazilian festival.
Fortaleza festival

Images from the 22nd Fortaleza Iberoamerican Film festival in northeastern Brazil (Ceara state). All photos by Rogerio Resende.
Fortissimo acquires Tribeca award-winner Una Noche

Fortissimo Films has acquired international rights to US-Cuban production Una Noche, which picked up three major awards at last month’s Tribeca Film Festival.
Fortissimo picks up Van Warmerdam’s Camiel Borgman

EXCLUSIVE: Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights outside Benelux to Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam’s Camiel Borgman.
Fortissimo sails into Sunset with Terence Davies

EXCLUSIVE: Fortissimo Films has acquired international rights to Terence Davies’ Sunset Song, which has secured Peter Mullan and Agyness Deyn to head the cast.
Fox and Warner join forces in Brazil

Fox International and Warner Bros Pictures International are creating a joint operation in Brazil to distribute and markets their respective slates.
Fox International crosses $1bn in 2012

Distributor passes the milestone for the ninth consecutive year.
France’s new Culture Minister Filippetti hits Cannes

France’s new Culture and Communication Minister Aurélie Filippetti was in Cannes on Tuesday for her first big public address since being appointed last week by the country’s new socialist president François Hollande.
Frank Bryant to spearhead Fox Home Entertainment int’l digital pipeline

Frank Bryant has been appointed to the new role of SVP digital international home entertainment and will oversee licensing for the studio across PPV, VoD and EST platforms.
Frankfurt Book Fair to host crossmedia trading centre

This year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (October 10-14) will feature its first crossmedia trading centre.
Franklin to direct City of Night for Meyers

Meyers Media Group and McDonald Entertainment are to co-finance City of Night, a thriller to be directed by Carl Franklin.
Fred Milstein attains senior role at Bruno Wu empire

Milstein has been named president of international at Harvest Seven Stars Media Private Equity (HSSMPE) and CEO of Seven Stars Film Studios, effective immediately.
Freedom, Paradox secure P&A for Thunder Run

The announcement is designed to spur Cannes sales on the 3D military thriller through Hyde Park International, although the parties declined to reveal who is putting up the “substantial domestic” commitment. Gerard Butler, Matthew McConaughey and Sam Worthington are set to star.
French and Russian producers attend ACE meeting in Paris

Ateliers du Cinéma Européen co-production lab showcases nine projects including Monet’s Water Garden and Siberian train movie Sarma.
From the Sierra Nevada to Sheffield

It was one hell of a culture shock for two members of the Kogi tribe who were at the Sheffield Doc/Fest to promote their eco film Aluna.
Front Row reveals Cannes acquisitions

Pick ups included Dom Hemingway from HanWay Films and Agent: Century 21 from Exclusive Media Group.
Front Row snaps up Middle East on CMG Cannes roster

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Management Group (CMG) head Edward Noeltner has closed a timely deal with the Dubai-based distributor, licensing Middle Eastern rights on its entire market slate to the distributor.The agreement covers LD Entertainment’s anticipated horror thriller The Collection, SXSW Audience Award winner Eden, Enderby Entertainment’s paranormal horror thriller No Tell Motel, Brian Brightly’s psychosexual thriller Liar’s All and
Fry and Laurie to reunite on family animation

Stephen Fry will play title character of the Canterville Ghost in a new CG animated feature.
Futurikon has big plans for Miniscule

EXCLUSIVE: Futurikon is launching international sales on its innovative 3D feature Miniscule - Valley of the Lost Ants.
Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington to star opposite Vera Farmiga in thriller Greenland Time

EXCLUSIVE: Game of Thrones and The Seventh Son star to play opposite Vera Farmiga in Sigma/Zentropa thriller.
Garance Capital to launch second fund

French film investment group Garance Capital is planning to launch a new €5-€10m institution-backed fund to compliment its existing fund aimed at individual investors.
Garry Charny back in business with Wake Up Dead

Australian producer and businessman Garry Charny (Jindabyne) has returned to film with new Australian production company Spotted Turquoise Films. Cinetic Media is attached to what is likely to be the first film under that banner.
Gens planning Monet art heist caper

EXCLUSIVE: French genre director Xavier Gens is set to direct a comedy crime caper inspired by the real-life robbery of Claude Monet’s Impression, Soleil Levant.
Geoff Dyer named Telluride 2012 guest director

The British novellist will help curate the programme for the 39th Telluride Film Festival, set to run in Colorado from Aug 31-Sept 3.
George Clooney, Grant Heslov to produce Osage Country

The business partners have boarded The Weinstein Company’s August: Osage Country based on Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play.
Getting the juice from Lemon

Kelly Brook and Keith Lemon were on cheeky form as they dropped into Cannes for a whistle stop trip to promote Keith Lemon: The Movie.
Global Screen picks up The Black Brothers, Beta Cinema gets The Taste Of Apple Seeds

Global Screen has taken on world sales for Xavier Koller’s action adventure family film The Black Brothers which will begin shooting in the Swiss canton of Ticino from Thursday (June 14).
God's Neighbours

Dir: Meni Yaesh. Israel-France. 2012. 127mins
Goldcrest strikes multi-territory deal with Universal for Cheerful Weather For The Wedding

EXCLUSIVE: Territories sold include UK and Germany.
Gravitas signs 100th operator deal

Gravitas Ventures, a distributor of independent films and documentaries to the North American VOD marketplace, has signed a licensing deal with Shaw Communications that will bring the cable operator 30 hours of film content a month.
GRB Entertainment film division debuts first titles in Cannes

Todd Olsson heads the venture and arrives in Cannes with Queen Freak and When Angels Sing on the inaugural sales slate.
Grindstone takes Gingerclown for North America

Grindstone Entertainment, the home video division of Lionsgate’s Mandate Pictures, has acquired North American distribution rights to Gingerclown 3D.
Gucci Tribeca Doc Fund to award $150,000 in grants

The body will provide finishing funds to eight international filmmakers with features that highlight social issues from around the world.
Gunslinger targets UK Scarface, more films with IM Global and staff expansion

Revolver’s production arm Gunslinger plans the UK Scarface, internal expansion and will push more films through IM Global’s genre label Octane.
Gus Van Sant earns Palm Springs International ShortFest honour

The filmmaker will collect the ShortFest Spirit Of Short Film Award as part of a directing masterclass on Jun 23.
Hannibal Classics lines up Tokarev, Black from writing duo

Jim Agnew and Sean Keller’s thriller Tokarev follows a former killer in pursuit of the people who murdered his daughter.
HanWay does deals on Woody Allen, Polanski, Cousins docs

HanWay Select has closed a slew of deals on its doc slate including a US deal for The Story of Film and multi-territory deals for Allen and Polanski docs.
HanWay records blockbuster Cannes

Dom Hemingway sells to eleven markets, including Lionsgate for UK; company inks more than 200 deals on 12 titles.
HanWay's A Long Way Down sells early, Poots on board

Pascal Chaumeil comedy-drama A Long Way Down to UK (Lionsgate), Germany (DCM) and Scandinavia (Svensk); Imogen Poots on board.
Hawke in talks for Georgia-UK project Epic

Tbilisi-based Producer on the Move Vladimer Katcharava of 20 Steps Productions will partner with the UK’s Film & Music Entertainment for the first co-production between the UK and Georgia, Epic.
Hemingway & Gellhorn

Dir: Philip Kaufman.US. 2012. 154 mins
HFPA re-elects Aida Takla O'Reilly as president

The Egypt-born journalist will lead the Hollywood Foreign Press Organisation for the 2012-13 term following the annual general meeting on Jun 8.
High Point snaps up 6 Plots

EXCLUSIVE: The Australian teen horror is directed by Leigh Sheehan.
High Point takes on Boorman's Me And Me Dad

Katrine Boorman’s documentary about her famous film-maker father John Boorman will screen in Cannes Classics.
Highland Films Group to start sales on The Baytown Disco

Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria star in the Marché-bound action-comedy from Bill Perkins’ LLeju Productions. WME represents North American rights.
Hola Mexico Film Festival in LA announces slate

Director Everardo Gout’s Days Of Grace (Dias De Gracia) will make its US premiere when it opens the 2012 Hola Mexico Film Festival.
Holy Motors

Dir/scr: Leos Carax. France-Germany. 2012. 115mins
Hong Kong’s Pegasus to produce Ip Man 3D

Hong Kong’s Pegasus Motion Pictures is introducing the third part of its hit Ip Man franchise in Cannes – the most ambitious installment yet which the company is planning to shoot in 3D.
Hong Kong’s Sundream eats up Dead Sushi

Japan’s Office Walker has sold Noboru Iguchi’s Dead Sushi to Hong Kong’s Sundream Motion Pictures.
Horizon Movies takes digital, home entertainment rights to Mr Hush

Kino Lorber’s division has acquired all North American rights to David Lee Madison’s horror film.
Horn to head Walt Disney Studios

Former Warner Bros Entertainment president Alan Horn has been named chairman of Walt Disney Studios, stepping into the post recently vacated by Rich Ross.
Horses Of God

Dir: Nabil Ayouch. Morocco-France-Belgium. 2012. 115mins
Hot Docs Forum wraps after two days

The Hot Docs international co-financing market event introduced 25 projects from 14 countries to a panel of more than 170 key commissioning editors and other funders.
Hot Projects on Screenbase

Political thriller Vatican as well as Ernst Gossner’s romantic drama The Silent Mountain are among Screenbase’s new additions.
Hot projects on Screenbase

Screenbase’s brand new, revamped site features a host of recently updated and new projects including an adaptation of Henning Mankell’s The Troubled Man and UK-Danish co-production Greenland Time.
Hot projects on Screenbase

New to Screenbase this week is Libertador about the South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar as well as sci-fi thriller The Machine.
How To lock down a lead

Matteo Garrone talks about his latest feature Reality which is screening today (Friday 18) in competition at Cannes.
Hyde Park International to commence sales on Sunlight Jr

EXCLUSIVE: Ashok Amritraj has bulked up his Cannes sales slate with the inspirational drama starring Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon.
Hyde Park International to sell Elmore Leonard crime tale

EXCLUSIVE: Ashok Amritraj continues to bulk up his Cannes sales roster and will introduce Untitled Elmore Leonard Project to star Jennifer Aniston, Dennis Quaid, John Hawkes and Ty Burrell.
Hyde Park reports Cannes sales

Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park International (HPI) has announced sales deals on several films it took to the Cannes market.
ICM finalises management buyout, renames agency ICM Partners

International Creative Management (ICM) has finalised the management buyout of the agency and formed a partnership designed to place control of the firm with the agents and executives. The agency has been renamed ICM Partners.
ICO, Sweden's Biografcentralen partner on training scheme

Programme will identify 15 employees from arthouse exhibitors for work placements.
Icon strikes UK deal for TrustNordisk's Easy Money II

EXCLUSIVE: A work-in-progress version of the film is screening exclusively for buyers only at the market in Cannes and has already been sold.
IFC Films takes North America on Save The Date

Michael Mohan’s rom-com premiered at Sundance and stars Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Martin Starr, Geoffrey Arend and Mark Webber.
IFC Midnight gets Taste of Money for North America

IFC Midnight is acquiring North American rights to The Taste of Money, director Im Sang-Soo’s Cannes competition entry.
IFC Midnight takes Replicas

IFC Midnight has acquired all US rights to thriller Replicas, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca festival in April.
IFC wins bidding war for Wheatley’s Sightseers

In a deal concluded late last night Cannes time IFC took US rights to Ben Wheatley’s dark comedy Sightseers from Protagonist Pictures.
IM Global's Octane unveils slate, scores Earth deals

EXCLUSIVE: IM Global’s genre label Octane arrives on the Croisette with its strongest line-up yet and has already tied up US and multiple international deals on Ends Of The Earth (pictured).
Image takes US rights to Ray Liotta thriller Details

Image Entertainment has acquired all US rights to action-thriller The Devil’s In The Details starring Ray Liotta. Epic Pictures handles international sales here in Cannes.
Imagine

Dir/scr: Andrzej Jakimowski. Poland-France-Portugal. 2012. 105mins
IMAX adds five in China

IMAX has signed a deal with Omnijoi Cinema Development Co to install five more theatre systems in Chinese locations including the cities of Qingdao, Nantong and Suzhou.
IMAX moves into Azerbaijan

IMAX has struck a deal with Caspian Capital Limited to open the first IMAX theatre in Azerbaijan.
IMAX signs first deal with China’s Bona Film Group

IMAX Corporation has reached an agreement with Nongken Bona Film Investment Co, a subsidiary of Beijing-based Bona Film Group, to open an IMAX theatre in Tianjin.
IMAX, Cineworld partner for more UK screens

Three IMAX theatres will be installed into existing Cineworld multiplexes with an option to increase that number to five.
IMAX, Indomina partner on Tsui Hark’s Flying Swords

The companies will stage a limited North American release in September on the fourth biggest Chinese release of all time — Bona Film Group’s Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate starring Jet Li.
IMAX: ‘The model works’

IMAX treated a handful of media to an informative presentation today in London.
In A Rush

Dir/scr: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing. France. 2012. 93mins
In Another Country

Dir/scr: Hong Sangsoo. S Korea. 2012. 89mins
Independent Distribution picks up Life Just Is

EXCLUSIVE: writer-director Alex Barrett’s drama Life Just Is stars Screen International Star of Tomorrow Jack Gordon.
Indomina takes US on Holy Motors

The Indomina Group has acquired US distribution rights to Leos Carax’s French drama Holy Motors.
Indonesian film business generates $845m in revenue

The Indonesian film and TV industry contributed $845.1m to the country’s economy in 2010 according to a study presented by the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
Inferno lines up Pinocchio, Grace, Maggie for Cannes

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel’s LA-based outfit is Cannes-bound with a prestige slate that includes new work from Guillermo del Toro and Olivier Dahan.
Ingenious launches senior film fund

UK-based financier Ingenious launches fund to back 20-30 films per-year in the $10-60m range.
Intandem boards football drama starring Brian Cox, Natashca McElhone

Brian Cox and Natashca McElhone star in UK drama Theatre of Dreams.
Intandem brings 10 Things I Hate About Life, The Laureate, Grassroots

Intandem comes to Cannes with new comedy-romance 10 Things I Hate About Life, from the team behind 10 Things I Hate About You.
Intandem, Writer's Avenue Films launch screenplay competition

The winning writer will receive an all expenses paid trip to LA and US representation with Zero Gravity Management.
International Documentary Conference to explore audience engagement

The AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival’s International Documentary Conference will feature more than 50 panels and workshops and one-on-one sessions with key industry decision makers from Jun 19-23.
Iris and Rezo prep Rainer bio-pic

Luxembourgish Iris Group has unveiled a ten-picture slate of films due to be distributed in France and sold worldwide by its Paris-based partner Rezo.
Iron Sky getting prequel and sequel

On the eve of Cannes, Blind Spot Pictures’ Tero Kaukomaa, the producer of cult Third Reich in space movie Iron Sky, has confirmed that he is plotting not one but two sequels.
Isaac Palmer named CEO at Qualia Legacy Advisors

The former svp of corporate development at paramount heads the new venture, which will aim to raise capital with equity and debt, evaluate IPs and handle a range of financing activities from mergers to recapitalisations.
Isabella Rossellini heads ADFF narrative jury

Isabella Rossellini is to head the Abu Dhabi Film Festival’s Narrative Competition jury.
Ischia to honour Argentina's Fernando Solanas

The Argentinian film director, screenwriter and politician will receive the 2012 Ischia Legend Award for his lifetime contributions to the cinema of Argentina during the Ischia Global Film & Music Festival.
Isn’t Anyone Alive? sells to the UK’s Third Window

The UK’s Third Window Films has snapped up Isn’t Anyone Alive?, directed by Gakuryu Ishii, which is being handled internationally by Japan’s Phantom Film Co.
Italian regions boost support of foreign production

The Apulia Film Commission Foundation in Italy is has launched a new international Fund in support of foreign film productions.
Jack Black in talks to join Stealth's Wild Oats

Jack Black is in talks to join Shirley MacLaine, Jacki Weaver and Alan Arkin on Howard Deutch comedy shopped by Stealth Media in Cannes.
Jaime Tarrazon Rodon, Camilo Tarrazon Rodon win CineEurope award

ACEC CEO and Catalan Theatre Owner’s Association president win exhibitor award.
James McAvoy in for Joel Edgerton on Myriad's Eleanor Rigby

Shooting is set to commence this summer on The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Him and The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Her to star Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, who has replaced Joel Edgerton on the cast. Myriad Pictures represents sales rights and is in talks with buyers here.
Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo dies aged 100

Japanese director Kaneto Shindo died of natural causes in the morning hours of May 29 at the age of 100, local media has reported.
Jason Alexander to star in Lucky Stiff remake

Christopher Ashley will direct a remake of the 1988 musical, a farce about an English bachelor who inherits a fortune and must take his uncle’s corpse around Europe to get his hands on the money.
Jia Zhangke launches Yihui with five-project slate

Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke has established a Beijing-based film investment company, Yihui Media, which has a debut slate of five projects.
Jiang Wen to shoot Gone With The Bullets

Leading Chinese filmmaker Jiang Wen is likely to reunite with Gong Li in his latest directorial project, Gone With The Bullets, according to Marco Ma, who co-owns Beijing-based Buyilehu Films with the director.
Jim Broadbent to head up EIFF's Michael Powell jury

Actor Elliott Gould will head up the international feature competition jury.
Jinga Films adds thriller After

UK genre specialist Jinga adds thriller After to its Cannes lineup.
Jinga sells Gandu to US, Spain

Jinga sells rap musical to Artsploitation for North America and Underground Films for Spain.
Jinga’s Timer clocks up buys

UK sales outfit Jinga Films is selling out on Jac Schaeffer’s romantic-comedy Timer.
John Cleese goes Hunting Elephants for Bleiberg, United King

The British comedian and actor will join Sasson Gabai and Moni Moshonov on the cast of Hunting Elephants, which Bleiberg Entertainment is co-funding with United King and selling in Cannes.
John Madden joins Endgame, Tower Hill's Murder Mystery

Hot on the heels of the $100m global success of Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Madden has lined up the comedic whodunit with Charlize Theron in talks to star.
Johnnie To to receive Locarno lifetime achievement award

Presentation accompanied by European premiere of To’s Motorway.
José Luis Rebordinos, San Sebastian

The director of the San Sebastian International Film Festival talks about how the festival is adapting to a tough climate in Spain, including new offerings such as the European Latin American Forum.
Journal de France

Dir/scr: Raymond Depardon, Claudine Nougaret. France. 2012. 101mins
Jude Law to star in HanWay/BBC Films black comedy Dom Hemingway

EXCLUSIVE: Jude Law, Richard E Grant to star in London-set black comedy from director Richard Shepard.
K5 to sell parody The Starving Games

Film already sold for Germany and Middle East.
Kaas investigates TrustNordisk's Causes

TrustNordisk is handling sales on The Keeper of Lost Causes; Mikkel Norgaard directs from a screenplay by Nikolaj Arcel.
Kaleidoscope closes slew of deals on Cannes slate

UK outift Kaleidoscope has seen brisk business on its Cannes sales slate.
Karlovy Vary adds Work in Progress €10,000 prize and new Czech Industry Week

Festival to open with Good Vibrations [pictured] and close with To Rome With Love. Susan Sarandon to attend to receive Crystal Globe.
Kate Sinclair

Former UKFC and Film4 book scout Kate Sinclair discusses uncovering gems Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Q and A and her current slate as a producer, which includes a comedy series from writers Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley and an adaptation of a Giles Foden novel about the D-Day landings.
Kauwboy wins first EFA Young Audience Award

Children juries in six European cities elect Dutch film by Boudewijn Koole.
Kelly Reilly to star in Birger Larsen’s The Ice Princess

EXCLUSIVE: Reilly attached to Birger Larsen’s English-language adaptation of Camilla Läckberg’s best-selling thriller The Ice Princess.
Kennedy to co-head Lucasfilm

Producer Kathleen Kennedy is to become co-chair of Lucasfilm, allowing company founder George Lucas to move forward with his previously announced retirement plans.
Kiarostami's Like Someone goes to Sundance Selects for US

Sundance Selects is acquiring all US rights to Abbas Kiarostami’s Cannes competition entry Like Someone in Love.
Killing Them Softly

Dir/scr: Andrew Dominik. US. 2012. 104mins
Killing Time

Dir/scr: Florin Piersic Jr. Romania. 2012. 99mins
Kim named Korean marketing director at Fox

Twentieth Century Fox has appointed Elan Kim marketing director, Korea.
Kimberley Walsh joins cast of Vertigo & SquareOne's All Stars

Kimberley Walsh has joined the cast of Vertigo & SquareOne’s All Stars, which also features Theo Stevenson, Ashley Jensen, Hugh Dennis and Ashley Walters.
Kingsley, Payne, Skarsgard line up for Beta's Physician

International stars including Ben Kingsley, Tom Payne and Stellan Skarsgård have joined the cast of Beta Cinema’s film adaptation of Noah Gordon’s bestseller The Physician.
Kino Lorber picks up US rights to I Killed My Mother

French-Canadian actor Xavier Dolan’s feature directorial debut is a semi-autobiographical tale about a gay Quebecois teenager living with his single mother.
Kino Lorber takes US rights to Meet The Fokkens

Gabrielle Provaas and Rob Schröder’s documentary Meet The Fokkens received its world premiere at IDFA in Amsterdam and will kick off its US festival run at SilverDocs in mid-June.
Klockworx drives off with Media Asia’s Motorway

Hong Kong’s Media Asia has sold Soi Cheang’s upcoming action title Motorway to Klockworx for Japan.
Knightley in for Johansson on Exclusive's Song

EXCLUSIVE: Keira Knightley has replaced Scarlett Johansson on Can A Song Save Your Life? which Exclusive Media is financing, producing and selling in Cannes.
Koch Media connects with AV’s The Liability

EXCLUSIVE: Koch Media picks up German rights to thriller The Liability starring Tim Roth
Koo, Lau, Cheung join Universe’s Cartel War

Hong Kong’s Universe Films has unveiled the cast for Benny Chan’s upcoming action film The Cartel War, which will star Louis Koo, Lau Ching Wan and Nick Cheung.
Korea’s Daisy & Cinergy cues up Cannes duo

Korea’s Daisy & Cinergy is producing and selling two upcoming projects from Im Sang-soo, whose The Taste Of Money is screening in competition, and Hur Jin-ho, whose Dangerous Liaisons has been selected for Directors’ Fortnight.
Korean films in LA showcase

Look East: Korean Film Festival has announced ten films for the lineup of its first annual Hollywood celebration of Korean cinema.
Kristin Scott Thomas reuniting with Philippe Claudel

Kristin Scott Thomas is reuniting with French director Philippe Claudel on his upcoming Avant l’hiver, which is also set to star Leïla Bekhti and Daniel Auteuil.
KVIFF 2012: Competition

The eight world premieres in competiton include Greek debut Boy Eating The Bird’s Food [pictured0.
KVIFF 2012: Documentary Competition

World premieres in the documentary competition include Timo Novotny’s Trains of Thoughts [pictured] from Austria.
KVIFF 2012: East of The West Competition

World premieres in this regional competition include Piotr Mularuk’s Czech feature Yuma.
KVIFF 2012: Forum of Independents

World premieres include Miroslav Momcilovic’s Death of a Man In The Balkans.
KVIFF press conferences

Images from the festival’s pre-event press conferences in Prague.
LA festival announces jurors

The Los Angeles Film Festival has named the jurors for its 2012 edition, which runs June 14-24.
La Playa D.C.

Dir/Scr: Juan Andres Arango. Colombia-France-Brazil. 2012. 90mins
La Sirga

Dir/scr: William Vega. Colombia-France-Mexico. 2011. 90mins
La Sirga goes to Film Movement for North America

Film Movement has acquired all North American rights to La Sirga, Colombian director William Vega’s Cannes Director’s Fortnight selection.
Lakeshore sets Fisher Stevens to direct American Pastoral

Lakeshore Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment’s drama is based on Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Production is expected to start in early 2013.
Laurence Anyways

Dir/scr: Xavier Dolan. Canada-France. 2012. 159mins
Laurent Herbiet to shoot Vatican-set political thriller

Kristin Scott Thomas, André Dussollier and Sergi Lopez to star in timely picture capturing Vatican intrigue.
Lawless

Dir: John Hillcoat. US. 2012. 115mins
Lee Daniels chooses Minka Kelly for Jackie Kennedy, talks The Butler

EXCLUSIVE: Lee Daniels talks to Screen about why he connected with The Butler and discloses that he wants Minka Kelly to play Jacqueline Kennedy.
Les Arcs adds Bourdon, Kaludjercic

EXCLUSIVE: Former ACE general manager Sophie Bourdon and Paris Project organizer Vanya Kaludjercic join Les Arcs festival.
Les Films d'ici launches transmedia project Gare du Nord

Filmmaker Claire Simon’s transmedia exploration of Paris’ Gare du Nord station was one of 29 projects presented at Cross Video Days this week.
Libby Savill joins O'Melveny & Myers

Lisbeth Savill formerly headed Olswang’s Film and TV team.
Lightning closes deals on Jungle, 25th Reich

EXCLUSIVE: Lightning Entertainment has closed a raft of pre-sales on Andrew Traucki’s thriller The Jungle and licensed German and Japanese rights on Australian sci-fi The 25th Reich.
Lightning Entertainment takes Hemsworth romance Love And Honor

The sales team will start talks with international buyers on the Croisette on the complete projects starring Liam Hemsworth of The Hunger Games. ICM and WME Global jointly represent domestic rights.
Like Someone In Love

Dir/scr: Abbas Kiarostami. France-Japan. 2012. 109mins
Lionsgate renews with Emmett/Furla

Lionsgate and its Grindstone division have renewed their slate deal with producer Emmett/Furla Films to cover ten more films.
Lionsgate to bring Polanski thriller D to Cannes market

Patrick Wachsberger’s long-standing relationship with Roman Polanski has added the filmmaker’s upcoming Dreyfus Affair political thriller to the recently merged company’s war chest.
Lionsgate, Nordisk Film unveil output deal

The multiyear Scandinavian output deal extends Nordisk’s existing output deal with Summit to encompass the entire Lionsgate slate.
Little Film Company eyes strong Cannes launch for Northern Soul

EXCLUSIVE: Elaine Constantine will direct the UK feature about the 1970s underground music movement that took the North by storm. Robbie Little will introduce the project at the market next week.
Little Film Company scores sales rights to The Third Half

Robbie Little has taken international sales rights to Darko Mitrevski’s second world war sports drama about a Jewish coach who inspires a football team to win the National Football League in Nazi-occupied Macedonia in 1942.
Little Film Company seals US, UK deals on War Of The Dead

Robbie Little has licensed the sci-fi thriller to eOne in the US, Momentum in the UK and Alliance in Canada.
Lives through a lens

The lowdown on the feature documentaries screening in all the festival sections. Profiles by Louise Tutt.
Locarno Film Festival launches new industry initiative

The new initiatie will focus on distribution and exhibition in the Eastern and Central European countries.
London’s JCA to invest in increased storage and services

London-based company is expanding its digital media services.
London's Leicester Square re-opens after 18 month renovation

The square re-opens just in time to host the premiere of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus on May 31.
Longstocking family returns to big screen

EXCLUSIVE: Swedish producer Mirijam Johansson of Wanted Pictures today announces Efraim Longstocking and the Cannibal Princess.
Lore

Dir: Cate Shortland. Germany-Australia. 2012. 108mins
Lotte picks up worldwide rights to Code Name: Jackal

Korea’s Lotte Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Code Name: Jackal (working title), starring Jaejoong from Korean pop group JYJ.
Love Birds lands at Freestyle for US

Freestyle Digital Media has acquired Love Birds from Icon International for release in the US on DVD and VOD.
LoveFilm gets HD streaming

LoveFilm upgrades service to include HD streaming.
LoveFilm, NBCUniversal strike second window deal

LoveFilm strikes second window steaming pact with Universal for titles including Kick-Ass, Despicable Me, Battleship and Senna.
Lumiere animates sales on Phantom Boy

Benelux distributor Lumiere’s new sales arm, Lumiere International Sales, is at its first Cannes Market with a promo of its first major project.
Mabo

Dir: Rachel Perkins. Australia. 2012. 103mins
Madagascar 3 joining international fray

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted becomes the latest big summer contender to enter the crowded international arena this weekend, opening in six major territories and 22 smaller markets at the same time as it launches in North America.
Madagascar 3 stays top internationally on $53m

DreamWorks Animation’s animals have coaxed an estimated $157m out of film-goers through Paramount Pictures International after the film played in 10,957 theatres in 43 territories in its second weekend and proved too strong for the competition.
Madagascar 3 surges past $100m as hold session beckons

DreamWorks Animation’s latest release stands at $104.9m through Paramount Pictures International and crossed the milestone on Wednesday (13) after less than a week in release in most of the initial wave of 28 territories.
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted

Dirs: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon. US. 2012. 93mins
Maddened By His Absence

Dir: Sandrine Bonnaire. France-Luxembourg-Belgium. 2012. 99mins
Magnolia Pictures acquires US rights to Évocateur

On a busy day for domestic acquisition announcements (12), Strand Releasing takes North American rights to Yossi, Freestyle Digital Media and Word Entertainment partner on Loving The Bad Man and Well Go USA Entertainment and Variance Films team up on Tai Chi 0.
Malaysia to launch international festival

Malaysia’s National Film Development Corp (FINAS) is launching a film festival and contents market to be held in Kuala Lumpur in November.
Mandragora International Group to produce thriller with China Film Group

The parent company of Solar Pictures has signed a deal to produce the English-language The Girl Who Knew Too Much. Mandragora CEO and Solar Pictures co-founder Bobby Paunescu wrote and will direct the project.
Marc Samuelson to set up new production outfit

The established British producer has left CinemaNX after five years as a partner at the company to set up his own production company, boarding two new projects as a co-producer.
Marina Abromović: The Artist Is Present wins Sheffield Special Jury Award

Next year the festival will introduce a new award, The Tim Hetherington Award, presented by Dogwoof.
Matthias Schoenaerts cops to Wasteland

Rust And Bone actor Matthias Schoenaerts is confirmed to star as a tormented Brussels cop in Wasteland, the new feature from young Flemish director Pieter Van Hees.
Maximum Conviction lands key deals for Voltage

Voltage Pictures has announced pre-Cannes sales on the Steven Seagal action-thriller Maximum Conviction that also stars Steve Austin.
McDonald gets chair at UCLA

Cinematographer and professor William McDonald has been appointed chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at the University of California Los Angeles’ School of Theater, Film and Television.
McGurk to give LA Film Fest keynote

Cinedigm Entertainment CEO Chris McGurk is to be the keynote speaker at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs June 14-24.
Me And Me Dad

Dir: Katrine Boorman. UK. 2012. 66mins
Me And You

Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci. Italy. 2012. 97mins
Mean Streets and mini macaroons

Ben Drew (aka Plan B) was in Cannes for the market premiere of his hard hitting directorial debut iLL Manors as well as a great party afterwards.
Media Luna adds two new Cannes titles

Cologne-based sales agent Media Luna New Films has unveiled two new titles to its lineup at this year’s Marché du Film in Cannes.
Media Luna picks up Student, Kid

Midway through the market, Media Luna has taken international rights to three new films.
Mekong Hotel

Dir/scr: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Thailand. 2012. 60mins
Melanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini join Jake Gyllenhaal on An Enemy

EXCLUSIVE: Starry cast assembles for psychological-thriller being sold by Pathe International in Cannes; Toronto shoot underway May 22.
Melbourne film festival to open with Sapphires

The Melbourne International Film Festival has announced that The Sapphires has been selected as the opening film of this year’s edition of the festival which runs August 2-19.
Men In Black 3

Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld. US. 2012. 106mins
Men In Black do battle with men in tights

Sony Pictures Releasing International will unleash Men In Black 3 this weekend in more than 90 territories day-and-date with North America in a launch that is expected to end the rule of The Avengers.
Metrodome keen for Once Upon a Time in Essex

EXCLUSIVE: Metrodome has picked up UK rights to crime-thriller Once Upon a Time in Essex, based on the iconic ‘Range Rover’ killings.
Metrodome picks up thriller St George's Day

Metrodome picks up UK rights to crime-thriller starring Frank Harper, Craig Fairbrass, Vincent Regan and Charles Dance.
Metrodome takes five in Cannes

EXCLUSIVE: Metrodome adds to The Guillotines acquisition with five more pick-ups in Cannes.
Metrodome, AB slayed by Guillotines

Hong Kong-based We Distribution has sealed further deals on Andrew Lau’s action thriller The Guillotines, which has gone to the UK (Metrodome), French-speaking Europe (AB Droits Audiovisuels), Italy (Minerva Pictures) and India (WEG).
MGM announces senior alignment at legal department

MGM has promoted Scott Packman to senior evp general counsel and secretary and appointed Cheryl Rodman as evp and deputy general counsel.
MIB3 corrals $132m at international box office

Men in Black 3 took over box offices worldwide this weekend, opening with an estimated $132m internationally and an estimated $55m in North America for a global tally of $187m.
MIB3 rules again at international box office

Men in Black 3 dominated the international box office again this weekend though Snow White and Prometheus both made good international starts.
MIB3 topples Avengers at US box office

Sony’s Men in Black 3 finally knocked Marvel’s The Avengers off the top of the North American box office chart this weekend, opening over three days with an estimated $55m.
Michael Wrenn joins Arclight Films

Wrenn’s areas of expertise include sales and acquisitions, production, development and distribution. He will be based in the Sydney office.
Michel Franco’s After Lucia wins UCR in Cannes

Un Certain Regard jury president Tim Roth and his colleagues made the announcement on Saturday evening (26). Franco’s drama After Lucia, pictured, is a Mexico-France co-production.
Millennium, West Coast announce $100m fund

Millennium Films is jointly financing and producing the Gerard Butler thriller White House Taken with West Coast Film Partners as the parties announced a $100m production venture on Saturday.
Miramax strikes deal with BSkyB

Miramax has struck a new licensing deal with BSkyB.
Mirovision boards $25m animation Empire Of The Ants

Seoul-based production and sales outfit Mirovision has picked up international rights to $25m stereoscopic 3D CGI production Empire Of The Ants, which is an adaptation of French author Bernard Werber’s novel Les Fourmis.
Mister Smith's 3,096 days in demand

EXCLUSIVE: David Garrett’s new sales outfit Mister Smith, a joint venture with Constantin, has seen strong demand for Natascha Kampusch drama 3,096 Days.
M-Line’s Doomsday arrives in US, Germany

Korea’s M-Line Distribution has sold its high-concept sci-fi drama Doomsday Book to Well Go USA for North America and Splendid for Benelux and Germany.
Moonrise Kingdom

Dir: Wes Anderson. US. 2012. 94mins
Moonrise Kingdom breaks US per-theatre gross record

Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom has recorded the highest per-theatre North American gross ever achieved by a live action film, according to distributor Focus Features.
Morgan Freeman joins Last Vegas cast

Morgan Freeman will join Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in the comedy Last Vegas, which Joe Drake’s new company Good Universe represents for international sales.
Moscow International Film Festival, Russia

Attendees at the Moscow International Film Festival (21 - 30 June).
Move over Uggie, Smurf’s top dog now

Sightseers’ Smurf wins the Diamond Jubilee Palm Dog.
Moviehouse sings with Romeo and Juliet

Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up director Tim van Dammen’s pop rock opera version of Romeo and Juliet.
MPI Cannes slate includes Stitches, Samsara

The company arrives on the Croisette with the market premiere of Conor McMahon’s horror comedy Stitches and Ron Fricke’s intensely visual documentary Samsara, which screened in Toronto last autumn.
MUBI reformats, partners with Weerasethakul, Sony Google TV, Nordisk Fund

VOD service MUBI is in Cannes with 2010 Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul to launch 20-minute short Ashes.
Mud

Dir/scr: Jeff Nichols. US. 2012. 130mins
Muyl heads to China for Butterfly remake

French director Philippe Muyl is heading to China for a Mandarin-language feature inspired by his 2002 film The Butterfly (Le Papillon), which was a huge hit with Chinese audiences
MVP's Naked Soldier storms into France

Hong Kong’s Mega-Vision Project (MVP) has sold Marco Mak’s action title Naked Soldier to a slew of territories including France, where it was jointly acquired by AB Groupe and AAA.
Myriad adds Alan Ball dark comedy Margie to Cannes slate

Elizabeth Banks will star in Alan Ball’s dark comedy What’s The Matter With Margie? which Myriad Pictures has introduced to buyers here.
Mystery

Dir: Lou Ye. China-France. 2012. 98mins
Neil Young Journeys

Dir: Jonathan Demme. US. 2011. 87mins
Network picks up Larrain’s No for UK

Network Releasing has inked a deal for all UK rights to Pablo Larrain’s No.
New Wave rolls with Loznitsa’s Fog

EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor picks up Cannes competition title and FIPRESCI winner In the Fog.
NewFest to open in New York with Four

The LGBT festival will kick off its event with Joshua Sanchez’s story about a quartet on a life-changing holiday.
News Corp acquires 19.9% stake in Bona Film Group

News Corporation is acquiring a 19.9% equity stake in Chinese studio Bona Film Group, directly from the studio’s founder and chairman Yu Dong.
Nicole Kidman said to be reuniting with Lee Daniels on Butler

EXCLUSIVE: The Oscar-winning actres is reportedly poised to join the cast of IM Global hot seller The Butler, reuniting with director Lee Daniels whose The Paperboy receives its world premiere here on Thursday.
Night Across The Street

Dir: Raul Ruiz. Chile-France. 2012. 110mins
No

Dir: Pablo Larrain. Chile-USA. 2011. 116mins
Northern Film & Media confirms new funding, strikes collaboration with BALTIC

Northern Film & Media has struck up a partnership with the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, to develop film, TV and digital propositions, as well as securing new funding for its production services.
Norway boosts new Jo Nesbo adaptation

Two high profile new Norwegian features are being fast-tracked - Morten Tyldum’s historical drama Tordenskjold, and Arild Fröhlich’s family feature Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder. They will receive $20 million and $17 million state funding, respectively.
Now, Forager sells for New Europe; company adds Distance

EXCLUSIVE: Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has sold Rotterdam selection Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi
Nu Image adds crime thriller Homefront to Cannes slate

EXCLUSIVE: The independent sector’s go-to action man Jason Statham will star and Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay. The pair recently wrapped production on another title from the Nu Image / Millennium Films stable, The Expendables 2.
Obituary: Adam Yauch, Beastie Boy and O-Scope co-founder

The renowned musician, human rights activist and filmmaker has died in New York City (May 4) following a three-year struggle with cancer. He was 47.
Odin’s Eye picks up controversial Comedy

Sydney-based sales agent Odin’s Eye Entertainment (OEE) has secured exclusive rights to writer-director Rick Alverson’s The Comedy in all territories outside of North America.
Odin’s Eye seals North America VoD deal with Warner Bros

Australian sales agent Odin’s Eye Entertainment (OEE) has signed an agreement with Warner Bros Digital Distribution for electronic sell-through and video-on-demand (VoD) distribution of its films via cable, satellite and broadband platforms in North America.
On The Road

Dir: Walter Salles. France-Brazil. 2012. 137mins
Opening night of the Edinburgh International Film Festival

The 66th edition of the EIFF opened last night with the UK premiere of Killer Joe, attended by director William Friedkin and actress Gina Gershon.
Operation Libertad

Dir: Nicola Wadimoff. Switzerland–France. 2012. 99mins
Oscilloscope takes Tchoupitoulas

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Bill and Turner Ross’s documentary Tchoupitoulas.
Otelo Burning wins at One World Media Awards

Director Gurinder Chadha presented the drama award to Otelo Burning.
Our Children

Dir: Joachim Lafosse. Belgium-Luxembourg-France-Switzerland. 2012. 112mins
Outfest picks lab fellows

Los Angeles-based non-profit Outfest has announced the names of the five fellows who will take part in its 2012 Screenwriting Lab.
Palm Springs reveals shorts line-up

Films featuring Judi Dench, Stellan Skarsgard, Michael Fassbender, Helena Bonham Carter and Lily Tomlin are among the 323 shorts selected from more than 3,000 entries for this year’s Palm Springs International ShortFest & Film Market (June 19-25).
Panorama orders Chinese Take Away for US

Panorama Entertainment has acquired award-winning Argentinian-Spanish drama Chinese Take Away (Uncuento chino) for distribution in the US.
Paolo Sorrentino to direct The Great Beauty

Pathe International will handle worldwide sales on the Italian-French co-production which is Sorrentino’s first film set and entirely filmed in Rome.
Paradigm to represent Smokewood Entertainment

The agency has signed for representation Precious producers Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness as well as Bobbi Sue Luther and their Smokewood Entertainment label. Paradigm will handle North American rights to Siegel-Magness’ directorial debut Long Time Gone.
Paradise: Love

Dir: Ulrich Seidl. Austria-Germany-France. 2012. 120mins
Paramount makes preemptive play for The Diviners

Libba Bray’s upcoming novel will follow a band of young New Yorkers with mysterious powers who become embroiled in an epic battle after a series of occult slayings.
Paramount tops US charts as Madagascar 3 debuts on $60m

Fresh from its out-of-competition berth in Cannes, DreamWorks Animation’s family release led a mighty session as it opened top through Paramount to vanquish a spirited $50m debut by Fox’s R-rated Prometheus.
Paris Project unveils 2012 selection

Paris Cinema’s co-production forum, running July 2-4, will present 14 core projects alongside a selection of Cannes Cinefondation and Taiwanese productions.
Park Circus strikes theatrical deal with Warner Bros

UK distributor strikes back catalogue deal with Warner for classics including Casablanca, A Clockwork Orange and Goodfellas.
Participant buys North America on Chavez

Participant Media has acquired all North American rights to director Diego Luna’s Chavez, currently shooting in Sonora, Mexico.
Pathé’s What’s in a Name sells out in Western Europe

Company also reveals Gerard Depardieu to join Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel in Christophe Gans’ Beauty and the Beast (Labelle et la bête).
Paul Greengrass lines up FC Barcelona documentary

Paul Greengrass is preparing to shoot the FC Barcelona documentary Barça. Anonymous Content is financing and will handle US sales and FilmNation will handle international.
Paul Haggis

Screen talks to Paul Haggis about his new feature, Third Person, which is being backed by Belgian outfit Corsan.
Paul Weitz to commence Admission shoot with Tina Fey

Alison Thompson (pictured) and her team at Focus Features International will introduce the comedy drama to Cannes buyers this week. Paul Rudd and Michael Sheen also star.
Peccadillo picks up trio including Sundance hit Circumstance

Peccadillo picks up Sundance Audience Award winner and two others from first-time directors.
Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas join cast of Almodovar's The Brief Lovers

For the first time, and not only in a Pedro Almodovar film, Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas will star in the same feature.
People Like Us

Dir: Alex Kurtzman. US. 2012. 115mins
Peter Berg whirlwind tour fires up Cannes sales on Foresight 's Survivor

Following a whistle-stop Cannes trip by Battleship director Peter Berg to talk up Lone Survivor, Foresight Unlimited head Mark Damon and president/COO Tamara Birkemoe said they had sold out 80-90% of the world on the Navy SEALs story.
Peter Franzén to direct Above Dark Waters

Finnish actor Peter Franzén is to direct and star in the adaptation of his own novel, with backing from the Finnish Film Foundation.
Phanta launches new Dutch finance scheme

In Cannes, Dutch producer Petra Goedings from Phanta Vision has revealed further details of a groundbreaking film financing scheme in the Netherlands.
Phase 4 Films snaps up Streetdance 1 and 2

President and CEO Berry Meyerowitz has landed US rights to the Vertigo Films franchise, which features stars from UK TV hit Britain’s Got Talent.
Phase 4 takes North America on Electrick Children

Rebecca Thomas’ drama premiered at Berlin and stars Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken and Billy Zane.
Piano and Pali to design Academy museum in Los Angeles

Acclaimed architects Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali are to design the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
Pictures Dept picks up Aoyama project

Japanese production and sales outfit Pictures Dept has picked up worldwide rights to Shinji Aoyama’s upcoming adaptation of Shinya Tanaka’s award-winning novel Dog Eat Dog (Tomogui).
PiFan’s NAFF market to turn spotlight on Indonesia

This year’s Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF), a projects market held as part of Korea’s Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), will feature a spotlight on Indonesian projects.
Pinewood Shepperton announces 15 month results

The studio group reported revenues of £63m over the last 15 months.
Pixel Lab confirms lineup for Potsdam

34 cross-media producers confirmed for 2012 Pixel Lab workshop in Potsdam.
Polluting Paradise

Dir/scr: Fatih Akin. Germany. 2012. 98mins
Post Tenebras Lux

Dir/scr: Carlos Reygadas. Mexico-France-Germany. 2012. 120 mins
Poverty Row begins casting on Mary Pickford biopic

Julie Pacino and Jennifer DeLia’s production company has cast Lily Rabe to play Mary Pickford in its upcoming biopic.
Power to the Pixel announces new prizes

ARTE’s £6,000 Pixel Pitch Prize joined by new beActive Comedy Prize, Cinekid Prize & Mozilla Prize for non-fiction.
Prison guard thriller Screwed goes to Inception for North America

Inception Media Group has acquired North American rights to the thriller Screwed, based on the book by former prison guard Ronnie Thompson.
Producers eye summer start on Paganini – The Devil’s Violinist

Joely Richardson in talks to join violin maestro David Garrett on cast with Bernard Rose set to direct.
Production begins in New Orleans on Summit's The Tomb

The Emmett-Furla Films / Mark Canton producton is co-financed by Summit and Emmett-Furla and stars Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Amy Ryan. Lionsgate-owned Summit Entertainment holds worldwide rights and will distribute in North America.
Production gets underway on Better Living Through Chemistry

Occupant Entertainment’s comedy has begun shooting in Maryland and stars Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Michelle Monaghan and Ray Liotta.
Production starts on erotic Thriller Therese

Exclusive Media will be selling the Emile Zola adaptation in Cannes and LD Entertainment is on board as domestic distributor.
Prometheus

Dir: Ridley Scott. US-UK. 2012. 125mins
Prometheus lands top at the UK box office

Fox’s sci-fi beats Universal’s fantasy Snow White And The Huntsman with a $10.1m (£6.6m) debut.
Prometheus remains docked at number one in the UK

Fox’s sci-fi crosses $25m mark in just ten days to remain in top spot.
Provincetown to open on Jun 13 with Bachelorette

Roger Corman will receive the 2012 Filmmaker on the Edge Award and will take part in an on-stage conversation with John Waters at the Provincetown International Film festival in Massachusetts.
Pulse set to unveil bicoastal presence in US

Pulse Films has announced its expansion to the US market with bicoastal offices in New York and Los Angeles.
PwC forecasts 3.1% growth in UK entertainment and media sector in next five years

PwC’s Global Entertainment & Media Outlook forecasts 3.1% growth for UK between 2012-2016.
Rabarts to head development for India’s NFDC

Marten Rabarts, currently artistic director of Binger Filmlab, will step down at the end of May to take up the role of head of development with India’s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).
Radiant boards Madame Bovary with Mia Wasikowska

EXCLUSIVE: Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International will introduce Occupant Entertainment’s classic tragedy to buyers in Cannes. Paul Giamatti and Ezra Miller also star.
Radiant Films Int'l in talks on all-star comedy Lullaby

Garrett Hedlund, here in competition in On The Road, will star alongside fellow competition star Richard Jenkins from Killing Them Softly in Avenue Pictures and Ananta Productions’ comedy Lullaby, which Radiant Films International is selling here.
RADiUS-TWC hires Liza Burnett Fefferman, Heath Shapiro

Fefferman joins the fledgling multi-platform distribution venture as evp of publicity and Shapiro arrives as vp of marketing and distribution.
Rand launches distributor Grand

Former Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and Maya Entertainment executive David Rand has formed Grand Entertainment Group (GEG), a multi-platform distribution and content development company based in Los Angeles.
Rapaport to direct Rival's Tough Luck

Michael Rapaport is to make his narrative feature directing debut on noir thriller Tough Luck, from Rival Pictures.
Raven Banner acquires sales on Rosalind Leigh

Raven Banner has acquired sales rights to Rodrigo Gudiño’s feature debut The Last Will And Testament Of Rosalind Leigh.
Reality

Dir: Matteo Garrone. Italy-France. 2012. 115mins
Reality goes to Oscilloscope for US

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired US rights to Matteo Garrone’s Cannes competition film Reality.
Reality sells for Fandango

Fandango Portobello has closed a number of deals on Matteo Garrone’s Cannes competition entry Reality.
Recreation, Incentive Capital team up on Red Hook Summer

Ariel Veneziano’s sales company and Joe Pia’s Salt Lake City-based media fund have jointly acquired international rights to Spike Lee’s drama and will show to buyers at private screenings in Cannes.
Red Sea Media to bring Bad Kids Go To Hell to Cannes

CEO Roman Kopelevich (pictured) has acquired international sales rights to the comedy thriller from Matthew Spradlin based on the screenplay he adapted with Barry Wernick from the graphic novel of the same name.
Reel Suspects hits stride in Cannes

Matteo Lovadina’s Reel Suspects has seen early demand for its titles in Cannes.
Reel Suspects sells thriller The Second Death

Reel Suspects has sold Argentinian director Santiago Fernandez’s debut The Second Death to Germany/Austria and Turkey.
Reel's Mixed Kebab goes to TLA for US and UK

EXCLUSIVE: Reel Suspects has closed multiple deals on LGBT drama Mixed Kebab.
Relativity closes $350m financing deal

Relativity Media has closed a deal for $350m in debt financing that the company said will be used to fund planned expansion and future film projects.
Relativity sets Sept 27 2013 US release for Paranoia

Relativity Media has taken US rights from IM Global to the thriller Paranoia, which will star Liam Hemsworth from The Hunger Games. IM Global has closed a deal with Alliance Films for the UK, Canada and Spain and licensed rights to Gaumont in France and Sun in Latin America.
Reliance gets film rights to Frost novels

Reliance Entertainment and Kintop Pictures have acquired film rights to The Paladin Prophecy, Mark Frost’s forthcoming young adult trilogy to be published by Random House Children’s Books.
Resnais' co-producer Alamode Film boards two German projects

Munich-based distributor Alamode Film is already lining up its next projects after making its first foray into production by serving as the German co-producer on 89-year-old French director Alain Resnais’ latest feature You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet (Vous N’Avez Encore Rien Vu).
Revolver launches Facebook VOD app

EXCLUSIVE: Standalone film store app FindWatchShare launches in BETA today; distributor hopes to roll out internationally and add third party films.
Rhythm & Hues ties up with Taiwan’s NDF

US-based Rhythm & Hues Studios and Taiwan’s government-managed National Development Fund (NDF) have announced that they will jointly invest more than $42m in the Taiwanese visual effects industry.
Rival project to Kreuzpaintner's Fassbinder project planned

EXCLUSIVE: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, set up by his late mother, says it is in negotiations with European and US partners to produce a film about the director’s life and career.
Robert De Niro joins Michael Douglas on Last Vegas

Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane’s Good Universe handles international sales on the comedy and CBS Films will distribute in the US.
Robert Jones to produce A Patch Of Fog

The film is the winning project to come out of Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus scheme for local writers.
Robopocalypse release pushed to 2014

In a round of release date changes at the Hollywood studios, Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse has been put back almost a year and set for a worldwide launch on April 25, 2014, with Disney distributing in the US and Fox internationally.
Rock disappoints as Madagascar 3 rules US on $36m

DreamWorks Animation’s latest release held on to its number one berth through Paramount as an estimated $35.5m boosted the tally after two weekends to $121m. New Line’s Rock Of Ages opened third through Warner Bros.
Rock Of Ages

Dir: Adam Shankman. US. 2012. 123mins
Rock Of Ages is off-key as Prometheus makes it three weeks at summit of UK box office

Fox’s sci-fi crosses $30m barrier; Warner Bros’ musical debuts fourth.
Roger Corman to head up Tokyo jury

The veteran producer and director was jury head of the festival’s Young Cinema Competition in 1994.
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

Dir: Laurent Bouzereau. UK. 2011. 90mins
Romanian Crulic – The Path Beyond wins Annecy Animation Festival

Artistic director Serge Bromberg hands programming reins over to Canadian animation specialist Marcel Jean.
Romanian Days attracts attendees including Kosslick, Olla, Vandevorst, Slot

Radu Jude’s Everybody In Our Family [pictured] wins the event’s best feature prize.
Romania's Adrian Sitaru planning first English language film with UK's Vernon Films

Anca Damian, whose animated documentary Crulic won the Grand Prix in Annecy, also now in post on her English language debut.
Rome under Mueller moves into November for 2012

Marco Mueller confirmed as artistic director with three-year contract; 2012 edition will run Nov 9-17.
Room 237

Dir: Rodney Ascher. US. 2012. 102mins
Roskino announces projects with Brody, Uchitel, Dvortsevoy

Roskino yesterday announced seven new co-productions in development and pre-production, including projects with Adrien Brody, Alexei Uchitel and Tulpan director Sergei Dvortsevoy.
Russian Cinema Fund, Kazakhstan producers guild launch LA initiative

The scheme will give Russian and Kazakhstan film-makers the chance to learn new skills through placements at LA companies as well as actors the chance to study in LA acting schools.
Rust And Bone

Dir: Jacques Audiard. France-Belgium. 2011. 123mins
Sahamongkol’s erotic Jan Dara sparks buying frenzy

Thailand’s Sahamongkolfilm International has sparked bidding wars across Asia with its erotic drama Jan Dara, which has already sold to five territories during Cannes.
Sally Potter untitled project

Screen talks to director Sally Potter and producer Christopher Sheppard about their as yet untitled period drama, which shot in and around London earlier this year.
Sam Claflin to star in Hammer's The Quiet Ones

Screen Star of Tomorrow Sam Claflin has signed on to star opposite Jared Harris in Hammer’s supernatural thriller The Quiet Ones.
Samuel Goldwyn Films takes US rights to Grassroots

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Stephen Gyllenhaal’s character-driven comedy Grassroots. Intandem represents international sales here in Cannes.
Samuel Goldwyn Films takes US rights to Renoir

The distributor has swooped on Gilles Bourdos’ drama ahead of its world premiere as the closing night film of Un Certain Regard on May 25.
Sarajevo competition to include world premiere of Flicker's Crossing Boundaries

The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced the features and shorts competition, as well as the In Focus sidebar, of its 18th edition, which runs July 6 to 14.
Sarajevo to open with Begic’s Children of Sarajevo

The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced that its 18th edition (July 6-14) will open with Aida Begic’s Children Of Sarajevo, which will have its world premiere in the Cannes Un Certain Regard section.
Scherfig, August team for Serious Game

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Lone Scherfig and Swedish actress-director Pernilla August are to collaborate on €5 million costume epic/love story
Schoenaerts in talks for The Treatment

Fast-rising Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts (the Bullhead star who also appears alongside Marion Cotillard in Cannes competition entry Rust And Bone) is in talks to star in new thriller The Treatment.
Scoggins joins FilmFunds

FilmFunds, the web site aimed at filmmakers and financiers, has recruited entertainment and technology entrepreneur Jason Scoggins to lead new initiatives as CEO.
Scottish companies CinéFile and Distrify partner up

Edinburgh based boutique distributor CinéFile has teamed up with Scottish film promotion and distribution service Distrify, to allow its content to become more accessible on the internet.
Scottish features Accelerated

Creative Scotland’s inaugural Accelerator feature development programme has selected seven Scottish features
Screaming room

As genre titles become more popular in the marketplace, festivals such as Fantasia, FrightFest and PiFan are not just for the fanboys any more. Ian Sandwell examines how the industry is embracing fantastic events.
Screen Media Films picks up Western Yellow Rock

Michael Biehn, James Russo, and Lenore Andriel star and the distributor plans an August release.
Screen Media takes on FDR: American Badass

Screen Media Films has acquired North American, DVD, VOD and digital rights to FDR: American Badass, a comedy that has the 32nd President of the United States trying to save the world from polio-carrying werewolves.
Screen South unveils new partnerships in Cannes

The former regional screen agency is still going strong as a separate entity outside Creative England.
Screen unveils 2012 UK Stars of Tomorrow

Screen International is today unveiling the rising filmmakers and actors selected for its 2012 Stars of Tomorrow.
Screen Yorkshire appoints strategic advisory board

Ex EM Media chief executive will chair the board.
ScreenSingapore appoints Asian board members

ScreenSingapore, has appointed six new Asian members to its board as the event moves to strengthen its Asian focus.
Sea Rich to target Latino audience

Producer Gino Cabanas and venture capitalist Wagner Richard have formed a partnership to finance films, TV projects and web series.
Seattle Golden Space Needle Awards for Invader, Any Day Now

Nicolas Provost triumphed at the 38th International Seattle Film Festival as he was named best new director for Belgian entry The Invader.
Sebastian Silva, Daniel Radcliffe boost Killer Films slate

EXCLUSIVE: Killer Films principals Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler are in the midst of their busiest ever production cycle and have funnelled a number of prestige titles into the market this week.
Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World

Dir-scr: Lorene Scafaria. US. 2012. 101mins
Shadow People to Anchor Bay for North America, UK and Australia

Anchor Bay Films has acquired all rights for North America, the UK and Australia/New Zealand to ShadowPeople from Arclight Films.
Shanghai Calling

Dir/scr: Daniel Hsia. US-China. 2012. 100mins
Shanghai fest unveils jury and projects line-up

Actress Heather Graham, producer Terence Chang and Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr are among the jury members for the Golden Goblet Awards at the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival (June 16-24).
Shanghai film festival unveils competition line-up

The 15th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has unveiled the first 10 films in its Golden Goblet Award competition lineup, which includes Russian filmmaker Karen Shakhnazarov’s White Tiger and Chrysalis from Spain’s Paula Ortiz.
Shanghai to receive world premiere at IIFA Weekend

Dibakar Banerjee’s Shanghai has been selected as the IIFA World Premiere at this year’s Videocon IIFA Weekend, which is taking place in Singapore (June 7-9).
Sheffield Doc/Fest opens with double whammy

The 2012 edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest enjoyed two opening night events last night - the world premiere of Penny Woolcock’s From The Sea To The Land Beyond, followed by the European premiere of Sundance winner Searching For Sugar Man.
Sheffield Doc/Fest unveils 2012 line-up

The festival’s industry strand - the MeetMarket - will feature 65 projects from 20 countries, hoping to capitalise on the success of last year when £5.5m worth of funding was raised.
Shia LaBeouf short to premiere in Critics’ Week Screening

Actor LaBeouf reveals his “off-beat and irreverent vision” of film criticism in short.
Shochiku plans global Kinoshita retrospective

Japanese studio Shochiku is planning a ten-city retrospective to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Keisuke Kinoshita, whose digitally restored The Ballad Of Narayama is screening in Cannes Classics.
Shooting begins on Hammer's The Quiet Ones

Erin Richards, Olivia Cooke and Rory Fleck-Byrne have joined the cast of Hammer’s supernatural horror, which has begun shooting in Oxfordshire, UK.
Shooting underway on Half Of A Yellow Sun

Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anika Noni Rose and Joseph Mawle star alongside newcomer John Boyega (pictured) from Attack The Block. Ealing Metro handles international sales.
Shooting underway on The Physician

Shooting will take place in Germany and Morocco.
Shoreline picks up Winter’s Sex

Shoreline Entertainment has acquired all international rights to John Winter’s self-financed Black & White & Sex, in which eight actors play one sex worker being interviewed by a filmmaker.
Should've Kissed to open Korean American Film Festival New York

This year’s Korean American Film Festival New York will showcase emerging filmmakers with a mix of narrative features and documentaries with a focus on auteur-driven stories that explore themes like loss and dislocation through journeys of discovery.
Showbox sells Thieves, Nameless Gangster

Korea’s Showbox has scored further sales on heist action thriller The Thieves and recent hit Nameless Gangster: Rules Of The Time.
SIFF debates declining market share of Chinese films

The decline in market share for Chinese films, following the widening of China’s import quotas earlier this year, sparked heated discussions during the first two days of the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF).
Sightseers

Dir: Ben Wheatley. UK. 2012. 90mins
Silver Reel lines up busy financing slate including Grace of Monaco

EXCLUSIVE: The Zurich-based film financier also eyeing Guilermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio and Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs project.
Silver signs distribution deal with Universal

Universal Pictures has signed a five-year North American distribution deal with producer Joel Silver.
Singapore launches grant for new talent

The Singapore Film Commission (SFC) has launched a New Talent Feature Grant, replacing its existing New Feature Film Fund, which was based on co-investment.
Slated backs The Seagull, Polanski doc follow-up

The online film investment forum has lined up the inaugural pair of projects, a modern retelling of Anton Chekhov’s play and the follow-up to Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired.
Sleep Tight goes to MPI Media Group for North America

MPI Media Group has acquired all North American rights to Jaume Balaguero’s award-winning psychological thriller Sleep Tight and will release theatrically in the autumn through its genre arm Dark Sky Films.
SnagFilms picks up trio from Submarine for VoD, digital

Submarine has licensed a package of three films to SnagFilms for exclusive US VoD and digital distribution.
Snow Patrol feels Vibrations

Snow Patrol’s drummer Johnny Quinn talks about the band’s role on Terri Hooley biopic Good Vibrations.
Snow White and Prometheus take on Men in Black

Snow White and Prometheus will be competing with Men in Black for this weekend’s international box office spoils.
Snow White looks good in US opening

Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman had a bigger than expected opening at the North American box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $56.3m and easily deposing Men in Black 3 as the market’s top draw.
Soda picks up Comes a Bright Day

EXCLUSIVE: Soda Pictures and Sony Pictures pick up romantic thriller starring Imogen Poots, Timothy Spall, Craig Roberts and Kevin McKidd.
Sofia Coppola's Bling Ring is just the thing for FilmNation

FilmNation has reported a roaring trade here on Sofia Coppola’s Bling Ring, licensing rights to Village Roadshow in Australia, Alliance in Canada and Lucky Red in Italy, among others.
Sola shakes with Jelly

Sola Media is handling sales on Jelly T, the sequel to Freddy Frogface.
Somewhere In Palilula

Dir/scr: Silviu Purcarete. Romania. 2012. 145mins
Sony launches next generation 4K digital projector

System designed in particular for use in small or medium sized screen auditoriums and is the first in the industry to use high pressure mercury lamps.
Sony Pictures Animation, Hasbro, Happy Madison climb aboard Tonka

The project will be the latest collaboration between Sony and Hasbro following the previously announced Risk and Candy Land, the latter also with Happy Madison.
Sony Pictures sets Aaron Sorkin to adapt Steve Jobs biography

The studio issued the timely press release late on Tuesday (15) as it emerged on the eve of Cannes that Inferno had picked up international sales rights to the rival project Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher.
Sony to increase stake in India’s MSM

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) is set to acquire a further 32% of shares in Indian TV group Multi Screen Media (MSM) in a deal valued at $271m.
Sophie Dulac goes with Wind

EXCLUSIVE: Sophie Dulac Distribution has picked up French rights to Directors’ Fortnight entry Le Repentiand Bence Fliegauf’s Just The Wind.
Spanish Film Screenings to host 66 international buyers next week in Madrid

The 43 films screening include I Want You, Vulnerables, The Wild Boy, Sleep Tight [pictured] and REC 3.
SPC picks up North American rights to Directors’ Fortnight entry No

Pablo Larraín’s story is based on true events and stars Gael García Bernal as an advertising executive who in 1988 is hired to spearhead the Chilean opposition leader’s campaign after military dictator Augusto Pinochet calls a referendum.
Speranza13 adds Summer In February to Cannes slate

EXCLUSIVE: Camela Galano heads to the Croisette with three sales titles and will open preliminary discussions on the Unique Features development slate assembled by her former New Line colleagues Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne.
SPWA takes international on Jonze, Russell projects

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has bought selected international distribution rights to upcoming projects from Spike Jonze and David O Russell.
SPWA takes multiple territories to Ends Of The Earth

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has acquired from IM Global distribution rights to German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Italy, Australia and New Zealand, Latin America and South Africa.
Stanley Weber to star in Not Another Happy Ending

The French actor and son of Jacques Weber will star opposite Karen Gillan in the Glasgow set indie comedy.
Stealth boards Matt Reeves thriller, Howard Deutch comedy-drama

Stealth Media comes to Cannes with new titles including Beyond Apollo and Wild Oats.
Stealth's Marble City goes to Japan

Parco and Klockworx pick up Ryuhei Kitamura’s noir action thriller.
Stein and Marlind, K5 board horror ensemble Paris, I’ll Kill You

EXCLUSIVE: Underworld: Awakening directors Bjorn Stein and Mans Marlind complete the lineup of ten directors on horror-themed ensemble; K5 boards sales.
Stephen Rea, Fionnula Flannagan among cast ingredients on Tasting Menu

Roger Gual directs the story about an estranged couple who honour their reservation at the best restaurant in the world on the venue’s final night of business. Trust Nordisk handles international sales.
Steve Coogan joins Northern Soul as Little Film kicks off sales

The British actor and comedian joins leads Elliot James Langridge and Josh Whitehouse in a story set against the wildly popular 1970s UK underground music scene of the title. The Little Film Company is introducing the project to buyers in Cannes this week.
Strand Releasing names Michael Williams vp of theatrical sales, acquisitions

Williams most recently worked as a marketing and production consultant to Disney Channel.
Strategic Film Partners acquires sales rights to lacrosse drama

Alex Barder’s Strategic Film Partners has acquired international sales rights to Crooked Arrows starring Brandon Routh.
Strategic Film Partners adds The FP, Crooked to Cannes slate

Alex Barder’s Strategic Film Partners is in the thick of talks with buyers on a slate that includes The Trost Brothers’ dance battle film The FP, which Drafthouse Films released recently in the US.
Student

Dir/scr: Darezhan Omirbayev. Kazakhstan. 2012. 90mins
Submarine picks up eighties music films

Submarine Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights in all media to eighties music films Downtown 81 and Wild Style.
Submarine, Dakota Group partner on Torpedo Pictures

The label will fund and distribute low-budget genre titles in the $500,000-$1.5m range with a focus on auteur-driven directors.
Submissions open for Scala Beyond

The six week season will celebrate cinema exhibition across the UK.
Suited and rebooted

How do you go about updating a classic franchise? Ian Sandwell looks at the latest reboot set to hit our screens this summer, Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man
Suki Films prepares November shoot on Toy Boy

Lisa Ray will star in Toy Boy, the feature debut of Suki Films-based writer-director Craig Goodwill and producers David Sparkes, Kim Berlin, Susan Schneir and Catherine Gourdier.
Sundance entry Save The Date lands at Max360 International

New LA sales agency Max360 International has picked up international sales on Michael Mohan’s Sundance rom-com Save The Date starring Lizzie Caplan and Mark Webber.
Sundance Institute announces projects for summer labs

Thirteen projects will take part in the annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs. Emerging filmmakers and projects are selected from the United States, Italy, Romania, Australia, Algeria, France, Chile and the UK.
Sundance selects 24 fellows, nine projects for doc labs

The 2012 intake doubles the amount of films and filmmakers the Institute is supporting in the post-production phase.
Sundance Selects finds Ken Loach’s The Angels' Share

Rebecca O’Brien produced and Pascal Caucheteux and Vincent Maraval of the film’s international sales agent Wild Bunch served as executive producers.
Sundance Selects picks Una Noche for US

Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to writer-director Lucy Mulloy’s Tribeca festival award-winner Una Noche.
Sushi Girl, Crave, V/H/S, Wrong among first titles announced for Fantasia

16th edition, which runs July 19-August 7, also celebrates Jennifer Lynch with two special screenings, including world premiere of Chained [pictured].
Svensk introduces buyers to Marie Kroyer

EXCLUSIVE: Svensk’s sales arm SF International has sold Bille August’s new feature Marie Krøyer to Greece (Hollywood) and to CIS (Cinema Prestige).
Talking Drum launches with UK release of Tango With Me

New distributor will focus on black films.
Territories voice "key concerns" about EU's proposed Cinema Communication

The UK, Germany, France and Austria have voiced “key concerns” in a joint position paper on the European Commission’s (EC) draft Cinema Communication for state aid for films and other audiovisual works.
That’s My Boy

Dir: Sean Anders. US. 2012. 116mins
The Angels' Share

Dir: Ken Loach. UK. 2012. 106mins
The Avengers reaches $400m at North American box office

Marvel Studios’ superhero mash-up has crossed the threshold in a record 14 days after adding $6.2m on Thursday to reach $402m. It is now Disney’s biggest worldwide release of all time and the industry’s sixth biggest in history.
The Avengers surges past $700m international

A further $56m from 54 territories saw Marvel Studios’ superhero spectacular hold on to its international crown with ease as the running total climbed to $723.3m.
The Avengers target super-sized $1bn worldwide

As it heads into second and third international weekends Marvel Studios-Disney’s behemoth should have little trouble zipping past $600m from its $517.8m perch. The question is – will it cross $1bn at the global box office by the end of Sunday?
The case for travelling talent

Screen celebrates stars and directors who travel between cultures in the same way stories travel for remakes in different languages. For our Stars of Tomorrow class of 2012, it’s a case of have talent, will travel.
The Dictator

Dir: Larry Charles. US. 2012. 83mins
The Documentary Company on board for Green Prince

The Documentary Company, launched by Sheryl Crown and Maggie Monteith last year to back feature docs with EIS funding, is expanding its slate.
The Dream And The Silence

Dir: Jamie Rosales. Spain-France. 2012. 110mins
The Exchange hears Sound Of My Voice for Cannes

Founder Brian O’Shea has acquired international sales rights to acclaimed thriller starring Brit Marling as the leader of a cult and will screen the film on the Croisette.
The Girl From The Naked Eye

Dir: David Ren. US. 2012. 84mins
The Hunt

Dir: Thomas Vinterberg. Denmark. 2012. 106mins
The Invisible Woman

Ralph Fiennes’ second directing project following Coriolanus tells the story of Charles Dickens’ secret love affair with a young actress. Who better to play the iconic author than Fiennes himself. Sarah Cooper reports.
The Invisibles

Dir: Sebastien Lifshitz. France. 2012. 115mins
The Invitation to start production this summer

XYZ Films horror tale to star Luke Wilson, Zachary Quinto, Topher Grace and Johnny Galecki. Celluloid Nightmares to kick off pre-sales in Cannes.
The magic of realism

On the day of the Cannes documentary brunch, which Screen is sponsoring, Colin Brown reports how film-makers are reinventing the idea of a non-fiction feature film and how distributors are helping them with these hybrids.
The Master, Devil's Knot ignite sales for Weinstein Company

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company has reported a huge response to it Cannes slate, selling out most of the world on the likes of Scary Movie 5, The Master and Devil’s Knot.
The Match Factory befriends Garbarski's Vijay, starring Bleibtrau, Arquette

EXCLUSIVE: The Match Factory has picked up rights to Sam Garbarski’s comedy My Friend Vijay, starring Moritz Bleibtreu and Patricia Arquette.
The new deal

Market activity in Cannes was boosted by debut companies and the return of equity, but deals were less exuberant than in 2011. By Jeremy Kay
The Pirogue

Dir: Moussa Toure. France-Senegal. 2012. 87mins
The Sapphires

Dir: Wayne Blair. Australia. 2012. 100mins
The Seasoning House, Tower Block bookend FrightFest 2012

13th edition runs August 23-27.
The Solution acquires sales on Simon Pegg comedy Hector

Solution Entertainment Group has been touting the Simon Pegg comedy Hector And The Search For Happiness to international buyers here.
The Solution boards Joel Edgerton thriller Felony

Joel Edgerton will star in the thriller Felony, which The Solution Entertainment Group is touting to international buyers here. Roadshow Films will distribute in Australia and New Zealand and CAA represents US rights.
The Solution tunes in to Grand Piano for Cannes

Lisa Wilson, who launched The Solution Entertainment Group with Myles Nestel at the start of the year, will kick off talks with international buyers on the Elijah Wood psychological thriller.
The Solution, Irish DreamTime strike multi-film pact

Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel’s The Solution Entertainment Group will commence talks with Cannes buyers on espionage thriller November Man, the first project to go under a multi-title financing and distribution deal with Pierce Brosnan and Beau St Clair’s Irish DreamTime.
The We And The I

Dir: Michel Gondry. US. 2012. 103mins
The Woman In Black promoted on new London tube Wifi service

Momentum Pictures is promoting the home entertainment release of The Woman In Black with a special initiative in conjunction with Virgin Media and MyMovies.
The Works dresses for Cannes with farce Of Corset's Mine

Shoot gets underway in Ireland in June 2012.
The Works, Frieda Pinto, Dan Stevens join The Catastrophist

The Works boards Nick Broomfield’s Congo-set love story which is set to shoot early 2013.
The World Is Funny

Dir/scr: Shemi Zarhin. Israel. 2012. 122mins
Three Days Till Christmas (The Last Days In The Life Of Elena And Nicolae Ceauşescu)

Dir: Radu Gabrea. Romania. 2012. 90mins
Tianjin’s Rabbit hops to North America

Grindstone Entertainment has picked up North American rights to hit animated feature Legend Of A Rabbit from China’s Tianjin Film Studio.
TLA Releasing takes worldwide rights on Terracino’s Elliot Loves

Elliot Loves charts the adventures of Dominican-American Elliot Ayende as a nine year-old who is best friend to his single mother and as a 21-year-old looking for love in New York City.
Tom DeSanto

A key producer on the Transformers and X-Men franchises, Tom DeSanto is now developing Gods, a 3D trilogy based on a Chinese classic, with Beijing-based Yi Shang Media.
Tomas Alfredson buys film rights to The Brothers Lionheart

Swedish director Tomas Alfredson has bought the film rights for Astrid Lindgren’s novel The Brothers Lionheart.
Tony Grisoni's Kingsland amongst new Microwave projects

Three new features have been greenlit through Film London’s microbudget Microwave scheme, which is run in partnership with BBC Films and Skillset.
Top marks for Hannah Fidell’s A Teacher at US in Progress

Debut feature wins Champs-Elysées Film Festival’s US in Progress initiative aimed at connecting US indie fare with European buyers.
Toronto top brass announce programmers, new venue

The 37th festival will run from Sept 6-16 and for the first time will allow the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema to take part as an official venue.
Trans Atlantic Partners selects participants from Canada, Europe, US

Participants include UK’s Neil Thompson [pictured], Canada’s David Cormican, Germany’s Marco Gilles and US-based Susan Lewis.
Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj, Romania

Winners and attendees at the Transilvania International Film Festival, 1 - 10 June, 2012.
Trashed

Dir/scr: Candida Brady. UK. 2012. 105mins
Trier's Oslo, August 31st wins Transilvania Trophy

Oslo, August 31st by Norway’s Joachim Trier won this year’s € 15,000 Transilvania Trophy at the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) which closed at the weekend in Romania’s Cluj.
TrustNordisk’s Escape files to US with eOne, Australia with Rialto

TrustNordisk’s action-adventure Escape continues to sell well on promo and is now on its way to US and Australia.
Turn back the clock

In these days of cinematic uniformity, there is still something rather special about a lengthy event movie such as Gangs Of Wasseypur.
Two Lefts unveils development projects

Two Lefts Don’t Make A Right Productions has announced new development projects involving director Doug Liman, actor Stanley Tucci and comics creator Stan Lee.
UK/US financiers launch $150m equity fund

Darby Angel’s finance and production outfit Angel World Entertainment and Glenn Myles’ merchant bank First Wall Street (FWS) are launching a $150m equity fund dedicated to independent productions.
UK's 011 Productions to co-produce Bettinga's feature debut

UK producer Zorana Piggott’s 011 Productions is to co-produce the feature debut of German filmmaker Eicke Bettinga who is competing in Cannes’ Short Films Competition this year with Gasp which has its world premiere on May 26.
uMedia CEO Jeremy Burdek talks Boutique VFX and Mariah Mundi

uMedia were involved in the action-adventure, based on the series of novels by G.P. Taylor, from its inception.
uMedia strikes output deal with A-Film

uMedia’s Belgian distribution arm uDream pacts with Dutch distributor; A Monster in Paris first collaboration.
UNIC branches out, pushes CineEurope changes

On the eve of CineEurope, Screen talks to UNIC CEO Jan Runge about this year’s conference and the challenges facing the exhibition sector.
Universal slayed by Fortissimo’s Killing

Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) has picked up a slew of territories, including the UK and France, to Chinese-Mongolian epic An End To Killing from Fortissimo Films.
Universal takes Italian rights to Catching Fire

Lionsgate International sold out the world in Cannes to the second episode of the smash Hunger Games series, set to commence production in September ahead of a global launch on Nov 22, 2013.
UPI Australia, Screen Corporation seal first-look deal

Universal Pictures International Australia has signed a first-look distribution deal with James M Vernon’s Screen Corporation for Australia and New Zealand.
UPI buys Foosball for Latin America, Spain

Universal Pictures International (UPI) has acquired distribution rights for Latin America and Spain to Juan Jose Campanella’s Foosball.
UPI takes territories on Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty

Universal Pictures International announced on Tuesday (15) its deal with Panorama Media for the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Scandinavia, South Africa and Spain. The deal happened well before Cannes.
UTA signs Intouchables star Omar Sy

UTA has signed French actor and Intouchables star Omar Sy for representation in all areas.
Venice to celebrate 80th anniversary with restored rare classics

The 10 restored rarities will include God Needs Men [pictured] by Jean Delannoy and Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano by Raoul Ruiz.
Vera Farmiga joins Sigma’s Greenland Time

EXCLUSIVE: Sigma teams with Zentropa on psychological-thriller set in Greenland.
Vertigo Viking epic Hammer of the Gods underway

EXCLUSIVE: Protagonist to handle sales of Viking epic starring Charlie Bewley; six week shoot to take place in London and Wales.
Vertigo’s All Stars underway, SquareOne, Jensen on board

EXCLUSIVE: Vertigo teams with Germany’s SquareOne Entertainment on third dance spectacular; Theo Stevenson, Akai, Ashley Jensen among cast.
Veteran Raymond Danon launches Romy Schneider bio-pic

Veteran French producer Raymond Danon has touched down in Cannes to finalise the finance on his long-gestated feature about the life of tragic actress Romy Schneider, Romy.
Virginia

Dir-scr: Dustin Lance Black. US. 2012. 111mins
Visit Films closes deals on Dinotasia, End Of Love

Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films has struck a slew of sales on key titles here, led by a deal with Ascot Elite for German-speaking Europe on dinosaur documentary Dinotasia.
Visit Films takes international sales on The End Of Love

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Kampe arrives on the Croisette with Mark Webber’s semi-autobiographical drama which Wrekin Hill will distribute in the US in theatres and VoD in the third quarter.
Visit Films to launch four new market titles in Cannes

Ryan Kampe’s slate features Ramona Diaz’s Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Nate Meyer’s See Girl Run, dinosaur documentary Dinotasia and previously announced The End Of Love from Mark Webber.
Visual effects company Cinesite sold to Endless LLP

The London based visual effects house has been acquired by UK based private equity house Endless LLP.
VOD platform Sanona launches, locks Yash Raj deal

VOD service Sanona, a specialist in South Asian cinema, is launching its service in Cannes and has already locked a deal with Indian studio Yash Raj Films.
Volker Schlöndorff calls for release of Ulzhan co-screenwriter Atabayev

German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff has called for the release of the Kazakh director and author Bolat Atabayev who was taken into custody in Almaty on Friday (June 15) for allegedly inciting social discord.
Voltage announces Code Name Geronimo sales

EXCLUSIVE: Nicolas Chartier has licensed the Cam Gigandet and William Fichtner action-thriller to StudioCanal for the UK and closed a host of key deals as US buyers circle a new trailer.
Voltage sparks sales on Don Jon, Charlie Countryman

EXCLUSIVE: Ascot Elite has acquired German-speaking rights to Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut Don Jon’s Addiction as Nicolas Chartier announced pre-Cannes sales on this and Shia LaBeouf action-comedy The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman.
Vue buys Apollo Cinemas

UK exhibitor purchases 14 cinemas bringing combined cinema circuit to 85.
VVS takes Canadian rights to thriller Ten

VVS Films has picked up Canadian rights to the Arnold Schwarzenegger thriller Ten in a deal with QED International.
Wachsberger: business as usual at post-merger Lionsgate

EXCLUSIVE: Despite his entry into corporate America in the wake of the Lionsgate-Summit merger, Patrick Wachsberger has been ensconced in his office on the Croisette, in the thick of the market as usual.
Waked’s Zad sings with Cheikh Imam doc

Egyptian actor and filmmaker Amr Waked, star of Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, is coproducing Cheikh vs Imam.
Walt Disney Studios and Real-D launch Frankenweenie touring exhibition

The Art of Frankenweenie Exhibition will premiere in Barcelona at CineEurope and will visit seven countries on its tour
Warner Bros crosses $1bn internationally for 12th consecutive year

The studio reached the mark in less than five months to beat its own speed record by 10 days.
Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden opens in UK

Warner’s £100m studio outside Watford opens today; TV and film productions on their way.
Warner Home Video, Revolver dominate BVA awards

Harry Potter scoops a number of prizes at the British Video Association awards ceremony.
Warp Australia goes Shopping

Warp Films Australia, here last year with Snowtown, is currently shooting Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland’s New Zealand feature Shopping. Set in 1981, the story is about a teenage boy seduced by a career criminal.
Warrior Poets, Snoot launch Warpaint joint venture

Morgan Spurlock’s New York-based production company and Keith Calder’s Los Angeles-based production and financing entity have teamed up with commercial production veteran Shannon Lords to create the commercial production company.
Watershed launches FilmWorks networking scheme

The pilot project aimed at fast tracking emerging filmmaking talent from the UK regions, is being developed with money from Creative England’s network fund.
Waterstone Entertainment finds Mantivities for Chris Pine

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from the Star Trek 2 shoot, Chris Pine will jet into Cannes to meet with sales agents on the new comedy.
Waterstone eyes Doha hub in deal with Qatari Innovation Film

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Kalligheri and Stephen Bowen’s Waterstone Entertainment are teaming up with Qatar-based Innovation Films to develop and produce film and television projects in Qatar and will kick off with The Greatest Salesman In The World.
Wayne Blair

Australian director Wayne Blair is in Cannes for the world premiere of his feelgood feature debut The Sapphires, which screens out of competition
We Distribution reveals Lam’s Beauty

Hong Kong-based We Distribution is unveiling romantic comedy, The Truth Of Beauty, produced by Peter Ho-sun Chan and directed by Aubrey Lam.
Weide plans Vonnegut doc

EXCLUSIVE: Robert B. Weide, whose Woody Allen: A Documentary is in official selection) is looking to revive his long-gestating feature doc on sci-fi author Kurt Vonnegut.
Weinsteins acquire most of world on The Sapphires from Goalpost Film

Aboriginal actor and theatre director Wayne Blair directed the Australian production, which will screen in official selection on Saturday.
Weinsteins promote Django, Master, Silver Linings

Harvey Weinstein showcased 20 minutes of footage to international press on Monday (21) of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master and David O Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook.
Wellcome Trust and BFI launch annual screenwriting prize

Prize aims to inspire science in films.
Wenders to stay with 3D for next feature project starring Sarah Polley

Director Wim Wenders is to stay with the 3D format for his next feature film project Every Thing Will Be Fine.
Wendy Mitchell appointed as Editor of Screen International

Mitchell, who started at Screen in 2005, will succeed Mike Goodridge.
WeWantCinema, Gruvi and Distrify announced as finalists for UNIC's inaugural Cinema Innovation Award

Representatives from the three companies will present their projects at upcoming CineEurope.
What To Expect When You’re Expecting

Dir: Kirk Jones. US. 2012. 110mins
Whiskey shot

Kevin Spacey plays three very different leads in the winning films to come out of Jameson’s First Shot short film competition.
White Elephant

Dir: Pablo Trapero. Argentina-France-Spain. 2012. 110mins
Wide Management takes Pablo Stoll Ward's 3

French sales company Wide Management has snapped up international sales rights to Pablo Stoll Ward’s comedy 3, which has been selected for the upcoming Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
Wide takes two in Cannes

EXCLUSIVE: Wide picks up LGBT and Russian-language title.
Wide’s Eye on Films adds films, cuts deals

EXCLUSIVE: Wide’s Eye on Films label has seen good business on its growing slate since Berlin.
Wild Bunch Benelux goes on buying spree

Mid way through the market, company boss Pim Hermeling has confirmed a raft of market and festival acquisitions.
Wildworks Productions to commence Stripped shoot in June

Former director of press and PR at the Dallas International Film festival John Wildman will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Justina Walford.
William Moseley headlines Gossner's Alpine drama

Moseley [pictured] joins a cast including Claudia Cardinale, Fritz Karl and Eugenia Costantini.
Woo to direct remake of Nikkatsu’s Beast

John Woo is set to direct and produce gangster drama Day Of The Beast, an English-language remake of Seijin Suzuki’s 1963 classic Youth Of The Beast.
Woody Allen: A Documentary

Dir/scr: Robert Weide. US. 2011. 109mins
Worldview Entertainment backs The Green Inferno from Eli Roth

The New York-based production and investment company will finance and produce Roth’s directorial follow-up to the Hostel franchise. Exclusive Media is handling sales here and CAA represents domestic rights.
Wrekin Hill acquires North American rights to Amber

Writer-director Kerry Bellessa’s found footage thriller will go out day-and-date in theatres and on VoD in early autumn.
Wu’s Seven Stars to finance Killer remake

Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Film Studios (SSFS) has agreed to finance John Woo and Terence Chang’s English-language remake of iconic Hong Kong action film The Killer.
Yash Raj taps Saleem for Y-Films comedy

India’s Yash Raj Films, which is making its Cannes debut this year, has started production on the third film under its Y-Films banner, comedy Mere Dad Ki Maruti, starring Saqib Saleem.
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

Dir: Alain Resnais. France-Germany. 2012. 115mins
Young at heart

The Karlovy Vary International film festival (June 29-July 7) may be entering its 47th edition, but the platform it offers to debut film-makers and its youthful popularity show it has not lost its edge.
Zarafa finds US home with GKIDS

GKIDS has acquired US distribution rights to Zarafa, an official selection at this week’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

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