Screen
12 May 2011
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Breaking Glass Pictures sells French and German rights to Go Go Crazy
Mockumentary directed by Fred Caruso -
MediaXchange launches LA’s first project finance market
Katrina Wood’s international media consultancy MediaXchange is launching the first ever MediaXchange International Finance Market (MIFM) to be held in Los Angeles Oct 30-Nov 1 this year -
3D dominates as EU gross box office posts a record high in 2010
Despite an admissions drop, the EU box office recorded its biggest ever year predominantly due to increased 3D ticket prices -
Andy Vajna unveils further details of Hungarian funding overhaul
Previous deals struck with Hungary’s MMKA will not all be honoured -
Author Jo Nesbo talks about adaptations of Headhunters, The Snowman
Bestselling Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbo is in Cannes to promote the film of his novel Headhunters, which is being sold here by TrustNordisk. -
Bankside works with Killer's Ramin Bahrani project
Bankside Films has taken on international sales for the Untitled Ramin Bahrani project, which is being produced by Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler’s Killer Films. -
Bankside's Kelliher elected as chair of Film Export UK
EXCLUSIVE: New directors are Clare Crean and Andrew Orr. -
Barbarian strikes deals at Cannes
3D animation produced through Einstein Film -
Bavaria goes to Morocco with new Caroline Link film
Bavaria Film International is again working with Oscar winning director Caroline Link and producer Peter Herrmann on their next film. -
Breathing wins Cannes Europa Cinemas Label
Karl Marcovics’ Directors Fortnight entry secures promotion support. -
Bullhead star joins Loft remake
EXCLUSIVE: Matthias Schoenaerts cast in remake, which starts shooting in June in New Orleans -
Buyers take HanWay's Expectations, Psychopaths
UK sales outfit HanWay Films has been doing a roaring trade on its Cannes slate. -
Calum Gray joins Independent
Calum Gray has joined Independent as sales executive. -
Cannes 2011 documentary profiles
From Egyptian bellydancing to a portrait of Charlotte Rampling. -
Cannes Agony Meter
An entertaining checklist about the depressing stuff on screen this year. And this was before Lars Von Trier ended the world! -
Celluloid Dreams finds Bliss
Berlin-set love story is currently shooting -
Charles Dance lines up Fanny Ardant for Starfield’s Now And Then
EXCLUSIVE: Starfield also working on projects with Bahman Ghobadi and Ben Hopkins -
Chelsom to direct Egoli Tossell's Hector
EXCLUSIVE: Project based on Francois Lelord’s bestseller -
Christian Baute joins Headline as company confirms Ridley Scott project
Scott will produce and direct Reykjavik -
Cillian Murphy is a 'Broken' man as part of busy BBC Films slate
BBC Films, which is in Cannes as one of the backers of Lynne Ramsay’s Competition title We Need To Talk About Kevin, has a full slate of new projects including several debut -
Cinemavault acquires Sex, Dogz, & Rock n’ Roll
Film combines animation and live-action -
Cinemavault strikes Universal deals for War Games, Boca
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures International takes European territories on Boca and War Games from Cinemavault -
Claim that industry “not part of the process” in planning new MEDIA Programme
European Commission comes under fire from professionals over future of MEDIA -
CNC, Film France tout results of French rebate
31 projects have tapped the TRIP rebate -
Content Film closes Japanese deal for The Divide
Film has also sold to France, the UK and Germany among other territories -
Content joins Club with McConaughey, Swank
Content has taken on international sales for Jean-Marc Vallee’s The Dallas Buyer’s Club, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Hilary Swank. -
Content tells Pellington’s Story
EXCLUSIVE: Psychological thriller to star Alice Eve and Liev Schreiber -
Cornerhouse teams up with Curzon Cinemas
Curzon will provide booking service for Manchester independent cinema -
Cosmos finds Place, strikes Nordisk deal
Film set in the aftermath of the Second World War -
CPH:DOX names Lab participants
Film-making initiative pairs international and European filmmakers -
Creative Scotland backs four new film initiatives with £1m
EXCLUSIVE: Creative Scotland has unveiled a £1 million investment into new models for film. -
Dennis Quaid joins the cast of The Words
Thriller also stars Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Irons -
Doc specialists Wide House in Cannes with packed slate
Market screenings include The Black Power Mixtape, A Life For Ballet, The First Rasta. -
Ealing Metro takes on five music docs from Julien Temple
Slate includes Rio and London films shooting this year. -
Ealing Metro, Prescience team for Winterbottom’s Jack Black comedy
Bailout expected to start shooting in August -
Ealing Metro/Prescience warm to Good Girls starring Dakota Fanning
Elizabeth Olsen, Peter Sarsgaard, Dustin Hoffman and Sissy Spacek are also in the cast. -
Edinburgh unveils new critics debate project
Project: New Cinephilia culminates in a one-day symposium at the EIFF -
Egyptian actor to boycott Cannes screening
Amr Waked cites filmmaker ties to Mubarek. -
Elle Driver takes on Will Ferrell-produced The Bachelorette
EXCLUSIVE: Cast includes Kirsten Dunst and Adam Scott. -
Elle Driver's slate ranges from royalty to grindhouse
EXCLUSIVE: Cutting-edge French sales and finance outfit Elle Driver has boosted its Cannes slate with several new titles including new grindhouse picture Skinny Dip. -
eOne books a Retreat
SC Films handles sales. -
eOne moves into The Devil’s Rock
New Zealand horror also sold to the UK among other territories -
Erica Motley joins K5 International
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-UIP, Shine, HBO exec already brought Paul Walker project to K5. -
European films account for 60.6% of screenings in Europa Cinemas network
Six out of 10 screenings in 2010 were for European films -
Festival Scope strikes special partnership with Melbourne
EXCLUSIVE: The Melbourne International Film Festival has partnered with online platform Festival Scope and will create a special section for its 60th edition (July 21 - August 7) called TeleScope. -
Film House Germany, Lemming launch Hamster
New venture aims to broaden scope of family films in Germany -
Film London’s PFM sets dates for Oct 19-20
Production finance event aims to set up over 800 meetings -
Films Distribution heats up sales for Mia Hansen-Love's Goodbye
EXCLUSIVE: Buyers include Artificial Eye for the UK and Palace for Australia. -
FilmSharks bites for The Misfits
Comedy drama won audience prize in Guadalajara. -
FINAL UPDATE Cannes Dailies 2011 Digital Editions
Catch up with our print Cannes editions here. All 9 issues have now been posted online. -
Finding the alternative
Screen examines new distribution opportunities for documentaries. -
Footnote is the main event in Cannes on Saturday
Joseph Cedar’s film is deliciously entertaining; Habemus Papam isn’t Moretti’s finest. -
Future Film Group strikes $110m, four-film deal with Fusion Films
Projects include films starring Channing Tatum, Hayden Christiansen and Julianne Moore. -
Future of Venice’s new Palazzo del Cinema in question
Italian government appears unlikely to pick up bill of removing asbestos -
Gaumont has busiest market ever, including US deal for The Conquest
EXCLUSIVE: Music Box plans ambitious release. -
GFM links up with Seven Arts
New company has also linked up with Seven Arts -
Going Gaga in Cannes
Lessons on why you shouldn’t serenade Robert De Niro, nor mix Lacroix and Chanel. -
Hallstrom leaves The Danish Girl, casts Persbrandt for The Hypnotist
EXCLUSIVE: Lasse Hallstrom leaves Nicole Kidman sex change feature but ramps up plans for The Hypnotist. -
Headhunters goes to Alta for Spain
EXCLUSIVE: Action-thriller has been picked up in a host of territories -
High Point takes on My Wedding, Surviving Georgia
Carey Fitzgerald’s High Point Media Group has snapped up two new films, both from emerging female directors. -
Hot projects on Screenbase this week
With Cannes well underway, a raft of exciting new projects has been announced this week and Screen’s European film index, Screenbase, contains all the latest details and updates -
ICO-ICA join forces in UK
EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s Independent Cinema Office (ICO) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) have struck a three-year partnership that will start in July. -
Icon's Project Nim sales include Le Pacte for France
Icon Entertainment International has done a raft of deals on James Marsh’s Sundance hit documentary Project Nim. -
Independent to sell Singer-produced thriller uwantme2killhim?
Distributors already on board for UK and Canada. -
Intandem updates Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot
Project to start shooting in September -
John Lydon goes Norwegian in Sons Of Norway
EXCLUSIVE: Former Sex Pistols frontman to cameo in Jens Liens’ film -
K5 on board for indie thriller Phantom
EXCLUSIVE: K5 is to handle international sales on writer-director Todd Robinson’s supernatural thriller Phantom, it was confirmed in Cannes. -
Kanye + Cannes = Wow
Red Granite’s bash has to be the best Cannes party of the year. -
Kawase plans collage film to screen once in Tallinn
Project is dedicated to the preservation of 35mm -
Kerry Fox, Mark Herbert join Sydney Film Festival jury
Chen Kaige is jury president -
Lars von Trier apologises for 'Nazi' remark in Cannes
Melancholia director says he was egged on by a provocation. -
Locarno’s Open Doors launches new initiative
Locarno Film Festival’s co-production lab Open Doors is to launch a new initiative entitled Carte Blanche from this August. -
Lone Scherfig conducts Danish epic Music and Silence
EXCLUSIVE: Martin Sherman adapts Rose Tremain’s novel. -
Maggie Gyllenhaal joins supernatural thriller Voice From The Stone
K5 International is handling sales. -
Malick misses out
Terrence Malick was not on hand for the Tree Of Life press call, press conference and red carpet today in Cannes. -
Maria Ripoll confirmed as director of Traces Of Sandalwood
Pontas also takes sales rights to When I Saw You and The Real Millennium -
Melancholia kicks off sales in Cannes for TrustNordisk
Lars von Trier film now sold to over 30 territories -
Memento starts sales for Cantet's Foxfire
EXCLUSIVE: Artificial eye takes UK, Golem takes Spain. -
Metrodome Group announces 2010 results
UK distributor sees 53% rise in revenue -
Metrodome takes In Darkness from Beta
Metrodome has taken UK & Irish rights to Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness from -
Michael dares to explore pedophilia
Markus Schleinzer’s debut feature will enrage and fascinate. -
Minerva heads to Cannes with Tatanka, What A Beautiful Day
Saviano adaptation and Italian box-office record-setter lead the slate. -
Morena ramps up The Last Days
Apocalyptic thriller set in Barcelona -
Moscow Business Square adds screenings
Business event will also showcase anticipated Russian projects for 2011-2012 -
Moviehouse sharpshoots Gunned Down with Fairbrass
Film to be directed by Alexander Soskin -
MUBI signs deals with Sony, Hopscotch, HanWay
EXCLUSIVE: VOD platform announces deals with Sony Bravia, Hopscotch, HanWay and Dolby -
Nancy Valle joins Anchor Bay Films
Valle joins as vp of post production -
New Europa sales organisation announces objectives
Europa International sales agent organisation aims to “make sure our voice is heard in Brussels” -
New Hungarian fund offers cash, guidance, Vajna says
Hungarian National Film Fund awaiting government green light -
New Swedish prize aims to boost female directors
Resulting film will premiere at the Stockholm International Film Festival -
Night falls for Celluloid Dreams
Cristina Comencini film is in post -
NonStop sells 3D Magic to Spain, Germany and others
Film is a sequel to Norwegian hit -
Norway's Motlys announces slate
EXCLUSIVE: New projects include US family drama from Joachim Trier -
Number 9's slate includes new Neil Jordan vampire film
Number 9 Films, the production company run by Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen, is set to have three films in production by the end of the year including a Dickens adaptation, a new Neil Jordan vampire picture, and a British gangster movie. -
Optimum, Kinowelt drive off with K5's Vehicle 19
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Walker stars in the action thriller directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil. -
Other Angle gets third hit Lie
EXCLUSIVE: Other Angle Pictures will handle world sales on La Verité Si Je Mens 3, the third installment of the mega-successful French franchise. -
Other Angle reports biggest market ever
EXCLUSIVE: Company closes raft of territory sales at Cannes 2011 -
Paramount strikes deal for Rainbow's Not Born To Be Gladiators
EXCLUSIVE: Rainbow CEO Iginio Straffi talks to Screen about the $57m animation project. -
Peccadillo takes UK for She Monkeys, Weekend
UK outfit also picks up Tomboy -
Poliss blends real life, soap opera
Even oral sex goes on too long in Maewenn’s sprawling police story. -
Power To The Pixel opens applications for The Pixel Market
Event includes £6,000 ARTE pitch prize -
Pretty Pictures, Fortissimo team up for Rasoulof's Good Bye
Cast will attend Cannes screening on Saturday but director is banned from leaving Iran. -
Ramsay's back with a vengeance, Leigh one to watch
Female directors are in the frame with Sleeping Beauty and We Need To Talk About Kevin. -
Ranvaud launches Italy-based Buena Onda International
EXCLUSIVE: Upcoming projects include Dix and For Richard -
Raul Ruiz plans Portuguese War And Peace
Lines Of Wellington is currently casting -
Ravensbourne, Skillset, WFTV to host Cannes panel on 3D storytelling
London-based Ravensbourne, Skillset and the UK’s Women in Film and TV are hosting a 3D panel here in Cannes today (at 10:30 at the UK Film Centre). -
Ray’s restored Home to launch at Venice
EXCLUSIVE: Controversial film screened at Cannes in 1973 -
Reel Suspects continues Q sales
Accent takes Australia and New Zealand. -
Rezo Films, Iris Group set up Rezo Finance
New operation will support Rezo via distibution, world sales and production. -
Roeg's Independent lines up films with Michael Mann, Saul Dibb
UK production/finance/sales company Independent - riding high in Cannes with We Need To Talk About Kevin - has confirmed that Michael Mann will direct its -
Rohrwacher plans satirical comedy about slow food
EXCLUSIVE: Carlo Cresta-Dina’s Tempesta Film, the outfit behind Alice Rohrwacher’s new feature Corpo Celeste (screening in the Quinzaine and sold by RAI Trade), has revealed details of its next projects. -
Rossellini signs on for The Zigzag Kid
Novel adaptation to shoot this summer -
RT announces Julian Fellowes-scripted Motherland
EXCLUSIVE: Brazilian company also working on project with David Seidler -
Russian war-drama Brest Fortress secures UK, France deals
G2, Monceau Digital pick up rights for Russian war film -
Salt books three more sales on The People Vs George Lucas
Deals done with France, Japan and Germany. -
Schepisi signs on for Icon’s Drowner
EXCLUSIVE: Project based on Robert Drewe’s novel -
Sola Media takes on sales for When Santa Fell To Earth
Family Christmas adventure currently in post -
Swedes plan huge Long Ships franchise
“Ultimate Viking movie” to comprise two features and a TV series -
Swinton, Fassbender and Wasikowska line up for Jarmusch's vampire story
EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Thomas and Reinhard Brundig producing; HanWay to handle sales. -
The Works rocks with Good Vibrations
Cast will feature Richard Dormer, Michael Fassbender [pictured], Steve Coogan, Robert Sheehan and Bronagh Gallagher. -
The Works takes UK rights to Spurlock's Greatest Movie Ever Sold
The Works Distribution has picked up all UK rights on Morgan Spurlock’s Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. -
The Yellow Affair swings with She Monkeys sales
Sales company also closes US deal on Parked -
Tom Hooper joins BFI board
At a reception tonight in Cannes, BFI Chair Greg Dyke announced that The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper has been appointed to the BFI’s Board of Governors. -
Transilvania to honor Michael York, announces lineup
The festival that grew up with the Romanian New Wave will celebrate its 10th birthday with more films, more cash and more stars -
UPDATE: Melancholia still in competition even as Cannes board declares von Trier 'persona non grata'
The Cannes board of directors has released a statement declaring Melancholia director Lars von Trier as a “persona non grata” at the Cannes Film Festival, following his “Nazi” comments at a press conference yesterday. -
Urban Distribution announces sales on Princess and other titles
Company has also picked up two new projects -
Vertigo ramps up StreetDance, Monsters sequels
Falk Hentschel and Sofia Boutella [pictured] to star in StreetDance 2 3D; Monsters 2 signs Brent Bonacorso and Jesse Atlas to direct. -
Weerasethakul in print
The first English language book about the Thai Palme d’Or winner includes contributions from Tilda Swinton and Tony Rayns. -
Wentworth Miller joins US remake of Loft
Film based on 2008 Belgian hit -
WestEnd chomps on Andy de Emmony's Love Bite
EXCLUSIVE: Ecosse Films is producing the story of a werewolf in a British seaside town. -
Wide closes deals on This Is Not A Film
EXCLUSIVE: Jafar Panahi film picked up in Italy and France -
Wide takes on Donald Trump documentary
EXCLUSIVE: You’ve Been Trumped about mogul’s controversial resort in Scotland -
Wild Bunch heats up sales for Eva, Lay The Favorite
EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company takes English-speaking territories on Eva; UK deals signed for The Angels’ Share and Carnage. -
Wild Bunch takes on Lu's Chinese epic The Last Supper
EXCLUSIVE: Wild Bunch has acquired The Last Supper from City Of Life And Death director Lu Chuan.
