All Screen articles in 26 May 2007
View all stories from this month.
-
News
Blatant and Intandem partner on $100m comic book film fund
LA producer Barry Levine and his film outfit Blatant Pictures have partnered with Gary Smith's UK company Intandem Films to raise a $100m film fund for big-screen adaptations of comic books from Blatant's sister company Radical Publishing.The first two projects are $35m action adventure Legends, to be directed by Patrick ...
-
News
Larry Charles' Borat follow-up bags sales
Freshly minted sales agency IM Global has closed key territory sales on the Untitled Larry Charles Project following a packed buyers presentation on Friday evening.A torrent of North American acquisitions executives poured into the sales and distribution company's Riviera offices to watch 10 minutes from Charles' highly anticipated Borat follow-up.Within ...
-
News
Lohan and Dawson join grandma gang
Lindsay Lohan and Rosario Dawson have joined the cast of Poor Things, the upcoming dark comedy inspired by the wave of 'grandma gang' scams in the US.Olympia Dukakis and Shirley MacLaine - together for the first time since 1989's Steel Magnolias - star as elderly con artists in the debut ...
-
News
Pressman and Finch let loose Kubrick's Lunatic
Edward R Pressman's Film Corp in New York and London-based Finch & Partners are teaming up on Lunatic At Large based on an original idea by the late Stanley Kubrick.Nicolas Chartier's Voltage Pictures is selling international rights to the story, set over the course of one night in 1956 as ...
-
News
Memento to produce Glatzer and Westmoreland's Sunland
Quinceanara directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland will explore the dark side of the American dream in their next project, Sunland to be produced by France's Memento Films Production.The Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning duo will shoot the film in autumn 2007 in California. The film is slated to be ...
-
News
Sewell and Dreyfus join Beart in Vinyan
Rufus Sewell and Julie Dreyfus have been signed to star in Vinyan, Fabrice du Welz's follow up to 2004 Critics Week entry, Calvaire. The duo join Emmanuelle Beart in the story of a couple searching for their child who disappeared after the 2004 tsunami. Michael Gentile's The Film is producing ...
-
News
Halcyon Pictures branches out into UK distribution
Halcyon Pictures, Chris Coen's production and financing company which most recently produced Michael Haneke's Funny Games, is to start its own UK distribution arm Halcyon Distribution. The company will start operations by releasing its own production Wristcutters: A Love Story and teaming with Tartan Films to release Funny Games. ...
-
News
English-language debut for Kiarostami
Cannes veteran Abbas Kiarostami is to make his his 24th film and first English-language production.The $6m MK2 production Certified Copy is set in Italy, and stars Juliette Binoche. Producer Marin Karmitz told Screen International they were looking to cast an English actor to play the lead role, James, a 50-year-old ...
-
News
Dubai's Frontrow makes strong start in Cannes market
Dubai-based distributor Frontrow Films Entertainments has struck a number of deals here.Managing director Gianluca Chacra was the first distributor to pick up Rowan Woods’s LA-set drama Winged Creatures from Peace Arch (for the Middle East), currently in post-production. He’s also taken Meg Ryan/LL Cool J comedy The Deal from Peace ...
-
News
Max crosses Borderline to Korea
Roger Frappier's Montreal-based Max Films International has pre-sold Lynn Charlebois' Borderline to Lime Tree Entertainment for Korea. The film, now in post-production, is due to be delivered in October. A five-minute promo reeling has been screening in the market.Borderline, is a drama about a woman at three different stages in ...
-
News
Dane Bornedal to deliver $5m thriller
Prolific Danish film-maker Ole Bornedal (Deathwatch) is to direct Deliver Us From Evil, a $5m thriller due to shoot later in the year. Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) is poised to join the cast.Bornedal describes it as 'an extremely violent story' in which a family man is thrown together with a ...
-
News
Golden Harvest rings L's bells
Hong Kong-based Golden Harvest Entertainment has pre-bought Hong Kong and Taiwanese rights to Nippon Television Network's upcoming Death Note spin-off which has the working title L. The original Death Note and its sequel grossed more then $67m in Japan. The spin-off, directed by Hideo Nakata and starring Kenichi Matsuyama, is ...
-
News
Craig to star in Flashbacks
Daniel Craig has signed on to star in Baillie Walsh's Flashbacks Of A Fool, playing an ageing hedonistic Hollywood star who has to return to his roots in England. Craig will also executive produce. Arclight Films is handling international sales and Buena Vista International has acquired UK rights. The project ...
-
News
Rezo Films sells Schlondorff's official selection title
France's Rezo Films has sold Volker Schlondorff's official selection title Ulzhan, to Germany's X-Filme and South America's Arthouse Movies. Other territories to pick up the film include Portugal and Greece with several others circling after the film's first screening Saturday.
-
News
Dreamachine gets animated for three films
Dreamachine has announced details of three animation projects Fear (s) Of The Dark is produced by Valerie Schermann and Christophe Jankovic of Prima Linea Productions with animators under the artistic directorship of Etienne Robial. Mia & Migoo, by Jacques-Remy Girerd. The film is produced by Folimage together with Jacques-Remy Girerd ...
-
News
JA Media unveils debut five-picture slate
Start-up Chinese production outfit JA Media has unveiled plans to invest $200m in film and TV production over the next five years, along with details of its debut $30m five-picture slate. Hong Kong filmmakers Stanley Kwan, Tsui Hark, Ann Hui and Stephen Fung are lined up to direct projects for ...
-
Reviews
Water Lilies (Naissance des Pieuvres)
Dir/scr: Celine Sciamma. France 2007. 85 mins Every Cannes festival brings at least one sexually delicate French coming-of-age drama, and while Water Lilies is hardly mould-breaking, it's certainly an affecting and more than competent addition to the genre. Set against the eccentric background of synchronised swimming, Celine Sciamma's debut is ...
-
News
Target strikes six-film deal with Finch's Pink Sands
UK-based Target Entertainment has struck a six-film deal with Charles Finch and Kate McCreery's production outfit Pink Sands.Target's slate will focus on UK films with a budget of about $2m, and the line-up includes Kfir Yefet's The Smell of Apples, based on the novel by Mark Behr and starring Gillian ...
-
News
Buena Onda works with Sardi and Max on Buena Onda Americas
Miami-based producer Donald K. Ranvaud (Central Station, City Of God) is in Cannes with a slate of 10 films from the top young Latin-American talent. The new films are being packaged and produced through Ranvaud's new outfit Buena Onda Americas, which recently set up in association with Silvio Sardi Communications ...
-
Reviews
The Band's Visit (Bikur Hatizmoreth)
Dir/scr: Eran Kolirin. Is/Fr. 2007. 85 mins.This melancholy deadpan comedy accepted in three out of Cannes' four official sections and finally running in Un Certain Regard, is a kind of prestidigitator's tightrope act, almost crashing down several times before triumphantly reaching its goal in one piece.Though nothing much is happening ...