All articles by Ben Dalton – Page 72
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NewsPiece Of Magic launches animation arm POM Anime with ‘The First Slam Dunk’ (exclusive)
Company has acquired Japanese hit ‘The First Slam Dunk’ for 35 territories.
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Features“It worked in our favour”: How UK’s Lupus Films made Annecy premiere ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ during two lockdowns
The UK-France-Luxembourg co-production is a hand-drawn animation based on a Michael Morpurgo novel.
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NewsAnthony Chen’s Sundance title ‘Drift’ starring Cynthia Erivo scores UK-Ireland distribution deal (exclusive)
Cynthia Erivo stars, alongside Alia Shawkat, Honor Swinton Byrne.
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NewsWestEnd Films boards Lupus Films’ Frida Kahlo animated feature ‘Las Dos Fridas’ (exclusive)
Lupus Films attending this week’s Annecy Film Festival with ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’.
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NewsAnnecy Film Festival to proceed following knife attack; open-air screenings postponed
The festival describes yesterday’s attack as ‘an isolated act’.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts’ starts its engine
Independent titles ‘War Pony’, ‘Medusa Deluxe’ also starting in cinemas.
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News‘Fast X‘ tops UK-Ireland box office with £5.9m, behind recent franchise entries
Film scores £9,001 average from 644 sites.
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News101 Films International adds Isaiah Washington’s ‘Corsicana’ to Cannes market slate (exclusive)
Source: 101 Films International Isaiah Washington 101 Films International has picked up worldwide sales rights on Western thriller Corsicana, written, directed by and starring Isaiah Washington. The completed film stars Washington as deputy US marshal Bass Reeves, a real-life Black cowboy tracking a gang of killers to ...
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NewsMartin Scorsese voices support for Ukraine, freedom of speech at Cannes 2023
Director is “very nervous about the aggression of Russia”; says “freedom to speak is the most important.”
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News‘May December’ star Natalie Portman highlights "different expectations" for women at Cannes Film Festival
“Some people in France call May-December relationships ‘Le Macron’” jokes Todd Haynes.
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NewsGlobal Screen boards Emily Atef’s Kenya-set AIDS drama ‘Mercy’ (exclusive)
UK-France-Germany co-production depicts the AIDS pandemic at the end of 1990s.
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NewsJonathan Glazer talks connection between Cannes title ‘The Zone Of Interest’ and modern far-right movements
“The film is trying to talk to the capacity within each of us for violence.”
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NewsAnimated musical comedy ‘Unstable’ saddles up US, international deals (exclusive)
Film from ‘The Amazing Maurice’ producers Cantilever Productions.
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NewsFrances de la Tour, Calvin Demba to star in UK feature ‘To The Girl I Once Knew’ (exclusive)
Ninety percent of HODs on the film are women, including casting director, production designer.
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Features‘Firebrand’ team talk female-led crew, Jude Law transformation and parallels with “puzzling” modern monarchy
Director Karim Aïnouz and producer Gabrielle Tana tell Screen about their collaboration on Tudor-era royal drama — and Competition title — Firebrand
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NewsMetFilm secures key deals including UK, Italy, Spain on ‘Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer’ (exclusive)
Documentary includes interviews with Christian Bale, Chloe Zhao, Robert Pattinson, Nicole Kidman.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Fast X’ revs its engine in over 650 cinemas
‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ and ‘Beau Is Afraid’ both opening.
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NewsDoha Film Institute unveils 29 projects for 2023 spring grants at Cannes
Four projects are by Qatari and Qatar-based filmmakers.
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NewsLucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy on WGA strike: “I’m in full support of writers getting what they deserve”
Director James Mangold also voiced support for striking writers at ’Indiana Jones’ Cannes press conference.
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NewsTrustNordisk boards Zentropa titles ‘Back To Reality’, ‘The Quiet Ones’
‘Back To Reality’ is a dark comedy from writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen.