All Cannes articles – Page 332
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UK's New Wave moves into 24 City
Robert Beeson and Pam Engel's new UK distribution company New Wave Films has acquired Cannes Competition entry 24 City directed by Jia Zhangke.The film is sold by MK2. Beeson and Engel set up New Wave earlier this year after being long-time art-house distributors at Artificial Eye.'We are very pleased to ...
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Koch Lorber picks up Rohmer's Astree And Celadon for North America
Koch Lorber has acquired North American rights from Rezo Films to Eric Rohmer's The Loves Of Astree And Celadon (Les Amours D'Astree Et De Celadon).Richard Lorber plans an autumn release in New York on the story of an illicit affair between a shepherd and a shepherdess.Koch Lorber previously acquired Rohmer's ...
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Elephant Eye strikes Korean deal with Mars for Planet B-Boy
Elephant Eye Films has sold its breakdancing documentary Planet B-Boy to Mars Entertainment for Korea. Mars plans a theatrical release of up to 200 prints in August.Elephant Eye has also sold the film to Indonesia (Queen Films), Taiwan (Cineplex Films), and The Middle East (Prime Pictures). New York-based Elephant Eye ...
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Music Box Films takes US rights to Mouret's Shall We Kiss
New US distributor Music Box Films has acquired all US rights from TF1 to Emmanuel Mouret's romantic comedy Shall We Kiss and plans a late summer release.Mouret wrote, directed and co-stars in the film, which stars Virginie Ledoyen, Julie Gayet, Michael Cohen, Frederique Bel and Stefano Accorsi. Music Box partner ...
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Kimmel International sells major territories on Motherhood, Synecdoche
Mark Lindsay's Kimmel International has closed key territories on its slate, led by Killer Films and Ideal Partners' comedy Motherhood starring Uma Thurman and Charlie Kaufman's competition entry Synecdoche, New York.Sales on Motherhood closed with Telepool (Germany), Leone (Italy), Sponge (South Korea), Nordisk (Scandinavia), Paradiso (Benelux), Sun (Latin America), Village ...
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Soothsayer sees Emilia Fox; AV Pictures to handle sales
Producers Paul Cowan and Chris Wheeldon of Territorial Film Developments (TFD) have cast Emilia Fox (Flashbacks of a Fool) as the lead in Richard Blanshard's supernatural thriller Soothsayer.The project will shoot this summer. The cast also includes Tehya Hadley, Thekla Reuten, Kate Atkinson and John Standing.Barry Langley wrote the script ...
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ReviewsPrivate Lessons (Eleve Libre)
Dir: Joachim Lafosse. Belgium-France. 2008. 105mins.Reunited with the same co-writer, the same crew and many of the same themes he explored in his 2006 Venice competion entry Private Property (Nue Propriete), buzzy Belgian auteur Joaquim Lafosse crafts another original, disturbing work which fails however to scale ...
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WCF to fund restoration of Bergman's private archives
The World Cinema Foundation and the Ingmar Bergman Foundation are supporting a joint project to preserve, restore and reveal rare behind-the-scenes footage from Bergman's archive.Martin Scorsese's WCF will fund the restoration, editing, and commentary of more than 14 hours of behind-the-scenes footage for a total of 18 Ingmar Bergman titles. ...
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ReviewsThe Rest Of The Night (Il Resto Della Notte)
Dir/scr: Francesco Munzi. Italy. 2008. 103mins.Frederico Munzi lives up to the promise he showed in his debut Saimir with this dark multi-linear drama-thriller set amongst Italy’s new immigrant underclass. It’s a timely theme given the ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration by the country’s recently elected centre-right ...
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ReviewsThe Headless Woman (La Mujer Sin Cabeza)
Dir/scr: Lucrecia Martel. Argentina-Spain-France-Italy. 2008. 87mins.
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Essential Entertainment takes world rights on Clive Barker's Dread
Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Clive Barker's Dread, its second collaboration with the horror guru after Book Of Blood. Anthony DiBlasi will direct the psychological thriller from his own adapted screenplay of the short story from Barker's Books Of Blood collection. Production is set ...
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TF1, Moviemax Italia land on Planet 51
HandMade Films International has closed out two further major territories on animated film Planet 51, with TF1 picking up France and Moviemax Italia taking Italy. The only major territories yet to be sold are Germany and Japan.Deals were negotiated by Carl Clifton of HFI, Moviemax Italia's Guglielemo Marchetti and Fabio ...
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Tropical Storm stirs for Iceland hit Astropia
Astropia, the biggest box-office hit in Iceland last year beating all the Hollywood blockbusters, is now being handled for world sales by Amsterdam-based sales outfit Tropical Storm Entertainment.Julius Kemp and Ingvar Thordarson of the The Icelandic Film Company produced the project. Its last Cannes market screening is today at 1730 ...
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Jinga shows some love for Hiller's gangster story
UK-based sales company Jinga Films has taken world rights to Danny Hiller's thriller Love Me Still.Andrew Howard, Geoff Bell, Alex Reid and Tom Bell star in the story of a violent confrontation between two brothers after one is released from prison to find the other holding his wife hostage.As announced ...
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Babelgum gives $187,500 to six first online fest winners
The Babelgum Online Film Festival has announced the winners of its inaugural festival. Each winner gets ($31,250) Euros 20,000.The winning films are:Looking For Genius Award: Sotto Il Mio Giardino (Under My Garden) by Andrea Lodovichetti (Italy) Short Film Award: Officer Down by Richard Recco (US) ...