All Cannes articles – Page 334

  • News

    Opix plans Toy Soldiers with Kit Ryan

    2008-05-19T07:58:00Z

    Shepperton Studios-based Opix Films Ltd is again working with Irish director Kit Ryan on Toy Soldiers. The project, about child soldiers in Africa, will shoot in Cape Town starting October 2008.Ryan's last comedy thriller with Opix and Silver Pictures, Botched starring Stephen Dorff, went to Warner Bros in the US ...

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    HanWay sells Wenders' Palermo to UK's Axiom

    2008-05-18T20:56:00Z

    Axiom Films, has bought all UK rights to Wim Wenders Cannes Competition title Palermo Shooting from HanWay Films.The film has also been pre-sold in France (Ocean), Germany (Senator) and Italy (BIM).The film has its Cannes debut on Saturday and HanWay will host a private buyers screening mid-week.Axiom already acquired a ...

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    Ealing slate includes Oliver Parker, Amma Asante and new St Trinian's

    2008-05-18T19:40:00Z

    Ealing Studios' new productions will include Oliver Parker's next Oscar Wilde adaptation Dorian Gray -- about the man who tries to escape aging -- and a Holocaust love story directed by Amma Asante.Ealing's head of studio Barnaby Thompson will produce Dorian Gray. Ben Barnes, who plays Prince Caspian in the ...

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    BBC's slate includes Mighty Boosh film, Debbie Issit's Nativity

    2008-05-18T19:39:46Z

    BBC Films has announced a full development slate following its recent restructuring. The production arm of the Beeb is following The Other Boleyn Girl and is at work now adapting the script for The Boleyn Inheritance - one of the sequels also written by Philippa Gregory.The book is told through ...

  • Reviews

    Voyage To The Pyranees (Le Voyage aux Pyrenees)

    2008-05-18T17:04:00Z

    Dir/scr. Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu.France. 2008. 102 mins.A marital farce about misunderstandings, the great blue yonder and (apparently supernatural) gender-swapping, Journey To The Pyrenees is brisk, witty and often daft. This love letter to the film-makers’ native region is a gift for its two leads, Sabine Azema and Jean-Pierre Darroussin, ...

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    Cloud 9 (Wolke 9)

    2008-05-18T17:00:00Z

    Dir. Andreas Dresen.Germany. 2008. 95 mins.

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    Je Veux Voir (I Want To See)

    2008-05-18T16:12:00Z

    Dirs: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige. Lebanon-France. 2008. 75mins.

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    Blind Loves (Slepe Lasky)

    2008-05-18T15:54:00Z

    Dir: Juraj Lehotsky.Slovakia. 2008. 76mins.A film its actors will never see, Blind Loves traces four blind people in theSlovakRepublicand investigates, in a seamless meld of documentary and fiction, how they experience love. Touching and original, this first full-length outing from documentary and music-video director Juraj Lehotsky ...

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    Indiana Jones And The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

    2008-05-18T15:10:00Z

    Dir: Steven Spielberg. US. 2008. 123mins.

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    Boogie

    2008-05-18T15:01:00Z

    Dir: Radu Muntean.Romania. 2008. 103mins.InRomania, Radu Muntean’s third feature film will ultimately be seen as a carefully-studied, remarkably accurate image of the country’s thirtysomething generation right now. Elsewhere, however, Boogie looks like an old-fashioned throwback to those endless talky New Wave films. A far cry from ...

  • Reviews

    The Chaser (Chugyeogja)

    2008-05-18T14:26:00Z

    Dir: Na Hong-Jin.South Korea. 2008. 123mins.Already a major hit inKoreaand set for a remake with Warner Bros, this bloody, frenetic serial killer thriller should keep themidnightscreening crowd happy, especially inAsia. Na Hong-jin’s promising but over-long debut is reminiscent of Bong Joon-ho’s highly-regarded Memories Of Murder and ...

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    Gomorrah (Gomorra)

    2008-05-18T13:08:00Z

    Dir: Matteo Garrone.Italy. 2008. 135mins.

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    Afterschool

    2008-05-18T13:07:00Z

    Dir: Antonio Campos. US. 2008. 122mins.

  • Reviews

    Adhen (Le Dernier Maquis)

    2008-05-18T12:37:00Z

    Dir: Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche. France-Algeria. 2008. 93mins.Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche has addressed the schizoid nature of the clash of French and Algerian cultures before, most notably in the lovely Bled Number One, set in a small Algerian village. In Adhen, traditional religion comes up against contemporary capital in a ...

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    Salt Of This Sea (Milh Hadha Al-Bahr)

    2008-05-18T12:05:00Z

    Dir/scr. Annemarie Jacir. France-Palestine-Switz-Belgium-USA-UK-Neth-Spain. 2008. 89mins.

  • Reviews

    Serbis (Service)

    2008-05-18T06:43:00Z

    Dir. Brillante Ma.Mendoza. Philippines/France. 2008. 94mins.

  • News

    Palm Tree readies three biopics; screens Seven Crosses in Cannes

    2008-05-17T22:49:49Z

    Robbie Moffat and Mairi Sutherland's UK-based production and sales company Palm Tree Entertainment has a slate of three historical biopics in development: the $10m Chopin, about the composer; $20m Secret Image about the hidden homosexual love life of Leonardo Da Vinci; and the $15m Voyage Of Dream about the Canadian ...

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    F&ME goes fishing for English-language Icelandic horror film

    2008-05-17T22:49:35Z

    The Icelandic Film Company is working with UK-based producers Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME) for new English-language horror/thriller Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre.The film will start shooting in August with director Julius Kemp. Financing was closed here in Cannes.The film is described as a splatter movie laden with black comedy. Ingvar ...

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    Jinga signs two-pic deal with Spain's Notro

    2008-05-17T20:51:33Z

    Jinga Films has closed all rights in Spain for two of its titles with NotroFilms. The deal includes Julian Richards' coming-of-age thriller Summer Scars and Craig Strachan's werewolf horror film Wild Country.Notro will release both through its Amazing label with Warner Bros.Jinga's sales slate also includes Penny Woolcock's Exodus and ...

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    K5 takes on world sales for with Gillies' The Disposables

    2008-05-17T20:49:03Z

    UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 continues to build its sales slate with a world sales deal for The Disposables.Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling is executive producing. Daniel Gillies is directing and producing. Gillies also stars in the film with Rachael Leigh Cook and Seymour Cassel.Other producers are Darryn Welch from ...