All Cannes articles – Page 335
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F&ME goes fishing for English-language Icelandic horror film
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
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
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 ...
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High Point scares up Splintered world rights
High Point Films has picked up world rights (excluding UK) to Splintered, which marks Simeon Halligan's directorial debut. Rachel Richardson-Jones of Not A Number will produce, while Clive Parsons will serve as executive producer.The British horror film is about a teenage girl held captive by a man who claims to ...
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White Male Heart beats with THINKFilm International
THINKFilm International is taking on international sales for White Male Heart, which will star Cillian Murphy and Eddie Redmayne.Both actors are riding high at the moment, with Redmayne's projects including The Other Boleyn Girl and Savage Grace and Murphy's The Dark Knight, Hippie Hippie Shake and The Edge Of Love.THINKFIlm ...
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Intandem sells first four territories for new Tommy Lee Jones film
On the heels of Tommy Lee Jones's arrival in Cannes to talk about his his new film Islands in the Stream, Intandem Films has sold the first territory to Mars Films for France. Other territories sold are CIS (Luxor), Turkey (Chantier) and Portugal (Lusomundo).Today (Sunday) Jones will give his presentation ...
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Initialize producers sign two new co-producers; deal with SDI
UK consultancy Initialize Films, which held its first Co-Production Meeting Day at Berlin, is now seeing its group of producers confirming deals in Cannes.Paul Largan of Bandigital is now working with Gia Muresan of Cinemarket Productions for Largan's $6m The Undefended. Also, Swiss producer Christophe Neracher of Hugo Films has ...
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Coffin Joe to get English-language update
One Eyed Films is developing English-language horror feature based on the classic Coffin Joe character.The film is being planned as a Brazil/Canada/Spain co-production.The film has the working title of Santo Amaro The Bitter Garden and it would be the first Coffin Joe (Ze do Caixao) film in English. The cult ...
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Kinnear, Kruger, Mendes in talks for Omega's Little Green Men
Omega Entertainment has taken on international rights to Little Green Men, which Whit Stillman will direct.The ensemble cast lining up now includes Greg Kinnear, Diane Kruger, Eva Mendes, John Malkovich, Peter Sarsgaard, Peter Dinklage and Zooey Deschanel. All are in talks but no deals are confirmed yet.The project is based ...
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ReviewsIt's Hard Being Loved By Jerks (C'est Dur D'etre Aime Par Des Cons)
Dir. Daniel Leconte. 2008.France. 119 minsFreedom of speech and freedom of the press versus religious grievances are explored to edifying effect in It’s Hard Being Loved By Jerks. This lively, intelligently-structured documentary chronicles the suit brought by Muslim organisations against French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo after ...
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ReviewsBetter Things
Dir: Duane Hopkins. 2008. UK. 93minsCoping as best they can, the perpetually glum inhabitants of a rural town in the South West of England feel emotionally isolated, verging towards distraught in Better Things. Permeated by dispassionate drug use depicted without a shred of glamour, writer-director Duane ...
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Film4's slate includes Christopher Hampton adapting Post-Birthday World
Film4 has unveiled a bulging development slate, boasting about 70 projects at various stages.Film4 has, as usual, a slew of literary adaptations in the works. Lionel Shriver's The Post-Birthday World will be adapted by Atonement Oscar nominee Christopher Hampton. Alison Owen of Ruby will produce and the film is at ...
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Halcyon gets Bass on board for Godmother adaptation
Chris Coen's UK production and distribution company Halcyon Pictures has optioned Carrie Adams' novel The Godmother.Oscar winner Ron Bass (My Best Friend's Wedding) will adapt the script. The London-set comedy is about a godmother of four without children of her own who tries to help her friends with family problems ...
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Diffusion takes UK rights to Bacon's Arena
Diffusion picks up Bacon's Arena for UKWendy MitchellWavelength Pictures has sold Bacon's Arena to Diffusion Pictures for the UK and Ireland. This follows on a French deal with Pretty Pictures. Diffusion's UK release will coincide with the forthcoming Francis Bacon centenary exhibition at London's Tate Britain, which opens Sept 8.This ...
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Protagonist takes on Bankside library sales
Bankside Films has teamed with new sales outfit Protagonist Pictures to sell Bankside's catalogue titles to TV, video and ancillary markets. Nada Cirjanic, who is in charge of the Film4 library through Protagonist, will also be in charge of the Bankside library.Bankside will continue to acquire projects for first-run theatrical ...
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ContentFilm International lights up with Kid Cannabis
ContentFilm International will handle international sales on Kid Cannabis, written and directed by John Stockwell. ICM will handle North American rights. Stockwell previously directed Into the Blue, Blue Crush and Crazy Beautiful. The film starts shooting July 2 in Vancouver.The film stars Chris Marquette and Aaron Yoo with more cast ...
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Laura Hastings Smith to follow Hunger with Piggy, Satan, Charming Man
Laura Hastings Smith, producer of Un Certain Regard opener Hunger, has a full slate of films in development. The London-based producer, participating in EFP's Producers on The Move, plans to re-team with Hunger collaborator Robin Gutch for the Warp X project This Little Piggy by Corinna Faith, described as 'a ...