All Cannes articles – Page 343
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Arthouse strikes distribution deal with Australia's Madman
New York-based Arthouse Films has signed an exclusive output and distribution deals with Melbourne-based Madman Entertainment for Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.Madman will distribute 10-15 Arthouse titles per year in the territories. The deal was negotiated by David Koh, Head of Acquisitions & Production for Arthouse Films along with ...
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Nordisk pre-buys three hot titles including Pompeii
Nordisk Film has struck Cannes deals for a number of films, including Roman Polanski's forthcoming $130m Pompeii. Nordisk also bought Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex, based on the true story of German terrorists. Stefan Aust, author of the book of the same name, will write the script with producer Bernd Eichinger. Uli ...
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Miramax dives deep for Schnabel's competition title Diving Bell
Miramax films has struck a deal for all North American rights to Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon), the well-received Cannes competitor sold by Pathe Pictures International.Sources put the value of the deal at about $3m. The film has been the subject of ...
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Momentum takes UK and Spain for Zwick's Defiance
In Cannes, Momentum Pictures has taken UK and Spanish rights to Defiance, the WWII action drama being planned by Ed Zwick.Bedford Falls and Grosvenor Park are producing and financing. As previously reported, Daniel Craig will star in the film, based on the true story of four brothers who built an ...
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Mister Lonely
Dir: Harmony Korine. UK/Fr/Ire/USA. 2006. 112 mins It's a playful, romantic Harmony Kormine who emerges for inspection with Mister Lonely, his first film as a director since Julien Donkey Boy in 1999. The story of a lonely Michael Jackson impersonator who finds a fleeting tenderness with a Marilyn Monroe impersonator ...
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The Pope's Toilet (El Bano del Papa)
Dir/scr: Enrique Fernandez, Cesar Charlone. Urug/Bra. 2007. 97 mins.Taking place in a poverty-stricken area between Brazil and Uruguay and shot on location with documentary-style grittiness, it is the kind of stuff that festivals concerned with social issues and the Third World should have a look at and Latin American minorities ...
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Back To Normandy (Retour A Normandie)
Dir: Nicolas Philibert. Fr. 2006. 113 mins Any documentary is an act of remembrance. Back To Normandy has a special personal significance for director Nicolas Philibert because it allows him to return to the scene of his earliest filmmaking experiences and also to pay homage to his mentor Rene Allio. ...
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The Edge Of Heaven (Auf Der Anderen Seite)
Dir/scr: Fatih Akin. Ger/Tur. 2007. 122 mins. Though it's far below the level of his debut film, Head-On, which won the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2003, Fatih Akin's new film, once it comes together at the end and finally defeats the shagginess of his script, is a solid if ...
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Co-Production Office closes deals on Anderson film
The Co-Production Office has closed multiple deals on new Roy Anderson You, The Living. Territories include Japan (Stylejam), France (Les Films Du Losange), Belgium (Lumiere), Germany (Neue Vision), Netherlands (Filmmuseum), Finland (Cinema Mondo), Poland (Gutek), Greece (Ama), and Korea (Sponge).Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export has gone to Belgium (Lumiere) Netherlands (Filmmuseum), Korea ...
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Days of Darkness shines for Studio Canal
StudioCanal has sold Denys Arcand's closing night film Days Of Darkness to Bim in Italy, Golem in Spain and other territories including Greece, Portugal, Brazil, Israel, Iceland, Turkey, Belgium and Switzerland. Emir Kusturica's Promise Me This has gone to Badriti in Spain, Kinowelt in Germmany, Crystal in Canada, and about ...
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European MEDIA Programme plans investment in VOD and digital
MEDIA 2007 is setting aside $5.4m(Euros 4m) this year to invest in Video On Demand and Digital Cinema Distribution. The money will be invested in six projects, with applications open until July 9 and services expected to be running by June 2008.'We think it is important that Europe gets off ...
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Rintaro's Japanese 3D penguins go Wild
Wild Bunch has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Asia and North America, to 3D CG-animated feature Yona Yona Penguin, which is being directed by Japanese anime master Rintaro. Japanese animation studio Madhouse Inc and Paris-based Denis Friedman Productions are co-producing the film which is scheduled for release in Japan in December ...
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Chase marks first Indian movie shot entirely in Italy
India's Adlabs Films and production house ASP White are planning to shoot $5m action adventure Chase in Rome, marking the first time that an Indian feature has been entirely filmed in Italy. ASP White founder Anubhav Sinha will direct and is producing the film, which is scheduled to shoot in ...
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Vertigo plans to unleash Cage Rage
Vertigo (the UK outfit behind Football Factory and Outlaw) is to partner with Cage Rage Championships to co-produce the new movie, Cage Rage, likely to have a budget of around $9 million. It is envisaged that this may be the start of a Rocky-like franchise.Brock Norman Brock is writing the ...
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Hyde Park make big hits with Streetfighter
Hyde Park International (HPI) has closed major territory sales on Streetfighter headed by a UK deal with Entertainment. Rights have gone to Brazil (Swen), CIS and Baltics (MGN), Spanish speaking Latin America (Gussi), Portugal (Lusomundo), South Africa (Nu Metro), Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), Middle East (Phars), Philippines (Pioneer), Thailand (M ...
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Studio 2.0 takes two from Summit
Korean distributor Studio 2.0 has picked up City of Amber and Step Up 2 from Summit Entertainment. 'We previously picked up the original at last Cannes and saw good box office with it, so we decided to pick up the sequel as well,' says Choi Eun-Young, head of international. The ...
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Korea's Sponge makes most expensive Cannes deal
Korean arthouse specialist Sponge Entertainment has made its most expensive pick-up to date, with the $20m Death Note spin-off L from NTV. The film, which saw heated bidding, is due for release this coming February across Asia. Sponge has picked up three more Competition titles - Sokourov's Alexandra from Rezo, ...
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Antonia Bird will produce Daradji's next Iraqi feature
Mohammed Daradji has arrived in Cannes fresh from location scouting inIraq.The young Baghdad-born director, who had festival success with hisfirst feature Ahlaam (Dreams), 2005, has teamed up with Britishdirector-producer Antonia Bird to produce his second film, also to be shotin the war-torn country. Bird, who has a particular interest in ...
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