All Cannes articles – Page 344
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European film-makers debate digital future
European policy-makers and film-makers will debate the future of film in a digital world at an event on Europe Day in Cannes (Saturday May 26).The event is a chance to consider the rapid changes that have been or will be brough about by new media developments.The challenges of a new ...
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Ruiz ramps up $36m epic Love And Virtue
Raoul Ruiz has revealed further details of his $36.3m (Euros 27m) historical epic, Love And Virtue (on Echo Bridge Entertainment's slate). Damian Lewis, Saffron Burrows, John Malkovich, Virginie Ledoyen, Darryl Hannah, and Jonathan Rhys Meyer are all attached to appear in the film, scripted by Mia Sperber and Stefano Pratesi.The ...
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Kimmel catches sales on Cannes slate
Kimmel International has closed key deals on its new Cannes films, kicking off with Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York which went to Asmik Ace in Japan and Bim in Italy.Meanwhile Kimmel sales chief Mark Lindsay reported that MovieEye in Japan and Senator in Germany bought Tarsem Singh's political ...
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IFC swoops on Cannes official selections
IFC has swooped on Cristian Mungui's Romanian competition entry 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Un Certain Regard opener Flight Of The Red Balloon.Both films will be released in North America through IFC'ssimultaneous theatrical and VOD distribution platform IFC First Take.Abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks ...
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Monsoon and IdtV make first co-production with Nadra
Singapore production company Monsoon Pictures and Dutch filmmakers IdtV Film are joining forces to co-produce $6.5m drama Nadra.The project, which marks the first co-production between Singapore and the Netherlands, tells the true story of a 13-year-old Dutch girl at the centre of a fierce custody battle between her birth parents ...
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Sales erupt on Polanski's Pompeii
Summit International has closed pre-sales on Roman Polanski's upcoming epic Pompeii to IDC in Mexico and Brazil and Mars in South Korea.Entertainment is understood to be the frontrunner for UK rights, however Summit could not confirm the deal last night.Meanwhile Summit Entertainment top brass and the film's producer Robert Benmussa ...
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Germans woo Cannes producers with film fund
The German film industry has been in Cannes bullishly promoting its 'lean, straightforward' new Federal Film Fund to an audience of international producers. The Fund, worth $240 (Euros 180m) from 2007 to 2009, is open to international co-productions. In the five months of its existence, it has already backed 24 ...
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Go Go Tales
Dir/scr: Abel Ferrara. It/US. 2007. 96 mins Abel Ferrara , king of New York low-life drama, slips into more benign mode than usual with Go Go Tales, a good-natured but somewhat half-baked evocation of life backstage at a lap dancing club. The ensemble comedy, with its decided stylistic debt to ...
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Deficit
Dir: Gael Garcia Bernal. Mex. 2007. 75 minutes. If sincere commitment and high spirits were enough, this first film by the supremely accomplished - even though still quite young - Mexican actor and heartthrob, Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Motorcycle Diaries, Bad Education) would be a masterpiece. Alas, ...
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Chop Shop
Dir: Ramin Bahrani. US. 2007. 84 mins A flawlessly observed piece of street realism, and an unforgiving parable of American economic reality, Chop Shop is a compelling follow-up to Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani's 2005 debut. Using a non-professional cast to convincingly natural effect, the film follows in the tradition ...
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Melbourne festival starts networking event for producers
The Melbourne International Festival (MIFF) has established an international film networking event which will take place at the beginning of this year's festival from July 26 to 28.Called 37 South: Bridging The Gap, the event is designed to bring together Australian film producers with a range of potential partners.Up to ...
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Palme d'Or winner Wajda plans September release for Katyn
Polish director Andrej Wajda will premiere his new film Katyn Sept. 17 at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. 'It's a personal story for me because my father was killed in Katyn,' Wajda told Screen International.Katyn (Post-Mortem) examines the Katyn massacre of 1940, in which Soviet troops killed thousands of ...
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Cyclops and Little Mo forecast Hitler's Weatherman
Pint-sized UK comedian Lee Evans (Mousehunt, There's Something About Mary) is to star as Adolf Hitler's personal meteorologist in $8m comedy, I Was Hitler's Weatherman, being produced by Cyclops Vision with Little Mo Films.The part of Hitler is under offer to Stanley Tucci.The film is scripted by Stuart Silver and ...
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Scanbox co-produces three new Swedish features
As it gets more involved in Swedish production, Scanbox Entertainment has announced details of three new Swedish features it is co-producing. The move into co-production includes the films Iskariot, directed by Miko Lazic and produced in cooperation with Ironwood Films, Tjuvarnas Marknad by Jan Guillou, which will start shooting in ...
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Luke G-Jones goes green with Cool Hand
Luke G-Jones, the former head of co-production and finance at New Films International, has launched an innovative 'carbon credit' scheme for film production via his LA-based Cool Hand International.Cool Hand, says G-Jones, is a carbon-neutral company and any film in which he gets involved will be a carbon-neutral production. The ...
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Latido pre-sells The Horn Of Plenty to CNC
Spanish sales outfit Latido has pre-sold The Horn Of Plenty, directed by Juan Carlos Tabio (Guantemara, Strawberry and Chocolate), to Belgium (CNC).Latido has also sold its Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary Running With Arnold to Madman (Australia) and Turkey (Barbar) and is in advanced negotiations with Italy, Switzerland and German. The Spanish ...
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Kimmel closes Japan and Italy on Kaufman's Synecdoche
Kimmel International has closed key deals on its new Cannes films, kicking off with Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York which went to Asmik Ace in Japan and Bim in Italy.Meanwhile Kimmel sales chief Mark Lindsay reported that MovieEye in Japan and Senator in Germany bought Tarsem Singh's political ...
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Global Entertainment buys remake rights for Hungarian comedy
Australian company Global Entertainment has purchased English-language remake rights of Hungarian romantic comedy S.O.S. Love! 'It is a great script and a great story,' said Scowcroft. 'It has universal appeal - everyone wants to be loved.' Global Entertainment's Stuart Scowcroft and Rezso Bodonyi said that they had purchased English-language remake ...
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Style Jam finds Korean buyers for four titles including Drifting
Japan's Style Jam has closed sales of four titles which are currently in post-production to South Korea.Shinji Aoyama's Sad Vacation, starring Tadanobu Asano, and Miki Satoshi's Drifting have been acquired by Korea's Sponge Entertainment.Meanwhile Korea's Cinema Valley also acquired two titles from Style Jam - Ryo Iwamatsu's Then Summer Came, ...
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Independent books more Hallam Foe deals for Korea and Portugal
Independent has closed a slew of new deals on David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe starring Jamie Bell.Territories sold during Cannes include the US (Magnolia), Korea (Jin Jin Pictures), Portugal (LNK), Benelux (Indies) and Israel (Orlando Films).Buena Vista International will release in the UK in summer 2007, followed by other major territories ...