All Cannes articles – Page 350
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Uwe Boll game for $7.5m horror sequel
Uwe Boll is lining up a summer shoot in New York for the $7.5m horror sequel and video game adaptation Alone In The Dark 2.Boll, in Cannes to handle sales on the upcoming video game adaptations Far Cry starring Til Schweiger and Postal, among others, will announce the director and ...
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Little Film sees future in Meyers partnership
The Little Film Company is partnering with producer Lawrence Steven Meyers on Air And Fire and Serendipity Starlight.Ludivine Sagnier, Val Kilmer and Vincent Perez will star in the Rupert Thomson adaptation Air And Fire, about a clairvoyant woman who relocates with her husband to Mexico and falls for a Mexican ...
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Kiriyama makes directing debut on Yoroi
Japanese scriptwriter Isao Kiriyama, a regular collaborator with cult director Ryuhei Kitamura, is set to make his directing debut on horror project Yoroi for Gaga Communications. Kitamura has developed the project which he will also produce alongside Ring producer Shinya Kawai. The story revolves around a hostage family on the ...
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Pusan announces Asian Cinema Fund
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced the Asian Cinema Fund, a new production support programme for emerging Asian filmmakers. In addition to $860,000 in funds for projects in all stages, the Asian Cinema Fund also offers support in the way of post-production services in Korea. 'PIFF has always ...
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Menahem Golan brings Festival to Cannes
Cannes veteran Menahem Golan is to direct Holocaust comedy Le Grand Festival, starring Gerard Depardieu. The film, set up as an Austria/Italy/Hungary/Israel co-production begins shooting in Budapest in August. Producers are Norbert Blecha, Laura Susanne Ruedeberg, Jeno Hodi, and Doran Eran. The executive producer is Bernhard Wolschlager. In the ...
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Cineclick's Eastern western conquers France
Cineclick Asia has closed a flurry of deals headed by the sale of Kim Jee-woon's Oriental Western The Good, The Bad, and The Weird to ARP for French-speaking territories. After screening footage of the $11 million film, ARP pacted with Cineclick for a high-six-figure deal - relatively high for an ...
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Sighvatsson plans Aftermath remake
Scandinavian producer Joni Sighvatsson is packaging an English-language remake of the acclaimed 2004 Danish film Aftermath to be directed by Vadim Perelman.Perelman will begin adapting the screenplay after he completes post-production on In Bloom starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood for 2929 Productions.Aftermath (Lad De Sma Born) charts a ...
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New Line maps Compass rollout on Rings blueprint
New Line Cinema has set the release schedule for its epic $150m adventure movie The Golden Compass, almost exactly duplicating the rollout of The Fellowship Of The Ring in 2001. The film is having a major promotional launch today, just as Fellowship did at Cannes 2001, with a press conference ...
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Murphy to star in $9.4m comedy Perrier's Bounty
Cillian Murphy is poised to star in $9.4 million dark comedy Perrier's Bounty, scripted by Mark O'Rowe (Intermission) and directed by Ian Fitzgibbon. A co-production between Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen's Number 9 Films and Alan Moloney's Parallel, the film will shoot in Spring 2008. Intandem is handling sales.Perrier's Bounty ...
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Spain's S2 sings for The Turtle Song
Stephane Sorlat's Madrid-based S2 International has rights in Spain and Portugal to Nick Stringer's documentary The Turtle Song from Sola Media.Produced by the UK's Film And Music Entertainment, the film tells the story of the little loggerhead turtle and her journey from a beach in Florida to the frozen north ...
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Film4 locks into Winterbottom's new five-year prison project
Film4 is on board for a new project from Michael Winterbottom, entitled 7 Days. The film for Channel 4 TV is based on the fictionalised story of a UK prison inmate and his relationship with his wife and four children. John Simm, who Winterbottom worked with on 24 Hour Party ...
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Revolver dances along with Vida Ballet documentary
Revolver Entertainment has pre-bought the UK rights to feature documentary Vida Ballet from director Beadie Finzi, who previously co-directed and produced Unknown White Male.Giorgia Lo Savio produced the film, which is executive produced by Tigerlily's Nikki Parrott. Vida Ballet follows a year in the life of two teenagers, Irlan and ...
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First Star plans its Boer War Siege
New York-based First Star Pictures is in Cannes unveiling Siege Of O'Kiepe, a $37m epic set during the Boer War of 1901. The project will shoot in 2008 in Australia and South Africa with producers Olivier French and Bruce Bisbey. Bisbey also wrote the screenplay.The movie is set in the ...
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Lebanese films start to take the spotlight in Cannes
Lebanon, unlike most other Arab nations this year, is having a good Cannes. Besides Danielle Arbid's A Lost Man and Nadine Labaki's hot Caramel in Directors' Fortnight, and a showcase of recent productions as part of Tous les Cinemas du Monde, the state-funded Fondation Liban Cinema is promoting a raft ...
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Crook steals his way into Third World People
Paris-based Chic Films has added Mackenzie Crook to the cast of its Kristin Scott Thomas romantic comedy Third World People.Antoine Desrosieres will direct the English-language French, South African and German co-production, about Europeans' views on third-world people.Other projects on Chic's line -up include the currently-shooting Black starring French rap artist ...
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Senator strikes deal with Dresen and Rommel
Germany's Senator Film has established a long-term deal with director Andreas Dresen and producer Peter Rommel, the team behind Summer In Berlin and Grill Point. The first project under the deal will be Wolke Neun, a Rommel production which Senator will distribute.The film is the story of a woman who ...
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Sleepless writer turns to the devil with Pacifica
Christine Iso's LA-based Pacifica International is producing an action adventure that tells the story behind the devil's fall from grace, which is being scripted by Sleepless In Seattle writer David S. Ward. Ward is scripting from a story by first-time director Ray Griggs who has personally financed development of the ...
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DiGiaimo and Mudge pact for three
Barbara Mudge's Worldwide Film Entertainment has signed a three-picture deal with producer Lou DiGiaimo (Dinner Rush, Donnie Brasco). The titles are Piney Lake, Nebraska Fish & Game and Good Day Dying. Nick Stagliano (The Florentine) has signed to direct Piney Lake, which will start shooting in August for delivery at ...
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Nadine Labaki attracts buyer buzz with debut feature Caramel
Nadine Labaki shot Caramel - now attracting buyer buzz in Cannes after its Directors Fortnight debut -- in Beirut in late spring 2006, when the troubled city was in buoyant mood following the departure of the Syrian army. 'The timing was so fortuitous, something of a miracle,' says producer Anne-Dominique ...
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The Milky Way (A Via Lacteal)
Dir: Lina Chamie Brazil 2007. 88 mins. A cross-city drive turns into an existential odyssey in Lina Chamie's The Milky Way, which opened Cannes ' Critics Week sidebar. Part urban road movie, part stream-of-consciousness cinematic monologue, Milky Way layers flashbacks, bon mots about life and death, and variant versions of ...