All Cannes articles – Page 354
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Seville steps to Quebec with Maple Pictures
Seville Pictures has signed an agreement with Maple Pictures, the Canadian distributor of Lionsgate product, for the distribution of new releases and catalogue films in Quebec.The agreement, which covers all distribution rights, starts with the theatrical release of Hostel II on June 8.Seville, which also handles product from Warner Independent, ...
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Medavoy plans supernatural thriller Mile Zero
Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures, whose competition entry Zodiac screened in competition here on Thursday, is preparing the supernatural thriller Mile Zero.Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brad Fischer and James Vanderbilt will produce and Erik Van Looy will direct from an original screenplay by Holly Brix.The producers are out to casting on the ...
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Opening weekend frenzy goes online with moviePol.com
Here in Cannes, film-maker Mary McGuckian has launched a new online network, moviePol.com, for online film premieres. The secure site has been developed during the last year, designed by film-makers for film-makers. moviePol.com is now accepting online submissions from all industry sources, directly from film-makers, their representatives, sales agents or ...
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Northern Ireland gets $24m boost in new three-year plan
The Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission has unveiled a new three-year strategy and restructured its funding programmes. In a nod to the digital era, the group has been renamed Northern Ireland Screen, and has gotten a new $24m package of support from Invest Northern Ireland.The new Northern Ireland Screen ...
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New Cinema Fund backs new Winterbottom and Warp X titles
The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund is backing several new projects including Michael Winterbottom's next film and thriller Donkey Punch, being sold in Cannes market by Lumina. The Film Council has awarded:$1.3m (£659,331) to Olly Blackburn's thriller Donkey Punch, in post-production for Warp X and being sold by Lumina ...
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Love Songs (Les Chansons d'Amour)
Dir/scr: Christophe Honore Fr. 2007. 95 mins The genre of the realist-inflected arthouse musical has intermittently thrived in France , ever since it was kick-started by Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Papapluies de Cherbourg). It's an institution that ambitious French directors have returned to with regularity, with even ...
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Triangle (Tit Samgok)
Dirs: Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, Johnnie To. HK-Chi. HK-Chi. 2007. 100mins.Not so much a portmanteau film as a cinematic relay race, Triangle sees three leading Hong Kong directors, each with their own team of scriptwiters, taking on three successive parts of a single thriller. Though it's a fascinating experiment, the ...
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Germany's Splendid takes on Jaa's Ong Bak 2
Germany's Splendid has become the first distributor to pounce on Ong Bak 2, starring and directed by Tony Jaa, since The Weinstein Company surrendered international rights to the project. TWC acquired all rights excluding Asia and the UK to the film last year, from Thailand's Sahamongkolfilm International, but recently renegotiated ...
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New Line takes North America on Darclight's Sick House
New Line Cinema has acquired North American rights from Darclight Films to the British horror film The Sick House.Directed and co-written by Curtis Radclyffe, the film tells the story of an archaeologist, played by Gina Phillips (Jeepers Creepers), who becomes trapped in an abandoned hospital and is preyed upon by ...
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Abu Dhabi announces inaugural film festival and new film fund
The Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi announced that it is launching an international film festival in October 2007, and also launching a film fund to support local, regional and international films, supported by an 'unlimited' government budget.Postioning itself as the burgeoning cultural hub of the Gulf, Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon ...
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The Banishment (Izgnanie)
Dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev. 2007. Russ. 150minsThe Banishment struggles to carry the burden of expectations surrounding the second feature from writer-director Andrey Zvyagintsev. Like his Venice Golden Lion winner The Return, it offers a tale of pride and patriarchy illuminating the dark soul of the Russian male. It confirms Zvyagintsev as ...
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Last Vampire gets first bite in UK
Hong Kong producer Bill Kong has sealed one of the first major deals on upcoming action title Blood: The Last Vampire in the first days of the market, by selling all UK rights to Pathe UK Distribution. Chris Nahon is directing the $35m English-language film starring Korean superstar Gianna Jun ...
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Gans in the game for fantasy adventure
Christophe Gans has signed to direct the $70m-plus epic adventure Onimusha for Samuel Hadida's Davis Films. Gans previously collaborated with Hadida on the worldwide hits Silent Hill and Brotherhood Of The Wolf and will arrive on the Croisette on Sunday to meet buyers. Several studios are believed to ...
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Heavyweight sales for KM's 200 Pounds Beauty
Korean sales company KM Culture has sold cosmetic surgery romantic-comedy 200 Pounds Beauty to Amuse, Inc. for Japan, M Pictures for Thailand, Vietnam Media for Vietnam, and AOE for Malaysia. The Amuse deal in particular is good news after last year's huge slump in Korean sales to Japan. Lee Sang-mi, ...
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Bridges steps up to join cast of $25m Weide film
In a move which is already whetting buyers' appetites, Jeff Bridges has joined the cast of Bob Weide's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, the $25 million adaptation of Toby Young's bestselling satirical memoir about his time as a British journalist abroad, working in Manhattan. Bridges will be playing ...
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Olivier Assayas springs Binoche for $6m drama
MK2 will produce the next effort from French director Olivier Assayas, Springtime Past. The $6m (Euros 4.5m) drama will star Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling and Jeremie Renier and will be ready for Berlin. Assayas is in competition at Cannes this year with Boarding Gate. ...
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Fabrication lands Presidio on space station project Almaz
Fabrication Films has sold Christian Johnson’s fact-based space station disaster film Almaz Black Box to Presidio in Japan following the premiere screening on the first day of the market.The film centres on events in 1998 when a Russian military space station carrying three crew members and two Western observers crashed ...
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Thailand's GMM Tai Hub sells Alone to UniKorea
Thailand's GMM Tai Hub (GTH) has sold Korean rights to horror hit Alone to UniKorea. The company also sold to a string of other territories including France, Benelux and Brazil. Alone stars Thai pop singer-model-TV actress Marsha Wattanapanich as an expat wife living in Korea. The second film from the ...