All Cannes articles – Page 366
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Paranoid Park
Dir/scr: Gus Van Sant. US-Fr. 2007. 85mins.Gus Van Sant is such a consummate filmmaker, so in love with the visual and aural texture of the medium, that it's difficult at first to pinpoint the niggling problem with Paranoid Park, his most experimental feature to date. It's not that Van Sant ...
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Buyers take Control of Becker's hot Corbijn title
Becker International has closed several deals for Anton Corbijn's hot Director's Fortnight opener Control. The new territories sold are Japan (Style Jam), Scandinavia (Atlanta), Brazil (Daylight), Poland (Gutek), Croatia (Continental Films), and Russia (Maywin Media). US negotiations are ongoing.The existing distributors already in place for the Ian Curtis biopic are ...
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Sony poised to pounce on The Band's Visit
Sony Pictures Classics is reportedly poised to take North Americanrights excluding French-speaking Canada to Eran Kolirin's Un Certain Regard hit The Band's Visit. The Israeli-French film follows an Egyptian police band that gets stranded in Israel after they arrive for a ceremony and end up befriending the local villagers.Bleiberg Entertainment ...
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Maths murders add up for Filmworks partners
Odeon and Sky have announced The Oxford Murders, from cult director Alex de la Iglesia and starring Elijah Wood and John Hurt, as the second release under their new joint venture Odeon Sky Filmworks.Based on Guillermo Martinez's award winning novel, Oxford Murders sees Hurt and Wood star alongside each other ...
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Cillian Murphy joins Bounty in hot 9 slate
Cillian Murphy is poised to star in $9.4m dark comedy Perrier's Bounty, scripted by Mark O'Rowe 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 is one ...
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Fortissimo fires up Wong Kar Wai's Ashes sales
Wong Kar Wai's Ashes Of Time Redux is proving to be a hot seller at Cannes with Fortissimo Films closing deals with Germany's Splendid, Brazil's Imagem Filmes and Svensk Filmindustri for Scandinavia, among other territories. Poland's Monolith, Turkey's D Productions and Romania's Media Rights have also snapped up Wong's reworking ...
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Chow's Star rises with Columbia collaboration
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia (CPFPA) has sealed a multi-picture production collaboration with Hong Kong filmmaker Stephen Chow's The Star Overseas. The two companies, which previously collaborated on Chow's hit action comedy Kung-fu Hustle, will work together on a series of niche films featuring emerging Asian talent both above and ...
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Niki Caro uncorks Vintner's Luck
Niki Caro (Whale Rider) will direct a screen adaptation of The Vintner's Luck. Caro scripted with Joan Scheckel from the New Zealand novel of the same name by Elizabeth Knox. The cast is led by Jeremie Renier (The Child), Gaspard Ulliel (Young Hannibal), Vera Farmiga (The Departed), Maria Ruiz (Summer ...
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Buyers fall for Arsenal's Timber
Yarek Danielak's Arsenal Pictures has completed multiple territory sales on horror title Timber Falls, one of the first films in the four-picture deal with producer Arnold Rifkin.Rights have gone to Germany (Ascot), the UK and Scandinavia (Scanbox), Mexico (Gussi), Brazil (Playarte), and the Middle East (Phars).'We're very happy to be ...
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Atlantic berth for Sundance director Toa Fraser
Alan Harris, the ex-head of finance for Grosvenor Park, has several new projects in his slate at Atlantic Film Group, the UK-based company he runs with Nicole Dade.The first new film to shoot will be New Zealand director Toa Fraser following up his Sundance hit No. 2 with a project ...
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Distant Horizon takes North American rights to Flash Point
Anant Singh's Distant Horizon has acquired North American rights to Hong Kong martial arts film Flash Point from Mandarin Films. This latest collaboration between director Wilson Yip Wai-shun and actor Donnie Yen, follows a cop and his undercover colleague trying to take down a ruthless gang of triads in 1997 ...
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Pearce, Neill and Beresford on Reliant Pictures International roster
Reliant Pictures International headed by London-based managing director Penny Wolf has been meeting with buyers at its inaugural Cannes to introduce a diverse slate featuring projects with Guy Pearce, Sam Neill and Bruce Beresford.Pearce and Neill are about to begin shooting alongside Miranda Otto on the Australian thriller How To ...
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Sam Neill joins Daybreakers cast
Sam Neill has joined Ethan Hawke on the cast of Lionsgate's upcoming vampire thriller Daybreakers, which is set to begin filming in Australia in July. The story takes place in 2017 as of a clandestine group of vampires discovers the key to saving the human race from a ...
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Inferno prepares dog story remake with Richard Gere
Los Angeles-based Inferno Distribution is gearing up for a September shoot on the English language remake Hachiko: A Dog's Story with Richard Gere attached to star.Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel's financing, production and sales company acquired remake rights to the 1987 Japanese drama Hachiko Monogatari from Shochiku and is financing ...
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Graham King extends realm with GK Film
Graham King, Oscar-winning producer of The Departed, Blood Diamond and The Aviator, has launched a new production company GK Films. At the same time, he has signed a three-year extension of his overall production deal with Warner Bros Pictures and extended his production deal with Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil.The new ...
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Revolver takes rights to Luchetti's Brother
Voracious UK distributor Revolver has taken rights to That My Brother is An Only Child, the Un Certain Regard title directed by Daniele Luchetti.The film was acquired from Think Film.Revolver has also picked up documentary Chavez, by actor Diego Luna, about the illustrious career and turbulent life of Mexican boxing ...
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AV Pictures' crocodile thriller Black Water sells widely
Buyers are swarming round crocodile thriller Black Water, being sold by AV Pictures. Buyers snapping down on the film are The Works (UK), Brazil (PlayArte), Indonesia & Malaysia (Ram Indo), Middle East (Falcon Films), Philippines (Pioneer), Thailand (J-Bics) and Turkey (Horizon International) have also bitten on the film. Deals had ...
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Madman picks up six including Flight Of Red Balloon
Distributor Madman Entertainment has picked a slew of titles in Cannes for Australia/New Zealand distribution.Madman has struck deals for Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Un Certain Regard opener Flight Of The Red Balloon along with Albert Lamorisse's classics Le Ballon Rouge and Crin-Blanc, all from Films Distribution.Also, Madman bought Bleiberg Entertainment's UCR title ...
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Medb Films strikes three-picture Target deal with Brenda Blethyn project
Target Entertainment has signed a three-picture deal with Jan Dunn and Elaine Wickham's UK-based Medb Films. Target's Alison Rayson will executive produce the films, which Dunn will direct and Wickham will produce.The first under the deal is The Calling, Dunn's story about a university student who suddenly decides to become ...
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Inmoa kicks up Bright Star and Get Some
Korean importer/distributor Inmoa Entertainment has picked up Bright Star from Pathe Pictures International and Get Some from Summit Entertainment.Thomas Kim, president of international business at Inmoa, said he picked up Bright Star because 'it's directed by Jane Campion, who does love stories well, and it stars Ben Whishaw from Perfume: ...