All France articles – Page 201
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NewsAmber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen join McG thriller
EuropaCorp and Relativity Media made the announcement on Monday [7]. The new cast join previously announced Kevin Costner on the untitled project.
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NewsFrench box office dipped 5.9% in 2012
French films accounted for 40.2% of market against 45.3% for US pictures.
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NewsWild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval blasts French star system
Producer and sales chief slams salaries of France’s top stars, calling for rethink of French film subsidy system and cap on actor wages.
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FeaturesA window on France
Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris (Jan 15-21), which showcases the latest productions from the territory, will host its biggest selection yet at the event’s 15th edition. Melanie Goodfellow reports.
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NewsTobias Lindholm’s A Hijacking wins at Les Arcs
Danish thriller A Hijacking (Kapringen) has won the Crystal Arrow at the fourth Les Arcs European Film Festival.
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CommentVive la France!
As the editorial team at Screen surveyed 2012’s highs and lows and game-changing news stories, one trend that struck us was the huge success of French films abroad in 2012.
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NewsBenoit Jacquot’s Farewell My Queen wins Louis Delluc Prize
Benoit Jacquot’s French revolution drama Farewell My Queen (Les Adieux à La Reine) has won the Louis Delluc Prize for best French film in 2012, the awards presided over by Gilles Jacob announced on Friday.
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NewsRouge International bulks up slate with Family Film ahead of Les Arcs
Julie Gayet and Nadia Turincev’s Paris-based production company is also set to unveil a rough-cut of A Spell To Ward off the Darkness in Les Arcs.
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NewsFrance set to boost film tax incentives
Ceiling on Tax Rebate for International Production (TRIP) could rise $12.9 m (€10m) from $5.1m (€4m).
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NewsImpossible sinks Titanic record in Spain
Tsunami drama has also started strongly in France and Thailand, where the film is set.
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NewsShout! Factory takes two from EuropaCorp
In a deal with French studio EuropaCorp, Shout! Factory has acquired US home entertainment, digital and broadcast rights to CG animated feature A Monster In Paris and Luc Besson’s adventure film The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec.
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NewsFrench film industry protests 3% VAT hike on cinema tickets
VAT on cinema tickets set to rise to 10% at the beginning of 2014.
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NewsLes Arcs unveils Work in Progress titles
Upcoming titles from Lech Majewski and duo Ben Rivers and Ben Russell are among the 12 films to be showcased in the Work in Progess section of the Les Arcs European Film Festival.
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NewsTaken 2 takes EuropaCorp back to black
First half-year net profit of $15.5m (€12m) is highest company has recorded in a full fiscal year since flotation in 2007.
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NewsDistribution: Cohen takes Son, Cinema Guild to play Viola
Cohen Media Group has acquired US distribution rights and English language remake rights from Epithete Films to Gilles Legrand’s family drama YWBMS (Tu Sera Mon Filles) starring Niels Arestrup, Lorant Deutsch and Patrick Chesnais.
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NewsMemento boards thriller Back in Crime
Paris-based sales company also set to premiere first images from Jim Mickle’s cannibal picture We Are What We Are [pictured].
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NewsGaspard Ulliel to star in Bonello’s Yves Saint Laurent biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Film is due to shoot late spring. Script will be available before Berlin.
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NewsEuropaCorp and Belga Films sign three-year output deal
Wide-ranging deal also covers co-production, financing via the Belgian tax shelter and diversification into next generation multiplexes.
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NewsCelluloid Dreams boards sales on Bone Tomahawk
Wild Side has made a preemptive mid-six figure swoop on French rights to the AFM horror Western to star Kurt Russell, Peter Sarsgaard, Richard Jenkins and Jennifer Carpenter. CAA and UTA co-represent the package and US rights.
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NewsElle Driver nabs The Late Bloomer ahead of AFM
Comedy stars Elijah Wood as sex therapist who goes through puberty at 30-years-old.