All articles by Francoise Meaux Saint Marc – Page 3
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France's TF1 looks to enter Noe territory
Miramax's new French partner TF1 is understood to be close to buying into Noe Productions, the company which despite having co-produced this year's foreign-language Oscar winner No Man's Land, was recently forced into receivership.With a production track record also including such festival-friendly titles such as Jan Kounen's feature film debut ...
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France's Talentis moves into features
Short film agency Talantis is branching out into feature films. The company has picked up all French rights on Winnego, a first film by US film-maker Nick James which is to star Salma Hayek and Mickey Rourke. The $3.9m title is currently in development. Talantis are handling foreign sales on ...
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Rosem boards Day & Night
Rosem Films has boarded Day & Night (Ri-Ri Ye-Ye), the second film by Chinese film-maker Wang Chao, whose first title, The Orphans Of Anyang, made a splash last year in Directors' Fortnight. Day & Night - a 'rags to riches' tale set in a Chinese mining town, is produced by ...
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Mixed reactions greet Weinstein, Le Lay announcement
While rivals saluted TF1 yesterday for its grand ambitions with Miramax welcoming a new competitor on the local theatrical distribution scene, there was also unease at the prospect of ever more films cluttering up French cinemas because of television's encroaching influence over cinema. Some even suggested that French regulators should ...
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Poire's Visual Factory readies $23m sci-fi comedy
Jean-Marie Poire, creator and director of hit French franchise The Visitors, has started pre-production on his next opus, the $23m sci-fi comedy Damian And The Invaders (Damien Et Les Envahisseurs) through his own outfit, London-based sales and post-production company Visual Factory.Poire is in Cannes to promote his latest film, My ...
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Mercure takes worldwide rights to Dix Sept Fois Cecille Cassard
Mercure's Jacques Le Glou has picked up worldwide rights to the Beatrice Dalle-starrer Dix Sept Fois Cecile Cassard which is screening in Un Certain Regard.Dix Sept Fois Cecile Cassard, which portrays a woman through 17 moments of her life, is a first film by Christophe Honore. The title, produced by ...
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UGC lures French talent for big budget slate
UGC International has lured some of France's top film-making talent away from rival production houses in lining up a slate of big budget projects for Cannes - led by Ruby Et Quentin, a $25m action comedy starring Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno, and directed by Francis Veber.The high profile slate ...
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UGC lures French talent for big budget slate
UGC International has lured some of France's top film-making talent away from rival production houses in lining up a slate of big budget projects for Cannes - led by Ruby Et Quentin, a $25m action comedy starring Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno, and directed by Francis Veber.The high profile slate ...
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France's Haut et Court readies Hitchcockian Bambi tale
French production company Haut et Court is readying Fuis Bambi Fuis, a first directing effort by Gilles Marchand, the co-scriptwriter for both Laurent Cantet's Human Resources and Dominik Moll's With A Friend Like Harry.The film, an Hitchcockian tale of a young nurse fascinated by a doctor who proves much ...
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France's Haut et Court readies Hitchcockian Bambi tale
French production company Haut et Court is readying Fuis Bambi Fuis, a first directing effort by Gilles Marchand, the co-scriptwriter for both Laurent Cantet's Human Resources and Dominik Moll's With A Friend Like Harry.The film, an Hitchcockian tale of a young nurse fascinated by a doctor who proves much ...
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Hollywood studios clamour for TF1's He Loves Me remake
France's TF1 International is in advanced negotiations with Hollywood studios over English language remake rights to the Audrey Tautou-starrer He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (A La Folie, Pas Du Tout). Several US production outfits are lining up to buy, including frontrunner 20th Century Fox.He Loves Me is produced ...
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Hollywood studios clamour for TF1's He Loves Me remake
France's TF1 International is in advanced negotiations with Hollywood studios over English language remake rights to the Audrey Tautou-starrer He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (A La Folie, Pas Du Tout). Several US production outfits are lining up to buy, including frontrunner 20th Century Fox.He Loves Me is produced ...
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Hollywood studios clamour for TF1's He Loves Me remake
France's TF1 International is in advanced negotiations with Hollywood studios over English language remake rights to the Audrey Tautou-starrer He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (A La Folie, Pas Du Tout). Several US production outfits are lining up to buy, including frontrunner 20th Century Fox.He Loves Me is produced ...
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De Palma's Femme Fatale seduces French audiences
Brian de Palma's latest feature, the French-US co-production Femme Fatale, recorded a healthy start on its world debut in France. The thriller, which has secured an eleventh-hour out-of-competition Cannes screening on May 25, sold 220,000 tickets (equivalent to $1.1m) in its opening week to May 7.The film, which takes place ...
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Ambiel resigns from Expand Images
Dominique Ambiel, board chairman of Vivendi Universal's French television production division Expand Images, has resigned. His departure, over differences in the management of the company, was followed by board member Xavier Gouyou-Beauchamps.StudioCanal's CEO Richard Lenormand will announce a replacement . Ambiel, a former advisor to right-wing culture minister Francois Leotard ...
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Anouk Aimee to head Cannes' France Culture Prize jury
French actress Anouk Aimée, who starred in Claude Lelouch's 1966 Acacdemy Award-winner A Man And A Woman, will chair the jury of the France Culture prize, to be awarded during the Cannes film festival.The prize, which crowns both a French and a foreign 'film-maker of the year' is to be ...
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Warner France increases investment in local comedies
Warner Bros. Pictures France has signed an exclusive distribution deal with French production house Les Films Christian Fechner for four upcoming comedies. 'We're excited to be in business with a film-maker of Christian's stature as we continue our in-country local-language production and distribution initiative,' said Francis Boespflug, managing director, Warner ...
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Messier called to account for his actions by French TV watchdog
Jean-Marie Messier will have to detail the half-year accounts of Canal Plus Group and French pay-TV channel Canal Plus, a 49% subsidiary of Vivendi Universal, to the CSA (Conseil Superieur de l'Audiovisuel), the French broadcasting industry watchdog.Following Messier's controversial firing of Canal Plus Group's chairman Pierre Lescure, the CSA has ...
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Cannes' Camera d'Or jury announced
The jury of Cannes' Camera d'Or, which was created 25 years ago by Gilles Jacob and is awarded to a first film selected either in the official competition or in the Un Certain Regard, Director's Fortnight and International Critics' Week sidebars, has been announced.Selected from among previous Camera d'Or jury ...
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David Lynch joins condemnations of Lescure's removal
Condemnations of Jean-Marie Messier's decision to sack Pierre Lescure were coming from as far away as Hollywood yesterday, with Cannes jury president David Lynch calling the move scandalous.It is the second time in as many months that Messier has sparked a political furore (the first being when he publicly stated ...