All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 113
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NewsuMedia wages sci-fi War
EXCLUSIVE: Company also working on thrillers Maelstrom and The Scent of Adam.
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NewsSilver Reel lines up busy financing slate including Grace of Monaco
EXCLUSIVE: The Zurich-based film financier also eyeing Guilermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio and Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs project.
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NewsFreida Pinto dances into Desert
Richard Raymond to direct story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian.
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Arri goes to Marrakech with Caroline Link
At the start of Cannes, German outfit Arri Worldsales has announced it will handle international sales on Exit Marrakech, the latest feature from Oscar winning German director Caroline Link (Nowhere In Africa.)
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NewsBuyers swoon to Chiesa's Poet
Early in the market, Adriana Chiesa is enjoying brisk sales on Andrea Segre’s Shun Li And The Poet.
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NewsTrustNordisk strikes French deal with Pretty Pictures for Call Girl
EXCLUSIVE: Mikael Marcimain’s polticial thriller stars Pernilla August.
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FeaturesHard times for soft money
Are Europe’s film tax credits under threat from the European Commission? Geoffrey Macnab reports on the truth about controversial new rules under discussion.
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NewsSchoenaerts in talks for The Treatment
Fast-rising Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts (the Bullhead star who also appears alongside Marion Cotillard in Cannes competition entry Rust And Bone) is in talks to star in new thriller The Treatment.
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NewsSavage strikes on Roskam’s Faithful
Roskam’s film noir is one of several projects that the Belgian production outfit is working on.
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NewsBeta's Cannes slate includes The Notebook, Orange Honey, Two Lives
Slate also includes Toke C. Hebbeln’s Shores Of Hope.
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NewsAutlook geeks out with Spurlock's Comic-Con doc
EXCLUSIVE: Autlook Filmsales has snapped up worldwide rights - except North America - for Comic-Con: Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, the latest film from Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?)
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NewsAgnes B catwalks to Films Boutique with feature debut
EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based sales outfit Films Boutique has just snapped up worldwide sales rights to My Name Is Hmmm, the debut feature from French fashion designer Agnès Troublé (better known to the outside world as Agnès B.)
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NewsTiberius grabs four titles for Germany
German independent distributor Tiberius Film has been on an early Cannes buying spree.
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NewsAl Mansour reveals struggles of directing Wadjda
Saudi Arabia’s first female filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour reveals the difficulties she faced while making Wadjda, the first feature to be shot in Saudi Arabia.
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FeaturesA celebration of Zentropa
After 20 years, the iconic Danish production outfit Zentropa is going stronger than ever, with historical drama A Royal Affair packing out Danish cinemas and Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt in Competition here in Cannes.
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FeaturesAmanda Nevill
BFI head Amanda Nevill talks through the thinking behind the BFI’s new five-year plan.
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NewsBFI unveils new five-year plan including Lottery annual production funding boost to £28.2m
Three “strategic priorities” have now been identified: education and audiences (£17 million per year), filmmaking (£28.2 million) and Heritage (£3 million.)
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FeaturesMartin Carr and Neil Thompson, Formosa Films
The producers talk about their EIS experiences and their busy slate.
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NewsCelsius on board for Kasdan's The First Time
EXCLUSIVE: Celsius takes on world sales (excluding North America) for the teen romance which premiered at Sundance.