All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 117
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Finnish showcase planned for September
The Helsinki International Film Festival will launch the Finnish Film Affair, the first industry showcase for new domestic films.
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NewsScherfig, August team for Serious Game
EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Lone Scherfig and Swedish actress-director Pernilla August are to collaborate on €5 million costume epic/love story
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NewsYellow Affair starts pre-sales on Kristina
Film’s star Malin Buska [pictured] presented to international press in Cannes.
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NewsWeide plans Vonnegut doc
EXCLUSIVE: Robert B. Weide, whose Woody Allen: A Documentary is in official selection) is looking to revive his long-gestating feature doc on sci-fi author Kurt Vonnegut.
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Iron Sky getting prequel and sequel
On the eve of Cannes, Blind Spot Pictures’ Tero Kaukomaa, the producer of cult Third Reich in space movie Iron Sky, has confirmed that he is plotting not one but two sequels.
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NewsBlind Spot plans prequel and sequel to Iron Sky
Stealth Media has sales rights to the first Nazis on the moon film.
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NewsAnnila, Kaukomaa, Giddings partner for babysitter thriller
EXCLUSIVE: English-language project to shoot in 2013 in Finland and Sweden.
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Lumiere animates sales on Phantom Boy
Benelux distributor Lumiere’s new sales arm, Lumiere International Sales, is at its first Cannes Market with a promo of its first major project.
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NewsSvensk introduces buyers to Marie Kroyer
EXCLUSIVE: Svensk’s sales arm SF International has sold Bille August’s new feature Marie Krøyer to Greece (Hollywood) and to CIS (Cinema Prestige).
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NewsMatthias Schoenaerts cops to Wasteland
Rust And Bone actor Matthias Schoenaerts is confirmed to star as a tormented Brussels cop in Wasteland, the new feature from young Flemish director Pieter Van Hees.
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NewsIcon strikes UK deal for TrustNordisk's Easy Money II
EXCLUSIVE: A work-in-progress version of the film is screening exclusively for buyers only at the market in Cannes and has already been sold.
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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.