Latest Cannes News – Page 196
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Fortissimo picks up Van Warmerdam’s Camiel Borgman
EXCLUSIVE: Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights outside Benelux to Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam’s Camiel Borgman.
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NewsAngelWorld boards The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea
Film financier AngelWorld, which yesterday announced backing for new title The Big Shoe, will back drama starring Jessica Biel.
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eOne's Inch'Allah finds buyers
eOne has sold drama Inch’Allah to five territories; film is third instalment in micro_scope Middle East trilogy.
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NewsKingsley, Payne, Skarsgard line up for Beta's Physician
International stars including Ben Kingsley, Tom Payne and Stellan Skarsgård have joined the cast of Beta Cinema’s film adaptation of Noah Gordon’s bestseller The Physician.
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NewsPaolo Sorrentino to direct The Great Beauty
Pathe International will handle worldwide sales on the Italian-French co-production which is Sorrentino’s first film set and entirely filmed in Rome.
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NewsRoskino announces projects with Brody, Uchitel, Dvortsevoy
Roskino yesterday announced seven new co-productions in development and pre-production, including projects with Adrien Brody, Alexei Uchitel and Tulpan director Sergei Dvortsevoy.
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NewsCannes European Rendezvous talks Creative Europe
New EU initiatives for European cinema such as the Prix MEDIA and the proposed Creative Europe programme are at the focus of the 10th edition of the European Rendezvous in Cannes from May 20-22.
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NewsArtificial Eye snaps up Sally Potter drama
EXCLUSIVE: Artificial Eye has snapped up UK rights to Sally Potter’s new untitled drama from The Match Factory.
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Stein and Marlind, K5 board horror ensemble Paris, I’ll Kill You
EXCLUSIVE: Underworld: Awakening directors Bjorn Stein and Mans Marlind complete the lineup of ten directors on horror-themed ensemble; K5 boards sales.
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NewsShochiku plans global Kinoshita retrospective
Japanese studio Shochiku is planning a ten-city retrospective to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Keisuke Kinoshita, whose digitally restored The Ballad Of Narayama is screening in Cannes Classics.
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Digital Domain to open studio in Abu Dhabi
US-based Digital Domain Media Group (DDMG) is collaborating with twofour54 to establish a media school and purpose-built studio in Abu Dhabi, with the aim of driving development of the production industry in the Middle East.
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Korea’s Daisy & Cinergy cues up Cannes duo
Korea’s Daisy & Cinergy is producing and selling two upcoming projects from Im Sang-soo, whose The Taste Of Money is screening in competition, and Hur Jin-ho, whose Dangerous Liaisons has been selected for Directors’ Fortnight.
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Reel's Mixed Kebab goes to TLA for US and UK
EXCLUSIVE: Reel Suspects has closed multiple deals on LGBT drama Mixed Kebab.
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Wide’s Eye on Films adds films, cuts deals
EXCLUSIVE: Wide’s Eye on Films label has seen good business on its growing slate since Berlin.
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NewsIron Sky director revives Hitler in 3D
EXCLUSIVE: Adolf Hitler is to be recreated in digital 3D in I Killed Adolf Hitler, the new live action sci-fi feature from the team behind hit Iron Sky.
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Universal slayed by Fortissimo’s Killing
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) has picked up a slew of territories, including the UK and France, to Chinese-Mongolian epic An End To Killing from Fortissimo Films.
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NewsRobert Jones to produce A Patch Of Fog
The film is the winning project to come out of Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus scheme for local writers.
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NewsResnais' co-producer Alamode Film boards two German projects
Munich-based distributor Alamode Film is already lining up its next projects after making its first foray into production by serving as the German co-producer on 89-year-old French director Alain Resnais’ latest feature You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet (Vous N’Avez Encore Rien Vu).
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NewseOne takes Rezo’s The Horde
EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One has picked up multi-territory, including North America and the U.K, on the Russian epic The Horde.
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NewsLUFF to host premieres from Whitecross, Temple
EXCLUSIVE: The London UK Film Focus (25 to 28 June), the annual screening event that brings the world’s top buyers to London, has announced a raft of high profile premieres for this year’s event.