Latest Cannes News – Page 200
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Pictures Dept picks up Aoyama project
Japanese production and sales outfit Pictures Dept has picked up worldwide rights to Shinji Aoyama’s upcoming adaptation of Shinya Tanaka’s award-winning novel Dog Eat Dog (Tomogui).
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Atlas bears Stephen King thriller A Good Marriage
EXCLUSIVE: Atlas International has added Stephen King adaptation A Good Marriage to its Cannes slate.
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NewsMarsan, Froggatt liven up with Pasolini's Still Life
Eddie Marsan [pictured] and Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey’s Anna) will star in Still Life, which starts shooting tomorrow in London and Southeast England.
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NewsDistrify teams with Creative Scotland for new Scottish film service
Film promotion and distribution service Distrify is teaming with Creative Scotland on a website dedicated to Scottish films.
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BFC gets new backing from BFI
The UK’s promotional agency for film The British Film Commission is to get an additional £100,000 from the BFI.
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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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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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NewsCinemavault dances with Starz
EXCLUSIVE: Cinemavault closes slew of deals including Cinderella 3D to Starz/Anchor Bay for US, Canada, UK and Australia.
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Dogwoof's Jason Becker doc goes to Canada
Dogwoof Global Sales has sold documentary Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet to KinoSmith for Canada.
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NewsSenator plans German-language adaptation of Sparks' The Rescue
Germany’s Senator Film has acquired the rights to Nicholas Sparks’ novel The Rescue to make as a German language film set and shot in Germany.
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NewsMetrodome picks up thriller St George's Day
Metrodome picks up UK rights to crime-thriller starring Frank Harper, Craig Fairbrass, Vincent Regan and Charles Dance.
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NewsMuyl heads to China for Butterfly remake
French director Philippe Muyl is heading to China for a Mandarin-language feature inspired by his 2002 film The Butterfly (Le Papillon), which was a huge hit with Chinese audiences
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NewsBuska crowned by Kaurismaki
EXCLUSIVE: Rising Swedish actress Malin Buska has been crowned as the lead in Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki’s Kristina of Sweden, stepping into the shoes of Swedish screen legend Greta Garbo, who played the part in US director Ruben Mamoulian’s 1933 Queen Christina.
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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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NewsDupieux and Bernard unveil footage from Wrong Cops
Quentin Dupieux and producer Gregory Bernard of Réalitism Films are in Cannes drumming up finance for the director’s third film Wrong Cops starring Marilyn Manson and Marc Burnham.
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Independent Distribution picks up Life Just Is
EXCLUSIVE: writer-director Alex Barrett’s drama Life Just Is stars Screen International Star of Tomorrow Jack Gordon.
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Now, Forager sells for New Europe; company adds Distance
EXCLUSIVE: Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has sold Rotterdam selection Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi
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NewsWaked’s Zad sings with Cheikh Imam doc
Egyptian actor and filmmaker Amr Waked, star of Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, is coproducing Cheikh vs Imam.