Latest Cannes News – Page 242
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Control wins Europa Cinemas Label honour at Cannes
Control, Anton Corbijn's biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, was named the Europa Cinemas Label best European film in the Cannes' Directors' Fortnight section. Control will now receive the invaluable support of extended theatrical exposure and additional promotion from the Europa Cinemas network. The Directors' Fortnight Europa ...
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Artificial Eye picks up three Cannes Competition titles
UK arthouse distributor Artificial Eye has acquired three Competition titles at Cannes.The company has picked up Cristian Mungiu's Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days from Wild Bunch, Catherine Breillat's Cannes Competition debut An Old Mistress from Pyramide International and Christophe Honore's Love Songs (Les Chansons d'Amour) from ...
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De Lorenzo plans new June festival in Caserta, Italy
Italian Organisers have announced plans for a new film festival to be held in Caserta at the Royal Palace Vanvitelliana and Royal Site Belvedere of St Leucio.Francesco De Lorenzo of Darkness Production has started the Drake International Film Festival, which will run June 23-30, with 'the aim of promoting the ...
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Persepolis to have English-language makeover from SPC
Sony Pictures Classics is set to record an English-language version of Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's warmly received Cannes competition title Persepolis, an animated project based on Satrapi's bestselling graphic novels.Catherine Deneuve, who plays the role of the mother in the French version, is re-recording her part this summer, joined ...
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Black Book's Carice Van Houten to play South African writer
Dutch actress Carice van Houten will play the lead role in the biopic Smoke and Ochre about revolutionary South-African writer Ingrid Jonker. Dutch company Riba Film is developing the project, which will shoot in 2008.Dutch director Paula van der Oest is directing the project, which will be her first English-language ...
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Arthouse strikes distribution deal with Australia's Madman
New York-based Arthouse Films has signed an exclusive output and distribution deals with Melbourne-based Madman Entertainment for Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.Madman will distribute 10-15 Arthouse titles per year in the territories. The deal was negotiated by David Koh, Head of Acquisitions & Production for Arthouse Films along with ...
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Nordisk pre-buys three hot titles including Pompeii
Nordisk Film has struck Cannes deals for a number of films, including Roman Polanski's forthcoming $130m Pompeii. Nordisk also bought Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex, based on the true story of German terrorists. Stefan Aust, author of the book of the same name, will write the script with producer Bernd Eichinger. Uli ...
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Miramax dives deep for Schnabel's competition title Diving Bell
Miramax films has struck a deal for all North American rights to Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon), the well-received Cannes competitor sold by Pathe Pictures International.Sources put the value of the deal at about $3m. The film has been the subject of ...
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Momentum takes UK and Spain for Zwick's Defiance
In Cannes, Momentum Pictures has taken UK and Spanish rights to Defiance, the WWII action drama being planned by Ed Zwick.Bedford Falls and Grosvenor Park are producing and financing. As previously reported, Daniel Craig will star in the film, based on the true story of four brothers who built an ...
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Co-Production Office closes deals on Anderson film
The Co-Production Office has closed multiple deals on new Roy Anderson You, The Living. Territories include Japan (Stylejam), France (Les Films Du Losange), Belgium (Lumiere), Germany (Neue Vision), Netherlands (Filmmuseum), Finland (Cinema Mondo), Poland (Gutek), Greece (Ama), and Korea (Sponge).Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export has gone to Belgium (Lumiere) Netherlands (Filmmuseum), Korea ...
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Days of Darkness shines for Studio Canal
StudioCanal has sold Denys Arcand's closing night film Days Of Darkness to Bim in Italy, Golem in Spain and other territories including Greece, Portugal, Brazil, Israel, Iceland, Turkey, Belgium and Switzerland. Emir Kusturica's Promise Me This has gone to Badriti in Spain, Kinowelt in Germmany, Crystal in Canada, and about ...
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European MEDIA Programme plans investment in VOD and digital
MEDIA 2007 is setting aside $5.4m(Euros 4m) this year to invest in Video On Demand and Digital Cinema Distribution. The money will be invested in six projects, with applications open until July 9 and services expected to be running by June 2008.'We think it is important that Europe gets off ...
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Rintaro's Japanese 3D penguins go Wild
Wild Bunch has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Asia and North America, to 3D CG-animated feature Yona Yona Penguin, which is being directed by Japanese anime master Rintaro. Japanese animation studio Madhouse Inc and Paris-based Denis Friedman Productions are co-producing the film which is scheduled for release in Japan in December ...
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Chase marks first Indian movie shot entirely in Italy
India's Adlabs Films and production house ASP White are planning to shoot $5m action adventure Chase in Rome, marking the first time that an Indian feature has been entirely filmed in Italy. ASP White founder Anubhav Sinha will direct and is producing the film, which is scheduled to shoot in ...
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Vertigo plans to unleash Cage Rage
Vertigo (the UK outfit behind Football Factory and Outlaw) is to partner with Cage Rage Championships to co-produce the new movie, Cage Rage, likely to have a budget of around $9 million. It is envisaged that this may be the start of a Rocky-like franchise.Brock Norman Brock is writing the ...
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Hyde Park make big hits with Streetfighter
Hyde Park International (HPI) has closed major territory sales on Streetfighter headed by a UK deal with Entertainment. Rights have gone to Brazil (Swen), CIS and Baltics (MGN), Spanish speaking Latin America (Gussi), Portugal (Lusomundo), South Africa (Nu Metro), Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), Middle East (Phars), Philippines (Pioneer), Thailand (M ...
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Studio 2.0 takes two from Summit
Korean distributor Studio 2.0 has picked up City of Amber and Step Up 2 from Summit Entertainment. 'We previously picked up the original at last Cannes and saw good box office with it, so we decided to pick up the sequel as well,' says Choi Eun-Young, head of international. The ...
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Korea's Sponge makes most expensive Cannes deal
Korean arthouse specialist Sponge Entertainment has made its most expensive pick-up to date, with the $20m Death Note spin-off L from NTV. The film, which saw heated bidding, is due for release this coming February across Asia. Sponge has picked up three more Competition titles - Sokourov's Alexandra from Rezo, ...
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Antonia Bird will produce Daradji's next Iraqi feature
Mohammed Daradji has arrived in Cannes fresh from location scouting inIraq.The young Baghdad-born director, who had festival success with hisfirst feature Ahlaam (Dreams), 2005, has teamed up with Britishdirector-producer Antonia Bird to produce his second film, also to be shotin the war-torn country. Bird, who has a particular interest in ...
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European film-makers debate digital future
European policy-makers and film-makers will debate the future of film in a digital world at an event on Europe Day in Cannes (Saturday May 26).The event is a chance to consider the rapid changes that have been or will be brough about by new media developments.The challenges of a new ...