Latest festival news – Page 249
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NewsPyramide boards 'Passion Simple' starring Vicky Krieps, Danila Kozlovsky (exclusive)
‘Phantom Thread’ actress Krieps will play an academic who falls in love with a married diplomat.
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NewsAsif Kapadia's 'Maradona' amongst Cineart acquisitions (exclusive)
The latest acquisitions were confirmed at the Cannes Marché du Film.
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NewsFrance's Doc & Film acquires Pierre Cardin doc 'House Of Cardin' (exclusive)
Cardin, 95, has granted exclusive access to his archives for the film.
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News'Film Festival Doctor' launches production outfit, plots first feature (exclusive)
‘Skendleby’ is a horror adapted from Nick Brown’s novel.
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NewsUK paranormal thriller 'Astral' gets sales deal, sells to North America (exclusive)
The film, featuring ’Fear The Walking Dead star Frank Dillane, has been picked up for sales by Film Seekers.
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NewsMyriad boosts Cannes slate with Cyrano retelling '#Roxy' (exclusive)
instead of love letters, the film uses texting, tweets and Skype as communication.
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NewsRafaella acquires Philippines rights to basketball comedy Uncle Drew (exclusive)
The film stars NBA legends Kyrie Irving, Shaquille O’Neal and Reggie Miller.
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NewsLightning Entertainment sells Steve Carr-directed pregnancy road movie (exclusive)
‘Untitled Teen Pregnancy Road Movie (With Zombies)’ will be directed by ‘Daddy Day Care’ director Steve Carr
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NewsSpotlight launches sales on Bono-exec produced fairytale (exclusive)
‘Waiting For The Miracle To Come’ will star Willie Nelson, and feature an original song by Bono and Nelson.
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NewsIncredible adds three to slate, including single-day drama 'Life Is Wonderful' (exclusive)
Two further Dutch films are Barbara Bredero’s ‘Speech’ and Cecilia Verheyden’s ‘Behind The Clouds’.
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NewsFormer NFTS head Nik Powell brings two titles to Cannes (exclusive)
‘Willow’ is from Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski, while ‘Rattlesnakes’ is from NFTS grad Julius Amedume.
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NewsEscape drama 'Sobibor' seals deals (exclusive)
Konstantin Khabensky’s directorial debut screens at the market on May 10.
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News'White Riot' scores French deal for Visit Films (exclusive)
Visit concluded the deal with The Jokers Films at the Great 8 Showcase in Cannes.
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NewsM-Line launches sales on Dexter's VR films (exclusive)
Titles include ‘Along With The Gods VR’, ‘Follow The White Rabbit’ and ‘Help Me’.
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NewsMm2 scores key deals for 'Zombiepura' (exclusive)
Zombie-themed action comedy stars Alaric and Benjamin Heng.
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NewsBillie Piper to make directing debut with "anti-rom-com" 'Rare Beasts' (exclusive)
Piper has written the script and will star in the film, which will shoot in London and Spain in September.
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NewsGaumont reports sales on 'Ibiza' starring Christian Clavier (exclusive)
Currently in pre-production, the picture has sold to Benelux, Greece and Poland already.
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NewsFootball doc sequel 'Streetkids United' in the works (exclusive)
Third entry in the series will show the 2018 Street Child World Cup in Moscow.
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NewsTaipei Film Festival unveils competition line-up
Festival announces the 12 films that will screen in its International New Talent Competition for first and second features.