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FilmNation adds Taylor Lautner thriller Tracers to Cannes slate
Glen Basner and his team will commence talks with buyers this week on the parkour project. WME Global holds US sales rights.
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High Point snaps up 6 Plots
EXCLUSIVE: The Australian teen horror is directed by Leigh Sheehan.
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Shooting underway on Half Of A Yellow Sun
Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anika Noni Rose and Joseph Mawle star alongside newcomer John Boyega (pictured) from Attack The Block. Ealing Metro handles international sales.
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Stephen Rea, Fionnula Flannagan among cast ingredients on Tasting Menu
Roger Gual directs the story about an estranged couple who honour their reservation at the best restaurant in the world on the venue’s final night of business. Trust Nordisk handles international sales.
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Cannes announces five for Un Certain Regard jury
Actress Leïla Bekhti, filmmaker Tonie Marshall, Argentinian critic Luciano Monteagudo and Sylvie Pras, head of cinemas at Centre Pompidou and artistic director of La Rochelle Film Festival, join previously announced president of the jury Tim Roth.
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BFI unveils new five-year plan including Lottery annual production funding boost to £28.2m
Three “strategic priorities” have now been identified: education and audiences (£17 million per year), filmmaking (£28.2 million) and Heritage (£3 million.)
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Intandem boards football drama starring Brian Cox, Natashca McElhone
Brian Cox and Natashca McElhone star in UK drama Theatre of Dreams.
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Content boards Ironclad: Battle for Blood
Content boards international rights to Ironclad sequel ahead of Cannes; shoot set for summer 2012.
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Cannes sexism debate explodes on eve of festival
Opinion piece in Le Monde by group of female filmmakers accuses Cannes Film Festival of shutting women directors out.
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Gunslinger targets UK Scarface, more films with IM Global and staff expansion
Revolver’s production arm Gunslinger plans the UK Scarface, internal expansion and will push more films through IM Global’s genre label Octane.
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Melanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini join Jake Gyllenhaal on An Enemy
EXCLUSIVE: Starry cast assembles for psychological-thriller being sold by Pathe International in Cannes; Toronto shoot underway May 22.
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News Corp acquires 19.9% stake in Bona Film Group
News Corporation is acquiring a 19.9% equity stake in Chinese studio Bona Film Group, directly from the studio’s founder and chairman Yu Dong.
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Screen unveils list of 50 Future Leaders in Sales and Acquisitions
On the eve of Cannes 2012, Screen presents our Future Leaders of Sales and Acquisitions: 50 of the hottest rising buyers and sellers.
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uMedia's new uConnect takes on new Tornatore film
uConnect, the new sales and finance company from uMedia, has taken on its first project: GiuseppeTornatore’s The Best Offer.
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Billion dollar baby: Avengers crosses threshold on Day 19
Marvel Studio’s The Avengers nudged past the $1bn worldwide milestone on Sunday (13) according to Disney estimates following another mighty international weekend that generated $95.4m and a $103.2m second session in North America.
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Outsider Pictures brings Fat Kid Rules The World to Cannes
Matthew Lillard’s SXSW premiere is adapted from K L Going’s young adult novel about a suicidal teenager who is plucked from despair by a high school drop-out and embarked upon a friendship that concerns his father.
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Bleiberg boards The Letter with Winona Ryder, James Franco
The Beverly Hills-based company will introduce the psychological drama to the Cannes market this week. Jay Anania directed the film, which will open in the US later this year through a distributor to be announced shortly.
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Avengers scores second biggest US weekend on $103m
Marvel Studios’ superhero soup has reached $373.2m after a mere two weekends and combines with the $628.9m international running total to reach $1,002.1m at the global box office. It is now the eleventh biggest global release in history.
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Breaking Glass Pictures hits Cannes with eclectic slate.
CEO Rich Wolff and the team have boarded sales rights to a roster led by serial killer thriller Cyrus: The County Line Cannibal. Anchor Bay holds US rights to the story of a reported on the case of missing students and Brian Krause and Danielle Harris star.
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Mandragora International Group to produce thriller with China Film Group
The parent company of Solar Pictures has signed a deal to produce the English-language The Girl Who Knew Too Much. Mandragora CEO and Solar Pictures co-founder Bobby Paunescu wrote and will direct the project.