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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Among the many new projects announced at Cannes were UK-Georgian project Epic, starring Ethan Hawke and an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt.
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NewsBellocchio's Dormant Beauty stirs political controversy in Italy
A mini-squall has hit the Italian film industry over the controversial decision to cut the entire 2012 funding of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission.
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NewsPathe International racks up 100 deals on its Cannes slate
Top titles include Beauty and the Beast, An Enemy, What’s in a Name and Happiness Never Comes Alone.
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NewsMarco van Geffen's In Your Name wins Arte's Cannes Atelier prize
Picture is second installment of van Geffen’s Vinex Trilogy revolving around the theme of the happy family.
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NewsHungarian director Béla Tarr to close production company
The director announced that his company TT Filmmuhely would be ceasing activity at the end of this month because its situation had become “untenable”.
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NewsThe Match Factory befriends Garbarski's Vijay, starring Bleibtrau, Arquette
EXCLUSIVE: The Match Factory has picked up rights to Sam Garbarski’s comedy My Friend Vijay, starring Moritz Bleibtreu and Patricia Arquette.
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Metrodome takes five in Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: Metrodome adds to The Guillotines acquisition with five more pick-ups in Cannes.
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NewsFortissimo takes on Serbian debut Redemption Street
Fortisimmo Films has acquired Serbian director Miroslav Terzic’s debut feature Redemption Street.
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NewsFrench indie hub Commune Image makes market debut
Production “commune”, which supported indie pictures Donoma and La Désintégration, launches partying road movie En Pays Cannibal at Cannes market.
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Reel Suspects sells thriller The Second Death
Reel Suspects has sold Argentinian director Santiago Fernandez’s debut The Second Death to Germany/Austria and Turkey.
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NewsLionsgate and StudioCanal renew library deal
StudioCanal to distribute next instalment of The Hunger Games franchise, Catching Fire in German speaking territories.
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NewsLarry Clark preparing Paris-set skateboarding picture
EXCLUSIVE: Larry Clark is set to shoot a French-language picture taking inspiration from the skateboarding scene around Paris’ Trocadero Gardens this summer, the first film for the Kids and Ken Park director shot outside the United States.
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Little Film Company scores sales rights to The Third Half
Robbie Little has taken international sales rights to Darko Mitrevski’s second world war sports drama about a Jewish coach who inspires a football team to win the National Football League in Nazi-occupied Macedonia in 1942.
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NewsPhanta launches new Dutch finance scheme
In Cannes, Dutch producer Petra Goedings from Phanta Vision has revealed further details of a groundbreaking film financing scheme in the Netherlands.
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NewsCannes Market reports 8% hike in attendance
Asia and Latin American lead the rise in partipicants.
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NewsMedia Luna picks up Student, Kid
Midway through the market, Media Luna has taken international rights to three new films.
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NewsProtagonist books The Sweeney into eOne for US
EXCLUSIVE: eOne continues to ramp its US distribution slate with the acquisition of Protagonist’s The Sweeney, which the distributor had previously picked up for UK and Canada; deals flow for Nick Love’s crime-drama and Vertigo’s Viking epic Hammer of the Gods.
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French director Morelli explores demons
French director to bring Chinese classic Water Margin to big screen in 3D animation, entitled Le Prince et 108 demons.
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NewsLee Daniels chooses Minka Kelly for Jackie Kennedy, talks The Butler
EXCLUSIVE: Lee Daniels talks to Screen about why he connected with The Butler and discloses that he wants Minka Kelly to play Jacqueline Kennedy.
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NewsTopkapi, Waterland selected for Hubert Bals Fund Plus
Both Dutch production outfits will now receive grants of 50,000 Euros.