All articles by Melanie Goodfellow – Page 105
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NewsEuropa Distribution warns opening up of territorial rights threatens MGs
The implications of the digital age for independent distributors dominated discussions at Europa Distribution’s fifth-annual conference held within the auspices of Thierry Frémaux’s Festival Lumière in Lyon.
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NewsEuropa Distribution annual conference kicks off in Lyon
The potential of social networks as a marketing tool, VOD and digital transition will be key topics at the fifth-annual conference.
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NewsFrench producers head to Tunisia for first ever co-production forum
Ten months after Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution ousted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power, a delegation of French producers headed to the country last weekend to forge new links with its fledgling, post-dictatorship film industry.
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NewsRutger Hauer joins cast of big budget miniseries The Flight of the Storks
Other cast members include Harry Treadaway, Perdita Weeks and Clemens Schick. English-language production is due to start shooting this month, stopping off in South Africa, Turkish city of Istanbul and Europe.
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NewsFrance launches winter solstice celebration of short films on Dec 21
National Cinema Centre (CNC) hopes its Le Jour Le Plus Court initiative will encourage thousands of screenings of short films on the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
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NewsUPDATED StudioCanal announces €150m slate financing deal
Pan-European major StudioCanal has announced a three-year, €150m slate financing deal with London-based private fund Anton Capital Entertanment [ACE], bringing its total production and acquisitions budget for the period to €500m.
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NewsDirector Yann Samuell ahead in first week of the war of The War of the Buttons
Rival adaptations of French literary classic The War of the Buttons battle it out at the box office in France on more than 500 prints each. Version directed by Yann Samuell some 130,000 entries ahead in first week.
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NewsMusic Box acquires US rights to Canadian Oscar submission Monsieur Lazhar
Paris-based sales company Films Distribution has secured a slew of sales on heart-warming tale about an Algerian refugee who lands himself ajob as a replacement teacher, including to US distributor Money Box.
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NewsFrench court rules that Pathé must share Nothing to Declare profits with Thomas Langmann
Two-year-old case stems from an option held by Thomas Langmann’s late father Claude Berri to produce the third film by Nothing to Declare director and star Dany Boon.
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NewsInternational protests grow over Iran’s arrest of filmmakers and producer
Arrested filmmakers include This is not a Film co-director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and producer and sales agent Katayoon Shahabi [pictured] of Sheherazad Media International (SMI).
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NewsFrench film tax incentives less attractive than key EU counterparts, says CNC
Comprehensive 133-page study commissioned by France’s National Cinema Centre reveals French film tax incentives lag behind those of European counterparts Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Britain.
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NewsDeclaration of War is France’s foreign language Oscar submission
Valérie Donzelli’s tragicomedy about a young couple whose life is turned upside down when their baby son is found to have a malignant brain tumour has entered the Oscar race.
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NewsLiza Johnson boards Alice Munro adaptation
As debut feature Return does festival rounds, Johnson gears up to direct Mark Jude Poirier’s adaptation of Alice Munro’s 2001 short story Hateship, Friendship, Courtship and Loveship.
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Take Shelter takes top prize at Deauville
Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter wins Grand Prize. Matthew Gordon’s Dynamiter picks up Jury Prize. Tony Kaye’s Detachment nabs festival’s new Revelation award.
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NewsFrench box office surrenders to Declaration of War
Tragicomedy about a young couple battling baby son’s brain tumour draws 210, 000 spectators in opening week. Director Valérie Donzelli due to start shooting next feature Main dans la Main in October.
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NewsThe Help's international premiere kicks off Deauville's 37th edition
Guests walking Deauville’s famed Les Planches broadwalk this weekend included Francis Ford Coppola, Shirley Maclaine, Bill Murray, Michael Shannon, Ellen Barkin and Kate Bosworth.
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NewsCannes Film Festival shifts dates of 2012 edition to May 16-27
Cannes Film Festival delays 2012 edition by one week to May 16-27, from originally announced May 9-20, due to clash with French presidential elections at the beginning of the month.
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NewsFrance's MPM Film to sell Historias through new in-house sales dept
Marie-Pierre Macia and Juliette Lepoutre’s MPM Film launch in-house sales operation in alliance with former Celluloid Dreams sales manager Pierre Menahem.
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NewsChinese productions shooting in France in last 12 months up tenfold
Sino productions shooting in France over last year include Jackie Chan’s upcoming adventure thriller Chinese Zodiac and box office hit Eternal Moment (Jiang Ai).
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NewsDeauville announces line-up, additional premieres
Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain to receive Deauville’s Un Nouvel Hollywood award, feting upcoming American acting talent.