All articles by Melanie Goodfellow – Page 106
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NewsTF1 and Spike Lee come to "mutually satisfactory" agreement over Miracle at St. Anna
Last month a French court fined TF1 €32 million over its failure to honour agreement to commercialise World War II drama at home and abroad in 2009.
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NewsFrench Directors Guild appoints Edouard Waintrop as new head of Directors’ Fortnight
The French Directors Guild has appointed Edouard Waintrop as the new artistic director of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, replacing Frédéric Boyer who was removed from the position last month.
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FeaturesButtons battle heats up in France
French distributors Mars and UGC will go head to head at the box office this September with separate adaptations of Louis Pergaud’s literary classic The War of the Buttons.
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NewsFormer StudioCanal France chief Camille Trumer launches entertainment group Talentbox
Paris-based Trumer has acquired talent agent Cineart, press agency Moteur! and is on the verge of signing deal for majorFrench live entertainment producer.
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NewsTate Taylor’s The Help to open Deauville
Francis Ford Coppola guest of honour at the Deauville Festival of American Film, with out-of-competition premieres to include Bringing Up Bobby, The Conspirator, Drive, The Change-Up, Fright Night and The Lion King.
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NewsCNC says French cinema admissions fell by 6.1 percent in the first half of 2011
Yo-yo first half of the year at French box office in which admissions slumped 23.6% in April and rocketed 35.7% in June to give overall decrease of 6.1%.
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NewsFocus developing UK director Daniel Mulloy’s debut feature A Cold Day
Arta Dobroshi and Melissa Leo favoured to co-star in story set in tough New York high school.
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NewsFrench producers stalk Quebecois Denis Coté’s Bear at Paris Project
Hot titles at ninth edition of Paris Project included Vic & Flo Saw a Bear, Evil Woman, Mitrovica, Cannibal and A Screw. Rotterdam Films seals co-production deal on Thai director Sivaroj Kongsakul’s Cinefondation project Arunkarn.
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NewsTaiwan’s Joint Entertainment targets Chinese mainland with wedding comedy Marry Go Round
Taiwanese Joint Entertainment and China’s Enterprising Dragon Entertainment unveiled romantic comedy co-production, due to shoot in Taipei, Paris and provincial Chinese city of Chongqing, to European producers at Paris Project.
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NewsTF1 fined €32 million over failure to theatrically distribute Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna
French media group has announced it plans to appeal the ruling, saying size of fine disproportionate to the US box-office performance of the film.
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NewsAsghar Farhadi to shoot next film with A Prophet's Tahar Rahim
Memento Films is producing Farhadi’s love story between an Iranian girl and North African boy set against the backdrop of Paris.
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NewsNader & Simin, A Separation a surprise box office hit in France
Memento Distribution aiming for one million entries for Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner capturing marital breakdownin modern-day Iran.
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NewsConcerns grow for arrested Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi
French Directors Guild launches petition demanding filmmaker’s release. First signatories include Costa Gavras, Gilles Jacob, Reza Serkanian and Bertrand Blier
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FeaturesAn accent on genre
Features about cannibals and female assassins are among the 15 new projects on offer to French partners at this month’s Paris Project co-production platform (July 4-7).
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NewsSunny Side of the Doc sets sail in La Rochelle
Documentary meeting running June 21-24 puts the accent on Asia this year.
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NewsFrench Directors Guild won't re-appoint Boyer as head of Directors Fortnight
The French Directors Guild has confirmed the departure of Frédéric Boyer as artistic director of Directors’ Fortnight.
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French directors and distributors protest Harry Potter premiere
8,000 people expected for massive Deathly Hallows event screening on July 12
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NewsParis Project co-production platform unveils July 2011 line-up
Canadian Denis Coté [pictured], UK’s Daniel Mulloy and Hungarian Agnes Kocsis among those seeking co-production partners at event running July 4-7
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NewsThe Rabbi’s Cat pounces on top prize at Annecy
Gainsbourg director Joann Sfar’s pro-tolerance tale is set against the backdrop of Algerian capital of Algiers in the 1920s.
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NewsFrench animation films seen by 34.5 million people worldwide from 1999-2010
In Annecy for the first time, Unifrance releases 12-year study on performance of French animation films at foreign box office