All articles by Melanie Goodfellow – Page 66
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NewsCannes Marché launches high-rolling investors club
Record 117 territories represented at the Marché this year.
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NewsGael Bernal Garcia, Marine Vacth join Joan Chemla noir
Gael Bernal Garcia and Marine Vacth are set to co-star in French Joan Chemla’s film noir If You See His Heart (Si Tu Voyais Son Coeur).
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News'The Visitors: Bastille Day' scores sales for Gaumont
EXCLUSIVE: Co-stars Jean Reno and Christian Clavier to hit Cannes today (May 15).
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NewsPyramide picks up Directors’ Fortnight title 'Much Loved'
EXCLUSIVE: Pyramide Films has taken French rights to Nabil Ayouch’s Directors’ Fortnight title Much Loved – about four Marrakech prostitutes - ahead of its Cannes Marche screening today (May 14).
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NewsLe Pacte scores German sale for Cannes contender 'Valley of Love'
EXCLUSIVE: Concorde has picked up rights to all German-speaking territories for Guillaume Nicloux’s Palme d’Or contender Valley of Love.
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NewsWild Bunch's Insiders launches Olsen, Pine film 'Wind River'
EXCLUSIVE: Wild Bunch’s newly created LA-based sales company Insiders is launching Sicario screenwriter Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River, starring Chris Pine and Elizabeth Olsen.
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FeaturesEmmanuelle Bercot , 'Standing Tall (Le Tete Haute)'
French actress and director Emmanuelle Bercot’s Standing Tall (La Tete Haute) opens the festival today (Elle Driver handles sales). The gritty social drama follows a young delinquent as he makes his way through France’s juvenile justice system.
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NewsGaumont, Wild Bunch sell The Neon Demon wide
CANNES: French sales companies Gaumont and Wild Bunch have announced a raft of sales on Nicolas Winding Refn’s horror picture The Neon Demon, which is on the verge of wrapping in Los Angeles.
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NewsCelluloid Dreams takes Kurosawa’s 'Woman'
EXCLUSIVE: Kurosawa shoots first ever French-language film.
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NewsSixteen Films to 'Catch the Moon' with Le Pacte
The UK’s Sixteen Films is joining forces with French Le Pacte, German Pandora and Egyptian Film Clinic to co-produce Palestinian filmmaker’s Sameh Zoabi Gaza-set comedy Catch The Moon.
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NewsGaumont launches 'Odd Job', 'Pattaya' at Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: Other new titles on slate include Pattaya and Critics’ Week screener Learn by Heart.
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NewsStudioCanal unveils Aardman 'Early Man' footage
Buyers queue round the block for StudioCanal’s pre-Cannes promo event.
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FeaturesFrance Focus: producers
French producers are rising to the challenges in the changing landscape of finance and production. Melanie Goodfellow meets some of the most enterprising players.
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FeaturesFrance Focus: fast forward
As France celebrates 120 years of cinema, its film industry is facing economic pressures and a production downturn. But entrepreneurial producers are already finding solutions.
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NewsCannes: Isabella Rossellini to discuss sexism
Isabella Rossellini to discuss on and off camera sexism in cinema at Cannes’ Women in Motion event; other female-focused Cannes events include #SeeHerNow twitter campaign.
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NewsCannes: Distrib Films acquires 'In The Shadow of Women' for US
Philippe Garrel’s film set to open Directors Fortnight
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NewsCannes: Elle Driver adds Fourth Direction, new Téchiné, Puiu
EXCLUSIVE: Punjab-set drama Fourth Direction to premiere in Un Certain Regard.
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NewsWild Bunch launches LA sales arm Insiders
First titles include Jeff Nichols’ Loving and Sean Penn’s Flag Day, starring daughter Dylan Penn.
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FeaturesWorld of Locations: Dubai
Dubai’s dazzling urban architecture is becoming a popular backdrop to international films and TV.
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FeaturesWorld of Locations: Dominican Republic
The Caribbean nation aims to become a major film-making hub in the region.