All articles by Melanie Goodfellow – Page 99
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NewsFrench shooting hours steady
Most popular shooting location remained central Ile de la France region.
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Iris and Rezo prep Rainer bio-pic
Luxembourgish Iris Group has unveiled a ten-picture slate of films due to be distributed in France and sold worldwide by its Paris-based partner Rezo.
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Gens planning Monet art heist caper
EXCLUSIVE: French genre director Xavier Gens is set to direct a comedy crime caper inspired by the real-life robbery of Claude Monet’s Impression, Soleil Levant.
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NewsLes Films du Losange fetes 50 years
As Haneke’s Amour premieres, MD Margaret Ménégoz talks about the company’s storied history.
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NewsGens planning Monet art heist caper
EXCLUSIVE: French genre director Xavier Gens is set to direct a comedy crime caper inspired by the real-life robbery of Claude Monet’s Impression, Soleil Levant from a Paris museum in 1986.
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NewsMuyl heads to China for Butterfly remake
French director Philippe Muyl is heading to China for a Mandarin-language feature inspired by his 2002 film The Butterfly (Le Papillon), which was a huge hit with Chinese audiences
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NewsDupieux and Bernard unveil footage from Wrong Cops
Quentin Dupieux and producer Gregory Bernard of Réalitism Films are in Cannes drumming up finance for the director’s third film Wrong Cops starring Marilyn Manson and Marc Burnham.
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NewsVeteran Raymond Danon launches Romy Schneider bio-pic
Veteran French producer Raymond Danon has touched down in Cannes to finalise the finance on his long-gestated feature about the life of tragic actress Romy Schneider, Romy.
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NewsChomet goes back to Belleville
Sylvain Chomet is re-teaming with Paris-based animation house Les Armateurs for a prequel to Belleville Rendez-vous (Les Triplettes de Belleville).
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Backup and marche pact on new Cinando rights monitoring service
Backup and Cannes market partner on new rights management service called MoveChainer.
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NewsOscar winners Cotillard and Farhardi unite on Paris-set feature
Shoot set to take place in Paris this autumn; Memento Films International to launch international sales at Cannes.
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NewsKristin Scott Thomas reuniting with Philippe Claudel
Kristin Scott Thomas is reuniting with French director Philippe Claudel on his upcoming Avant l’hiver, which is also set to star Leïla Bekhti and Daniel Auteuil.
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NewsBroken goes to Le Pacte and Why Not Productions
Wild Bunch has sold British Rufus Norris’s Critics’ Week opener Broken to a French consortium of Le Pacte and Why Not Productions.
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NewsBooming Cannes Market adds Doc Corner
Buyers can screen some 350 documentary titles in the dedicated space.
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NewsIsabelle Fuhrman, Isabelle Huppert sign up for Wild Bunch's Suspiria
EXCLUSIVE: Wild Bunch’s slate also includes a number of other genre titles plus Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language 3D.
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NewsBertrand Bonello to direct Yves Saint Laurent biopic project
EXCLUSIVE: French director Bertrand Bonello has signed to direct a biopic on legendary French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, Paris sales outfit Films Distribution and production companyMandarin Cinema have announced.
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NewsCluzet and Canet board Gaumont's Turning Tide
EXCLUSIVE: €17 million production headlines a packed Gaumont slate also featuring a live action adaptation of Belle and Sebastien and Michael Youn’s comedy Vive La France.
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NewsFuturikon has big plans for Minuscule
EXCLUSIVE: Futurikon is launching international sales on its innovative 3D feature Minuscule - Valley of the Lost Ants.
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NewsOther Angle goes for a bite of Big Bad Wolf
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales agent Other Angle has picked up French ensemble comedy The Big Bad Wolf (Le Grand Mechant Loup), a modern-day reworking of the children’s fairy-tale.
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NewsCannes 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.