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NewsDisney 3-D animation Up to open Cannes Film Festival
The world premiere of animation film Up from Disney/Pixar, will open the the 62nd Cannes Film Festival ceremony on Wednesday May 13, 2009.
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Mungiu's Tales From The Golden Ageto open Transilvania
The eighth edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival will open May 29 with the local premiere of Tales From The Golden Age, an omnibus film written and produced by Cristian Mungiu. Wild Bunch is handling international sales on the film, which is tipped for Cannes, where Mungiu won the ...
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Cannes Atelier selects 15 projects including Lerman's Moral Sciences
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup of participants for the fifth edition of the Atelier de la Cinefondation program.The scheme was begun in 2005 and is a means to help directors with the financing and completion of their projects.The roster of 15 filmmakers will attend the Cannes Film ...
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Helen Loveridge returns with sales company Meridiana
The Meridiana is the hotel in Venice in which sales agent Helen Loveridge stayed when she was working on Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 1989 Golden Lion winner, City Of Sadness. In recognition of that triumph, it is the name she has given to her new, London-based sales outfit Meridiana Films, which aims ...
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Cannes announces participants for upcoming Cinefondation Residence
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the six participants participating in the 18th session of the Cinefondation Residence.The filmmakers are from Israel, Poland, Slovenia, Germany, Guatemala and Chile. There are four first-time and two sophomore directors in the bunch.The six filmmakers will spend four and a half months honing their ...
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NewsCannes Film Festival honours Clint Eastwood
The Cannes Film Festival has honoured Clint Eastwood with a special Palme d’Or.In Paris for the release of his latest directorial effort, Gran Torino, Eastwood was awarded the special Palme by festival president Gilles Jacob and delegate general Thierry Fremaux in recognition of the auteur who ...
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NewsWill Cannes 2009 deliver on high expectations?
With Berlin over, selectors at the Cannes film festival (May 13-24) are facing a deluge of films from the world’s greatest auteurs - so many, in fact, some big names could end up being excluded from official selection.Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces opens in Spain on March ...
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NewsBergman's Images From The Playground to screen at Cannes
Images from the Playground, a compilation film containing previously unseen material from nine of Ingmar Bergman’s behind-the-screens films, fromSawdustand TinseltoPersona,will be screened for the first time, at the Cannes Film Festival this year.The film was produced with the support of World Cinema Foundation, the film preserving ...
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NewsCannes selectors face deluge of auteurs in 2009
As Berlin draws to a close, selectors at the Cannes Film Festival are facing such a deluge of films from the world’s greatest auteurs that many will no doubt be rejected from official selection.The lineup of titles ready for the May 13-24 festival is daunting, and ...
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KWA adds four to slate
Madrid-based Kevin Williams Associates has picked up Albert Arizza’s thriller Ramirez about a lonely young night stalker and drug dealer, preying on young women he can pick up and seduce.KWA has also acquired Mexican drama Limbo, about a 12-year-old gay boy who suffers an accident and goes to limbo, a ...
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Wild Bunch launches 3D label kicking off with Oceans
Wild Bunch is going 3-D. The French sales, distribution and financing outfit will create a new label, Wild Bunch 3-D, under which 3-D films will be distributed and sold. The new arm is to kick off with Oceans 3-D Into The Deep from filmmaker brothers Jean-Jacques and Francois Mantello and ...
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Baker Street to launch international sales division under Lansley
UK production and media financing outfit Baker Street Media Finance has launched its own sales arm. Baker Street International - as the new division is called - will be attending the EFM informally before beginning selling in earnest in Cannes in May.The new outfit is head by former Lakeshore executive ...
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Isabelle Huppert to head Cannes jury
Isabelle Huppert will preside over the jury for the 62nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival, organizers announced Friday.The Cannes veteran has previously been to the festival 25 times in and out of competition and also served as a mistress of ceremony and as a member of the jury.In 1978, ...
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NewsIsabelle Huppert to head Cannes jury
Isabelle Huppert will preside over the jury for the 62nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival.The Cannes veteran has previously been to the festival 25 times in and out of competition and has also served as a mistress of ceremony and as a member of the ...
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Romanian CNC awards $7.2m for production and development
The Romanian Film Board (CNC) has awarded nearly $7.2m (Euros 5.3m) in production and development funding, including grants, to new projects from Un Certain Regard winner Cristi Puiu, Camera d'Or laureate Corneliu Porumboiu, and actress Fanny Ardant on her directorial debut.The single largest award, $569,000 (Euros 417,000), went to Aurora, ...
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NewsOlivier Pere named as Locarno artistic director from 2009
Olivier Père has been named as the next artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, succeeding Frederic Maire, and will take up his post from September 1, 2009.Père has been artistic director of the Cannes’ Directors Fortnight since 2004. His replacement will be chosen by France’s Societe des Realisateurs des ...
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CJ Entertainment wraps further Good Cannes deals
South Korea's CJ Entertainment has announced a raft of further deals from a busyCannes, led by the UK deal for Kim Jee-woon's 'Oriental Western' The Good, The Bad, The Weird to Icon Film Distribution.(Theformerly announced UK deal with Tartanwhen Cineclick Asia was handling the titlehadpreviously beencancelled.)Kim's homage to Sergio Leone's ...
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Focus creams off Cannes sales for Milk, Mendes comedy
Focus Features International has closed key UK deals at the tail end of a successful Cannes market for the sales operation.Sales chief Alison Thompson concluded business with Momentum on Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk feature Milk, which is in post-production and stars Sean Penn as the slain gay rights activist.Contender ...
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The Match Factory announces further sales for Cannes slate
Cologne-based sales agent The Match Factory has unveiled another raft of deals for this year's Cannes slate in addition to the previously annonuced sales.By the end of the market, the animated documentary and competition film Waltz With Bashir by Ari Folman had been sold to over 40 territories, the latest ...
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Pathe sees strong Cannes Market; including a dozen Cheri deals
Pathe International has announced a slew of deals after a successful Cannes Market.Stephen Frears' Cheri, making its market premiere, sold to Italy (Rai), Latin America (California Filmes), CIS (Maywin Media), South Korea (Mars Film), Portugal (Castello Lopes), the Middle East (Teleview), Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Vizion), Greece (Audiovisual), ...