All articles by Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte
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French Parliament rejects bill to unplug Internet pirates
After a heated battle, a bill that would have unplugged French Internet pirates was rejected by the country’s Parliament on Thursday.
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Other Angle picks up rights for Bus Palladium and Les Beaux Gosses
Other Angle Pictures, the new Paris-based sales company, has picked up the international rights to Bus Palladium and Les Beaux Gosses.
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Roissy takes on international sales to Singing Nun tale Soeur Sourire
Roissy Films has acquiredSoeur Souriredirected by Stijn Coninx for international sales. Produced by Ocean Films’ Eric Heumann and Marc Sillam, the film will be released byOcean on April 29 in France.
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France has record year for production and investment
France had a record year for production and production investment in 2008, according to figures released by France's Centre National du Cinema which warned that the industry still needs to be prudent in the current financial climate and pointed to the growing importance of online distribution. Overall, big and small ...
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Lionsgate takes North America on Paris With Love
Lionsgate has taken North American rights to Luc Besson's EuropaCorp thriller From Paris With Love, starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and directed by Pierre Morel. The deal reunites Lionsgate and Europa after Lionsgate released Olivier Megaton's Transporter 3 last year and Alexandre Aja's horror film High Tension in ...
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Breathless wins big at Deauville Asian festival
South Korea's Breathless was the big winner at the 11th Deauville Festival of Asian Film which wrapped on Sunday evening. Yang Ik-June's film, a feature directorial debut in which he also stars, is a brutal look into domestic violence in South Korea. The film also took the International Critics Prize.In ...
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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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Roissy sells four more territories for Cesar winner Seraphine
Roissy Films has concluded further sales on Cesar winner Seraphine. The film by Martin Provost has sold to Alcine Terran in Japanas well as Atalanta Filmes in Portugal, Gutek in Poland and With Cinema in South Korea.Roissy Films' Yohann Comte tells ScreenDaily.com that a number of other territories are currently ...
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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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Seraphine wins seven Cesars including best picture
Martin Provost's Seraphine was the big winner at Friday night's Cesar awards ceremony in Paris. The film scored seven prizes including best picture.Vincent Cassel took top acting honors for Jean-Francois Richet's Mesrine, the two-part story of France's notorious gangster which had been the most-heavily nominated going into the awards with ...
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Francis Boespflug to leave Warner Bros France after 12 years
Warner Bros Pictures France's Francis Boespflug is leaving the company, Warner announced today. Most recently, the industry veteran served as managing director production and distribution for the French arm of the US major.Boespflug, who had been with the company for 12 years, cited personal reasons for his departure.Boespflug was instrumental ...
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Training - Opinion - 'It took time but the field opened up'
For a country where a husband's infidelity is almost tacitly agreed in a marriage contract, it is surprising that machismo has very little place in the French film business. Women have been running companies, working as producers, editors, screenwriters and directors for years in what appears to be one of ...
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Boon's Welcome To TheSticksmakes him highest paid actor in Europe
Welcome To The Sticks director and star Dany Boon has become the highest paid actor in the history of European cinema, according to French daily Le Figaro.The film, which sold nearly 21 million tickets in France alone, has already earned Boon $33m (Euros 26m). Boon directed, starred in and co-wrote ...
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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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France's Critics Union honours Agnes Varda's Les Plages D'Agnes
France's Critics Union handed out its prizes for 2008 on Monday night with top honours in Paris going to Agnes Varda's Les Plages D'Agnes as the best French film while Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood took the best foreign film award. The Critics group is also the organization ...
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Pyramide goes strong on Corsini's Leaving
Pyramide International has announced strong pre-sales on Catherine Corsini's Leaving at the European Film Market in Berlin. Metrodome acquired the film for the UK with Lumiere taking it in Benelux, Gussi in Mexico and Alfa in Argentina. A deal for Australia and New Zealand is imminent, according to the French ...
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Six sentenced in illegal Internet broadcast of Les Bronzes 3
A Paris court has sentencedsix people, includingthree employees of TF1, to a one month suspended jail sentence for their involvement in illegally broadcasting Patrice Leconte's 2006 hit Les Bronzes 3 Amis Pour La Vie on the Internet. Agence France Presse reports that two of those sentenced are employees of TF1's ...
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Coach 14 to remake Proyecto Dos with Rosa Entertainment.
French sales company Coach 14 has announced a remake deal for Guillermo Fernandez Groizard's thriller Proyecto Dos with LA-based Rosa Entertainment. The original, directed by Guillermo Fernandez Groizard, is set in contemporary Madrid where a biochemist discovers that his ordinary life is not what he thinks. Buena Vista released the ...
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Wild Bunch arrives in Berlin with auteur-packed sales slate
Wild Bunch comes to Berlin this year boasting new projects from both seasoned and fresh talent - and has a few special events up its sleeve.In casting news, Kate Hudson, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty have joined the previously announced The Killer Inside Me, a $13m adaptation of ...
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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 ...