All articles by Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte – Page 18
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Danielle Arbid starts shoot for A Lost Man
France's MK2 has announced the start of production on Danielle Arbid's second feature A Lost Man. The UK's Alexander Siddig and France's Melvil Poupaud star in the road movie set in the Middle East.Filming will start early this year in Beirut, Amman and Paris. MK2 is producing and will handle ...
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Cannes Residence selects participants for 14th edition
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the names of the latest group of participants for the 14th session of the Cannes Residence.Director Laurent Cantet presided over a jury which chose six directors from 140 submissions. The next session will run from March 1 to July 15, 2007 and will see ...
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Lady Chatterley takes the Prix Louis Delluc
Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley was awarded the 64th Prix Louis Delluc on Monday in Paris. The prize is one of the most prestigious awards in French cinema and often acts as a harbinger of further trophies to come. Actor-turned-director Jean-Pierre Darroussin was awarded the Louis Delluc prize for best first ...
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Coach 14 arrives on international sales scene
Former Funny Balloons partner Pape Boye has left the company to team up with Spain's Iris Star in the creation of a new sales entity, Coach 14.Coach 14 will be based in Paris and run by Boye along with Jaume Domenech of Barcelona-based Stardis. The company will aim to work ...
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French film admissions up 10% over last year
Compared to the same timelast year, France's film admissions are up 10.4% thus far in 2006.In total, 167.5m ticketshave been sold as of the end of November with the month marking a 13% climbover November 2005. While the score is not a record, it is a big improvementover October which ...
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France's Elia Films gets $13,200 production prize
France's Institute for the Financing of Cinema & Cultural Industry (IFCIC)has awarded its third annual "young independent production company" prize toElia Films.The award was created in2004 and comes with a $13,216 (Euros 10,000) purse, which goes to a companythat has successfully sought financing for and either prepared or produced afeature ...
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Vivendi won't sell its 20% stake in NBC Universal
Vivendi has announced thatit will not exercise a right to unload its 20% share of NBC Universal inJanuary.Under a 2004 deal whichsaw Vivendi sell Universal to GE, the former retained a 20% stake in the newlyformed NBC Universal and was given the option to begin selling in 2006 althoughthat option ...
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Penguins DP seeks shared director's credit
Controversy is brewing overdirector credit on 2005 French blockbuster March Of The Penguins. Director of photography Laurent Chalet has filed acomplaint in a Paris court demanding shared director's credit on the Oscar-winningnature documentary. Along with Jerome Maison, asecond DP on the film, Chalet spent 13 months shooting the film in ...
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Chesneau appointed Rezo's head of world sales
Sebastien Chesneau has joined Rezo Films International, the sales arm of Paris-based producer/distributor Rezo Films as head of world sales. Chesneau, who took up his functions on December 1, replaces outgoing sales head Cecile Gaget.Previously at Celluloid Dreams (2004-2006), Chesneau was also a sales executive at France Televisions Distribution from ...
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Bergeron starts Un Monstre A Paris
Shark Tale directorEric "Bibo" Bergeron has begun work on animated feature Un Monstre A Paris,in his new 3-D animation studio in Nice. Monstre is beingdeveloped by Luc Besson's EuropaCorp. with Remi Burahin to produce. The roughly $26m (Euros 20m) comedy/horror film is set to bedelivered in late 2008 or early ...
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Delluc prize shortlist includes Flanders and Coeurs
Rather than being whittled down, the short list forthe Louis Delluc prize has been augmented to six candidates, it was announcedtoday. Along with the previously nominated Bled Number One by RabahAmeur-Zaïmeche, Cannes Palme d'Or winner Flanders by Bruno Dumont, OtarIosseliani's Jardins En Automne, Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterleyand Xavier Giannoli's Cannes ...
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ACE seminars to look at 17 European projects
TheEuropean Cinema Workshops (ACE) will be held this year from Dec 6-12 inRoubaix/Tourcoing in the Nord Pas-de-Calais region of France.Theworkshops are an opportunity for European producers to gather with European andUS professionals in order to examine financing, co-production and distributionpotential for, in this year's case, a total of 17 projects. ...
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Gaumont goes digital with XDC France
French major Gaumont hassigned a deal with digital developer XDC to offer its upcoming features in adigital format for cinemas equipped with the necessary projection systems. Themove makes Gaumont the first French producer/distributor to make its filmsavailable digitally. The newly created XDCFrance, a subsidiary of XDC International, proposes technical ...
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Gaumont and Columbia dissolve joint venture
French and US majors Gaumont and Columbia TriStar Films havedecided not to renew a joint distribution venture they created in 2004. GaumontColumbia TriStar Film France was launched in July of 2004 for a period of threeyears and, according to a Gaumont press release Thursday, the partners havedecided to go their ...
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Court throws out most family claims over Etre Et Avoir
The Paris High Court has dismissed most of the complaintslodged by a group of families seeking damages for their children's roles inNicolas Philibert's award-winning 2002 documentary Etre Et Avoir .The families attacked the filmmakers for illegal use oftheir children's images as well as an indemnity tied to the commercial use ...
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Marrakech to open with The Departed
The sixth Marrakech Film Festival will kick off on Dec1 in the Moroccan town with a screening of Martin Scorsese's The Departed. The festival will close with Mon Meilleur Ami by Patrice Leconte. Roman Polanski will head upthe jury alongside Sandrine Bonnaire, Jamel Debbouze, Maria De Medeiros, PanNalin, Yousry Nasrallah, ...
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Besson gets permissions for Cinema City project
The mayor of Saint-Denis has signed the construction permit for Luc Besson's Cinema City project, it was announced Friday. Didier Paillard, mayor of the Parisian suburb, gave the go-ahead for the long-gestating project which will see soundstages, workshops, offices and other amenities built on a 65,000 square metre site.In a ...
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Five films make Louis Delluc shortlist
Five films have been shortlisted for France's pretigious Louis Delluc prize. Cannes winner Flanders by Bruno Dumont, Lady Chatterley by Pascale Ferran, Jardins d'Automne from Otar Iosseliani, Bled Number One by Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche and Quand J'Etais Chanteur from Xavier Giannoli have all made the cut.The winners will be announced in ...
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The Red Cockatoo takes top prize at Marrakech
Germany's Dominik Graf picked up the top prize at the 6th Marrakech International Film Festival for his The Red Cockatoo this weekend. Max Riemelt also took the Best Actor prize for the same film.The Jury Prize went to Romania's Radu Muntean for The Paper Will Be Blue while Best Actress ...
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Onoma closes US deal on White Palms
Paris-based sales outfit Onoma Films has closed a US deal for sports drama White Palms. Strand Releasing acquired the film for North America as the AFM came to a close.White Palms, Hungary's entry for best foreign film Oscar consideration, is directed by Szabolcs Hadju and set in the world of ...