All articles by Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte – Page 19
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France Telecom to open cinema investment arm
France Telecom is to open a film rights arm with plans to co-produce 10 to 15 French and European films a year.The new division will be operational in the first quarter of 2007 and run by Frederique Dumas. Dumas is an independent producer who formerly consulted on film to the ...
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Wild Bunch takes on Maverick's Stanford Prison Experiment
Paris-based Wild Bunch hasboarded Maverick Films' upcoming The Stanford Prison Experiment.Wild Bunch will handleinternational sales while John Ptak and Philip Elway's Arsenal will representUS rights.The $11m film is to bedirected by Christopher McQuarrie who will produce alongside Mark Morgan andBrent Emery. Guy Oseary and Para Pirria will executive produce.The film ...
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Wide takes on sales for Kavaite's Ecoute Le Temps
Paris-based Wide Managementhas added Alante Kavaite's Ecoute Le Temps to its line up going into the AFM. The Lithuanian film stars EmilieDequenne, Ludmila Mikael and Mathieu Demy and will be premiered at the AFIFest. US remake rights have been sold to Joe Dante with Edouardo Rodriguezattached to direct. Robert Rodriguez ...
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Pyramide's AFM slate includes hot-selling doc Let's Say
Pyramide International ishitting the AFM with a hot new documentary project, three new films to screen,the first images from Catherine Breillat's latest and a quirky comedy starringMarianne Faithfull.The documentary, Let'sSay, is directed by Francoise Marieand will be ready for Cannes 2007. The director went to various differentregions in France to ...
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MK2 starts shoot for Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park
French outfit MK2 hasannounced the beginning of principal photography on the latest film from GusVan Sant. Filming begins this weekin Portland, Oregon on Paranoid Park, a project adapted from the book of the same name by Blake Nelson,which was released in the US in September.MK2 will produce with NeilKopp and ...
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TF1 AFM slate includes Paquet-Brenner double
Heading into the AmericanFilm Market, French sales outfit TF1 International will be featuring an eclecticslate of new films including a one-two punch in very different styles fromdirector Gilles Paquet-Brenner. The first, a follow up to2003's successful action-comedy Gomez&Tavares, is Payoff 2, directed byPaquet-Brenner and Cyril Sebaswith a cast that includes ...
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Small screen trends go even smaller at 2006 Mipcom
The buzzwords at this year's Mipcom television market (Oct8-12 in Cannes) were clearly heard in every conference, at every cocktail andaround every corner in the Palais: multi-platform, content and digital. While with each Mip event in the past few years theseterms have gained in popularity, never before have they been ...
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Buena Vista strikes Spanish VOD deal
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has announced several newdeals as the Mipcom TV market continues.The company is teaming with Spain's Telefonica in aVOD deal which will include films from Walt DisneyPictures, Touchstone and Miramax. Titles available will include recent hit PiratesOf The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as well asupcoming releases ...
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BVI and Sony announce deals at MIPCOM
In deals announced at MIPCOM, Buena VistaInternational Television has signed a VOD deal with France's TFI Vision and Sony Pictures Television has signed a multi-yearcontent deal with UK network Five and its new digital channels Five Life and Five US.The BVI deal with the VOD service of France's leading broadcaster ...
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Besson reconsiders directing 'retirement'
Luc Besson says he will reconsider returning behind the camera if he finds, "a good script" - despite a recent interview announcing his retirement from directing.Speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair, he told Agence France Presse: "I made 10 films and I never would have imagined being able to do ...
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Days Of Glory star Debbouze barred from Algerian screening
Days Of Glory star, and Palme d'Or winner, Jamel Debbouze has been refused a visa to enter Algeria for a screening of the film.Debbouze, who was born in France, is of Moroccan origin and, according to reports earlier this year in Moroccan daily Maroc Soir was already refused entry ...
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Canal Plus signs French VOD agreement with Fox
France's Canal+ Active has signed a VOD agreement with Fox, it was announced Friday.The deal means new Fox releases, as well as catalogue films, will be available on Canal Plus' CanalPlay, the company's one-year old VOD service.Canal Plus' Bruno Thibaudeau said, "We are very proud of this partnership with this ...
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On Set With French Cinema 2006 directors announced
French export body Unifrance has announced the fourth edition of On Set With French Cinema, to take place in the US from Oct 2006 - Jan 2007.First held in 2003, theprogram sees France's best film directors teach masterclasses tobudding US film-makers.This year's On Set directorsare Anne Fontaine, Jacques Audiard, Costa-Gavras, ...
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France submits Fauteuils d'Orchestre for Oscar race
Daniele Thompson's ensemble dramedy Fauteuils d'Orchestre has been selected to represent France in the race for this year's foreign language Academy Award nomination.The film is produced by Thelma Films and set in the Parisian theatre world with an all-star cast including Cecile De France, Valerie Lemercier, Albert Dupontel, Laura Morante, ...
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Luc Besson says he will stop directing after Arthur
Unveiling the names of the French actors who willvoice the lead roles in his upcoming Arthur And TheMinimoys, Luc Bessonconfirmed Monday morning that the film will be his last as director.Arguably one of the best known and most successfulfilm-makers to come from Francein the past 20 years, Besson made the ...
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Sunshine reigns over Deauville
JonathanDayton and Valerie Faris' Little Miss Sunshine won the grand prize at the 32ndDeauville Festival of American Film last night in Deauville, France. The film,a huge box office success in North America, opened in France on Wednesdaythrough 20th Century Fox.Meanwhilethe jury prize went to Ryan Fleck's Half Nelson and the ...
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TF1 kicks off sales on Calderon's wildlife tale White Tuft
TF1International is launching sales here on wildlife feature White Tuft, TheLittle Beaver.Thefilm is directed by Philippe Calderon whose The Besieged Fortress will be released in France by TFM Distribution nextmonth and screened here for buyers yesterday.Afamily film using real animals, White Tuft is set in northern California and follows the ...
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French TV sales up 2.7% to $192.5m in 2005
French TV exports continuedto rise in 2005 according to a study by film board theCNC and TV France International, the country's TV exportorganisation.At TV France International'sannual Rendez Vous held inSt Tropez this week, organizers announced that for 2005 sales totalled $192.5m(Euros 150.8m) for a 2.7% increase over last year.The US ...
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Pretty Pictures gets French rights to The Old Garden
Paris-based distributor Pretty Pictures has announced the acquisition ofa new work by Korean director Im Sang-soo along with three titles from Alejandro Jodorowsky.Im's The Old Garden, which will play in competitionin San Sebastian, was acquired from Cineclick andstars Ji Jin-Hee and Yeom Jeong-A. The story is toldfrom the point of ...
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Films Distribution on board for new Hou Hsiao-Hsien film
Heading into the autumn festival season, French sales house FilmsDistribution has acquired three new projects at script level.The first is the next film up from Hou Hsiao-Hsien called Le Ballon Rouge.Starring Juliette Binoche,the film is about a mother who can't cope with her child and the nanny shehires from Taiwan. ...