All articles by Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte – Page 21
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Vigne starts shooting Jean De La Fontaine
Cesar-award winning director Daniel Vigne hasbegun shooting Jean De La Fontaine in Paris and France's Sarthoise region.The film boasts an all-star cast including LorantDeutsch, Philippe Torreton, Sara Forestierand Jean-Claude Dreyfus and is written by Jacques Forgeas.The Cineteve/France 2 Cinema production willbe released by Rezo Films locally and shoots throughlate July.Set ...
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Wild Bunch racks up $16m-$18m of Cannes sales
With 11 films scattered throughout the Cannes officialselection, France's Wild Bunchwracked up between $16m and $18m worth of sales during the recently closedmarket.Lou Ye's controversial Chinese competitionentry Summer Palace was sold to thirteen territories with the US's Palm Picturesin final negotiations. Other distributors taking the film include Japan's Movie Eye, ...
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Cannes Market attendance up 6% over 2005
The Cannes Film Market hasannounced final figures for this year's edition with a strong increase in Asianpresence.In total, 91 came to themarket with 10,061 professionals registered for a global rise of 6% over 2005. Asian participation was at a high with notable increases from China (82 participants vs.41 last year), ...
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Projects set to shoot from strong Cannes Atelier
The Cannes Film Festival's filmmakers' workshop known as the Atelier hasannounced great success from its second edition. Aspiring filmmakers met with industry professionals from 19 countrieswho helped to set projects up with financing.More than 450 meetings were held this year with eight films set to nowshoot between July and October ...
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Sales rack up for 12 :08 East Of Bucharest
Sales agent The CoproductionOffice has announced strong sales on its Camera d'Orwinner 12:08 East Of Bucharest by Romanian director Corneliu Porumbiou.The film, which was also awarded the Europa Cinemas Label in Cannes,stars Mircea Andreescu, Teo Corban and Ion Sapdaru.Sales were made to IstitutoLuce in Italy, Filmmuseum in the Netherlands, Bac ...
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Ken Loach shakes the favourites to win the Palme D'Or
In aceremony full of surprises, Ken Loach's TheWind That Shakes The Barley won the Palme d'Or 2006. The film had been very warmly received but seemedout of the running after the screening of the Spanish-language crowd pleasers Volver and Babel.But the jury was unanimous in its decision for the film, ...
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Wild Bunch taps into Im Kwon-taek's 100th film
Legendary Korean director ImKwon-taek's 100th film has been acquired by France's Wild Bunch forinternational sales. The drama's working title is Cheonnyeonhak and will be ready in 2007.Wild Bunch acquired the filmfrom new Korean production powerhouse Prime Entertainment. Prime, which ishandling sales itself on other titles, has bought production entities CoreaEntertainment ...
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Caetano film cleans up in first competition stampede
In the first buying stamped for a competitiontitle at the Cannes market this year, Wild Bunch has concluded a raft of dealson Adrian Caetano's Buenos Aires 1977(Cronica De Una Fuga).The Weinstein Company took North American, NewZealand and Australian rights while Japan's Comstock Org and the UK's Momentumalso picked up the ...
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Dueling Napoleon projects race to the screen
In what is becoming a Capote-esque race to get to the screen first, the twoNapoleon movies about his final days on St Helena and his friendship with a 15-year-oldare now both set to go before the cameras.Patrice Chereau has declaredthat he will shoot his $20 million The Monster Of Longwood ...
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Pyramide on board for Breillat's love triangle
Controversial directorCatherine Breillat has begun shooting her latest film Une VieilleMaitresse. Handled by PyramideInternational, the film is a $11.5m (Euros 9m) period piece about a lovetriangle involving a young man, his older mistress and the young woman he mustmarry.Asia Argento plays themistress with newcomer Fu'ad Ait Aattou as the lover ...
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Comme T'Y Es Belle strong at French box office
In its first week out, LisaAzuelos' sleeper comedy that could, Comme T'Y Es Belle, has sold nearly 350,000 tickets in France. Theticket tally was roughly on par with that of Mission: Impossible :III.French sales company WildBunch has added a screening in Cannes on Monday May 22 at 2 pm as ...
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Haut Et Court slate includes next film from Assayas
French production anddistribution company Haut Et Court will produce the next film from OlivierAssayas, The Pursuit Of Happiness.The film will be shot in English on a $15m budget and written by DouglasKennedy.Based on Kennedy's own book,the film is set in post-World War II New York with McCarthyism as abackdrop. It's ...
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Haut Et Court pursues Assayas $15m Happiness
French production and distribution company HautEt Court will produce the next film from Olivier Assayas, The Pursuit Of Happiness. The film will be shot inEnglish on a $15m budget and written by Douglas Kennedy.Based on Kennedy's own book, the film is setin post-Second World War New York with McCarthyism as ...
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Celluloid Dreams on the Ball
Celluloid Dreams will handle internationalsales on an upcoming project from Alan Ball the company announced Thursday.Ball is best known as thescreenwriter of American Beauty for which he won an Oscar in 2000 and as the creator of TV series Six Feet Under.The as-yet untitled film is producedby Ted Hope on ...
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Garcia, Cassel to star in Annaud's His Majesty Minor
Veteran directorJean-Jacques Annaud has announced plans for his next film, HisMajesty Minor, to begin shooting inSeptember.Starring Jose Garcia andVincent Cassel, the film will shoot in French on a $38m (Euros 30m)budget. Annaud spoke to members of the press on Thursday morning and explainedhis decision to return to the French language ...
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Schroeder prepares Inju for SBS
Director Barbet Schroeder is set tostart work on Inju in September forFrench producers SBS Films and La Fabrique de Films.SBS is run by Said Ben Said of UGCInternational which will start sales on the project at Cannes this year.Inju stars Benoit Magimel and is based on a novel by Edogawa ...
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TFI takes on family film Duke & Claire
TFI International has pickedup live-action family film Duke & Claire from Endgame Entertainment, producers of HotelRwanda and Lord Of War.The story is about a pair ofmismatched dogs shepherding a group of ducklings through the American west on ajourney where they must battle rattlesnakes, wolves and other wilds along theway.The project ...
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Rezo signs up for Sokurov's Alexandra
France's Rezo Films hassigned with legendary Russian director Aleksandr Sukourov for his upcoming Alexandra.The film, about agrandmother who goes in search of her grandson fighting in Chechnya will shootin the Caucasus in July and August.Alexandra is in keeping with Sokourov's previous films about familyties Father And Son and MotherAnd Son. ...
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Woody Allen signs McGregor and Farrell for UK film
French sales, distribution and financehouse Wild Bunch has confirmed casting on Woody Allen's upcoming Summer 2006 Project. Colin Farrell and EwanMcGregor will co-star alongside Tom Wilkinson and an as-yet unannounced female.The film, budgeted at $20.7m (Euros 16.2m),will begin shooting in London in June and should be ready in time for ...
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Memento adds two Cannes titles to slate
French sales company MementoFilms International has picked up competition title Juventude EmMarcha as well as Un Certain Regardfilm El Violin.The first film aPortugese/French/Swiss co-production directed by Pedro Costa and will be released in Portgualby Costa Do Castelo, in France by Equation and in Switzerland byFrenetic.El Violin, from Mexico's Francisco ...