All articles by Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte – Page 5
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UK prepares for French invasion
This summer is gearing up to take on a decidedly French feel in the UK.Unifrance, France's film export body, reports that at least 10 French films will have their British debut in the coming weeks supported by a strong presence of French talent.On June 13, Priceless , starring Audrey Tautou ...
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Coproduction Office picks up Delta sales
The Coproduction Office has announced further sales on its major titles coming out of the Cannes market.Competition feature Delta by Kornel Mundruczo - which won the FIPRESCI prize, sold to Lumiere and Filmmuseum in Benelux, France's Le Pacte, Look Know! in Switzerland, Silenzio in Spain, Seven Films in Greece, Bulgaria's ...
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Number of countries represented at Cannes market tops 100
The Cannes Market had increased attendance this year up 2% over last year with a significant jump in the number of countries represented. There were 101 countries at the market as compared to 92 in 2007. For market review click hereNew faces came from Algeria, Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Jordan, Macedonia ...
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MK2 add sales for 24 City
MK2 has announced sales on Jia Zhang Ke's 24 City .Deals were closed on the official Cannes competition film in the UK with New Wave, Benelux with Cineart, Greece with Seven Group, Korea with With Cinema, Portugal's Atalanta, Ex-Yugoslavia's Megacom and Austria's Stadtkino.MK2 said that negotiations were pending in Brazil ...
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Aida Begic's Snow takes Critics Week Grand Prize
Critics Week has crowned Aida Begic's Snow with its Grand Prize.The film is a co-production from Bosnia Herzegovina, Germany, France and Iran and along with the prize also comes with a $8,000 (Euros 5,000) purse given to the director.The ensemble drama about the aftermath of the Balkan war is being ...
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Elad Keidan's Anthem wins Cinefondation top award
The Cannes Cinefondation has awarded Elad Keidan's Anthem with its top prize.The film hails from Israel's Sam Speigel Film & TV School. Each of the contenders for the Cinefondation prize comes from a film school student.This year 17 films from Asia, Europe, North and South America vied in the competition. ...
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Wide Management adopts Les Enfants
Loic Magneron's Wide Management has acquired Les Enfants De Don Quixotte (Acte 1). The film is a special Critics' Week selection directed by Ronan Denec, Augustin Legrand and Jean-Baptiste Legrand and co-produced by Mathieu Kassovitz. The company has also had continued success with Sandrine Bonnaire's Her Name Is ...
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MK2 finds sales rhythm with Rumba
MK2 has announced its mid-market sales with comedy Rumba , from directors Adel, Gordon and Romy selling to the UK (Sound and Media), Benelux (Cineart), Germany and Switzerland (X Verleih), Portugal (Pantheon), Japan (Shibata Organisation), Korea (Mars Ent) and Poland (Vivarto). The film is in Critics' Week. The ...
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Wild Bunch Concert finds right pitch for the Weinsteins
Wild Bunch has sold Radu Mihaileanu's The Concert to The Weinstein Company. The deal marks the third time that a French film has been pre-sold to the US for over $1mn, noted Wild Bunch's Vincent Maraval. The $21m Concert focuses on a former conductor of the ...
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Memento makes further deals on The Class
Memento continues their selling spree with Laurent Cantet's competition film The Class going to Israel (United King), Korea (Jin Jin) and Switzerland (Filmcoopi). The company is in negotiations with the US, Taiwan, Austria and Australia. Ursula Meier's Home has gone to the UK (Soda), India (Alliance), ...
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Memento on top of The Class
Laurent Cantet's competition film, The Class, is doing brisk business for Memento Films International which is handling sales. Deals have thus far concluded in Italy (Mikado), Benelux (Cineart), Spain (Golem), Greece (Ama), Brazil (Imovision) and Ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom). Offers have come in from the US, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, Israel, Scandinavia and ...
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Labadie's Le Pacte picks up Sundance favourite Young@Heart
Jean Labadie's Le Pacte has picked up Stephen Walker's Young@Heart for international sales in a deal concluded ahead of Cannes.The documentary, about the Young@Heart chorus of senior citizens who sing rock songs to rapt audiences, traces the preparation of a new show boasting covers of Hendrix, Coldplay ...
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Wenders to serve up Tokyo-set thriller
Films Distribution has acquired the next film from Wim Wenders. Based on the book In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami, the film, entitled, Miso Soup , was developed by producer Philippe Carcassonne who brought the project to Wenders. Wenders will shoot the $8m film beginning ...
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StudioCanal sells Babylon AD starring Vin Diesel to Italy
StudioCanal has sold rights to big-budget Mathieu Kassovitz' sci-fi project Babylon AD to Moviemax in Italy. Moviemax is looking to release the Vin Diesel-starrer on around 400 prints in the autumn. The company is considering a festival berth, possibly Venice or Rome.The new acquisition comes as Moviemax is enjoying hits ...
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MK2 sells Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours to US
MK2 has sold Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours to US distributor IFC Filmsfor a 2009 release. The family drama stars Juliette Binoche, CharlesBerling and Jeremie Renier.Other sales include Artificial Eye (UK),A-Films (Benelux), HGC (China) and Filmware (Taiwan). MK2 handled theFrench release taking $4m. Summer Hours was produced by Marin and NathanielKarmitz ...
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TF1 and Jeunet reunite to seek Amelie magic
The team behind Amelie and Delicatessan have reunited with TF1 International taking on sales on Jean-Pierre Jeunet's next film, Micmacs A Tire-Larigot. The $42m project starring Dany Boon, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Julie Ferrier, Andre Dussollier and Yolande Moreau, will begin shooting in August.TF1 International will handle international sales on Jean-Pierre Jeunet's ...
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Celluloid Dreams gets Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer
Celluloid Dreams has acquired Mao's Last Dancer for international sales. Bruce Beresford's film is the inspirational story of ballet dancer Li Cunxin and was adapted from Li's autobiography by Jan Sardi. Sardi was nominated for an Oscar for Shine in 1997Budgeted at $25m, the film is ...
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Pyramide International to handle next Bruno Dumont
Pyramide International will handle the next film from Palme d'Or winning director Bruno Dumont. Hadewijch stars Julie Sokolowski, Yassine Salime and Davis Dewaele in a story about Celine, a young woman dismissed from the convent for her shockingly blind, ecstatic faith. Returning to her life as the daughter of ...
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Jean-Claude Van Damme sales pack punch
The UK's Revolver has picked up rights to J.C.V.D. , the latest Jean-Claude Van Damme film being sold by Gaumont. The film has been generating a lot of buzz on the Internet and is a hot seller for the French studio. A mix of reality and fiction, the ...
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The UK's Revolver has picked up rights to J.C.V.D. , the latest Jean-Claude Van Damme film being sold by Gaumont. The film has been generating a lot of buzz on the Internet and is a hot seller for the French studio. A mix of reality and fiction, the ...