All articles by Nancy Tartaglione – Page 16
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Stars warm up Frost production
Sopranos star Michael Imperioli and Frenchactress Irene Jacob have signed up to star in Paul Auster's upcoming TheInner Life Of Martin Frost. Manchurian Candidatestar Liev Schreiber is tipped to join them.The Euros3.5m film will start shooting in September and is produced by Gemini's PaoloBranco, Auster and Peter Newman who ...
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Noe to set English-language debut in Japan
Pathe will produce the nextfilm from controversial French director Gaspar Noe. Enter The Void is an English-language Euros 10m film which isgearing up to shoot late this year.Noe, a notoriouslymeticulous filmmaker, is preparing to shoot in Japan and France. The two leadroles will be filled by unknowns and a large ...
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Auster rounds out cast for Inner Life
Sopranos star Michael Imperioli and French actress IreneJacob have signed up to star in Paul Auster's upcoming The Inner Life OfMartin Frost. Manchurian Candidate star Liev Schreiber is tipped to join them.The Euros 3.5m film willstart shooting in September and is produced by Gemini's Paolo Branco, Austerand Peter Newman who ...
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French pair launch Borsalino with focus on Asian film
Wild Bunch salesexecutive Gael Nouaille and Laurent Baudens, formerly of Gemini Films, are inCannes christening a new company which will specialise in the distribution ofvideo and TV rights for Asian films. Callingthemselves Borsalino, the two will focus on getting Asian catalogue films toaudiences in Latin American which Nouaille and Baudens ...
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Karmitz heads to China, son takes the reigns at MK2
Veteran jack of all filmtrades Marin Karmitz is turning over the bulk of his business to son Nathaniel.Karmitz told Screen it was"change, but with continuity".Nathaniel Karmitz has beenat MK2 for ten years and was notably responsible for making the DVD label ahit. He has just been promoted to deputy managing ...
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UGC International embraces Family Hero
French sales outfit UGCInternational is to handle Family Hero, the new film from Une Vie A T'Attendre director Thierry Kilfa starring Catherine Deneuve,Gerard Lanvin, Miou-Miou, Geraldine Pailhas and Michael Cohen.At Euros 12m Hero is written by Klifa and Christopher Thompson andwill be produced by UGC International president Said Ben Said's ...
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Japan's Toshiba snaps up Lady Chatterley
French sales company FilmsDistribution has sold its Lady Chatterley to Japan's Toshiba on day one of the Cannes Market.The Pascal Ferran-directedfilm is an adaptation of DH Lawrence's classic, racy novel. Marina Hands stars in the eponymousrole with Jean-Louis Coulloc'h and Hippolyte Girardot.Films Distribution ishandling a pedigree slate which includes ...
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UGC confirms closure of UK distribution arm
Following the sell-off of its UK exhibition circuit in Dec 2004, Frenchmajor UGC has confirmed that it is closing its UK distribution outfit UGC FilmsUK. UGC chief executive Alain Sussfeld has confirmed that plans are underwayto "progressively stop" the company's operations.The three-and-a-half-year-old company run by Louisa Dent and Emma Daviehad ...
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Rezo sales arm makes Croisette debut with Countdown
Rezo Films International, the sales arm of French producer-distributorRezo Films, is hitting its first Cannes market with Russian action title Countdown.Budgeted at $12 million and tipped as an action blockbuster, Countdownisdirected by Evgeny Lavrentiev and has already taken $6 million at the Russianbox office. Starring Alexey Makarov, Louise Lombard and ...
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Lemming jump starts Cannes festival
The 58th CannesFilm Festival gets underway today with the opening ceremony and competitionscreening of Dominik Moll's Lemmingat 19.30.Festival delegates have beenpouring into Cannes over the past two days in preparation forthe start of the festival.According to official Cannes figures, 8281 delegates from 79 countries have registered for the Cannes market, ...
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Woo and Wong boost StudioCanal slate
Adding to their big-ticket Wong Kar-wai film A Lady From Shanghai, StudioCanal hascome to Cannes boasting a new collaboration with John Woo and a line-up thatincludes films from RichardGrandpierre and directors Diane Kurys and Xavier Beauvois The studio is also promising a surprise visitfrom Sydney Pollack.Woo, who is also on ...
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France's Pyramide unveils Cannes slate
The newly-christened PyramideInternational is heading into Cannes with a strong line up that includesseveral competition titles and will begin pre-sales on new films from directorTony Gatlif, Jean-Pierre Ameris and Julie Lopes-Curval among others.The company has one film in themain competition, Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu's Peindre Ou Faire L'Amourstarring Sabine Azema, ...
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Wild Bunch unveils wide ranging Cannes slate
Frenchsales and finance outfit Wild Bunch is heading into Cannes with a dynamic slatethat includes everything from big-budget sci-fi to art-househeartstring-tuggers.The company is handling world rights on the $45m Outlanderproduced by LA-based Ascendant Pictures, the company behind Andrew Niccol's LordOf War. Directed by Howard McCain, the film boasts production designcreated ...
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Gemini to sell Auster's Inner Life at Cannes
Paolo Branco's Gemini Filmswill begin sales on the latest film from author and director Paul Auster, TheInner Life Of Martin Frost, at Cannes next week, the company told ScreenDaily.com.The Euros 3.5m project will beginshooting in mid-September in the US with casting to be confirmed.The Portugese-USco-production is produced by Branco and ...
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Europa starts new pictures from Keshishian, Perez
Adding to theiralready highly-charged slate - which includes Tommy Lee Jones' competitiontitle The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada and market film Revolver from Guy Ritchie - EuropaCorp. willbegin sales at Cannes next week on the next film from Madonna: Truth Or Dare director Alek Keshishian as well as theEnglish-language directing ...
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60% increase in films at Cannes Short Film Corner
In its second year, theShort Film Corner of the Cannes Film Festival has thus far registered a 60%increase in participating films over 2004.Created lastyear to support young creative talent, the market helps in the promotion ofshort films from around the globe.As of April 26,2005, 617 films were signed up from ...
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Wide takes on sales for Critics' Week opener Invisibles
French sales and production outfit Wide Managementhas acquired international rights to Thierry Jousse's Critics' Week opener LesInvisibles. The film stars Laurent Lucas, Michael Lonsdale and MargotAbascal in a story of fleeting romance set in the world of electronic music.Wide will alsohandle market title Three Couples In A Storm by director ...
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Cannes adds Hong's Cinema to competition line-up
The Cannes Film Festival hasannounced the addition of Hong Sang-soo's A Tale Of The Cinema (Geuk-Jang-Jeon) to its official selection. The film will compete forthe Palme D'Or along with the films originally announced on April 19.The latest film from the South Korean director is the storyof a man who sees ...
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Quinta to release Chromophobia in France
Quinta Distribution will release Cannes closing film Chromophobia in France, Quinta president Tarak Ben Ammarconfirmed last week. The company also has world rights to the film directed byMartha Fiennes; Ammar is also producer on the film. The film stars Martha's brother Ralph Fiennes and his EnglishPatient co-star Kristin Scott-Thomas. Alsoon ...
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Celluloid picks up Euro sales on Three Times
CelluloidDreams will handle European sales for Hou Hsiao-hsien's Cannes competition entryThree Times (pictured), the Paris company said yesterday, after striking a deal with the film's French producers Paradis Films andOrly Films.Making his sixth trip to Cannes, the Taiwanese director returns with a lyricalexploration of love and memory. In this tryptych ...