All articles by Nancy Tartaglione – Page 17
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Cannes Market registration numbers on the rise
The number ofparticipants registered for the Cannes Film Market (May 11- 22) hasrisen to 6790, up 8% from last year's6260.Professionalsfrom some 73 countries will attend, a rise from 67 in 2003. For the first timeJordan, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Vietnam, Senegal and Nigeria will all berepresented. The number of Americans and British ...
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Funny Balloons acquires world rights to Cannes trio
French sales outfit FunnyBalloons has acquired world rights to three titles selected in Un CertainRegard at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival: Amat Escalante's Sangre,Marcelo Gomes' Cinema, Aspirinas E Urubus and Delwende by S.Pierre Yameogo.Sangre is a first film by the 26 year old Mexican directormaking it eligible for the Camera ...
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Films Distribution readies director driven Cannes slate
When he's not busy fielding a barrage of calls from distributorshoning in on Christian Carion's Merry Christmas - which is screening outof competition at Cannes - Films Distribution's Francois Yon and his team areputting together a mighty line up heading into the Cannes market. The French sales outfits slate includes ...
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Bac Majestic posts Euros 5.3m loss for 2004
French distribution group BacMajestic has announced a loss of Euros 5.3m for 2004 on revenues of Euros33.8m. This is compares with a net loss of Euros 11.5m in 2003 on revenues ofEuros 53.2m.The revenues were higher thanexpected - projected revenues had been in the Euros 28 to 31m range. Thecompany ...
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Cannes unveils Directors' Fortnight line-up
Twenty-onefilms will screen in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar of the Cannes FilmFestival, it was announced today (April 26).In hissecond year at the helm, Fortnight director Olivier Pere has pulled together aselection that includes several films from Europe with a smattering from Asia,the US, Iran and Australia. SixFrench productions or co-productions ...
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France's Memento launches sales arm with Cannes title
France's Memento Films haslaunched a new sales and acquisitions arm which will debut with Hiner Saleem'sCannes competition title Kilometre Zero.Memento Films International (MFI) joins production companies Memento Films Production and La Cinefacture along with Memento Films Distribution (MFD) in a group of companies founded by former Pan Europeenne employees Emilie ...
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Oguri's Forest uproots to Directors' Fortnight
Japanese film-maker Kohei Oguri, whose The ForgottenForest (Umoregi)was originally announced to run in the Un Certain Regard section of the CannesFilm Festival, has chosen to move the film to the Directors' Fortnightsidebar. The festival's Marie-Pierre Hauville confirmed thechange telling ScreenDaily.com,'This is the precise nature of things. Information is constantlyexchanged - ...
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Bardem, Hayek, Woo join Kusturica on Cannes jury
After an extended wait, theCannes Film Festival has announced the composition of the juries overseeing themain competition as well as various sidebars. As previouslyannounced, the official competition jury will be presided over by director EmirKusturica. Joining him will be actors Javier Bardem, Salma Hayek and NanditaDas, directors Agnes Varda, John ...
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Cannes Critics' Week unveils line-up
International Critics' Weekartistic director Jean-Christophe Berjon has announced the selection for theupcoming 44th edition of the sidebar which runs during the CannesFilm Festival next month.Berjon, backed by members ofthe French Film Critics' Union, unveiled sevenfeatures which will vie for the top prize, worth Euros 5,000. The films selected are either ...
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Breaking News: Cannes Critics' Week line-up unveiled
Competition:The Great Ecstasy Of RobertCarmichael, dir Thomas Clay (UK)L'Orrizzonte Degli Eventi, dir Daniele Vicari (Italy)La Petite Jerusalem, dir Karin Albou (Fr)Me And You And Everyone, dir Miranda July (US)A Stranger Of Mine, dir Uchida Kenji (Japan)Grain In Ear, dir Zhang Lu (China/Korea)Orlando Vargas, dir Juan Pittaluga (Uruguay/France)Opening Film: Les Invisibles, ...
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Cannes prepares to unveil competition choices
The Cannes Film Festivalunveils the official line-up for its 58th edition in Paris today ata 9.30am (GMT) press conference.For the first time in many yearsthere are few certain front-runners for a berth. Paris based distributors andsales agencies - usually a strong bellwether for the films that will make thecompetition - ...
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Newcomers dominate Un Certain Regard selection
Cannes's Un Certain Regardsidebar has unveiled a line-up dominated by festival newcomers - and a numberof high profile veterans. Of the 21 directors invited to UnCertain Regard, only four have ever been selected for Cannes before. Each ofthose four has had their previous work in the main competition.Announcing the line-up,festival ...
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Cannes Un Certain Regard line-up
Sangre, dir:Amat Escalante (Mexico)Cinema, Aspirinas E Urubus, dir: Marcelo Gomes(Brazil)Schlafer, dir Benjamin Heisenberg (Austria)Falscher Bekenner, dir: Christoph Hochhausler (Germany)Down In The Valley, dir: David Jacobson (US)Tawa Dura Yanna, dir: Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri Lanka)Voksne Mennesker, dir: Dagur Kari (Denmark)Yek Shab, dir: Niki Karimi (Iran)Hwal, dir: Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)Jewboy, dir: Tony ...
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Cannes unveils 'classical' competition line-up
Dominik Moll's Lemmingwill open the 58th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22). George Lucas' StarWars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith, which had been widely tipped asthe opening film, will instead premiere out of competition in Cannes on May15, three days ahead of its French opening on ...
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Breaking News: Cannes competition line-up unveiled
The Cannes Film Festival(May 11-22) unveiled its line-up this morning, with a string of establishedarthouse directors such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant, DavidCronenberg and Lars von Trier set to compete for the Palme d'Or.Geographically, the competition selection is fairly widespread. Three films from France play in main ...
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Nice opening for French hit comedy
Director James Huth's BriceDe Nice has proved a breakout hit in French cinemas in its first week. Released on Wednesday April6, the film had already wracked up 1.1m admissions by the end of the weekend,breaking records as the biggest opening day and openingweekend in France in 2005. Brice knocked French ...
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Cannes drafts in Yang, Iosseliani for sidebar duty
The Cannes FilmFestival has made two announcements regarding sidebars at the upcoming eventwhich runs from May 11-22.Taiwanesedirector Edward Yang has been named to preside over the Cinefondation jury andthe short film jury while Georgian filmmaker Otar Iosseliani will act as patronof the 44th Critics' Week.Yang won the bestdirector prize at ...
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Cognac toasts Iglesia's El Crimen Ferpecto
Alex de la Iglesia's blackcomedy El Crimen Ferpecto was the big winner at the 23rdannual Cognac Thriller Festival which wrapped on Sunday night. The film was a crowd favoritetaking the Premiere magazine audience award as well as the Grand Prize from thejury headed up by American director Joel Schumacher.The Jury ...
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French admissions fall back in first quarter of 2005
France'sNational Cinema Federation (FNCF) has announced a drop in first quarter figuresfor 2005 against last year. In thefirst three months of the year, the box-office racked up 44.6 millionadmissions versus 50.1 million over the same period in 2004.The FNCF put the drop down to a less "rich" selectionof films compared ...
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France's Freshline revs up Forestier's Show
Paris-basedFreshline Production has announced a slate of films set for production laterthis year including the next feature from Dead Weight director FredericForestier. Forestier hassigned to direct One Man Show, a black comedy set in the media world.Forestier is currently in post-production on comedy Les Parrainsstarring Gerard Lanvin, Gerard Darmon and ...