All articles by Nancy Tartaglione – Page 23
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Rousselet cranks up French crime caper
ProducerPhilippe Rousselet has begun production on his latest film, Les Parrains,in Paris. The film is directed by Frederic Forestier, who is best known for hiswork on hit film Dead Weight (Le Boulet)The Euros 12m comedy stars Jacques Villeret, Gerard Lanvinand Gerard Darmon as a trio of former mafioisi who come ...
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Deauville praises Maria Full Of Grace
The 30th Deauville Festival of American film wrapped up Sunday night with a slew of prizes for Joshua Marston's Maria Full Of Grace. The festival favourite - already honoured at Sundance and Berlin among others - took home the Grand Prize, the Audience Award and the International Critics' Prize.The jury, ...
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Deauville graces Marston's Maria with prizes
The30th annual Deauville Festival of American film wrapped up last night with aslew of prizes for Joshua Marston's Maria Full Of Grace. The festival favourite already honored atSundance and Berlin among others - took home the Grand Prize, the AudienceAward and the International Critics' Prize.Thejury, presided over by Claude ...
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FRANCE 10 September
Francois Ozon's latest work, 5x2, debuted in second position with a strong per screen average of$5,962 on 221 copies. Indeed French films performed well with Yvan Attal's Ils Se Marierent Et Eurent BeaucoupD'Enfants still near the top of the list in third position - though itdropped off by more than ...
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US star directors lead Deauville invasion
The 30th anniversary edition of theDeauville Festival of American Film has seen a troupe of Hollywood luminariespass through town over the past week - with the promise of more to come.While the festival is sometimesconsidered a poor cousin to the simultaneous Venice and Toronto film festivals,Deauville founder Lionel Chouchan told ...
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Colonna named as new CNC chief
Catherine Colonna will be confirmed as the new director ofthe French film council (CNC) on Wednesday according to sources close to thesituation. Colonna will take up her functions as of the 22nd of September whencurrent chief David Kessler will step down.As previously reported by Screendaily.com, Kessler will headto France Televisions ...
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French cinema admissions leap 22% during 2004
France's film council (CNC) has revealed very healthybox-office figures for the first eight months of the year. In total, 133.57 millioncinema tickets have been sold since the beginning of the year.This represents a 22% increase over the same period in 2003.Overall, the projection is for a 15% increase over last ...
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Wild Bunch takes stake in French distributor Pan Europeene
French sales company Wild Bunch and French groupPan-Europeenne Films are joining forces through theatrical distributionoutfit Pan-Europeenne Edition.Pan-Europeenne Edition will be majority owned by Wild Bunch and run byPan-Europeenne chief Philippe Godeau along with former StudioCanal executiveJean-Philippe Tirel, who recently joined Wild Bunch. Tirel's title will bedeputy managing director. The rest ...
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Wild Bunch acquires distributor Pan Europeene
French sales company Wild Bunch and French distributorPan-Europeenne Films are joining forces to create a new theatrical distributionoutfit to be known as Pan-Europeenne Edition.The new company, will be majority owned by Wild Bunch and run byPan-Europeenne chief Philippe Godeau along with former StudioCanal executiveJean-Philippe Tirel, who recently joined Wild Bunch. ...
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Bacon's Loverboy drops out of Deauville competition
The Deauville Festival ofAmerican Film, which kicks off on Friday, has substituted one of itscompetition films.Rather than screening KevinBacon's directorial debut Loverboy, Omar Naim debut feature The FinalCut, will be shown instead.Reasons for the last minutechange were not given. The Final Cut stars Robin Williams, JamesCaviezel and Mira Sorvino. Bacon ...
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FRANCE 2 September
The Village heldits ground to remain in first place this week and added an additional 592,805admissions. Yvan Attal's Ils Se Marierent Et Eurent Beaucoup d'Enfants openedin second place with 415,961 admissions. The film, which stars Attal and hiswife Charlotte Gainsbourg, had the strongest per screen average of the weekwith $7,517 ...
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Kessler quits as president of France's CNC
David Kessler, president ofthe French film support body, the CNC, will leave his current post for FranceTelevisions within the next few weeks, it was announced today (Sept 1).As previously reported (ScreenDaily.com,July 27), Kessler is tipped to be replaced by Catherine Colonna who is thespokesperson for the Elysee Palace - France's ...
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Faivre embarks on double shoot
Shootinghas begun on a new project from producer Bertrand Faivre. Sauf Le Respect Que Je Vous Dois, whose English title is Burn Out, began principal photographylast month in Paris and will carry on for another four weeks in Paris and theprovinces.Directed byFabienne Godet, Burn Out stars 2002Cannes best actor prize ...
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French producers decry planned tax credit change
French producers are up in arms following news that fiscallegislators are proposing changes to the tax credit system which came intoeffect in January of this year.The tax credit, or credit d'impot, currently allowsproductions and co-productions, which qualify as French under French film board(CNC) guidelines, to write off between 10% and ...
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FRANCE 20 August
King Arthur held the number one spot at the box office forits second week out with Spider-Man 2jumping up to the second spot and knocking out I, Robot which fell tonumber five, 37% off the previous week's take.Hellboy debuted at number three with 337,501admissions followed by the Garfieldmovie which performed ...
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Deauville unveils 30th anniversary programme
The Deauville Festival of American Film has announced itsprogramme for the upcoming 30th anniversary event.Set to run from September 3 - 12, the festival's jury willbe headed by Claude Lelouch. The director, whose relationship with the seasideNormandy town can be traced back to his seminal film A Man And A ...
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FRANCE 18 August
King Arthur handily dethroned Will Smith vehicle I,Robot grabbing the top spot withnearly 635,000 admissions in its first week out. Spider Man 2 held steady in the number two slot to bring itscumulative take to $28,979,702 after 4 weeks on release. Jennifer Garnerstarrer 13 Going On 30 landed atnumber 6 ...
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New chief for French Film Commission
France's National FilmCommission (CNF), which promotes location filming in the country, will have anew president in mid-September.Unifrance's deputy generalmanager Patrick Lamassoure will take over from current CNF president BenoitCaron, according to Caron. Lamassoure could not be reached for comment.For his part, Caron, who hasheaded up the CNF since the late ...
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Deauville reveals 30th anniversary details
Although its full official line up will not be announced until August 19, the Deauville Festival of American Film has provided some hints about the upcoming 30th anniversary event.The Prix Michel d'Ornano, which was created as an aid to writers and which rewards a debut feature length film, will go ...
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Kessler tipped to quit France's CNC in autumn
The French press is awashwith rumours that David Kessler, president of film support body the CNC, is tostep down this autumn to be replaced by Catherine Colonna, the spokesperson forthe Elysee Palace - France's equivalent to the White House.Asked by ScreenDaily.comif the speculative reports in Le Film Francais, Le Monde ...