All articles by Nancy Tartaglione – Page 25
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Celluloid Dreams celebrates its 'most successful' Cannes
HengamehPanahi, head of French sales powerhouse Celluloid Dreams, has confirmed theacquisition of Todd Solondz's upcoming Palindromes.Panahi toldScreenDaily.com that the new film is almost complete and will be submitted tothe Venice Film Festival. The acquisition was made just before Cannes.Along with Palindromes, Celluloid also acquiredrights outside the US and UK to ...
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Vivendi Universal reports improved Canal Plus results
The CanalPlus Group has reported first a quarter operating income of Euros 74m for 2004- a Euros 29m improvement on the first quarter of 2003. Figures were releasedThursday by parent company Vivendi Universal.Canal Pluswas a strong presence at Cannes this year with a blowout bash in a secludedvilla and broadcasting ...
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FRANCE 25 May
Hot off itspremiere bash in Cannes, Brad Pitt epic Troy scored nearly 1 millionadmissions its first week out in order to grab the top spot away from Van Helsing which boosted its secondweek takings to $7.2m.Also newthis week, Cannes opener Bad Educationfrom Pedro Almodovar which boasted a healthy $7,000 per ...
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New film festival set for Amazon
In conjunction with thegovernment of Amazonas, Le Public Systeme has announced the creation of a newfilm festival in Amazonas, Brazil.Le Public Systeme is thegroup behind the Deauville Festival of American Film, the Cognac ThrillerFestival and the Gerardmer Fantastic Film Festival. Amazonas will be an adventure-themed event but will includeaspects of ...
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Calvaire producer lines up Coffin Island adaptation
Michael Gentile, producer ofCritics' Week title Calvaire, hasannounced new projects from his companyThe Film. In Cannes, Gentile signed a deal for the rights to Maurice Leblanc's book L'Ile Aux 30 Cerceuils, or Coffin Island. The film based on thebook will be made for about Euros 8m-10m according to Gentile who ...
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Paris boosts film funding
France's Ile de Franceregion - the area that incorporates Paris and its environs - has announced itwill increase its available film funding by Euros 2m to Euros 12m next yearwith a view to bumping the total up to Euros 15M over the course of the next fewyears.The existing Euros 10m ...
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Pyramide stacks up with Warner Bros' Femme
Fabienne Vonnier's Pyramidehas added two new co-productions to its roster, as well as taking oninternational sales to Josiane Balasko's L'ExFemme De Ma Vie - the latest film from Warner Bros' French productiondivision.Pyramide sales divisionFlach Pyramide is also selling the two new co-productions - An Italian Romance from CarloMazzacurati, Habana Blues ...
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Blood on the Croisette
French television station France 3 said yesterday it wouldfile a complaint against the police for alledgedly injuring a cameramanfollowing a demonstration of disgruntled show business workers onSaturday. Meanwhile, several unionsrepresenting hotel workers have called a general strike in all of Cannes tobegin on Monday morning at 7am. For the past ...
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Rousselet announces slate
Philippe Rousselet hasannounced a slate of new projects from Paris-based Films de la Suane andUS-based EMC.EMC, a partnership betweenRousselet and Andrew Niccol, is producing LordOf War and preparing Manhattan Bravea $25 million coming of age story for 2005. Heath Ledger is in talks to star.Niccol will direct.Also being developed is ...
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Wild Bunch gets cash injection
French sales and productionoutfit Exception Wild Bunch has received a cash infusion from NY based DaedalusMedia Partners, with further capital being injected by Paris-based IrisCapital.Wild Bunch is now understoodto have $40m in funds. The funds will be used "to acquire, co-finance anddistribute high-quality theatrical motion pictures in the internationalmarketplace and ...
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FRANCE 14 May
Van Helsingscared up nearly 1 million admissions its first week in release with arespectable $6,902 per screen average. Les Choristes remains in thesecond spot after 8 weeks with last week's number one Mariages! down tothird position.There wasvery little movement at the box office but the films that dropped off did ...
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Wild Bunch goes to Hell and beyond
France's Wild Bunch hasadded a crop of high-profile pictures to its slate including a $35m warriorepic from famed Czech director Ivan Passer, and Danis Tanovic's Hell,the second part of a trilogy originally written for late-director KrzysztofKieslowski.Other additions include thefirst English-language film from cult French director Leos Carax and a stylishpenguin ...
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Wild Bunch goes to Hell and beyond
France's Wild Bunch hasadded a crop of high-profile pictures to its slate including a $35m warriorepic from famed Czech director Ivan Passer, and Danis Tanovic's Hell,the second part of a trilogy originally written for late-director KrzysztofKieslowski.Other additions include thefirst English-language film from cult French director Leos Carax and a stylishpenguin ...
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Beart joins Film Distribution slate
French sales house FilmsDistribution has announced four pick-ups coming into Cannes' market including anew feature from Train Of Life director Radu Mihaileanu and twoEmmanuelle Beart-starring films.Live And Become is the long-awaited follow up to Milhaileanu'slauded Train Of Life. Films Distribution's Francois Yon told Screen thatthe company has taken world rights ...
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Beart joins Film Distribution slate
French sales house FilmsDistribution has announced four pick-ups coming into Cannes' market including anew feature from Train Of Life director Radu Mihaileanu and twoEmmanuelle Beart-starring films.Live And Become is the long-awaited follow up to Milhaileanu'slauded Train Of Life. Films Distribution's Francois Yon told Screen thatthe company has taken world rights ...
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Assayas producer drums up starry slate
Producer Edouard Weil isbusy preparing new projects following his latest collaboration with OlivierAssayas on Cannes competition film Clean.Xavier Giannoli's lovetriangle drama La Belle Image stars hot French up and comer LudivineSagnier, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Bruno Todeschini and is set to start shootingon June 7 in Paris and Brussels. The French-Belgian ...
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Assayas producer drums up starry slate
Producer Edouard Weil isbusy preparing new projects following his latest collaboration with OlivierAssayas on Cannes competition film Clean.Xavier Giannoli's lovetriangle drama La Belle Image stars hot French up and comer LudivineSagnier, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Bruno Todeschini and is set to start shootingon June 7 in Paris and Brussels. The French-Belgian ...
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Last minute addition to Cannes competition
An eleventh-hour addition tothe Cannes competition line-up was announced Wednesday, just hours before thecurtain was set to go up on the opening ceremony.Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovinowill be screened in competition on Friday May 14, festival artistic directorThierry Fremaux announced Wednesday morning. The film is an investigativedocumentary about winemaking that spans three ...
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Last minute addition to Cannes competition
An eleventh-hour addition tothe Cannes competition line-up was announced Wednesday, just hours before thecurtain was set to go up on the opening ceremony.Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovinowill be screened in competition on Friday May 14, festival artistic directorThierry Fremaux announced Wednesday morning. The film is an investigativedocumentary about winemaking that spans three ...
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Europa brings high-profile titles to Cannes
Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam's French mini-majorEuropaCorp enters the festival with a slew of hot titles ranging from thenewest Guy Ritchie to the first instalment of its latest franchise.Ritchie, of Snatch and Lock, Stock And Two SmokingBarrels fame returns to similar territory with Revolver. The $20mfilm - a sophisticated ...