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NewsUS buyers circle Croisette offerings
US acquisitions teams in Cannes continued to swirl around prestige titles and packages heading into Saturday night including Competition selection The Lobster starring Colin Farrell.
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NewsChild 44's Daniél Espinosa to direct 'The Emigrants'
Child 44 director Daniél Espinosa is to helm a new adptation of period epic The Emigrants for Scandinavian major Svensk Filindustri.
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NewsPeter Chan to direct Li Na biopic
Hong Kong filmmaker Peter Ho-sun Chan will produce and direct a biopic of Chinese tennis player Li Na, based on her best-selling autobiography Li Na: My Life.
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NewsFortitude boards Will Ferrell comedy 'Tom's Dad'
Lasse Hallström will direct the story of a struggling nightclub performer forced to babysit his estranged 12-year-old son. Fortitude International is selling in Cannes.
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News'Se7en' writer's 'Psycho Killer' secures finance
EXCLUSIVE: K5 to finance and produce thriller from the writer of Se7en and producer of Zombieland.
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NewsFinance panel: Friends in high places
Panel was moderated by Nigel Sinclair, CEO of White Horse Pictures, along with film-makers Ariel Vromen and Lone Scherfig.
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NewsPanel discusses international markets
Know Your International English-Speaking Markets panel talked on wide-ranging topics including VoD and the recent success of genre films.
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NewsDoha Film Institute unveils Spring 2015 funding round
The Doha Film Institute (DFI) has unveiled the projects to receive grants in its Spring 2015 funding cycle, including the first Qatari feature awarded a production grant.
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NewsAgyness Deyn joins dystopian drama 'The White King'
EXCLUSIVE: Dystopian book adaptation readies for shoot.
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NewsRed Sea Media to sell AIP genre slate
EXCLUSIVE: Roman Kopelevich’s LA-based sales company has come on to handle international sales on a reboot slate of ten American International Pictures genre classics from the 1950s.
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NewsOther Angle flies 'Larry Gaye' to new territories
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Other Angle has secured a brace of key sales for US comedy Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant.
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NewsTiger Aspect, Sadie Frost, Catalyst team on horror
EXCLUSIVE: Tiger Aspect teams on on cannibal horror from Ripper Street writer.
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NewsRaven Banner, Sony strike 'Sky Sharks' deal
EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto-based company has struck a deal with Sony Pictures for home entertainment rights to the Nazi zombie creature feature Sky Sharks.
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NewsSalon books into boxing doc, horror
EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Horgan, Ron Scalpello, Rob Savage films among slate.
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NewsJohnny Flynn, George Mackay to play Kinks brothers
EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Flynn, George Mackay to play “Cain and Abel of rock” Ray and Dave Davies.
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News'Buena Vista' producer readies four new Cuban docs
EXCLUSIVE: Buena Vista Social Club producer Rosa Bosch is in Cannes with a slate of four new feature documentaries, all of which are to be made in Cuba as the country begins to open itself up to international production.
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NewsMarc Butan launches MadRiver Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: Marc Butan has launched the company to develop, finance and produce three to four star-driven films a year in the $15-50m range.
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NewsFilmSharks lures 'Francis' buyers
EXCLUSIVE: FilmSharks’ Francis: Pray For Us promo continues to draw buyers as Metropolitan has swooped on French rights to the Vatican-endorsed biopic of the current Pope.
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NewsBuyers drink-up SND’s 'First Growth'
EXCLUSIVE: France’s SND has sealed several deals on Jerome Le Maire’s viticulture themed family drama First Growth (Premier Cru) following its market premiere in Cannes.
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NewsCannes: Screen's jury grid has a new frontrunner
The Screen International Cannes jury rounded out Day 3 feeling largely satisfied with the films on offer in the 68th Competition thus far - although a few solitary Palmes were handed out.