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Transilvania competitors include 4 Months, 3 Weeks
Twelve films are set to compete for the grand prize at this year's Transilvania International Film Festival, among them Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days. This year's festival, which opens Friday, will also feature the world premiere of Nae Caranfil's The Rest Is Silence, ...
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Cannes Grand Prix winner The Mourning Forest to air on Japanese TV
Cannes' newly crowned Grand Prix winner The Mourning Forest (Mogari No Mori) will air on Japanese public broadcaster NHK on May 29, five days before its June 3 theatrical release in Japan. Though the broadcast was planned before the film's win, the great amount of additional press combined with NHK's ...
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Little Film Company takes on rights to Satanas
The Little Film Company has acquired worldwide rights from Dynamo & Rionegro Producciones to Andres Baiz' thriller Satanas. Rodrigo Guerrero (Maria Full Of Grace) produced the film, which stars Damian Alcazar, Marcela Mar and Blas Jaramillo in a story that explores the ripple effect of misguided actions on a group ...
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Pirates reaches $156m domestic, $245m international
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ended the four-day North American holiday weekend with an estimated domestic gross of $156m, a new record for the Memorial Day weekend. And distributor Buena Vista issued a new international figure of $245m (including estimates for Monday), pushing the film's worldwide total ...
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Flashpoint acquires remake rights to Hong Kong's Phoenix
LA-based Flashpoint Entertainment has acquired the English-language remake rights to Hong Kong action comedy Enter The Phoenix from JCE Movies. Flashpoint's Andrew R. Tennenbaum, whose credits include The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, will produce the remake. The original film, produced in 2004 by JCE's Jackie Chan, Albert Yeung ...
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Quality and diversity ensure it was a Cannes to remember
Special occasions always provoke unrealistic expectations but Cannes rose to the challenge of a landmark 60th festival with a programme that had distinction in abundance.Opening with Wong Kar Wai's underwhelming My Blueberry Nights was still a statement of intent, underlining the belief that auteur-cinema matters and that the festival was ...
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Pirates raids international market with $205.5m opening
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End grossed an estimated $205.5m in the international marketplace this weekend, the biggest standard opening of all time, according to distributor Buena Vista International (BVI).If early estimates putting the film's North American total at $126.5m stand up, At World's End, the third installment of ...
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Romanian drama wins Palme d'Or
Cristian Mungiu's difficult-to-swallow but critically-acclaimed Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks, And 2 Days has won Cannes 60th anniversary Palme d'Or.But Stephen Frears' jury threw some curveballs in their prize-giving. There was no mention of the Coen brothers' lauded No Country For Old Men and another favourite, the heavily-praised The ...
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Wide Management sells Shelter to US
Wide Management has announced sales at the just-wrapped Cannes Market on Shelter from director Marco Puccione and starring jury member Maria de Medeiros. The film went to Wolfe for the US and Canada, France's Epicentre, Pride Films in Spain and Portugal and ex-Yugoslavia's MGF. MGF also picked ...
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XXY takes Critics Week Grand Jury prize
Lucia Puenzo's XXY has won the Grand Jury prize in Critics Week, the sidebar announced Friday. The film is an Argentine, Spanish, French co-production. The SACD award went to Les Meduses , a French-Israeli co-production from directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen. Both films, handled by Pyramide ...
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California Dreamin' (Endless) wins Un Certain Regard
The Un Certain Regard sidebar has awarded its top honour to Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin' (Endless).The Romanian title stars Armand Assante and Jamie Elman and is handled by Mediapro Distribution. The Jury Prize went to Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's second feature, Actresses, starring Mathieu Amalric, Jean-Hughes Anglade and the director. The film ...
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Gonzalo Tobal takes top prize in Cannes Cinefondation
The Cannes Cinefondation, which promotes the discovery of new filmmakers, has awarded prizes for this year's edition to Now Everybody Seems To Be Happy from Argentina's Gonzalo Tobal (first prize), Way Out from Chen Tao of China (second prize) and a joint third prize ...
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Belgian tax fund invests in two major co-productions
Belgian tax fund Motion Investment Group (MIG) has raised finance for two co-productions - The Possibility of an Island and Disco.The first is a futuristic drama based on the potential for human cloning and marks the directorial debut of novelist Michel Houllebecq and starring Benoit Magimel,The film is produced by ...
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H20 closes Cannes sales on Poor Things and Opium
H20 Motion Pictures has closed multiple territories on the dark comedy Poor Things and the psychological drama Opium. Poor Things has sold to South America (IDC), Portugal (Castello Lopes), Israel (Forum Films), Poland (Monolith), the Middle East (Front Row), Romania and Bulgaria (New Films), and Hungary and the Czech ...
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IM Global celebrates 'exceptional' debut Cannes
IM Global president Stuart Ford has reported an 'exceptional' market debut for the company on the back of roaring sales on Stopping Power and Untitled Larry Charles Project. A major US distributor has picked up North America and all English-speaking territories to Jan de Bont's upcoming action title in ...
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Warner Bros takes rights to Irish children's book series
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired film rights to the children's book Skulduggery Pleasant by Irish author Derek Landy.The deal incorporates all future books in a potential nine-title series based on the contemporary Dublin-set tale about a skeleton detective who works tirelessly to thwart the return of the Faceless Ones.The first ...
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Control wins Europa Cinemas Label honour at Cannes
Control, Anton Corbijn's biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, was named the Europa Cinemas Label best European film in the Cannes' Directors' Fortnight section. Control will now receive the invaluable support of extended theatrical exposure and additional promotion from the Europa Cinemas network. The Directors' Fortnight Europa ...
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Artificial Eye picks up three Cannes Competition titles
UK arthouse distributor Artificial Eye has acquired three Competition titles at Cannes.The company has picked up Cristian Mungiu's Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days from Wild Bunch, Catherine Breillat's Cannes Competition debut An Old Mistress from Pyramide International and Christophe Honore's Love Songs (Les Chansons d'Amour) from ...
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China Film, Shougang Group set up digital cinema venture
State-owned entertainment conglomerate China Film Group, Beijing-based state-owned engineering group Shougang Group and Hong Kong-based GDC Technology are setting up a joint venture to construct digital cinemas. The venture, China Film Shougang GDC Technology Digital Cinema Construction Ltd, plans to build 700 digital cinema screens in China by the end ...
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Deltamac snaps up Diving Bell, Lionsgate titles
Hong Kong distributor Deltamac had a busy Cannes where it picked up competition film The Diving Bell And The Butterfly and two other titles. Julian Schnabel's French-language The Diving Bell And The Butterfly is produced by Pathe Renn and sold by Pathe Pictures International. Deltamac also pre-bought two titles from ...