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All Production articles – Page 491
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FeaturesAlain Attal: first blood
It all began in a restaurant for the producer of Guillaume Canet’s Cannes title Blood Ties. Alain Attal tells Melanie Goodfellow about his US debut.
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FeaturesNicolas Winding Refn: playing God
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives started as a fight movie and morphed into a twisted tale of a mother-son relationship. Wendy Mitchell talks to the Danish writer-director about his anticipated follow-up to Drive.
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NewsRelativity Int’l walks Carrion Road
EXCLUSIVE: The freshly minted division led by Camela Galano has struck a deal to co-finance and handle sales on two projets from Atlas Independent, kicking off in Cannes with thriller The Man On Carrion Road.
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NewsAldamisa Int'l tastes Chef
Jon Favreau wrote and will direct the comedy to star Sofia Vergara, Robert Downey Jr, John Leguizamo and Bobby Cannavale. Aldamisa International will kick off pre-sales in Cannes.
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NewsMichael Nyqvist joins Father
The star of the Swedish-language Millennium Trilogy has signed on to the Cannes sales title My So-Called Father opposite Vera Vitali.
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NewsVirgin Produced strikes Overbrook pact
Virgin Produced and Overbrook Entertainment have signed a non-exclusive deal starting on the imminent summer release After Earth.
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NewsUni, MRC board MacFarlane comedy
Universal Pictures and Media Rights Capital (MRC) will co-finance Seth MacFarlane’s Western comedy A Million Ways To Die In The West.
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NewsRed Sea bites on Squirrels
CEO Roman Kopelevich will launch sales on the Croisette on the horror-thriller from Bazelevs.
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NewsForesight checks out of Hotel 33
UPDATE: Foresight Unlimited has pulled the thriller from its Cannes slate after it emerged on Friday evening [10] that the financiers had not closed their deal for Nicolas Cage.
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NewsKate Winslet signs on to The Dressmaker
EXCLUSIVE: Winslet to lead Jocelyn Moorhouse’s period romance set to shoot in autumn, Embankment to launch sales in Cannes.
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NewsStudioCanal hunting Wicker Man material
Worldwide appeal to retrieve original missing film material for horror classic The Wicker Man on 40th anniversary.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Isabelle Huppert will play the lead in Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs and British comedian Harry Hill will star in his own feature film.
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NewsGFM boards Toei's Space Pirate
London-based GFM is partnering with Japanese powerhouse Toei Animation on $30 million animated feature Harlock: Space Pirate, a 3D sci-fi motion capture animated film praised by James Cameron.
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NewsOppenheimer developing Act of Killing follow-up
EXCLUSIVE: The team behind the multiple-award-winning documentary The Act of Killing is developing a follow-up, The Look Of Silence.
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NewsArnold, Meadows, Considine lead Film4 slate
Development slate includes Andrea Arnold’s US-set Mag Crew and a Film4.0 doc about Nick Cave.
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NewsSiren, Solution launch fund
The $50m multi-year revolving equity fund will finance development and production of the joint features and television slate, kicking off with Laggies and The Forger.
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NewsSundance names Lab fellows
The Sundance Institute has announced the 13 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs from May 27-Jun 27.
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NewsFilmDistrict hears The Signal
The distributor has preemptively acquired US rights to the Low Spark Films and Automatik production, which will star Laurence Fishburne and newcomer Brenton Thwaites. IM Global’s genre arm Octane handles international sales.
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NewsByrne, Huppert, Eisenberg board Trier film
EXCLUSIVE: Picture is Norwegian Oslo August 31st director Joachim Trier’s first English-language film.