All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 140
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CommentKanye West brings his visionary Cruel Summer to Cannes
Kanye talks about reinventing entertainment and why he created this seven-screen cinema installation experience.
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NewsFortissimo takes on Serbian debut Redemption Street
Fortisimmo Films has acquired Serbian director Miroslav Terzic’s debut feature Redemption Street.
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NewsMadagascar 3 uses HP technology
HP is also an official partner at the Cannes Film Festival, showing a multi-touch wall.
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NewsFilm4 goes monster mad with Ben Wheatley
EXCLUSIVE: Film4 is in discussions with potential co-financiers here on Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley’s planned cops-and-monsters film Freakshift.
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CommentRonan Keating sings with Goddess
Keating talks to Screen about his acting debut in the “beautiful story” of Goddess.
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NewsZurich to add German-language market initiative
Eighth edition of Zurich Film Festival runs Sept 27-29.
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NewsWarp Australia goes Shopping
Warp Films Australia, here last year with Snowtown, is currently shooting Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland’s New Zealand feature Shopping. Set in 1981, the story is about a teenage boy seduced by a career criminal.
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NewsScandis get Sensational with Mubi
The new subscriber offering from Mubi, which has launched in Turkey two months ago, will next launch in Norway on July 17, with Sweden and Denmark following in the weeks after, with Finland and Iceland in the autumn.
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NewsFilm Collaborative launches LGBT initiative for distribution
EXCLUSIVE: The Film Collaborative has launched a new distribution initiative for LGBT films, FestSelects.
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Scottish features Accelerated
Creative Scotland’s inaugural Accelerator feature development programme has selected seven Scottish features
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Kaas investigates TrustNordisk's Causes
TrustNordisk is handling sales on The Keeper of Lost Causes; Mikkel Norgaard directs from a screenplay by Nikolaj Arcel.
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CommentKanye in Cannes: The sequel
Hoping for another Kanye West interaction as he presents his debut short film Cruel Summer.
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NewsContent takes on Complicit
Content has taken world rights to MI5/terrorism drama Complicit directed by Niall MacCormick (Albatross).
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NewsK5 chugs with more Night Train sales
K5 International has sold Bille August’s Night Train To Lisbon to Eastern Europe (EEAP ), Latin America (Swen), and Italy (Archibald).
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NewsMexico unveils revamped Cineteca
Here in Cannes, the Mexican Film Institute unveiled the restoration and redevelopment plans for the Cineteca Nacional, the world’s biggest cinematheque.
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NewsBFI London Film Festival revamps programme sections
New competition sections to be added, and ‘clusters’ will be grouped by themes.
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NewsRomeo team could work with Swarovski again
Screenwriter Julian Fellowes and producer Ileen Maisel plan to develop future projects with Swarovski Entertainment, which backed their new Romeo and Juliet.
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NewsCoppola at the Mercy of Highsmith
Bruno Coppola and Joseph Pierson have acquired the film rights to Patricia Highsmith’s A Suspension of Mercy.
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NewsBB King doc lands UK deal; Brewer readies Nat King Cole, Slash films
EXCLUSIVE: GFM Films has sold UK rights to G2 Pictures for BB King: The Life of Riley.
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NewsuCarmen team plans La Boheme film
EXCLUSIVE: The South Africa theatre project is one of 16 projects on packed slate from UK’s F&ME.