All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 218
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Sarajevo to open with Tanovic's Cirkus Columbia
It marks Tanovic’s first film set in Bosnia and Herzegovina since Oscar-winning No Man’s Land.
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Screen Australia, Emerging Pictures plan quarterly Australian film showcase in US
The first set of films is Accidents Happen, The Waiting City and Charlie and Boots.
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Goldcrest unveils sales slate including Emily Blunt’s The Girl
Goldcrest Films has announced the slate of six films its ramped up sales business is taking to Cannes Market.
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ARP takes French rights to My Joy from Fortissimo
The Cannes Competition title, written and directed by Sergei Loznitsa, is a parable about contemporary life in Russia.
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Strand takes US rights to Passenger Side
Foreign sales here at Cannes market are being handled by Mark Austin of Breakaway Media.
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E1 strikes UK deals for Fair Game, The Runaways
E1 Entertainment has taken UK and Irish rights to Doug Liman’s Cannes Competition title Fair Game, and for The Runaways.
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Locarno plans first Industry Days
The Locarno film festival has announced its first Industry Days programme, to run August 7-9.
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NewsWWE plans ambitious slate of 9 films in next 2 years
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. is bringing its film business in house, handling all finance, production and distribution for films with wider audience appeal.
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PictureBox VOD service strikes deal with Icon in UK
Movies-on-demand subscriber service PictureBox has struck a deal with Icon Film Distribution for the rights to more than 30 Icon films.
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Abu Dhabi Film Festival to integrate Emirates Film Competition
Emirates Film Competition into the festival’s programme under the new banner Emirates Competition, in a move to heighten support for local filmmakers.
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UKFC's Lenny Crooks to set up New York-based consultancy
Lenny Crooks, former head of the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund, is moving to New York to start a new consultancy service for filmmakers on both sides of the pond.
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Hopscotch takes on Australian rights to new Paul Andrew Williams Film
E1 Entertainment has sold the Australian rights to Paul Andrew Williams’ Song for Marion to Hopscotch.
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Marie-Pierre Macia to head Abu Dhabi's new $500,000 fund
Macia is a well-known figure on the international film scene as both a producer and programmer; she previously served as head of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
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NewsRidley Scott will miss Cannes opening night for Robin Hood
The director has to miss the red-carpet festivities because he is recovering from knee surgery.
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Marco Bellocchio to give Cannes Masterclass
He will talk with Michel Ciment about his work, on stage at the Salle Bunuel on May 19 at 17:00.
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NewsHot Docs top winners are A Film Unfinished, The Name of the Family
In all, the Toronto-based documentary festival gave 10 awards with more than $72,000 in cash prizes.
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CommentPartying Stones style?
It could have been up there with the most spectacular Cannes parties ever — but alas, there will not be any festival visitors engaging in drunken revelry at the famed Villa Nellcote in Villefranche-sur-Mer.That’s the famed mansion where The Rolling Stones holed up as tax exiles in 1972, where they ...
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NewsLiam Gallagher plans Beatles film with Revolution
Oasis frontman’s In 1 Productions working with Revolution to adapt Richard DiLello’s The Longest Cocktail Party, about the rise and fall of Apple Corps.
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Canada's Greenberg Fund backs new projects by Natali, Skogland
Astral Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund has announced the latest round of funding for 24 projects in its Script Development Program for Canadian feature scripts.
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DMK plans June shoot for UK feature The Veteran
The story is about a young soldier who returns from Afghanistan and becomes involved with surveillance of suspected terrorists in the UK.