All Cannes articles – Page 264
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Cannes Market reports 8% hike in attendance
Asia and Latin American lead the rise in partipicants.
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Media Luna picks up Student, Kid
Midway through the market, Media Luna has taken international rights to three new films.
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IFC wins bidding war for Wheatley’s Sightseers
In a deal concluded late last night Cannes time IFC took US rights to Ben Wheatley’s dark comedy Sightseers from Protagonist Pictures.
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Cannes titles Rust & Bone top opener at French box office
Jacques Audiard’s competition title Rust & Bone was the topo pening film at the French box office in it first five days on release starting May 16.
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Protagonist books The Sweeney into eOne for US
EXCLUSIVE: eOne continues to ramp its US distribution slate with the acquisition of Protagonist’s The Sweeney, which the distributor had previously picked up for UK and Canada; deals flow for Nick Love’s crime-drama and Vertigo’s Viking epic Hammer of the Gods.
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Wild Bunch Benelux goes on buying spree
Mid way through the market, company boss Pim Hermeling has confirmed a raft of market and festival acquisitions.
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Film4 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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French director Morelli explores demons
French director to bring Chinese classic Water Margin to big screen in 3D animation, entitled Le Prince et 108 demons.
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DAR gets ugly with Kashyap, Phantom
India’s DAR Motion Pictures is partnering with Phantom Films to produce Ugly, the next project from Anurag Kashyap, whose Gangs Of Wasseypur is screening in Directors Fortnight.
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Jiang Wen to shoot Gone With The Bullets
Leading Chinese filmmaker Jiang Wen is likely to reunite with Gong Li in his latest directorial project, Gone With The Bullets, according to Marco Ma, who co-owns Beijing-based Buyilehu Films with the director.
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Endorphine, Augustus wake up for Sunrise
EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Endorphine Production and Dutch production company Augustus Film have boarded Indian filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise (Arunoday), alongside India’s Independent Movies and the National Film Development Corp (NFDC).
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Lee Daniels chooses Minka Kelly for Jackie Kennedy, talks The Butler
EXCLUSIVE: Lee Daniels talks to Screen about why he connected with The Butler and discloses that he wants Minka Kelly to play Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Per Fly shooting Monica Zetterlund
Swedish singer Edda Magnason [pictured] plays the leading role.
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Film I Vast welcomes projects including new Moodysson
As-yet-untitled feature from Lukas Moodysson [pictured] is one of five titles set to do post-production at Film I Vast’s base in Trollhättan.
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Showbox sells Thieves, Nameless Gangster
Korea’s Showbox has scored further sales on heist action thriller The Thieves and recent hit Nameless Gangster: Rules Of The Time.
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Bitter Ends picks up Karakara for Japan
Japanese distributor Bitters End has picked up all rights to Canada-Japan co-production Karakara, directed by Claude Gagnon.
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Scottish companies CinéFile and Distrify partner up
Edinburgh based boutique distributor CinéFile has teamed up with Scottish film promotion and distribution service Distrify, to allow its content to become more accessible on the internet.
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Baltic Bridge East by West announces co-production slate
Producers include Amour Fou, Aurora Films, CTB Film Company; Bakur Bakuradze among directors.