All Cannes articles – Page 308
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Cannes Film Festival honours Clint Eastwood
The Cannes Film Festival has honoured Clint Eastwood with a special Palme d’Or.In Paris for the release of his latest directorial effort, Gran Torino, Eastwood was awarded the special Palme by festival president Gilles Jacob and delegate general Thierry Fremaux in recognition of the auteur who ...
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Will Cannes 2009 deliver on high expectations?
With Berlin over, selectors at the Cannes film festival (May 13-24) are facing a deluge of films from the world’s greatest auteurs - so many, in fact, some big names could end up being excluded from official selection.Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces opens in Spain on March ...
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Bergman's Images From The Playground to screen at Cannes
Images from the Playground, a compilation film containing previously unseen material from nine of Ingmar Bergman’s behind-the-screens films, fromSawdustand TinseltoPersona,will be screened for the first time, at the Cannes Film Festival this year.The film was produced with the support of World Cinema Foundation, the film preserving ...
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Cannes selectors face deluge of auteurs in 2009
As Berlin draws to a close, selectors at the Cannes Film Festival are facing such a deluge of films from the world’s greatest auteurs that many will no doubt be rejected from official selection.The lineup of titles ready for the May 13-24 festival is daunting, and ...
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KWA adds four to slate
Madrid-based Kevin Williams Associates has picked up Albert Arizza’s thriller Ramirez about a lonely young night stalker and drug dealer, preying on young women he can pick up and seduce.KWA has also acquired Mexican drama Limbo, about a 12-year-old gay boy who suffers an accident and goes to limbo, a ...
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Baker Street to launch international sales division under Lansley
UK production and media financing outfit Baker Street Media Finance has launched its own sales arm. Baker Street International - as the new division is called - will be attending the EFM informally before beginning selling in earnest in Cannes in May.The new outfit is head by former Lakeshore executive ...
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Wild Bunch launches 3D label kicking off with Oceans
Wild Bunch is going 3-D. The French sales, distribution and financing outfit will create a new label, Wild Bunch 3-D, under which 3-D films will be distributed and sold. The new arm is to kick off with Oceans 3-D Into The Deep from filmmaker brothers Jean-Jacques and Francois Mantello and ...
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Isabelle Huppert to head Cannes jury
Isabelle Huppert will preside over the jury for the 62nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival, organizers announced Friday.The Cannes veteran has previously been to the festival 25 times in and out of competition and also served as a mistress of ceremony and as a member of the jury.In 1978, ...
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Isabelle Huppert to head Cannes jury
Isabelle Huppert will preside over the jury for the 62nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival.The Cannes veteran has previously been to the festival 25 times in and out of competition and has also served as a mistress of ceremony and as a member of the ...
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Romanian CNC awards $7.2m for production and development
The Romanian Film Board (CNC) has awarded nearly $7.2m (Euros 5.3m) in production and development funding, including grants, to new projects from Un Certain Regard winner Cristi Puiu, Camera d'Or laureate Corneliu Porumboiu, and actress Fanny Ardant on her directorial debut.The single largest award, $569,000 (Euros 417,000), went to Aurora, ...
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Olivier Pere named as Locarno artistic director from 2009
Olivier Père has been named as the next artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, succeeding Frederic Maire, and will take up his post from September 1, 2009.Père has been artistic director of the Cannes’ Directors Fortnight since 2004. His replacement will be chosen by France’s Societe des Realisateurs des ...
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CJ Entertainment wraps further Good Cannes deals
South Korea's CJ Entertainment has announced a raft of further deals from a busyCannes, led by the UK deal for Kim Jee-woon's 'Oriental Western' The Good, The Bad, The Weird to Icon Film Distribution.(Theformerly announced UK deal with Tartanwhen Cineclick Asia was handling the titlehadpreviously beencancelled.)Kim's homage to Sergio Leone's ...
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Focus creams off Cannes sales for Milk, Mendes comedy
Focus Features International has closed key UK deals at the tail end of a successful Cannes market for the sales operation.Sales chief Alison Thompson concluded business with Momentum on Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk feature Milk, which is in post-production and stars Sean Penn as the slain gay rights activist.Contender ...
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The Match Factory announces further sales for Cannes slate
Cologne-based sales agent The Match Factory has unveiled another raft of deals for this year's Cannes slate in addition to the previously annonuced sales.By the end of the market, the animated documentary and competition film Waltz With Bashir by Ari Folman had been sold to over 40 territories, the latest ...
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Pathe sees strong Cannes Market; including a dozen Cheri deals
Pathe International has announced a slew of deals after a successful Cannes Market.Stephen Frears' Cheri, making its market premiere, sold to Italy (Rai), Latin America (California Filmes), CIS (Maywin Media), South Korea (Mars Film), Portugal (Castello Lopes), the Middle East (Teleview), Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Vizion), Greece (Audiovisual), ...
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Cannes buyers snatch up Michael Moore's latest polemic
Michael Moore's follow-up to Fahrenheit 9/11 led a strong Cannes sales market for Paramount Vantage, solidifying its credentials as an emergent heavyweight supplier.Moore descended on the Croisette to personally introduce the project - which he is now understood to be filming at undisclosed locations - and described it as a ...
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Liberation takes UK rights to Daylight Robbery from AV
UK distributor Liberation Entertainment has acquired UK rights to thriller Daylight Robbery from sales company AV Pictures.AV has also sold the film for Australasia (All Interactive), Benelux (European Film Partners), Brazil (PlayArte), CIS (Lizard), France (Swift Prods), Japan (New Select), Poland (Carisma), Thailand (J-Bics) and Turkey (Horizon International).Gavin Braxton, CEO ...