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All Cannes articles – Page 318
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Chungmuro fest partners with Cannes Directors' Fortnight
Korea's 2nd Chungmuro International Film Festival In Seoul (CHIFFS) has announced an inaugural competition section angled at 'classics of the future', as well as a special retrospective partnered with Cannes ' Directors Fortnight celebrating 40 years of the sidebar's films. With a five-person jury to include The Deer Hunter director ...
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Pete Travis starts shoot for Endgame starring William Hurt
Fresh off Vantage Point for Sony, director Pete Travis has started principal photography on his next feature, another political thriller entitled Endgame. The project is shooting in the UK and South Africa.Penny Wolf is pre-selling the film in Cannes on behalf of Target Entertainment.Endgame's cast features William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, ...
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Cinema Libre doc The End Of Poverty' added to Critics Week
Cinema Libre Studio's documentary The End Of Poverty has been added to the Critics Week line-up in Cannes.Cinema Libre founder Philippe Diaz' film will premiere on May 19 and explores the theory that poverty is a deliberate ploy by wealthy nations to exploit and subjugate the poor. Martin Sheen has ...
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Odeon Sky Filmworks takes UK rights to Lynch's Surveillance
Distributor Odeon Sky Filmworks has acquired the UK rights to thriller Surveillance, which will screen out of competition at Cannes.Arclight Films is selling the title. Head of Odeon Sky Filmworks Tony Miller struck the deal with Arclight's executive vice-president Liz Mackiewicz.Jennifer Lynch writes and directs and her father David Lynch ...
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3DD to present Cannes market premiere of The Day After Peace
3DD Entertainment is planning a Cannes launch for The Day After Peace, a feature documentary featuring Jude Law. Jeremy Gilley directs the BBC/Passion Pictures/Peace One Day production.A Cannes market screening, the world premiere, will be at the Olympia Cannes on May 19 at 6 pm and Jude Law is expected ...
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Fortissimo takes on Madonna-produced I Am Because We Are
Fortissimo Films has acquired the documentary I Am Because We Are, which is produced, written and narrated by Madonna.The deal, for all rights outside of North America, was brokered between Fortissimo's Senior Vice President, Sales & Acquisitions Winnie Lau and Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which represents the film.I Am Because ...
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Bavaria takes on sales for Critics Week title Moscow, Belgium
Bavaria Film International is handling international distribution on Christophe van Rompaey's feature debut Moscow, Belgium (Aanrijding In Moscou) which has been selected for this year's Critics' Week sidebar in Cannes.Produced by A Private View, the Flemish romantic comedy about a woman (played by actress-director Barbara Sarafian) whose life is full ...
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Jinga takes on The Disappeared starring Harry Treadaway
UK-based sales company Jinga Films has added supernatural horror The Disappeared, directed by Johnny Kervorkian, to its Cannes sales slate.The film is a London-set contemporary ghost story about a man searching for his missing brother.The cast features Harry Treadaway (Brothers Of The Head, Control, City Of Ember), Tom Felton, Greg ...
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Schloendorff's Gigola on Wide Management Cannes slate
Wide Management will handle international sales on the newest project from director Volker Schloendorff, Gigola.Based on the book by Laure Charpentier, the film follows the life of George, an adventurous young woman - one of the last of the era's 'garconnes' - as she navigates the depths of the Parisian ...
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Final names of Un Certain Regard jury announced
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the completion of the jury for the Un Certain Regard sidebar.As previously announced, director Fatih Akin will preside over the jury.Joining him are journalists Anupama Chopra and Catherine Mtsitouridze from India and Russia, respectively; film critic Yasser Moheb from Egypt and director of Spain's ...
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Wendy And Lucy added to Memento slate
Memento Films International has added Un Certain Regard title Wendy And Lucy to its sales slate.The film, by Kelly Reichardt, stars Michelle Williams and Will Patton and is especially particular in that Cannes Festival chief Thierry Fremaux cited it as the one film that made its way into the official ...
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Coach 14 Cannes slate includes Critics Week entry La Sangre Brota
French sales company Coach 14 has announced its line-up heading into the Cannes Film Festival.The company boasts Critics Week title La Sangre Brota, a second film from Pablo Fendrik. Fendrik's first film, El Asaltante, ran in Critics Week last year.Coach's Pape Boye says the director is a 'sure thing, an ...
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Swipe to handle Cannes market title Vanechka
Frank Mannion's UK-based Swipe Films will be handling international sales at Cannes on the Russian film Vanechka, which will have its international premiere in the Cannes market on May 17.The film is set during 1998, against the backdrop of Russia in an economic crisis and centres on an aspiring actress ...
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iDream bolsters Cannes slate with Ocean Of Pearls
London-based sales agent iDream Independent Pictures has added Ocean Of Pearls, directed by Dr Sarab Singh Neelam, to its Cannes line-up. Shot in Los Angeles, the film tells the story of a young US-born Sikh surgeon who finds that his religious beliefs of wearing a turban and beard make him ...
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LongTale International picks up world rights to Palladin
LongTale International has acquired worldwide rights to Pine Hill/Tousi's comedy Looking For Palladin starring Ben Gazzara, Talia Shire and David Moscow.Andrzej Krakowski wrote and directed the story of a brash Hollywood talent agent who travels to Guatemala to track down a retired Oscar-winning actor.LongTale International will screen the film to ...
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Media Luna picks up Family Rules, three market debuts for Cannes
Cologne-based sales company Media Luna Entertainment has picked up international distribution for Marc Meyer's ironic comedy Family Rules (Wir Sagen Du! Schatz) and is lining up another three market premieres for Cannes.Meyer's feature debut, starring Samuel Finzi, Nina Kronjaeger, and Anna Maria Muehe, was the closing film at last year's ...
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Universal, Focus bolster relationship with Almodovars' El Deseo
Universal Pictures' International Studio and Focus Features International have announced strengthened ties with Spain-based production company El Deseo, run by Pedro and Agustin Almodovar.Universal has signed on to co-finance Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotaos) and also Focus Features International is selling worldwide rights, excluding Spain (retained by El ...
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Protagonist takeson sales forBBC Films' In The Loop
New UK sales company Protagonist Pictures has taken on its first third-party project, Armando Iannucci's In The Loop.Principal photography has now started on the BBC Films, UK Film Council and Aramid Entertainment project.Optimum Releasing has pre-bought UK theatrical rights to the political comedy.Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Peter Capaldi, ...
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The Works International takes on sales for Palka's Good Dick
UK-based sales company The Works International has taken on rights for Good Dick, which premiered at Sundance.Glasgow-born Marianna Palka directed, produced and stars in the Los Angeles-set film, about an awkward romance between a porn-addicted loner and a video-store clerk. The cast also features Jason Ritter, Eric Edelstein, Mark Webber, ...
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Katapult picks up international to Madonna's Filth And Wisdom
Katapult Film Sales has acquired international rights before Cannes to Madonna's feature directorial debut Filth And Wisdom, Richard Ledes' whistle-blowing drama The Caller that premiered at Tribeca last week and Boaz Yakin's drama Death In Love.Filth And Wisdom received its world premiere at Berlin and charts the everyday lives of ...