All Cannes articles – Page 328
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Target strikes six-film deal with Finch's Pink Sands
UK-based Target Entertainment has struck a six-film deal with Charles Finch and Kate McCreery's production outfit Pink Sands.Target's slate will focus on UK films with a budget of about $2m, and the line-up includes Kfir Yefet's The Smell of Apples, based on the novel by Mark Behr and starring Gillian ...
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Water Lilies (Naissance des Pieuvres)
Dir/scr: Celine Sciamma. France 2007. 85 mins Every Cannes festival brings at least one sexually delicate French coming-of-age drama, and while Water Lilies is hardly mould-breaking, it's certainly an affecting and more than competent addition to the genre. Set against the eccentric background of synchronised swimming, Celine Sciamma's debut is ...
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Dreamachine gets animated for three films
Dreamachine has announced details of three animation projects Fear (s) Of The Dark is produced by Valerie Schermann and Christophe Jankovic of Prima Linea Productions with animators under the artistic directorship of Etienne Robial. Mia & Migoo, by Jacques-Remy Girerd. The film is produced by Folimage together with Jacques-Remy Girerd ...
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Rezo Films sells Schlondorff's official selection title
France's Rezo Films has sold Volker Schlondorff's official selection title Ulzhan, to Germany's X-Filme and South America's Arthouse Movies. Other territories to pick up the film include Portugal and Greece with several others circling after the film's first screening Saturday.
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Craig to star in Flashbacks
Daniel Craig has signed on to star in Baillie Walsh's Flashbacks Of A Fool, playing an ageing hedonistic Hollywood star who has to return to his roots in England. Craig will also executive produce. Arclight Films is handling international sales and Buena Vista International has acquired UK rights. The project ...
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Golden Harvest rings L's bells
Hong Kong-based Golden Harvest Entertainment has pre-bought Hong Kong and Taiwanese rights to Nippon Television Network's upcoming Death Note spin-off which has the working title L. The original Death Note and its sequel grossed more then $67m in Japan. The spin-off, directed by Hideo Nakata and starring Kenichi Matsuyama, is ...
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Dane Bornedal to deliver $5m thriller
Prolific Danish film-maker Ole Bornedal (Deathwatch) is to direct Deliver Us From Evil, a $5m thriller due to shoot later in the year. Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) is poised to join the cast.Bornedal describes it as 'an extremely violent story' in which a family man is thrown together with a ...
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Max crosses Borderline to Korea
Roger Frappier's Montreal-based Max Films International has pre-sold Lynn Charlebois' Borderline to Lime Tree Entertainment for Korea. The film, now in post-production, is due to be delivered in October. A five-minute promo reeling has been screening in the market.Borderline, is a drama about a woman at three different stages in ...
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Dubai's Frontrow makes strong start in Cannes market
Dubai-based distributor Frontrow Films Entertainments has struck a number of deals here.Managing director Gianluca Chacra was the first distributor to pick up Rowan Woods’s LA-set drama Winged Creatures from Peace Arch (for the Middle East), currently in post-production. He’s also taken Meg Ryan/LL Cool J comedy The Deal from Peace ...
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English-language debut for Kiarostami
Cannes veteran Abbas Kiarostami is to make his his 24th film and first English-language production.The $6m MK2 production Certified Copy is set in Italy, and stars Juliette Binoche. Producer Marin Karmitz told Screen International they were looking to cast an English actor to play the lead role, James, a 50-year-old ...
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Halcyon Pictures branches out into UK distribution
Halcyon Pictures, Chris Coen's production and financing company which most recently produced Michael Haneke's Funny Games, is to start its own UK distribution arm Halcyon Distribution. The company will start operations by releasing its own production Wristcutters: A Love Story and teaming with Tartan Films to release Funny Games. ...
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Sewell and Dreyfus join Beart in Vinyan
Rufus Sewell and Julie Dreyfus have been signed to star in Vinyan, Fabrice du Welz's follow up to 2004 Critics Week entry, Calvaire. The duo join Emmanuelle Beart in the story of a couple searching for their child who disappeared after the 2004 tsunami. Michael Gentile's The Film is producing ...
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Memento to produce Glatzer and Westmoreland's Sunland
Quinceanara directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland will explore the dark side of the American dream in their next project, Sunland to be produced by France's Memento Films Production.The Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning duo will shoot the film in autumn 2007 in California. The film is slated to be ...
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Lohan and Dawson join grandma gang
Lindsay Lohan and Rosario Dawson have joined the cast of Poor Things, the upcoming dark comedy inspired by the wave of 'grandma gang' scams in the US.Olympia Dukakis and Shirley MacLaine - together for the first time since 1989's Steel Magnolias - star as elderly con artists in the debut ...
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Blatant and Intandem partner on $100m comic book film fund
LA producer Barry Levine and his film outfit Blatant Pictures have partnered with Gary Smith's UK company Intandem Films to raise a $100m film fund for big-screen adaptations of comic books from Blatant's sister company Radical Publishing.The first two projects are $35m action adventure Legends, to be directed by Patrick ...
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We Own The Night breaks domestic record for Cannes competition film
In the first North American deal for a competition film here this year, Columbia Pictures has swooped on domestic rights to James Gray's We Own The Night in a record domestic sale for a competition film at Cannes believed to be around $11m. The crime drama, which stars Mark ...
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ICA picks up six films including Chabrol's Comedy Of Power
ICA Films has picked up six new titles for UK distribution.They are Sandhya Suri's I For India from Celluloid Dreams; musical documentary When The Road Bends: Tales Of A Gypsy Caravan from Fortissimo; Marwan Hamed's The Yacoubian Building from BAC Films; Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon from Match Factory; Claude Chabrol's ...
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Samira Makhmalbaf to resume troubled Afghan film
Shooting on Two-Legged Horse, Samira Makhmalbaf's latest feature, will resume soon in an undisclosed location, she announced at Cannes. Her first feature in five years came to an abrupt end on March 28 when an extra threw a handheld bomb into the northern Afghanistan-based set.In Cannes with her father Mohsen, ...
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Breath (Soom)
Dir/scr: Kim Ki-Duk. Kor. 2007. 84 mins. Removing any pretence of reality for yet another of his existentialist essays on human nature, Kim Ki-Duk's bare-boned new film pairs a married woman with a man on death row, for an impossible love affair. But as this is, after all, Kim Ki-Duk ...
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Savage Grace
Dir: Tom Kalin. US. 2007. 87 mins Fifteen years after his eye-catching debut Swoon, Tom Kalin returns with a second feature that also addresses a story of true-life transgression and its lethal consequences. The inspiration this time is the rise and demise of 1940s socialite Barbara Daly and the increasingly ...