All Cannes articles – Page 329
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Terror's Advocate (L'Avocat du terreur)
Dir: Barbet Schroeder Fr. 2007. 135 mins Renewing his fascination with monsters of modern times, Barbet Schroeder has created a weighty, wide-ranging portrait of devil's advocate Jacques Verges. It could also stand as a complex guide through the rise and rise of global terrorism. The controversial subject matter and Schroeder's ...
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Sicko
Dir: Michael Moore. US. 2007. 123 mins. If it works, don't fix it. Michael Moore's passionate, bullying, gag-laced approach to the 'j'accuse' documentary worked a treat in Bowling for Columbine and Farenheit 9/11 - and it works even better in Sicko, his investigation of the US public healthcare system. Moore ...
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Boarding Gate
Dir/scr: Oliver Assayas. Fr. 2007. 106mins. Maverick French director Oliver Assayas gets lost in transit with Boarding Gate, a transglobal thriller of dirty business deals and dirty sex that he has previously mined in Demonlover, with equally underwhelming results. Cannes ' out-of-competition 'Midnight Screening' is generally reserved for films that ...
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Little Film Company picks up Shill debut
The Little Film Company has picked up the romance Silky Pink, the feature directorial from The Tudors executive producer Steve Shill.Chris Coen and Kelly McCormick produced with Shill, who has also directed episodes of The Sopranos, The Wire, and Deadwood.Shill's manager Paul Nelson is serving as executive producer with Robbie ...
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Bold and The Orphanage to produce supernatural thriller Legion
Bold Films, the LA-based production company behind Bobby, is teaming with visual effects outfit The Orphanage to produce Legion, a supernatural action thriller about a group of strangers stranded in a desert truck stop that bands together to stop an army of demonic creatures bent on fulfilling an age-old prophecy ...
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UTV looks to acquisitions for new channels
India's UTV is ramping up its acquisition activities here at Cannes ahead of the launch of a bouquet of new movie channels over the coming months. The first to launch will be Bindass Movies, a companion to general entertainment channel Bindass, both of which are aimed at upwardly mobile 16-35 ...
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Cinema Libre joins Participant for Angels
Cinema Libre Studio has partnered with Participant Productions to handle domestic distribution and international sales on Participant's Angels In The Dust which looks at the AIDS crisis in South Africa through the eyes of orphans. It is set to open in select US cities in autumn 2007.Louise Hogarth's film recently ...
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Weinsteins closes Cannes sales on Teeth
The Weinstein Company International chief Glen Basner has closed sales on Mitchell Lichtenstein's comedy-horror tale Teeth that premiered at Sundance.Rights have gone to the UK (Momentum), South Korea (Mars Entertainment), Australia and New Zealand (Roadshow), Eastern Europe (EEAP),Greece (Odeon), Portugal (LNK),Indonesia (PT Amero), and Thailand (Major Cinepictures).
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Arclight and Micott & Basara fund fighters
Arclight Films and Japan's Micott & Basara will jointly finance and produce a live-action adaptation of bestselling video game King Of Fighters, which is set to be directed by Hong Kong film-maker Gordon Chan.Chan (The Medallion, Fist Of Legend) will direct from a script by Chris Chow who wrote the ...
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QED takes global rights to Filipino frightener
QED International has acquired worldwide rights to The Echo, Vertigo Entertainment and Dark & Stormy Entertainment's English-language remake of the Filipino horror film Sigaw.Yam Laranas will direct the tale of an ex-con who moves into his recently deceased mother's house and is plagued by supernatural encounters. Casting is underway and ...
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Zentropa expands beyond Danish homeland
Denmark's flagship film company Zentropa is cutting many ties to its homeland with founder Lars Von Trier in talks to shift his next film abroad.In Cannes, company boss Peter Aalbeck Jensen told Screen that the company he and Von Trier founded it will be opening further facilities in Sweden where ...
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Activers sells titles to Thailand
Korean sales agent Activers Entertainment has sold high school comedy The Legend of Seven Cutter and library title The Hidden Princess to Lionheart Pictures for Thailand. Activers has also announced a content deal with major South Korean internet portal site Daum for ad-based free VOD. The seller's library comprises more ...
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Headline on track for first western
Ambitious UK production outfit Headline (which recently snapped up the film rights to Peter Pan sequel, Peter Pan In Scarlet) is plotting its first western. The company has taken rights to Geraldine McCaughrean's bestseller Stop The Train!, set in the Oklahoma land rush.Stop The Train! Is the third McCaughrean project ...
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Summit sales soar with deals on hot titles
Summit Entertainment was at the centre of a flurry of deal-making last night for UK rights to the Walden Media's Nim's Island, Constantin's The Baader-Meinhof Complex, and in-house production Get Some.Universal took the UK, Australia, Spain, Latin America and New Zealand to Walden Media's family drama Nim's Island starring Gerard ...
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Seville steps to Quebec with Maple Pictures
Seville Pictures has signed an agreement with Maple Pictures, the Canadian distributor of Lionsgate product, for the distribution of new releases and catalogue films in Quebec.The agreement, which covers all distribution rights, starts with the theatrical release of Hostel II on June 8.Seville, which also handles product from Warner Independent, ...
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High Point takes on hot politics of Rendition
High Point Films has taken the world rights, outside the UK, to Jim Threapleton's debut feature Rendition, starring Andy Serkis and Omar Berdouni.Andy Noble produced for Ultra Film.The politically charged feature is about a British Muslim teacher who is suspected of terrorism and through the controversial practice of extraordinary rendition ...
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Not Quite Hollywood goes to Madman, Magnolia and Optimum
Several distributors have come on board early for the Australian project Not Quite Hollywood, about Australian genre cinema in the 1970s and 1980s. Deals have been struck for Australia and New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), North America (Magnolia Pictures), and the UK (Optimum Releasing).Director Mark Hartley is in production now on ...
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Mandate launches Grindstone DVD division
Mandate Pictures has launched its home entertainment division Grindstone Entertainment, which will be aggressively sourcing titles here for home entertainment, online and mobile markets.Former president of Lionsgate Home Entertainment Group Barry Brooker has been named chief executive officer and president of the venture, which has acquired 226 first and second-run ...
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Pretty Pictures turns a page for North Korean Diary
North Korean film A Schoolgirl's Diary had its debut screening in Cannes Market yesterday. Paris-based Pretty Pictures is selling the film at Cannes after acquiring international rights earlier this year. CEO James Velaise originally picked up French rights last October after seeing the film at the Pyongyang International Film Festival.'This ...