All Cannes articles – Page 335

  • News

    Heavyweight sales for KM's 200 Pounds Beauty

    2007-05-18T04:00:00Z

    Korean sales company KM Culture has sold cosmetic surgery romantic-comedy 200 Pounds Beauty to Amuse, Inc. for Japan, M Pictures for Thailand, Vietnam Media for Vietnam, and AOE for Malaysia. The Amuse deal in particular is good news after last year's huge slump in Korean sales to Japan. Lee Sang-mi, ...

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    Bold, The Orphanage to produce supernatural action thriller Legion

    2007-05-17T22:08:00Z

    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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    Vantage/PPI to handle international distribution on Overture titles

    2007-05-17T21:47:00Z

    Paramount Pictures has confirmed rumours that Paramount Vantage and Paramount Pictures International (PPI) will handle international sales and distribution of the Overture Films slate. Overture will have access to Vantage's newly installed international sales division as well as PPI's global distribution apparatus. The new deal complements the domestic organisation that ...

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    Relativity spies franchise potential in Clancy adaptation

    2007-05-17T20:02:00Z

    Relativity Media has lined up an adaptation of the Tom Clancy thriller Without Remorse and is eyeing a potential franchise centered on the character of CIA operative John Kelly/John Clark. Lionsgate is believed to have acquired North America, the UK, Australia and several other territories on the project, which ...

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    Barunson producer team to support foreign shoots in Korea

    2007-05-17T18:00:00Z

    South Korean production house Barunson has announced it is launching a consortium of Korea's hottest producers and line producers to work on productions from overseas.Lewis Kim, head of international at Barunson, has drawn together a stellar group which includes Lee Sung-hoon (Taegukgi, Shiri), Han Jae-duk (Old Boy), Park Bong-soo (The ...

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    More cast lines up for Wrathall's Good shooting in Budapest

    2007-05-17T14:38:00Z

    Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker and Mark Strong have joined Viggo Mortensen in the cast of Good, John Wrathall's screen adaptation of the CP Taylor stage play, directed by Vicente Amorim.Principal photography has begun in Budapest on the film, in which Viggo Mortensen plays the lead role of John Halder, a ...

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    Echo Bridge takes on The Cry and The King

    2007-05-17T14:17:00Z

    Echo Bridge Entertainment has boarded Bernadine Santistevan's thriller The Cry and Riding With The King, an account of life on the road with Elvis Presley.The Cry takes place in New York City and is based on the Latino myth of La Llorona, which holds that men who cheat on their ...

  • Reviews

    4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days (4 Luni, 3 Saptamini Si 2 Zile)

    2007-05-17T14:15:00Z

    Dir: Cristian Mungiu. Rom. 2007. 113 minsA deceptively simple tale carrying a tremendous wallop, Cristian Mungiu's third feature 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days leads the new Romanian cinema into this year's Cannes competition with flying colours. The market may not be bowled over at first sight - after ...

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    De Niro, Pacino back together again in Righteous Kill

    2007-05-17T13:35:00Z

    Robert De Niro and Al Pacino will star together in the crime thriller Righteous Kill, a $60m production that signals Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films' most grandiose project to date.Jon Avnet will begin a two-month shoot in August in Connecticut on the story, which pairs the iconic stars as detectives ...

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    Mira Nair to executive produce Taraprevala's Little Zizou

    2007-05-17T10:22:00Z

    Sooni Taraprevala, the award-winning screenwriter of The Namesake, Salaam Bombay and Such A Long Journey, is at work in Mumbai on her directorial debut, Little Zizou.The film, which started shooting late last month, stars Boman Irani and Mahabanoo Kotwal. It is being executive produced by Taraprevala's long-term collaborator, Mira Nair.The ...

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    Butler to play in Lakeshore's Game

    2007-05-17T04:58:00Z

    Gerard Butler, white hot after his starring role in the worldwide smash 300, has signed to play the lead in Lakeshore Entertainment's futuristic thriller Game.The film marks Lakeshore's third collaboration with Crank creators Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who wrote the screenplay and will direct. Principal photography is set to ...

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    Dreamachine picks up Link's Aftermath.

    2007-05-17T04:53:00Z

    In one of its first major pick-ups since its launch earlier this spring, Dreamachine has announced start of production on Oscar winner Caroline Link's Aftermath. The film is co-produced by Constantin Film and Bavaria Film and will be shot on location in Germany. Dreamachine will handle worldwide sales. Writer-director Link ...

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    Korea's Showbox picks up Planet One and Stopping Power

    2007-05-17T04:45:00Z

    Major Korean distributor Showbox Mediaplex has picked up animation Planet One from Handmade Pictures and the high-octane Jan de Bont action film Stopping Power from IM Global.Made by former Pixar talent, the animation project featuring green aliens is written by Joe Stillman (Shrek 1, 2, 3). Chris H. Lee, vice ...

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    Wild Bunch continues Woody Allen relationship

    2007-05-17T04:40:00Z

    Continuing a relationship begun last year with Cassandra's Dream, Wild Bunch is once again teaming up with Woody Allen.The Paris-based outfit will handle international sales on Allen's upcoming as-yet untitled project which is set to shoot in Barcelona and Oviedo, Spain beginning in July.The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Penelope ...

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    Moodysson to make first English-language film

    2007-05-17T04:32:00Z

    Swedish director Lukas Moodysson is to begin work later this year on Mammoth, his first English-language feature. The film (which is being pre-sold in Cannes by Trust Film Sales) marks Moodysson's return to 'a more narrative style' in the vein of Together and Lilya 4-Ever after his recent experimental movies ...

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    Mirovision sells Japan and US remake rights to Kim

    2007-05-17T04:15:00Z

    Seoul-based Mirovision has announced the sale of Japanese and US remake rights to Kim Tae-sik's Driving With My Wife's Lover to Kuzui Enterprises in Japan. Producer Kaz Kuzui picked up the rights after seeing the film at Sundance. 'Kim is a talent to watch and we hope to work with ...

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    Strategic starts Monster conversation on Croisette

    2007-05-17T04:08:00Z

    Los Angeles-based producers reps Strategic Film Partners are taking meetings on the Croisette to outline their newly expanded remit as foreign sales agents and domestic distributors.The company, headed by Lawrence Silverstein and Alex Barder, is selling the Jeremy Irons horror-thriller Conversation With A Monster, a surfing documentary, and new project ...

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    Killer unveils production slate, first project with THINKFilm

    2007-05-17T04:00:00Z

    Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler's Killer Films, which produced tomorrow's Quinzaine entry Savage Grace, has unveiled its new project slate including its first title with THINKFilm following the two companies' recent finance and distribution partnership.THINKFilm will handle international sales on The Electric Slide, the story of Eddie Dodson, one of ...

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    Horizon to represent four films from Irreverent Media

    2007-05-17T04:00:00Z

    Horizon Motion Pictures has signed a deal to represent four projects from Irreverent Media Ltd (IML) in Cannes as executive producer and co-producer seeking sales, distribution and co-production partners.The quartet is headed by The Light-House, a story starring Kevin Zegers and William Hurt that is said to be inspired by ...