All Cannes articles – Page 336
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Memento to handle sales on Assayas' competitor Boarding Gate
France 's Memento Films has acquired Olivier Assayas' Cannes competition entry Boarding Gate starring Asia Argento and Michael Madsen. The company will handle international sales on the thriller which is being released in France by ARP Selection on Aug 22. Memento is also handling world sales on Jia Zhang Ke's ...
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Pilger's Bush-probing documentary rides with Coach 14
Nascent sales outfit Coach 14 has taken on international sales on a new hot button documentary from John Pilger entitled The War On Democracy. The film,which is sure to spark controversy, examines the 'brutal reality of theBush notion of 'spreading democracy'' and the idea that the USpresident is actually conducting ...
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Horizon swims with shark documentary hit
Vancouver-based sales agency Horizon Motion Pictures has picked up international rights to Rob Stewart's animal conservation documentary Sharkwater and will commence sales in Cannes.The film is on course to cross C$1m in Canada after launching there recently, and follows Stewart as he highlights the threats faced by sharks from poachers ...
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Danielak's Arsenal loads up with Rifkin-Eberts titles
Yarek Danielak's Los Angeles-based distributor Arsenal Pictures has struck a deal to handle four features from Bruce Willis' regular producer Arnold Rifkin and Lord Of War executive producer Christopher Eberts.The deal with Rifkin-Eberts and A-Mark Entertainment kicks off with the recently wrapped horror title Timber Falls and Night Train, which ...
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ContentFilm takes on sales for Toby Wilkins' horror-thriller Splinter
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights to Splinter, which it will launch in Cannes. Toby Wilkins will make his feature debut with the horror-thriller screenplay written by Ian Shorr and Kai Barry. Ted Kroeber and Kai Barry will produce the project, which will shoot this summer. Casting will be ...
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Ealing partners with Lionhead for Julian Fellowes' From Time To Time
Ealing Studios has partnered with Lionhead productions for Julian Fellowes feature as a director, From Time To Time. Ealing's new sales arm, Ealing Studios International, will also take worldwide rights. The deal was negotiated between James Spring of Ealing Studios and Paul Kingsley of Lionhead Productions. The film will star ...
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Films from Reygadas and Aguilera top Bac's Cannes slate
Continuing its move into international sales, Bac Films is coming to Cannes this year with Silent Light in competition, La Influencia in the Fortnight and a stream of new offerings. The sales arm of Bac Films will be selling Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light; a love story set in Mexico. Reygadas' ...
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Fortissimo takes on Mexican Critics Week selection Bad Habits
Fortissimo Films has taken worldwide rights outside the Americas to Bad Habits (Malos Habitos), screening as part of Cannes Critics' Week. Simon Bross' feature won best film in the Mexican section at the 22nd Guadalajara International Film Festival. The story follows a family with diverse eating disorders. Ximena Ayala, Elena ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for Harman's feature debut Credo
UK-based sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has come on board for sales of Credo, the first feature from Alto Films (produced in association with Axis Films). Director Toni Harman makes her feature debut with the psycholoigcal horror film about five students squatting in an abandoned London building who find out they ...
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Wild Bunch's new titles include $47m Mr. Nobody with Sarah Polley
With six films spread throughout the official selection, Critics Week and Un Certain Regard, Wild Bunch is also presenting a packed line-up at the Cannes Market. In selection are Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days in the main competition, Abel Ferrara's out-of-competition Go Go Tales, Juan Antonio ...
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CORRECTION: Alma selling Honore's The Love Songs
Christophe Honore's Cannes 2007 competition film, The Love Songs (Les Chansons d'Amour), is being sold internationally by Alma Films, not Gemini. The contact was incorrectly reported in our April 27, 2007 weekly edition.The number for Alma Films is +33 (6) 72 97 31 90.
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Bavaria Film International picks up Certain Regard title from Uruguay
Bavaria Film International has picked up the international rights for the tragicomedy The Pope's Toilet (El Bano Del Papa) which will be screening in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes. The co-production between Uruguay's Laroux Cine, France's Chaya Films and Brazil's o2 Filmes is the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated ...
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Walter Salles to serve as patron for Cannes Europe Day
Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles will act as patron for the 2007 edition of Europe Day at this year's Cannes Film Festival.This year marks the fifth year that European Union culture and audio visual ministers will convene in Cannes to discuss issues currently facing the industry. The ministers will meet this ...
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Intandem takes on sales to Julie Delpy's thriller The Countess
London-based Intandem Films has taken worldwide sales rights to Julie Delpy's Gothic thriller The Countess. The film is inspired by the life of the 17th-century Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, whose reckless pursuit of eternal beauty transformed her into a murderous heretic. Delpy, Oscar-nominated for her screenplay for Before Sunset, not ...
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Wild Bunch strikes exclusive Benelux partnership with A-Film
France's Wild Bunch and Benelux's A-Film have announced a distribution, acquisition and co-production partnership for Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. A-Film will now be the exclusive theatrical, video and television distributor in the Benelux region for new films acquired or co-produced by Wild Bunch.A-Film will also be responsible for handling ...
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Wide Management picks up Quinzaine title Counterparts
Paris-based sales company Wide Management has picked up international rights for German filmmaker Jan Bonny's feature debut Counterparts (Gegenuber) which has been selected for this year's Directors' Fortnight sidebar in Cannes. The drama about domestic violence between a primary school teacher and her policeman husband features Viktoria Trauttmannsdorff (whose credits ...
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THINKFilm International picks up De La Iglesia, Cole films
THINKFilm International arrives in Cannes buoyed by a sales slate that includes Alex De La Iglesia's new thriller The Oxford Murders starring Elijah Wood and John Hurt, about a series of killings in the English university town that are seemingly related to mathematical symbols.The line-up continues with Five Dollars from ...
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Smiley Face
Dir: Gregg Araki. US. 2007. 87mins.Smiley Face opens as a would-be LA actress's pot-induced journey stumbles to an end, with blonde stoner Jane (Anna Faris) reflecting on the binge that, as the omniscient narrator (Roscoe Lee Browne) puts it, took a young woman 'from point A to point Z.' The ...
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Cannes Directors Fortnight bookended by debuts from Corbijn, Kogut
This year's Directors Fortnight will open at Cannes with Anton Corbijn's Control, a biopic of late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. The closing film is also a first film, Mutum, from Brazilian director Sandra Kogut.In total 23 films round out the main selection with nine first time features which are ...
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Rezo's Cannes slate include Sokurov's competitor Alexandra
In its third Cannes, Rezo Films' sales division is gearing up for a busy market. Three films on its line up are official selection titles along with two works in Critics' Week and new market films. In the official competition, Alexander Sokurov marks a return with Alexandra about a grandmother ...