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All Cannes articles – Page 337
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Future Shorts provides shorts for MySpace's Cannes afternoons
UK-based international short film label Future Shorts has become the official short film partner for MySpace France during Cannes. MySpace is hosting afternoon entertainment (from 3-6pm each day May 16-27) on the Smiley Beach (opposite the Noga Hilton) featuring bands and DJs including the likes of New Order's Peter Hook ...
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American World Pictures adds One Long Night and Triloquist
American World Pictures (AWP) has spiced up its Cannes sales slate with the comedy-thriller One Long Night starring Alison Eastwood, Karen Black and Ed Begley Jr, along with horror title Triloquist. David Siqueiros directed the tale of a young Mexican-American businessman from California whose life is transformed during a night ...
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Goalpost Films adds Natalie Imbruglia project to slate
New UK-based sales company Goalpost Films has its first full slate at Cannes. Tristan Whalley (Goalpost and Majestic veteran) and Nicki Parfitt (Portman, Lee & Thompson) started the company last year and are continuing sales on Sundance hit Clubland and Ruper Wyatt's thriller The Escapist (now in post), starring Brian ...
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Derek Jacobi joins cast of Schrader's Adam Resurrected
Derek Jacobi has joined Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe on the cast of Paul Schrader's holocaust drama Adam Resurrected.Based on Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk's novel, the story follows a former circus entertainer who was spared the gas chamber to entertain Jews as they marched to their deaths.After the war he ...
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My Blueberry Nights
Dir: Wong Kar Wai. 2007. US. 111mins Life is as plaintive and banal as a country western ballad in My Blueberry Nights. Wong Kar Wai's English-language debut may have all the trappings of an American road movie but at the core it is a characteristically dreamy exploration of love, loss ...
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The Screen Jury at Cannes: 1997 - 2007
Every year at Cannes, Screen International asks critics from around the world to rate each feature in competition, using a scale that runs from four stars (‘excellent’), through three, two and one (‘good’, ‘average’ and ‘poor’) to zero (‘bad’). An average mark is arrived at for each film and the ...
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Frears doesn't expect any 'brutality' as he leads Cannes jury
Stephen Frears and his Cannes competition jury made their first public appearance in Cannes on Wednesday at the festival's opening day press conference.Frears was flanked by jury members Toni Collette, Maggie Cheung, Maria de Medeiros, Sarah Polley, Marco Bellocchio, Orhan Pamuk, Michel Piccoli and Abderrahmane Sissako.When asked whether any of ...
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Becker rocks on Elijah Wood's Iggy Pop story
Becker International has come on for international sales on Nick Gomez's The Passenger, based on Iggy Pop's life during the 1960s and 1970s.Elijah Wood will play the lead, with a script written by Eric Schmid.This Is That Corporation and Traction Media are executive producing, with Traction representing North American rights. ...
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Magnolia, Red Envelope acquire Hallam Foe for North America
Magnolia Pictures and Red Envelope Entertainment have teamed up to acquire North American rights to David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe which had its world premiere in competition at Berlin this year. The film, which stars Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles and Ciaran Hinds, is the story of a young man searching the ...
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Weinstein prepares for controversy over Sicko
Harvey Weinstein arrives in Cannes this week with a battalion of lawyers and PR gurus ahead of a possible legal tow that threatens to overshadow the world premiere of Michael Moore's Sicko.Moore's expose of the US healthcare industry is set to outdo the controversy over his 2004 Palme D'Or winner ...
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Zwick recruits Craig to lead wartime Defiance
Ed Zwick, riding high on the back of his Oscar-nominated global hit Blood Diamond, is preparing the Second World War Polish Resistance epic Defiance and has cast Daniel Craig in the lead.At time of writing several buyers were circling for domestic rights to the Bedford Falls production, which Zwick will ...
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Fukusaku and Oshii unite to lead Toei's Rebellion
Japanese studio Toei is developing a sci-fi action project, Rebellion: The Killing Isle (working title), uniting two of Japan's hottest film-making talents - Kenta Fukasaku and Mamoru Oshii.Battle Royale II director Fukasaku is set to direct the $10m film from a script by Oshii - director of acclaimed anime titles ...
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H2O sign Lajos Koltai to two films
Andras Hamori and Mark Horowitz's H20 Motion Pictures has signed Lajos Koltai to direct two features - Under The Frog and Born Of Fire.Oscar-nominated cinematographer Koltai directed Hungarian Holocaust epic Fateless and next month's US release Evening for Focus Features with a cast including Meryl Streep, Claire Danes, Glenn Close, ...
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Diving Bell makes waves for Pathe
Before the market has even begun, Pathe Pictures International is reporting a roaring trade on Julian Schnabel's competition entry, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly. In advance of its world premiere next week, the adaptation of author Jean-Domninique Bauby's memoir about his life after he was incapacitated by a stroke, ...
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Polyband takes German rights to The Turtle's Song
Munich-based Polyband Medien, a subsidiary of Splendit Medien, has acquired German rights to Nick Stringer's The Turtle's Song, a documentary following the epic journey of a baby loggerhead turtle. The film is produced by UK-based Film & Music Entertainment and made in collaboration with Stringer's Big Wave Productions. Mike Downey, ...
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Miami makeover for London gangster classic
Classic UK gangster film The Long Good Friday is to be re-made, it was confirmed in Cannes, with the action shifting to Miami. Handmade Films and Impact Pictures are partnering on the $50m project, written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Co-producers will be Patrick Meehan for HandMade ...
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CJ signs French deal with Diaphana for competitor Secret Sunshine
After heated pre-market bidding on Official Competition title Secret Sunshine, Korean sales agent CJ Entertainment has sealed a local distribution deal to Diaphana for France. Ama Film has also come on for Greece.From the director of Venice-awarded Oasis and former Director's Fortnight title Peppermint Candy, Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine stars ...
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Emperor takes stake in Jay Chou project Kung Fu Dunk
Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) has taken an equity position in the new Jay Chou martial arts action comedy Kung Fu Dunk, and will handle sales of the film to all territories in Europe and the Americas. EMP, which had previously acquired Hong Kong rights to the film, reached ...
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Capitol takes on new films from Don Roos and Joshua Marston
Capitol Films has added Don Roos' Love And Other Impossible Pursuits and Joshua Marston's The Fortress Of Solitude to its Cannes slate.The Roos project, which he also wrote, stars Jennifer Lopez in the exploration of a woman's moving and funny relationship with her young stepson. Marc Platt of Legally Blonde ...
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Wide takes on sales for Bonnaire's Her Name Is Sabine
France's Wide Management will handle sales on actress Sandrine Bonnaire's directorial debut Her Name Is Sabine.The film is running in Directors Fortnight alongside another recently acquired Wide title, Counterparts by Jan Bonny.The company is also handling Critics Week special selection Ezra from director Newton I. Aduaka, which also played at ...