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NewsMomentum poised to pick up new Mike Leigh project
UK distributor Momentum Pictures is understood to have picked up Mike Leigh’s untitled new project from Focus Features International.
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NewsPortugal's Pantheon picks up Kinatay and Milk Of Sorrow
Portuguese distributor Pantheon has picked up Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay and this year’s Berlin Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow by Peru’s Claudia Llosa.
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Features
We Have A Pope
A comedy of reflection, in which a psychiatrist is called in to counsel a cardinal, who although having been elected Pope, is not keen to ascend the Papacy
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NewsLionsgate, Paul Haggis reunite on The Next Three Days
Lionsgate has set Paul Haggis to direct the thriller The Next Three Days after acquiring remake rights to the 2008 French release Pour Elle from Wild Bunch and Fidelite Films.
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NewsStephen Gilula, Nancy Utley named Fox Searchlight presidents
Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley’s leadership of Fox Searchlight has been formalised with their promotion to presidents following the departure last March of Peter Rice.
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NewsCatherine Hardwicke and Emile Hirsch board Overture's Hamlet
Catherine Hardwicke will reunite with Emile Hirsch in a contemporary adaptation of Hamlet for Overture Films.
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NewsInaugural Denver French Film Festival to screen 15 features
The Denver Film Society and the Alliance Francaise De Denver will present the first annual Denver French Film Festival from June 17-27.
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NewsKorea’s CJ CGV expands arthouse film programme
Leading Korean exhibitor CJ CGV is establishing a specialty films team and expanding its “Movie Collage” arthouse film programme from seven to ten screens.
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NewsFinecut finds new homes for A Brand New Life
Korean sales agent Finecut has announced a slew of deals closed during Cannes, including the sale of Ounie Lecomte’s A Brand New Life to Cineart for Benelux and Filmhouse for Mexico, among other territories.
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NewsScorpio East, RAM to co-finance Tong’s Kidnapper
Singaporean filmmaker Kelvin Tong is set to direct a suspense thriller, Kidnapper, which will be co-financed by Singapore’s Scorpio East Pictures and Malaysia’s RAM Pictures & PMP Entertainment.
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NewsLocarno to honour producer Martine Marignac
France’s Martine Marignac will receive the Raimondo Rezzonico Prize for Best Independent Producer at the Locarno International Film Festival in Augus
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NewsWarp Films and Film4 to shoot zombies at The Big Chill
Warp Films and Film4 are offering Big Chill festival-goers the chance to appear as extras in Chris Boyle’s I Spit on Your Rave.
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NewsTsar, Public Enemies bookend Moscow Film Festival
Russian director Pavel Lungin will chair the jury at the 31st Moscow International Film Festival, where competition films include Waldemar Krzystek’s Little Moscow and Duncan Jones’s Moon.
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NewsDanny Boyle takes film rights to Mehta’s Mumbai set novel
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is set to return to Mumbai after acquiring the rights to Suketu Mehta’s novel Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found.
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NewsItaly's Eagle Pictures swoops on six new titles
Italy’s Eagle Pictures has added six films to its slate of commercial but eclectic fare.
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NewsArthus-Bertrand claims biggest day and date release for Home
Home, the environmental film from French film-maker Yann Arthus-Bertrand, will be launched across multi-platforms in 127 countries on June 5, in what it is claimed will be the biggest day and date film release.
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NewsSamuel Goldwyn Films takes US rights to (Untitled)
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to (Untitled), a comic take on the state of contemporary art from director Jonathan Parker.
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NewsMax Films rolls on Aubert’s A L’Origine D’Un Cri
Principal photography has begun on Robin Aubert’s A L’Origine D’Un Cri for Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal of Montreal-based Max Films. The $3.9m film shoots until July 12 in the Montreal region and the north coast of the St. Lawrence River.