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Oscars: France Selects ‘Saint Omer’ For Best International Film Race - deadline.com - France - Senegal
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23.09.2022

Oscars: France Selects ‘Saint Omer’ For Best International Film Race

Alice Diop’s Saint Omer has been selected as France’s entry to the best international film category.

Sideshow & Janus Films Take North American Rights To Catherine Breillat’s Cannes Title ‘Last Summer’ - deadline.com - USA - Denmark
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02.06.2023

Sideshow & Janus Films Take North American Rights To Catherine Breillat’s Cannes Title ‘Last Summer’

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all North American rights for Catherine Breillat’s drama Last Summer (L’été dernier) following its well-received premiere in competition in the final days of the Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27).

Animated Movie ‘Pirate Mo and the Legend of the Red Ruby’ Sells to Numerous Distributors (EXCLUSIVE) - variety.com - Spain - Austria - Germany - Portugal - Greece - Poland - Turkey - Hungary - Bulgaria - Romania
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30.05.2023

Animated Movie ‘Pirate Mo and the Legend of the Red Ruby’ Sells to Numerous Distributors (EXCLUSIVE)

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Family animated movie “Pirate Mo and the Legend of the Red Ruby” proved to be a smash hit with international distributors during the Cannes Film Market, with sales agency The Playmaker Munich delivering the film to multiple buyers. During the market, The Playmaker announced first presales to Benelux (Just4Kids), Turkey (Filmarti), Baltics (GPI), Greece (Rosebud) and Bulgaria (Pro Films). The company has now revealed further sales to Poland (M2 Films), Scandinavia (Njuta Films), Hungary and Romania (ADS), Portugal (Outsider Pictures), and Yugoslavia (Blitz Film).

France’s Haut Les Mains Boards ‘A Useful Ghost,’ From Thailand’s 185 Films - variety.com - France - Thailand - Tokyo - Egypt - Morocco - Singapore - city Singapore - city Rotterdam - city Bangkok
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24.05.2023

France’s Haut Les Mains Boards ‘A Useful Ghost,’ From Thailand’s 185 Films

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief French independent producer Haut Les Mains has come on board “A Useful Ghost,” a film project that is both topical and supernatural. The deal was announced on the margins of the Cannes Film Festival and its accompanying rights market. “A Useful Ghost” follows March and Nat, a happily married couple, and their seven-year-old son Dot. Nat dies of respiratory disease caused by air pollution. A saddened March is worried that the same fate will befall his son, who gradually develops similar symptoms. Nat then returns as a ghost haunting the house vacuum cleaner to try and suck up the dust hurting her son. She also longs to be accepted as part of society and intends to prove that by getting rid of the less useful ghosts.

Cannes Film Market’s Inaugural Investors Circle Unveils Selected Projects (EXCLUSIVE) - variety.com - Romania - city Paradise
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22.05.2023

Cannes Film Market’s Inaugural Investors Circle Unveils Selected Projects (EXCLUSIVE)

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent While the lineup of Cannes Film Market’s newly launched initiative Cannes Investors Circle has remained under wraps, Variety has learned about four of the nine projects which were pitched during the invitation-only event. The initiative was created by the film market’s new executive director Guillaume Esmiol to connect VIP private investors with select filmmakers and producers boasting a stellar track records. Curated by experts such as Medici’s Tamara Tatishvili, Arte Cinema’s Rémi Burah and financier Serge Hayat, the nine projects are budgeted between €2 million and €12 million. Among these are “Dracula. The Second Coming” directed by Radu Jude, the Romanian helmer of Berlinale prizewinning “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,” directed by Ada Solomon at microFILM; “Rivo Alto,” directed by Clément Cogitore (“The Wakhan Front”) and produced by Jean-Christophe Reymond at Kazak Productions (“Titane”); “The Girl” directed by Marina Ziolkowski (“But You Look So Good”) and produced by Philippe Gompel (“Cherry”) at Manny Films, and “The Birthday Party” directed by Miguel Angel Jimenez (“Chaika”) and produced by Giorgos Karnavas (“Triangle of Sadness”) at Heretic.

Cannes Competition Director of ‘Four Daughters,’ Kaouther Ben Hania, Sets Next Film ‘Mimesis’ With Party Films Sales (EXCLUSIVE) - variety.com - France - Syria - city Brussels - Tunisia - city Tunisia
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21.05.2023

Cannes Competition Director of ‘Four Daughters,’ Kaouther Ben Hania, Sets Next Film ‘Mimesis’ With Party Films Sales (EXCLUSIVE)

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Kaouther Ben Hania, the Oscar-nominated director of “The Man Who Sold His Skin” whose latest film “Four Daughters” is competing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, will next direct “Mimesis,” an epic love story set in Tunisia. While the plot is under wraps, the story is set in two different periods, the 1990s and the 1940s, paying tribute to cinema and Arab-Muslim cultural heritage. It’s being produced by Nadim Cheikhrouha at Tanit Films, who produced Ben Hania’s “Four Daughters” and her previous film “The Man Who Sold His Skin” which world premiered at Venice where it won best actor for Yahya Mahayni and was nominated for best international film at the Oscars in 2021.

Nicolas Cage, Bill Skarsgård Playing Father and Son Arms Dealers in ‘Lord of War’ Sequel for Andrew Niccol, Vendôme Group - variety.com
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08.05.2023

Nicolas Cage, Bill Skarsgård Playing Father and Son Arms Dealers in ‘Lord of War’ Sequel for Andrew Niccol, Vendôme Group

Brent Lang Executive Editor Nicolas Cage will return to the shadowy world of illegal weapons sales, but this time, it’s become a family affair. The Oscar-winning star will reunite with writer and director Andrew Niccol on “Lords Of War,” the sequel to their 2005 crime thriller, “Lord Of War.” Cage will reprise his role as morally compromised arms dealer Yuri Orlov with “It’s” Bill Skarsgård co-starring as his son, who is a chip off the old block. Vendôme Group is backing the project, which is set to begin principal photography in the fall of 2023. FilmNation Entertainmentwill represent the international sales rights and introduce the film at the Cannes Film Festival, while CAA Media Finance will handle the domestic rights. Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi who produced the original are producing under their Vendôme Pictures banner, alongside Cage under his company, Saturn Films. Skarsgård is executive producing.

‘EO’ Filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski On Lessons Learned From Robert Bresson – Contenders International - deadline.com - New York - Poland
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03.12.2022

‘EO’ Filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski On Lessons Learned From Robert Bresson – Contenders International

Polish maestro Jerzy Skolimowski calls EO, winner of the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize and just this week the Best Foreign Film award from the New York Film Critics Circle, “practically a road movie” whose POVs from the titular donkey “were the most effective element of the whole filming and editing.”

‘EO’ Filmmakers On Why A Donkey Is Their Star: Not “Oh, Another Film About Cats” – Contenders L.A. - deadline.com - Los Angeles - Los Angeles - Poland
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20.11.2022

‘EO’ Filmmakers On Why A Donkey Is Their Star: Not “Oh, Another Film About Cats” – Contenders L.A.

Husband-and-wife writing and producing partners Jerzy Skolimowski and Ewa Piaskowska had the Deadline Contenders Film: Los Angeles crowd doubled over in laughter with their charming back and forth banter. The pair behid EO joined Saturday’s event via video and discussed their choice to create a film from a donkey’s point of view. 

Imprisoned Iranian Director Jafar Panahi’s ‘No Bears’ Acquired for U.S. by Sideshow, Janus Films - variety.com - New York - Canada - Iran - Berlin
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28.09.2022

Imprisoned Iranian Director Jafar Panahi’s ‘No Bears’ Acquired for U.S. by Sideshow, Janus Films

Manori Ravindran International Editor Imprison Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s “No Bears” has sold into North America, with Sideshow and Janus Films acquiring U.S. rights, and Films We Like buying the movie for Canada. “No Bears,” which premiered earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival, portrays two parallel love stories. “In both, the lovers are troubled by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition and the mechanics of power,” reads an official synopsis. The film is written, produced, and directed by Panahi, and stars Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiar Panjei, Mina Kavani, Narjes Dalaram and Reza Heydari.

Sideshow & Janus Films Take Domestic On Dardenne Brothers’ ‘Tori And Lokita’ – Cannes - deadline.com - USA - Belgium - Charlotte
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02.06.2022

Sideshow & Janus Films Take Domestic On Dardenne Brothers’ ‘Tori And Lokita’ – Cannes

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights for Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Tori and Lokita which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and was lauded with the Festival’s Special 75th Anniversary Prize. A theatrical release from Sideshow and Janus is being planned.

Chiller ’32 Gats,’ From the Director of ‘The Corpse of Anna Fritz,’ Taken by Filmax for Spain, International (EXCLUSIVE) - variety.com - Spain
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28.05.2022

Chiller ’32 Gats,’ From the Director of ‘The Corpse of Anna Fritz,’ Taken by Filmax for Spain, International (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentAs genre makes much of the running in sales at this year’s Cannes Film Market, Filmax, traditionally one of its biggest vendors, has swooped on “32 Gats,” the next feature from Hèctor Hernandez Vicens who broke out with the 2015 SXSW premiere, “The Corpse of Anna Fritz.”Filmax will handle distribution in Spain as well as sell international rights.Produced by Carles Torras at Zabriskie Films, ”32 Gats,” writer-director Hernández Vicens’ fourth feature, turns on a couple, Ana, 36, and Salva, 49, who move into a house in the country where there’s space for the 32 cats that Ana has adopted in the last years.Ana is two-months pregnant. The couple begins to rehabilitate the house for the baby’s birth, but Ana begins to sense a presence in the house, and she isn’t the only one, it seems.

Berlinale Competition Title ‘Return to Dust’ Sells in Europe (EXCLUSIVE) - variety.com - France - China - Portugal - Switzerland - Tokyo - Greece
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16.02.2022

Berlinale Competition Title ‘Return to Dust’ Sells in Europe (EXCLUSIVE)

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorChinese Berlinale Competition title “Return to Dust” has been sold to several European distributors with more about to close deals. M-Appeal is handling world sales.

Oscar-Winners Natalie Portman & Julianne Moore To Lead Todd Haynes Drama ‘May December’ - theplaylist.net
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11.06.2021

Oscar-Winners Natalie Portman & Julianne Moore To Lead Todd Haynes Drama ‘May December’

The Virtual Cannes Film Market is underway, which means many deals and projects are coming together in hot packages. Just revealed, Oscar-winning actresses Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore are attached to lead director Todd Haynes‘ new film, “May December.” The drama will see Gloria Sanchez Films, Killer Films, and Portman’s MountainA producing.

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