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Cannes 2008 - Market/France - Three Monkeys brings success for Pyramide
2008-05-27 10:37:50French international sales company Pyramide have scored excellent deals at the Cannes Festival Film Market. Riding the wave of critical success following its official competition screening, Nuri Bige Ceylan's Turkish/French/Italian co-production Three Monkeys (see news) attracted numerous buyers. The title has so far sold to the US, Benelux (Imagine), Greece (Rosebud), Portugal...
Cannes 2008 - Directors' Fortnight - Monsieur Morimoto: A Japanese man in Paris
2008-05-27 10:37:50As yet another edition of Cannes nears the end, young French director Nicola Sorgana presented his second feature film this morning in the Directors' Fortnight. Monsieur Morimoto is an unpretentious comedy about an elderly Japanese painter living in Paris. In the post-screening Q&A, the witty and visibly tired Sorgana stated his fascination for his lead actor, his Jean-Pierre Léaud, as he...
Cannes 2008 - Market/Hungary - Delta drives business for The Coproduction Office
2008-05-28 15:21:43Lauded in official competition last week at the Cannes Film Festival and crowned with the Fipresci Award, Delta, by young Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó (see news) was sold by The Coproduction Office for France (Le Pacte), Spain (Silenzio), Benelux (Lumière and Filmuseum), Switzerland (Look Know!), Greece (Seven Films), Bulgaria (Art Fest), India, Korea and Mexico. The French company...
Production - Norway - NFI goes for extremes
2008-06-02 14:06:17In its last round of production support, the Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) has gone for totally opposite genres: horror film Snarveien (“Shortcut”), produced by Bjørn Ervind Aarskog, and three children's films. All were awarded a total of NOK28m (€3.5m) After several horror shorts (including The Chamber), in September Severin Eskeland will start shooting a feature in his...
Production - Luxembourgh - Van Werveke ready for his Interview close-up
2008-06-02 14:06:17Famous film actors in Luxembourg are few and far between, but the 50-year-old screen veteran Thierry Van Werveke is certainly one of them. The Luxembourg audience will soon be able to get to know him better in the new documentary Interview from director Andy Bausch. Luxembourg director Bausch has collaborated with Van Werveke numerous times, including on the 1988 cult feature Troublemaker,...
Production - Finland - Wrecking campaign pays for Kaukomaa and Vuorensola
2008-06-02 14:06:17Blind Spot Pictures producer and CEO Tero Kaukomaa, who was in Cannes on a mission to find co-financiers for his Finnish sci-fi spoof Iron Sky, left with several deals in the pocket. The film will be co-produced in Germany by Olivier Damian of 27 Films Production (Russian Ark) and released in Poland by Kino Świat. “Since we're making a film about space Nazis, we're going to...
Industry - Spain - Third time lucky for Madrid de Cine
2008-06-02 14:06:17Perseverance reaps rewards and the figures for Madrid de Cine bear this out. After two editions of increasing success, the Spanish film market held in the capital has grown in stature. In the shadow of the renowned Cannes Film Market, Madrid de Cine has nonetheless found a niche among buyers who come to the event to wind down from the frenzy of the Croisette. Madrid is the beating heart...
Distribution - UK - Pathe, BSkyB team up for The Cottage
2008-06-02 14:06:17British comic horror film The Cottage will enjoy a simultaneous release on DVD and on satellite broadcaster BSkyB's Pay Per View (PPV) service Sky Box Office and online Video On Demand (VOD) service Sky Player. The film is directed by Paul Andrew Williams, who had earlier made the acclaimed London to Brighton. The Cottage will be available for a four-month period and will be available...
Production - Switzerland/Luxembourg - Make way for the Robber Girls
2008-06-05 12:00:06Swiss director Carla Lia Monti has finished shooting her first feature film Robber Girls (Räuberinnen), a very loose adaptation of the Friedrich Schiller play The Robbers, which in turn inspired the Verdi opera I Masnadieri (The Bandits). Described as a freaky fable that promises to mix kitsch and girl power, the irreverent adaptation casts the leads as two sisters - rather than the two...
Distribution - Sweden - Three buyers of foreign films get SFI support
2008-06-06 12:00:13Folkets Bio, NonStop Entertainment and Atlantic Film are the first three independent arthouse distribution companies to receive support from the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the institute's overall strategy to strengthen the import of quality films in Sweden. Folkets Bio was awarded SEK1.230.000 (€132,000), NonStop SEK1.000.000 (€107,300) and Atlantic Film SEK...
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