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Cannes Classics line-up includes Tavernier documentary
18 hours ago
Section to include world premiere of Bertrand Tavernier doc; a cinema masterclass with William Friedkin and a tribute to documentary giants Raymond Depardon and Frederick Wiseman.
Bertrand Tavernier’s documentary about French cinema Voyage à Travers le Cinéma Français will receive a world premiere at the Cannes Classic section of the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22).
The revered French filmmaker has described his latest work as an expression of “gratitude to all the filmmakers, writers, actors and musicians that have appeared suddenly in my life.”
Voyage à Travers le Cinéma Français is a Little Bear-Gaumont-Pathé co-production and was made in participation with Canal+, Cine+ and the Sacem, with the support of Région Ile-de-France and Cnc. Gaumont will handle international sales and Pathé have distribution in France. The film will be released in theaters in October 2016.
As in previous years, Cannes Classic will also feature nine documentaries about cinema and restored prints of 20 international classics including rare gems »
Cannes Classics line-up revealed; world premiere of Bertrand Tavernier documentary
18 hours ago
Section to include a cinema masterclass with William Friedkin, the 70th anniversary of the Fipresci prize, a tribute to documentary giants Raymond Depardon and Frederick Wiseman and the double Palme d’Or of 1966.
Bertrand Tavernier’s documentary about French cinema Voyage à Travers le Cinéma Français will receive a world premiere at the Cannes Classic section of the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22).
The legendary French filmmaker has described his latest work as an expression of “gratitude to all the filmmakers, writers, actors and musicians that have appeared suddenly in my life.”
Voyage à Travers le Cinéma Français is a Little Bear-Gaumont-Pathé co-production and was made in participation with Canal+, Cine+ and the Sacem, with the support of Région Ile-de-France and Cnc. Gaumont will handle international sales and Pathé have distribution in France. The film will be released in theaters in October 2016.
As in previous years, Cannes Classic will also feature nine documentaries about cinema and restored »
Cannes to stage terror attack simulation
23 hours ago
French security forces to stage attack exercise in Palais du Cinéma and on the Croisette; screening hours lost from Directors’ Fortnight due to security protocols.
French security forces will stage a counter-terrorism simulation exercise in Cannes on Thursday morning as part of preparations for the Cannes Film Festival in May (11-22).
The operation will unfold in and around the Palais du Cinéma and on the Croisette as well as at several other sites across the Mediterranean resort, according to a statement on the town’s official website.
“Throughout the duration of the exercise, people in the vicinity of the different sites might hear explosions and also witness unusual and important troop movements,” said the statement.
It said the exercise was a joint operation between Cannes’ city hall and the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture, which would involve civilian and military police forces as well as local firefighters, medical staff and hospital workers.
Exercice de sécurité ce jeudi à Cannes : tout »
Hot Property preps sci-fi 'Piper'; 'Identicals' scores UK deal
20 April 2016 5:49 AM, PDT
Development titles revealed as sci-fi Identicals [pictured] picked up by Arrow Films for UK.
London-based Hot Property Films has revealed details of a new sci-fi project in development and a UK deal for psychological thriller Identicals (aka Brand New-u).
The production company, founded by producer Janine Marmot and BAFTA-winning writer-director Simon Pummell, has begun work on Piper. The sci-fi story is set on an abandoned space station and explores what happens when artificial intelligence creates new links between human and animal.
This is on top of the previously announced Dogfight, based a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick, that will be directed by Pummell. The film centres on a fighter who struggles to make good in a future world of illegal ‘simulated sensorium’ boxing and holographic gaming.
It marks the latest move into sci-fi for Hot Property, having previously made thriller Identicals, released in the Us by Samuel Goldwyn Films on March »
Thriller from Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus underway
20 April 2016 4:53 AM, PDT
Exclusive: Production underway on thriller from The Survivalist and A Patch Of Fog scheme.
Principal photography is underway in Northern Ireland on thriller Bad Day For The Cut, which is backed by Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus scheme, which has previously supported features including Stephen Fingleton’s The Survivalist and Michael Lennox’s A Patch of Fog.
Bad Day For The Cut is the first film from production outfit Six Mile Hill and follows a farmer who seeks revenge for the murder of this mother and is drawn into a world of violence where he discovers a devastating secret about his family.
The film stars Nigel O’Neill (The Secret) alongside Susan Lynch (Happy Valley), Stuart Graham (The Frankenstein Chronicles) and young charges Jozef Pawłowski (Jack Strong) and Anna Próchniak (Warsaw 44).
The screenplay, written by Chris Baugh and Brendan Mullin, was developed through Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus scheme with Lottery funding »
- andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
Sundance Film Festival: London unveils 2016 line-up
20 April 2016 4:23 AM, PDT
Sundance chiefs reveal plans for the UK offshoot of the indie film festival and how they worked with Picturehouse on this year’s programme.
The line-up for the 4th Sundance Film Festival: London (June 2-5) has been revealed and includes a raft of international premieres, shorts and panel discussions.
The festival will comprise 11 UK and international feature film premieres from this year’s Sundance Film Festival as well as 15 shorts, including a strand dedicated to UK shorts screened at Park City in January.
Titles include Weiner, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s documentary following the scandal surrounding Anthony Weiner’s NYC mayoral campaign, which won the Us Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and will receive its European premiere in London.
International premieres include Sian Heder’s Tallulah, starring Ellen Page; Clea DuVall’s The Intervention, which won Melanie Lynskey the Us Dramatic Special Jury Award for Individual Performance; and Jeff Feuerzeig’s documentary Author: The Jt LeRoy Story.
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- michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
Vertigo boss: UK industry tested by Hollywood films
20 April 2016 4:13 AM, PDT
Monsters producer Allan Niblo was among industry execs to discuss challenges facing the UK’s creative industries at the Bsac conference in London.
At the British Screen Advisory Council (Bsac) conference in London yesterday, a panel of industry experts were asked to outline the challenges facing the UK’s creative industries.
Bsac deputy chair and the session’s host Ajay Chowdhury kicked off proceedings by celebrating the “huge success” of the UK’s audiovisual industries, talking up the 250,000 jobs in the sector, which has grown at three times the rate of the UK’s overall economy.
Chowdhury then asked panelists Allan Niblo (Vertigo Films), William Sargent (Framestore), Martin Baker (Channel 4) and Noirin Carmody (Revolution Software) to raise what they believed to be the biggest challenges facing their companies.
Responding to a question about the current climate of the UK film industry, Vertigo Films co-founder Niblo, producer of the Monsters franchise and The Sweeney, said the “sheer »
Vertigo boss: volume of Hollywood films tests British industry
20 April 2016 4:13 AM, PDT
Monsters producer Allan Niblo was among industry execs to discuss challenges facing the UK’s creative industries at the Bsac conference in London.
At the British Screen Advisory Council (Bsac) conference in London yesterday, a panel of industry experts were asked to outline the challenges facing the UK’s creative industries.
Bsac deputy chair and the session’s host Ajay Chowdhury kicked off proceedings by celebrating the “huge success” of the UK’s audiovisual industries, talking up the 250,000 jobs in the sector, which has grown at three times the rate of the UK’s overall economy.
Chowdhury then asked panelists Allan Niblo (Vertigo Films), William Sargent (Framestore), Martin Baker (Channel 4) and Noirin Carmody (Revolution Software) to raise what they believed to be the biggest challenges facing their companies.
Responding to a question about the current climate of the UK film industry, Vertigo Films co-founder Niblo, producer of the Monsters franchise and The Sweeney, said the “sheer »
Nazi-hunter thriller 'Fritz Bauer' tops German Film Awards nominations
20 April 2016 3:30 AM, PDT
Lars Kraume’s drama has nine nominations, including Best Film and Best Director; Colonia, A Heavy Heart and Me & Kaminski score five nominations.
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer) is the hot ticket for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas) after garnering nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film attracted nods in the categories for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor (Burghart Klaußner), and Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld) as well for production design, costume design, make-up, and the film score.
Kraume’s film – which is being handled internationally by Beta Cinema - had its world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande last August where it won the Audience Award, and was named by the Best German Film of 2015 by the German Film Critics Association at their annual awards ceremony during February’s Berlinale »
- screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
Nazi-hunter thriller 'Fritz Bauer' tops German Film Award nominations
20 April 2016 3:30 AM, PDT
Lars Kraume’s drama has nine nominations, including Best Film and Best Director; Colonia, A Heavy Heart and Me & Kaminski score five nominations.
Lars Kraume’s Nazi hunter thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer) is the hot ticket for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas) after garnering nine nominations.
The co-production between Berlin’s zero one film and Cologne-based Terz Film attracted nods in the categories for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor (Burghart Klaußner), and Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Zehrfeld) as well for production design, costume design, make-up, and the film score.
Kraume’s film – which is being handled internationally by Beta Cinema - had its world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande last August where it won the Audience Award, and was named by the Best German Film of 2015 by the German Film Critics Association at their annual awards ceremony during February’s Berlinale »
- screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
Noel Clarke highlights independent film challenge
20 April 2016 3:16 AM, PDT
Kidulthood director Noel Clarke, who has spoken to cinemas about a ‘British Film Friday’, will discuss the UK film sector at the forthcoming Media Production Show in June.
BAFTA-winning actor-director Noel Clarke (Kidulthood, Adulthood) has highlighted growing distribution challenges for independent films.
Speaking to Screen, Clarke, who has run UK production outfit Unstoppable Entertainment for nine years, said that over the last decade “it has become harder to find distribution, particularly to get seen in cinemas”.
The Star Trek Into Darkness actor also added that from a production viewpoint “it has become a lot harder to get things over the line” and that there is now “more of an emphasis to make films more commercial”, saying “you have to have the faces” to get backing.
To help a UK indie film get seen, particularly in cinemas, Clarke suggested that a bespoke promotion could be run to support independent films in the vein of 2-for-1 cinema ticket initiative »
Vr writ large over Cannes Marché Next programme
20 April 2016 1:05 AM, PDT
Exclusive: Organisers behind the Cannes Marché’s third Next event set to run from May 12-18 have lined up an expanded future of cinema showcase that places heavy emphasis on the fast-rising world of virtual reality.
For the first time Next events will take place at the entrance of the Village International on the Pantiero side – the site previously occupied by Canal+ – and will feature installations, interactive films, screenings, conferences and workshops on subjects such as big data, theatres of the future, and VOD opportunities.
The Next schedule will include 15 innovative companies that will conduct business at the Next Pavilion. Creative Wallonia and the Canadian Film Center will have their own corner. The full Next programme will be announced shortly.
Vr Days programme
The centerpiece is the Vr Days programme, a rich roster featuring work from the world’s leading exponents that takes place over May 15 and 16 and stems from a clamour by content creators to focus »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Cannes: Kino Lorber picks up 'Slack Bay'
19 April 2016 4:39 PM, PDT
The distributor has pounced on all North American rights to Bruno Dumont’s Cannes competition selection and upcoming world premiere.
Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi star in the drama produced by 3B Productions and co-produced by Arte French Cinema, Pictanovo, Twenty Twenty Vision in association with Cnc, Canal +, Arte/Wdr and Region Nord Pas de Calais.
Slack Bay takes place in summer 1910 as a pair of inspectors investigate a case of missing tourists on the Channel coast, near a community of fishermen and oyster farmers where a love story plays out between two notorious families.
The film will mark Dumont’s third to premiere in competition on the Croisette. He has previously won grand prix for Humanité and Flanders.
CEO Richard Lorber negotiated the deal with Tanja Meissner, head of sales at worldwide sales agent Memento Films International.
Kino Lorber has collaborated with Dumont on the release of Humanité and Flanders, as well as »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Kino Lorber picks up 'Slack Bay'
19 April 2016 4:39 PM, PDT
The distributor has pounced on all North American rights to Bruno Dumont’s Cannes competition selection and upcoming world premiere.
Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi star in the drama produced by 3B Productions and co-produced by Arte French Cinema, Pictanovo, Twenty Twenty Vision in association with Cnc, Canal +, Arte/Wdr and Region Nord Pas de Calais.
Slack Bay takes place in summer 1910 as a pair of inspectors investigate a case of missing tourists on the Channel coast, near a community of fishermen and oyster farmers where a love story plays out between two notorious families.
The film will mark Dumont’s third to premiere in competition on the Croisette. He has previously won grand prix for Humanité and Flanders.
CEO Richard Lorber negotiated the deal with Tanja Meissner, head of sales at worldwide sales agent Memento Films International.
Kino Lorber has collaborated with Dumont on the release of Humanité and Flanders, as well as »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Michael Joe named Stx COO, motion picture group
19 April 2016 2:22 PM, PDT
Stx Entertainment chairman of the motion picture group Adam Fogelson announced the hire on Tuesday following the company’s splashy presentation at CinemaCon last week.
In his new role Joe will be responsible for business operations and strategy for the motion picture group, where he will oversee the studio’s business affairs and film financing activities, and will seek out business development and partnership opportunities.
He will also supervise Stx’s home entertainment, VOD and TV licensing activities, including the home entertainment and premium TV partnership with Showtime.
Joe will work closely with Fogelson overseeing all aspects involving the business of the motion picture group.
Fogelson hailed Joe, with whom he worked at Universal, as a “disciplined and forward-thinking leader”.
“I am excited to be joining Adam, Oren and the team at Stx, including my former colleagues David Kosse, Kevin Grayson, and Keri Moore,” said Joe. “In a short period of time, Stx has become »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Alexandra Cocean joins Voltage Pictures
19 April 2016 12:54 PM, PDT
Exclusive: Nicolas Chartier and Jonathan Deckter have bolstered their sales ranks in the run-up to Cannes.
Alexandra Cocean has joined Voltage Pictures as senior vice-president of international sales and will report to president of international sales and distribution John Fremes.
Cocean will handle sales of the company’s titles in Apac, Eastern Europe, Turkey and Africa. Voltage CEO Chartier and COO Deckter made the announcement on Tuesday.
She arrives from Lightning Entertainment, where she served as vice-president of international sales. Prior to that she held executive positions at Myriad, Revelations Entertainment, and New Films.
“We are really excited to have Alexandra at Voltage,” said Fremes. She brings a wealth of experience, great relationships, and a high level of energy and enthusiasm with her to the company.”
Cocean said was “thrilled at the opportunity to work with all the great talent at Voltage, which is a leader in the film distribution and production world.”
Voltage Pictures is in post-production »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Alexandra Cocean joins Voltage Pictures sales team
19 April 2016 12:54 PM, PDT
Exclusive: Nicolas Chartier and Jonathan Deckter have bolstered their sales ranks in the run-up to Cannes.
Alexandra Cocean has joined Voltage Pictures as senior vice-president of international sales and will report to president of international sales and distribution John Fremes.
Cocean will handle sales of the company’s titles in Apac, Eastern Europe, Turkey and Africa. Voltage CEO Chartier and COO Deckter made the announcement on Tuesday.
She arrives from Lightning Entertainment, where she served as vice-president of international sales. Prior to that she held executive positions at Myriad, Revelations Entertainment, and New Films.
“We are really excited to have Alexandra at Voltage,” said Fremes. She brings a wealth of experience, great relationships, and a high level of energy and enthusiasm with her to the company.”
Cocean said was “thrilled at the opportunity to work with all the great talent at Voltage, which is a leader in the film distribution and production world.”
Voltage Pictures is in post-production »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
A24, James Ponsoldt to make 'I Want My MTV'
19 April 2016 9:38 AM, PDT
The New York-based company has lined up another production, optioning rights to Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks’ book I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story Of The Music Video Revolution.
A24 will reunite with The Spectacular Now and The End Of The Tour director James Ponsoldt, who will write, produce, and direct the adaptation.
A24 will produce alongside frequent collaborator Eva Maria Daniels of VisionChaos Productions.
I Want My MTV recounts the first ten years of the network and is being conceived as a “fun, immersive look” at the network’s rise to become a cornerstone of pop culture.
“We’re so thrilled to be collaborating again with James Ponsoldt to bring this terrific book to the screen,” said A24. “With James on board, we know he’ll bring out all the passion, ingenuity, humour, and humanity that led to MTV becoming perhaps the most powerful influence on pop culture of all time.”
Ponsoldt added: »
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La Film Festival unveils Buzz, Limelight sections
19 April 2016 9:30 AM, PDT
Tribeca selection Kicks and the world premiere of horror tale Lights Out are among the films announced by festival organisers on Tuesday ahead of the June 1-9 run date.
The six non-competitive Buzz entries of films culled from other festivals include:
Don’t Think Twice from Mike Birbiglia; Equity by Meera Menon; Jean Of The Joneses by Stella Meghie; Kicks (pictured) from Justin Tipping; Life by Roger Ross Williams; and The Music Of Strangers from Morgan Neville.
All are Us films except Jean Of The Joneses, which hails from Canada.
The six non-competitive Limelight films “of fiction and documentary films featuring noteworthy talent” are all world premiere and include:
Free CeCe! by Jacqueline Gares; A Hundred Streets (UK) from Jim O’Hanlon; Lights Out David F. Sandberg; Opening Night (USA-Mexico) by Isaac Rentz; So B. It from Stephen Gyllenhaal; and The Sweet Life by Rob Spera.
All are Us films except those indicated otherwise.
“In the Buzz »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Music Box acquires Us rights to 'Mia Madre'
19 April 2016 7:09 AM, PDT
The distributor has taken Nanni Moretti’s winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at last year’s Cannes Film Festival off the hands of embattled Alchemy.
Music Box plans a Q3 release after president William Schopf brokered the Us deal with Films Distribution co-head Nicolas Brigaud-Robert.
Mia Madre stars Margherita Buy as a beleaguered director juggling a chaotic personal life and a bombastic star, played by John Turturro.
The deal marks the latest film to be extracted from Alchemy, which has become beset by financial troubles. A24 recently took over Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire and another Cannes 2015 selection, Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster.
“We’re delighted to have the opportunity to work with a filmmaker of Moretti’s stature, and to bring his latest to American audiences,” said Music Box managing director Ed Arentz.
“Mia Madre is quintessential Moretti: his wry humour, moral questioning and emotional honesty – with the added bonus of two wonderful actors »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
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