For the 14th year, the American Pavillion opened its doors in Cannes. Christina Ricci cut the ribbon - in town to promote The Gathering - while "John Sayles In Conversation" headlined the day's spotlight on a filmmaker. ...
This year the Cannes Festival is also rolling out the red carpet for the public. The Croisette is also decked with banquet tables offering Piper Heidseick champagne as well as a large screen set up on the public beach which will be offering Jacques Tati films to the public as part of the Festival's 55th birthday celebration....
To celebrate its 55 years, the Festival de Cannes is paying tribute to great
film composers - Ennio Morricone, Jean-Claude Petit, Antoine Duhamel, Howard
Shore, Randy Newman, Angelo Badalamenti... just to name a few. Forty huts along
the Croisette have been equipped with sound devices, which will play the music
of these composers for a Croisette Musical Promenade. The Red Carpet has been
rolled out as well in front of the Majestic Hotel and champagne will fill the
flute g...
Today's long-awaited premier of Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones
coincides with a controversial discussion of director George Lucas' call for
the conversion of cinemas to digital format. According to The Hollywood Reporter,
the long-awaited Stars Wars: Episode II premier today will be accompanied by
a news conference where Lucas is expected to make a case for movie houses' digital
conversion. Lucas and his supporters face strong opposition from the major studios.
...
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Two important deals involving French buyers are fueling hopes that this year's
Cannes Film Market will generate the business long sought by international sellers.
Metropolitan Filmexport has picked up the French language rights to Spanish
film Intacto (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo), which will open the Critics Week
section of the Festival. The film, which is repped by US sales company Lions
Gate International, is a drama about the intertwined lives of four people in
contempora...
US-based Lightning Entertainment and Australian company Arclight films are
both unfurling their banners for the first time at this year's Cannes Film Market.
Lightning Entertainment has been formed by industry veteran Richard Guardian,
who had previous stints at Overseas Film Group, HBO Enterprises and most recently
at Australian shingle Beyond International. The company is bringing eight new
films to Cannes, including the Sundance hit On Line, the thriller American
Gun ...
Following the screening of Woody Allen's newest film Hollywood Ending
as the Cannes Festival opener, it was reported in The Hollywood Reporter that
BAC Majestic, the film's French distributor, is facing a record loss for last
year of almost $12 million. The company will need to seek "refinancing
options" in the near future after three of its larger films, Michael Mann's
Ali, French historical drama Le Frere du Guerrier (The Brother's
Return) and the Mel Gibson-s...
Following a banner year where his international hit Gosford Park wowed
both audiences and critics, Oscar nominated director Robert Altman is back in
Cannes. He is assisting in the efforts to close financing on The Company, the
latest film from hot indie production company Killer Films (Boys Don't Cry).
The film,, about the creative life of a company of ballet dancers, is scripted
by Barbara Turner (Pollock) and set to star Neve Campbell (Scream).
The film is being repped ...
Star
Wars versus Spiderman. With the latest Star Wars epic getting
its European sneak preview here on the heels of the astonishing domestic performance
of Spider-Man, the battle of the fantasy film is in high gear. With both films
expected to dominate both the US and international box office for weeks to come,
it makes it all the more pressing to ponder the role of staying independent
in a Spider-Man Star Wars world.
Cannes, after all, is, with a few exceptions, not a Ho...
The Los Angeles Film Festival, set to unspool June 20-29, is in its seventh
year as an event, but its first under its new management by the IFP Los Angeles,
the West Coast chapter of the national filmmakers organization which also produces
the Independent Spirit Awards (the indie Oscar). Aside from changing programmers
and moving its dates from April to June, the organizers have expanded the programming,
introducing international films to the mix and created a $50,000 filmmak...
The Melbourne International Film Festival, the oldest and largest established
film festival in the Southern Hemisphere and one of Australia's longest-running
annual arts festivals, will showcase the diverse international film culture
for 20 days in July and August. Over 350 of the latest and best films from Australia
and around the world will screen to an audience of over 150,000.
Program selections will be announced later this month, but the Festival is
beginning to take s...
The Florida Film Festival, one of the most prestigious showcases of American
Independent Cinema, has announced its selections for the 2002 event. This year's
festival takes place June 7-16, 2002 in Orlando, Florida. The 10-day festival
was recently named one of the top 10 festivals in the world by festival guru
Chris Gore in The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, 2nd Edition. The Festival
is anchored at the Enzian Theater, Florida's only full-time, nonprofit cinema
th...
Japan's Short Shorts Film Festival (SSFF) makes its stateside debut at Los
Angeles' American Cinematheque after three immensely successful years touring
Japan and Singapore. The Festival founders set out to start a short film revolution
in Japan, and by the second annual SSFF, Japanese audiences were already referring
to short films as "short shorts."
Among the international selections to be presented on May 15 will be two shorts
by
aspiring Japanese filmmakers...
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The Hungarian film industry has its strongest Cannes presence in many years. Peter Meszaros' short film After Rain is in the official Short Film Competition. A Bibo Reader, directed by Peter Forgacs, is world premiereing in the Directors Fortnight. Csaba Bereczki, producer of the films Little Vilma, Anarchists and Hukkle, and director of his first feature film Fools' Song is representing Hungary this year in the Producers on the Move initiative by the European Film Promotion. Hungarian films wer...
Raven Films/Ravenous Pictures has begun packaging the narrative feature Manitou, written and developed by award winning writer/director KrisWetherholt. The filming will take place on location in New York City and rural Michigan in 2003. Based on the upcoming literary project of the same title, Manitou depicts the inherent drama surrounding writers and artists of renown, as seen through the eyes of a writer known as the "next Hemingway." This is will be the first narrative film from Raven Films/R...
UK's Portman Film has picked up the international rights to debut director Francesca Joseph's highly touted film debut Tomorrow La Scalla!, which is screening in the Un Certain Regard section of the Festival. The comedy is about an ambitious young director staging a musical version of the Stephen Sondheim Broadway classic Sweeney Todd at a maximum security prison. The film, which stars Jessica Stevenson and Shaun Dingwall, is a co-production between BBC Films and the Film Council's New Cinema Fu...
Menemsha Entertainment has acquired the international rights to the documentary feature Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary. The film, which was a sleeper hit at the Berlin Film Festival, follows the story of a woman who served as the Furhrer's secretary for over 3 years and her life after the War. The film has been acquired for English language territories by powerhouse distributor Sony Pictures Classics (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) for a release later this year. Menemsha Entertainment is in Can...
The German Export Union, the official promotion agency for German cinema, has published a completely revised and expanded editions of their publications "International Film Festivals" and "Film Festivals in Germany", totaling almost 200 of the leading film festival events in Germany and around the world. Each Festival is profiled with key statistics and contact information. Both publications are available free of charge at the stand of the Export-Union on the "German Boulevard" in the Riviera Ex...
The
Cannes Film Market opens its doors today in a mood of caution about a seriously
depressed international marketplace. The event, which is the largest assembly
of film professionals in the crowded professional calendar, is make-or-break
for the hundreds of sales companies here to sell their wares. Many companies
have been limping along since the Fall, when a combination of declining pay
television and home entertainment expansion, along with the downturn of business
...
The 2002 Lake Placid Film Forum will take place June 5 - 9, 2002 in scenic
Lake Placid, New York. The Forum is a unique event that allows filmmakers and
film lovers to appreciate films and discuss issues of content and the medium
in an intimate, natural setting conducive to networking. Over 65 writers, directors,
producers, actors and other film professionals will be participating in tributes,
forums, master classes, reading of screenplays and workshops.
Now in its third ye...
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