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WELCOME TO OUR NEWSLETTER N° 466: may 24, 2010
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The Future
of Cinema Salon in Cannes gave a toast to Future of Festivals
Filmfestivals.com and Xomo gathered 100 festival directors
attending Cannes for a wine tasting reception.
Our Cannes...
According to an article in "The Hollywood Reporter: The Cannes Daily," this years Cannes Marche du Film was a quiet one, with limited headline grabbing deals. Between buyers being more selective and sellers working to create profits in a difficult economy, deals are taking longer to be worked out. Typical big North American buyers such as IFC Films, Phase 4 Films and Sony Pictures Classics went through Tuesday without making any deals. Newcomers Red Flag Releasing and Oscilloscope La...
Sunday morning, Morgan Creek met with press and international buyers over brunch at Moulin des Mougins. Here, Morgan Creek founder, James Robinson, shared the company's new initiatives to "focus on bigger-budget projects that have global appeal" reported "The Hollywood Reporter: The Cannes Daily." Robinson explained, "We are like a small studio and there are few people doing films in this sort of budget range outside of the studios." Included in these big-budget p...
According to "The Hollywood Reporter: The Cannes Daily," U.S. and international theatrical distribution rights for Derek Magyar's "Flying Lesson" and Connie Stevens' "Saving Grace B. Jones," were obtained by New Films International. Ron Gell and Straw Weisman, New Films Cinema executives, negotiated both deals. In response to the acquisition, Connies Stevens says, "I am very happy to be associated with New Films International. They are an aggressive and talen...
Yesterday in Cannes, independent movie production studio, EuropaCorp,
announced that they would be partnering with HP to make an animated
film based on Mathias Malzieu's, 2007 best-selling novel, "The Boy with
the Cuckoo-Clock Heart." EuropaCorp won the film adaption rights back
in January 2008 and wants HP to provide collaboration in terms of
technology and marketing. HP will use new technology to create the film
including HPZ8oo workstations and HP Dream Color displays. The
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U.S. Distribution rights to Paul W.S. Anderson's "The Three Musketeers" in 3D, was scooped up by Summit Entertainment, who will also be selling the project worldwide in Cannes. According to "The Hollywood Reporter: The Cannes Daily," the Musketeers: Porthos, Aramis and Athos are set to be played by Ray Stevenson ("The Book of Eli"), Luke Evans ("Clash of the Titans"), and Matthew Macfadyen ("Robin Hood"). Other casted stars include Christoph Wa...
This afternoon, 14 May, Olivier-Rene Veillon, executive director for Île-de-France Film Commission, and Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London, will be meeting to sign a partnership agreement between both regions. This agreement between the IDF and London commission will be the first of its kind and intends to jointly utilize each of their production and post-production resources for industry events. There are also plans in the works to combine each regions' eco-initiatives, IDF's Ecoprod and Lon...
Marche du Film When walking into the Marche du Film, business appears to be booming. It's day two into the festival and deals are already in the works and bidding wars over distribution rights to films have begun. Though despite the Marche's surface appearance, many cannot ignore the current uncertainty of the European Independent film industry. This uncertainty stems from the recent signs of the sector taking a hit similar to that of the American Independent...
