Paris-based Backup Media, a film consultancy and investor, has unveiled the first financing deals put through on three titles by B Media Global. Launched last year by Backup, B Media Global is a film…
Most French film folk have come to Cannes from Paris. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud came from Ulaghai, Inner Mongolia. You would expect no less from Annaud, a helmer who shot “The Lover” in Vietnam…
Underscoring the breadth of artistic aspirations driving many of today's European directors, Guillaume Canet's "Blood Ties" is one of three English-language films helmed by a Euro director playing in…
Madrid-based sales consortium Latido Films has acquired international rights to “The Happets in the Rainbow Forest,” the follow-up to Spanish 3D toonpic hit, “The Happets in the Kingdom of the Sun.”…
FilmSharks Intl. Guido Rud has unveiled deals for remakes, underscoring the growing demand for local versions of foreign-language hits. Building on a Mexican remake deal with Spectrum Films, unveiled…
Re-enforcing the growing film axis between Chile and France, Paris-based Rezo has re-upped with Chilean director Cristian Jimenez (pictured) and producer Bruno Bettati, tying down international…
Jia Zhangke's Palme d'Or contender "A Touch of Sin," the critics' favorite among Cannes competition films through Saturday, is igniting more than a touch of Riviera sales business. Five territories…
EuropaCorp, Luc Besson's Paris-based mini-studio, is becoming ever more a Europe-U.S.Corp, while ramping up biz in China.
Austria's Red Bull Media House will unspool McConkey at Cannes, a portrait of U.S. extreme skiing and BASE-jumping icon Shane McConkey, who died in an accident in 2009.
The City of Rio de Janeiro is set to build a $50 million film and TV studio, Rio Polo de Audiovisual, located a few minutes drive from Brazil's 2016 Olympic Games stadium.
