Cannes: Hewlett Packard's Animated Debate
At a Hewlett Packard panel on the future of animation, participants sometimes crossed swords on the finer points of technology, but all agreed that, as in live-action, the script is the key to…
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B Media Global Backs Up Jim Mickle's 'Cold' in First for Fund (EXCLUSIVE)
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…
Ford's Focus is on Selling Scorsese's 'Silence' as He Drives IM Global
IM Global topper Stuart Ford knows how to make a splash with Martin Scorsese: Put him on a boat. The director mingled at one end of Emmett/Furla's yacht party on Thursday to promote “Silence,”…
International Financing 'Salvation' for Danish Producer
A poster producer for Danish cinema, Sisse Graum Jorgensen, who with helmer Thomas Vinterberg received the prestigious European Union Prix Media Sunday in Cannes for their film project, “The Commune,”…
Director Jean-Jacques Annaud Presents 'Wolf Totem'
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…
Guillaume Canet Sees More Opportunities in English-Language Films
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…
Italians Emerge Victorious in Nabbing 'Limonov' Rights
Italo helmer Saverio Costanzo (“Private,” “The Solitude of Prime Numbers”) will helm “Limonov,” an adaptation of the eponymous bestseller by Gallic author Emmanuele Carrere depicting the adventurous…
Latido Carves Out Rights to 'Rainbow Forest'
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 Closes Pacts (EXCLUSIVE)
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…
Celluloid Connects to Miike's Contempo Take
Celluloid Dreams/Uconnect has snatched up international sales rights to Japanese helmer Takashi Miike's next feature project, a contemporary take on “Yotsuya Kaiden,” a famed Japanese ghost story…
