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Exclusive Media to Shop Metallica Pic
Nigel Sinclair and Guy East’s international sales company Exclusive Media has come on board to shop and screen “Metallica Through the Never” at Cannes. The film uses Metallica concert footage to tell...
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Cannes Profile: David Shaheen Anticipates More Deals At Fest
Since 1999, David Shaheen has missed just three Cannes Film Festivals, but with good reason: The global financial crisis.
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Scorsese, Timberlake Head to Cannes With Projects in Tow
Money is looser but distribs are fewer for those peddling projects at this year’s Cannes market.
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Cannes: ‘ABCs of Death’ Gets Sequel
The producers behind "ABCs of Death" are getting ready to add more letters, announcing a sequel to last year's anthology horror pic to shop at Cannes.
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Scarlett Johansson Joins ‘Chef’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Scarlett Johansson has joined the cast of Jon Favreau's "Chef," which production and financing shingle Aldamisa is repping at Cannes.
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Cannes: Luc Besson Dives into ‘Sea at War’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Cannes is buzzing about EuropaCorp's top-secret project "Sea at War" that’s penned by Luc Besson and produced by Besson and Christophe Lambert.
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Focus Promotes Andrew Karpen to Co-CEO
Focus Features has promoted president Andrew Karpen to co-CEO, and has signed a new multi-year contract with CEO James Schamus. Karpen has served as president of Focus since 2006 and joined the company...
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Relativity Signs New Output Deals with India, Greece
Relativity Media has announced new foreign output deals with India distribution shingle Tanweer and Greece’s Feelgood distribution. Relativity’s International head Camela Galano will oversee the deals,...
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At Cannes, Bankers Embark on Fact-Finding Mission
For City National Bank, Cannes is as much about fact-gathering as it is shaking hands. Three of its entertainment division bankers — David Acosta, senior VP and team leader; David Oliver, VP and senior...
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Cannes: Scarlett Johansson to Make Directorial Debut
Scarlett Johansson has signed up to direct her first feature, a film adaptation of the Truman Capote’s nearly-lost novel “Summer Crossing.” Aldamisa will produce and shop the pic at Cannes. Aldamisa is...
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Cannes: IFC Acquires U.S. Rights to ‘The Face of Love’
IFC Films has announced U.S. rights to Arie Posin's "The Face of Love" starring Annette Bening, Ed Harris and Robin Williams.
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Worldview Nears $70 Million in New Coin (EXCLUSIVE)
Worldview Entertainment is closing in on a four-year, $30 million credit facility with Comerica Bank, and has received a new $40 million equity infusion from its existing investors. Deal nearly doubles...
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VOX, Tanweer Bow Distrib-Exhib (EXCLUSIVE)
Make way for a new Middle East and North Africa film distribution-exhibition powerhouse with close Hollywood ties and plex muscle to flex. Majid Al Futtaim’s rapidly expanding VOX Cinemas chain has...
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Cannes: Elwes, Barnum Launch New Financing Shingle
Veteran indie producers Cassian Elwes and Robert Ogden Barnum have announced new financing shingle e2b Capital. Duo will serve as co-heads of the Los Angeles-based company, which is already at work on...
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States of Aggression: Producers Play Off the Competition for Best Deals
As the variety of tax incentive programs has grown, one thing is increasingly getting cut: the middleman.
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Cannes: Quintet Sets Up Finance Shingle
Former EMI chairman and CEO Eric Luciano Nicoli is bowing an indie financing shingle with consumer marketing pro William Lewis, creative director John Stanley and financial services vet Dean Goldberg....
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Nicole Kidman, Octavia Spencer, Rooney Mara Promote Weinstein Co. Pics in Cannes
After presenting clips from his upcoming 2013 slate, Harvey Weinstein pointed out the absence of at least one of his films’ notable producers. “I was going to bring George Clooney … but I’m still...
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Worldview Boards ‘Blonde’
Two days before prestige pic “Blood Ties” screens at Cannes, Worldview Entertainment has picked up rights to Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde” with “Killing Them Softly” helmer Andrew Dominik set to helm....
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Cannes: Photogs Hungry for ‘Hunger Games’ Stars
Just hours before Lionsgate’s much-anticipated “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” party at Baoli Beach, photographers crammed into the lobby of the Majestic Hotel on Saturday to snap pictures of the...
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Phase 4 Acquires Lucy Walker docu ‘The Crash Reel’
Phase 4 Films has acquired North American rights to docu “The Crash Reel” from “Waste Land” helmer Lucy Walker. HBO, which helped finance the pic, will keep U.S. television broadcast rights. Pedro Kos...
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