What might become the biggest deal at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Focus Features picking up the worldwide rights to Nocturnal Animals, fashion designer-turned-filmmaker Tom Ford’s follow-up to A Single Man, for $20 million. The film which will star Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams hasn’t even started production yet, but Ford adapted it from […]
It was revealed today in Cannes that Katee Sackhoff (Oculus, Riddick, “Battlestar Galactica”) will star in the supernatural horror film Don’t Knock Twice, directed by Caradog James and being sold in Cannes by Content Media. In the vein of Candyman meets The Ring, Don’t Knock Twice is based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. To […]
Natalie Portman’s Fania Oz tells her young son the “Parable of Two Monks” in the first clip from the Academy Award-winning actress’s directorial debut, A Tale of Love and Darkness, which will premiere Saturday at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Check out the clip below! Based on Amos Oz’s novel, A Tale of Love and […]
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired North American rights to Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Our Little Sister at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film is in Official Competition at the festival and will screen today. The film was acquired from Wild Bunch, a longtime partner of Sony Pictures Classics. Our Little Sister marks […]
Even before the Cannes Film Festival has begun, word is coming from the France-based festival that Lionsgate has nabbed two hot films, one before its premiere and one before it’s even completed.. First, Deadline reports that Lionsgate is teaming up with long-time partners Roadside Attractions for the domestic distribution of Sea of Trees, starring Matthew […]
Fargo,” “No Country for Old Men” and “Inside Llewyn Davis” directors Joel and Ethan Coen have been named the presidents of the jury at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the festival announced on Tuesday morning in France. This will be the first time the festival has had a pair of presidents rather than a single […]
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all US rights to Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado’s The Salt of the Earth. The film was in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Special Prize Award. The film was acquired from Le Pacte, who SPC […]
Sylvester Stallone and a large portion of his cast from The Expendables 3, including Jason Statham, Antonio Banderas, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren and Arnold Schwarzenegger, hit the Croisette in Southern France to promote the film at the Cannes Film Festival. The first two movies in the series have been hugely successful, […]
In a pre-Cannes move, Christopher Walken has joined Jason Bateman and Nicole Kidman in the comedy “The Family Fang.” Red Crown’s Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Riva Marker are producing, alongside Olympus Pictures’ Leslie Urdang and Dean Vanech, Blossom Films partners Kidman and Per Saari and Aggregate Films partners Bateman and Jim Garavente. Qed International’s Bill Block and Red Crown’s Dan Crown are exec producing. Qed will begin foreign sales at Cannes. Principal photography will commence in July with […]
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its line-up of films for the 2014 festival running from May 14 to May 25, and as usual, it includes a number of familiar names in competition as well as a few new faces and first-time directors. It had already been announced that this year’s festival would open with […]
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