Marché du Film E-Show Daily Eleven

TOP STORIES: CANNES: 'White God' Wins Un Certain Regard Prize; CANNES: 'Love At First Fight' Sco...

Marché du Film eSHOW DAILY NUMBER ELEVEN 05.23.14

TOP STORIES CANNES: 'White God' Wins Un Certain Regard Prize By Justin Chang CANNES — "White God," Hungarian helmer Kornel Mundruczo's audacious drama about a canine uprising, won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. The jury prize was given to "Force majeure," Scandinavian helmer Ruben ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: 'Love At First Fight' Scores Historic Directors' Fortnight Triple By John Hopewell First-time director Thomas Cailley's Gallic romcom "Les Combattants" (Love At First Fight) scored a historic triple at Cannes Friday, sweeping all three of Cannes' 46th Directors' Fortnight prizes, the first time that has ever happened. Star... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: Will 'Leviathan' Win the Palme d'Or? By Justin Chang Our critic lays down his predictions on which films and performances are likely to win the favor of Jane Campion's jury. Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: 'The Attack' Helmer Ziad Doueiri Set to Direct 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile' (EXCLUSIVE) By Elsa Keslassy CANNES -- Talented Lebanese-born filmmaker Ziad Doueiri ("The Attack") is set to make his English-language feature debut with "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,"  a Michael Werwie-penned psychological thriller.    Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: Italy's BLS Film Fund Makes Cannes Bow With 'Sils Maria' and Ramps Up New Prods (EXCLUSIVE) By Nick Vivarelli Three years after its launch, Italy's Business Location South Tyrol — Alto Adige BLS film fund is at Cannes with its first two pics in the fest's official selection - Olivier Assayas' competition entry "Clouds of Sils Maria" and Ruben Ostlun... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Leonardo DiCaprio Auctions Trip to Outer Space for Nearly $1 Million at amfAR Gala By Ramin Setoodeh The annual amfAR auction at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc outside of Cannes is known for its extravagant auctions on behalf of AIDS research, but this year the charity event shot into outer space. Leonardo DiCaprio auctioned a space trip in 2015... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Iranian Actress Faces Public Flogging Over Red Carpet Kiss By Variety Staff Iranian actress Leila Hatami, star of Oscar-winning film "A Separation," is causing a stir in her home country after publicly kissing Cannes president Gilles Jacob. Under Iran's strict Islamic regime, unrelated men and women are not allowed ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Cannes Q&A: Frederick Wiseman By Peter Debruge With "National Gallery," documentary helmer Frederick Wiseman expands his focus from chronicling the day-to-day of U.S. institutions to include the famous London art museum. It is his third film to play in Cannes, after "The Last Letter" and... Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Winter Sleep,' 'Jauja,' 'Love at First Fight' Take Cannes Fipresci Prizes By Leo Barraclough CANNES -- The International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) awarded its prize for the best film in Cannes' competition section on Friday to Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Winter Sleep," confirming the pic's status as one of the front-runners for... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: How Xavier Dolan's 'Mommy' Became the Buzziest Movie at the Festival By Ramin Setoodeh This year's Cannes Film Festival unloaded its share of turkeys, from "Grace of Monaco" to Atom Egoyan's "The Captive," David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars" and the Ryan Gosling directorial debut "Lost River." But at least the festival ende... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: Michael Eklund Heads to 'Dark' with Joe Dante Exec Producing By Dave McNary Michael Eklund ("The Call") and Brandon Sexton ("Boys Don't Cry") have rounded out the cast of the psychological thriller "Dark," with shooting set for late June in New York. Nick Basile ("American Carny") will direct from a script written b... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: China Lion Connects With 'Breakup Guru' By Patrick Frater Day-and-date release set for romantic comedy. Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: 'Love At First Fight' Takes Europa Cinemas Label By John Hopewell "Les Combattants" (Love At First Fight), the feature debut of France's Thomas Cailley, has won the Europa Cinemas Label as best European film in Cannes' 2014 Directors' Fortnight. Movie is sold at Cannes by Bac Films International. Plaudit i... Read Full Story at Variety.com → David Goyer's 'The Forest' Gets North American Distribution By Dave McNary Focus Features has acquired North American distribution rights to supernatural thriller "The Forest" from Lava Bear Films and David S. Goyer's Phantom Four. David Linde's Lava Bear and Goyer — the screenwriter of the "Dark Knight" trilogy — ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: Argentine Production Surges By John Hopewell Four films from Argentine helmers -- Damian Szifron's "Wild Tales," Pablo Fendrik's "El Ardor," Lisandro Alonso's "Jauja," and Pablo Lerman's "Refugiado" -- were selected for Cannes. Four more movies from Argentina made the cut at February's... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Open Road Sets Feb. 20 U.S. Release for Sean Penn's 'The Gunman' By John Hopewell CANNES -- Open Road has set a U.S. release dates of Feb. 20 for the Silver Pictures Sean Penn starrer "The Gunman." Euro film/TV group Studiocanal, which also financed and sold internationally "The Gunman," will release the action thriller i... Read Full Story at Variety.com → REVIEWS Cannes Film Review: 'Clouds of Sils Maria' By Peter Debruge Though deceptively casual on its surface, "Sils Maria" represents a multi-layered, femme-driven meta-fiction in which all involved — including next-gen starlets Kristen Stewart and Chloe Grace Moretz — go for broke without so much as breakin... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Cannes Film Review: 'Leviathan' By Peter Debruge In "Leviathan," which director Andrey Zvyagintsev has described as a loose retelling of the Book of Job, an ordinary man must wrestle with his faith not in God but in the Russian state. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Metropolitan FilmExport at 25: Hadida Brothers Use Savvy to Sell Big European Pics By Martin Dale Metropolitan Filmexport has been involved in some of Europe's biggest international co-productions over recent years, ranging from genre franchises "Silent Hill" and "Resident Evil" to more auteur-driven pics such as "Perfume," "Railway Man"... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Metropolitan FilmExport at 25: Sammy Hadida's Top 10 Pics By Variety Staff The Metropolitan FilmExport topper thinks back on the films he's seen and handled in his career and names some of his favorites. 1. King Kong Read Full Story at Variety.com → Metropolitan FilmExport at 25: Hadida Brothers Build France Distributor Into Major Indie Player By Elsa Keslassy Metropolitan Filmexport, France's independent distribution leader owned by brothers Samuel and Victor Hadida, has not just survived; it has steadfastly thrived for the past 35 years. Thanks to the Hadida brothers' deep-rooted ties to Hollywo... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this

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