Marché du Film E-Show Daily Four

TOP STORIES: Martin Scorsese, RT Features Launch Film Fund (EXCLUSIVE); Russell Crowe Discusses ...

Marché du Film eSHOW DAILY NUMBER FOUR 05.16.14

TOP STORIES Martin Scorsese, RT Features Launch Film Fund (EXCLUSIVE) By Elsa Keslassy Martin Scorsese's Sikelia Prods. has partnered with Brazilian producer Rodrigo Teixeira and his RT Features on a joint venture aimed at producing first and second films from emerging filmmakers worldwide. Pact includes a film fund that will ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Russell Crowe Discusses His Directorial Debut 'Water Diviner' (EXCLUSIVE) By Ramin Setoodeh On Thursday night at the Majestic Hotel here in Cannes, Russell Crowe debuted 12 minutes of his directorial bow, "The Water Diviner," a movie he also stars in, to a packed room of international buyers. In an exclusive interview with Vari... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: Market Participation Still Strong By Patrick Frater Chinese, Latin American participation rising Read Full Story at Variety.com → Versatile Rolls Out 'Abattoir,' 'Blind,' Picks Up 'Gente' (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell One-year-old Versatile, the Paris-based sales company headed by Pape Boye and Violaine Pichon, has closed a slew of sales on two flagship titles on its first-year slate: Supernatural thriller "Abattoir," helmed by Darren Lynn Bousman, direct... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Could the Next Chief of U.K.'s Film4 be an American? By Leo Barraclough CANNES -- The favorite game among the Brit pack in Cannes is guessing who will be Tessa Ross' successor as Film4 chief, and a surprising choice has emerged: former Focus Features boss James Schamus. Whether he'd be interested is another matt... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Cannes competition player 'Wild Tales' By John Hopewell In one of the high-profile deals announced early during Cannes, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North America and Australia/New Zealand rights to Damian Szifron's buzzed-up Cannes Competion entry "Wild Tales." Spain's Film Factory is sel... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Japan's Showgate Holds 'Grudge' Horror Sequel By Patrick Frater Horror series was remade in Japanese and English. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Depardieu, Huppert Star in 'Love' for Nicloux (EXCLUSIVE) By Elsa Keslassy Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert are set to topline "Valley of Love," a drama directed by Guillaume Nicloux, whose last film, "The Nun," world-premiered in Berlin. Project is from two of France's leading production houses, Sylvie Pialat... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Daniel Radcliffe Speeding to 'You Shall Know Our Velocity' By Dave McNary Daniel Radcliffe will star in the indie adaptation of Dave Eggers' comic novel "You Shall Know Our Velocity" with Peter Sollett directing. Producers are Tim Perell for Process and Michael Benaroya ("Margin Call") for Benaroya Pictures. Intl.... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Nick Cheung Scares Up 'Ghost Rituals' Directorial Debut (EXCLUSIVE) By Patrick Frater Supernatural story sets thesps versus poltergeists. Read Full Story at Variety.com → A24 Picks U.S. Rights to Ewan McGregor's 'Son of a Gun' (EXCLUSIVE) By Elsa Keslassy CANNES-- A24 has acquired U.S. rights to Ewan McGregor starrer "Son of a Gun," an Australian heist thriller directed by first-timer Julius Avery. McGregor stars opposite Alicia Vikander ("A Royal Affair") and Brenton Thwaites ("Maleficent").... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Djimon Hounsou, Alexis Knapp Join Post-Apocalyptic Adventure 'One' By Dave McNary Djimon Hounsou and Alexis Knapp have boarded the post-apocalyptic adventure "One" with shooting starting later this year in South Africa. Australian filmmaker Murali Thalluri ("2.37") is directing from his own script. "One" is the first film... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Imax Set to Release 'The Flight Crew' in Russia By Nick Vivarelli After doing boffo biz with "Stalingrad," Imax is following up on the success of its first Russian movie with Nikolai Lebedev's "The Flight Crew," a remake of 1979 smash Russian hit "Air Crew," considered the country's first local disaster mo... Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Ivanhoe' Gains Momentum with 'Wrath of the Titans' Producer Basil Iwanyk on Board By Dave McNary "Wrath of the Titans" producer Basil Iwanyk has joined Egoli Tossell Films's action-adventure "Ivanhoe" as a producer. The project, orginally developed by the late Jim Jacks, is based on Walter Scott's 1815 novel about the medieval knight wh... Read Full Story at Variety.com → REVIEWS Cannes Film Review: 'Amour fou' By Justin Chang A dryly amusing and ambiguously layered account of the famed double suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and Henriette Vogel. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Cannes Film Review: 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' By Peter Debruge Braver than "Brave," more fun than "Frozen" and more emotionally satisfying than so many of its live-action counterparts, "Dragon" delivers. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Cannes Film Review: 'The Captive' By Justin Chang This ludicrous abduction thriller plays like an ill-advised assembly of tropes and themes from Atom Egoyan's highlights reel. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this

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