Marché du Film E-Show Daily Seven

TOP STORIES: CANNES: Market Looks Healthy for the Right Titles; CANNES: BFI Film Fund Backs 'Hoc...

Marché du Film eSHOW DAILY NUMBER SEVEN 05.19.14

TOP STORIES CANNES: Market Looks Healthy for the Right Titles By John Hopewell and Ramin Setoodeh The Cannes 2014 market will go down as one of the most contradictory in years. Its lack of fully-packaged star-driven quality projects was a major talking point. Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: BFI Film Fund Backs 'Hockney: A Life in Pictures' By Leo Barraclough CANNES -- The British Film Institute Film Fund is to back "Hockney: A Life in Pictures," about the artist David Hockney, Ben Roberts, the fund's director, said Monday. Randall Wright will helm and write the documentary, which will receive 14... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: 'Spring Breakers' Producers Learn Riot Control By Steven Gaydos Way back in 1998, Chris and Roberta Hanley's Muse Prods. was at the center of a Cannes fest casting brouhaha that involved Leonardo DiCaprio and their film version of Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho." Leo didn't wind up in the picture, b... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: First Image of Pierce Brosnan-Salma Hayek Comedy 'How to Make Love Like an Englishman' By Variety Staff The Solution Entertainment Group is handling international sales at Cannes for "How to Make Love Like an Englishman." Pierce Brosnan plays a Cambridge University professor who meets his match in Salma Hayek and is forced to re-evaluate his l... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: What Films Could be on Their Way to Venice? By Nick Vivarelli With Cannes past its midpoint, a major guessing game on the Croisette is: What's going to Venice? It's a bit premature, because Venice topper Alberto Barbera and his team have yet to see plenty of what's out there. However, two titles, Turki... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: Films Distribution Makes Big Sales on 'Girlhood,' 'Cheap Thrills' (EXCLUSIVE) By Elsa Keslassy and John Hopewell Leading arthouse sales company Films Distribution has scored a flurry of top-notch deals on Celine Sciamma's "Girlhood" (pictured) and E.L. Katz's "Cheap Thrills." Directors' Fortnight standout "Girlhood" clearly enthused Cannes buy... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: Jessica Chastain, Director Ned Benson on 'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby' (EXCLUSIVE) By Ramin Setoodeh "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby," which now has a running time of two hours, saw 68 minutes vanish after it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last fall, when the Weinstein Co. purchased U.S. distribution for $3 million. But star Jes... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: Rodrigo Bellott, Rodrigo Orozco, Alessandra Lo Savio Launch Production Company (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell Bolivia's Rodrigo Bellott, (pictured) one of Latin America's best-known filmmakers, and Rodrigo Orozco, have teamed with Italian entrepreneur Alessandra Lo Savio to launch Bolivian Bold USA. Bellott will serve as Bolivian Bold prexy... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: 'Bloody Far East' Claims China Project Prize By Patrick Frater New Chinese Film Talents Fund Forum enters second year. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Cannes Q&A: Director John Boorman Talks 'Queen and Country' By Peter Debruge The director of "Excalibur" and "Deliverance," John Boorman was first invited to Cannes in 1970 with the film "Leo the Last," for which he won the director prize. His latest film, "Queen and Country," premieres in Directors' Fortnight. How h... Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'The Wonder 3D' set as First China-New Zealand Co-Production By Patrick Frater Peter Hewitt to helm teen fantasy for Hyde Park . Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: Korea's Pan Cinema Wins Bid Battle For 'Helios' By Patrick Frater Media Asia sells police thriller, readies multiple English-language remake deals. Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: Helena Bonham Carter, Charles Dance Starring in World War I Drama By Dave McNary Helena Bonham Carter will star in World War I drama "The Guns of August," portraying her real-life step-great grandmother Margot Asquith. "The Guns of August," based on the Barbara W. Tuchman book, traces the misunderstandings, missed opport... Read Full Story at Variety.com → China's Jia Zhangke Plans 'Mountains' Trek (EXCLUSIVE) By Patrick Frater Top Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke ("A Touch of Sin") will voyage into the future as he sets "Mountains May Depart" as his next film. The film, which starts production in October, will also be Jia's first to be shot outside China. "I want to exa... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: Britt Robertson's Thriller 'Ask Me Anything' Gets U.S. Distribution (EXCLUSIVE) By Dave McNary Phase 4 films has acquired North American distribution rights to the thriller "Ask Me Anything," starring Britt Robertson ("Under the Dome"). Producers are Lauren Avinoam, Nicolas Emiliani, and Lauren Hogarth. Allison Burnett directed from h... Read Full Story at Variety.com → CANNES: Dean Devlin's Electric Entertainment Secures $50 Million By Dave McNary Dean Devlin's Electric Entertainment has  secured $50 million in a combination of corporate and production credit facilities from First Republic Bank. The coin will be used to continue Electric's expansion of TV and feature film production a... Read Full Story at Variety.com → REVIEWS Cannes Film Review: 'Foxcatcher' By Justin Chang Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum give superb performances in Bennett Miller's powerfully disturbing true-crime saga. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Asian Film Buyers Guide By Patrick Frater The theatrical market in the Asian-Pacific region is now the largest single component of global box office, worth $11.1 billion in 2013, the year when it overtook both North America ($10.9 billion) and Europe-Middle East-Africa (also $10.9 b... Read Full Story at Variety.com → No Longer Exotic, South Africa Attracts More Productions By Christopher Vourlias While Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron" rampaged through the streets of Johannesburg in March, leaving cinematic destruction and traffic snarl-ups in its wake, South Africa's booming filming locations industry couldn't be in better shape. J... Read Full Story at Variety.com → South African Filmmakers Find Their Voice, Hoping Audiences Will Follow By Christopher Vourlias South African filmmakers are beginning a new chapter as they look ahead to a strong showing at the Cannes Film Festival. The country has had a growing presence at the fest in recent years, and this edition will be no different, with four mar... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this

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