In an unprecedented alliance meant to stoke an appetite for prestige films in China, the online ticketing and marketing giant Beijing Weying Technology has acquired Chinese distribution rights to nine Wild Bunch films that are playing at the Cannes Film Festival, most in competition. The Cannes films in the deal … Read entire story.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger decamped to the Croisette this week for a career-first, bringing a documentary he has narrated to the Marche. Wonders of the Sea 3D is directed by Jean-Michel Cousteau & Jean-Jacques Mantello and is produced by Francois Mantello and Schwarzenegger. The film takes a trip under … Read entire story.
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Oscar-winner and Cannes Film Festival veteran Marion Cotillard reteams with director Arnaud Desplechin for Ismael’s Ghosts which opened the show this week. The two previously worked together in 1996’s My Sex Life… Or How I Got Into An Argument. We sat down recently with Cotillard to discuss … Read entire story.
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EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group has locked several international territories on Bruce Willis-starrer Reprisal, directed by Brian A. Miller. Project is written by Bryce Hammons and produced by Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films’ Randall Emmett, George Furla and Mark Stewart. Sold territories for the pic include France (Studiocanal), Spain (Inopia), Greece … Read entire story.
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Nat Wolff has joined Sam Claflin in Henry-Alex Rubin’s crime thriller Semper Fi. Cornerstone Films is handling sales for the title here in Cannes, with CAA co-repping domestic. Rubin pens the script with Sean Mullin and project is produced by Whiplash and Nightcrawler producer David Lancaster of Rumble … Read entire story.
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