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Haneke’s ‘Ces Deux’ Not Allowed to Get Old
Earlier in the year, Michael Haneke was contemplating a pair of film ideas and the one that we thought was temporarily "shelved", has according to Haneke's muse Isabelle Huppert, been thrown back on the burner. A film project that Haneke had mentioned as early as 2006, Ces Deux had financial backing and already had thesps Huppert and Jean Louis Trintignant confirmed, but Haneke's "internet" project would take the lead.
L’Exercice de l’Etat: Schoeller’s Road to Sophomore Pic includes Olivier Gourmet and Michel Blanc
L’Exercice de l’Etat will see veteran actors Olivier Gourmet and Michel Blanc will topline the pic while actors Zabou Breitman and Laurent Stocker are the supporting players.
Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Summer Wars’ Makes Oscar Bid Via Gkids
Toy Story 3 may be the heavy odds-on-favorite for the upcoming Oscar's Best Animated Film category, but there'll always be place for the little guys aka Japanese anime to make the noms more robust. In actually, Mamoru Hosoda's Summer Wars is actually pretty big in its' own right, having won Japan Best Animated film award it probably had some crazy, domestic box office run, but in the U.S. it's perhaps lucky to receive a one week qualifying [12.10] run via Gkids - the folks who distributed The Secret of Kells.
Indomina Releasing Ends Mystery and Pick Up ‘Detective Dee’
IndieWIRE's Anne Thompson certainly pleased by this bit of news. If my count is good, this is title number eight for the Indomina Releasing folks - and it may be their crown jewel in their mad streak of pick-ups. The Venice and TIFF preemed Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame has been acquired by the new genre label and they'll want to make sure they roll the epic title quickly.
Shadow Distribution Makes Sure that ‘Silent Souls’ Isn’t Cremated
After you see Alexsei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls sometime in the second quarter of 2011, you can send Shadow Distribution's Ken Eisen a kind thank you note for championing this pearl of a film and saving it from what would have been a certain death after its showings on the film festival circuit.
