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Hold Up One Minute: Romain Goupil’s Latest Should Crack Cannes Line-Up
No official announcement has been made yet by the fest, but it looks les films du losange, the French distibution co. will see a fourth film in this year's Cannes line-up (added to the previously announced Chantrapas, Des filles en noir and Cleveland Vs. Wall Street). The culprit is a former winner of the Camera D'or back in 1982 for Mourir à 30 ans in Romain Goupil, a name I'm not familiar with would return to the fest with Les mains en L'air (a.k.a. "Hands Up") a drama starring Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Hippolyte Girardot and loads of child actors
Cannes 2010: Short Film Competition
A whopping 5000 submissions and only nine films accepted. That's the nature of the Short Film Competition for the Cannes Film Festival. I plugged a couple of film titles into the search engine to see if there are some early glimpses -- I uncovered some paintings from Serge Avedikian's animated Chienne D’Histoire -- a rather disturbing tale about how Paris rid the capital of vagabond dogs. Here are the lucky 9 who'll compete for their own Palme D'or.
Title and Plot Details Revealed: Woody Allen Spills the Beans on ‘Midnight in Paris’
Title? Check! Brief synopsis? Check! Supporting players? Check! French president's wife to star in the pic? Check! THR reports that Woody Allen's Spanish financed, Paris-set rom com has got a working title and a brief synopsis that sort of goes thematically hand in hand with Vicky Cristina Barcelona and potentially You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.
Paladin to Distribute a Brett Ratner Presented English Bollywood Film?
There are so many items in this press release that you wouldn't normally see paired together. First we have Brett Ratner lending his name and expertise to a Bollywood production that was filmed in the U.S. And then we have Mark Urman’s Paladin distribution label on board.
Oscilloscope ‘Howl’ for Off Beat Docu-Fiction Sundance Selection
Never a good sign when a film that technically opened the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently played at Berlin is picked up a full four months after the fact. I haven't seen Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's film but from what I heard, the film poses as a challenge to the patrons who'll end up seeing the film in theaters and might be a puzzle for the marketing department at Oscilloscope Laboratories who picked up the picture. The distributor plans a September 24th launch accompanied by a VOD release.
