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Key Players in the 2011 Cannes Market: Focus Features Int.

Meetings at the Focus Features Int. office this year must be short and sweet — as they don’t have plenty of volume in the pipeline — but do manage to have some titles worth considering and this includes Mike Mills’ brilliant Beginners and the pre-fall release of Lone Scherfig’s One Day, but also currently in production films from the Wachowskis and one from Paul Weitz that should fetch big dollars.

Eric Lavallée

Published on May 13, 2011

Meetings at the Focus Features Int. office this year must be short and sweet — as they don’t have plenty of volume in the pipeline — but do manage to have some titles worth considering and this includes Mike Mills’ brilliant Beginners and the pre-fall release of Lone Scherfig’s One Day, but also currently in production films from the Wachowskis and one from Paul Weitz that should fetch big dollars. Here is the fivesome of titles:

BEGINNERS by Mike MILLS – Completed
CLOUD ATLAS by Andy And Lana WACHOWSKI – Pre-Production
MR PIP by Andrew ADAMSON – Pre-Production
ONE DAY by Lone SCHERFIG – Post-Production
UNTITLED PAUL WEITZ PROJECT by Paul WEITZ – Production

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).