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Ryan Gosling’s ‘How To Catch A Monster’ Sees Strong Sales
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 6:51am | variety
Sierra/Affinity has sold 20 international markets for Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, fantasy drama “How to Catch a Monster.” Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Saoirse Ronan...
Cannes Film Review: ‘Le Demantelement’
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 6:42am | variety
A film whose measured pace and minimal conflict seem better suited to pastoral living than arthouse viewing.
Phase 4 Acquires Lucy Walker docu ‘The Crash Reel’
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 6:36am | variety
Phase 4 Films has acquired North American rights to docu “The Crash Reel” from “Waste Land” helmer Lucy Walker. HBO, which helped finance the pic, will keep U.S. television bro...
Julianne Moore Tells Us About Getting In Touch With Her Inner Bookworm in 'The English Teacher'
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 6:31am | indiewire
After romancing Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the Sundance/Berlinale hit "Don Jon," Julianne Moore is again putting the moves on a much younger co-star (Michael Angarano) in the indie comedy "The Englis...
Phase 4 Acquires Lucy Walker's Snowboarding Documentary 'The Crash Reel' for Winter Release
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 6:25am | indiewire
Phase 4 Films announced today from Cannes that the company has acquired all North American rights to Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker's documentary "The Crash Reel." HBO, who helped to fi...
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Cannes: Foreign Buyers Flock to Ryan Gosling's 'How to Catch a Monster'
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 6:15am | thr
Sierra/Affinity has sold distribution rights in more than 20 territories.read more
Perverts Uprising! Zeitgeist Films Will Distribute Two New Documentaries
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 6:06am | indiewire
Zeitgeist Films will release two new documentaries: Sophie Fiennes’ "The Perverts' Guide to Ideology" and Fredrik Stanton’s "Uprising." "The Perverts' Guide to Ideology" follows philosophy super...
Cannes Color: Photogs Cram the Majestic for ‘Hunger Games’ Stars
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 5:48am | variety
Just hours before Lionsgate’s much-anticipated “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” party at Baoli Beach, photographers crammed into the lobby of the Majestic Hotel on Saturday to snap ...
Cannes Film Review: ‘Bite the Dust’
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 5:30am | variety
Audiences are likely to feel impatient with this leaden Russian black comedy.
Worldview Boards ‘Blonde’
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 5:16am | variety
Two days before prestige pic “Blood Ties” screens at Cannes, Worldview Entertainment has picked up rights to Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde” with “Killing Them Softly” h...
Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton In ‘Life Itself’
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 5:12am | variety
Morgan Freeman and  Diane Keaton will star together for the first time in the comedy “Life Itself” with Richard Loncraine directing. Project was introduced at Cannes, where Myriad Picture...
Cannes Film Review: ‘Like Father, Like Son’
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 5:08am | variety
Hirokazu Kore-eda's reverberant drama is a characteristically low-key treatment of familial bonds, expectations and responsibilities.
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Jimmy P., Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian: Cannes Review
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 5:07am | thr
Mathieu Amalric plays the ideal analyst to Benicio Del Toro's Blackfoot patient in the competition film exalting the work of ethno-psychoanalyst Georges Devereauread more
Spanish Producers Think Globally
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 5:00am | variety
The current byword in Southern Europe’s debt-ridden economies is “export or die,” and Spanish producers have taken heed, in order to counteract uncertainty over public subsidies and plummeting T...
Spanish Animation Generates Heat in Otherwise Tepid Market
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 5:00am | variety
Once the Cinderella of film production, Spain’s animation output is now knocking on global market doors, boosted by the growing commitment of private broadcasters.
Spain’s Recession Calls for Creative Film Financing
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 5:00am | variety
Since September, Spain has unleashed two of its three biggest movies ever: Juan Antonio Bayona’s "The Impossible" with a $172.5 million gross worldwide and Andy Muschietti’s Mama at $135.8 million...
Cannes Film Review: ‘Blue Ruin’
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 4:57am | variety
A lean and suspenseful genre piece that follows a bloody trail of vengeance to its cruel, absurd and logical conclusion.
Cannes Film Review: ‘For Those in Peril’
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 4:03am | variety
A visually arresting poetic reverie that should strike a chord with adventurous audiences who don't mind mood over matter.
Watch: Kristin Scott Thomas Like You've Never Seen Her Before in Three NSFW Clips From 'Only God Forgives'
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 3:19am | indiewire
At last night's Weinstein Co. annual Cannes preview, the clear standout of the evening was a scene from "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn's Palme d'Or contender "Only God Forgives," that featured ...
How Jeremy Saulnier Went From Corporate Videos to Premiering 'Blue Ruin' at Cannes
Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 3:17am | indiewire
In early April, Brooklyn-based cinematographer and filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier was en route to shooting a corporate video in Cleveland when he learned that his movie had been accepted to the Cannes Film...

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