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New impACT program at Cannes’ Marché du Film featuring Microsoft

Cannes’ Marché du Film is proud to launch in 2021 its new program, “impACT”, zooming in on diversity, inclusion, representation, sustainability, responsible and ethical data use in the film industry.   Cannes’ Marché du Film is thrilled to have the support of Microsoft to create the first edition of this key program.   impACT builds a pioneering showcase and platform connecting creativity and social change at the world’s leading film fe...

Cannes Festival & Market in Focus Volume 1

Enjoy Cannes the N°1 film event in the World which we have been covering since 1995, becoming the N°1 online trade publication for the Cannes Market and Festival: over 600 articles during the last edition ! Read this online     CATCH UP WITH PREVIOUS MARKET NEWSLETTERS 1 I 2  I 3 I 4 I     Cannes Newsletter 1  CANNES MARCHE DU FILM 2019 Coverage EMAIL US IF YOU NEED HELP PR...

Meet Summer Hill Entertainment online at the 2021 Pre-Cannes Screenings. June 21-25

  Meet us online at the 2021 Pre-Cannes Screenings.  June 21-25 A woman is trying to find out what happened to her missing younger sister, discovers a sinister website that leads her to a small isolated village where desperate teenagers gather to find death. Genre: Horror Trailer       Two masked extraterrestrial f...

AFI World Peace Initiative set to honour FilmFestivals.com Bruno Chatelin in Cannes

UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION DEVOTED TO WORLD PEACE IS SET TO HOST EVENTS DURING CANNES FILM FESTIVAL FOR 9th YEAR   Media Partner of FilmFestivals.com New Generation In Action's AFI World Peace Initiative & the organizations World Peace & Tolerance Institute is set to host events during Cannes Film Festival in both (Pre-Cannes) event and during Cannes Film Festival both on-line and in person with COVID-19 restrictions followed and set to honour FilmFestivals...

Emily Watson and Richard E. Grant set to star in Jason Wingard’s highly anticipated romantic comedy Fado

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Academy Award-nominees Emily Watson and Richard E. Grant are set to star in award-winning writer/director Jason Wingard’s highly anticipated romantic comedy Fado! from a script by Andrea Mann. Global sales agent Protagonist Pictures will introduce the hot project to worldwide buyers at the upcoming Marche du Film June 21-25.   Fado!,  which marks the first time Watson and Grant have shared the screen since they both starred in Robert Altman’s Academy Award-winning period ...

The Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes Announces Paramount+, Discovery+ as Exclusive Guests of Meet The Streamers 2021

The Marché du Film – Festivalde Cannes is pleased to announce the third edition of its event dedicated to streaming platforms, strategy and innovation, Meet the Streamers. The growing program will notably welcome ViacomCBS’ Paramount+, Discovery’s discovery+ for two major keynotes, and will be part of the Marché du Film which will run from the 6th to the 15th of July 2021.  Kelly Day - VCNI / Kelly Day - VCNI / Myriam Lopez-Otazu...

Cannes in the City : the Marché du Film organizes screenings abroad in 5 cities.

The regulations allowing foreigners to travel to Cannes have just been published and will allow professionals from a large part of the world to participate in the Marché du Film. Europe will be the most represented continent, with already 50% of its usual attendance, and the number of American professionals is growing day by day and already represents more than 10% of the accredited. The Marché will offer more than 500 screenings in Cannes and has decided this year to also organ...

Walk Through the ‘Door in the Woods’ now streaming on Tubi!

Walk Through the ‘Door in the Woods’ now streaming on Tubi!   Summer Hill Films LLC, a U.S. distributor and international sales and licensing company, has announced the AVOD release of the suspenseful thriller, ‘Door in the Woods’ through Wild Eye Releasing. Now available to stream on AVOD on Vudu and Tubi, ‘Door in the Woods’ tells the story of a family who takes on more than they could ever imagine. In this movie, things take a...

Memento International is bringing a new line up in Cannes

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Uncork'd Entertainment International Catalogue

Uncork'd Entertainment has tons of titles to choose from for your territory. If you are seeking package deals for genre films, look no further! See our wide array of titles below ranging from Action to Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, Westerns and more. Contact: Marc Helfrich marc@uncorked-ent.com ...

New horror comedy VAL domestic release set for Oct 5 - with first look photo

Epic Pictures Acquires Worldwide Rights for New Horror-Comedy “VAL”  Starring John Kapelos, Kyle Howard, Sufe Bradshaw, and Erik Griffin; The domestic release is set for October 5th via Dread   Production and distribution company Epic Pictures has acquired the worldwide rights to the completed horror-comedy Val, starring John Kapelos (Academy award winner The Shape of Water, Netflix´s “The Umbrella Academy”), Kyle Howard (Paramou...

Voltage Pictures has acquired international rights to the art heist thriller American Night

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Voltage Pictures has acquired international rights to the art heist thriller American Night, starring Golden Globe-winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Elvis, “Vikings”, “The Tudors”), Emile Hirsch (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Into the Wild, Alpha Dog), Paz Vega (Rambo V, “The OA”, Spanglish), and Golden Globe and Emmy-winner Jeremy Piven (“Entourage”, The Kingdom, Sin City), it was announced today by Voltage Pictures’ President and COO Jonathan D...

Avan Jogia’s Feature Debut Door Mouse Wraps Production

  Hayley Law Photo Credit Samuel Paul - Keith Powers Photo Credit Paul Smith Highland Film Group handling worldwide rights   Actor Avan Jogia’s feature writing and directing debut Door Mouse has officially wrapped production in Canada. The project, which started Principal Photography on April 12th, stars Hayley Law (CW’s “Riverdale”, Netflix’s “Altered Carbon”) and Keith Powers (The Tomorrow War, Straight Outta Compton). Famke Jansse...

Anne Hathaway, Tahar Rahim, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig and Matthew Broderick set to star in She Came to Me

Academy Award-winner Anne Hathaway, BAFTA nominee Tahar Rahim, Academy Award-winner Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig and Matthew Broderick are all set to star in award-winning writer/director Rebecca Miller’s highly anticipated romantic comedy She Came to Me. Global sales agent Protagonist Pictures will introduce the hot project to buyers at the upcoming Marche du Film June 21-25. CAA Media Finance will handle North American sales. Photo credits Joanna Kulig Credit: Courtesy of CAA Tahar Ra...

Central Partnership and the Latin-American film group BF Films announce their first co-production

Central Partnership (part of Gazprom-Media) and the Latin-American film group BF Films are pleased to announce their first co-production together. Schizophrenic is a psychological horror set in the real and scary world of severe mental disorder. Dark stories of real patients will serve as inspiration and a variety of schizophrenia symptoms are part of the script including conspiracy theories, altered reality perception, hearing voices and seeing things. The execut...

Voltage Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Renny Harlin’s new horror-thriller "Refuge" starring Jason Flemyng and Raza Ja

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Jason Flemyng (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Raza Jaffrey (“Homeland”) and Sophie Simnett (Netflix’s “Daybreak”) are set to star in acclaimed blockbuster director Renny Harlin’s (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger) new horror-thriller Refuge, written by action sci-fi writer Ben Sztajnkrycer, it was announced today by Voltage Pictures’ President and COO Jonathan Deckter. Voltage Pictures has acquired worldwide rights and will introduce to buyers at...

First sales for action/thriller film Every Last One of Them by 101 Films International

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101 FILMS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS ROBUST SALES FOR ‘EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM’ STARRING RICHARD DREYFUSS, TARYN MANNING AND MICHAEL MADSEN   Launched during EFM earlier this year, sales have been secured by 101 Films International, a member of the Amcomri Media Group, for action/thriller film Every Last One of Them in North America, Canada, UK/IRE, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, MENA, Turkey, S Korea, and Eastern Europe, with more deals in the pipeli...

Augenschein and Proganist Pictures enter strategic partnership

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Aaugenschein Sales and production, finance and sales outfit Protagonist Pictures have entered into a unique strategic partnership to co-represent worldwide rights on select feature film titles that capitalizes on augenschein’s strong slate of English speaking films, it was announced today.   As part of the deal, Protagonist Pictures will serve as Executive Producers of the films, working in partnership with the augenschein team to source additional finance for the projects covered u...

Announcing: Official Selection Projects for Frontières Market 2021

FRONTIÈRES MARKET ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL SELECTION PROJECTS Frontières returns for the 14th edition of its co-production market (August 3-6) which will take place in a digital form for a second consecutive year due to the COVID-19 situation. Official Selection Projects We are thrilled to announce our complete Official Selection line-up of 20 international genre projects in advanced development & early financing. For the first time...

IN A WORLD... - Sci-Fi Films Available for Acquisition from Accort International

Deals that are out of this world. IN A WORLD... Acort International presents their finest science fiction titles, now available for acquisition.   INVASION EARTH   They went for help, but must fight to survive.   The story follows a group of addicts who attend therapy to avoid being sent to prison, while a TV journalist goes undercover and joins the group to try and expose this as a scam. However, all of their lives are thrown into chao...

Rolling into Summer Hill/Wild Eye’s New Release “Death Rink”

Summer Hill Films LLC, a U.S. distributor and international sales and licensing company, has announced the DVD and VOD release of a suspenseful horror, ‘Death Rink’ through Wild Eye Releasing. ‘Death Rink’ tells the tale of a group of coworkers and the night that they were never prepared for. In this thriller, the closing staff of a local roller skating rink find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious figure in their midst. ‘Death Rink&rs...

Voltage Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Ben Jagger’s Room 203

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Voltage Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Ben Jagger’s (Gravitas Venture’s Corbin Nash, The Paddy Lincoln Gang) highly anticipated new horror, Room 203, it was announced today by Voltage Pictures’ President and COO Jonathan Deckter. Voltage will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming Marché du film June 21-25, 2021.   Adapted from Nanami  Kamon’s Japanese novel published by Kobunsha and currently in post-production, the English-language J-...

Adaptation rights of "Son of a Rich" have been acquired by Sony Pictures, SND Films and Monolith Films

  The film is currently Russia’s highest-grossing film at the box office Mexican, Indian, South Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian adaptation rights to Russian comedy Son of a Rich have been acquired by Sony Pictures International Productions with French rights acquired by SND Films and Polish rights acquired by Monolith Films. Produced by Yellow, Black & White Production Studio, MEM Cinema, and United Companies of GPM KIT (part of Gazprom-Media Hol...

Launch of German company augenschein Filmproduktion’s sales and financing arm headed by Jonathan Saubach

augenschein Filmproduktion, Germany’s independent film production company, has expanded its core operations with the launch of augenschein Sales, an in-house worldwide sales and financing arm headed by well-respected executive Jonathan Saubach. The new division will focus on combining the financing for the company’s production slate through access to equity, market pre-sales and film funds. This convergence of production, financing and sales under one roof will allow augenschein to...

Studio 100 ANnounces sales on upcoming ‘mia and me’ Movie

 Studio 100 Film will be presenting “The Hero of Centopia” at this year’s Marché du Film. The movie, based on the internationally popular and highly successful brand and hybrid CGI/live-action TV series ‘Mia and me’, is currently in production and will be available at the end of 2021. “The Hero of Centopia” is a co-production between Studio 100 Media GmbH, Studio B Animation Pty Ltd., and Broadvision Services Private Ltd. Constantin Film...

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