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Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images CANNES -- Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson walked the red carpet together at Cannes' international premiere of The Beaver Tuesday night. They entered the Palais' Lumiere Theatre walking hand-in-hand. During the screening they sat next to Summit's Patrick Wachsberger and Rob Friedman. And as the lights came up at the end of the film, they were rewarded with a ten-minute standing ovation. A few people around Foster even had tears in their eyes at th...

Burgeoning world-wide motion picture studio Summit Entertainment and Entertainment One (E1), one of the world’s leading international independent filmed entertainment distributors have reached a multi-territory all rights agreement for feature films from Summit through 2010. E1 subsidiary Contender Films will manage all rights in the UK with Seville Entertainment handling all rights in Canada. The deal allows one of the industry’s newest significant content producers and a global distribut...