Cannes 2012: Italy’s Lazio Region Touts $38 Million Film Fund for 2012/2013

Matteo Garrone’s “Reality”

Italy’s Lazio region, which includes Rome, is at the Cannes Film Festival to tout its film incentives and look to attract new productions. It also said its Lazio Film Fund has proven effective in combating runaway pro…

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Cannes 2012: Saoirse Ronan to Star in Movie Based on Vera Brittain Memoir

Saoirse Ronan is attached to star in Juliette Towhidi’s adaptation of Vera Brittain’s heartbreaking First World War memoir.

Being mounted by producer David Heyman and his production banner Heyday Films, the project is backed by BBC Films and fo…

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Cannes 2012: Samuel Goldwyn Films Picks Up Gilles Bourdos’ ‘Renoir’

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Gilles Bourdos’ Renoir, which will have its world premiere May 25 as the closing night film of the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar.

The film stars Michel Bouquet as the famed paint…

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God’s Neighbors: Cannes Review

The Bottom Line
A feisty, non-arty low budget look at Israeli religious enforcers will set off charged reactions.

Venue
Cannes Film Festival (Critics’ Week)
Director
Meni Yaesh
Cast
Roy Assaf, Gal Friedman, Itzik Golan, Rotem Ziesman-Cohen 

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‘Fight Club’ Producer Arnon Milchan to Receive Best Producer Honor at Locarno

CANNES – The Locarno International Film Festival is giving its best producer prize this year to Arnon Milchan, the Oscar-nominated producer of L.A. Confidential (1997), whose credits also include Fight Club (1999), Marley and Me (2008) and The Fanta…

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Cannes 2012: Atrix Closes on ‘The Children From Mount Napf’

CANNES – German sales outfit Atrix Films has closed multiple deals on the Swiss documentary hit The Children From Mount Napf at Cannes’ Marche du Film.

PHOTOS: Cannes 2012: Opening Night Gala
For the film, director Alice Schmid followed the child…

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Cannes 2012: Director Thomas Vinterberg on ‘The Hunt’ (Q&A)

The last time Thomas Vinterberg had a film in Competition in Cannes — the child abuse drama The Celebration in 1998— it won the Jury Prize and launched the hugely influential Dogme digital cinema movement. Vinterberg has left Dogme far behind him …

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Cannes 2012: Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard, Tom Payne Join ‘The Physician’

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Ben Kingsley

CANNES – Ben Kingsley, Tom Payne and Stellan Skarsgard have joined the cast of the medieval period drama The Physician, based on the best-selling novel by Noah Gordon about a healer traveling across Europe…

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A Respectable Family: Cannes Review

The Bottom Line
A complex and dramatically diffuse indictment of post-Revolutionary Iran.

Cast:
Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian, Ahoo Kheradmand, Mehran Ahmadi, Parivash Nazarieh
Director, screenwriter:
Massoud Makshi

An artfully woven poli…

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Shiv Sena lashes out at Shahrukh

By: Bollywood Mantra Staff on 20th May 2012

Shiv Sena who never leaves an opportunity to point out at Shahrukh Khan again got a chance to raise fingers at the superstar. Executive President of Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray supported Mumbai Cricket Ass…

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