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3 days ago | 
screendaily.com | Rebecca Leffler
Source: Disney Enterprises Inc
After a difficult start to the month, France’s box office kicked into gear on May 21 as Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Paramount’s Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning opened to garner a combined near 3m admissions (approximately €21.9m* ) , accounting for 70% of the total box office for the month according to CNC figures.
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3 days ago | 
screendaily.com | Rebecca Leffler
EXCLUSIVE: Le Pacte has closed several deals for Left-Handed Girl, Shih-Ching Tsou’s Taiwanese drama that premiered in Critics’ Week at Cannes and is produced by Anora director Sean Baker.
The film has been acquired for Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Spain (Avalon), Benelux (September Film), Japan (Starcat), South Korea (The Coup Distribution), Poland (So Films), Scandinavia (Selmer Media), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Baltics (Kino Pavasaris), Greece (Cinobo) and Israel (New Cinema).
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1 week ago | 
screendaily.com | Rebecca Leffler
Source: Kasper Tuxen/ MUBI
The CNC’s Aide aux Cinemas du Monde (World Cinema Aid) film fund for supporting feature film co-productions between France and the rest of the world had a record year at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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1 week ago | 
screendaily.com | Rebecca Leffler
EXCLUSIVE: Ginger & Fed has scored a slew of deals in Cannes for Gregoire Vigneron’s French comedy Million Dollar Madness (Le Million) starring Christian Clavier.
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1 week ago | 
screendaily.com | Rebecca Leffler
Source: Philippe Quaisse / Arno Lam / Gaumont / Luc Valigny / Clement Puig
EXCLUSIVE: Gaumont has found homes across multiple territories for The Stranger, French filmmaker Francois Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ literary masterpiece after launching the film in Cannes.
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1 week ago | 
screendaily.com | Rebecca Leffler
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French directing duo Romane Gueret and Lise Akoka burst onto the international stage with their debut feature The Worst Ones (Les Pires) which won the Grand Prix in Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard in 2022.
They returned to the festival this year with their second film Summer Beats (Ma Frère) playing in Cannes Premiere.
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2 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Ben Dalton |Rebecca Leffler
Power is coming back on in the city of Cannes, as of 15.30 CEST, ahead of the film festival’s closing ceremony at 18.40 today.
Several buildings outside of the Palais, and video screen installations, are now operational again; although many elsewhere in the city are still without power.
An outage at around 10.00 CEST this morning shut off power across the city, for around five hours.
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2 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Ben Dalton |Louise Tutt |Rebecca Leffler |Orlando Parfitt
Source: Billy Ward / Cannes Film Festival / Laurent Vu / Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (li
From tariffs to trees, there was plenty to talk about at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Screen gathers together the major discussion points from this year’s event, which concludes tomorrow (May 24) with the Palme d’Or prize-giving ceremony.
One company has dominated the Cannes Competition deals so far.
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2 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Rebecca Leffler
Source: Cannes International Film Festival
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese diredctor Bi Gan’s fantasy epic Resurrection has sold widely for Les Films du Losange following its world premiere in Cannes’ competition on May 22.
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2 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Rebecca Leffler
EXCLUSIVE: French actor-director Mathieu Kassovitz is joining forces with Monaco-based space entrepreneur Gildo Pastor to launch Venturi Production to make features, series, video games and documentaries rooted in the worlds of science, engineering and technology.
“Technology is going to have a major role in cinema so we need to master it before it masters us,” said Kassovitz.
