Bruno Chatelin, filmfestivals.com co founder, spoke with the Market Director Jérôme Paillard to run through its different new features. With the Online Pre-Cannes Screenings starting June 21 for 5 days of screenings for buyers and festivals only. And new features during the Marché July 6 to 15 ...
As preparations for the Cannes Marché du Film (July 6-15, 2021) get underway, the Pre-Cannes Screenings, which begin on June 21, are filling up. 2,500 buyers and festival programmers will be online to discover more than 700 films from around the world. Diversity is indeed in the spotlight, these films come from 85 countries and the genres are eclectic (dramas 32%, thrillers 20%, comedies 17%, documentaries 14%, animation 14%, horror 14%). The most represented countries are the USA (198 ...
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...
18.06.2021 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
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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...
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 – 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...
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! 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...
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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, 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...
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...
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 (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...
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...
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...
Bruno Chatelin, filmfestivals.com co founder, spoke with the Market Director Jérôme Paillard to run through its different new features. With the Online Pre-Cannes Screenings starting June 21 for 5 days of screenings for buyers and festivals only. And new features during the Marché July 6 to 15 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 (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-...
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...
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 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...
VOLTAGE PICTURES ACQUIRES INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS TO DECLAN WHITEBLOOM’S ACTION HEIST THRILLER “THE YACHT” STARRING RUBY ROSE AND PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER WITH FRANK GRILLO Voltage Pictures has acquired international rights to Declan Whitebloom’s (Blackbird, Grey Fox) highly anticipated action heist thriller, The Yacht, starring Ruby Rose and Patrick Schwarzenegger with Frank Grillo it was announced today by Voltage Pictures’ President and COO Jonathan Deckte...
WEST OF SUNSHINE TEAM MOVE FROM AUSTRALIA TO GREECE TO SHOOT NEXT FEATURE VOICES IN DEEP (Director Jason Raftopoulos, cast Hannah Sims, Christos Karavevas, Angeliki Papoulia) Principal photography has begun in Athens on VOICES IN DEEP, the second feature film from Australian writer/director Jason Raftopoulos, whose previous film West Of Sunshine premiered at Venice Film Festival 2017. The Melbourne-set drama went onto receive three Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (...
Pre-Cannes 2021 SC Films will be participating in the Pre-Cannes screenings from June 21 - 25! MARKET PREMIERE ABSOLUTE DENIAL Sci-fi Animation In the near future a genius programmer sacrifices everything in his personal and profess...
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Summer Hill Films LLC, a U.S. distributor and international sales and licensing company, has announced the DVD and VOD release of a psychedelic sci-fi, ‘MindRunner’ through Wild Eye Releasing. ‘Mindrunner’ tells the tale of a man willing to sacrifice everything in order to uncover the secrets of the universe. In this sci-fi, underground scientists who have been pushed out of the main stream by the government are still hard at work discovering the inner workings o...
As preparations for the Cannes Marché du Film (July 6-15, 2021) get underway, the Pre-Cannes Screenings, which begin on June 21, are filling up. 2,500 buyers and festival programmers will be online to discover more than 700 films from around the world. Diversity is indeed in the spotlight, these films come from 85 countries and the genres are eclectic (dramas 32%, thrillers 20%, comedies 17%, documentaries 14%, animation 14%, horror 14%). The most represented countries are the USA (198 ...
“RIDE THE EAGLE” Myriad Pictures is pleased to announce the acquisition of RIDE THE EAGLE., a comedy feature directed by Trent O’Donnell (“New Girl,” “No Activity”), written by O’Donnell and Jake Johnson (“New Girl,” Safety Not Guaranteed), who stars alongside Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise, Dead Man Walking), J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Juno) and D'Arcy Carden (“The Good Place,&rdqu...
Dynamic documentary retraces the realization of fantastic frescoes conceived by renowned Parisian crypto-artist Pascal Boyart (PBOY) The world's first crypto-funded film, The Underground Sistine Chapel, revolutionizes the entertainment industry by offering 200 NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) ahead of the documentary film's release. The Underground Sistine Chapel follows a diverse and eclectic cast of over 400 personalities to tell the incredible story of a magnificent effort to turn a...
The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) has appointed Aaron Herps as the General Manager of its Coalition Against Piracy (CAP), following the departure of Neil Gane, who leaves AVIA to take up a position with the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. Herps joined AVIA in 2019 as the Operations Manager for CAP, working alongside Gane on all CAP initiatives from government outreach to criminal investigations and associated enforcement actions against syndicates and streaming websit...
Every year during the Marché du Film, Cannes Docs offers a dedicated venue and tailored program of events for all feature documentary film professionals – filmmakers and industry decision-makers alike. At the heart of the world’s n°1 film festival and market, Cannes Docs reaffirms the fundamental place and role of the documentary genre, and works at ever-strengthening its organic integration within the global film industry. To this end, Cannes Docs includes the annual Doc...
From 21 to 25 June, buyers, festival programmers and sellers are welcome to join us at our online rendez-vous of screenings and meetings... Get a glimpse of Cannes before Cannes! Access to this platform will be strictly reserved to buyers & festival programmers who are registered for the Marché in July, either with an online or an onsite accreditation. See more ...
The Marché du Film and Cinando are teaming up this year to offer a brand new space exclusively dedicated to welcoming film festival & market organizers from all over the world! Get together, connect and promote your activites! The Hub is accessible for free (subject to space availability) to all festival and market teams holding a Marché du Film badge. Check out our detailed services and find out how to become a Hub partner ...
The next-generation of talents selected by our partner festivals Discover a selection of feature films in all stages of development and production seeking sales agents, distributors or festival selection! . From 9 to 12 July Join Goes to Cannes pitching sessions and discover original post-production films showcased by renowned international festivals, seeking a sales agent, a distributor or a festival selection. Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) Polish Da...
The Marché du Film and Parenting at Film Festivals are proud to announce the onsite Ballon Rouge daycare center during the Cannes Film Festival from 7 - 14 July. After a hugely successful inaugural edition in 2019, the service is back for the Marché’s return to the Riviera. Market badge holders will be given priority access to the service, though attendees with press and festival accreditation are also eligible. A f...
For the first time Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) joins the well established Marché du Film showcase "Goes to Cannes" with an aim to present 5 international film projects in post-production stage at the Marché du Film in July. “Black Nights Goes to Cannes” is part of the PÖFF’s 25th birthday celebrations, in a year where PÖFF’s industry platform Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event also celebrates its 20th anniversary. Film i...
The Showcase will be viewable ONLY from Friday, April 30 to Sunday, May 2. There will be a live Q&A with the filmmakers via Zoom on Sunday, May 2 at 2:00 PM (PT). You will receive the EFS site password along with Zoom login info after you register. Please join us for The American Pavilion 2021 Emerging Filmmaker Virtual Showcase EFS Alumni Edition REGISTER HERE! &...
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 FilmFes...
Following the request from sales agents to have an intermediate event between the EFM in Berlin and the Marché du Film in Cannes (6-15 July 2021), the Marché du Film announced a few weeks ago the Pre-Cannes Screenings in May. More recently, some sales companies voiced their preference to hold the event later in June. We therefore decided to launch a wide survey to all buyers and sellers. More than 700 answered: a vast majority confirmed their participation in the Pre-Can...
Please join us for The American Pavilion 2021 Emerging Filmmaker Virtual Showcase EFS Alumni Edition The Showcase will be viewable ONLY from Friday, April 30 to Sunday, May 2. There will be a live Q&A with the filmmakers via Zoom on Sunday, May 2 at 2:00 PM (PT). You will receive the EFS site password along with Zoom login info after you register. REGISTER HERE! For more informat...
