Since its early days, Hollywood has been adapting foreign books, films and more recently television shows. This is why Paris-based THE MEDIA FACULTY and Los Angeles-based BASIC LEAD have joined forced to launch THE REMAKES MARKET, a new business event centered on the sale and acquisition of adaptation rights of European films, TV ideas and books. To be conducted in Los Angeles from 29 November to 1 December, THE REMAKES MARKET will showcase a unique selection of film, television and literary pr...

 Friday, March 21-------It is a very rare thing indeed for a European director to have the opportunity to remake a small art film in another language (the only other recent example was Dutch director George Sluizer’s THE VANISHING). But Michael Haneke is that rare director. The English-language version of his domestic thriller FUNNY GAMES, originally shot in his native Austria in the German language and starring Ulrich Muhe (the Stasi spy in THE LIVES OF OTHERS) has just opened in the United ...

Under the High Patronage of H.S.H Prince Albert IITHE LAUNCHING OF THE REMAKE FILM MARKETThe Cinema & Literature International Forum’s primary goal is to intensify the contacts and the networking between the professionals from the Literary and Comics, Cinema and Television worlds.On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, the Forum officially launches the new and world’s first Remake Film Market.The Remake Film Market will run concurrently with the Literary Adaptation Market, which brings tog...