The company has boarded star-powered French features ‘Take Me Home’ and ’Under The Rainbow’.
Newen Connect, the international sales arm of the Tfi Group’s Newen Studios, has snapped up rights to star-powered French features Take Me Home and Under the Rainbow and will kick off sales in Cannes. Both will be released in France by Ugc Distribution.
Take Me Home is the first feature from directing duo Karine Blanc and Michel Tavares and stars Clovis Cornillac, alongside Eyé Haïdara in a story about a struggling country singer who moves with her children to a mountain village and turns the...
Newen Connect, the international sales arm of the Tfi Group’s Newen Studios, has snapped up rights to star-powered French features Take Me Home and Under the Rainbow and will kick off sales in Cannes. Both will be released in France by Ugc Distribution.
Take Me Home is the first feature from directing duo Karine Blanc and Michel Tavares and stars Clovis Cornillac, alongside Eyé Haïdara in a story about a struggling country singer who moves with her children to a mountain village and turns the...
- 5/11/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Update: Unifrance responds to sales outfit quitting French cinema promotion group.
Leading French sales company Wild Bunch has quit the country’s state-backed French cinema export and promotional body Unifrance in protest at the appointment of Serge Toubiana (pictured, top) as its new president.
It is the first time in Unifrance’s near 70-year history that a company of Wild Bunch’s magnitude has quit the body.
Unifrance announced on Thursday that former Cinématheque Française chief Serge Toubiana had been elected to the role by its 48-member executive committee, beating out producers Yves Marmion and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam who had also put themselves forward as candidates.
The appointment was greeted with surprise by many in the French film sales and production community who said Toubiana lacked the export and sales experience to take on such a role, even if they respected his track record as a journalist and at the helm of the Cinématheque.
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Leading French sales company Wild Bunch has quit the country’s state-backed French cinema export and promotional body Unifrance in protest at the appointment of Serge Toubiana (pictured, top) as its new president.
It is the first time in Unifrance’s near 70-year history that a company of Wild Bunch’s magnitude has quit the body.
Unifrance announced on Thursday that former Cinématheque Française chief Serge Toubiana had been elected to the role by its 48-member executive committee, beating out producers Yves Marmion and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam who had also put themselves forward as candidates.
The appointment was greeted with surprise by many in the French film sales and production community who said Toubiana lacked the export and sales experience to take on such a role, even if they respected his track record as a journalist and at the helm of the Cinématheque.
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- 7/7/2017
- ScreenDaily
Former Cinématheque Française chief takes up post at French cinema export body.
Serge Toubiana has been elected president of French cinema promotional and export body Unifrance, replacing director Jean-Paul Salomé who leaves the post after two successive terms in the role.
He was elected by the body’s management committee made up of 48 cinema professionals and state appointees. The other candidates included producers Yves Marmion and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam.
Toubiana was the director of the prestigious Cinématheque Française in Paris from 2003 until the end of 2015.
During that time, he re-energised the institution and oversaw its relocation to its current home in the neighbourhood of Bercy in eastern Paris.
He is also credited with widening its public appeal with a packed programme of events showcasing its archives as well as big name retrospectives such as the MoMA-produced Tim Burton exhibition which drew more than 300,000 visitors in 2012.
A life-long cinephile, Toubiana started out as a cinema journalist becoming the co-editor...
Serge Toubiana has been elected president of French cinema promotional and export body Unifrance, replacing director Jean-Paul Salomé who leaves the post after two successive terms in the role.
He was elected by the body’s management committee made up of 48 cinema professionals and state appointees. The other candidates included producers Yves Marmion and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam.
Toubiana was the director of the prestigious Cinématheque Française in Paris from 2003 until the end of 2015.
During that time, he re-energised the institution and oversaw its relocation to its current home in the neighbourhood of Bercy in eastern Paris.
He is also credited with widening its public appeal with a packed programme of events showcasing its archives as well as big name retrospectives such as the MoMA-produced Tim Burton exhibition which drew more than 300,000 visitors in 2012.
A life-long cinephile, Toubiana started out as a cinema journalist becoming the co-editor...
- 7/6/2017
- ScreenDaily
A “mental Iron Curtain” has formed between Western and Eastern Europe, according to Polish film director Agnieszka Holland.
In a keynote speech delivered at the From Media to Creative Europe summit in Warsaw, Holland said: “Paradoxically, when Europe was divided, the mutual curiosity and the knowledge of our cultures was much bigger.
“It was then when we could talk genuinely about a European cinema and its wide distribution both in cinemas and on television.
“Today, more than in the times of the Cold War, we are dealing now with a mental - and not a political - Iron Curtain.
“During the last 20 years, one could very distinctly observe the paradox: the more Europe has been working economically and politically, the more its cultural bonds, mutual curiosity and the knowledge that comes from this, mutual concerns about problems, lives and preferences has dissipated.”
Holland expressed concern that more energy was being expended by European film-makers on budgetary issues...
In a keynote speech delivered at the From Media to Creative Europe summit in Warsaw, Holland said: “Paradoxically, when Europe was divided, the mutual curiosity and the knowledge of our cultures was much bigger.
“It was then when we could talk genuinely about a European cinema and its wide distribution both in cinemas and on television.
“Today, more than in the times of the Cold War, we are dealing now with a mental - and not a political - Iron Curtain.
“During the last 20 years, one could very distinctly observe the paradox: the more Europe has been working economically and politically, the more its cultural bonds, mutual curiosity and the knowledge that comes from this, mutual concerns about problems, lives and preferences has dissipated.”
Holland expressed concern that more energy was being expended by European film-makers on budgetary issues...
- 12/13/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
A “mental Iron Curtain” has formed between Western and Eastern Europe, according to Polish film director Agnieszka Holland.
In a keynote speech delivered at the From Media to Creative Europe summit in Warsaw, Holland said: “Paradoxically, when Europe was divided, the mutual curiosity and the knowledge of our cultures was much bigger.
“It was then when we could talk genuinely about a European cinema and its wide distribution both in cinemas and on television.
“Today, more than in the times of the Cold War, we are dealing now with a mental - and not a political - Iron Curtain.
“During the last 20 years, one could very distinctly observe the paradox: the more Europe has been working economically and politically, the more its cultural bonds, mutual curiosity and the knowledge that comes from this, mutual concerns about problems, lives and preferences has dissipated.”
Holland expressed concern that more energy was being expended by European film-makers on budgetary issues...
In a keynote speech delivered at the From Media to Creative Europe summit in Warsaw, Holland said: “Paradoxically, when Europe was divided, the mutual curiosity and the knowledge of our cultures was much bigger.
“It was then when we could talk genuinely about a European cinema and its wide distribution both in cinemas and on television.
“Today, more than in the times of the Cold War, we are dealing now with a mental - and not a political - Iron Curtain.
“During the last 20 years, one could very distinctly observe the paradox: the more Europe has been working economically and politically, the more its cultural bonds, mutual curiosity and the knowledge that comes from this, mutual concerns about problems, lives and preferences has dissipated.”
Holland expressed concern that more energy was being expended by European film-makers on budgetary issues...
- 12/13/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Other winners included Love Is All You Need, The Act of Killing, The Congress and The Broken Circle Breakdown.
Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty was the big winner at the 26th European Film Awards in Berlin, picking up four of the silver statuettes for European Film, European Director, European Actor for Toni Servillo, and European Editor for Cristiano Travaglioli.
The Great Beauty is Italy’s Oscar entry this year and had won the EurAsia Grand Prix at Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival a matter of days before the awards ceremony in Berlin.
Sorrentino could not personally accept the two awards as he is serving on the jury at the Marrakech Film festival, but producer Nicola Giuliano brought members of the cast and crew on stage to receive the audience’s applause.
Veteran Italian composer Ennio Morricone received the European Composer statuette for his score of Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Best Offer and was given a standing...
Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty was the big winner at the 26th European Film Awards in Berlin, picking up four of the silver statuettes for European Film, European Director, European Actor for Toni Servillo, and European Editor for Cristiano Travaglioli.
The Great Beauty is Italy’s Oscar entry this year and had won the EurAsia Grand Prix at Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival a matter of days before the awards ceremony in Berlin.
Sorrentino could not personally accept the two awards as he is serving on the jury at the Marrakech Film festival, but producer Nicola Giuliano brought members of the cast and crew on stage to receive the audience’s applause.
Veteran Italian composer Ennio Morricone received the European Composer statuette for his score of Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Best Offer and was given a standing...
- 12/8/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Drama reunites Kristin Scott Thomas with director Philippe Claudel.
Metrodome has taken UK rights to Telluride drama Before the Winter Chill (Avant l’hiver) which reunites Kristin Scott Thomas with I’ve Loved You So Long director Philippe Claudel.
Daniel Auteuil, Richard Berry and Leila Bekhti star alongside Scott Thomas in the French drama about a man in the autumn of his life, torn between a loving wife and his dangerous attraction for a troubled, mysterious young woman.
The deal was negotiated by Gregory Chambet for TF1 International and Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards for a 2014 release.
Producers are Yves Marmion and Romain Rojtman of Les Films du 24.
Claudel’s acclaimed 2008 debut I’ve Loved You So Long took £1.2m ($1.8m) in the UK and scored the Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA, a Cesar for Best First Film and two Golden Globe nominations.
Upcoming Metrodome releases include David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche and Lukas Moodysson...
Metrodome has taken UK rights to Telluride drama Before the Winter Chill (Avant l’hiver) which reunites Kristin Scott Thomas with I’ve Loved You So Long director Philippe Claudel.
Daniel Auteuil, Richard Berry and Leila Bekhti star alongside Scott Thomas in the French drama about a man in the autumn of his life, torn between a loving wife and his dangerous attraction for a troubled, mysterious young woman.
The deal was negotiated by Gregory Chambet for TF1 International and Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards for a 2014 release.
Producers are Yves Marmion and Romain Rojtman of Les Films du 24.
Claudel’s acclaimed 2008 debut I’ve Loved You So Long took £1.2m ($1.8m) in the UK and scored the Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA, a Cesar for Best First Film and two Golden Globe nominations.
Upcoming Metrodome releases include David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche and Lukas Moodysson...
- 9/24/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Philippe Claudel's change in disciplines (he went from novelist to filmmaker) was extremely well-received if you consider the number of international film festival awards and film critic prizes that I've Loved You So Long racked up. Looks like we won't have to wait too long for Claudel's sophomore project. - Philippe Claudel's change in disciplines (he went from novelist to filmmaker) was extremely well-received if you consider the number of international film festival awards and film critic prizes that I've Loved You So Long racked up. Looks like we won't have to wait too long for Claudel's sophomore project. Screen Daily reports that his next project will be set in Strasbourg, and works as a dramedy centering on a widowed music teacher. Euro actor Stefano Accorsi plays the lead in Silence d'Amour (Silence of Love). Filming begins in May, and could be ready for Berlin 2011 - the...
- 2/16/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
French director and novelist Philippe Claudel is set to direct "Silence d'Amour" ("Silence of Love"). The follow-up to his directorial debut "I've Loved You So Long" is set in Strasbourg and is a dramedy focusing on a widowed music teacher. Stefano Accorsi, Italian lead actor of "Romanzo Criminale," will star. Producing are Yves Marmion's company Ugc Ym. Filming starts in may and French company TF1 International has foreign sales rights. Claudel won numerous awards for his work on "I've Loved You So Long" which includes a BAFTA Film Award for the best non-English-language film and a Cesar award for best film. Pic managed to make more than $3 million in the U.S. and over $15 million overseas.
- 2/15/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Lucky Luke is a new action feature, based on the Franco-Belgian comics book series created by illustrator Maurice De Bevere aka 'Morris', focusing on 'Lucky Luke', a gunslinger cowboy "...known to shoot faster than his shadow...". Debuting in 1946, the popular comic book series in both continental Europe and Quebec, has been translated into 23 languages as well as spinning-off an Atari video game.. Yves Marmion and Ugc produced the new feature, starring actor Jean Dujardin as Luke. Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek the teaser trailer for Lucky Luke...
- 9/30/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
- A biopic about an unknown painter cleaned up the 34th edition of the Cesar awards (France's equivalent to the Oscars). You would have thought that it was an homage to Sean Penn (the actor was in attendance, first row ticket) and the dearly departed Claude Berri, but this was Martin Provost's night upsetting favorites Jean-François Richet and Mesrine (who won for Best Director and Best Actor) and the Palme d'Or winner The Class from Laurent Cantet winner went home with only the Best Adapted Film. Séraphine won a total of seven awards. Kristin Scott Thomas didn't claim the top prize for Best Actress for I've Loved You So Long (the prize went to Yolande Moreau in Séraphine) but Philippe Claudel won for Best First Film and a very emotional Elsa Zylberstein grabbed the Best Supporting Actress nod. Finally, a little bit of redemption here for Best Foreign Picture,
- 2/27/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
The UK's biggest annual awards, the BAFTA's were held tonight. If you were smart, you tuned in to the live blog of our friends at the UK film site Filmstalker. They were there, in the audience, with their laptop delivering a blow by blow. For those of you who weren't following along with Brunton, we've got a full breakdown of the awards given. Anyone hoping for big surprises will be sorely disappointed. Slumdog Millionaire won everything. Here's the complete list of this year's BAFTA film winners: Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire Outstanding British Film: Man on Wire The Carl Foreman Award (Achievement by British director): Steve McQueen, Hunger Director: Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle Original Screenplay: In Bruges, Martin McDonagh Adapted Screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy Film Not In The English Language: I've Loved You So Long, Yves Marmion, Philppe Claudel Animated Film: Wall-e Leading Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Leading...
- 2/9/2009
- cinemablend.com
"Slumdog Millionaire" continues its awards-season momentum by winning 7 at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA). Meanwhile, Kate Winslet picked up the Best Actress award for "The Reader" and Mickey Rourke for Best Actor for "The Wrestler."
Here's the complete list of winners for the 2009 BAFTA Awards:
Best Film
"Slumdog Millionaire"
Outstanding British Film
"Man On Wire" - Simon Chinn / James Marsh
Leading Actor
Mickey Rourke - "The Wrestler"
Leading Actress
Kate Winslet - "The Reader"
Supporting Actor
Heath Ledger - "The Dark Knight"
Supporting Actress
Penélope Cruz - "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Director
"Slumdog Millionaire" - Danny Boyle
Original Screenplay
"In Bruges" - Martin Mcdonagh
Adapted Screenplay
"Slumdog Millionaire" - Simon Beaufoy
Film Not In The English Language
"I've Loved You So Long" - Yves Marmion / Philippe Claudel
The Carl Foreman Award For Special Achievement By A British Director, Writer Or Producer For Their First Feature Film
Steve Mcqueen, director...
Here's the complete list of winners for the 2009 BAFTA Awards:
Best Film
"Slumdog Millionaire"
Outstanding British Film
"Man On Wire" - Simon Chinn / James Marsh
Leading Actor
Mickey Rourke - "The Wrestler"
Leading Actress
Kate Winslet - "The Reader"
Supporting Actor
Heath Ledger - "The Dark Knight"
Supporting Actress
Penélope Cruz - "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Director
"Slumdog Millionaire" - Danny Boyle
Original Screenplay
"In Bruges" - Martin Mcdonagh
Adapted Screenplay
"Slumdog Millionaire" - Simon Beaufoy
Film Not In The English Language
"I've Loved You So Long" - Yves Marmion / Philippe Claudel
The Carl Foreman Award For Special Achievement By A British Director, Writer Or Producer For Their First Feature Film
Steve Mcqueen, director...
- 2/9/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The 2009 BAFTA Award winners have been announced and once again Slumdog Millionaire has taken on all comers and come out ahead with seven awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. On the acting side Kate Winslet has once again taken home hardware winning Best Actress for her performance in The Reader while Mickey Rourke won on the Leading Actor side beating Sean Penn among others for his performance in The Wrestler. Heath Ledger was awarded for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight and Penelope Cruz won for Vicky Cristina Barcelona. The acting awards are a big deal for those predicting the 2009 Oscar winners as last year all four acting winners at the BAFTAs went on to take home the Oscar, which included Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton. It also means good news for Danny Boyle as the Coens went on to...
- 2/8/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
A day following the announcement of the 81st Academy Awards' nominees, the French Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have uncovered their official selections for the 34th Cesar Awards. On Friday, January 23, gangster movie "Mesrine" has been given ten nominations for the France's top awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Jean-Francois Richet.
Apart from the two mentioned gongs, "Mesrine", which is the third highest grossing French film in 2008, also garnered a Best Actor nod for leading actor Vincent Cassel. It also collected two more counts in the category of Adapted Screenplay for Abdel Raouf Dafri and Jean-Francois Richet, and of Cinematography for Robert Gantz.
In the foreign film nominations, Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" were put in competition with Bouli Lanners' "Eldorado", Matteo Garrone's "Gomorra", Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "Lorna's Silence", James Gray...
Apart from the two mentioned gongs, "Mesrine", which is the third highest grossing French film in 2008, also garnered a Best Actor nod for leading actor Vincent Cassel. It also collected two more counts in the category of Adapted Screenplay for Abdel Raouf Dafri and Jean-Francois Richet, and of Cinematography for Robert Gantz.
In the foreign film nominations, Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" were put in competition with Bouli Lanners' "Eldorado", Matteo Garrone's "Gomorra", Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "Lorna's Silence", James Gray...
- 1/24/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
London -- Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" and David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" led all comers with 11 noms each as the contenders for the 2009 Orange British Academy Film Awards were revealed Thursday.
Golden Globe best pic winner "Slumdog" kept its awards momentum going, securing nominations in every major category including best film, director, lead actor (Dev Patel) and supporting actress (Freida Pinto). "Slumdog" also has been picked to compete in the best British film category.
"Button's" noms include best film and director, while leading man Brad Pitt is a double nominee, picking up a lead actor nomination for his title role in the Fincher pic and a supporting actor nom for his turn in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading."
"Slumdog" and "Button" will compete for best film with "Frost/Nixon," "Milk" and "The Reader," while Boyle and Fincher will battle it out with Ron Howard...
Golden Globe best pic winner "Slumdog" kept its awards momentum going, securing nominations in every major category including best film, director, lead actor (Dev Patel) and supporting actress (Freida Pinto). "Slumdog" also has been picked to compete in the best British film category.
"Button's" noms include best film and director, while leading man Brad Pitt is a double nominee, picking up a lead actor nomination for his title role in the Fincher pic and a supporting actor nom for his turn in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading."
"Slumdog" and "Button" will compete for best film with "Frost/Nixon," "Milk" and "The Reader," while Boyle and Fincher will battle it out with Ron Howard...
- 1/15/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 2009 BAFTA Award nominees have been announced and Slumdog Millionaire, along with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, leads the way with 11 nominations with The Dark Knight close behind with nine. However, at the top of the pile it is immediately noticeable that The Dark Knight did not get a Best Film nomination as all the usual suspects are there, but The Reader is added to the pack as one of its five nominations. Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) is considered a lead actor at the BAFTAs and earns a nomination in the category while he is competing Stateside for a Supporting nom. I believe he is more of a lead actor than a supporting, but Fox Searchlight obviously sees the supporting category as the easier place to get him a nomination and has pushed him in the category as a result. Other than that, the usuals are there with Brad Pitt earning a nomination,...
- 1/15/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Paris -- Jay McInerney's "The Good Life" is getting a French makeover.
Ugc said Friday that producer Yves Marmion has snagged the adaptation rights to the 2006 novel about the lives of two Manhattan couples -- a pair of wealthy Upper East Side socialites and a downtown literary editor and his wife -- set in the days surrounding the events of September 11.
Ugc hasn't decided whether it will shoot the feature in English or in French, but is actively looking for an Anglo-Saxon director.
Though the original idea was to film in New York, the Paris-based production company is open to rewriting the story to take place in another city such as Paris or Madrid.
McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City" was transformed into a 1988 film starring Michael J. Fox.
Ugc said Friday that producer Yves Marmion has snagged the adaptation rights to the 2006 novel about the lives of two Manhattan couples -- a pair of wealthy Upper East Side socialites and a downtown literary editor and his wife -- set in the days surrounding the events of September 11.
Ugc hasn't decided whether it will shoot the feature in English or in French, but is actively looking for an Anglo-Saxon director.
Though the original idea was to film in New York, the Paris-based production company is open to rewriting the story to take place in another city such as Paris or Madrid.
McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City" was transformed into a 1988 film starring Michael J. Fox.
- 11/10/2008
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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