Festival de Cannes

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1. Firth, Davis, Keener take 'Genova' trip

   5:00 am 5/19/2007

   • by Stuart Kemp

   CANNES -- Fresh from directing Angelina Jolie in the Out of Competition selection "A Mighty Heart," British director Michael Winterbottom will welcome Colin Firth, Hope Davis and Catherine Keener to lead his next project, "Genova."Read more

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2. Germans flow into Waterfall

   5:00 am 5/19/2007

   • by Scott Roxborough

   CANNES -- Berlin indie production house Odeon Film and veteran German producers Peter Rommel and Thomas Haeberle have set up a new label, Waterfall Prods., to produce low-budget genre films.Read more

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3. Draper to launch Slingshot's U.K. arm

   5:00 am 5/19/2007

   • by Stuart Kemp

   CANNES -- Former Fox Searchlight U.K. chief Elizabeth Draper has jumped into digital production banner Slingshot Studios in London to head up and launch its U.K. distribution arm.Read more

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4. Sidorov set for 'Tourist' season

   5:00 am 5/19/2007

   • by Sam Andrews

   CANNES -- Russian director Alexei Sidorov has signed to helm "The Tourist" (working title), a $5 million action thriller about amateur snipers who travel to war zones to act out their computer game fantasies for real.Read more

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5. Overture going global with Par

   5:00 am 5/19/2007

   • by Borys Kit

   Overture Films, Paramount Vantage and Paramount Pictures International have teamed for a global distribution deal.Read more

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6. 'Garage' continues an Irish drive

   5:00 am 5/19/2007

   • by Scott Roxborough

   A year after "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" won the Palme d'Or, Ireland is back in Cannes with Lenny Abrahamson's tragicomedy "Garage," screening today in Directors' Fortnight.Read more

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7. Constantin puts its name on 'Anonyma'

   5:00 am 5/19/2007

   • by Scott Roxborough

   CANNES -- "Downfall" producer Constantin Film has signed on to produce "Anonyma -- A Woman in Berlin" based on the best-selling autobiography of a woman living in Berlin at the time of Germany's capitulation in spring 1945.Read more

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8. Transmedia buys a comfy 'Chair'

   5:00 am 5/19/2007

   • by Stuart Kemp

   Upstart U.K. indie distributor Transmedia International Releasing has snapped up all U.K. rights to the Christopher Plummer starrer "The Man in the Chair" from Shoreline Entertainment.Read more

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9. Lee to receive Fiesole film prize

   5:00 am 5/19/2007

   • by Eric J. Lyman

   Spike Lee will receive the 41st Fiesole Master of Film Prize during a July ceremony hosted by the village of Fiesole, outside Florence, amid speculation that an Italy-based project the award-winning director is planning could be at least in part be set in Tuscany.Read more

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10. First Sun plans remake of 'Suspiria'

    5:00 am 5/19/2007

    • by Eric J. Lyman

    CANNES -- Italy-based production company First Sun said Thursday that it has acquired the rights to make an English-language version of Dario Argento's 1977 horror classic "Suspiria."Read more

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