Matt Dillon’s “El Gran Fellove,” Julien Temple’s “Crock of Gold” and Harry Macqueen’s “Supernova” have been added to San Sebastian’s Official Selection, along with two other main competition players, from French-Lebanese director Danielle Arbid and Argentina’s Eduardo Crespo.
The five new features will all bow at San Sebastian as world premieres, the festival announced Thursday. Arbid’s “Passion simple” was confirmed in June as a Cannes Official Selection title.
U.S. actor Dillon’s second outing as a director after “City of Ghosts,” “El Gran Fellove” is a Dillon passion project, announced back in 2015. The doc feature centers on Cuban musician Francisco Fellove, a leading light of the jazz/Cuban bolero ‘Filin’ movement which expanded from Cuba to Mexico in the 1950s. It will play at San Sebastian as a special screening.
Produced by Johnny Depp and screening in main competition, Temple’s “Crock of...
The five new features will all bow at San Sebastian as world premieres, the festival announced Thursday. Arbid’s “Passion simple” was confirmed in June as a Cannes Official Selection title.
U.S. actor Dillon’s second outing as a director after “City of Ghosts,” “El Gran Fellove” is a Dillon passion project, announced back in 2015. The doc feature centers on Cuban musician Francisco Fellove, a leading light of the jazz/Cuban bolero ‘Filin’ movement which expanded from Cuba to Mexico in the 1950s. It will play at San Sebastian as a special screening.
Produced by Johnny Depp and screening in main competition, Temple’s “Crock of...
- 8/6/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
MK2's 'Paranoid' parked in 72 territories
PARIS -- Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park has been soaring down the sales half-pipe, with distribution deals in 72 territories worldwide, French sales agent and distributor MK2 said Wednesday.
MK2 provided all of the financing for Van Sant's film about a young skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard, which earned the director the Festival de Cannes' 60th Anniversary Award on Sunday.
The only U.S. film to win an award in Cannes, Paranoid will be released stateside by IFC Films' First Take Label simultaneously in theaters and in VOD.
The film also will be distributed in the U.K. by Tartan Films, in Italy by Lucky Red and in Spain by Vertigo.
The film also sold to Australia's Madman, Korea's Sponge Films, Argentina's Alfa and Japan's Tokyo Theaters in addition to other major territories including India, Greece, Portugal, Benelux, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Russia and Poland.
MK2 will release the film in France in October. Marin and Nathanael Karmitz's French label also has closed deals in more than 10 territories for two Directors' Fortnight titles: Danielle Arbid's A Lost Man and Lenny Abrahamson's Garage, winner of the Prix Art & Essai-CICAE award for the sidebar.
MK2 provided all of the financing for Van Sant's film about a young skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard, which earned the director the Festival de Cannes' 60th Anniversary Award on Sunday.
The only U.S. film to win an award in Cannes, Paranoid will be released stateside by IFC Films' First Take Label simultaneously in theaters and in VOD.
The film also will be distributed in the U.K. by Tartan Films, in Italy by Lucky Red and in Spain by Vertigo.
The film also sold to Australia's Madman, Korea's Sponge Films, Argentina's Alfa and Japan's Tokyo Theaters in addition to other major territories including India, Greece, Portugal, Benelux, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Russia and Poland.
MK2 will release the film in France in October. Marin and Nathanael Karmitz's French label also has closed deals in more than 10 territories for two Directors' Fortnight titles: Danielle Arbid's A Lost Man and Lenny Abrahamson's Garage, winner of the Prix Art & Essai-CICAE award for the sidebar.
- 5/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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