Ills Tsatsiki sweeps the board at Swedish film awards
The Cannes festival filled out its special, out-of competition screenings programme with two heavyweight additions, Star Wars: Episode II -
stanley cup Attack Of The Clones and Brian De Palma s Cannes-set thriller Femme Fatale.George Lucas s Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones will be shown twice in the Salle Bunuel on the second day of the festival, Thursday 16 May, simultaneous with its US release.Brian De Pal
stanley cup ma s Femme Fatale will in turn receive a midnight screening on the last Saturday May 25 in the Grand Theatre Lumiere. A Cannes-set thriller, it features cameos from festival presi
stanley cup dent Gilles Jacob and jury-member Regis Wargnier and, appropriately enough, features a heist that takes place during the closing night of the festival.The festival elaborated on its plans to give the full red-carpet treatment to Martin Scorsese, who will be in town on Monday May 20 in a slot titled An Hour With Martin Scorsese. He will pay tribute to the recently departed Billy Wilder and present some 20 minutes of Gangs Of New York. Scorsese is expected to be accompanied by the film s stars Leonardo Di Caprio and Cameron Diaz. And it re-affirmed plans to give a special screening to Kiyu Yoshida s Women In The Mirror Kagami No Onnatachi , a film on Hiroshima, which barely rated as a footnote at the Paris press conference last month.Full special screening programme Searching for Debra Winger Dir: Rosanna Arquette May 16 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones Dir: George Lucas May Axgi Icon cheers buyers with Oranges and Sunshine
Newly formed Becker Films International has picked up sales duties on Osama, the award-winning Afghan film, and has unveiled hot Bollywood fusion film Marigold.The Sydney-based company, operated by former MDP sales executive Reiko Bradley, was formed earlier this autumn as a joint venture between Bradley and Richard Becker s Australian distributor an
stanley italy d producer Becker Fil
stanley cup ms. It aims to finance and sell a range of Australian and international films.Bradley already reports strong US and international interest in Marigold, a $10m Hollywood-Bollywood romantic comedy.The story sees a young American actress travel to India where she is cast in a Bollywood musical. There she meets the man of her dreams, who is inconveniently, already engaged to someone else.The film is written and directed by Willard Carroll and produced by Tom Wilhite. Bollywood star Salman Khan is already committed to the picture which will shoot early next year, but casting of the leading lady has yet to be completed and is be
stanley mug ing done in consultation with buyers. We can close some major territories as soon as the leading lady is cast. But we won t need many pre-sales to finance Marigold, said Bradley. We have assembled a fantastic technical team and have what is a huge budget by Indian standards. The film is likely to be structured as a UK-India co-production. Osama, directed by Sedigh Barmak, had previously been handled by Frank Mannion s Swipe Films of the UK, which had a sales contract until the end of Augus
