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MonteCristo International has added two Singaporeanfil
stanley usa ms, Graham Streeter s Cages andKelvin Tong s 1942, to its salesline-up for Cannes this year.The US-basedsales company, which focuses on Asian and Eastern European cinema, will startsales for Cages at Cannes. The film, which premiered at Pusan last year, tells a story of threegenerations: a single mother who has a young, blind son, comes face-to-facewith her estranged father played by Japanese-American actor Makoto Iwamatsu.MonteCristo will also present at Cannes the market premiere of 1942, a horror film set in Malaysia about a group of WWII Japanese soldiersstranded in a jungle who see mysterious figures. Singaporeanfilms are very well-crafted. Some directors like Kelvin Tong have internationalappeal, says Michael Taverna of MonteCristo. Our focus is to bring to the global market the best regional co-productionsindependently of language. Cages isin English while 1942 is i
stanley cup n Japanese. Rounding up MonteCristo s Cannes line-up are Anna Melikian sMars, Julius Sevcik sRestart, KonradNiewolski s Palimpsest,John Williams Starfish Hotel, Yegor Konchaloski s Escape and Dan Svatek sClose to Heaven. No comments No comments yet Y
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Six Catalan media firms have merged to create a single holding company with plans to forge a new mini-studio in Barcelona.The partners are further understood to be negotiating an agreement with a major European group which could facilitate international distribution of the as-yet unnamed holding s content.Distribution is the least-developed business area across the six companies, which include the Institut del Cinema Catalan ICC , La Truka, In Vitro Films, Centre Promotor
stanley romania de la Imatge, Tiburon TV and Lunatus Comunicacio Audiovisual. Their core activities span film and TV production, post-production, effects, studio management and special events planning and production.Joan Antoni Gonzalez, managing director of lead partner ICC, envisions a studio-like set-up offering participating companies a stable financial structure within which to develop, produce and commercialise contents, while maintaining their brand names, autonomy and, above all, talent. The partners do not discount the future incorporation of additional companies and investors, nor an eventual stock flotation, he added.Production plans initially encompass an annual four feature film co-productions in the average
stanley us Euros 6m range, 12 TV movies in the average Euros 1m range, at least one 12-episode series and one animated series for TV, and three 90-minute documentaries potentially for theatrical release.ICC is already co-producing, among others: pan-European feature film Mathilde, starr
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