Cannes Market 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Indie distributor Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired Holistay, a horror genre feature from first-time director Mary Gallagher. Holistay was filmed in Las Vegas and follows two families, one from New York and one from Ireland, who double book a San Diego vacation home, who decided to both…

Neon said Tuesday that it has acquired North American rights to Justine Triet’s Cannes Competition feature Anatomy of a Fall. The move marks Neon’s second acquisition of a Cannes title, following Pablo Berger's animated Robot Dreams, acquired just before the festival, at what has been a busy time for…

EXCLUSIVE: After an old-style all-night auction, Netflix is finalizing an $11 million deal for North American rights to May December, the Todd Haynes-directed drama that stars Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. It is far and away the big deal of Cannes so far, and a deal of this size ought to send a jolt…

EXCLUSIVE: France tv distribution has launched sales on French director Benoît Jacquot's upcoming crime thriller Belle starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Guillaume Canet. The work is adapted from the 1951 novel The Death Of Belle by the iconic Belgian writer Georges Simenon who is best known for his…

EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has snapped up North American distribution rights from Concourse Media to Christian Swegal’s true crime thriller Sovereign, starring Nick Offerman, Dennis Quaid and Jacob Tremblay. Swegal wrote and will direct later this year in Arkansas. A theatrical release…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount’s Republic Pictures label has acquired North American rights to dystopian drama-thriller The End We Start From, starring BAFTA and Emmy winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve). The mid seven-figure pact marks the biggest announced deal for a project on sale at this year’s Cannes market…

EXCLUSIVE: AI is in the eye of the storm in LA right now amid the writers’ strike and is also a talking point at the Cannes Film Festival due to the de-aging of Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny. We can reveal an interesting development in the Cannes market with news that…

EXCLUSIVE: New indie film financier Mizzel Media is launching in Cannes with what we understand to be a healthy six-figure investment in feature The Girl From Köln, the next film from Holy Spider and The Tale outfit One Two Films. The movie, which is due to shoot later this year, will star Mala Emde…

EXCLUSIVE: Good Deed Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Carol Ray Hartsell's Hamptons-set indie romantic comedy Love … Reconsidered for a Valentine's Day 2024 release. Sophie von Haselberg stars as a down-on-her-luck New Yorker whose life is suddenly transferred to the Hamptons after…

EXCLUSIVE: American Beauty and The Walking Dead actress Thora Birch is to make her feature directorial debut on an adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s 2004 crime novel Mr. Paradise. Former Bold CEO Gary Michael Walters, producer on Jake Gyllenhaal starrer The Guilty and Emmy nominee Oslo, is producing…

EXCLUSIVE: International sales rights for late iconic director Jean-Luc Godard's final work Trailer Of The Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars have been acquired by Goodfellas ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Classics on Sunday. The 20-minute work was written and directed by Godard in…

EXCLUSIVE: German production and sales outfit Augenschein, best known so far for thrillers Stowaway and 7500, is at the Cannes Market talking to buyers about new thriller Islands (working title), which is due to star Control and Maleficent actor Sam Riley. Related…