Screen rounds up the films from across the globe that could launch at Cannes…
With less than a month to go until the Cannes Film Festival announces its line-up at its annual Paris press conference on April 14, Screen looks at what could make it into Official Selection and the parallel sections of Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
UK and Ireland
The UK could have one of its strongest Cannes for years with hot favourites for a competition slot including Andrea Arnold’s Shia Labeouf-starring Us road movie American Honey and Ken Loach’s gritty Northern England-set drama I, Daniel Blake. It would be Loach’s 12th time in competition.
Ben Wheatley is also reportedly gunning for an Official Selection slot for his 1970s Boston-set, gangland thriller Free Fire, potentially Out of Competition or in Midnight Screenings. He was last in Cannes with Sightseers in Directors’ Fortnight.
Other UK hopefuls include Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins and Indian...
With less than a month to go until the Cannes Film Festival announces its line-up at its annual Paris press conference on April 14, Screen looks at what could make it into Official Selection and the parallel sections of Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
UK and Ireland
The UK could have one of its strongest Cannes for years with hot favourites for a competition slot including Andrea Arnold’s Shia Labeouf-starring Us road movie American Honey and Ken Loach’s gritty Northern England-set drama I, Daniel Blake. It would be Loach’s 12th time in competition.
Ben Wheatley is also reportedly gunning for an Official Selection slot for his 1970s Boston-set, gangland thriller Free Fire, potentially Out of Competition or in Midnight Screenings. He was last in Cannes with Sightseers in Directors’ Fortnight.
Other UK hopefuls include Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins and Indian...
- 3/21/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Visit star Olivia DeJonge has signed to star in Sydney-set home invasion thriller
Paris-based sales agent Versatile has picked up sales on Australian director Chris Peckover’s suburbia-set, home invasion horror-thriller Safe Neighborhood, due to shoot in Sydney early next year.
“The film is not going to be typical for a horror film,” said Versatile co-chief Violaine Pichon, saying Safe Neighborhood will have undertones of It Follows and The Shining.
“There’s a stark contrast between the uncomfortable nature of the second half and its gorgeous, suburban look.”
It marks a second feature for Peckover after his 2010 Undocumented, a suspense thriller centred on a documentary crew shooting a film about illegal migrants along the Us-Mexico border.
Olivia DeJonge, star of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit which opens in the Us on Sept 11, has signed for the film. The rest of the cast has yet to be confirmed.
Other new additions...
Paris-based sales agent Versatile has picked up sales on Australian director Chris Peckover’s suburbia-set, home invasion horror-thriller Safe Neighborhood, due to shoot in Sydney early next year.
“The film is not going to be typical for a horror film,” said Versatile co-chief Violaine Pichon, saying Safe Neighborhood will have undertones of It Follows and The Shining.
“There’s a stark contrast between the uncomfortable nature of the second half and its gorgeous, suburban look.”
It marks a second feature for Peckover after his 2010 Undocumented, a suspense thriller centred on a documentary crew shooting a film about illegal migrants along the Us-Mexico border.
Olivia DeJonge, star of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit which opens in the Us on Sept 11, has signed for the film. The rest of the cast has yet to be confirmed.
Other new additions...
- 9/10/2015
- ScreenDaily
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