Kinology to the power of 16
With a rich line-up headed by Johnnie To’s Palme d’Or contender Vengeance (majority French production starring Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Testud), French international sales company Kinology will present 16 titles at the Film Market at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).
The team helmed by Grégoire Melin (see interview) will start sales for several new films. Promotional reels will be shown for Jean-Paul Salomé’s The Chameleon [+see also:
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film profile] (see news); Steve Suissa’s Mensch [+see also:
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film profile] (see news); Eric Valette’s State Affairs [+see also:
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film profile] (see news); and Olivier Doran’s The Life Coach [+see also:
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film profile].
Meanwhile, negotiations will be made on the basis of the screenplay for Marc Fitoussi’s Copacabana, starring Isabelle Huppert; as well as for Benoît Philippon’s Lullaby For Pi, featuring Rupert Friend, Clémence Poésy, Matt Ward and Forest Whitaker (co-production between France’s Forecast Pictures with Canada and US company Killer Films).
Market premières will include Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache’s family comedy So Happy Together [+see also:
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film profile], starring Isabelle Carré, Vincent Elbaz, François-Xavier Demaison and Audrey Dana. Meanwhile, the first images will be unveiled in a promo-reel for Joann Sfar’s Je T’Aime… Moi Non Plus (formerly known as Serge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life - see news).
Promotional reels will also be presented for Olivier Dahan’s My Own Love Song [+see also:
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film profile] (see news), whose cast features Renee Zellweger and Forest Whitaker; Jennifer Devoldere’s Every Jack Has A Jill [+see also:
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film profile]; Alain Tasma’s Ultimatum (formerly known as La Loi du Plus Fort - see news); and Nicolas Hulot and Jean-Albert’s ecological documentary One.
Finally, among Kinology’s other assets, Antoine Charreyron’s The Prodigies (see news) is in production. In pre-production, the company has Juan Solanas’ Upside Down, Andrew Niccol’s The Cross (German/Australian/French co-production starring Orlando Bloom and Vincent Cassel) and Mathieu Kassovitz’s Rebellion (see news).
(Translated from French)
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