09/05/2006

French international sales company StudioCanal has a plentiful line-up of titles for the upcoming Film Market of the 59th Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28).

The team, headed by Muriel Sauzay, will also launch the sales of Promets-le moi [+see also:
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Pre-production projects include Babylon A.D. [+see also:
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Also in production are Babies by Thomas Balbès and the animated film Franklin et le talisman magique by Dominique Monféry (already sold to Germany and the Benelux countries). Rounding up the line-up are Inland Empire by David Lynch (already sold to several European territories), Petites peurs partagées by Alain Resnais, Mauvaise foi by Roschdy Zem with Cécile de France, I’m the Other Woman by Margarethe von Trotta (already sold to Germany, Benelux, Switzerland and Italy through a co-production) and Ma place au soleil by Eric de Montalier with Jacques Dutronc, Elodie Bouchez, Nicole Garcia and André Dussollier.

Lastly, as regards already completed features, StudioCanal is offering a real horde of French productions, with La Californie [+see also:
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film profile] by Christian Vincent, Je vais bien, ne t’en fais pas by Philippe Lioret (with Nathalie Baye and Ludivine Sagnier), Jean-Philippe [+see also:
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film profile] by Laurent Tuel, L’école pour tous by Eric Rochant, One Fine Day [+see also:
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film profile] by Philippe Le Guay, Le Passager de l’été [+see also:
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film profile] by Florence Moncorgé-Gabin, Le grand appartement by Pascal Thomas, A Perfect Friend by Francis Girod, without forgetting their hits Orchestra Seats [+see also:
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film profile] by Danièle Thompson and Ils [+see also:
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(Translated from French)