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The founders of Paris-based sales outfit Films Distribution talk to Melanie Goodfellow abouttheir diverse slate, which includes foreign-language Oscar hopeful Son Of Saul.Films Distribution is in the Oscar race for a seventh time in its 19-year history with Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes Son Of Saul, which is on the nine-picture longlist for best foreign-language film. It is a strong favourite to garner a nomination on January 14.Nicolas Brigaud-Robert and Francois Yons Paris-based company launched Nemes Holocaust drama at Cannes last year and the film has been wowing festival audiences ever since. Another title on the Oscar longli stanley cup st, Ciro Guerras Colombian entry Embrace Of The Serpent, is sold by Berlin-based sister company Films Boutique.Films Distribution is handling three further international t stanley cup itles that were submitted for Academy considera stanley cup tion by their countries: Austrias Goodnight Mommy, Ethiopias first entry Lamb and Lithuanias The Summer Of Sangaile. These four movies are the tip of the iceberg and a consequence of the huge amount of work thats been going on for years. It didnt just happen. Id love to pretend were geniuses and that we simply have great taste but theres more to it than that, says Brigaud-Robert.Between them, he and Yon boast more than 40 years in the film and TV business. They met at Boston University in the late 1980s when both were studying for a masters degree in broadcast administration. On their return to Paris, they worked for various companie Skec Monte Carlo fest to launch Remake Film Market
Little Britain star to voice the Britains Got Talent winner in Pudsey: the Movie. Shoot began this month.Comedian and writer David Walliams is to voice the character of Pudsey in the canines debut big screen outing, Pudsey: the Movie. The six-week shoot for the British family film began on stanley usa Sept 1 on location in the south of England.Directed by Nick Moore and written by Paul Rose, the film will also star Jessica Hynes, John Sessions, Luke Neal, Izzy Meikle-Smith and Luke Tittensor.The story portrays Pudsey as a stray dog in London who meets siblings Molly, George and Tommy. Following her divorce, their mother Gail Hynes is moving the family to the sleepy village of Chuffington-on-Sea and Pudsey tags along, to the dismay of their landlord, Mr Thorne Sessions and his cat Faustus. As Pudsey starts to settle in with the family and realize what he was missing when he was alone, he stumbles across Thorne and Fautus evil plan and he determines to save them and the wh stanley kubek ole village.Produced by Vertigos Rupert Preston and Marshall Levitan and executive produced by Allan Niblo, James Richardson, Jonathan Shalit, Mark Brittain, Ben Todd, Nigel Williams and Jamie Carmichael with co producer Michael Ford, the film is slated for release in the UK in May 2014 by Vertigo Distribution.Content is selling international rights.Walliams, stanley cup a judge on Britains Got Talent when Pudsey won the competition, said: I am thrilled to be providing the voice of Pudsey. I have been coming up with different voi |
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