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CANNES '06: Previewing The 59th Festival de Cannes, 61 Films From Some 30 Countries

With just under a month before the 59th Festival de Cannes kicks off in the South of France, organizers unveiled the anticipated lineup for the annual event, a high point on the festival calendar and a leading marketplace for new films. Offering a total 61 films from some 30 countries that will scre...

Focus Scoops Woody Allen's "Scoop" for the U.S. Oz and New Zealand

Focus Features has acquired U.S. Australian and New Zealand distribution rights to writer/director Woody Allen's latest film, "Scoop," currently in post-production, company president James Schamus announced Thursday. The film, shot on location last summer in London, stars Allen, Hugh Jackman (from the upcoming "X-Men: The Last Stand"), Scarlett Johansson (who starred in Allen's last effor, "Match Point"), and Ian McShane ("Deadwood"). Described as a "comtemporary comedy," Johansson plays a student journalist for a college newspaper. While visiting friends in London, she happens upon 'the scoop of a lifetime.' In the course of her investigatio...

NEW THIS WEEK: Fonda and "Sir" Support War Vets Then and Now; "Ping Pong" And More Debuting in Theat

[EDITORS NOTE: This is a new column from indieWIRE, covering films debuting this week in theaters.]

Sundance Institute Announces Eight Projects for 2006 Summer Lab

The Sundance Institute has selected eight projects from emerging and established playwrights to participate in the Sundance Institute Summer Laboratory held at the Sundance Resort in Utah July 10-30. Also attending the lab will be this year's Playwright-in-Residence Tanya Barfield and Russian director/producer Eduard Boyakov. The eight plays selected include: "Asymmetrical Battlefield," by Stephen Belber and directed by Lucie Tiberghien about an American reservist just back from Iraq and a Saudi-American citizen investigating a mysterious death; "Citizen Josh," an autobiography about rescuing democracy by Josh Kornbluth and directed by David ...