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International News: Company signs pact with Dori, Nickelodeon -- Illusion Studios, Argentina’s biggest toon-pic producer, is expanding into TV and legit as it seeks to bolster profits.

Film Festivals: Local language films are key -- More and more, Hollywood studios must look to overseas markets to make money.

International News: Duo to write '10 Days,' 'Talk Show' -- Gallic TV host Thierry Ardisson is teaming up with scribes Robert Moresco and Larry Cohen to produce films through his shingle Ardimages.

Cannes News: Major deals likely to follow soon -- The first Cannes films to sell are smaller films as a collection of pics likely to generate major deals are just starting to be shown to potential buyers.

International News: Film is biography of fado legend -- Portuguese production-distribution-sales house VC Filmes has plunged into its first feature, “Amalia,” a bio of fado legend Amalia Rodrigues.

International News: Actor lines up Arab projects -- Omar Sharif is going back to his roots.

International News: La Petite Reine to produce -- Christophe Gans’ next film will be an adaptation of Leo Perutz’s “The Swedish Cavalier” for La Petite Reine, the French company selling “Public Enemy Number One” in the Cannes market.

International News: Film directed by Gordon Chan -- Inferno Entertainment, the U.S. sales, finance and production outfit, has picked up international sales on “King of Fighters,” a videogame adaptation being helmed by Hong Kong’s Gordon Chan. Pic was previously repped by Arclight Films.

International News: Film is feature version of TV series -- One of France’s biggest TV producers, Marathon Media, is teaming with France Telecom-Orange’s Studio 37 to produce an E8 million ($12.7 million) animated feature version of Marathon’s international toon series hit, “Totally Spies.”

Web Exclusive: Relationship begins with Sakamoto, Takenaka films -- Top Japanese production company Sedic Intl. has created an exclusive production partnership with Celluloid Dreams, starting with films from Junji Sakamoto and Naoto Takenaka.

Web Exclusive: Montand film, Bouchareb thriller on slate -- France's StudioCanal is preparing a biopic on Gallic actor and singer Yves Montand and producing a thriller from "Days of Glory" director Rachid Bouchareb.

Web Exclusive: Film focuses on ormer Chinese premier Mao Zedong -- "Challenging Heaven," a birth-of-a-nation picture focused on the rise of former Chinese premier Mao Zedong, will likely shoot this winter in Vietnam.

Web Exclusive: Company to deal with 'Bridge' internationally -- French sales company UMedia has picked up international representation of Danny Glover-starring drama "The Harimaya Bridge."

Web Exclusive: QED, Lionsgate selling film's rights -- George W. Bush is on location in Louisiana -- or at least Oliver Stone's rendition of the country's 43rd president. Stone began lensing "W" in Shreveport on May 12, just as Bill Block's international sales company QED Intl. arrived on the Croisette to sell foreign rights to the pic.

Web Exclusive: Film version of Evan novel made for Halcyon -- Scribe Ron Bass will adapt Carrie Evan's bestselling novel "The Godmother." Pic is being made for U.K.-based production and distribution company Halcyon.

Web Exclusive: Distributor to deal with 'Hours' in U.S. -- Indie distributor IFC has taken U.S. rights to Olivier Assayas' Juliette Binoche starrer "Summer Hours," which is produced and sold by Gallic major MK2.

Web Exclusive: Yoda aims to make event more industry relevant -- Tom Yoda, prexy of the Tokyo Intl. Film Festival, has promised that this year's festival will take on a green tinge.

Film Festivals: French erotic drama stars Asia Argento -- Wide Management has acquired worldwide rights to "Gigola," a French erotic drama helmed by Volker Schlondorff and starring Asia Argento, Philippe Torreton, Marisa Paredes, Ute Lemper and Marisa Berenson.

International News: Spanish media co. reports first quarter gains -- Leading Spanish-language media conglom Univision Communications reported a 1st quarter net revenue increase by 5.8%, from $458.8 million in 2008 compared to $433.7 million last year, with its TV and radio units delivering key growth.

International News: Filmmaking on both sides of border is booming -- Sixty years after the founding of the state of Israel led to what the Palestinians call the nakba, or catastrophe, Israeli and Palestinian films are going up against each other at Cannes.

Film Reviews: Putting sociological elements on an equal footing with drama, Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas look at poor Sao Paulo youth's limited options in "Linha de Passe."

Film Reviews: Following "Still Life" and "Useless," documentary and fictional artifice are combined ever more egregiously by Mainland helmer Jia Zhangke in "24 City."

Film Reviews: "On War" tries to plunge deep into its heart of darkness and winds up more in the vicinity of its navel.

Film Reviews: An industrial pallet-repair operation on the outskirts of Paris becomes a microcosm of Muslim immigrant hopes and tensions in Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche's "Adhen."

Film Reviews: The seductive scent of political correctness apparently overwhelmed judgment when "Salt of This Sea" began looking for coin, not to mention a festival berth.

Film Reviews: The clash of fundamentalist Islam and Western values as encapsulated by the "blasphemous" Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad is examined at length in "It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks."

Film Reviews: "The Chaser" is a grisly serial-killer thriller that develops into a howl of outrage at the ineptitude of the system.

TV Reviews: I have been saying for several weeks that the producers were hell-bent on having a plus-size winner this cycle. (Just ask my friend Lori. I said those exact words to her last week.) 

Legit Reviews: Three new half-hour musicals, featuring such Broadway talents as Victoria Clark, Barbara Walsh and Michael John LaChiusa, for a mere 20 bucks? That would sound like quite a bargain, and it turns out that the program offers more than enough to warrant a visit to the Zipper Theater, even in Clark's performance alone.

TV Reviews: The end of the Bush presidency seems like an appropriate time to sift through the 2000 election's wreckage, with "Recount" serving as just the movie to help pick that scab.

Film Reviews: Like an episode of "Sesame Street" scripted by Luis Bunuel and helmed by Jacques Tati, "Rumba" turns dark tragedy into deadpan comedy through a series of surreal G-rated gags.

TV Reviews: Robert Louis Stevenson's strange tale of split personality has long fascinated filmmakers, but the transformation has seldom been quite as limp and boring as this European production.

Film Reviews: The searing intensity of "To Take a Wife" turns into overly diffused heat in Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz's follow-up family drama "The Seven Days."

Film Reviews: Radu Muntean uses his cool yet sympathetically observational eye to chart the distance between a responsible family man and his long-lost buddies.

Film Reviews: Performances and direction, rather than the yards of inconclusive dialogue, are what keep Arnaud Desplechin's "A Christmas Tale" from curdling in its own juices.

Film Reviews: "Tyson" is James Toback's revelatory closeup look at the tumultuous life of the former heavyweight champ.

Film Reviews: Brit helmer Thomas Clay's sophomore feature, "Soi Cowboy," demonstrates a growing maturity.

Film Reviews: Latest unclassifiable, near-indescribable effort by San Francisco-based "culture jammer" Craig Baldwin, "Mock Up on Mu" is a typically dense yet delightful combination of found and new footage in the service of a fanciful semi-fact-based narrative.

Film Reviews: There's a great story to be told about boxing legend Primo Carnera, but helmer Renzo Martinelli's "Carnera: The Walking Mountain" skips over anything that doesn't fit a formulaic made-for-TV biopic.

Film Reviews: One of the best advertisements for contraception since "Rosemary's Baby," writer-helmer Emily Atef's sophomore feature, "The Stranger in Me," presents a pared-down portrait of one woman's harrowing struggle against the baby blues.