All Screen articles in 19 May 2002

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    Michael Jackson to produce and star in werewolf movie

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    In the first movie being made under his Neverland Pictures banner, Michael Jackson will play a werewolf in a project he will also produce called Wolfed. Rick Baker, Oscar-winning makeup expert who created the werewolf effects for An American Werewolf In London and Thriller, is already on boardNeverland's financing and ...

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    Michael Jackson to produce and star in werewolf movie

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    In the first movie being made under his Neverland Pictures banner, Michael Jackson will play a werewolf in a project he will also produce called Wolfed. Rick Baker, Oscar-winning makeup expert who created the werewolf effects for An American Werewolf In London and Thriller, is already on boardNeverland's financing and ...

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    Intermedia, Metropolitan team on Tristan & Iseult

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    Intermedia is teaming up with Samuel and Victor Hadida of French independent Metropolitan Filmexport to finance and sell their new production Tristan & Iseult, a retelling of the classic story to which Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) is attached to direct. The film is being produced by Samuel Hadida through his production ...

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    Intermedia, Metropolitan team on Tristan & Iseult

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    Intermedia is teaming up with Samuel and Victor Hadida of French independent Metropolitan Filmexport to finance and sell their new production Tristan & Iseult, a retelling of the classic story to which Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) is attached to direct. The film is being produced by Samuel Hadida through his production ...

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    Zentropa launches Industrial revolution

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    First there was Dogme. Now Danish maverick outfit Zentropa has a launched a new label - this time with even more confining rules. Industrial Films DK will champion ultra-low budget films from new directing talent. In a bid to keep cost right down, one of the requirements of the new ...

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    Zentropa launches Industrial revolution

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    First there was Dogme. Now Danish maverick outfit Zentropa has a launched a new label - this time with even more confining rules. Industrial Films DK will champion ultra-low budget films from new directing talent. In a bid to keep cost right down, one of the requirements of the new ...

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    Kilmer horror helps scare up Helkon slate

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    Helkon Media's sales, production and distribution arm Helkon International Pictures (HIP) has revealed the first fruits of its new LA operation under former Warner Bros executive Clifford Werber. The company has boarded Anthony Waller's long-gestating $22m horror movie Nine Miles Down with Val Kilmer now attached to star and has ...

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    Fox looks to steal Jordan's Good Thief

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    Fox Searchlight Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire US rights to The Good Thief, Neil Jordan's completed contemporary remake of Jean-Pierre Mellville's Bob Le Flambeur which stars Nick Nolte, Tcheky Karyo, Emir Kusturica and Ralph Fiennes. The deal marks the end of a long quest for the film's financier ...

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    Fox looks to steal Jordan's Good Thief

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    Fox Searchlight Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire US rights to The Good Thief, Neil Jordan's completed contemporary remake of Jean-Pierre Mellville's Bob Le Flambeur which stars Nick Nolte, Tcheky Karyo, Emir Kusturica and Ralph Fiennes. The deal marks the end of a long quest for the film's financier ...

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    Korea's KM Culture launches first Cannes slate

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    Korean investment group KM Culture has launched a new sales operation, boasting a slate of big budget pictures. The new sales outfit is headed by Judy Ahn, former sales executive at Tube Entertainment, the investment and distribution combine that late last year was absorbed by the powerhouse CJ Entertainment. With ...

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    Korea's KM Culture launches first Cannes slate

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    Korean investment group KM Culture has launched a new sales operation, boasting a slate of big budget pictures. The new sales outfit is headed by Judy Ahn, former sales executive at Tube Entertainment, the investment and distribution combine that late last year was absorbed by the powerhouse CJ Entertainment. With ...

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    Samuelson Productions to bring Stormbreaker to Isle of Man

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    Marc and Peter Samuelson's Samuelson Productions has optioned the bestselling series of Stormbreaker childrens' books as the first projects in a groundbreaking development deal with the Isle of Man's newly-launched£125 million film scheme. The six-title series about a 14 year-old orphan trained as an MI6 secret agent is written and ...

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    Samuelson Productions to bring Stormbreaker to Isle of Man

    2002-05-19T04:05:00Z

    Marc and Peter Samuelson's Samuelson Productions has optioned the bestselling series of Stormbreaker childrens' books as the first projects in a groundbreaking development deal with the Isle of Man's newly-launched£125 million film scheme. The six-title series about a 14 year-old orphan trained as an MI6 secret agent is written and ...

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    Payne moves Sideways

    2002-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Alexander Payne's next project will see the acclaimed director move from Nebraska, where his first three films were set, to California. Payne is adapting an as-yet unpublished novel called Sideways by Rex Pickett and will direct the ensuing film which as yet is not set up at any company. A ...

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    Hartnett moves into L'Appartement remake

    2002-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Josh Hartnett will star in and Paul McGuigan will direct Lakeshore Entertainment's Wicker Park, the remake of Gilles Mimouni's French drama L'Appartement which starred Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci and Romane Bohringer. Brandon Boyce has written the screenplay to the film. The long-gestating film is now scheduled to start production in ...

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    France's Talentis moves into features

    2002-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Short film agency Talantis is branching out into feature films. The company has picked up all French rights on Winnego, a first film by US film-maker Nick James which is to star Salma Hayek and Mickey Rourke. The $3.9m title is currently in development. Talantis are handling foreign sales on ...

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    First Floor Feature merger leads to starry slate

    2002-05-19T00:00:00Z

    First Floor Features, the Dutch production house responsible for 1998 Oscar-winner Character, has put together a star packed production slate following its merger with Guy Walks Into A Bar. Its partner is a Los Angeles-based production and management group headed by Todd Komarnicki. The merger is intended to allow the ...

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    Danish Oscar-winning short earns US remake

    2002-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Danish newcomer Martin Strange's film Feeling Desire (Naar Lysterne Taendes), has won the Oscar for best foreign student film, which will be awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture and Arts and Sciences on June 9. Already, New York-based Kinetic Arts has been in contact with the filmmakers about remaking ...

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    Rosem boards Day & Night

    2002-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Rosem Films has boarded Day & Night (Ri-Ri Ye-Ye), the second film by Chinese film-maker Wang Chao, whose first title, The Orphans Of Anyang, made a splash last year in Directors' Fortnight. Day & Night - a 'rags to riches' tale set in a Chinese mining town, is produced by ...

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    BBC's Plath project brought into Focus

    2002-05-19T00:00:00Z

    In its first US acquisition since forming last month, Focus has boarded BBC Films' Sylvia Plath story starring Gwyneth Paltrow. UK-based international sales outfit Capitol Films has also partnered on the project, which focuses on the story of the relationship between the tragic poet who committed suicide aged 31 and ...