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Summit lines up peak slate for Cannes
SummitEntertainment has lined up a potent slate of new pictures for Cannes this yearled by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's red-hot Babel, the Adam Sandler-produced comedy Nana's Boy and Beacon's upcoming coastguard actioner TheGuardian which has Kevin Costner andAshton Kutcher attached to star.Alsooffered for the first time is a new Summit in-house ...
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Dutch duo to launch new UK distribution outfit
The managing partners ofDutch distributor Bright Angel have sold their share of the business and areplanning to launch a new London-based distribution and production outfit calledYume Pictures.Chris Oosterom and PatriziaRaeli will launch Yume on July 1 and aim to acquire all rights to up to six toeight titles a year.Oosterom ...
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Cannes Market registration numbers on the rise
The number ofparticipants registered for the Cannes Film Market (May 11- 22) hasrisen to 6790, up 8% from last year's6260.Professionalsfrom some 73 countries will attend, a rise from 67 in 2003. For the first timeJordan, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Vietnam, Senegal and Nigeria will all berepresented. The number of Americans and British ...
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Fortissimo takes rights to Cannes pair
FortissimoFilms has acquired worldwide rights to Wang Xiaoshuai's Cannes competition filmShanghai Dreams andinternational rights to Tony Krawitz' Jewboy, screening in Un Certain Regard.Shanghai Dreams is a story of first love set inthe early 1980's against the backdrop of China's reform and opening. It stars Gao Yuanyuan, Li Bin, Yao Anlianand ...
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Councillor emerges as latest Russian box office champ
TheRussian film industry has another hit film on its hands.TheState Councillor (Statsky Sovetnik) opened at the top of the Russian box officeover the weekend, grossing $2.5m in Russia and the CIS for distributor KaroPremier. It also opened top in Ukraine with $238,400 for Kinomania.Thesuccess follows recent Russian successes this year ...
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Sundance finalises programme for June filmmaker & screenwriter labs
Latino teens in a post 9/11 world, 1970s Los Angeles socialhistory, and sex and the Roman Catholic church inform the upcoming slate ofprojects at the Sundance Institute's June Filmmakers and Screenwriters Labs.Among the 13 project line-up this summer are Cruz Angeles's Don'tLet Me Drown, Stew andHeidi Rodewald's We Can See ...
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McCormack, Cochrane star in Thousand Words thriller Forearm Shiver
Production began earlier this week in Los Angeles on ThousandWords' thriller Forearm Shiver, which marks the directorial debut of production designer and artdirector Chris Gorak (Minority Report, Blade: Trinity).Mary McCormack and RoryCochrane are starring in the picture, which chronicles a disintegratingmarriage over the course of three days in Los Angeles ...
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Clive Owen, Cuaron team up for Children Of Men
Clive Owen will star in Universal Pictures and StrikeEntertainment's Children Of Men, which is being directed by Alfonso Cuaron and is based on PDJames' sci-fi novel of the same name.Cuaron, Tim Sexton and David Arata co-wrote the screenplay set inthe near-future where mankind has virtually lost the ability to procreate.After ...
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Celluloid Dreams picks up Directors Fortnight entry Room
Paris-based international sales house Celluloid Dreams has pickedup all international rights on Kyle Henry's US drama Room, which was announced earlier this weekin the Directors' Fortnight line-up at Cannes.Cyndi Williams stars in the story of a working class Americanwoman who begins to have strange visions following a mid-life crisis.Jesse Scolaro, ...
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Lonesome Jim heads to Cannes market with Dream
Los Angeles-based production and international sales company DreamEntertainment has acquired international rights to Steve Buscemi's comedy LonesomeJim, and will introducethe picture to buyers at the Cannes market next month.Starring Liv Tyler, Casey Affleck, and Seymour Cassel, LonesomeJim centres on therelationship between a nurse and an aspiring writer who is forced ...
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New Yorker buys US rights to Sundance doc Innocence
New Yorker Films has picked up theatrical and home video/DVDrights from Showtime Networks to Jessica Sanders' miscarriage of justicedocumentary After Innocence.The distributor plans an autumn domestic release in New York Cityfollowed by a nationwide roll-out. New Yorker Films also acquired broadcast andbasic cable television rights, with Showtime Networks retaining premium ...
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Manne's Bristol Media picks up international rights to Z Channel
Tony Manne's New York-based sales and distribution company BristolMedia has bulked up its Cannes sales slate after picking up internationalrights to Xan Cassavetes' Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession.Ironically while this will be Z Channel: A MagnificentObsession's marketdebut, the picture played out of competition at last year's CannesInternational Film Festival.Cassavetes' directorial ...
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Platinum Studios, The Shop team for CG horror feature Bonesaw
Alan McElroy, thescreenwriter whose credits include Spawn, Halloween 4: The Return Of MichaelMyers, Wrong Turn and Ballistic:Ecks Vs Sever, has been hired towrite Bonesaw, an $18mcomputer-generated horror movie to be produced by LA-based Platinum Studios andVancouver-based computer animation specialists The Shop Productions.The film is based on theupcoming graphic novel by ...
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Bond Watch: Dame Judi Dench hints at Brosnan return
The new James Bond film, CasinoRoyale, is scheduled to shoot at the end of 2005 - although it is stilluncertain who will play 007 in the film.With ongoing rumourscirculating throughout the media world, it can be difficult to keep tabs on thelatest information. Here, ScreenDaily.com alleviates some of theconfusion by ...
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Hong Kong raises stakes in online piracy battle
Illegaldownloaders in Hong Kong are facing a two-pronged attack as both the Hong KongCustoms and Excise Department and the local film industry have taken the firstconcrete steps towards curbing online piracy. Customs announced this week that it has laid charges againsta man arrested in January on suspicion of distributing three ...
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Lions Gate brings Lord Of War to North America
Lions Gate Films has pickedup all North American rights to Andrew Niccol's action thriller Lord Of War, which stars Nic Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahanand Ethan Hawke.The picture, currently in post-production, centres on an arms dealer whoreevaluates his purpose in life while on the run from an Interpol agent.Philippe Rousselet ...
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Almodovar ready to roll with Volver
Pedro Almodovar and producer Agustin Almodovar haveconfirmed that Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura will star in the director's newfilm, Volver, shooting from July in Spain."Volver is Michael Curtiz's Mildred Piercemeets Frank Capra's Arsenic And Old Lace, mixed with the surrealistnaturalism of my fourth film What Have I Done To Deserve ...
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Funny Balloons acquires world rights to Cannes trio
French sales outfit FunnyBalloons has acquired world rights to three titles selected in Un CertainRegard at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival: Amat Escalante's Sangre,Marcelo Gomes' Cinema, Aspirinas E Urubus and Delwende by S.Pierre Yameogo.Sangre is a first film by the 26 year old Mexican directormaking it eligible for the Camera ...
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3L Filmverleih drafts in senior management team
Ahead of this year's Cannes Film Festival,leading German DVD distributor e-m-s new media has made two high-profileappointments to the management team of its theatrical distribution arm 3LFilmverleih. PeterHeinzemann, previously managing director of the now insolvent Solo-Film Verleih[ScreenDaily.com, March 2005], has been named head of distribution anddeputy to 3L Filmverleih managing ...
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Platinum Studios plots second Dylan Dog spinoff
LA-basedPlatinum Studios is preparing a second feature film spinoff from Italian comicbook series Dylan Dogcalled Dead Of Night and it has hired Joshua Oppenheimer and Tom Donnelly to write the film.RelativityManagement is co-financing and arranging the international financing componentsfor the film which is being planned as a $35m production and ...