All Screen articles in 16 May 2008 – Page 14
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Echo Bridge takes on Kormakur thriller, Rusell Wong actioner
Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquired two new films for worldwide sales at Cannes - Run For Her Life, an action thriller starring Dermot Mulroney and being directed by Iceland's Baltasar Kormakur, and martial arts thriller Unshakeable starring Russell Wong and Ving Rhames.Kormakur, whose thriller Jar City was the top award-winner ...
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Wild Bunch slate includes new work from Loach, Noe, Lou Ye, Mihaileanu, Makhmalbaf, Allen and Miyazaki.
Wild Bunch has unveiled a wide ranging slate which includes work from Ken Loach, Gaspar Noe, Lou Ye, Radu Mihaileanu, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Woody Allen and Hayao Miyazaki.The company has already announced that it is handling four competition titles, four out of competition and two in Un Certain Regard.New films on ...
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Dream team' Loach, the Dardennes and Cantona
An intriguing team, led by Ken Loach, is working on a project that Screen sources say was originated by football legend Eric Cantona.The project, with the working title Looking For Eric is part of the Wild Bunch Cannes slate. (Click here for full slate story).The French company is closely guarding ...
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Olivier Dahan back on song for StudioCanal slate
StudioCanal and Alain Goldman's Legende are currently developing the next film from La Vie En Rose director Olivier Dahan entitled My Very Own Love Song .Forest Whitaker and Renee Zellweger are attached to the English-language project, StudioCanal confirmed. StudioCanal is also eyeing a summer production start on Escape From New ...
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Jan de Bont to direct Point Break sequel in Indonesia
Jan de Bont will direct Point Break: Indo for Singapore production and talent management firm RGM Entertainment and LA sales, development and production company Essential Entertainment.Essential is handling worldwide sales on the project, a closely guarded story set in Indonesia 20 years after the disappearance of Patrick Swayze's surfing bank ...
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Pathe readies Chomet's $22m The Illusionist for 2009
Pathe is now introducing buyers to The Illusionist, the new feature from The Triplets Of Belleville creator Sylvain Chomet. The company is showing first footage here of the $22m project, financed by Pathe and France 3 with Canal Plus.Django and CineB are co-producing; producers are Bob Last and Sally Chomet ...
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Herzog to direct Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant remake
Werner Herzog is lining up to direct Nicolas Cage in a remake of Bad Lieutenant for Edward R Pressman and Nu Image/Millennium Films.The project is being fast-tracked for a July shoot and the producers are in talks to film in New Orleans.Nu Image/Millennium is financing and handling international sales on ...
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NTV works manga magic with $60m 20th Century Boys trilogy
Japanese trilogy 20th Century Boys is shaping up to be one of the hottest Asian projects in the market, with Nippon Television Network (NTV) closing a slew of sales to Asian territories in the run-up to Cannes. Key among the deals is the acquisition of all Korean rights by exhibitor-distributor ...
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Samuel L Jackson blowsinto Fiennes thriller for Intandem
Samuel L Jackson has taken a lead role in Martha Fiennes’ espionage thriller Blown. The previoiusly announced members of the cast include Thandie Newton and Guy Pearce.The story delves into the world of espionage, terrorism and big business through the eyes of a ruthless MI5 agent.Fiennes, who previously directed Chromophobia ...
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NonStop takes biteNonStop takes bite of Swedish vampire film
Underlining its continuing appetite for genre fare.NonStop Sales hastaken on world sales for Swedish vampire movie Not Like Others.The film, billed as a 'sensitive relationship drama with vampireelements,' marks the feature debut of director Peter Pontikis.It is the story of two vampire sisters in contemporary Stockholm. The cast is headlined ...
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Sunshine Barry worms his way into international markets
3-D Animated family feature Sunshine Barry And The Disco Worms hasburrowed its way into new territories.On the eve of Cannes, Sola Media has confirmed deals in Brazil(Imagem), CIS (Atelje), Czech & Slovak Republics (Dimas), FormerYugoslavia (MFC & Continental), Poland (Kino Swiat), Middle East(Shooting Star) and Turkey (Tiglon.)Sunshine Barry will be ...
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Gaga's Cyborg She finds real-life home with Bogeydom
Canada's Bogeydom Enterprises has picked up North American and European rights to action title Cyborg She, directed by Korea's Kwak Jae-young, from Japan's Gaga Films. Gaga has already sealed a raft of Asian deals on the film which has gone to Intercontinental for Hong Kong, Sahamongkol for Thailand, Serenity Entertainment ...
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Nikkatsu unveils Miike's $20m Yatterman
Japanese studio Nikkatsu is unveiling Takashi Miike's $20m manga adaptation Yatterman at Cannes, the cult director's biggest project.The live-action picture is in production at the Nikkatsu studios, scheduled for a wide Japanese release in spring 2009. Nikkatsu and Shochiku are co-distributing in Japan.Nikkatsu was acquired by Index Corp in 2005 ...
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Davaa's Two Horses Of Dschingis Khan race to market
The Two Horses of Dschingis Khan, the latest project from Oscar nominee Byambasuren Davaa (The Story Of The Weeping Camel, The Cage Of The Yellow Dog), is stirring up interest in the market. Splendid's documentary division Polyband has taken German and Austrian rights to the film, which is on Atrix's ...
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NewsParamount Vantage, Overture to co-finance, distribute Moore's next
Paramount Vantage and Overture Films will co-finance and distribute Michael Moore’s follow-up to his 2004 Palme d’Or winner and global smash Fahrenheit 9/11.Vantage will commence pre-sales here in what should become one of the hottest titles on the market and Overture will release in North America ...
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Arthouse picks up international on Louise Bourgeois
Arthouse Films has picked up international rights to Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress And The Tangerine by Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach.Arthouse will introduce the film to buyers at Cannes and will distribute internationally through its output deals with Madman Entertainment in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and ...
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Warner's Get Smart to receive charity screening at CineVegas
The Tenth Annual CineVegas Film Festival has added a special charity screening of Warner Bros' action comedy Get Smart starring Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway on June 15.Proceeds will go to The Rock Foundation and its school supply programme Project Knapsack founded by the film's Dwayne Johnson.Peter Segal directed the ...
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Singh named president of finance and administration, CFO at MGM
Bedi A Singh has been named president of finance and administration and CFO of MGM.Singh, who most recently served as executive vice president and CFO of Gemstar-TV Guide International, will report directly to MGM's chairman and CEO Harry E Sloan.In the newly created position Singh assumes overall responsibility for the ...
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Fortissimo Filmsacquires Killer, Epoch'sGigantic
Fortissimo Films has picked up Gigantic, an off-beat comedy with a stellar cast headed by Zooey Deschanel, Paul Dano and John Goodman, from US production outfits Killer Films and Epoch Films. The debut of Matt Aselton, the film revolves around a mattress store worker who falls for a potty-mouthed ...
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Curzon Artificial Eye picks up four including Assayas' Summer Hours
UK distributor Curzon Artificial Eye has acquired UK rights to four new films. Curzon Artificial Eye has taken on Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, Ari Folman’s Cannes competitor Waltz With Bashir, Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours and David Volach’s My Father, My Lord.Arnold’s Red Road follow-up FishTank in pre-production and was acquired ...