All Screen articles in 19 May 2003 – Page 9
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Sandstone kickboxes with Anglo-German partners
LA-based production company Sandstorm Films is to partner with equity investors Media Cooperation One GmbH (MCOne) in Germany and Matador Pictures in the UK to produce a slate of films led by the kickboxing action film The Square Circle directed by France's Olivier Megaton (La Sirene Roge). Lightning Entertainment is ...
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Canada's Max Films launches film sales arm
Quebec-based film and television production outfit Max Film is returning to films sales through a new division, Max Films International.The first project to be handled, says Max co-founder and president Roger Frappier, is the company's La Grande Seduction, Jean-Francois Pouliot's comedy about the residents of a modest fishing village which ...
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Artist House launches new fund
Artist House, the US-Japanese group behind the adaptation of The Tesseract is to launch a new film fund in conjunction with Peter Anshin's Asia Entertainment Finance Associates (AEFA).Tokyo-based Anshin, who also represents Comerica, said: "Artist House group will manage the fund, which will be used to support the group's rights ...
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French Asterix revival in Danish hands
The first feature to be produced by French network M6 - the Euros 22m animated Asterix And The Vikings directed Denmark's Stefan Fjeldmark and Jesper Moller - should be delivered by 2006. M6 is collaborating with the experienced Danes at A-Film, whose credits includes Fjeldmark's Help, I'm A Fish ...
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Trish Lake getting busy in Australia
With buzz building back home on her first credit, the unfinished Gettin' Square, Queensland-based producer Trish Lake is at Cannes with three projects. The most advanced is The Digger, which is being written by the mother/son/stepfather team of Jan Bradnam, Ashley Bradnam and Terry McCann.Babe director and co-writer Chris Noonan ...
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Icelandic films back on track
After almost a year without funding for local films, a restructured Icelandic Film Centre has been put back into business by the new managing director Laufey Gudjonsdottir. The first projects should be getting backing from mid-June. 'We have just appointed the new film commissioners and the first projects arrived just ...
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Euro funding for Bartolome's Sirens
Spanish sales and production house Bulbeck & Mas, co-producer of Un Certain Regard entry Today And Tomorrow (Hoy Y Manana), is now prepping The Silence Of The Sirens (El Silencio De Las Sirenas) from director Cecilia Bartolome.The magical love story set between two centuries is a Euro 2.4m co-production with ...
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Pavlikovsky re-teams with BBC on new slate
Paul Pavlikovsky, the acclaimed director of 2000's Last Resort, is re-teaming with BBC Films on coming-of-age-tale This Summer Of Love.Pavlikovsky is working on the script, which tells the story of two adolescent girls from different classes and what happens when a dangerous man enters their lives.The BBC, which has The ...
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Bedi returns to Sandokan cult
Destiny Pictures' Aditya Basu Bhattacharya is lining up a $4m Indian-Italian drama titled Sandokan In Sicily, which will feature Indian star Kabir Bedi.Bedi was the 6ft5' star of the 1976 Sandokan TV series, about a heroic anti-colonialist figure based in Malaysia. The series, which also spawned a feature film in ...
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Summit/Regency trio big in Japan
Summit Entertainment has concluded the biggest deal of Cannes so far, selling Japanese distribution rights to Toho Towa to three high-profile films - Mr And Mrs Smith with Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman, The Runaway Jury with John Cusack and Gene Hackman and horror movie Wrong Turn. All three films ...
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Euro sellers body founded
The European Film Export Association (EFEA), a new federation of film sellers, launched on Thursday with a dozen founder members. Headed by Jacques Le Glou of Mercure international, the committee members include Jacques Eric Strauss (Plaza Production), Adriana Chiesa (ACE), Wolfram Skowronnek (Telepool), Marina Fuentes (Lolafilms). Their deputies include Alain ...
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Matrix Reloaded scores in strong international bow
Opening in 13 territoriesover the weekend The Matrix Reloaded dominated the charts with animpressive $31.9m international bow on 2,629 screens In a string of number oneopenings, the sci-fi sequel took $12m in France (Euros 10.3m) from 894 screensin what was the sixth biggest US opening weekend ever.Figures represent three-daygrosses and ...
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Hot Britstar goes to war for Calderwood
Rising British male star Chewitel Ejiofor, who shot to prominence opposite Audrey Tautou in Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things, has joined the cast of African love story Girls At War, which is based at Andrea Calderwood's UK production outfit Slate Films.The love story set in post-independence Nigeria aims to bring ...
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Low budget films ride Shotgun
Low budget, low overhead and low risk are the watchwords of a new Stuttgart-based production outfit, Shotgun Pictures, which yesterday unveiled a plans for a ten-picture slate.The company was formed by Kinowelt founder Peter Haeberle, German producer Peter Rommel, the UK's Mike Downey and Sam Taylor and Keith Rothman. Financial ...
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Buskin sets up Euro fund
Italy's Buskin Film has set up a private fund to finance, co-produce and distribute at least four European projects each year.Named European Community Gap Financing, the fund is financed by a group of private investors. They will guarantee a minimum of Euros 4m each year to finance and co-produce up ...
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Rampling heads South with Cantet
Haut Et Court, the French production company behind competition film Tiresia and anticipated Un Certain Regard picture Who Killed Bambi, has cast Swimming Pool-star Charlotte Rampling in the new psychological drama by hot shot Laurent Cantet. The film, Heading South (Vers Le Sud) is an adaptation of the novel of ...
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Cecchi Gori returns to production
Beleaguered Italian media mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori, whose production, distribution and exhibition empire recently fell apart in a morass of bad debts and corruption charges, is back. At a Cannes press conference, the carefully-coiffed helmsman of the Cecchi Gori Group, created by his father Mario, claimed that he has been ...
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Celestial goes wild in France
Hong Kong's Celestial Pictures has signed a multi-year video distribution deal with France's Wild Side Films for numerous titles from its classic Shaw Brothers library. Wild Side will release more than 40 Shaw Brothers titles - including The One-Armed Swordsman and The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin - in French-speaking territories ...
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Curb stalks Sundance chiller
Curb Entertainment has acquired international sales rights to Smooth Pictures' Nightstalker, the serial killer chiller which world premiered as a midnight movie at the Sundance Film Festival this year.The film, to which Columbia TriStar holds US rights, was produced by Ash Shah and Chris Fisher and written and directed by ...
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Endgame commits to Compleat, Harold
Endgame Entertainment - the financing and production outfit formed by entrepreneur and Broadway producer James D Stern - has committed to co-finance two films through its entertainment fund The Endgame Fund.Endgame will co-finance Compleat Female Stage Beauty with Artisan Pictures and Michael Kuhn's Qwerty Films. Artisan has domestic rights to ...