All Screen articles in 19 May 2005 – Page 8
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Stars warm up Frost production
Sopranos star Michael Imperioli and Frenchactress Irene Jacob have signed up to star in Paul Auster's upcoming TheInner Life Of Martin Frost. Manchurian Candidatestar Liev Schreiber is tipped to join them.The Euros3.5m film will start shooting in September and is produced by Gemini's PaoloBranco, Auster and Peter Newman who ...
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Filmexport touched by the hand of Maradona
RobertoDi Girolamo's Filmexport has taken worldwide rights to Marco Risi's upcoming$18m biopic, Maradona, which starts shooting next month.Thelong-gestating picture traces the life of the 44-year-old football icon, wholed Argentina's win in the 1986 World Cup but almost died of cocaine overdosesin 2000 and 2004. Rights to the script, including funds ...
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Filmauro shoots wide with US-set Morte
Aurelio De Laurentiis's Romeand LA-based production and distribution company Filmauro is lining up a slateof international and Italian titles, including films by hot Italian directorsDavide Ferrario and Carlo Verdone.De Laurentiis, who last yearproduced Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow, has bought rights toMassimo Carlotto's novel, L'Oscura Immensita' della Morte. ...
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Moviehouse to sell Fiennes starring tale of sexual obsession
Moviehouse Entertainment has been appointed to handle overseas sales on WhoKilled Norma Barnes', a contemporary tale of sexual obsession starringRalph Fiennes, Emily Mortimer, Emily Blunt and Ciaran Hinds.Director Malcolm McKay, best known for big-budget BBC dramas such as Gormenghast, is to startshooting the $6m production in the autumn. An adaptation ...
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FilmFour fast-tracks Glazer's Under The Skin
In Cannes with three filmsin official selection, the UK's FilmFour has confirmed it is fast-tracking UnderThe Skin, the new project fromwriter Milo Addica (The King) anddirector Jonathan Glazer. Addica is UK-bound followingCannes to further develop the screenplay with Glazer. A visual effects team isalready at work on designs for the ...
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Noe to set English-language debut in Japan
Pathe will produce the nextfilm from controversial French director Gaspar Noe. Enter The Void is an English-language Euros 10m film which isgearing up to shoot late this year.Noe, a notoriouslymeticulous filmmaker, is preparing to shoot in Japan and France. The two leadroles will be filled by unknowns and a large ...
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Element strikes Five Finger deals
Element Films International,the brand new sales outfit run by John Fremes has hit the ground running,scoring deals here on its thriller Five Fingers with DNC in Italy, Gussi Films in Mexico, CaliforniaFilms in Brazil, Lusomundo in Portugal and Hollywood Entertainment in Greece.The film, which has itsworld premiere today, stars Laurence ...
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Paz Vega sets Seville date with Maestranza
MaestranzaFilms, producer of Un Certain Regard closing film Habana Blues, is preparingwhat will be its biggest film to date: 17th century biopic La Roldana with star Paz Vega.Vega (Spanglish) will playthe title character, a talented, ahead-of-her-time sculptress in theartistically vibrant city of Seville in the 1600's. DeA Planeta is in ...
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THINKFilm Int'l hands out Cronenberg's Painkillers
THINKFilmInternational, the sales arm headed up by Mark Horowitz that launched this weekin Cannes, has picked up worldwide rights on David Cronenberg's $35m upcomingthriller Painkillers.Thenew division will commence pre-sales this week on the project, which is beingproduced by Cronenberg's Crash and eXistenZ producing team of Robert Lantos andAndras Hamori and ...
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Reding hosts Euro culture ministers for Cannes summit
EuropeanUnion media commissioner Viviane Reding has said she wants European film-makersto be able to use technology to boost the circulation of their films within theEU.Reding, who oversees theEuros 513m Media Programme, was speaking to Screen ahead of a Europe Dayconference she is hosting here on May 17.18 of the 25 ...
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Inspired Movies hits Cannes with Conquistador
Anglo-Indian productionoutfit Inspired Movies has arrived in Cannes with a slate of three new picturesto sell. The independent movieproduction house launched its UK operation in 2004 and has already producedthree full-length English language features - Red Mercury, Exitz and Take 3 Girls - featuringthe likes of Malcolm McDowell, Stockard ...
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Japanese embark on Korean buying spree
In a repeat of Berlin'sEuropean Film Market, Japanese buyers are devouring Korean product in pre-salesworth millions of dollars.Korea's Showbox has pre-soldaction title Running Wild toJapan's Amuse Soft Entertainment for an undisclosed seven figure sum. Shootingnow, it stars hot young Korean actor Kwon Sang-woo.It's the first of two bigJapanese pre-buys of ...
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Major coo for British bird Valiant
A plucky Britishwartime carrier pigeon hopes to ruffle feathers in America.Disney isputting its full marketing might behind UK animated feature, Valiant, scheduling a 1,500-2,000-print releasethrough Buena Vista on August 19.The key datemeans the CGI film should reach the key Labor Day weekend crowds. No otherfamily-oriented films are being released in ...
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Haynes' Dylan biopic lands at Celluloid Dreams
The international financingfor Todd Haynes' $25m star-studded biopic of Bob Dylan has started to fall intoplace now that Celluloid Dreams has been engaged as the film's internationalsales agent.With the Paris-based outfiton board, the necessary pre-sales can now be secured to allow Haynes to closecasting for I'm Not There, inwhich the ...
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Gilliam bids to revive Quixote with Thomas
Terry Gilliam is making abid to revive The Man Who Killed Don Quixote with his Tideland producer Jeremy Thomas and the Recorded PictureCompany.The former Python iscurrently back in the saddle with two films - The Brothers Grimm and Tideland - after seven years away. Gilliam made it clear thathe is ...
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Tartan wins US Battle for Reygadas' Heaven
Tartan USA has acquired USrights to Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' competition title Battle InHeaven (Batalla En El Cielo).Philippe Bober, the film'smajority producer and sales agent through his The Coproduction Office, has alsosold the film to France's Bac Films, Mexico's Gussi, Film Museum for theNetherlands and Belgium's Lumiere.Tartan Films previouslypre-bought the ...
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Ashley Walters to star in Fiesta's Life 'N' Lyrics
UK rap star Ashley Walters(So Solid Crew's Asher D) has signed to play the lead in Life 'N' Lyrics, the first feature from new British production outfitFiesta Productions, headed by producers Esther Douglas and Fiona Neilson. This will be Walters' secondmajor role following from Bullet Boy,which is on sales outfit ...
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Artist Film morphs into Style Jam
Naoki Kai, president of Japan's Artist Film, isheading a management buyout of the company, creating a new outfit called Style Jam focussing on producing films aimed at the international market. The new company, which launches on June 1, has aslate of high-profile Japanese films and international co-productions atvarious stages of ...
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2929 International sales on the Fast Track
ShebnemAskin's 2929 International sales division has closed its first deals at Canneson new titles Black Christmas, Prey and Fast Track.Horror remake BlackChristmas has gone to TF1, inFrance, Pathe in the UK, MediaFilm in Italy, Paradiso in Benelux, MGN inEastern Europe, and Avsar in Turkey. Prey has been snapped up by ...
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Mandate moves Slither, Whisper sales
Joe Drake's Mandate Pictureshas struck a raft of major territory sales on Gold Circle Films' horror titles Slither and Whisper.Whisper has been sold toConcorde Films for Germany, Metropolitan Films for France, Vertigo Films forSpain, Pyramid for CIS and Paradiso for Benelux. UniversalPictures will release in the US and Gold Circle ...