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Sans Arme to open Festival du Film de Tremblant in Canada
French filmmaker Jean-Paul Rouve's Sans Arme, Ni Haine, Ni Violence will make its North American premiere in competition at the third Festival du Film de Tremblant. The film, in which Rouve portrays the mastermind of France's most sensational bank robbery, opened in France in April through Warner Bros. Rouve present ...
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Breakthrough Brits showcased at Hollywood Black Film Festival
The UK Film Council's Breakthrough Brits awards reception will take place in association with the Hollywood Black Film Festival in Los Angeles on June 5.British television director and producer Nigel Lythgoe will host the culmination of the Breakthrough Brits programme, which offers film-makers a networking, creative and business platform in ...
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Focus creams off Cannes sales for Milk, Mendes comedy
Focus Features International has closed key UK deals at the tail end of a successful Cannes market for the sales operation.Sales chief Alison Thompson concluded business with Momentum on Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk feature Milk, which is in post-production and stars Sean Penn as the slain gay rights activist.Contender ...
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Iron Man writing duo to adapt Ludlum thriller for Universal
Universal has hired in-demand Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway to adapt Robert Ludlum's thriller The Sigma Protocol.Paul Sandberg and Marc Abraham will produce with Strike Entertainment's Eric Newman.The Sigma Protocol was the last complete book that Ludlum, whose Jason Bourne novels Universal adapted into a $950m global ...
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Lionsgate delivers Transporter 3 to North America
Lionsgate has picked up North American rights to Transporter 3 in which Jason Statham will reprise his action role as the tenacious former Special Forces operative turned delivery man Chev Chelios.The Transporter films, which launched in 2002, have to date grossed more than $130m worldwide and close to $75m in ...
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Rapper programmes LA Film Festival sidebar
The Los Angeles Film Festival has appointed the rapper Common as its Artist In Residence for the June 19-29 event.Common has programmed a sidebar of personally inspiring films that includes Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.The performer, who stars alongside Angelina Jolie and ...
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Sex defies predictions with $56m US opening
New Line's long awaited TV adaptation Sex And The City defied low-ball predictions and elbowed Indiana Jones off the top perch to launch at number one through Warner Bros on an estimated $55.7m.If the nay-sayers had been concerned about the breadth of the demographic that would turn out to support ...
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Kielbasa steps down from Sarasota Film Festival
Jody Kielbasa is leaving his post as executive director of the Sarasota Film Festival after ten years in charge to pursue other artistic challenges.Mark Famiglio, executive board member and one of the founding members of the festival, has been unanimously elected president and succeeds Ian Black.Famiglio paid tribute to Kielbasa, ...
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3D Journey to premiere at LA Film Festival
Walden Media and New Line's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 3D will receive its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Family Day on June 29.Eric Brevig directed the classic tale of adventure that stars Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, and Anita Briem.The occasion marks the first ...
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Interview:Oliver Stone
'America has defined itself in the early 21st century as a cowboy state. George W Bush has hyperbolically expressed all the cowboy mentality the world holds of America.'So says Oliver Stone from Louisiana, three days before he starts shooting W, his serio-comic look at the 43rd president of the USA ...
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Cannes buyers snatch up Michael Moore's latest polemic
Michael Moore's follow-up to Fahrenheit 9/11 led a strong Cannes sales market for Paramount Vantage, solidifying its credentials as an emergent heavyweight supplier.Moore descended on the Croisette to personally introduce the project - which he is now understood to be filming at undisclosed locations - and described it as a ...
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CBS Films hires Sullivan as CFO
Reid Sullivan has been named CFO at CBS Films, the broadcasting giant's theatrical off-shoot that launched last year with the aim of making four to six films a year budgeted at up to $50m each.Sullivan arrives from First Look Studios where he also served as CFO.Prior to that he served ...
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Magnolia charmed by Great Buck Howard
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Bristol Bay Productions and Playtone Pictures' The Great Buck Howard starring John Malkovich, Colin Hanks and Emily Blunt.The drama about a mentalist who tries to revive his career with the help of a novice road manager was one of the high profile ...
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Cornish, Wasikowska honoured at Aussie Breakthrough Awards in LA
Abbie Cornish and Mia Wasikowska will be the centre of attention at the Los Angeles-based Australians In Film's (AiF) fourth annual Breakthrough Awards on June 5.AiF president Susie Dobson announced she has established the Heath Ledger Scholarship Fund, which will be presented annually to a young Australia-based actor to help ...
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Regent to handle release of Pendergast's Kabluey
Regent Releasing will partner with Whitewater Films to release first-timer Scott Prendergast's comedy Kabluey starring Lisa Kudrow, Teri Garr and Christine Taylor.Prendergast himself plays a man who helps his sister-in-law care for her unruly children while his brother is off fighting in Iraq.Rick Rosenthal, Gary Dean Simpson, Rhoades Rader, Jeff ...
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The Secrets to open Israel Film Festival in LA
The US premiere of Avi Nesher's The Secrets will open the 23rd annual Israel Film Festival, which is set to run from June 12-26 in Los Angeles, before moving to New York and Miami at the end of the year.The event, which is the largest showcase of Israeli cinema in ...
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Graphic novels get the Disney treatment through Kingdom Comics
The Walt Disney Studios has signed a multi-year deal with Ahmet Zappa, Harris Katleman and Christian Beranek's graphic novel imprint Kingdom Comics to create stories with adaptation potential.Kingdom Comics, a new wholly owned Disney company, will develop original graphic novels and reinvent live-action brands from the Disney's film library. Disney ...
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Cantet's The Class takes top honours from Screen's Critics Jury
Laurent Cantet's The Class not only won the jury's Palme d'Or in Cannes, it also is the top-rated film from Screen International's Cannes critics jury. It scored an average of 3.3 out of a possible 4.0, making it the most popular of the 22 films in Competition.This year's jury votes ...
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X Verleih takes German-language rights to Egoyan's Adoration
Germany distribution company X Verleih has picked up all German-language rights to Atom Egoyan's Cannes competitor Adoration. Written, produced and directed by Egoyan, the film won the Ecumenical Prize at the festival. It stars Arsinee Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard and Devon Bostick.As well as a key sale to Sony ...
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Brandauer joins cast of Coppola's Tetro as Gallo's father
Klaus Maria Brandauer is the latest addition to the cast of Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro which is in its ninth week of shooting in Buenos Aires.He plays Carlo Tetrocini, a symphony conductor and the father in the story. 'The father is a man of great complexity, arrogance and cruelty,' explained ...