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BBC Films' slate includes US-set film by Lynne Ramsay
"We're in very bullishmood. We've got some great films," says head of BBC Films David Thompson. Threemonths ago, it was announced that the Beeb's investment in film production isset to rise from $17m to $26m a year, subject to the favourable settlement ofthe current licence fee negotiations.Here in Cannes, BBC ...
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Rocket Pictures plans new UK animation facility for Gnomeo
Elton John and DavidFurnish's Rocket Pictures is teaming with Miramax Films to create a newanimated facility in London for the Rocket/Miramax CG-animated musical comedy GnomeoAnd Juliet.Meanwhile Lee Hall, whoworked with John on Billy Elliotis writing the Elton John biopic tentatively titled Rocket Man for Disney. The project will be crafted ...
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Match Factory, Emperor to handle The Drummer
Michael Weber's The MatchFactory and Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) will handleinternational distribution of Kenneth Bi's The Drummer, set to star Simon Yam and Lee Sinje.EMP will handle distributionto select Asian territories on the drama, which revolves around the art ofChinese zen drumming, while Munich and Cologne-based The Match ...
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Laura Dern signs on for Polson's Tenderness
Laura Dern has joinedRussell Crowe in John Polson's thriller Tenderness, which is set to begin filming in New York onMonday.New York-based GreeneStreetFilms International is reporting a torrent of interest on the story of aviolent teenager who falls for a runaway girl while being investigated by adetective.Sixth Sense editor Andrew Mondshein ...
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UK's Warp X unveils first six low-budget features
FilmFour, the UK FilmCouncil's New Cinema Fund, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media and Optimum Releasinghave announced the first projects planned for their low-budget studio Warp X. The first film to be shotfor Warp X will be Travels With My Virginity, a comedy about a teenager hitchhiking in ruralFrance in 1978. The ...
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Firth, Weisz and McKellen sign on for The Colossus
Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen and Susan Sarandonhave signed on to star in The Colossus for director Sean Mathias.Katselas Films' political thriller is based on AnnHarries' novel Manly Pursuits. Lisa Katselas, who previously worked on RichardIII and MrsDalloway,will produce. Mathias co-wrote the screenplay with Myer Taub. The story follows ...
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FilmFour backs Hillcoat's Death Of A Ladies Man
After earlier Cannesannouncements to back the next films from Michael Winterbottom and Ken Loach,FilmFour has announced another new film on its slate. The Channel 4 feature filmarm is working with Kudos Pictures, run by former FilmFour head Paul Webster,to co-finance Death Of A Ladies Man.The black comedy, with a budget ...
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FilmFour backs Ken Loach's These Times
FilmFour willwork with Ken Loach on his next feature, with a working title of These Times.Loach, whose TheWind That Shakes The Barleyis in Cannes competition, will direct the new film from a screenplay by PaulLaverty.FilmFour is thefirst company on board as co-financiers for the project, which will be producedby Loach's ...
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Tartan takes UK, Ireland rights to Mr Lonely
Tartan Films has taken onall UK and Ireland rights to Harmony Korine's Mr Lonely, which is currently shooting on location in Panama,Scotland and Paris. Diego Luna stars as aMichael Jackson look-a-like and the cast also features Samantha Morton, AnitaPallenberg and Denis Lavant. Harmony Korine co-wrote with Avi Korine. MarcelZyskind served ...
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FilmFour backs Winterbottom's Italy-set Genova
FilmFour hasannounced plans to continue its relationship with Michael Winterbottom andAndrew Eaton's Revolution Films by financing Winterbottom's next feature Genova. Eaton said theproject's budget would be around $3.9m (£3m) and shooting is likely to start inthe autumn. Laurence Coriat,who also collaborated with Winterbottom on 1999's Wonderland, wrote the screenplay. The ...
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UK's One Eyed Films launches production arm
London-based One Eyed Films,a sales boutique specializing in Latin American cinema, is launching aproduction arm at Cannes.The first film on the slateis a $1.2m Buenos Aires- and Rio-set sexual coming-of-age drama called FromThe Beginning To The End. Brazilianwriter-director Aluizio Abranches (The Three Marias) is behind the project.One Eyed Films managingdirector ...
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Peace Arch takes on Roberts' In Tranzit
Peace Arch Films has boardedthe post-war drama In Tranzit,starring John Malkovich, and the drama How To Change In Nine Weeks.In Tranzit is currently in post-production and centres on agroup of German soldiers accidentally sent to a female-run prisoner of war campin Leningrad after the second world war.Thomas Kretschmann andDaniel Bruhl ...
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Rezo signs up for Sokurov's Alexandra
France's Rezo Films hassigned with legendary Russian director Aleksandr Sukourov for his upcoming Alexandra.The film, about agrandmother who goes in search of her grandson fighting in Chechnya will shootin the Caucasus in July and August.Alexandra is in keeping with Sokourov's previous films about familyties Father And Son and MotherAnd Son. ...
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High Point adds Bride Flight and Dennis P to Cannes slate
London-based sales andproduction company High Point Films has taken world rights (excluding Benelux)for Bride Flight and Dennis P.The company is also now handling sales for Frank Van Mechelen's Belgium drama Tangier,about two Belgian bus drivers that are arrested in Morocco for trafficking drugs.Pre-production has just startedon Bride Flight, which is ...
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Klockworx snaps up Japanese rights to Ong Bak 2
Thailand's SahamongkolfilmInternational has sold hotly anticipated Tony Jaa vehicle Ong Bak 2 to Japan's Klockworx.Jaa will star in and serveas action choreographer on the $12-$15m film and is also considering whether todirect. Prachya Pinkaew, director ofthe original Ong Bak and TomYum Goong, will produce. Jaa'smentor and action choreographer Panna Rittikrai ...
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UK Film Council awards $1.2m from Development Fund
The UK Film Council hasannounced funding for nine new film projects through its Development Fund.The total investment in thenine films is $1.2m (£628,339). The projects funded are:Mrs Ratcliffe'sRevolution written by PeterStraughan and Bridget O'Connor, to be directed by Bille Eltringham;Ghetta Life, written by Christopher Browne;West Is West from writer Ayub ...
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Intandem on board for sales of new Carry On film
Bawdy British comedyfranchise Carry On is beingrevived. Here in Cannes, London-based Intandem Films is introducing buyers to CarryOn London, the 32nd and latestinstalment in the long-running series that began way back in 1958 with CarryOn Sergeant.The film, now inpre-production, is being produced by Chris Chrisafis and directed by PeterRichardson. Shane ...
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Capitol takes on sales for Beresford's Mansions
Capitol Films has taken oninternational sales for Bruce Beresford's A Dream Of Red Mansions, currently in pre-production. Kate Hudson and KenWatanabe are set to star in this epic love story set during the ChineseCultural Revolution. Capitol has already closed adeal on A Dream Of Red Mansionspre-Cannes with Toshiba Entertainment for ...
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Seven Arts to start sales for Henry Bean's Noise
Los Angeles-based Seven ArtsInternational will commence sales here on 'a slate of new work fromdirector Henry Bean, John Malkovich and Burt Reynolds.Seven Arts is in productionin New York on Bean's black comedy Noise about a frustrated New Yorker who declares war on the city's noise. WilliamHurt, Tim Robbins and Bridget ...
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Element closes slew of deals for Mr Brooks
Element Films International(EFI) has closed a raft of deals on thepsychological thriller MrBrooks starring Kevin Costner in theunlikely role of a compulsive killer. The co-production of LosAngeles-based Element Films, Costner's TIGProductions and ThomasAugsberger's Eden Rock Media is currentlyshooting in the US.Bruce A Evans directs thestory of a jaded killer pursued ...