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Japan wakes up to Sleep
Fortissimo Films has logged its first major deal on the New Crowned Hope project I Don't Want To Sleep Alone. Playing in Toronto, the Tsai Ming-liang drama competed at Venice and has been picked up for Japan by Prenom H. The deal was concluded at Venice between Shinohara Hiroko and ...
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ReviewsThe Lives Of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen)
Dir/scr. Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck.Ger. 2006. 137mins.
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San Sebastian's Spanish selections include The Backwoods
Spain's premiere festival, San Sebastian, has unveiled a raft of new Spanish directorialtalent in its first line-up announcement. Filmax's 1970s-set$5.6m Spanish thriller Backwoods,with Gary Oldman, Virginie Ledoyen, Paddy Considine and Aitana Sanchey-Gijon, directed byBasque first-timer Koldo Serra,is perhaps the most splashy debut but will play outside competition in the Zabaltegi/New ...
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Locarno's line-up boasts more US films
The full line-up for the 59ththLocarno International Film Festival (Aug 2-12) hasbeen unveiled, marked by a boost in US fare underlined by opening film Miami Vice, final night film Little Miss Sunshine and two Sundancetitles in the International Competition. Actor Willem Dafoe will behonoured with an artistic excellence award while ...
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Celluloid Dreams racks up robust Cannes sales
Frenchsales label Celluloid Dreams has reported a "robust" Cannes on its bulging slate, ledby the newly-announced English-language remake of Michael Haneke'sFunny Games starring Naomi Watts. Thefilm, which will be released in the UK by co-producer TartanFilms, was snapped up by a raft of eager buyers including Germany's X-Verleih,Lucky Red in ...
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Scalpel takes on sales for Loktev's Day Night Day Night
Pierre Menahem'sParis-based Scalpel Films has picked up worldwide rights to a second Cannes title - the anticipated suicide bomber drama Day Night Day Night by Julia Loktev, which is screening as part of Directors Fortnight.ID Distribution has already signedon for France for this film about a 19-year-old girl preparing tobe ...
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Celluloid Dreams sets up shop in the UK
French sales label CelluloidDreams is to open a London office, with JanineGold as vice president of acquisitions and sales overseeing UK material andmanaging the Paris-based sales team.The move follows Celluloid's markedexpansion into English-language fare and European co-productions. Currently thelabel is representing UK projects including Francois Ozon'sEnglish-language Angel, being shot inLondon ...
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Scalpel picks up rights to first Paraguayan film in 30 years
PierreMenahem's Scalpel Films has picked up international sales rights to the firstfilm from Paraguay in more than three decades, the Cannes title Hamaca Paraguaya.And theinternational campaign has kicked off in advance of the film's Un CertainRegard screening with ID Distribution taking French rights.Directedby first-timer (and thus Camera D'Or contender) Paz ...
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Scapel Films scores raft of sales for football drama
Pierre Menahem's Paris-basedScalpel Films has scored a raft of sales on Icelandic gay football comedy-dramaEleven Men Out following its Berlinale Panorama screening.Currently playing at New Directors, New Films in New York, ElevenMen Out has been picked up by Here! Films for the US, France'sSwift, Vertigo in Spain, Salzgeber in ...
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Lion Rock roars into China
Producer Terence Chang is moving full-steam into Chinawith three mid-budget films to be shot on the mainland - all of them on top ofJohn Woo's 2007 production of Battle Of Red Cliff, set to be China'smost expensive film ever.Chang is ready to roll on the first, an as-yet-untitled1930s-era gangster film, ...
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China-led crossover epics 'draining' Asia dry
Mid-budget producersin Asia are facing a crisis as investmentdollars are drained into mega co-productions, leading to a "drought" of talent,according to Applause co-founder Peter Chan Ho-sun.Speaking at Filmart'sSeminar On Film Financing yesterday, the director said the commercial realitiesof mounting large-scale China epics means the films "must be big,spend $10-$30m, must ...
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Fortissimo game for Tian's Go Master
Fortissimo Films has boardedTian Zhuangzhuang's highly-anticipated The Go Master, taking international rights outside China.Fortissimo co-chairmenMichael Werner and Wouter Barendrecht are executive producers on the $6mCannes-tipped epic, which is currently in post-production in Beijing.The Go Master stars Chang Chen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Sylvia Chang (Eat Drink Man Woman) and Xin ...
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Celluloid Dreams doing brisk international sales with Offside
French sales company Celluloid Dreams has reported strong internationalsales on Berlinale Jury Prize winner Offside, with a US deal also close to being announced.Offside, directed by Jafar Panahi, is set during the Iran-Bahrain World Cup qualifierwhere female football fans disguise themselves as men to watch the match.Described as a Farsi ...
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New pan-African co-production market for Sithengi market
A new pan-African co-production market will be launched at this year's Sithengi Film And TV Market in Cape Town.The African Co-Production Forum is an initiative between Sithengi and various international and African funds andfestivals to select two projects to pitch at Rotterdam's co-production market CineMartin 2007.A total of 15 projects ...
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Fortissimo picks up world sales on Waiter
Fortissimohas picked up world sales on Waiter,the Dutch-HK-based sales company's fourth venture with director Alex van Warmerdam.Producedby Marc van Warmerdam, the film has recently wrappedand is in post-production.Themovie is about a waiter and his creator, a writer with a meddling wife.Fortissimohas previously represented van Warmerdam's The Dress (1996), Little Tony ...
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Rapid sales for Roehler's The Elementary Particles
Celluloid Dreams has announced 15 territory sales on Oskar Roehler's Competition titleThe Elementary Particles, tocompanies including France'sTFM, Momentum in the UK,Canada's Sevilleand Lucky Red in Italy.Particles was not pre-sold: 'We wanted to seewho actually liked the film after Michel Houllebecq'scontroversial novel,' said Celluloid head Hengameh Panahi. 'But we've had multiple ...
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Garai is Ozon's English Angel
Casting has been locked in on Francois Ozon'sEnglish-language debut Angel, with Romola Garai to star alongside BerlinaleJury president and Ozon regular Charlotte Rampling. Celluloid Dreams is handling the film in Berlin.Principal photography has started up around Londonand Bristol on the $17.8m (Euros15m) story, set in 1910, about a woman who ...
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Celluloid Dreams secures rights to Sundance smash
Celluloid Dreams has picked up worldwide rights to Sundancesmash Quinceanera.The film, about two Latino teenagers in Los Angeles, won both the Grand Jury Prize and theAudience Award at Sundance.Celluloid Dreams has picked up worldwide rights to Sundancesmash Quinceanera.The film, about two Latino teenagers in Los Angeles, won both ...
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Celluloid Dreams strikes a deal with Hammer And Tongs
French sales house Celluloid Dreams is to part-finance and sell the nextproject from UK film outfit Hammer And Tongs - also known as GarthJennings and Nick Goldsmith.Jennings and Goldsmith, who last directed and produced The Hitchhikers Guide ToThe Galaxy, will move forward immediately with Son of Rambow (working title), to ...
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Kosslick predicts big business at new-look EFM
The European Film Marketopens today in its new centre at the Martin Gropius Bau (MGB) with Berlinale directorDieter Kosslick estimating a 100 percent increase infilm executives attending Berlin over 2005, both inside theofficial venues and out.'I'm completely confidentthat it will work and people will do big business here,' he said.With ...