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New-look FilmFour boasts tantalizing slate
A best-selling novel generating interest from a host of US companies, a comedy about a rock legend and a thriller about a brutal killing are amongst the avowedly 'catholic' debut slate of the UK's restructured FilmFour under Tessa Ross.Highlights include The Lovely Bones, UK auteur Lynne Ramsay's highly anticipated adaptation ...
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Oscar frontrunner Swank logs onto Porchlight slate
Porchlight Entertainment, the LA-based sales and production outfit specialising in family programming, has acquired international theatrical, TV and video rights to Heartwood, a coming of age story starring Hilary Swank and Jason Robards.Swank, who is frontrunner to win this year's Best Actress Academy Award for Boys Don't Cry, plays the ...
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China hot for Infernal Affairs
Media Asia's Infernal Affairs franchise is such a hot property on the Chinese mainland that a local distributor has snapped up the first two films before either has been cleared by the mainland authorities for theatrical release.China's Stellar Megamedia Corp (SMC) has acquired mainland theatrical rights to both Infernal Affairs ...
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Zelezny sacked from Czech broadcaster TV Nova
Czech broadcaster TV Nova sacked it director Vladimir Zelezny on Wednesday. Zelezny is charged with causing the Czech government $355m in damages by breaking Nova's contract with cosmetics heir Ron Lauder's Central European Media Enterprises (CME) in 1999. Hours later, a Swedish court of appeal issued the final verdict in ...
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UA pulled in by Green's Undertow
United Artists has acquired rights in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and South Africa to David Gordon Green's next film The Undertow which is being sold here by Content International. Gordon Green is the acclaimed young film-maker behind George Washington and All The Real Girls.UA president Bingham Ray ...
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UA pulled in by Green's Undertow
United Artists has acquired rights in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and South Africa to David Gordon Green's next film The Undertow which is being sold here by Content International. Gordon Green is the acclaimed young film-maker behind George Washington and All The Real Girls.UA president Bingham Ray ...
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Miner tapped by Davis for $15m horror
Steve Miner has been set as the director for Black Sky, the $15m horror movie available here from Chris Davis International. Miner's many credits include Halloween H20, Lake Placid and two Friday The 13th movies. The effects-heavy picture, which starts production in California and Canada in late summer, tells the ...
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MK2 acquires festival duo
MK2, the French mini-major which controls the largest circuit of art-house cinemas in Paris, has added to its distribution slate with the acquisition of Un Certain Regard film Mille Mois by Faouzi Ben Saidi from Fortissimo Film Sales. Release is scheduled for October. On the sales side it also grabbed ...
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Film Library offers Dragon Blade, Green Tea
Hong Kong and Los Angeles-based sales agent The Film Library has picked up international rights to US$10m Hong Kong animation Dragon Blade and Green Tea directed by mainland Chinese director Zhang Yuan. Dragon Blade, directed by Australian stunt co-ordinator Antony Szeto, is the first feature-length 3D computer-animated film to be ...
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Korea's CJ expands Cannes slate
CJ Entertainment, the Korean major which yesterday received an official visit from French culture minister Jean-Pierre Aillagon, expanded its Cannes slate with the addition of supernatural thriller, The Uninvited.The film, which goes on release in Korea at the end of June, pairs two of the country's top stars Park ...
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Curb involved in Merchant Ivory threesome
Curb Entertainment has taken on international sales excluding France, Italy and the UK to Merci Docteur Rey, a completed production from Merchant Ivory Productions in association with Eat Your Soup Productions. The film, which screened recently at the Festival du Film de Paris, was written and directed by Andrew Litvack.Dianne ...
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Metro Tartan hires Asian buyer
UK distributor Metro Tartan Distribution has appointed Christine Iso as its head of acquisitions with specific responsibility for Asia.Effective immediately, Iso replaces Patrizia Raeli Shibata, who recently co-founded Bright Angel, an Amsterdam-based distribution company covering the Benelux region.Tartan's Hamish McAlpine and Laura De Casto will now primarily deal with all ...
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Rotterdam's CineMart sows seeds for Berlin
The Berlin International Film Festival and market may only have unfolded this week, but the mating game for development and production finance partners is already in full swing.It kicked off in earnest earlier this month at the International Film Festival, Rotterdam which staged the 17th CineMart gathering for financiers, talent ...
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Ardant, Placido team up
Fanny Ardant and popular Italian actor Michele Placido are to star in a new picture from acclaimed theatre-film director Mario Martone (Nasty Love).Named L'Odore del Sangue (The Smell Of Blood), the picture tells the parallel story of two 50-year-olds who are both in relationships with much younger people. The film ...
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Mother seduces key Euro sales
Roger Michell's The Mother, the Director's Fortnight title which world premieres tonight has closed UK, French and Spanish deals. Momentum Pictures acquired UK theatrical and video rights from BBC Films, which financed the Hanif Kureishi screenplay about an older woman's affair with her daughter's boyfriend. Renaissance Films, which is handling ...
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Ardant, Placido team up
Fanny Ardant and popular Italian actor Michele Placido are to star in a new picture from acclaimed theatre-film director Mario Martone (Nasty Love).Named L'Odore del Sangue (The Smell Of Blood), the picture tells the parallel story of two 50-year-olds who are both in relationships with much younger people. The film ...
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First Indo-French co-production unveiled
Indian TV network Zee has signed a deal with France TV and Silhouette Films to co-produce One Dollar Curry, the first time France and India have allied on a film. The Euros 2m film will star Smriti Mishra and be directed by Paris based Indian filmmaker Vijay Singh (Jaya Ganga). ...
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Australia's development agency and archives to merge
The film industry is generally perplexed by last night's surprise news that the Australian Government has decided to merge the Australian FilmCommission (AFC), which has the principal role of developing Australian films and film-makers, and Screensound, the organisation which collects and preserves the country's audiovisual heritage.Legislation will have to be ...
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ABS traffics again with Luper partners
The Spanish co-producer behind The Tulse Luper Suitcases series, ABS Production-Barcelona, has boarded another project involving several of the same co-production partners: a thriller set against the world of art trafficking and forgeries.ABS is teaming up with Tulse Luper partners Kasander Film Company and Delux Productions on Paul Tickell's The ...
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NonStop dives with Cousteau
Sweden's NonStop Entertainment has signed a deal with Europe Images International SA to handle Jacques Cousteau's extensive catalogue of more than 100 titles for TV and video in Scandinavia and Iceland. The deal includes films like Silent World, Odyssey, Mississippi, Amazon and The Undersea World. The Cousteau film collection includes ...