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Dogville
Dir: Lars von Trier. Denmark. 2003. 177minsThe 900lb gorilla of this year's Cannes Competition, Lars von Trier's Dogville is a typically uncompromising experiment in stripped down narrative. Excessive in its running-time and highly theatrical in its execution, it ultimately emerges as a vivid and thoughtful exploration of a world condemned ...
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The Eye opens wide in Italy
Italian distributor Eagle Pictures scored a superb release over the weekend (May 16-18) for its Hong Kong-Thailand co-produced pick up The Eye.The Pang Brothers' (Bangkok Dangerous) horror title took a resounding $1.15m (Euro1m) over the three-day weekend in Italy to land the number one spot and knock 20th Century Fox's ...
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Naumann opens new bag of funding measures
German culture minister Michael Naumann has unveiled a package of measures to strengthen the federal government's culturally-oriented film funding programme.Naumann, whose film funding budget was raised this year from $7.75m (DM15.5m) to $9m (DM18m), is directing more money at script development with sums of up to $50,800 to be paid ...
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Australia calls for cultural exception
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) is calling for recognition of the special status of Australia's film and media industries in trade agreements between Australia and the US. The AFC held a briefing in Cannes yesterday (Monday) to coincide with the start of negotiations in Hawaii for a Free Trade Agreement ...
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Modigliani finds his muses
Bauer Martinez Studios has assembled an international cast to join Andy Garcia in Modigliani, a $12m picture about the last days in the life of the famous artist that is scheduled to start shooting in Bucharest on May 25.Elsa Zylberstein will play Jeanne Hebuterne, Omid Djalili will play Picasso, Eva ...
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Hsu's latest joins 'Changing China' series
Taiwan's Arc Light Films has set Hsu Hsiao-Ming's Love Of May as the next film in the 'Changing China' series that it is co-producing with France's Pyramide group. A romantic drama about the relationship between a girl from the Chinese mainland and a Taiwanese boy, the film will star Chen ...
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Weg India on US shopping spree
Indian sales and distribution company Weg India is becoming an aggressive buyer of US product snapping up Indian rights to five pictures during this market so far. Among the pictures acquired by Weg are three from Franchise Pictures - The In-Laws, starring Michael Douglas, The Whole Ten Yards with Bruce ...
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Cannes to host piracy summit next year
Next year's Cannes festival will be host to a conference on anti-piracy issues it was announced after a meeting between MPA chief Jack Valenti and France's minister of culture Jean-Jacques Aillagon. 'We urge the creative community and cinema professionals of France, the US and all countries to join together in ...
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Oz caper picked up by Myriad's radar
Myriad Pictures has acquired worldwide rights excluding Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea to Australian comedy caper Under The Radar directed by Evan Clarry and produced by Chris Brown and Chris Fitchett of Picture In Paradise Productions.The film stars Nathan Phillips, Steady Eddy, Clayton Watson and Chloe Maxwell as a ...
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Egoli Tossell dives into cash pool
Egoli Tossell, one of the leading German indie producers, has won itself a pool of fresh cash to boost its development slate. The company, which was involved in last year's Cannes competition title The Russian Ark and Nana Djordjadze's 2000 Directors Fortnight film 27 Missing Kisses, was granted a $1.5m ...
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Bohemian takes delivery of Life
Bohemian Films, the production, financing and distribution company formed last Cannes by Fran and Kaz Kuzui and Fortissimo principals Wouter Barendrecht and Michael J Werner, has taken delivery of its first film, Last Life In The Universe (pictured). It is expected to appear at a number of autumn festivals. The ...
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Tube speeds to Shochiku
A major Japanese deal for its top action title has crowned the return to market of Korea's Tube Entertainment. Tube Entertainment has had a convoluted corporate history and returned to Cannes this year as a seller for the first time since regaining its independence from an on-off takeover by CJ ...
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Zentropa, Nimbus continue Nordisk romance
The prolific Danish production outfits Zentropa and Nimbus Film have extended their output deal with exhibition-distribution major Nordisk Film for another two years. The deal includes a number of new films from directors such as Annette K. Olesen, Per Fly, Susanne Bier, Soren Kragh Jacobsen, Natasha Arthy, Aage Rais Nordentoft, ...
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Ellipse, Expand set to tie the knot
France's two leading television production outfits - Canal Plus subsidiary Ellipse Programme and the Expand group - plan to merge their production labels and libraries to create a new entity with annual revenues of $212m (FFR1.4bn). The new group, which will operate under the Expand banner, will control a library ...
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Nicole Kidman graces von Trier with two more
After some prompting from Lars von Trier, Nicole Kidman confirmed yesterday in Cannes that she will star in his next two films, reprising the role of Grace, the heroine of competition entry Dogville. Von Trier revealed also that the third film in his U.S.A. trilogy - all of which will ...
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Walden Media journeys to Verne, Shakespeare
Cary Granat's Walden Media, the backer of James Cameron's out-of-competition Cannes screener Ghosts Of The Abyss, is to produce a big-budget 3-D movie of Jules Verne's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth as well as a new family film of Shakespeare's As You Like It.Walden will next go into ...
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Paramount to remake Italian drama Three Wives
Paramount Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire English-language remake rights to Italian drama Three Wives (Tre Mogli). The film, originally directed by Marco Risi in 2001, starts with three women from different social classes whose husbands disappear on New Year's Eve after a bank robbery. The story is a ...
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Summit dons Maybury's Jacket
Summit Entertainment has added The Jacket, a new film from Mandalay Pictures to its sales slate. Mark Wahlberg is attached to star in the lead role of the drama which is the first US film from the UK's John Maybury (Love Is The Devil).A co-production between Mandalay and Section Eight, ...
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Miramax goes Dutch with Twin Sisters
Miramax Films has acquired North American distribution rights from High Point Films to the Dutch local blockbuster Twin Sisters (De Tweeling) directed by Ben Sombogaart. Based on the best-selling novel by Tessa de Loo, the film's set in 1920s Europe and follows two sisters torn apart after their parents die ...
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Mia Bays goes Missing In Action
Mia Bays is leaving her post as head of marketing and distribution at UK National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium to launch her own production company, Missing In Action Films.Bays has already assembled a broad slate of commercial and edgier fare, mostly at first draft stage, including horror title Regeneration, ...