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Cracks fills up with Temple, Poots, Valverde
Juno Temple, Imogen Poots and Maria Valverde have joined Eva Green in Jordan Scott's Cracks.The film starts shooting in Ireland this week.HandMade Films International is handling worldwide sales. Garage producers Element Pictures and the IRish Film Board have now joined the project.Producers are Future Films' Kwesi Dickson, Industry Entertainment's Rosalie ...
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HanWay sells Wenders' Palermo to UK's Axiom
Axiom Films, has bought all UK rights to Wim Wenders Cannes Competition title Palermo Shooting from HanWay Films.The film has also been pre-sold in France (Ocean), Germany (Senator) and Italy (BIM).The film has its Cannes debut on Saturday and HanWay will host a private buyers screening mid-week.Axiom already acquired a ...
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Poisson Rouge puts on the Ritz
Producer Christopher Granier-Deferre of London-based Poisson Rouge Pictures will work with Mrs Henderson Presents writing and producing team David and Kathy Rose to develop a feature based on the life of Cesar Ritz. Ritz was the flamboyant entrepreneur behind the success of the The Ritz Hotel.'He really changed the way ...
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Prince Caspian takes crown at North American box office
Buena Vista's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian dominated the North American box office over the weekend, though its estimated opening gross of $56.6m was short of most projections.Paramount's Iron Man and Fox's What Happens in Vegas held up well in their third and second weekends respectively, but Warner's Speed ...
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Iron Man strong, Caspian promising internationally
Iron Man has maintained its grip on the international marketplace for a third straight weekend, grossing an estimated $25.6m for an international total to date of $206m.The comic book-based blockbuster's nearest challenger was The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, which started its international roll-out with a promising estimated $20.7m from ...
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Wenders to serve up Tokyo-set thriller
Films Distribution has acquired the next film from Wim Wenders. Based on the book In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami, the film, entitled, Miso Soup , was developed by producer Philippe Carcassonne who brought the project to Wenders. Wenders will shoot the $8m film beginning ...
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Fox uncorks Japanese remake of Sideways
20th Century Fox is moving fast to bulk up local productions for its new Fox International Productions (FIP) unit, signing a production deal with Fuji TV in Japan to remake Alexander Payne's Oscar-winning Sideways.'There is a growing affection for wine and the art of savouring wine in Japan and they ...
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Clint Eastwood's Changeling changes name
Clint Eastwood's Changeling has undergone a transformation of its own, with the director changing the film's title on the eve of its competition screening in Cannes.It will now be called The Exchange. The film, about a woman in 1920s Los Angeles whose son is kidnapped, has always been dubbed L'Echange ...
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EU greenlights Vivendi Universal with conditions
The European Commission (EC) has waved through the three-way merger between Vivendi, Canal Plus and Seagram, after Vivendi agreed to sell its 20% stake in BSkyB and guaranteed that Canal Plus' pay-TV competitors will have access to Universal's film product.The concessions save the merger, first unveiled in June, from a ...
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Entertainment One's RCV bags hot titles for Benelux
Entertainment One, the fast growing Canadian media group, has announced recently bought Benelux distributor RCV Entertainment has closed distribution deals on some of the most anticipated projects on this years market.RCV's managing directors Jan A. Kouwenhoven and Joke Wartenbergh confirmed a selection of the titles they have secured. Among them ...
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Cineart snaps up competition titles
Belgian arthouse distributor Cineart has been snapping up titles in Cannes official selection. New acquisitions include Waltz With Bashir (on The Match Factory's Cannes slate) and Korean title The Chaser (sold by Fine Cut.)Among the films it has already acquired are Brazilian competition title Linha De Passe from Walter Salles ...
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TrustNordisk elects for The Candidate
Bolstering its Cannes slate, Scandinavian sales outfit TrustNordisk has picked up The Candidate. The film is produced by Miso Film. Kasper Barfoed (The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar) directs. The cast is led by Scandinavian star Nicolai Lee Kaas (Open Hearts), Lee Kaas, Kim Bodnia, David Dencik and Swedish ...
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Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival launches market
Korea's Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) is launching a projects market specifically for genre films during its upcoming 12th edition (July 18 - 27).Dubbed the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF), Pifan's market is modeled on Rotterdam's Cinemart and Pusan's PPP and will run July 19 - 23.NAFF will ...
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Focus picks up Amenabar's Agora
Focus Features International (FFI) has picked up international rightsexcluding Spain to Alejandro Amenabar's English-language historicalsaga Agora starring Rachel Weisz.Agora takes place in fourth century Egypt as the legendary femaleastronomer and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria fights to preserve theLibrary of Alexandria's collection from civil unrest caused by the riseof Christianity.Shooting is ...
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Citigroup merchant banking affiliate to offer film advisory services
New York, Los Angeles and Paris-based Citigroup merchant banking affiliate Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) will begin offering financial advisory services to North American and European clients.CEC CEO Benjamin Waisbren will personally advise clients and lead a team of experienced investment banking professionals located in North America and Europe. CEC already ...
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Tic Tac productions to tackle first Franco graves feature
Galicia-based Tic Tac productions will be the first company to make a feature-length film about the mass graves of those killed by General Franco's rebel forces in Spain.Flores Tristes will be directed by respected local film-maker Teo Manuel Abad who has gained exclusive access to the graves and spoken to ...
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Paramount backs Carrera's Mexican drama Backyard
Paramount has bought the rights to Carlos Carrera's Mexican drama Backyard from the film's co-producers Indigo Films.'The studio will help finance the project and then distribute it in the US and Mexico and other territories,' a Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) spokesman told Screen. IMCINE is promoting the film at Cannes.A ...
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Holland ready to finish historic outlaw story after five-year delay
Agniezska Holland is set to resume filming on The True Story Of Janosik in July. The project is billed as an epic story of Juraj Janosik, a historical Slovak figure whose legend is often compared to that of Robin Hood. Production was halted in 2003 when financing ran into ...
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London's Production Finance Market sets up ties with Rome Film Fest
The second Film London Production Finance Market (PFM) will be held Oct 20-21 as part of the Times BFI London Film Festival. This year's second-annual event is hoping to increase its European presence. UK and international producers and financiers can apply until July 25. More than 60 financiers will attend, ...
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Wild Bunch picks up R-Xmas, Mischka
Wild Bunch, the increasingly independent auteur label within France's StudioCanal, has picked up sales duties on Abel Ferrara's newest picture R-Xmas and grabbed the directorial return of Jean-Francois Stevenin. R-Xmas had previously been represented by StudioCanal's main sales outfit Le Studio Canal Plus. But Wild Bunch chief Vincent Maraval had ...