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Just My Luck
Dir: Donald Petrie. US.2006. 103mins.Apparently designed to help teen queen Lindsay Lohan, Just My Luck ends up feeling like a teenromantic comedy not very convincingly dressed in adult clothes. Lohan's existing fan-base may still respond to the mix oflifestyle aspiration and fairy-tale romance, and the appearance of real-lifepop-rock group McFly ...
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Act, Knatchbull acquire UK distributor Artificial Eye
In a further shake-up to the UK distribution market,Artificial Eye Film Company, for 30 years the UK's leading distributor of arthouse and foreign language films, has been acquired byAct Entertainment Group, owner of Curzon Cinemas, andKnatchbull Communications Group.Terms of the acquisition were not released.The deal comes just as Artificial Eye ...
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Eurimages backs nine new European co-productions
Eurimages, the Council of Europe's film fund, has announced aslate of nine films to receive its latest round of support. Eurimageswill back the European co-productions with a total investment of $3.6m (Euros2.8m). The films are:Noemie Lvovsky's L'ami de Fred Astaire (France-Switzerland) Eric Rohmer's Les amours d'Astree et de Celadon(France-Spain-Italy)Sinisa Dragin's ...
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SCB pacts with Kong for Golden Flower financing
Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) has signed an agreement with award-winning local producer Bill Kong toprovide financing for the production of Zhang Yimou's Curse Of The Golden Flower. Currently shooting at China's Hengdian World Studios, the $45m film is producedby Kong and Beijing New Picture Film Co with Focus Features ...
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Verhoeven on board for adaptation of Kneeling on a flowerbed of violets
Paul Verhoevenhas taken on a new directing job in the Netherlands. Joining forces with the Dutch production company NLFilm & TV, Verhoeven will adapt the awarded Dutchnovel Kneeling on a flowerbed of violets (Knielenop een bed violen) forthe big screen.The project reunites Verhoeven and long-term collaborating writer Gerard Soeteman, who ...
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Danish director Simon Staho readies third feature
For his third feature Simon Staho is rounding up an impressive cast of Danish film andtheatre actors. The shoot of DaisyDiamond is scheduled to begin on May 22.The romantic drama stars Sofie Grabol (Accused), Trine Dyrholm(A Soap), Sonja Richter (Open Hearts) and Jens Albinus among others. Albinus willalso star in ...
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Alonso and Musaluppi recruited for Locarno juries
Leadingfigures from the New Argentine Cinema have been invited to serve on new jurieswhich are being established at this year's LocarnoFilm Festival under the new artistic director Frederic Maire.FilmmakerLisandro Alonso, whosedirecting credits include La Libertad, Los Muertos and the as-yet-unreleased Fantasmas, will be a jury memberof the new Leopard for ...
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Newmarket takes Sundance winner God Grew Tired Of Us
Newmarket Films haspicked up North American rights to Christopher Quinn's Sundance DocumentaryGrand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner God Grew Tired Of Us.The distributor plans an autumn release on the picture, which profiles theodyssey of three refugees from Sudan's civil war as they try to establish a newlife in the ...
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DeLoach takes top role at Fox Searchlight
SheilaDeLoach has been promoted to senior vice president and general sales manager atFox Searchlight, where she has been vice president of distribution for the pastnine yearsShe willrelocate from new York to Los Angeles reporting to chief operating officerSteve Gilula, who called her a "pioneer in film distribution' and a mentorfor ...
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Chance joins Granada Media board
Former BSkyB deputy managing director David Chance has joined UK media operation Granada Media as a non-executive director.The appointment comes as parent Granada Group is preparing to float its media division by mid-July. Granada is expected to stress Chance's experience in pay-TV and new media in the run-up to the ...
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French sales house looks for rich seam from the Pit
RisingFrench sales house Funny Balloons has acquired worldwide rights to Juan CarlosRulfo's award-winning In The Pit.Thefilm, produced by La Media Luna Producciones, Juan Carlos Rulfo and EugeniaMontiel, will have its market premiere at Cannes.InThe Pit is the Mexican director's second feature-lengthdocumentary and focuses on a Mexican legend which holds that ...
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Stasi thriller takes seven Lolas at German Film Awards
FlorianHenckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives Of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen)was the big winner at this year's German Film Awards in Berlin.The Stasithriller picked up seven Golden Lolas for best film, best direction, best leadactor (Ulrich Muehe), best supporting actor (Ulrich Tukur), best productiondesign (Silke Buhr), best cinematography (Hagen Bogdanski), ...
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Hassid heads foreign film buying for Canal Plus
The CanalPlus Group has appointed Laurent Hassid to the post ofdirector of foreign film acquisitions.Hassidwill report to head of film Evi Fullenbach. His responsibilities will includeoverseeing acquisitions of foreign films, excluding films from the US majors,and pre-buys on French films shot in foreign languages for Canal Plus, CanalPlus Cinema and ...
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The Day On Fire adds heat to Bleiberg's Cannes slate
LosAngeles-based sales house Bleiberg Entertainment will begin worldwide sales atCannes on thriller The Day On Firestarring Olympia Dukakis.JayAnania directed the tale of four women from different backgrounds whose livesintersect over the course of a turbulent 12 hours in New York punctuated by abombing.CarmenChaplin and Martin Donovan also star and Larry ...
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High-flying Snakes director claims Asylum
LosAngeles-based Hyde Park Entertainment has signed David Ellis to direct the darkthriller Asylum, which becomes the latestproject to join Hyde Park International's (HPI) dynamic Cannes slate.Thedeal represents a coup for Hyde Park as Ellis' upcoming thriller Snakes On APlane is tracking at a phenomenal level months ahead of itsUS release ...
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THINKfilm takes Off The Black on the Croisette
THINKFilmhas picked up all worldwide rights to James Ponsoldt'scoming-of-agedrama Off The Black, which premiered at SundanceandstarsNick Nolte and Trevor Morgan.Thedistributor plans a November release in the US and will introduceinternationalrights to buyers on the Croisette this week.OffThe Black charts the fateful friendship between a high schoolumpireand the young man who ...
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Mission stays strong in international marketplace
Paramount's Mission: Impossible III stayed strongover its second weekend in the international marketplace with an estimatedgross of $40.5m, representing a relatively modest 42% drop from last weekend'simpressive $70.3m opening.The weekend take - from the same 7,390 sites in 57territories at which the Tom Cruise sequel opened - brought M:I:III'srunning international ...
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David Ellis to direct Asylum for Hyde Park
Los Angeles-based Hyde ParkEntertainment has signed David Ellis to direct the dark thriller Asylum, which becomes the latest project to join Hyde ParkInternational's Cannes slate.The deal represents a coup for Hyde Park as Ellis' upcoming thrillerSnakes On A Plane istracking at a phenomenal level months ahead of its US release ...
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Poseidon can't sink Mission in US
Poseidon failed to knock Mission:Impossible III off the top of the North American box office chart thisweekend, as Paramount's Tom Cruise sequel grossed an estimated $24.5m and theWarner disaster movie managed a mediocre $20.3m.M:I:III's gross was down an acceptable 49%from last weekend's less than stellar opening figure of $47.7m. Poseidon'stake, ...
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Sundance premieres bookend Seattle festival
Twohigh-profile Sundance premieres bookend the 32nd Annual SeattleInternationalFilm Festival (SIFF), with Neil Berger's period dramaTheIllusionist opening and Michel Gondry's The ScienceOf Sleepclosingthe event.Programmershave picked 419 features and shorts including 19 world premieres for the 25-dayevent, which runs from May 25 to Jun18.Amongthe world premieres are Jordan Albertsen's youth drama The ...