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Happinet takes Japanese rights to Tornatore's latest
Happinet Pictureshas acquired all Japanese rights to Giuseppe Tornatore's highly-anticipatedfilm, La Sconosciuta.The picture,which is sold by Rome-based Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE), has also beenpicked up by Brazil's Paris Films.Set in the northernItalian town of Trieste, La Sconosciuta is Oscar-winningdirector Giuseppe Tornatore's first film in six years.The picture,which features Michele Placido ...
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UK's Warp X unveils first six low-budget features
FilmFour, the UK FilmCouncil's New Cinema Fund, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media and Optimum Releasinghave announced the first projects planned for their low-budget studio Warp X. The first film to be shotfor Warp X will be Travels With My Virginity, a comedy about a teenager hitchhiking in ruralFrance in 1978. The ...
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Poison Friends (Les Amitis Malefiques)
Dir: Emmanuel Bourdieu. Fr. 2006. 103mins.The theme of young male friendship gets a vigorousthough hardly ground-breaking workout in PoisonFriends, French screenwriter Emmanuel Bourdieu'ssecond directorial outing, which opened Critics' Week at Cannes. Though theprotagonists are already at university, this still qualifies as a coming-of-agemovie, which (not for the first time) shows ...
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Sarah Alexander joins Stardust cast
Actress Sarah Alexander has joined the cast of Matthew Vaughn's fantasyepic Stardust. She will play Empusa, a 400-year-old witch.The film also stars Robert de Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes andnewcomer Charlie Cox.Filming starts in June. Alexander has appeared on UK TV shows including Coupling and Green Wing and she alsorecently ...
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Lusomundo, Forum sign on for Joe Roth films
Joe Roth's Revolution Studios has closed the final international deals on its debut slate of 36 films to be made over the next six years. Lusomundo in Portugal and Forum Film in Israel have taken the films for their territories joining Senator Films (Germany), Toho-Towa and Pony Canyon (Japan) and ...
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Young Films stars Gaelic-language Seachd
The first contemporaryGaelic-language feature, Seachd -- The Inaccessible Pinnacle, starts shooting on the Isle of Skye next week andcontinues through July.Scottish producer ChrisYoung, who previously worked on Festival, will produce for Young Films. The film is about a youngboy whose goes to live with his storytelling grandfather after the tragic ...
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La Tourneuse De Pages
Dir: Denis Dercourt. Fr. 2006. 83mins.While it tries to wedge itself inbetween the caustic social commentary of Claude Chabroland Michael Haneke's notion of past guilt hauntingthe Western bourgeoisie, Denis Dercourt'spsychological thriller La Tourneuse De Pages sadly has neither the wit nor thedepth to play in such a lofty league.Dercourt takes ...
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Quaid to star in Eclectic's Mexico period epic El Hubris
Dennis Quaid isset to star in Eclectic Pictures' $8.5m historical epic El Hubris,about the Pacho Villa-led Mexican invasion of the US in 1916.Heidi Jo Markel'sUS-based Eclectic is selling worldwide rights here on the project, which is 50%financed by Anthony J Tomaska and Joseph J Tomaska through Magnificent MileProductions.Quaid plays aretired ...
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Devlin to make directorial debut on Ghosting
IndependenceDay producer Dean Devlin will make his feature directorial debut on theparanormal thriller Ghosting.Devlin wrote thescript from a screenplay by Jessie Alexander and will produce with fellowElectric Entertainment partners Kearie Peak and Marc Roskin.Ghosting followsthe exploits of a recently crippled police officer who uses a technique toleave the world of ...
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Alpine launches domestic distribution arm with Snipes-starrer
Alpine Picturesis launching a theatrical distribution arm and will kick off this autumn withthe release of teen thriller Love Is The Drug written by CapeFear screenwriter Wesley Strick.Darryl Hannahstars in the story of a treacherous love triangle. The Box Office Productions'thriller also stars Lizzy Caplan, John Patrick Amedori and Jenny ...
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FilmFour backs Hillcoat's Death Of A Ladies Man
After earlier Cannesannouncements to back the next films from Michael Winterbottom and Ken Loach,FilmFour has announced another new film on its slate. The Channel 4 feature filmarm is working with Kudos Pictures, run by former FilmFour head Paul Webster,to co-finance Death Of A Ladies Man.The black comedy, with a budget ...
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Giordana plans Franco-Japanese co-production
Best of Youthdirector Marco Tullio Giordana's next picture will be a $7m-$10mFrench-language adaptation of cult author Amelie Northomb's period novel, Mercure.''The story centres on a girl disfigured by abomb who mustn't see the reflection' of her own faceFabrizio 'Mosca of Rome-based Titti Film willproduce, having previously worked with the director ...
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Shepperton Studios set to host Pullman film
The new UK tax credit looksto have already paid dividends, luring New Line's $150m adaptation of PhilipPullman's His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass away from the Czech Republic to Shepperton Studiosjust outside LondonThe prospect is bound toprovide a major boost to the British studio sector following a lengthy periodof uncertainty ...
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Buskin basks in equity
Rome-based sales and co-production outfit Buskin Filmhas sealed a '$20m financial partnership with Italian private funds groupMg Lab.''The deal will enable Buskin to board internationalco-productions by'investing between 10-25% of a film's budget. In future, Buskin hopes' to be able to invest upto 35% of a movie's budget.'' Buskin CEO Antonio ...
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MK2 takes Lau and Mak's Confession
Hong Kong's Media Asia Distribution haspre-sold all French-speaking rights to Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's ConfessionOf Pain to France's MK2.Infernal Affairs star Tony Leung Chiu-wai willstar in the $8-10m project which is scheduled to start shooting in June forpan-Asian release during Christmas 2006. Takeshi Kaneshiro (Perhaps Love,House Of Flying Daggers) ...
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Aardman to make Wallace And Gromit movie
Aardman, the celebrated UK animation company which this weekend sees the US release of its first film Chicken Run, is planning a feature based around its popular characters Wallace and Gromit for release in 2004.The Wallace and Gromit film will be produced after the next Aardman film The Tortoise And ...
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London Film Focus will feature a dozen world premieres
A dozen world premieres are among around 40 filmsscreening at this year's London UK Film Focus (LUFF). The third edition of the event runs from June 26-29,attracting distributors from around the world to see UK product. Among the titles likely to pique the curiosity of thebuyers are Life & Lyrics ...
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Three Dots bask in Eternal Summer
Taiwan's Three Dots Entertainment, whichrecently launched a sales arm, has picked up international rights to LesteChen's gay youth drama Eternal Summer, starringJoseph Chang, Bryant Chang and Kate Yeung.The film, currently is shooting in Taiwan,tells the story of two schoolboys who are forced to become friends by theirteacher and then develop ...
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Ireton promoted to president and representative director of Warner Japan
William Iretonhas been promoted to president and representative director of WarnerEntertainment Japan.Ireton assumesbroad oversight of all of the studio's business activities in Japan, a remitthat encompasses theatrical and home entertainment operations, consumerproducts, online and emerging distribution technologies.He will reportthrough executive vice president of international Richard Fox to chairman andchief operating ...
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Apted recruited to direct Goal! 3
Director Michael Apted is in discussions with MilkshakeFilms to direct the final film in their Goal! trilogy. During a Cannes event with financiers Scion Films,producer Mike Jefferies announced that negotiations are ongoing with Apted for Goal!3.The film will be Apted's second football project in arow. He's currently shooting an as-yet-untitled ...