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Weinsteins ramp up Asian Dynasty
Bob and Harvey Weinstein have set up the Asian labelDragon Dynasty and boosted their already sizeable library by licensing 43titles from News Corp subsidiary Fortune StarEntertainment.Dragon Dynasty will release all Asian titles in TheWeinstein Company's (TWC) stable, including recent theatricalacquisitions such as Ong Bak 2, SPL, Seven Swords and Dragon ...
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Gaspar Noe re-enters the Void
Gaspar Noe's Les Cinemas DeLa Zone has joined forces with Wild Bunch and Fidelite to co-produce his latestfilm Enter The Void.The $13.5m English languagefilm about a drug-dealing brother and his sister is expected to shoot in Japanin September.Equity co-producers includeJapan's Comstock Org and Russia's Central Partnership.Cinetic will handle USrights. The ...
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IFC takes erotic arthouse film Destricted
IFC Entertainment has bought all North American rightsto the explicit 'portmanteau film Destricted.''IFC moved in following Monday's Critics Week screeningand plans a' simultaneous theatrical and video-on-demand release throughits First'Take division.''Destricted premiered at Sundance and comprises aseries of erotic' short films by such avant-garde filmmakers as GasparNoe, Matthew' Barney, Larry Clark ...
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SPC buys Starpai's comic-book autobiography for US
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has snapped up NorthAmerican rights on 'Persepolis,Marjane Satrapi's comic book autobiography set in Iran' during theIslamic Revolution.''Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud adapted and areco-directing the project 'about an outspoken nine-year-old girl whoselove-hate relationship' with her homeland eventually forces her intopermanent exile.''Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve,Danielle Darrieux and Simon' ...
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Fortissimo signs up Wong library
Fortissimo Films has signed a deal with Cannesjury president Wong Kar-wai's Jet Tone Films to handle the increasing list oftitles in the director's library, including films not previously represented byFortissimo.The deal is an expansion of the long-standingrelationship between Wong and Fortissimo which first worked with the directoron Chungking Express in ...
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New charter launched for downloading
Online film downloading is to get moreuser-friendly with the signing of a new charter.In Cannes, EU and US Internet service providers andtelecom operators endorsed a new online charter, which aims to ensurethat both service providers and film companies cooperate to fight piracyand provide an attractive supply of films which can ...
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Ang Lee and Focus reunited for wartime spy thriller
Hot on the heels of their global smash BrokebackMountain, Ang Lee and Focus Features are fast-trackingthe Chinese-language second world war spy thriller Lust,Caution.Bill Kong, who previously collaborated with Lee on CrouchingTiger, Hidden Dragon, is producing the projectwith Lee. Focus Features holds worldwide rights excludingAsia.Production is scheduled to begin this autumn ...
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Celsius racks up deals on Paris Je T'aime
Buyers have fallen head overheels for Paris Je T'Aime.Mid-way through the market, the portmanteau picture (which opened Un CertainRegard) has been snapped up by more than 20 buyers. The French release throughLa Fabrique is scheduled for June 1. Celsius Entertainment, which co-financedthe film and is handling world sales, is in ...
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Boost to Czech film fund dies in parliament
The Czech parliament hasfailed to override a presidential veto of a measure that would have increasedstate support for the local film industry threefold and required greatercontributions from exhibitors and distributors. In April, the Chamber ofDeputies passed legislation that would increase the annual size of the StateFund for the Support and ...
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Business as usual for Canal Plus, Universal
Canal Plus boss Pierre Lescure played down the idea of major strategic changes to his company's role in the European and US film industries following the trans-Atlantic merger that today created Vivendi Universal and returned PolyGram to European ownership."If anything we will be producing more films over there," said Lescure, ...
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Pusan's Asian Film Market lines up companies
The upcoming Asian FilmMarket will have a focus on Asian talent and talent agencies with companiessuch as Korea's Namoo and IHQ, Japan's Stardust and Hong Kong's Jet Tone set toattend the four-day market (October 15-18).The market also hopes tosign up agencies from the US and other Asian territories including China ...
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Ambitious auteurs at Cannes still lack the 'wow factor'
It only takes two or threefilms to bring a festival alive. They don't even have to be touched bygreatness, just talking points that make everyone glad to be here. Cache set Cannes buzzing last year. The Brown Bunny managed it on an unforgettable scale in 2003. This year, a respectableroll ...
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Viggo Mortensen takes lead in Nazi drama
Viggo Mortensen is to star in Good, the screen adaptation of CP Taylor's award-winning stage play set during the Nazi era. British actors Jason Isaacs and Mark Strong will also appear in the film, which will be directed by Vicente Amorin. The screenplay has been written by John Wrathall.Good tells ...
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Tartan gets US rights to The Page Turner
Tartan USA has acquired allUS rights to The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de Pages) from Films Distribution. The film, which premiered inUn Certain Regard, is a psychological thriller, written and directed by DenisDercourt and starring Catherine Frot and The Child star Deborah Francois.Didar Domehri of FilmsDistribution negotiated the deal ...
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Trust books several deals for Red Road
Andrea Arnold's Red Road, one of the buzz titles in the Cannes competition,has closed multiple deals following its premiere earlier this week, with Spain,France and a host of other smaller territories already gone. The film is alsoattracting strong interest from the US.The version of Red Road on Copenhagen-based that screened ...
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Dogwoof gets UK rights to Grbavica
UK distributor DogwoofPictures has taken all UK rights to Berlinale Golden Bear winner Grbavica. Jasmila Zbanic'sSarajevo-set drama is a co-production from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, andGermany.The deal was struck withsales company Match Factory.'The film has animportant political and social angle, but it's also a moving story about amother and daughter,' ...
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Israel Film Fund backs new film from Koshashvili
The Israel Film Fund hasannounced that it is boarding a raft of new projects. The Fund will pump morethan $300,000 into $5m drama Kishta,by director Dover Koshashvili and producers Marek Rozenbaum and EdgardTenenbaum.Meanwhile, the Fund hasalready committed $400,000 to Lebanon, produced by Einat Bikel and executive produced by France-based AlainGirard ...
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Czech producers protest funding cut in Cannes
Czech producers in Canneshave reacted with dismay and fury to yesterday's decision by the Czech Parliamentto kill off the long-awaited law to boost Czech production support.To register their anger, theCzech film delegation attending the Cannes Film Festival shut down the Czechstand at 5 pm yesterday for the remainder of the ...
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Lucky Red finds partners for Mereu's Sound Of Wood
Italy's Lucky Red is teamingup with France's Haut et Court andBelgium's Artemis to co-produceSalvatore Mereu's new feature,Sound Of Wood (Sonteaula).The $3.85m film, produced byAndrea Occhipinti of Lucky Red, hasjust started shooting in Sardinia for20 weeks.It is adapted from a book byGiuseppe Fiore, about a 12-year-oldshepherd whose father is unjustlyaccused of ...
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McBurney and Teller to curate Katrin Cartlidge Foundation
The Sarajevo FilmFestival has announced that UK actor Simon McBurney and photographer JuergenTeller will be the curators of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation this year.Producer andfoundation trustee Cat Villiers announced the new curators at a Cannesreception for the festival and Bosnia and Herzegovina film.McBurney and Tellerwill announce the name of the ...