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Europa starts new pictures from Keshishian, Perez
Adding to theiralready highly-charged slate - which includes Tommy Lee Jones' competitiontitle The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada and market film Revolver from Guy Ritchie - EuropaCorp. willbegin sales at Cannes next week on the next film from Madonna: Truth Or Dare director Alek Keshishian as well as theEnglish-language directing ...
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The Wolf (El Lobo)
Dir. Miguel Courtois. Sp. 2004. 122minsA cracking period political thriller, The Wolf (ElLobo) is the type of intelligent drama rarely seen these days - a throwbackto Costa Gavras's Z or Missing, in which director Courtoisevidently holds his audience in high esteem and rewards those willing to take achance with complex ...
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The Ax (Le Couperet)
Dir. Costa-Gavras.Fr-Bel-Sp. 2005. 122mins.A wickedly black comedytailored in a slick thriller style, The Ax marks a welcome return tocomedy for Greek auteur Costa-Gavras after his 1986 feature Family Business.Powered by an outstanding lead performance from Jose Garcia, the film hasalready proven itself at home in France.Prospects in other Europeanterritories are ...
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Negotiator (Koshonin Mashita Masayoshi)
Dir: Katsuyuki Motohiro. Jap. 2005. 127minsKatsuyuki Motohiro's Negotiatoris an action spin-off from his major hits Bayside Shakedown (1998) and BaysideShakedown 2 (2003), the latter of which set a record $162m at home for aJapanese live-action film. But this time, the bumptious detective of before(who faced off against the entire Tokyo ...
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Renaissance takes Macbeth onto world stage
UK-based sales agencyRenaissance Films has acquired world sales rights to Macbeth, anadaptation of the William Shakespeare play starring Jennifer Connelly as LadyMacbeth and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Macbeth.Director Todd Louiso is tostart shooting late this year. Louiso, who adapted the play with his writingpartner Jacob Koskoff, previously directed Hoffman in ...
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New Australian Film Institute chief confirms awards focus
Thefocus of the Australian Film Institute (AFI) will remain its annual awards,says new general manager Geoffrey Williams, but he envisages taking on more ofan advocacy role for industry in future.The importance of the 48-year-old awards was unassailable,he told ScreenDaily.com, and their integrity had to be protected.Getting the professional members more ...
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Sogepaq picks up Fugitivas, eyes del Toro's Devil
Sogepaq, the rights and acquisitions arm of Spanish media group Sogecable, has picked up world rights on Fugitivas, a feature film currently in production at Seville-based Maestranza Films.Sogepaq is also understood to be negotiating international rights on Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo Del Diablo), a Tequila Gang ...
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Bassi steps down as Mifed, Filmitalia chief
Carlo Bassi has stepped downas CEO of AIP, the Italian film organisation which oversees promotional bodyFilmitalia as well as the MIFED film market. Industry veteran Adriana Chiesa will take over at Filmitalia. Ernesto Paolillo, an AIP board member will be in charge of"MIFED, due to his long experience in financialinstitutions."Chiesa ...
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Diagonale directors step down from Austrian festival
Changes are afootagain at Graz's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema little more than sixweeks after the successful 2005 edition in March.Due to 'differing opinions with respect tothe running of the Diagonale', Robert Buchschwenter and Georg Tillner arestepping down from the festival management.The third member of the management team - ...
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Gemini to sell Auster's Inner Life at Cannes
Paolo Branco's Gemini Filmswill begin sales on the latest film from author and director Paul Auster, TheInner Life Of Martin Frost, at Cannes next week, the company told ScreenDaily.com.The Euros 3.5m project will beginshooting in mid-September in the US with casting to be confirmed.The Portugese-USco-production is produced by Branco and ...
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Lumina to sell Brazilian Futebol around the world
The UK's Lumina Films haspicked up worldwide rights on three-part Brazilian documentary Futebol directedby Joao Moreira Salles and ArthurFontes.The series will be presented throughBuena Onda, Lumina's production and acquisition sister label headed by Donald KRanvaud.Joao Moreira Salles, wholaunched Brazilian production company Videofilmes with his brother WalterSalles in 1987, produced the ...
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Moretti rounds out cast for Il Caimano
SilvioOrlando, Margherita Buy and Jasmine Trinca have joined the cast of NanniMoretti's new film, Il Caimano.It is the first film in five years for Italy's formerenfant terrible, who will start shooting the picture on May 23. The movie is inspired by Italian premier SilvioBerlusconi, and its title, Il Caimano (The ...
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Spain's On Pictures stocks up with Alquimia films
Spanish distributor On Pictureshas acquired rights to four new films from local producer Alquimia Cinema.The deal, which is expected to be expanded onin the next few days, encompasses theatrical and DVD/video rights inSpain. It is the first agreement of its kind for new distributor On,backed by media conglomerate Grupo Zeta, ...
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France's Pyramide unveils Cannes slate
The newly-christened PyramideInternational is heading into Cannes with a strong line up that includesseveral competition titles and will begin pre-sales on new films from directorTony Gatlif, Jean-Pierre Ameris and Julie Lopes-Curval among others.The company has one film in themain competition, Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu's Peindre Ou Faire L'Amourstarring Sabine Azema, ...
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UPI appoints Deeks as international marketing SVP
Universal PicturesInternational (UPI) has appointed Sara Deeks as Senior Vice President,International Marketing and Darren Linton as Vice President, InternationalMarketing, effective 16 May 2005. Deeks joins UPI fromBarclays Bank where she was most recently Brand Strategy Director with theresponsibility for devising and implementing the global brand strategy for thecompany. Prior to ...
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Wild Bunch unveils wide ranging Cannes slate
Frenchsales and finance outfit Wild Bunch is heading into Cannes with a dynamic slatethat includes everything from big-budget sci-fi to art-househeartstring-tuggers.The company is handling world rights on the $45m Outlanderproduced by LA-based Ascendant Pictures, the company behind Andrew Niccol's LordOf War. Directed by Howard McCain, the film boasts production designcreated ...
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Miranda July wins top prize at San Francisco fest
Ahead of its Critics Week unveiling next week in Cannes, MirandaJuly's quirky relationship drama Me And You And Everyone We Know has won the top narrative feature prizeat the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival, which ended yesterday .A joint production of the UK's Film Four and New York's IFC ...
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RAI joins Napoleon's $35m European campaign
Italy's RAI Fiction has joined forces with France's GMT Communications and France 2 to co-produce Napoleon, the planned four part mini-series starring Christian Clavier (Asterix & Obelix, The Visitors) and Gerard Depardieu. GMT had been expected to partner with Italy's Mediaset and Germany's KirchGroup/Beta Film on the project (Screendaily, February ...
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Alliance Atlantis CFO steps down
W. Judson Martin, the long-serving CFO of Alliance AtlantisCommunications, will be leaving the company for health reasons. He has agreed to stay onboard until a successor is in place,an appointment that is expected to take place in September. "Jud is a valued friend as well as a colleague and hewill ...
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Kingdom Of Heaven embarks upon global crusade
The Kingdom Of Heaven global crusade begins this weekend as FoxInternational rolls out the historical epic on more than 7,000 prints in 97territories.Ridley Scott's picture opens in South Korea on May 4 on 289 prints, followed byGermany, Mexico and Australia on May 5 on 851, 540 and 365 respectively.Kingdom Of ...