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New Regency set to Shutter Thai remake deal
Arnon Milchan's Fox-based NewRegency is expected to secure remake rights in Cannes for Thai blockbuster Shutter.The deal was brokered by RoyLee of Vertigo Entertainment who approached studio GMM Tai Hub last Octoberwhen Shutter, the top grossing Thai film of the year, was stillplaying locally. Lee is a matchmaker between Asia ...
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Zentropa goes to Hollywood
Aggressive Nordic producer Zentropa is launching a Los Angeles production beach head while separately hatching a multinational partnership which is expected to involve Germany's Kinowelt and Fine Line Features.Trust Film Sales head Thomas Mai will relocate to head up the LA office which already has two projects in development. Harvey ...
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Storm Entertainment takes world for Foolish Things
Michael Heuser's StormEntertainment has picked up worldwide sales rights on Julia Taylor-Stanley's TheseFoolish Things starring TerenceStamp, Lauren Bacall, Anjelica Huston and Joss Ackland.Taylor-Stanley's directorialdebut, which will receive its first market screening at Cannes, is a pre-warstory centring on a young actress' efforts to emulate her mother's glitteringstage career.Taylor-Stanley wrote thescreenplay ...
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Polo, Kilborn, Electra join Nothing But The Truth
Teri Polo, Craig Kilborn andCarmen Elektra have joined Ryan Pinkston on the cast of New Line's upcomingcomedy Nothing But The Truth,which started production in Winnipeg this week.Atmosphere Entertainment and Relativity Media are teaming up on the story abouta habitual liar who is overrun with problems when his tall stories suddenlybecome ...
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Woody's next match will be on screen with Scarlett
WoodyAllen revealed that he will star alongside Scarlett Johansson in his next film,which is set to shoot in London this summer."It so happens that in thisnext film there is a very good part for me to play and I'm going to play it,"said the veteran director. He described it as ...
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Foreign films return to Thailand in post-tsunami recovery
Foreign shoots are startingto return to Thailand after a slight downturn due to the tsunami according toTourism Authority of Thailand governor Juthamas Siriwan.Several feature films areplanning to shoot this year, including the $15m English-language action dramaRound Five to be produced by Barrie M. Osbourne, which starts production inOctober. German director ...
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Gilliam makes Grimm return to the big screen
TerryGilliam hasn't released a film for seven years but he's fielding two in 2005 - Tidelandand The Brothers Grimm, set for a splashy bow today whenMiramax unspools 20 minutes of footage in Cannes with Gilliam, star MonicaBellucci and producer Chuck Roven in attendance.The Grimm tale is typicalGilliam country, an ambitious ...
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FilmMates role for ex-Miramax man
Former Miramax Internationalpresident Ian Jessel has joined the board of directors on Alan Goda's ambitiousLos Angeles-based finance, production and distribution company FilmMates Entertainment.Jessel will serve as advisor and help structure domesticand international strategic alliances as FilmMates ramps up activities, and isbusily setting up meetings with potential filmmaking partners.FilmMates' debut slate ...
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Endeavour tries China with Shanghai Media Group
Hollywood talent agencyEndeavor has entered into a strategic partnership with China's second-largestmedia giant, the Shanghai Media Group (SMG), and its subsidiary, ShanghaiInteractive Television (SiTV).The agreement sees Endeavorassisting SMG in acquiring programming for its rapidly expanding TV content andmanagement business. SMG recently launched anational distribution platform for 14 digital pay-TV channels, ...
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Caplan goes on spending spree for UK Film Council
Weeks after she was appointed as the head of the UK Film Council'sPremiere Fund, Sally Caplan has already made a handful of sizable investments. The Fund, itemerged in Cannes, is backing Severance, the latest horror picture from Chris Smith (Creep), backed by Qwerty Films and sold byHanway.Caplan is alsoinvesting in ...
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Palace leaps for Lemming
Palace Films has alreadysnapped up Australian rights for three Competition titles including the openingnight film Lemming.The Australian company hasalso taken director Marco Tullio Giordana's Once You're Born You Can NoLonger Hide from TF1, screening on Monday.The third pick-up is AmosGitai's comedy Free Zone, screening on Thursday, from BAC Films.Palace is ...
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UGC International embraces Family Hero
French sales outfit UGCInternational is to handle Family Hero, the new film from Une Vie A T'Attendre director Thierry Kilfa starring Catherine Deneuve,Gerard Lanvin, Miou-Miou, Geraldine Pailhas and Michael Cohen.At Euros 12m Hero is written by Klifa and Christopher Thompson andwill be produced by UGC International president Said Ben Said's ...
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FilmFour seals Warner alliance
The UK's FilmFour and US studio Warner Bros Pictures have formed a long-term co-production alliance, FilmFour chief executive Paul Webster and Warner president of worldwide production Lorenzo di Bonaventura have announced.The deal, aimed at achieving FilmFour's long-cherished goal of making bigger-budget pictures, starts with Gillian Armstrong's Charlotte Gray, starring Cate ...
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Filmwerks for Chris Davis International
Chris Davis International is representing a raft of titles at Cannes forLos Angeles-based production company Filmwerks, which has accelerated itsproduction schedule following a development funding deal with Robert LadesichFilms.Available projects includeAlbert Pyun's true-life horror tale Infection, which is scheduled for delivery in July and starsScott Paulin, Virginia Dare, and Norbert ...
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French pair launch Borsalino with focus on Asian film
Wild Bunch salesexecutive Gael Nouaille and Laurent Baudens, formerly of Gemini Films, are inCannes christening a new company which will specialise in the distribution ofvideo and TV rights for Asian films. Callingthemselves Borsalino, the two will focus on getting Asian catalogue films toaudiences in Latin American which Nouaille and Baudens ...
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Morena makes waves in Mexico
Spain'sMorena Films is continuing its policy of shooting outside Spain with two newfilms set in Mexico and ArgentinaTheEuros 2.5m Mexican co-production La Zona, set in a wealthy Mexico Cityenclave surrounded by slums, is being directed by Rodrigo Pla. The La ZonaFilms co-production will be sold by Wild Bunch.Andshooting next fall ...
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The Works signs up Italian pair
UK-based sales company The Works hasboarded two films world premiering at Cannes: Critics' Week entry TheHorizon Of Events (L'Orizzonte Degli Eventi) and Come Into The Light (Alla Luce DelSole).Horizon Of Events is directed byDaniele Vicari, whose Velocita Massima played at the Venice International FilmFestival. The story focuses on a nuclear ...
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UK sales outfit keeps an eye on Latin America
London sales outfit One EyedFilms, a Brazilian film specialist, has broadened its scope to include filmsfrom across Latin America and makes its Cannes debut with three multipleaward-winning titles on its slate.Among its firstSpanish-language pick-ups is Uruguayan film Alma Mater, a Rosemary'sBaby-like tale about a woman who believes she may be ...
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Curse holds key to second Wallace & Gromit film
Wallace& Gromit could soon be the subject of a second full-length feature filmfrom Nick Park, assuming the first, The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, is a big box office hit forDreamWorks when it is released in North America on Oct 7.Ifgreenlit, the Wallace & Gromit sequel might even be squeezed into ...
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Karmitz heads to China, son takes the reigns at MK2
Veteran jack of all filmtrades Marin Karmitz is turning over the bulk of his business to son Nathaniel.Karmitz told Screen it was"change, but with continuity".Nathaniel Karmitz has beenat MK2 for ten years and was notably responsible for making the DVD label ahit. He has just been promoted to deputy managing ...