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Miller, Rodriguez set for second dose of Sin
FrankMiller has already begun scripting Sin City 2, which he will co-direct withRobert Rodriguez. The project will be jointly owned by Disney and The WeinsteinCompany.Speaking at the annual distributors lunch hosted by theWeinsteins, Miller said it was too early to announce casting.However he did confirm the project will be shot ...
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Haneke's Hidden leads the race for Palme d'Or
Nobody has stumbled across a Brown Bunny. Nobody has discovered amasterpiece. That seemed to sum up the feeling about this year's competitionfilms as Cannes heads towards its last days. A sluggish edition thus far hasn't stirred the passions of some yearsand the decision to support veteran filmmakers has brought mixed ...
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Pele plots film expose of South American football
Football legend Pele isplanning what he says will be a sporting equivalent to Fernando Meirelles' Cityof God. Pele says he has beenworking on a script which will expose the seedy underbelly of South Americanfootball, where the flip side of the beautiful game is endemic corruption inthe boardroom."Flamengo is the best-supported ...
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Spice Factory plans US invasion
In what could become an international rush ofcompanies to exploit new US tax incentives and the cheap dollar, theever-opportunistic UK-based financing outfit Spice Factory has teamed up withLA-based Cameo FJ Entertainment to create the American Independent Film Fund(AIFF).The partners aim to exploit recent US tax incentivesand claim to have raised ...
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Mackenzie recruits Jamie Bell for Foe
Director David Mackenzie's next film will be Hallam Foe, a £4madaptation of the Peter Jinks novel, to star Jamie Bell. Mackenzie's breakthrough film Young Adam screened in Un CertainRegard two years ago and he was back in Cannes this week seeking finance for HallamFoe,which is scheduled to shoot in Scotland ...
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Irish Screen raves with Human Traffic team
Irish Screen is backing five features from the producers of UK club culture hit Human Traffic - including its sequel Human Traffic 2: Five Go Mad In Goa - marking the first of several local financing sources expected to emerge at Cannes.The Dublin and London-based operation is fully financing Fruit ...
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Comstock shells out coin for Wild Bunch's Coin
Along with sales to The Weinstein Company on Nomad and Outlander,French sales and finance house Wild Bunch has secured a financial co-producerfor Michael Civetta's Coin Locker Babies in Japan'sComstock.Comstock has come on board the surreal coming-of-agetale which stars Liv Tyler and was adapted in part by Sean Lennon, son of ...
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Celestial's Love travels to Korea, Japan
Celestial Pictures hasscored a pair of major pre-sales on Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love to Korea's Show East and Nippon Herald for Japan.The Hong Kong-based companyco-financed and is handling worldwide sales on the $10m film which is currentlyshooting in Shanghai. Produced by Chan's ApplausePictures and Los Angeles-based Ruddy Morgan Organisation, ...
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What The Bleep sells like Lightning
Los Angeles-based LightningEntertainment has continued a raft of major sales on the spiritual docu-dramaand North American box office hit What The Bleep Do We Know!' Rights to Will Arntz, BetsyChasse and Mark Vicente's picture went to Hopscotch & Polyphony forAustralia and New Zealand, Revolver Entertainment for the UK, Filmhouse forMexico, ...
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Arclight strikes raft of sales on Dragon Squad
Arclight Filmshas struck a raft of territory deals on the action thriller Dragon Squad, with key sales going to Momentum in theUK, Aurum in Spain, and Nordisk in Scandinavia.Daniel Lee'sthriller, starring Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, Shawn Yue and Michael Biehn, centreson a team of Interpol agents who travel to Hong ...
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Tartan sails off with French hit 36 Quai
The UK'sTartan Films has acquired Gaumont's French hit 36 Quai Des Orfevres, starring Daniel Auteuil and GerardDepardieu.The deal was brokered byJane Giles of Tartan Films and Philippe de Chaisemartin of Gaumont. The policethriller, which amassed more than 2.1 million admissions in France, has sold toan array of markets, including Japan ...
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Checkmate for Northam, Flanagan in St Petersburg
Fionnula Flanagan and JeremyNortham will star in the psychological thriller Checkmate, which is set tobegin production in St Petersburg on May 31.The Thelma Productionproject marks the first collaboration between international production companyBig Star Entertainment and UK-based financiers Future Films.Voltage Pictures is handlinginternational sales on the story of the enigmatic Lazarov ...
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Beta Cinema goes into battle with Genghis Khan
Germany's Beta Cinema hasunveiled details of $10m biopic, Mongol - The Early Years Of Genghis Khan, which starts shooting in July with Japanese starAsano Tadanobu playing the Mongol warrior. Directed by Russia's SergeiBodrov with Hong Kong-based Philip Lee (Hero) and Sergey Selyanov (Brother) producing, the film brings together talent andfinancing ...
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Cannes briefs: latest deals, announcements
Shoreline Green with Coupland screenplayMorris Ruskin's ShorelineEntertainment has picked up worldwide rights excluding Canada to the DouglasCoupland original screenplay Everything's Gone Green. The deal was concluded with Radke Films and TrueWest Films. The upcoming project centres on a good-natured slacker whofalls into a money-laundering scheme and ends up having ...
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Cannes briefs: latest deals, announcements
Katapult scores with ZidaneKatapult Film Sales hasscored a Japanese deal with Cine Qua Non for football documentary Zidane: A21st Century Portraitabout Real Madrid superstar Zinedine Zidane. UIP pre-bought the rights forFrance. Japan's Presidio has bought Klimt, starring John Malkovich,from Independent Film Sales. The UK sales outfit has also sold the ...
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Blue Star launches Tracker, My Favourite Game
London-basedBlue Star Movies is handling international sales on two new projects.Tracker is a $20mdrama-thriller set in New Zealand. It will be co-produced with the UK's EdenFilms. David Burns (Eden Films) and Pete Maggi (Blue Star Movies) will produce,while Nicolas van Pallandt, who also wrote the script, is set to direct.Set ...
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Fine Line commits to Zentropa trio
Fine Line Features has confirmed that it will take North American rights to three titles from Denmark's Zentropa Internationale which are being co-financed by German film giant Kinowelt.According to Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbaek Jensen, Fine Line is expected to tip in 30% of the budget of the three English-language titles: ...
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Svankmayer project headlines Barrandov Studios slate
Theproduction arm of Barrandov Studios has announced further details of itscurrent slate.It is shortly to appoint asales agent for Lunacy, the newproject from cult Czech animator Jan Svankmayer. A co-production withAthanor, Czech TV and C-GA Film, Lunacy is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis De Sade. Combining liveaction ...
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IFM World Releasing strikes Rapid Fear deals
Tony Ginnane's IFM WorldReleasing has struck a number of sales at the market, headed up by anall-rights deal on Geoff Cox's Australian action adventure Rapid Fear to RRS in Germany.RRS has sub-licensed videorights to Columbia TriStar Home Video and retains pay and free televisionrights.Meanwhilethe Los Angeles-based sales company has sold ...
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Toho pre-sells Shining Boy And Little Randy
Confirming the currentappetite for films about animals in Asia, Japan's Toho International haspre-sold Shining Boy And Little Randy, based on the true story of Japan's first elephant trainer, to severalAsian territories. The film has gone to GoldenScene for Hong Kong, Major Cinepictures for Thailand and Long Shong for Taiwan.In addition, ...