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India's Reliance becomes financier to Hollywood stars
India's Reliance Big Entertainment has unveiled plans to provide development funds to the production vehicles of seven Hollywood stars, including Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and Tom Hanks' Playtone Productions.The deals were brokered by Creative Artists Agency (CAA) which represents the seven stars.Reliance will create a development silo for each ...
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Vaca Films lines up Daniel Monzon for $5m prison drama
Spanish production outfit Vaca Films has revealed that it will shoot the $5m prison drama Cell 211 from promising new director Daniel Monzon in August.A co-production between Vaca Films, Morena Films and Telecinco Cinema in Spain and La Fabrique 2 in France, the film tells the story of a young ...
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Alain Sarde plans $50m Emmanuelle film - with a PG13 rating
Roman Polanksi's longtime producer Alain Sarde is lining up a $50m prequel to Emmanuelle with the erotic franchise's rights holder Alain Siritzky.What Else Emmanuelle' will be the first theatrical release in the series since Emmanuelle IV came out in 1984 and is scheduled to begin shooting at various exotic locations ...
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Nancy Spungen doc now fully financed
Double D Productions has come on board to invest in a new slate of feature documentaries, starting with Moxie Makers' Who Killed Nancy'.Moxie, the low-budget arm of UK's Ipso Facto, is now complete with financing for the documentary about the life and death of Sid Vicious' girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Alan ...
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Palm Tree readies three biopics; screens Seven Crosses in Cannes
Robbie Moffat and Mairi Sutherland's UK-based production and sales company Palm Tree Entertainment has a slate of three historical biopics in development: the $10m Chopin, about the composer; $20m Secret Image about the hidden homosexual love life of Leonardo Da Vinci; and the $15m Voyage Of Dream about the Canadian ...
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F&ME goes fishing for English-language Icelandic horror film
The Icelandic Film Company is working with UK-based producers Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME) for new English-language horror/thriller Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre.The film will start shooting in August with director Julius Kemp. Financing was closed here in Cannes.The film is described as a splatter movie laden with black comedy. Ingvar ...
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Hans Christian Schmid prepares $9m political drama
Hans Christian Schmid (the award-winning director of Requiem) is to start shooting a new, as-yet-untitled political drama in July. The $9m project starring Kerry Fox tells the story of Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at The Tribunal in The Hague who manages to convince a young Bosnian woman to testify against ...
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TF1 and Jeunet reunite to seek Amelie magic
The team behind Amelie and Delicatessan have reunited with TF1 International taking on sales on Jean-Pierre Jeunet's next film, Micmacs A Tire-Larigot. The $42m project starring Dany Boon, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Julie Ferrier, Andre Dussollier and Yolande Moreau, will begin shooting in August.TF1 International will handle international sales on Jean-Pierre Jeunet's ...
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K5 takes on world sales for with Gillies' The Disposables
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 continues to build its sales slate with a world sales deal for The Disposables.Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling is executive producing. Daniel Gillies is directing and producing. Gillies also stars in the film with Rachael Leigh Cook and Seymour Cassel.Other producers are Darryn Welch from ...
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White Male Heart beats with THINKFilm International
THINKFilm International is taking on international sales for White Male Heart, which will star Cillian Murphy and Eddie Redmayne.Both actors are riding high at the moment, with Redmayne's projects including The Other Boleyn Girl and Savage Grace and Murphy's The Dark Knight, Hippie Hippie Shake and The Edge Of Love.THINKFIlm ...
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Initialize producers sign two new co-producers; deal with SDI
UK consultancy Initialize Films, which held its first Co-Production Meeting Day at Berlin, is now seeing its group of producers confirming deals in Cannes.Paul Largan of Bandigital is now working with Gia Muresan of Cinemarket Productions for Largan's $6m The Undefended. Also, Swiss producer Christophe Neracher of Hugo Films has ...
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Coffin Joe to get English-language update
One Eyed Films is developing English-language horror feature based on the classic Coffin Joe character.The film is being planned as a Brazil/Canada/Spain co-production.The film has the working title of Santo Amaro The Bitter Garden and it would be the first Coffin Joe (Ze do Caixao) film in English. The cult ...
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Kinnear, Kruger, Mendes in talks for Omega's Little Green Men
Omega Entertainment has taken on international rights to Little Green Men, which Whit Stillman will direct.The ensemble cast lining up now includes Greg Kinnear, Diane Kruger, Eva Mendes, John Malkovich, Peter Sarsgaard, Peter Dinklage and Zooey Deschanel. All are in talks but no deals are confirmed yet.The project is based ...
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Salles in post on companion piece documentary to On The Road
Walter Salles, who is preparing a film of Jack Kerouac's seminal beat novel On The Road, has finished principal photography on a companion piece documentary in which he follows the trip taken by Kerouac's alter-ego Sal Paradise through North America.'We met the several people who are still alive that he ...
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Pat Shortt, Dap Kings sign up for Ipso Facto's Souled Out
Pat Shortt, who starred in last year's Cannes Directors Fortnight hit Garage, has joined the cast of Shimmy Marcus' Souled Out for Ipso Facto Films. He joins Martin Compston and Jennifer Ellison in the coming-of-age love story set in the Northern Soul scene in 1974.The Dap Kings, the backing band ...
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UK's Contender says hello to Mr Nice from Independent
Increasingly active UK distributor Contender, backed by Entertainment One, has taken UK rights for Mr Nice, sold by UK-based sales company Independent.Another sister company owned by E1, Seville Pictures, has taken Canadian rights. Independent's Luc Roeg is producing the film with Independent also handling worldwide sales.Mr Nice is based on ...
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ContentFilm International lights up with Kid Cannabis
ContentFilm International will handle international sales on Kid Cannabis, written and directed by John Stockwell. ICM will handle North American rights. Stockwell previously directed Into the Blue, Blue Crush and Crazy Beautiful. The film starts shooting July 2 in Vancouver.The film stars Chris Marquette and Aaron Yoo with more cast ...
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Halcyon gets Bass on board for Godmother adaptation
Chris Coen's UK production and distribution company Halcyon Pictures has optioned Carrie Adams' novel The Godmother.Oscar winner Ron Bass (My Best Friend's Wedding) will adapt the script. The London-set comedy is about a godmother of four without children of her own who tries to help her friends with family problems ...
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Laura Hastings Smith to follow Hunger with Piggy, Satan, Charming Man
Laura Hastings Smith, producer of Un Certain Regard opener Hunger, has a full slate of films in development. The London-based producer, participating in EFP's Producers on The Move, plans to re-team with Hunger collaborator Robin Gutch for the Warp X project This Little Piggy by Corinna Faith, described as 'a ...
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Film4's slate includes Christopher Hampton adapting Post-Birthday World
Film4 has unveiled a bulging development slate, boasting about 70 projects at various stages.Film4 has, as usual, a slew of literary adaptations in the works. Lionel Shriver's The Post-Birthday World will be adapted by Atonement Oscar nominee Christopher Hampton. Alison Owen of Ruby will produce and the film is at ...