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Storm, ChickFlicks team for Coyote horror movie
H Michael Heuser's Storm Entertainment has teamed with Sara Risher's LA-based ChickFlicks to finance and co-produce Coyote - a comic special effects-driven horror movie about a pack of coyotes taking revenge against some schlocky Hollywood film-makers in Los Angeles.Heuser will produce alongside Risher, Steven Wolfe and Leslie Tobin Bacon; Dorothy ...
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Spanish Dogme producers prepare new projects
Pilar Suero and Juan Pinzas, the producer-director team behind Spain's first official Dogme film, Once Upon Another Time (Erase Otra Vez), are preparing two new Dogme feature films.First up is Although The Bride Wears Silk (Aunque La Novia Se Vista De Seda), planned for a September shoot. Described as an ...
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Hurt joins Deneuve on trip to Marshall's Heaven
William Hurt is to co-star with Catherine Deneuve in Au Plus Pres du Paradis (Nearest To Heaven), the next film by award-winning French director Tonie Marshall.French sales outfit Flach Pyramide International is launching pre-sales in Cannes on the $7m title - which will be shot in both French and English ...
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Harte Jungs duo bank on new success with Pornorama
Constantin Film's Bernd Eichinger and director Marc Rothemund are developing a new project entitled Pornorama after the box-office success of their teen comedy Ants In The Pants (Harte Jungs) which registered over 1.7m admissions and was the second most successful German film last year after Stefan Ruzowitzky's Anatomie.According to Eichinger, ...
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Summit wakes up to new Alcon picture trio
Summit Entertainment has struck a three-picture deal with Alcon Entertainment, producers of Christopher Nolan's Insomnia which is on Summit's Cannes sales slate. None of the three pictures has yet been specified but a deal has been struck for Summit to raise additional equity from a few select key territory sales. ...
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Crystal Sky unleashes Voight films with Apollo
Steven Paul's Crystal Sky Worldwide Sales has teamed with German film fund Apollo Media on two new films: kung fu fighting talking dog saga Unleashed co-starring Jon Voight, Simon Rex and Jaime Pressly and Façade, a $25m heist thriller which teams Voight with Julia Ormond under director Danny Cannon.These two ...
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Exotic locales abound in ambitious BBC film slate
BBC Films is developing a slew of large-scale international projects for its debut feature slate under director general Greg Dyke's new drama-entertainment structure. The UK public broadcaster's film arm wants to use the projects and an equally ambitious financing pact for bigger titles with Cobalt Media Group (formerly MM Media ...
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Ben Ammar to bankroll Samaha's Dante outfit
The irrepressible Elie Samaha has formed a new financing, production and distribution venture Dante Entertainment with Paris-based Tarak Ben Ammar and his Quinta Communications. The deal will see Quinta bankrolling Dante - which plans to produce four films a year - to the tune of between $200m and $300m.Although separate ...
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CANNES DAY ONE ROUND UP
IEG CONFIRMS ALI DEAL WITH COLUMBIAInitial Entertainment Group (IEG) has confirmed that the deal between Columbia Pictures and IEG for Michael Mann's big budget boxing biopic Ali has been finalised, with IEG providing funds to finance the film against worldwide distribution excluding the US and Canada. IEG has been involved ...
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Fox digs into Germany in search of funding
20th Century Fox is planning to tap into the German private equity market to raise funds for feature projects.Munich-based Fox Deutsche Filmproduktion Beteiligung has been founded to attract private investors' money for four projects: John Pasquin's Joe Somebody starring Tim Allen, James Belushi and Julie Bowen; Bobby and Peter Farrelly ...
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Kids of Kids prepare for Marathon
French TV production and distribution house Marathon International is producing its second feature film, Ken Park, the directorial debut of Ed Lachman, the cinematographer on Erin Brokovich. Lachman will co-direct with Kids director Larry Clark. Marathon produced, financed and is now selling Amos Kolleck's Directors' Fortnight title Queenie In Love, ...
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KWA chews on Beach Dogs for worldwide sales
Spanish sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up worldwide rights on Beach Of Dogs (La Playa De Los Galgos), a new forthcoming feature film from director Mario Camus.The $4m mystery stars Laura Morante (The Son's Room), Carmelo Gomez (Between Your Legs), Ingrid Rubio and Miguel Angel Sola. It ...
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Egoyan's tough-sell Ararat finds French home
While a film within a film set against the 1915 Turkish massacre of Armenians might seem like a hard sell, Atom Egoyan's Ararat has already been picked up for France by ARP. Meanwhile, TMN has taken Canadian pay TV rights.Not that commercial considerations are upper most on the filmmakers' ...
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MTV, Paramount start dancing to Britney's tune
MTV Films has boarded the Britney Spears movie What Are Friends For as co-producer, while MTV sister company Paramount Pictures is in advanced negotiations to take domestic distribution rights on the film which is being sold by Summit Entertainment.MTV and Paramount have a history of youth-oriented hits which include Save ...
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Warner boards most expensive French film of 2001
Hoping to emulate this year's blockbuster success of La Verite 2, Warner Bros has boarded another potential French hit, Le Boulet (Dead Weight) .The $21.4m (Ffr158m) action comedy, directed by Alain Berberian (Paparazzi, La Cite de la Peur) from a script by Matt Alexander, is expected to be the highest ...
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Charlotte screenwriter joins English Civil War
Jeremy Brock, who adapted FilmFour and Ecosse Films' World War 2 romantic adventure Charlotte Gray, is to turn his hand to the English Civil War.The as-yet-untitled project is an epic love story which will re-unite with Brock and Ecosse. Along with the $25m Charlotte Gray, which was adapted from ...
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Barrandov dispels early sale rumours
Rumours have flown in recent days concerning an imminent purchase of Czech film studio Barrandov, but the company says that a quick deal is unlikely.The weekly Prague Business Journal last week reported that an unnamed "small group of Los Angeles film makers" were making a bid for Barrandov and ...
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Intertainment opens Window to life after Franchise
Intertainment, the rights trader which is locked in an ugly litigation tussle with Franchise Pictures, has set A Window To Atlantis as the first project to flow from its deal with Hollywood veteran Arnold Kopelson.The German group said on Friday (May 4) that it is now actively looking for new ...
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Vinterberg completes All About Love financing
Months of controversy ended early this week Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love completed its financing. The Danish Film Institute (DFI) reversed an earlier decision and decided to back it with $600,000 (DKR5m) and Nordic Film & TV Fund raised its support by $110,000 (NKR1m) completing the $10.2m (DKR85m) budget. ...
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Hart Sharp pacts with UK's FilmFour
UK film giant FilmFour and New York-based production outfit Hart Sharp Entertainment have formed a co-production alliance to produce a slate of specialised US features, expanding FilmFour's US production ambitions and cementing the international reputation of Hart Sharp whose credits includeBoys Don't Cry and You Can Count On Me.Under the ...