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El Deseo and Explora start production on Sipan tomb project
El Deseo, the Almodovar brothers' Madrid-based production company, and Explora Films have started production on a $1.34m (Euros 1m) docudrama about the discovery and excavation of the ancient tomb of the Lord de Sipán in northern Peru.A spokeswoman for El Deseo called the tomb, remarkably intact after 1,700 years, 'the ...
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More cast lines up for Wrathall's Good shooting in Budapest
Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker and Mark Strong have joined Viggo Mortensen in the cast of Good, John Wrathall's screen adaptation of the CP Taylor stage play, directed by Vicente Amorim.Principal photography has begun in Budapest on the film, in which Viggo Mortensen plays the lead role of John Halder, a ...
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Echo Bridge takes on The Cry and The King
Echo Bridge Entertainment has boarded Bernadine Santistevan's thriller The Cry and Riding With The King, an account of life on the road with Elvis Presley.The Cry takes place in New York City and is based on the Latino myth of La Llorona, which holds that men who cheat on their ...
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Nordisk to handle Sandrew Metronome's Swedish features
Nordisk International Film Sales has signed an eye-catching deal to handle all Sandrew Metronome's upcoming Swedish feature films. Lena Rehnberg, head of production at Sandrew Metronome, signed the deal with Tine Klint, head of international sales at Nordisk. Through the new alliance, Nordisk will be handling sales on Sunstorm, a ...
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Suvari, Huston and Murino join Garden Of Eden
The UK's Berwick Street Productions has recruited Mena Suvari, Jack Huston Caterina Murino, and Richard E Grant will star in their forthcoming The Garden Of Eden, which John Irvin (Hamburger Hill) will direct from Ernest Hemingway's story.Omega Entertainment is handling sales.The project will shoot at Cuidad de la Luz in ...
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Pyramide lands US deal on hot-selling Irina Palm
Pyramide International has concluded a US sale on Berlin competitor Irina Palm. Sam Gabarski's Marianne Faithfull vehicle has gone to Strand Releasing as well as having sold to nearly 40 other territories.Pyramide is in Cannes with seven films in selection including Catherine Breillat's competition debut An Old Mistress.Other titles include ...
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Morgan's KMI to sell Kevin Costner comedy Swing Vote
Kathy Morgan's Los Angeles-based sales agency KMI arrives on the Croisette buoyed by the acquisition of the Kevin Costner comedy Swing Vote.Costner will play a beer-guzzling layabout whose precocious 12-year-old daughter triggers a chain of events that renders her father's ballot the deciding vote in the upcoming Presidental Election.The situation ...
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Cinemavault takes rights to Made In Jamaica
Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired foreign rights to Made in Jamaica, which screens in Cannes official selection in the Cinema De La Plage section on May 25. Jerome Lapperousaz directed the Lawrence Pictures and Herold & Family production, which explores the roots of reggae and its rapid growth into a ...
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Films Distribution Cannes slate includes competitor Tehilim
In a nice twist of timing, Films Distribution comes to Cannes this year with a pair of past masterpieces and a companion piece from a current master.The company recently acquired Albert Lamorisse's classic The Red Balloon which won a Palme d'Or and an Oscar in 1956 and 1957 respectively. Alongside ...
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Vantage sells first movie Marc Pease Experience at Cannes
Paramount Vantage, which is launching its international sales division in Cannes, has introduced its first picture to buyers - The Marc Pease Experience, a comedy starring Ben Stiller and Jason Schwartzman which has just wrapped. Todd Louiso (Love Liza) directs and co-wrote the film which tells the story of a ...
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Williams, Howard and Wood line up for Sturridge's Bronte
Icon Entertainment International has taken on international sales for Charles Sturridge's Bronte. Lined up to play the Bronte sisters are Michelle Williams, Bryce Dallas Howard and Evan Rachel Wood. ICM is representing North American rights.Bronte is the story of Charlotte, Anne and Emily Bronte, the sisters who grew up in ...
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Future Films and Celsius come on board for Vivaldi biopic
Boris Damast's Vivaldi biopic is picking up momentum. Producer and financier Future Films has now boarded the project, being made by Hand Picked Films and Mechaniks'. In Cannes today, it was confirmed that Celsius Entertainment will be handling sales. Joseph Fiennes stars as the legendary composer. Also in the cast ...
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Ealing closes Germany, Benelux deals for St Trinian's
Ealing Studios International has sold its girls school project St Trinian's, which is still shooting, to Germany (Concorde/Telemunchen) and Benelux (Paridiso). Entertainment already has UK rights. Also, Ealing Studios announced that Mischa Barton of The OC fame has been confirmed to join the film's large, star-studded ensemble cast.The cast already ...
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Becker, Binder sign for films at Damon's Foresight
Mark Damon's Foresight Unlimited has boarded the $15-20m serial killer thriller Hangman with Harold Becker set to direct and $9m Franz Kafka adaptation Metamorphosis starring Daniel Bruhl, Anna Paquin and Stephen Rea.The slate includes Mike Binder's upcoming $20m comedy-drama Emperor Of Michigan, $11m horror remake It's Alive, and the $15m ...
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NZ starts sales on Ballantyne's debut
NZ Film, the sales arm of the New Zealand Film Commission, is in Cannes announcing Armagan Ballantyne's debut feature The Strength Of Water, about a young boy who has to deal with an unexpected tragedy. Hopscotch has already acquired Australian and New Zealand rights. The Strength Of Water will start ...
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Clive Owen is back in town with new Capitol project
Capitol Films has added Scott Hicks' The Boys Are Back In Town to its Cannes slate, which will star Clive Owen.The Tiger Aspect Pictures/Southern Light Films co-production is made in association with BBC Films and Film Finance Corporation of Australia.Allan Cubitt has adapted Simon Carr's memoir of the same name, ...
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Portobello moves into sales through Fandango alliance
Eric Abraham's Portobello Pictures (the company behind Kolya and Dark Blue World) is taking the plunge into sales. Here on the Croisette, the British-based outfit has combined forces with Italian outfit Fandango to set up sales banner Portobello-Fandango. Each company has two films in the market. Portobello is introducing buyers ...
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Voltage takes on Alan Rickman starrer Nobel Son
Voltage Pictures has acquired international rights to the crime caper Nobel Son starring Alan Rickman that premiered recently at Tribeca. Director Randall Miller and CAA's Roeg Sutherland negotiated the deal with Voltage sales chief Nicolas Chartier, who will commence sales on the Croisette. Chartier also announced that James Cromwell has ...
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American World Pictures adds One Long Night and Triloquist
American World Pictures (AWP) has spiced up its Cannes sales slate with the comedy-thriller One Long Night starring Alison Eastwood, Karen Black and Ed Begley Jr, along with horror title Triloquist. David Siqueiros directed the tale of a young Mexican-American businessman from California whose life is transformed during a night ...
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Goalpost Films adds Natalie Imbruglia project to slate
New UK-based sales company Goalpost Films has its first full slate at Cannes. Tristan Whalley (Goalpost and Majestic veteran) and Nicki Parfitt (Portman, Lee & Thompson) started the company last year and are continuing sales on Sundance hit Clubland and Ruper Wyatt's thriller The Escapist (now in post), starring Brian ...