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Tom Tykwer teams up with the Wachowskis
Tom Tykwer is teaming up with the Wachowski brothers on one of two projects he currently has in development. Tykwer said he is working on an adaptation of UK author David Mitchell's 2004 Booker Prize shortlisted novel Cloud Atlas, whose action stretches from the remote South Pacific in the 19 ...
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Reliance seals deals with Julia Roberts and Brett Ratner
Reliance Big Entertainment has signed a further two development deals in Hollywood - with Julia Roberts' Red Om Films and Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment - to add to the seven similar deals announced last year at Cannes. As with the other deals, RBE will create a development silo for each ...
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Cast lines up for Werner Herzog andDavid Lynch horror
Oscar nominee Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny and Udo Kier have signed on to Werner Herzog and David Lynch's first collaboration, the psychological horror tale My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. Keith Kjarval's Los Angeles-based production, finance and sales company Unified Pictures is handling international sales with ...
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Berlin briefs: Day two
Pathe closes Cheri dealsPathe International has closed two pre-market deals on Stephen Frears' Cheri which screens In Competition next Tuesday. Lumiere has signed it up for Benelux and Nordisk for Scandinavia. Other distributors already in place include Miramax Films in North America, Rai/01 in Italy and Icon in Australia/New Zealand. ...
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Korea's Fine Cut wraps up pre-EFM sales
Seoul-based sales agent Fine Cut has wrapped up a slew of sales on the eve of the EFM, including the sale of Antique, which screens here in the Culinary Cinema section, to Thailand's Rose Media. Directed by Min Kyu-dong (Memento Mori) and starring French actor Andy Gillet, the film was ...
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IM Global Acclaim seals 26 presales on Miller's Pippa Lee
As US specialty buyers prepare for the world premiere of Rebecca Miller's official selection comedy drama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee on February 9, IM Global Acclaim has reported strong international sales.Icon has taken rights for the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Tri Pictures has acquired in Spain, CDI ...
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Wild Bunch arrives in Berlin with auteur-packed sales slate
Wild Bunch comes to Berlin this year boasting new projects from both seasoned and fresh talent - and has a few special events up its sleeve.In casting news, Kate Hudson, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty have joined the previously announced The Killer Inside Me, a $13m adaptation of ...
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New Talent - The Alumni: Class of 2008 - Where are they now'
This time last year Hafsia Herzi's name was on the lips of just about every French casting director. A year on and she has the rest of the world talking.Proving that her electric performance in Couscous was not just a one-off, Herzi went on to win the best actress award ...
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Bill Mechanic returns to animation with Coraline
Coraline may be the first animated film that Bill Mechanic has made under the banner of his Los Angeles-based production company Pandemonium, but the studio-chief-turned-producer is hardly a newcomer to the animation world.When he was at Disney in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the home-video division Mechanic oversaw and ...
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In focus - Festival buzz - Bright outlook in Berlin
French director Gaspar Noe will be in Berlin this week to explain to distributors the concept behind his film Enter The Void, which is being sold at the European Film Market (EFM) by Wild Bunch. The title of Noe's effects-driven new feature seems strangely apt given what many buyers and ...
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Sally Potter on the 'poor cinema' of Rage
Sally Potter's new feature Rage, which had its world premiere in competition at Berlin this week, has a cast to make distributors sit up and take notice. Actors involved in the ensemble comedy-thriller include Judi Dench, Jude Law, Steve Buscemi, supermodel Lily Cole and comedian Eddie Izzard.The film, a murder ...
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Festival review: Park city's sparkling show of independents
It was a happy coincidence that in the year it was celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Sundance Film Festival showcased a bumper crop of new independent cinema. As Robert Redford, festival director Geoff Gilmore and director of programming John Cooper reiterated, Sundance is about discovering new talent - and this ...
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United States - Content provider
When he relocated to Los Angeles last August, ContentFilm International president Jamie Carmichael was "in search of bigger and stronger films".And the move, says Carmichael, who set up the international sales arm of the UK's ContentFilm plc in London six-and-a-half years ago, "has been quite transformational".With its front office effectively ...
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United Kingdom - Sustainable development
London-based Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) is a business on the move. It doesn't have a great deal of choice in one respect - the company's Tottenham Court Road offices are to be demolished to make way for a new rail network.But Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's eight-year-old outfit has ...
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International - A new dimension
All eyes are on 2009 as the year the box-office potential of "legacy" films - classic or cult films that could be brought out in new 3D editions - may be realised. If, over the coming months, the appetite for 3D is sufficiently baited, then demand will encourage the US ...
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New Talent - European Stars of Tomorrow
THE DIRECTORSKATHRINE WINDFELD - DENMARKWork to date: As well as directing episodes of virtually every major Danish TV series, Windfeld has also directed the award-winning short films You Can’t Eat Fishing and Little Man.Coming up: Windfeld is making her big-screen debut with political drama The Escape, in which a Danish ...
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Screen opinion: the film industry's zero-sum game
Economist Richard Bronk makes a fascinating case this week for the reasons why economists failed to predict the downturn. 'Economists and bankers,' he suggested, 'assume they can reduce uncertainty to measurable risk based on systematic regularities in the past that can tell you what is going to happen in the ...
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International - Valkyrie rides on
Twentieth Century Fox's Valkyrie defended its place at the top of the international box-office chart for the second week of its international run, after expanding to a further 10 territories, including number-one debuts in Spain (grossing $3.2m from 397 screens), France ($1.6m from 300), Sweden ($449,000 from 70) and Belgium ...
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Slumdog Millionaire triumphs at London Film Critics' Circle Awards
An inaugural NSPCC award for young British performer of the year was presented to Thomas Turgoose for two very different roles; a teenager escaping a bad home life in Somers Town, and a ferocious yob in Eden Lake. Kate Winslet won actress of the year for her performances in The ...