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Cannes sales 2008
Click here to see stories in fullFinal Cannes deals Ealing deals include Dorian Gray to Alliance FilmsSplendid buys include Swing Vote, UnshakableArtificial Eye takes The Class, Il Divo and two other Cannes titlesGerman distributors announce salesCJ Entertainment wraps further Good dealsFocus creams off sales for Milk, Mendes comedy Kinowelt acquisitions ...
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Mazodier and Oursel prepare $9.2m frightener Prey
Two Days In Paris producer Christophe Mazodier and 13 Tzameti producer Olivier Oursel are teaming for an ambitious thriller from first-time director Antoine Blossier. The $9.2m (Euros 6m) project Prey is currently in pre-production. Mazodier describes it to Screen as ' Jaws meets ...
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NonStop acquires Park Chan-wook's vampire film
Sweden 's NonStop Entertainment has acquired two vampire features - Park Chan-wook's highly-anticipated Thirst and Not Like Others from Swedish director Peter Pontikis. Both films are still in production and will premiere later this year. Nonstop has acquired rights to both films for Scandinavia, Iceland and the Baltics. ...
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Fandango Portobello Sales makes sales on Gomorrah
Fandango Portobello Sales has announced deals on Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah ahead of its competition debut. The UK's Optimum has acquired the film while Prokino has taken it for Germany and Austria.The film is also sold in Turkey (AFS), France (Le Pacte), Benelux (ABC Distribution), Switzerland (Filmcoopi) and Canada (Seville). It ...
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Infinity Film Completion Services launches financing and production arms
Indian completion bond outfit Infinity Film Completion Services has launched a film financing and production company which is producing Colours Of Passion from The Rising director Ketan Mehta and a slate of martial arts movies.The new outfit, Infinity Filmed Entertainment, plans to produce four to five features a year for ...
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[Rec] directors return for sequel to horror hit
Filmax is promoting a sequel to the hit horror film Rec with the same directors, Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza, attached to direct.Rec 2 will have the same 'claustrophobic concept' as the first film, seen through a handheld camera lens, according to Filmax.Full details for the film, such as cast, ...
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Zhang Ziyi heads cast for Susanne Bier's Lost For Words
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is set to star in romantic comedy Lost For Words, which Susanne Bier is directing for the UK's Working Title Films. Hugh Grant is also in talks to join the film. The film is scheduled to start shooting in September in London and possibly ...
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Stars sign up for Future Films' Parasomnia
Future Films signs Karolina Kurkova and Kevin McKidd to ParasomniaBritish star Kevin McKidd (The Last Legion, Trainspotting) and Victoria's Secret model Karolina Kurkova have signed as the leads in Future Films' and MilCoz Films' psychological horror Parasomnia.Written and directed by Modigliani director Mick Davis, Parasomnia tells the story of a ...
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Kuba resigns as head of Barrandov Studios
Vladimir Kuba has stepped down from his position as general director of Barrandov Studios. The announcement came as a sudden surprise inside Barrandov Studios, a source inside told Screen International. 'My view of the situation was different from the owners,' Kuba told Screen International. 'I thought it was better to ...
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Film4 reunites with Miranda July for Satisfaction
Film4 has announced it will reunite with director Miranda July for her new film Satisfaction, which will begin shooting in Los Angeles in the autumn. Film Four and July previously collaborated on Me And You And Everyone We Know, which took 4 prizes at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.Satisfaction, ...
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Sally Hawkins to play Northern Irish civil rights campaigner
Sally Hawkins, coming off her Berlinale Best Actress award for Happy-Go-Lucky, will star in Aisling Walsh's The Roaring Girl.Kate Gartside wrote the script and producers are Sophie Balhetchet for Cougar Films and Tristan Orpen Lynch for Subotica. The Irish Film Board and Northern Ireland Screen supported the film's development.The story ...
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Elle Driver picks up Japanese title The Sky Crawlers
Nascent French outfit Elle Driver has picked up the mandate to hot Japanese title The Sky Crawlers for European sales. Directed by Mamoru Oshii, the animated film is presented by Nippon Television Network and Production I.G. It will have its debut in Japan on August 2 when Warner Bros. releases ...
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Film Farm to produce new works from Egoyan and De Palma
Toronto-based production outfit The Film Farm is set to produce Atom Egoyan's untitled next picture, an original screenplay, and two films from Brian de Palma. Headed by producing partners Simone Urdl and Jennifer Weiss, Film Farm produced Egoyan's Cannes competition entry Adoration as well as de Palma's 2007 Venice title ...
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Screen opinion- The soft money catch
There's a disconcerting calm underpinning Screen's annual guide to soft money this year.Over the last few years, analysis of subsidies has been a task for a war correspondent. Enormous upheavals in incentives turned the international business on its head around the world, most notably in the UK and Germany. So ...
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Co-productions - Wish you were here'
The need to make international co-productions work is more compelling now than ever. Film-makers looking to work on a certain scale - and not just to make low-budget movies for local consumption - are rarely able to raise their budgets in their own countries.'As an independent producer without a billionaire ...
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Prince Caspian begins roll-out, Iron Man nears $200m
Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian starts its international roll-out this weekend, opening in one major market in Asia, one in Europe and one in Latin America. But the family adventure sequel is unlikely to break Iron Man's two-week grip on the marketplace as Paramount's comic book-based blockbuster approaches ...
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Strand asks Bankside: How About You'
UK-based sales company has struck a deal with LA-based Strand Releasing for all US rights to Anthony Byrne's comedy How About You. Strand plans a September launch.Hayley Atwell stars alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Imelda Staunton, Brenda Fricker, and Joss Ackland. The story is about a young woman who has to run ...
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Capitol restructures but says business is solid
Following recent disparaging press reports and rumours following staff departures, Capitol Films managing director Peter Naish reiterates that the business is solid, if a bit dampened by current market conditions.Naish, who joined Capitol from Icon about a year ago, said that the recent departure of his co-MD Nick Hill wasn't ...
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Sam Riley, Mads Mikkelsen in talks for Black Heart
Christine Alderson's UK-based production company Ipso Facto Films is working with Italy's Orisa Produzioni and South Africa's Film Afrika to Produce political thriller Black Heart.The story is based on the real diaries of ex-mercenary Jean Vaudrec. Mads Mikkelsen and Sam Riley are in discussions to play estranged brothers who try ...
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Score draw ends Napoleonic wars
The stand-off over the rival versions of Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927), long acknowledged as one of the towering achievements of the silent era, is over.In Cannes this week, it has been announced that an agreement has been struck between Zoetrope/Film Preserve and the BFI/Photoplay. Two primary versions of the film ...