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Bankside says g'day to four Australian features
UK-based sales company Bankside Films has added four new Australian features -- all shooting this summer or autumn -- to its slate.They are Andrew Lancaster's Accidents Happen, Rupert Glasson's Coffin Rock, Ana Kokkinos' Blessed and Rachel Perkins' Bran Nue Dae.Hilary Davis and Stephen Kelliher of Bankside have plenty of Australian ...
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Karl Urban joins the cast of Horse for ContentFilm Intl
Karl Urban has joined the cast of action thriller Horse, which ContentFilm International is selling worldwide.Urban previously appeared in Star Trek, The Lord Of the Rings, The Bourne Supremacy and forthcoming Black Water Transit.Laurence Malkin directs and producers are Paul Schiff, Tai Duncan and Roseanne Korenberg.Horse starts shooting in New ...
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Winstone, Curry join cast of Myriad Pictures' The Cup
Ray Winstone and Stephen Curry have joined the cast of Silver Lion Films' true-life underdog story The Cup, which Myriad Pictures is pre-selling here.Winstone, who stars alongside Harrison Ford in Sunday's out of competition world premiere screening of Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, will play renowned ...
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Madonna's Filth scores territorial deals in Japan, France, CIS
LA's Katapult Films has closed key sales heading into the market on Madonna's directorial debut Filth And Wisdom.David Jourdan concluded deals with Hexagon in Japan, Surreal Films in CIS and Front Row in the Middle East.French rights have gone to La Fabrique du Film in a deal negotiated with CAA ...
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Velvet Octopus takes on sales for Intrepid's Prodigy
UK-based sales company Velvet Octopus is on board for sales of Prodigy, the next film from Chuck Russell, the US director of The Mask and The Scorpion King. Los Angeles-based Intrepid Pictures is fully financing the $25m film as its first feature not to go through Universal or Rogue. Intrepid ...
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Intandem, WMI swim down Stream with Tommy Lee Jones
Intandem Films and William Morris Independent will be selling Tommy Lee Jones' new action drama Islands In The Stream. Intandem will handle international and WMI will represent domestic rights. The companies are in Cannes actively discussing the project, which is adapted from the Ernest Hemingway classic. Jones will star as ...
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CMG takes on sales for $16m 3D animated feature Louis La Chance
Edward Noeltner's LA-based sales company Cinema Management Group (CMG) has boarded the $16m 3D animated feature Louis La Chance.Currently in production, the adventure takes place against the backdrop of the 1934 Monaco Grand Prix as a driver and his brother strive to win the race and avenge the death of ...
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BBC Films former head David Thompson sets up Origin
David Thompson, the former head of BBC Films, is launching a new independent film and TV production company, Origin Pictures.Origin kicks off with a three-year, first-look development deal with BBC Fiction for both feature films and TV drama.Also for its TV projects, Origin also has a first-look development deal with ...
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TrustNordisk acquires $10m Norwegian war drama
Scandinavian powerhouse TrustNordisk has picked up $10m Norwegian war drama Max Manus directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.The duo was also behind Bandidas, starring Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek and produced by Luc Besson.National release is December 19th. Nordisk Film will handle distribution in the Nordic Countries.Max Manus was ...
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Andrea Arnold dives into Fish Tank with UKFC, BBC Films, Limelight
Andrea Arnold is following her Cannes 2006 jury prize-winner Red Road with her second feature Fish Tank, which is being backed by the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund with $1.1m (£570,000).Sources close to the film say it will start shooting in Kent, England on June 23 with a cast ...
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Spain's Antena 3 boards Universal andWorking Title's Iraq thriller
Antena 3 Films, the film production arm of Spain broadcaster Antena 3Television, has come aboard Universal Pictures and Working Title'suntitled Green Zone thriller as part financier.Paul Greengrass' film is filming in Spain, Morocco and the UK andstars Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, KhalidAbdalla and Jason Isaacs.The story ...
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Coproduction Office takes on Cannes selections
Philippe Bober's production and sales outfit Coproduction Office, which unveils Kornel Mundruczo's Delta in competition in Cannes this week, has taken on sales duties on a handful of other titles in official selection.The company is handling Ruben Östlund's Swedish tragicomedy Involuntary, screening in Un Certain Regard.All rights are available excluding ...
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Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is first competition sale to US
In the first US sale of a Competition title at Cannes, Wild Bunch has sold Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale to IFC. The family drama, which screens here on Friday, stars an ensemble cast including Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni, Emmanuelle Devos, Anne Consigny and Melvil Poupaud. Produced by ...
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Real Holywood unveils first slate including Simon Callow's debut
Belfast-based production company Real Holywood plans a June shoot for its first feature, Yankee King, starring Bill Campbell, Claire Forlani, Kelly Brook and Rosemary Harris.Gerry Lively (Dungeons & Dragons II) will direct for the new production company, which is backed by property developer Robert Whitton and Richard Attenborough's longtime producer ...
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Star licenses 20 titles to Japan's Tsutaya Discas
Pan-Asian broadcaster Star has signed a deal with Japanese online content provider Tsutaya Discas, which will distribute 20 movie titles from Star's Fortune Star library via internet in Japan. The titles include Bruce Lee's Fist Of Fury and Way Of The Dragon, Jackie Chan's Project A series and the popular ...
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UK new media complex cleared by local government
Outline planning permission has been granted for the new Centre for Creative Excellence at Seaham, County Durham in the northeast of England. The proposed centre would have a media business park, an educational campus, two hotels and an agricultural college. Backers predict it could contribute more than $100m to the ...
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Radical Comics sells 40,000 units of first two Hercules, Caliber comics
Radical Publishing, which is partnered with film company Intandem, has had hits with its first two comic book releases through subsidiary Radical Comics: Hercules: The Thracian Wars and Caliber: First Canon Of Justice. Radical Comics sold out of 40,000 units of the two titles during its launch week starting April ...
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Toei rules Japan's Golden Week box office period
Toei Studios was the undisputed champion of this year's 'Golden Week' box office period in Japan, led by the success of big screen TV adaptation Partners: The Movie (Aibo - Gekijoban). The police detective thriller, directed by Seiji Izumi, has earned $20.38m (Y2.1bn) since its May 1 release on 300 ...
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Lotte Cinema enters Vietnamese exhibition market
South Korea's Lotte Cinema, affiliate of major local distributor Lotte Entertainment, has announced that it has become the first major Korean multiplex owner to buy into the Vietnamese exhibition market. Part of the Lotte Group conglomerate, Lotte Cinema has acquired DMC, a smaller Korean exhibitor that has successfully been operating ...
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Cathay, Emaar unveil details of Dubai exhibition venture
Reel Entertainment, the Dubai-based joint venture between Singapore exhibitor Cathay Organisation and Dubai property developer Emaar Malls Group, has announced that its new chain of multiplexes will be named Reel Cinemas. The first two Reel Cinemas are on target to open their doors in the last quarter of this year. ...