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Three local films ready to shoot in Ireland
Shoots are starting in Ireland on three locally-developed features - A Film With Me In It, Daisy Chain, and Our Wonderful Home. Irish comedian Dylan Moran (Run Fat Boy Run, Shaun of the Dead) stars in A Film With Me In It, a comedy thriller written by actor/comedian Mark Doherty ...
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UK government pledges $9.3m support for film festivals
The UK government has announced a $9.3m (£4.5m) three-year package of support for British film festivals.Culture Secretary James Purnell said the money was intended to raise the profile of British film and to broaden the interest in cinema.The money will come from the National Lottery. The UK Film will make ...
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Interview: Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor seems fated to direct a musical based on Beatle's songs - when an approach for a Broadway version fell through, the opportunity quickly re-established itself through Revolution Studios, who specifically wanted Taymor for the job. The services of British screenwriters, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, had already ...
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Interview: Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor seems fated to direct a musical based on Beatles songs - when an approach for a Broadway version fell through, the opportunity quickly re-established itself through Revolution Studios, who specifically wanted Taymor for the job. The services of British screenwriters, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, had already ...
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Hollywood writers talks break down
The prospect of a Hollywood writers strike was heightened after talks between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers failed to reach agreement on a new contract.Talks ended last night with the sticking point appearing to be over payments to writers on ...
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Peace Arch handles sales on Goal 3
Peace Arch Entertainment Group is to handle international sales on the football drama Goal 3 starring Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola and Anna Friel.The final episode in the rags-to-riches sporting trilogy follows two English players as they travel with the team to the World Cup in Germany. Director is Andrew Morahan.Peace ...
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TWC closes major AFM pre-sales on Richard Kelly's The Box
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has closed major pre-sales on Richard Kelly's $30m horror project The Box with Cameron Diaz, which is set to begin shooting in Boston at the end of November.Deals closed for the UK, Australia and New Zealand (Icon), South Korea (Eureka), Eastern Europe (EEAP), Greece (Odeon), the ...
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Grindstone takes North America on Left For Dead
Grindstone Entertainment Group has picked up North American rights to Sofia Films' gothic spaghetti Western Left For Dead starring Victoria Maurette.Albert Pyun's centres on a woman's vengeful quest to find her lost husband in turn-of-the-century Mexico. Michael Najjar produced and the film was fully financed by Sofia Films.Sofia's Michael Najjar ...
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Lars von Trier's Antichrist pre-sells widely for Trust
Lars Von Trier, the ageing enfant terrible of European cinema, clearly hasn't lost his allure for the international buyers. His new project Antichrist isn't cast yet.It hasn't been decided where the horror picture will shoot and the financing has still to be put together but that hasn't stopped distributors from ...
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Sobini launches international sales arm under Todd Olsson
Mark Amin's Sobini Films has launched a sales division and installed recent hire Todd Olsson to run it.Olsson, who previously handled sales with Mark Damon at Behaviour Films and worked at American World Pictures, among others, is at AFM to meet buyers.Sobini Films International's first projects is Damien Harris' kidnapping ...
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Curzon Artificial Eye expands product scope with Hunt buy
Signaling its increasing appetite for mainstream fare, UK distributorCurzon Artificial Eye has taken UK rights to Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me, starring Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler and Matthew Broderick.Then She Found Me is one of five new titles that Curzon Artificial Eye has picked up on the autumn ...
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Katapult takes sales for Paul Morrison's Little Ashes
Los Angeles-based Katapult Film Sales has boarded Paul Morrison's Spanish-English co-production Little Ashes and will commence sales here.The co-production between Factotum Barcelona, Aria Films, APT Films & Met Film just wrapped in Barcelona and stars Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson and Matthew McNulty.The story takes place in Madrid in 1922 and ...
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UK's Boulevard signs exclusive Fox deal for UMD format for PSP
Boulevard Entertainment, the UK DVD distributor, has branched out into the Universal Media Disc (UMD) format, used for PlayStation Portable, and signed an exclusive three-year UK deal for UMD releases for Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The deal covers new and library titles from Fox, Pathe and MGM. New releases ...
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Inaugural Brit List highlights most liked unproduced screenplays
A list of the most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays in the UK and Ireland has got tongues wagging across the local film community. Compiled from a survey of 40 producers, acquisitions executives, agents, sales agents and public funders, the list has been circulating widely. It is intended to echo ...
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New buyers have a taste for Roissy's Caramel
Early in the AFM, Paris-based Roissy Films has confirmed new deals on its Cannes hit Caramel.Deals signed include Argentina & Chile (Alfa Films), Mexico (Cine Video Y TV) and India (Alliance). A deal is pending with South Korea. and Roissy is also in advanced negotiations with Japan & Taiwan.Directed by ...
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Magnolia's Magnet buys domestic on Vestiel's French Eden Log
Magnolia Pictures' genre label Magnet has acquired North America rights including French Canada to Franck Vestiel's sci-fi horror epic Eden Log and will release in 2008.Currently in post-production, the film is about a man who finds himself at the bottom of an underground maze and must navigate his way out.Magnolia's ...
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Pyramide sells Fontaine's Monaco to Seville in Canada
Paris-based Pyramide Films has closed a deal with Canada's Seville Picturesfor Anne Fontaine's latest feature, Monaco.The film, starring Fabrice Lucchini and Roschdy Zem, is shooting and should be ready by next summer.Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that Pyramide is also handling Daydreams, the latest feature from revered Turkish auteur Nuri ...
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TLA takes US, UK, English-speaking Canada on Hormoz-directed drama
TLA Releasing has taken all US, UK and English-speaking Canadian rights to Hormoz' French drama I Dreamt Under Water (J'Ai Reve Sous L'Eau).TLA is co-producing the film with Wide Management and Triskel Film and acquired rights from Wide to line up a 2008 theatrical release.Hormoz makes his feature directorial debut ...
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Muay Thai Chaiya kicks its way to France, Germany
Thailand 's Five Star Entertainment has sold action title Muay Thai Chaiya to France 's Wild Side Films, Germany 's EMS and Brazil 's Global Media Holdings, among other territories. Five Star has now sold the film to more than 30 territories since it had its world premiere at the ...
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Focus reteams with Jim Jarmusch for The Limits Of Control
Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights to Jim Jarmusch's tentatively titled The Limits Of Control, which has been set for a pre-strike shoot in Spain early next year.Focus Features International commences sales hereon the story of a loner who operates outside the law and works on a mysterious assignment. ...