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Rebel State lines up rapper Kano for Black Market
UK producers Rebel State Films, headed by Anthony Alleyne and Rachel McClelland, are in Cannes to discuss their slate of four films with potential co-producers.The first project set to shoot is Black Market, written and to be directed by Alleyne, with 28 Weeks Later star Idris Elba and rapper Kano ...
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The Works works Buscemi's Interview
The Works UK Distribution has taken all UK rights to Steve Buscemi's Interview, which stars Buscemi and Sienna Miller. Cinemavault is handling sales. The project is Buscemi's fourth as a director and it played in Sundance and Berlin.The drama follows a fading political journalist who has to interview a popular ...
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Taviani Brothers' Lark Farm flies to RAI Trade
Italian sales company RAI Trade has added the Taviani's latest film, The Lark Farm, to its Cannes slate.The film, which played in Berlin, is the latest effort from Paolo and Vittorio Taviana, who won the Palme d'Or in 1977 for My Father, My Master and a special jury prize in ...
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Storm rises for Santiago Parra's Guadalupe
Storm Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales on Guadalupe, Santiago Parra's tale of two scientists who investigate the apparition of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe in Mexico.Pedro Armendariz stars alongside Ivana Mino and Aleix Albaredo. The Versatile Group of Hollywood is also representing the feature, which shot in Spain and Mexico.
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Shane Meadows gets shorts in shape with EM Media, Warp and Film4
EM Media, the UK's East Midlands regional screen agency behind Anton Corbijn's Directors Fortnight hit Control, has joined forces with Warp Films and Film4 to create a new website that will offer downloads of Shane Meadows' large back catalogue of shorts.Meadows, who most recently made the award-winning This Is England ...
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Wide racks up Cannes sales for titles including Counterparts
Wide Management has started strong at the Cannes Market. Wide has already completed sales on Fortnight title Counterparts by director Jan Bonny, A Casa De Alice by Chico Teixeira, Philippe Aractingi's Bosta, Ballerina from Bertrand Normand and two new Edith Piaf documentaries: Le Concert Ideal and Sans Amour On 'est ...
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Film London says London shooting up 42% in last three years
Film London said that filming in the UK capital has grown 42% over the last three years. The figures represent shoots for film, TV and commercials in all of London's 33 boroughs. There were a record1 3,802 filming days in 2006, making London the third-busiest production city in the world. ...
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France's new culture minister Albanel pays tribute to Cannes
Although it was widely rumored that France's newly elected president, Nicolas Sarkozy, would make a red carpet appearance in Cannes, he instead sent a note along with the country's new culture minister, Christine Albanel. On Sunday night, the evening of Cannes' 60th anniversary celebration, the minister read a tribute addressed ...
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South West Screen backs Writers competition
In addition to its work with the Screenwriters' Festival, South West Screen is also launching a new Screenwriter Development Competition. Oscar-nominated writer William Nicholson (Gladiator), will mentor the winner of the award, who will also receive about $6,000. The competition will be open to writers in the South West region ...
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Asia Pacific awards recruite Cheah and Hong-Joon
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards, a collaboration with CNN International, UNESCO and the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF), announced nine members of its nominations council yesterday (May 20).They included Philip Cheah, head of the Singapore International Film Festival, Azize Tan, director of the International Istanbul Film Festival, Anne ...
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Bleiberg closes key sales on Kollrin title
Bleiberg Entertainment has closed key sales here on Eran Kolirin's Un Certain Regard entry Band's Visit following a rapturous screening on Saturday night.The film's co-producer Sophie Dulac has taken French rights and plans to release on a minimum of 80 prints.Deals also closed in Italy (Mikado), Spain (Manga), Latin America ...
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Companies sign up for London Finance Market
Film London's new Production Finance Market (October 22-23), held in association with the Times BFI London Film Festival, has announced some major players who have confirmed their attendance, including Working Title, Focus Features, Paramount, Pathe, The Weinstein Company and StudioCanal.The market will address private film finance and new distribution avenues. ...
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Fernandes makes Anxious follow-up to Magnus
UK-based producer Donal Fernandes whose first production Magnus is playing in Un Certain Regard is currently in advanced stages of post-production on black comedy Anxious Dave.Fernandes who wrote and directed the $190,000 UK-production, describes Anxious Dave as 'a scary film about loneliness that evolves into a comedy'. The film, which ...
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Lupovitz lines up Podeswa, Evans, Palmer projects
LA-based producer Dan Lupovitz, executive producer on Death Defying Acts starring Catherine Zeta Jones and Guy Pearce and one of the producers on the currently-shooting Good with Viggo Mortenson, has lined out a slate of international projects here from film-makers including Jeremy Podeswa, Marc Evans and hot UK commercials directors ...
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Asia Pacific Screen Awards make Cannes bow
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards, a collaboration with CNN International, UNESCO and the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF), announced nine members of its nominations council yesterday (May 20).They included Philip Cheah, head of the Singapore International Film Festival, Azize Tan, director of the International Istanbul Film Festival, Anne ...
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Muhe and Tukur join cast of One Woman
Ulrich Muhe and Ulrich Tukur, two of the stars of Oscar-winner The Lives Of Others, are to appear alongside Marie Bonnevie (The Banishment) in One Woman. The $3.5m drama written and directed by Mauricio Mendiola, will offer a fictionalised history of Monika Ertl, a heroine of the Bolivian revolution.Monika is ...
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Uwe Boll game for $7.5m horror sequel
Uwe Boll is lining up a summer shoot in New York for the $7.5m horror sequel and video game adaptation Alone In The Dark 2.Boll, in Cannes to handle sales on the upcoming video game adaptations Far Cry starring Til Schweiger and Postal, among others, will announce the director and ...
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Little Film sees future in Meyers partnership
The Little Film Company is partnering with producer Lawrence Steven Meyers on Air And Fire and Serendipity Starlight.Ludivine Sagnier, Val Kilmer and Vincent Perez will star in the Rupert Thomson adaptation Air And Fire, about a clairvoyant woman who relocates with her husband to Mexico and falls for a Mexican ...
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Kiriyama makes directing debut on Yoroi
Japanese scriptwriter Isao Kiriyama, a regular collaborator with cult director Ryuhei Kitamura, is set to make his directing debut on horror project Yoroi for Gaga Communications. Kitamura has developed the project which he will also produce alongside Ring producer Shinya Kawai. The story revolves around a hostage family on the ...
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Pusan announces Asian Cinema Fund
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced the Asian Cinema Fund, a new production support programme for emerging Asian filmmakers. In addition to $860,000 in funds for projects in all stages, the Asian Cinema Fund also offers support in the way of post-production services in Korea. 'PIFF has always ...