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Wong Kar-wai reunites with Weinsteins on Blueberry
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has swooped on all US, Australian andNew Zealand rights to Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights.StudioCanal is handling international sales on the auteur's first English-languagefilm, which stars Norah Jones as a lovelorn young woman who meets a series ofmemorable characters while traveling across America.Jude Law, David Strathairn, ...
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MPAA creates new rights management division under Saunders
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has established adepartment to manage and promote rights management and copyright royalty policyworldwide on behalf of its members.Jane Saunders has been named senior vice president and will headthe new Rights Management Policy and Relations department.The division consolidates several existing MPAA programmes, andwill promote ...
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First Look scores major sales on Diamond, Crime
A rejuvenated First Look International has closed major sales atAFM on Tennessee Williams' rare play Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond starring Lindsay Lohan and true-lifedrama American Crime starringCatherine Keener.Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond sparked multiple deals after it was announced during themarket. CAA is handling the Constellation Entertainment project in ...
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Mads Mikkelsen signs up for Danish Flame & Citron
Lars Bredo Rahbek, the producer behind the $7.6 (Euros 6m) Flame & Citron has signed up current Bond villain Mads Mikkelsen to play the lead character alongside co-star Thure Lindhardt. Nimbus Film is currently working on the last rounds of financing with 75 % of the film's budget in ...
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35 new projects on show at Iberoamerican Co-production Forum
Close to 30 companies will get an early look at 35 new projects from 13 countries at the upcoming Iberoamerican Co-production Forum (Nov 19-21) at Spain's Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva (Nov 18-25).Projects range from the low budget $300,000 El Premio from Peru's Alberto (Chicho) Durant to the $12m La ...
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Vatican world premiere for Hardwicke's Nativity
New Line cinema's Virgin Mary themed picture Nativity is to hold its world premiere at the Vatican on November 24.Eagle Pictures, the film's Italian distributor, said the Catholic prelates, academics and experts in Catholicism gave approved the film's "poetic and faithful retelling of the Scriptures" after a private viewing.The premiere ...
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Vatican world premiere for Hardwicke's Nativity
New Line cinema's Virgin Mary themed picture Nativity is to hold its world premiere at the Vatican on November 24.Eagle Pictures, the film's Italian distributor, said Catholic prelates, academics and experts in Catholicism approved the film's "poetic and faithful retelling of the Scriptures" after a private viewing.The premiere of Catherine ...
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Constantin and ProSieben Sat 1 continue output deal
Leading German independentdistributor Constantin Film Verleihhas extended its output deal with the ProSiebenSat.1 Group for a further twoyears.The new arrangement, which takeseffect from February 2007, will cover all of the ConstantinGroup's national and international in-house and co-productions shooting betweenJanuary 1, 2007 and December 31, 2008.Aside from the current deal -which ...
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TWC takes US rights to Death Defying Acts
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has picked up US rights to Gillian Armstrong's Harry Houdini drama Death DefyingActs.The project stars Guy Pearce as the master escapologist who goeson tour in 1926 and embarks upon an affair with an exotic psychic played byCatherine Zeta Jones.The psychic and her daughter attempt to con ...
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Better Things lie ahead
Award winning short film-maker Duane Hopkins has received $486,000 (£255,000) from the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund towards his debut feature Better Things.Currently in production, Better Things tells the story of a group of young adults struggling to get ahead in life with limited opportunities. Hopkins' script for the ...
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Media Asia seals further deals on Confession, Exiled
As the AFM draws to a closetoday, Hong Kong's Media Asia has sealed several more sales on its upcomingAndrew Lau and Alan Mak title ConfessionOf Pain and Johnnie To's Exiled. Italy's Lucky Red acquired cop drama ConfessionOf Pain, which stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro, along with Turkey's Filma, ...
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Whitaker, Inconvenient Truth honoured at Santa Barbara
Forest Whitaker will receive the 2007 Santa Barbara InternationalFilm Festival's American Riviera Award and Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim will berecognised for their achievements in nature filmmaking for An InconvenientTruth.As previously announced Will Smith will collect the Modern Master Awardat the event, which runs from Jan 25-Feb 4, 2007.For more ...
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WBIC withdraws from Chinese cinema investments
Warner Bros InternationalCinemas (WBIC) has decided to stop investing in the Chinese cinema market dueto a tightened policy on foreign investment, the company said in a statement inShanghai today. However, Warner Bros' otherinvestments in China, including local-language production and home video, will not beaffected the statement said.The main reason for ...
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Mikkelsen to star in wartime thriller Flame & Citron
Mads Mikkelsen, the Danish star whose internationalprofile is set to soar when he is seen as the villain in Casino Royale later this month, has signed to play Citron in the$7.7m World War II thriller Flame & Citron.The Danish-language film will be directed by OleChristian Madsen, whose fourth feature Prague, ...
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Sundance commissions original movies for mobile phones
Robert Redford's SundanceInstitute is dipping an experimental toe in the mobile entertainment arena bycommissioning five original short films intended for viewing on cell phonesworldwide.The three-to-five minutefilms will debut in Barcelona, on the opening day of next February's 3GSM WorldCongress, a mobile communications conference that attracts some fifty thousandtelecom-related professionals from ...
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Solo Dios Sabe finds domestic home in Palm
Palm Pictures has acquired North American and Caribbean rights to CarlosBolado's Brazilian feature Solo Dios Sabe.The distributor plans an early 2007 theatrical release followed byDVD roll-out on the Palm Pictures label.Solo Dios Sabe, which premiered at Sundance this year, follows the relationshipof a Mexican journalist who falls in love with ...
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Senator ends dispute over X-Filme
Producer-distributor Senator Entertainment is to retain its 56.1% interest in the Berlin production house X-Filme Creative Pool after an out-of-court settlement.The dispute dates back to 2004 when Senator filed for insolvency, since when there has been often acrimonious wrangling about the stake in X-FIlme.Now Senator's new majority shareholders Marco Weber ...
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Tsai Ming-liang withdraws Sleep from Golden Horse
Taiwan auteur TsaiMing-liang has withdrawn his new feature IDon't Want to Sleep Alone from the Golden Horse Film Awards, declaring thathe would no longer participate in the event.Tsai has also withdrawn hisfilm from the affiliated Golden Horse Film Festival, despite its slot as theevent's opening gala on Nov 10.Tsai's film, ...
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Mandate pre-sells key territories on Horsemen
Mandate Pictures has closed major territory pre-sales on JonasAkerlund's dark crime thriller Horsemen starring Dennis Quaid and Ziyi Zhang.Rights have gone to Icon for the UK and Australia, Concorde forGermany, West Video for CIS, and Sony Pictures Entertainment for Spain,Portugal, South Africa, Latin America and South Korea.Deals also closed in ...
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France Telecom to open cinema investment arm
France Telecom is to open a film rights arm with plans to co-produce 10 to 15 French and European films a year.The new division will be operational in the first quarter of 2007 and run by Frederique Dumas. Dumas is an independent producer who formerly consulted on film to the ...