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MySpace teams with Bside, Right Angle to launch touring US film and music fest
Hugely successful lifestyleportal MySpace is teaming with specialized independent film distributor BsideEntertainment and festival consultant Right Angle Studios to launch the BsideRoadshow, a touring US film and music festival which will begin on June 4 inAustin, Texas.The festival will travel tocollege towns like Ann Arbor, Minneapolis, Madison, Philadelphia, Boulder,Portland and ...
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Da Vinci holds well in international arena
The Da Vinci Code maintained much of its allure inthe international marketplace this weekend, in spite of competition from newultra-wide release X-Men: The Last Stand. The X-Men sequel -- which had a record-breaking $107mNorth American debut and opened day-and-date in 95 other territories - couldstill emerge as the international marketplace's ...
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Sono's Circus scores Cannes US deal with TLA
Philadelphia-based TLAReleasing has acquired North American theatrical and home entertainment rightsto Sion Sono's Japanese shocker Strange Circus. It is the seond Sono film in TLA's library after SuicideClub which is featured in thecompany's upcoming "Danger After Dark" box set.TLA bought the film fromJapan's Sedic International; the deal was negotiated at ...
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Gold Circle grabs remake rights to Russian horror picture
Gold Circle Films has optioned English-language remake rights fromCentral Partnership to Dead Daughters based on Pavel Ruminov's upcoming Russian horror picture.Gold Circle chief Paul Brooks will produce the story of a crazedwoman who sparks a chain of supernatural vengeance after she kills her three daughters.Scott Niemeyer and Norm Waittwill serve ...
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Picturehouse wins US rights to La Vie En Rose
New Line/HBO joint venturePicturehouse has acquired US rights to the hotly sought after Cannes markettitle La Vie En Rose, the biopicof Edith Piaf which stars Marion Cotillard as Piaf and Gerard Depardieu as LouisLeplee. The film follows Piaf's risefrom the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York all ...
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Elena Anaya joins cast of The Floating World
Goya nominee Elena Anaya hasjoined Wintertime Films and Walker Films' Australian Outback-set drama TheFloating World.The Spanish actress willstar as a grieving widow who embarks upon ajourney of self-discovery andlearns disturbing truths about her past.Ben Mendelsohn and VinceColosimo round out the key cast.John Winter wrote anddirected and is serving as producer ...
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Chiesa books Japan sale for Rosso Come Il Fuoco
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises has sold Rosso Come IlFuoco to Japan's Sine Qua Non.Directed by Cristiano Bortone, the film is inspired bythe true story of Mirco Mencacci, a blind sound editor who was sent to aschool for blind children in the 1970s, where he discovered a passion forcinema.The picture was written ...
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Focus International sells out on Cannes slate
Focus Features International has reported its most successful Cannes ever, preselling "pretty much the entire slate" according to president Alison Thompson here yesterday. Thompson said thatthe company had closed 110 deals on its new titles, demonstrating, she said, thatthe company continues to sell films contrary to market speculation that Focustitles ...
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Congorama gone to UGC for France
Philippe Falardeau's Congorama,the closing film at the Directors Fortnight, has been sold to UGC for France.The deal was negotiated by French co-producer EricTavitian and producer Luc Dery.Congorama, onLondon-based The Works' Cannes slate, is a Canada/Belgium/France co-production.Starring Olivier Gourmet (best known for his work withthe Dardennes), Congorama is the story of ...
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Tartan acquires US rights to Red Road
Tartan USA has acquired all US rights to Andrea Arnold's British title Red Road, in competition at Cannes, from Trust Film Sales. Arnold's debut feature Red Road, an intense drama starring newcomer Kate Dickie, is the first of three films to be made through Lars von Trier's Advanced Party scheme ...
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Italy pays tribute to Leo Pescarolo
Leo Pescarolo, the Italian producer behind Federico Fellini's Prova D'Orchestra and co-producer of Lars von Trier's Dogville, has died. He was 70.Born in Genova to silent-era movie star Vera Vergani, Pescarolo was known as a courageous producer who championed quality arthouse pictures and international co-productions.He was credited with "discovering" a ...
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Ambitious auteurs at Cannes still lack the 'wow factor'
It only takes two or threefilms to bring a festival alive. They don't even have to be touched bygreatness, just talking points that make everyone glad to be here. Cache set Cannes buzzing last year. The Brown Bunny managed it on an unforgettable scale in 2003. This year, a respectableroll ...
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Pusan's Asian Film Market lines up companies
The upcoming Asian FilmMarket will have a focus on Asian talent and talent agencies with companiessuch as Korea's Namoo and IHQ, Japan's Stardust and Hong Kong's Jet Tone set toattend the four-day market (October 15-18).The market also hopes tosign up agencies from the US and other Asian territories including China ...
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Israel Film Fund backs new film from Koshashvili
The Israel Film Fund hasannounced that it is boarding a raft of new projects. The Fund will pump morethan $300,000 into $5m drama Kishta,by director Dover Koshashvili and producers Marek Rozenbaum and EdgardTenenbaum.Meanwhile, the Fund hasalready committed $400,000 to Lebanon, produced by Einat Bikel and executive produced by France-based AlainGirard ...
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StudioCanal takes a seat at Feng's Banquet
Beijing-based Huayi Brothershas sold Feng Xiaogang's period drama TheBanquet to France's StudioCanal.The period drama, starringZhang Ziyi, has also gone to Portugal (Eco Filmes), Source Investment (Benelux, Scandinavia), Femeway (Greece, Cyprus), Alexandra (Bulgaria), Shapira Films (Israel), Atasagun Films (Turkey) and Korean Screen (Korea). Momentum Pictures has rights for the UK and ...
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Danish Film Institute's THINKTANK could become policy body
The Copenhagen THINKTANK,the new initiative organised by the Danish Film Institute (DFI) to ponderstrategy for European film, is looking over time to become a policy body.'We have all the keyplayers with us, all the national institutes and a lot of people from theindustry,' said the DFI's Henning Camre in Cannes ...
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Danish Film Institute's THINKTANK could become policy body
The Copenhagen THINKTANK,the new initiative organised by the Danish Film Institute (DFI) to ponderstrategy for European film, is looking over time to become a policy body.'We have all the keyplayers with us, all the national institutes and a lot of people from theindustry,' said the DFI's Henning Camre in Cannes ...
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QED close to selling out Spring Break In Bosnia
Beverly Hills-based QED International has closed major territory saleson Richard Shepard's comedy thriller Spring Break In Bosnia starring RichardGere and Terrence Howard.Rights have gone to TF1 in France, Avex in Japan, Senator in Germany; DutchFilmworks for Benelux, Sandrew Metronome for Scandinavia, SPI for EasternEurope, Sun Distribution for Latin America, Village ...
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Fortissimo opens New York bureau
Salesagency Fortissimo is to open a New York office. Thebureau will be led by Hong Kong-based executive Winnie Lau, who has beenpromoted to Senior Vice President, Sales & Acquisitions.Shewill move from Hong Kong to New York this summer for the launch of the office beforethe Toronto Film Festival.Theannouncement was made ...
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Czech producers protest funding cut in Cannes
Czech producers in Canneshave reacted with dismay and fury to yesterday's decision by the Czech Parliamentto kill off the long-awaited law to boost Czech production support.To register their anger, theCzech film delegation attending the Cannes Film Festival shut down the Czechstand at 5 pm yesterday for the remainder of the ...