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Mandarin closes Gate on Cannes deals
Hong Kong's Mandarin Films has sold Wilson Yip's Dragon Tiger Gate, one of the hotChinese-language titles in the market, to Germany's Splendid Film and Spain's Tot Media. The martial arts actionthriller, starring Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse and Shawn Yue, was sold earlier inthe market to Japan's Gaga and a raft ...
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Emperor closes raft of sales on Rob-B-Hood
Emperor Motion Pictures hassold action comedy Rob-B-Hood,starring Jackie Chan and directed by Benny Chan, to Italy's Minerva, Germany'sSplendid and Korea's ShowEast. The Hong Kong-based companyhas also sold all Eastern Europe territories on thefilm to Central Partnership and SPI. Produced by Chan's JCEMovies and Beijing-based Huayi Brothers, the $17m film is ...
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Scottish producers criticise Scottish Screen
Scottish producers in Canneshave issued a stinging rebuke to national film agency Scottish Screen over itsdelay in revealing its long-term plans for feature film production. "Again and again(in Cannes), we have been asked what is happening with Scottish Screen. We don't quite know," said Mark Cousins of 4 Ways Productions. ...
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Magnolia strikes three-territory deal for The Host
Magnolia Pictures hasswooped on Bong Joon-ho's left-field monster movie The Host, acquiring rights for the US, UK and Australia to thefilm that screened in Director's Fortnight.Sales agent Cineclick Asiahas also sold the film to France's Ocean Films, Spain's Notro Films andDiscovery for former Yugoslavia. Other territories closed in Cannes includeBrazil ...
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Dogwoof gets UK rights to Grbavica
UK distributor DogwoofPictures has taken all UK rights to Berlinale Golden Bear winner Grbavica. Jasmila Zbanic'sSarajevo-set drama is a co-production from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, andGermany.The deal was struck withsales company Match Factory.'The film has animportant political and social angle, but it's also a moving story about amother and daughter,' ...
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Lazio starts Italy's fourth regional film fund
The long drought that hashit Italy's traditional film financiers is spurring the country to find newways of bolstering its film industry.As such, the Lazio regionaround Rome will become the fourth region in Italy to establish a filmfund.The $12.8m (Euros 10m) fund,created along the lines of France's Ile de France fund, ...
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Fortissimo serves up Waiter to France...
Fortissimo Films has sold Waiter, the company's fourth venturewith Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam, to France's BAC and Israel's United King. The Dutch/HK-based companyhas also closed a slew of sales on John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus which has gone to BIM (Italy), Central Partnership (Russia), Oro (Norway), Ster Kinekor (South Africa), ...
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Tartan gets US rights to The Page Turner
Tartan USA has acquired allUS rights to The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de Pages) from Films Distribution. The film, which premiered inUn Certain Regard, is a psychological thriller, written and directed by DenisDercourt and starring Catherine Frot and The Child star Deborah Francois.Didar Domehri of FilmsDistribution negotiated the deal ...
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Julian Richards prepares for Summer Scars
Prolific British filmmaker Julian Richards, whopreviously directed The Last Horror Movie, has completed the financing of hislatest project.Summer Scars, Richards'sfourth feature, is billed as "a dark psychological thriller about a gang ofschool truants held hostage in the woods by a psychopath."Kevin Howarth (who also played in The Last HorrorMovie) will ...
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Sundream sells package to Sahamongkol
Hong Kong producer-distributor Sundream Motion Pictures has solda package of three titles - Battle OfWits, 49 Days and Eye In The Sky - to Thailand's Sahamongkol Films. Sundream, which is attendingCannes for the first time this year, also sold 49 Days and Eye In The Sky to Brazil's China Video ...
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MIrren, Fishburne to be among CineVegas honorees
Laurence Fishburne, Helen Mirren, and Christina Ricci are amonghonourees at the upcoming 2006 CineVegas Film Festival.Ray director Taylor Hackford is also in line for an honorary award, and SylvesterStallone will be presented with a special award.Organisers at the event, scheduled to run from Jun 9-17, have arranged a packedschedule that ...
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X-Men: The Last Stand into battle with global launch
X-Men: The Last Standmuscles its way into 95 territories this weekend, giving the internationalmarketplace its second ultra-wide day-and-date release in quick succession. TheFox International action sequel is set to open with a total of 8,500 prints playingon around 10,000 screens, with only Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China notincluded in ...
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Lionsgate swoops on Wayne Beach's thriller Slow Burn
Lionsgate has picked up North American and UK rights form GreeneStreetFilms International to the thriller Slow Burn starring Mekhi Phifer, Ray Liottaand Chiwetel Ejiofor.Wayne Beach directed the multi-layered story of a district attorney who has onenight to salvage his reputation and solve a murder. Lionsgate plans an Augustrelease in the ...
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Hunchback planned as $10m UK-Poland co-production
Producers Nik Goldman and Max Ryan are setting up a$10m UK-Poland co-production for a new adaptation of The Hunchback of NotreDame.The project, entitled Hunchback,will star Ryan, John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee, Said Taghmaoui, StevenBerkoff and Jack Ryan. Battlefield Earth's Roger Christianwill direct.The 10-week shoot will take place this summer inKrakow and ...
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Wild Bunch taps into Im Kwon-taek's 100th film
Legendary Korean director ImKwon-taek's 100th film has been acquired by France's Wild Bunch forinternational sales. The drama's working title is Cheonnyeonhak and will be ready in 2007.Wild Bunch acquired the filmfrom new Korean production powerhouse Prime Entertainment. Prime, which ishandling sales itself on other titles, has bought production entities CoreaEntertainment ...
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New UK festival Britdoc adds pitching forum
Nokia has come on board as a principal sponsor ofBritdoc, the UK's new international documentary festival. The event isscheduled for July 26-28 in Oxford.The festival has announced a documentary featurepitching forum, presented by Channel 4 offshoot More4, for UK film-makers topitch a panel of commissioners and funders. The panel will ...
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Linklater plans Chet Baker project
Richard Linklater is movingfrom Fast Food Nation into aproject about Chet Baker called Chesney which will look at one day in the life of the jazz legend before he wasfamous.Describing the film as'a small jazz movie,' Linklater said this week that the film would bemade independently. Linklater is in Cannes ...
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Fortune Star sells remake rights to A Better Tomorrow
Korean production companyFingerprint Pictures has acquired remake rights to classic Hong Kong actiontitle A Better Tomorrow, directedby John Woo in 1986, from Hong Kong-based Fortune Star Entertainment.Fingerprint, founded byKorean producer Park Hyung-jun (My Boyfriend Is Type B), is currently recruiting scriptwriters and adirector for the Korean remake which is planned ...
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Momentum strikes deals for P.S and Spring Break
Momentum has acquired the UK rights to P.S. I LoveYou from Summit Entertainment and the UK and Spanish rights to Spring Break In Bosnia from QED.Richard LaGravanese will direct the big-screenadaptation of the P.S. I Love You by Irish author Cecelia Ahern. Hilary Swank will star. ForrestGump's Wendy Finerman will ...
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Stella Sze takes key role at Global Entertainment Group
Global Entertainment Group(GEG), the recently formed production and financing arm of Hong Kongentrepreneur Johnny Hon's Global Group, has appointed Stella Sze to oversee itspush into the Chinese market.The company, which listedyesterday (May 23) on London's Ofex index, aims to produce and finance film andTV productions aimed at Asia and in ...