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Field and Al Ali named artistic directors for Dubai festival
The DubaiInternational Film Festival has unveiled new artistic directors for 2006, MasoudAmralla Al Ali and Simon Field, who will program films from the Arab andnon-Arab worlds respectively. Al Ali is basedin Abu Dhabi and is the artistic director of the UAE Cultural Foundation andthe founder of the Emirates Film Competition; ...
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Martial arts heaven as Jackie and Jet star together for first time
Going under the secretive working title of Untitled J& J Project, the project is being lined up for a 2007 start and isbeing sold here by Arclight Films.Based on a classic Chinese legend, thestory follows a teenager who gets transported to ancient China after hesteals a mystical staff from a ...
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Verhoeven's Black Book continues shoot in Israel
Paul Verhoeven's wartimeepic Black Book, recently sold toEureka for Korea, is now in the final part of its marathon shoot.Verhoeven, producer San FuMaltha, writer Gerard Soeteman and other colleagues invested an extra $382,770(Euros 300,000) of their own money to enable Verhoeven to take the project toIsrael.He is currently on locationin ...
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Caetano film cleans up in first competition stampede
In the first buying stamped for a competitiontitle at the Cannes market this year, Wild Bunch has concluded a raft of dealson Adrian Caetano's Buenos Aires 1977(Cronica De Una Fuga).The Weinstein Company took North American, NewZealand and Australian rights while Japan's Comstock Org and the UK's Momentumalso picked up the ...
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TV producer Red to make film debut with Mark of Cain
Nicola Shindler's UKtelevision drama production outfit Red Production Company is to venture intofeature film production. Red, whose TV credits include Queer as Folk and Clocking Off, will make its big-screen debut with The Mark OfCain, a hard-hitting film aboutBritish soldiers' experiences in the Iraq War. Shooting starts this month inTunisia ...
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Oliver Stone unveils World Trade Center footage in Cannes
The first nerve-crunching 20minutes of Oliver Stone's World Trade Center were screened before the 20th-anniversary screeningof Platoon on Sunday night to astrong response from a packed Salle Debussy in Cannes.The footage laid out themorning of September 11, 2001, from the point of view of John McLoughlin(Nicolas Cage), a Port Authority ...
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PolyBona readies Sky Fighters release in China
China's Beijing PolyBona hasscheduled a June 23 theatrical release for Gerard Pires' Sky Fighters, one offour French titles recently acquired by the company which is stepping updistribution of foreign films.The air force thriller willbe premiered at the upcoming Shanghai International Film Festival (June 17-25)before receiving a wide theatrical release across ...
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Irvine Welsh to direct The Man Who Walks
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is to make his directorial debuton TheMan Who Walks.The $3.7m (£2m) productionwill be made for his own company4way Pictures and is an adaptation ofthe 2002 novel by fellow Scottishauthor Alan Warner, who also wrote MorvernCallar. Producer Catherine Aitken iscurrently in Cannesfinalising finance.A blackly comic road moviethriller,the ...
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Films Distribution takes rights to new Leopold film
Fran'ois Yon's FilmsDistribution has taken worldwide rights to Wolfsbergen, the latest feature fromhighly acclaimed Dutch director Nanouk Leopold (whose Guernsey screened in the Quinzaine last year.) The new film --a kaleidoscopic drama about four generations of a family -- re-unites severalof the stars from Oscar-winning Character.The cast is headlined by ...
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Ledger and Williams join Haynes' Dylan project
Hot off their Academy Awardnominations, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams have both joined thestar-studded cast of I'm Not There,Todd Haynes' $25m portrait of Bob Dylan that finally starts shooting inMontreal this July.Ledger, who replaces ColinFarrell, will be one of six top-flight actors to play the iconicsinger-songwriter in his different life-guises. ...
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Jodorowsky plans new film King Shot
Alejandro Jodorowsky, theoriginator of the midnight movie, has a new film planned, entitled King Shot.He describes the project as somethingof a metaphysical spaghetti Western that could star his fans and friends NickNolte and Marilyn Manson. Producer Pieree Spengler is developing.Jodorowsky is in Cannestoday for Cannes Classics screenings of 1971's El ...
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Hawke. Finney and Tomei sign to Lumet film
Oscar-winning director Sidney Lumet is moving aheadwith new thriller, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead. London-based Capitol Films revealed at Cannes that isfinancing and selling the project.Lumet (whose credits include such acknowledgedclassics as Network, Dog Day Afternoon and Twelve Angry Men) is currently putting together a heavyweight cast. Already attached ...
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NonStop Sales gets Irreverent Media slate
Stockholm-basedinternational sales agent NonStop Sales has struck a multi-picture deal withVancouver-based Irreverent Media Ltd.The slate deal includes TheBestRestaurant in the World. Ever, starring Bruno Ganz with THINKFilm to distribute in Canada; TheLight-house starring Kevin Zegers,Ryan Reynolds, Henry Czerny and Ewen Bremner; and mockumentary Gay Like Me', also with THINKFilm. The ...
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Punk Cinema plans Gigolos follow-up later in 2006
UK production company PunkCinema has commissioned the writers and actors its film The Gigolos to write a follow-up.Sacha 'Tarter andTrevor Sather will write Billion Dollar Break for production in late 2006. The caper comedy is about aRussian billionaire and an office drone who find themselves on the run togetheracross Europe. ...
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Tribeca Film Festival sets 2007 dates
The 2007 TribecaFilm Festival will take place from Apr 25-May 6.Festival organisers said 465,000 people attended this year's event,representing a rise of 69% against 2005.For more information visit the official website at www.tribecafilmfestival.org
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Gonzo goes Gaga for Peggy Sue
Japan's Gaga Films and animation house Gonzo will collaborate on an animatedfeature adaptation of French children's book Peggy Sue And The Ghosts: Sleep Of The Demon, written by SergeBrussolo.The book is the second in aseries of eight best-sellers which have been published in France, the first six of which have ...
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Fabrication sees brisk sales on 10th & Wolf
Fabrication Films hasreported brisk sales on crime thriller 10th & Wolf that Oscar winning Crash screenwriter Bobby Moresco will direct fromhis own screenplay.James Marsden, GiovanniRibisi, Brad Renfro and Piper Perabo star in the tale of a Gulf Warveteran who becomes embroiled in the Mob life he thought he had left ...
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Rocket Pictures plans new UK animation facility for Gnomeo
Elton John and DavidFurnish's Rocket Pictures is teaming with Miramax Films to create a newanimated facility in London for the Rocket/Miramax CG-animated musical comedy GnomeoAnd Juliet.Meanwhile Lee Hall, whoworked with John on Billy Elliotis writing the Elton John biopic tentatively titled Rocket Man for Disney. The project will be crafted ...
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BBC Films' slate includes US-set film by Lynne Ramsay
"We're in very bullishmood. We've got some great films," says head of BBC Films David Thompson. Threemonths ago, it was announced that the Beeb's investment in film production isset to rise from $17m to $26m a year, subject to the favourable settlement ofthe current licence fee negotiations.Here in Cannes, BBC ...
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Comme T'Y Es Belle strong at French box office
In its first week out, LisaAzuelos' sleeper comedy that could, Comme T'Y Es Belle, has sold nearly 350,000 tickets in France. Theticket tally was roughly on par with that of Mission: Impossible :III.French sales company WildBunch has added a screening in Cannes on Monday May 22 at 2 pm as ...