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Pyramide on board for Breillat's love triangle
Controversial directorCatherine Breillat has begun shooting her latest film Une VieilleMaitresse. Handled by PyramideInternational, the film is a $11.5m (Euros 9m) period piece about a lovetriangle involving a young man, his older mistress and the young woman he mustmarry.Asia Argento plays themistress with newcomer Fu'ad Ait Aattou as the lover ...
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Element Films makes sales on Boy Town
John Freme's Element FilmsInternational has completed sales on rock and roll comedy Boy Town to Canada (Equinoxe), Benelux (Dutch Filmworks), andIsrael (Forun Film).Mick Molloy and SallyPhillips star in the story of a 1980s boy band that reunites for one more chanceat the big time.Sales were also concluded onthe terrorism thriller ...
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Werner works with Vajna on Hungarian Children Of Glory
Fortissimo's Michael JWerner has teamed with Andy Vajna, his former partner at Summit Entertainment,to act as sales and marketing consultant for Vajna's epic Hungarian production ChildrenOf Glory.Children Of Glory is directed by Krisztina Goda, whose Just Sex AndNothing Else was one of Hungary'sbiggest local hits last year.The new film is ...
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Lau linked to Chinese classic
Korea'sTaewon Entertainment and Hong Kong's Visualizer Film Production areco-producing $15m-$20m epic Three Kingdoms - Resurrection of the Dragon.Hong Kong star Andy Lau Tak Wah is attached to the project with other castingto be confirmed.Thefilm is being directed by Daniel Lee, who previously directed Dragon Squad,starring Sammo Hung Kam-bo and Michael ...
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Cillian Murphy and Natalie Press to star in Telepathy
Rising young stars CillianMurphy and Natalie Press are to star in Telepathy, a new sci-fi feature just announced on Beyond'sCannes slate.Miranda Richardson and SamNeill are also in the cast. The project, due to shoot in October 2006, is scriptedby Stephen Volk and is to be directed by Lesley Manning (whose ...
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Lionsgate closes slew of deals on Rogue
Lionsgate International hasreported storming business on its upcoming action thriller Rogue starring Jet Li and Jason Statham.Filming wrapped recently inVancouver on Lionsgate's biggest production to date. Statham plays anFBI agent who pursues the notorious assassin who killed his partner.Phillip Atwell directed.Sales were concluded withJapan (Asmik Ace); Germany (Constantine); France (Metropolitan); ...
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Rapid Eye takes German rights to Yo-Yo Girl Cop
Japan's Toei has pre-soldGerman rights to Kenta Fukasaku's Yo-Yo Girl Cop, starring Japanese pop diva Aya Matsuura, to RapidEye Movies.Based on a legendary 1980sTV series, about a deadly yo yo-wielding girl detective, the film is alsowhipping up buyer interest from the UK and France. Fukasaku previously directedToei's record-breaking Battle Royale ...
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Italy's Istituto Luce plans co-production with Pereira
Italian state distributorand co-producer Istituto Luce has set its sights on Argentina as a newco-production partner, and is lining up a new picture by Argentine directorMiguel Pereira, who previously made La Deuda Interna.Entitled La Mula, the film will have a budget of up to $3.8m, and isabout a girl who ...
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Tartan strikes deals for Princess and The Right of the Weakest
Tartan Films has acquired all North American, UK and Irish rights to DirectorsFortnight title Princess by Anders Morgenthaler and all UK and Irish rights toCannes competition title The Right Of The Weakest by Lucas Belvaux.The company also acquired UK and Irish rights to Back to Normandie, the new filmfrom Etre ...
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SPO strikes Japan deals for Go Master and Invisible Waves
Japan's SPO Entertainmenthas snapped up two titles from Fortissimo Films - Tian Zhuangzhuang's The GoMaster and Pen-ek Ratanaruang's InvisibleWaves, which premiered incompetition at this year's Berlin.Go Master, which stars Chang Chen and Sylvia Chang, tells thelife story of Wu Qingyuan, the world's most renowned player of the ancient gameof Go. ...
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Dueling Napoleon projects race to the screen
In what is becoming a Capote-esque race to get to the screen first, the twoNapoleon movies about his final days on St Helena and his friendship with a 15-year-oldare now both set to go before the cameras.Patrice Chereau has declaredthat he will shoot his $20 million The Monster Of Longwood ...
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Serbia, Norway plan new film tax incentives
As competition to attractinternational production heats up, territories from Scandinavia to the Balkansare trying to woo big-budget, runaway films by offering new tax breaks.Serbia is the latest countrylooking to join the tax credit bandwagon. The new Serb incentive is likely tobe worth 21.5% in total to both local and international ...
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Haut Et Court pursues Assayas $15m Happiness
French production and distribution company HautEt Court will produce the next film from Olivier Assayas, The Pursuit Of Happiness. The film will be shot inEnglish on a $15m budget and written by Douglas Kennedy.Based on Kennedy's own book, the film is setin post-Second World War New York with McCarthyism as ...
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UK's Brass Hat seals new $200m equity mega-fund
UK production and financing group Brass Hat Films is positioning itselfas a major European player, after securing a $200m equity fund from ahigh-net-worth individual in the middle east in addition to its existingin-house equity funds which are now entering their fifth cycle.London-based Brass Hat, which is run by Nick Hamson, ...
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Apted recruited to direct Goal! 3
Director Michael Apted is in discussions with MilkshakeFilms to direct the final film in their Goal! trilogy. During a Cannes event with financiers Scion Films,producer Mike Jefferies announced that negotiations are ongoing with Apted for Goal!3.The film will be Apted's second football project in arow. He's currently shooting an as-yet-untitled ...
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Wu and Costo plan adoption drama Shanghai Blue
Chinese actress Vivian Wuand filmmaker Oscar Luis Costo are planning to shoot a drama about adoption in China, Shanghai Blue,from February 2007.The film is a follow-up tothe husband-and-wife team's debut Chinese production, Shanghai Red, which filmed in China last year. Costo will againwrite, direct and produce while Wu will star.The ...
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Haut Et Court slate includes next film from Assayas
French production anddistribution company Haut Et Court will produce the next film from OlivierAssayas, The Pursuit Of Happiness.The film will be shot in English on a $15m budget and written by DouglasKennedy.Based on Kennedy's own book,the film is set in post-World War II New York with McCarthyism as abackdrop. It's ...
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Bleiberg works with July August for Kirot
US-based production andsales house Bleiberg Entertainment is teaming with July August Productions onthe action project Kirot. Danny Lerner will direct thestory about a female assassin on the run and a battered housewife who joinforces to escape from their oppressors.Ehud Bleiberg is producingand has commenced worldwide sales here. Production will start ...
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Bangkok changes dates to pre-Berlin slot
The BangkokInternational Film Festival has changed its dates to Jan 26 - Feb 5 after thisyear's new post-Berlin slot proved unsuccessful. According toJuthamas Siriwan, governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) whichfunds the festival, next year's event will be jointly managed by US consultingfirm Film Festival Management (FFM) and ...
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Danes and Cubans bed down with Marquez whores
The Danes and the Cubans are getting into bed together on ascreen adaptation of Nobel-prize winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez's mostrecent novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores."The year I turned 90, I wanted to give myselfthe gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin," begins thenovel, which ...