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Horror film Damned finds several buyers
Pathe Distribution in the UKand RCV in Benelux are two buyers who have already stepped up to buy Damned, a new US horror film from producer Rob Fried (Collateral,Godzilla) which is being sold byPierre Weisbein's Green Room Pictures.Focus in Brazil and Star TVin Asia have also acquired the film, which ...
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Chinese press given warning
China's 50-strong state-owned press contingent has been ordered not to coversensitive subjects at the festival - in particular Lou Ye's controversialcompetition title Summer Palace. Sources say that followingan official communique from Beijing,a number of journalists returned home. Lou's film is creating controversybecause it screened in competition on Thursday at Cannes ...
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Laura Dern signs on for Polson's Tenderness
Laura Dern has joinedRussell Crowe in John Polson's thriller Tenderness, which is set to begin filming in New York onMonday.New York-based GreeneStreetFilms International is reporting a torrent of interest on the story of aviolent teenager who falls for a runaway girl while being investigated by adetective.Sixth Sense editor Andrew Mondshein ...
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Gaga enters Dragon Tiger Gate
Hong Kong's Mandarin Films has sold Wilson Yip's Dragon Tiger Gate to Gaga Communications(Japan), Flashstar (Brazil), Indofilm (India), Italia Film (Middle East), and Cinebox (Vietnam.) A co-production between MandarinFilms and Beijing Polybona Film Publishing, the film is based on a well-knowncomic book, created and designed by Tong Wong, about three ...
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Match Factory, Emperor to handle The Drummer
Michael Weber's The MatchFactory and Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) will handleinternational distribution of Kenneth Bi's The Drummer, set to star Simon Yam and Lee Sinje.EMP will handle distributionto select Asian territories on the drama, which revolves around the art ofChinese zen drumming, while Munich and Cologne-based The Match ...
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Match Factory lights up German-Asian Drummer
Michael Weber's The MatchFactory and Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) will handleinternational distribution of Kenneth Bi's TheDrummer, set to star Simon Yam and Lee Sinje. EMP will handle distributionto select Asian territories on the drama, which revolves around the art ofChinese zen drumming, while Munichand Cologne-based The Match Factory ...
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Weinsteins give fables irreverent twist
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has launched UnstableFables, a new line 'of direct-to-video CG animatedfeatures being produced with The Jim' Henson Company, Flame Ventures andPrana Studios.''The projects will take an irreverent twist on fairytales and the 'first releases will be based on Goldilocks, The ThreeLittle Pigs, and 'Billy Goats Gruff.''Production is ...
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Match Factory takes global rights to Weingartner satire
The Match Factory has taken world wide sales rights toHans Weingartner (The Edukators)'s new picture with the working title FreeRainer.The film is a contemporary satirical drama with anunconventional love story, about a group of outcasts who undertake acultural revolution.The picture, which will shoot later this year,is produced by Weingartner's own ...
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Tartan picks up Invisible Waves from Fortissimo
UK distributor Tartan hastaken UK and Irish rights to Pen-ek Ratanaruang's thriller Invisible Waves fromFortissimo Film Sales.Invisible Waves first lappedup in the main competition in Berlin earlier this year. It also opened theBangkok Film Festival.The film is produced byFortissimo Films' Wouter Barendrecht and Michael J Werner and executiveproduced by Miky ...
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Fortissimo sells Solondz happy return
Fortissimo Filmshas boarded the as-yet-untitled new film from Todd Solondz, a companion pieceto his earlier break-through piece Happiness,and will commence pre-sales immediately in Cannes.The film, knownas The New Todd Solondz Film, will be produced by Ted Hope (21 Grams), Mike Ryan and Derrick Tseng (Chasing Amy) with Fortissimo Films'co-chairmen Michael ...
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...and delivers in US with $77m debut
The Da Vinci Code opened powerfully in NorthAmerica this weekend with a gross of $77m, making it the first of the year'ssummer blockbusters to live up to expectations. Unlike Da Vinci's massive $147m internationaltake, the domestic gross - from 3,735 screens, for a $20,616 per-screen average- broke no all-time records ...
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Film Four, Intermedia on board for Baghdad Blog
FilmFour andIntermedia will work together on a feature film adaptation of Baghdad Blog, written by Iraqi architect Salam Paxabout his daily life in Baghdad before, during and after the invasion.Snowcake director Marc Evans will direct, withRoss Klavan, who wrote Tigerland, adapting the script. Scott Kroopf andOllie Madden will produce for ...
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Da Vinci Code breaks international opening record...
Riding a global wave of publicity and controversy, The DaVinci Code this weekend became the biggest international day-and-dateopener ever, with an estimated gross of $147m from 12,213 screens in 90territories. Added to the film's estimated North American gross of $77m,the international take gives Sony's Holy Grail-themed adventure a worldwidefirst-weekend total ...
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MK2 takes Lau and Mak's Confession
Hong Kong's Media Asia Distribution haspre-sold all French-speaking rights to Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's ConfessionOf Pain to France's MK2.Infernal Affairs star Tony Leung Chiu-wai willstar in the $8-10m project which is scheduled to start shooting in June forpan-Asian release during Christmas 2006. Takeshi Kaneshiro (Perhaps Love,House Of Flying Daggers) ...
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Focus takes rights to next film from Hany Abu-Assad
Focus Features has picked upworldwide rights to Hany Abu-Assad's follow-up to Paradise Now.Abu-Assad pitched theas-yet-untitled contemporary drama to Focus and is writing the screenplay.Senior vice president ofproduction Kahli Small is supervising development for production president JohnLyons.Paradise Now earned a foreign language Academy Award nominationthis year and picked up a string ...
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Abu-Assad's follow-up to Paradise Now lands at Focus
Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights to Hany Abu-Assad's follow-upto Paradise Now.Abu-Assad pitched the as-yet-untitled contemporary drama to Focus and iswriting the screenplay. Senior vice president of production Kahli Small issupervising development for production president John Lyons.Paradise Now earned an foreign language Academy Award nominationthis year and picked up ...
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Myriad takes on three for sales: Argento, Barreto, Silberling
Myriad Pictures has picked upworldwide rights to Dario Argento's English-language horror picture TheMother Of Tears, and Brad Silberling's comedy 10 Items Or Less starring MorganFreeman.The company is also sellingworldwide rights excluding Latin America and France to Bruno Barreto'sRio-set bus hijack drama 174. Filming is set to begin in Riothis autumn ...
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FilmFour backs Hillcoat's Death Of A Ladies Man
After earlier Cannesannouncements to back the next films from Michael Winterbottom and Ken Loach,FilmFour has announced another new film on its slate. The Channel 4 feature filmarm is working with Kudos Pictures, run by former FilmFour head Paul Webster,to co-finance Death Of A Ladies Man.The black comedy, with a budget ...
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Three Dots bask in Eternal Summer
Taiwan's Three Dots Entertainment, whichrecently launched a sales arm, has picked up international rights to LesteChen's gay youth drama Eternal Summer, starringJoseph Chang, Bryant Chang and Kate Yeung.The film, currently is shooting in Taiwan,tells the story of two schoolboys who are forced to become friends by theirteacher and then develop ...
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Buskin basks in equity
Rome-based sales and co-production outfit Buskin Filmhas sealed a '$20m financial partnership with Italian private funds groupMg Lab.''The deal will enable Buskin to board internationalco-productions by'investing between 10-25% of a film's budget. In future, Buskin hopes' to be able to invest upto 35% of a movie's budget.'' Buskin CEO Antonio ...