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Sarah Alexander joins Stardust cast
Actress Sarah Alexander has joined the cast of Matthew Vaughn's fantasyepic Stardust. She will play Empusa, a 400-year-old witch.The film also stars Robert de Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes andnewcomer Charlie Cox.Filming starts in June. Alexander has appeared on UK TV shows including Coupling and Green Wing and she alsorecently ...
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Alpine launches domestic distribution arm with Snipes-starrer
Alpine Picturesis launching a theatrical distribution arm and will kick off this autumn withthe release of teen thriller Love Is The Drug written by CapeFear screenwriter Wesley Strick.Darryl Hannahstars in the story of a treacherous love triangle. The Box Office Productions'thriller also stars Lizzy Caplan, John Patrick Amedori and Jenny ...
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Younggu Art hires Hollywood crew to finish D-War
Korean production houseYounggu Art has hired a top-flight Hollywood crew to finish post-production onits multi-million dollar sci-fi epic D-War, which was recently picked up for international sales by Korea'sShowbox.Directed by Shim Hyung-raeand starring Jason Behr and Amanda Brooks, the English-language film, about agiant serpent on the rampage in Los Angeles, ...
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Lionsgate bites into Daybreakers
Lionsgate isteaming up with US-based Furst Films and New Zealand effects house WetaWorkshop on the vampire horror feature Daybreakers.Lionsgatepresident of international Nick Meyer will introduce the project to buyers herethis week and Lionsgate plans a North American release in 2007.Australianfilmmakers Peter and Michael Spierig will direct the future-set story of ...
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Bondarchuk Jr to complete his father's And Quiet Flows The Don
Like father, like son. Fyodor Bondarchuk announced yesterday that he iscompleting his late dad's Sergei Bondarchuk's unfinished epic film And QuietFlows The Don.''Actor-director Sergei Bondarchuk, one of the legendary figures inpost-war Soviet cinema, originally shot And Quiet Flows The Don in 1992, twoyears before his death. An English-language adaptation of ...
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Kinowelt finds buyer interest for The Unknown Soldier
Buyers are circling KinoweltInternational's documentary, The Unknown Soldier.Head of World sales SteliosZiannis is in talks with distributors in 'the US, the UK, France, Italyand Benelux on the film, which focuses 'on the crimes of the Germany armyduring World War II.On the eve of Cannes, theLeipzig-based international distributor added Katharina Otto-Bernstein'sdocumentary ...
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Weisbein's Green Room sells Damned for Fried, Keston
Pierre Weisbein'sGreen Room Pictures has struck a deal with producers Rob Fried and Dan Kestonof Fried Films/The Pantry to handle international sales on Damned.The film is ahorror title written by Jim Agnew and Sean Keller, who sold the spec script toFried Films/The Pantry. The story revolves around an all-American family ...
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Devlin to make directorial debut on Ghosting
IndependenceDay producer Dean Devlin will make his feature directorial debut on theparanormal thriller Ghosting.Devlin wrote thescript from a screenplay by Jessie Alexander and will produce with fellowElectric Entertainment partners Kearie Peak and Marc Roskin.Ghosting followsthe exploits of a recently crippled police officer who uses a technique toleave the world of ...
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Quaid to star in Eclectic's Mexico period epic El Hubris
Dennis Quaid isset to star in Eclectic Pictures' $8.5m historical epic El Hubris,about the Pacho Villa-led Mexican invasion of the US in 1916.Heidi Jo Markel'sUS-based Eclectic is selling worldwide rights here on the project, which is 50%financed by Anthony J Tomaska and Joseph J Tomaska through Magnificent MileProductions.Quaid plays aretired ...
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Young Films stars Gaelic-language Seachd
The first contemporaryGaelic-language feature, Seachd -- The Inaccessible Pinnacle, starts shooting on the Isle of Skye next week andcontinues through July.Scottish producer ChrisYoung, who previously worked on Festival, will produce for Young Films. The film is about a youngboy whose goes to live with his storytelling grandfather after the tragic ...
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Happinet takes Japanese rights to Tornatore's latest
Happinet Pictureshas acquired all Japanese rights to Giuseppe Tornatore's highly-anticipatedfilm, La Sconosciuta.The picture,which is sold by Rome-based Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE), has also beenpicked up by Brazil's Paris Films.Set in the northernItalian town of Trieste, La Sconosciuta is Oscar-winningdirector Giuseppe Tornatore's first film in six years.The picture,which features Michele Placido ...
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Maria Koepf to leave X-Filme to set up own company
Maria Koepf, co-managingdirector of X-Filme creative poolsince 2000, is leaving the Berlinproduction house to set up shop with herownoutfit MagnetFilmproduktion.Koepf started at X-Filme asa line producer in 1995, working with Tom Tykwer as line producer on Wintersleepers, as executive producer onRunLolaRun, and producer on The PrincessAnd The Warrior, Heaven and ...
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Klockworx snaps up Japanese rights to Ong Bak 2
Thailand's SahamongkolfilmInternational has sold hotly anticipated Tony Jaa vehicle Ong Bak 2 to Japan's Klockworx.Jaa will star in and serveas action choreographer on the $12-$15m film and is also considering whether todirect. Prachya Pinkaew, director ofthe original Ong Bak and TomYum Goong, will produce. Jaa'smentor and action choreographer Panna Rittikrai ...
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Kaufman to direct space shuttle drama for Media 8
Philip Kaufman will directMedia 8's space shuttle disaster drama Challenger with Oscar-nominated David Strathairn set to playthe lead.US-based Media 8 is sellingworldwide rights in Cannes on the project, which Media 8 will co-producein association with Code Entertainment and Carol Baum ProductionsStrathairn will play the scientistand Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman, who ...
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High Point adds Bride Flight and Dennis P to Cannes slate
London-based sales andproduction company High Point Films has taken world rights (excluding Benelux)for Bride Flight and Dennis P.The company is also now handling sales for Frank Van Mechelen's Belgium drama Tangier,about two Belgian bus drivers that are arrested in Morocco for trafficking drugs.Pre-production has just startedon Bride Flight, which is ...
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Roeg's IFS adds London To Brighton to Cannes slate
Luc Roeg's Independent FilmSales (IFS) announced in Cannes that it will handle sales on London To Brighton,a British thriller about a runaway girl caught up in an undergroundprostitution ring. Vertigo will be releasing the film (currently in post-production)in the UK following its debut at an autumn festival later in the ...
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Rezo signs up for Sokurov's Alexandra
France's Rezo Films hassigned with legendary Russian director Aleksandr Sukourov for his upcoming Alexandra.The film, about agrandmother who goes in search of her grandson fighting in Chechnya will shootin the Caucasus in July and August.Alexandra is in keeping with Sokourov's previous films about familyties Father And Son and MotherAnd Son. ...
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Peace Arch takes on Roberts' In Tranzit
Peace Arch Films has boardedthe post-war drama In Tranzit,starring John Malkovich, and the drama How To Change In Nine Weeks.In Tranzit is currently in post-production and centres on agroup of German soldiers accidentally sent to a female-run prisoner of war campin Leningrad after the second world war.Thomas Kretschmann andDaniel Bruhl ...
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UK's One Eyed Films launches production arm
London-based One Eyed Films,a sales boutique specializing in Latin American cinema, is launching aproduction arm at Cannes.The first film on the slateis a $1.2m Buenos Aires- and Rio-set sexual coming-of-age drama called FromThe Beginning To The End. Brazilianwriter-director Aluizio Abranches (The Three Marias) is behind the project.One Eyed Films managingdirector ...
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Optimum starts music, audio books division
UK distributor Optimum Releasing, which was recentlyacquired by France's StudioCanal, has launched a new division devoted tocompilation albums, audiobooks and soundtracks.Optimum Sounds will issue its first release, tripleCD Extended Seventies - The Dawning of the the 12" Era, in May. Feel The Spirit - Other Worldly FolkSongs & Psychedelics will ...