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FilmFour backs Winterbottom's Italy-set Genova
FilmFour hasannounced plans to continue its relationship with Michael Winterbottom andAndrew Eaton's Revolution Films by financing Winterbottom's next feature Genova. Eaton said theproject's budget would be around $3.9m (£3m) and shooting is likely to start inthe autumn. Laurence Coriat,who also collaborated with Winterbottom on 1999's Wonderland, wrote the screenplay. The ...
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Katapult takes on sales for Puccini For Beginners
Thomas Mai's Katapult FilmSales begins international sales in Cannes on Maria Maggenti's comedy PucciniFor Beginners, which premiered at Sundance.The film receives itsinternational market debut screening and charts the exploits of a commitment-phobicNew York lesbian.Elizabeth Reaser, JustinKirk and Gretchen Mol star.Maggenti wrote thescreenplay, and Eden Wurmfeld produced with InDigEnt's Gary Winick ...
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Weinsteins ring in Bell love story
The Weinstein Co will produce produce $20m love story,Alec & May - the US-set story ofthe Scottish inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell.The project, developed by the UK's Headline Pictures,follows the romance between Bell, then a 28-year-old teacher and a 16-year-olddeaf girl."The telephone was the direct consequence of theirrelationship," ...
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Germany's Beta Cinema takes on Salvador
Germany's Beta Cinema willhandle international sales on Un Certain Regard entry Salvador, produced by Spain's MediaPro.The film stars Goodbye,Lenin! actor Daniel Bruhl asSalvador Puig Antich, a young Catalan anarchist who was put to death at thetail end of the Franco era after years spent on the lam.Meanwhile, MediaPro chiefJaume Roures ...
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Dutch Filmworks strikes deal for King's Black Sheep
Dutch Filmworks has acquiredBenelux rights to Jonathan King's comedy horror Black Sheep from NZ Film.The film, which recentlycompleted its shoot in New Zealand, was previously sold to Icon for the UK,Australia and New Zealand. Jiants has rights for Thailand, Singapore andMalaysia.Produced by PhilippaCampbell, Black Sheep is set on avast sheep ...
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Rai Cinema boards Salvatores's Naima
Rai Cinema has boardedOscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores's next film, a $25.5m (Euros20m) English-language drama about a ship's last voyage.The film, with a workingtitle is Naima, is written byUmberto Contarello and Salvatores, who won a best foreign language Oscar for Mediterraneo.Naima is a romantic adventure drama about an Irish shipcaptain and ...
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TFI takes on family film Duke & Claire
TFI International has pickedup live-action family film Duke & Claire from Endgame Entertainment, producers of HotelRwanda and Lord Of War.The story is about a pair ofmismatched dogs shepherding a group of ducklings through the American west on ajourney where they must battle rattlesnakes, wolves and other wilds along theway.The project ...
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Warner Italy starts shooting Lucchetti's political comedy
Shooting has just started onWarner Bros Italy's $7.7m (Euros 6m) political comedy, Mio Fratello e'Figlio Unico.Directed by DanieleLucchetti, the film is about a young seminarian who becomes a fascistand then a left-wing activist. It is inspired by Antonio Pennacchi'snovel Il fasciocomunista.The film is produced byCattleya, and written by Stefano Rulli ...
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Goldwyn strikes US deal for Conversations With God
Samuel Goldwyn Films hasacquired US theatrical rights from Lightning Entertainment to the spiritual filmConversations With God.Fox Home Entertainment hastaken North American video rights to theadaptation of Neale DonaldWalsch's bestselling series of books about his transformation fromhomeless person to spiritual guru.Henry Czerny stars as Walschalongside Ingrid Boulting.Goldwyn plans an autumnrelease.Stephen Simon ...
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Korea's Core Studio takes on Lee Myung-se horror project
Korea's Core Studio isfinancing and handling international sales on the first horror film from hotKorean director Lee Myung-se.Entitled M, the $5m film is a supernatural love story between a30-something writer and a mysterious young girl. It's currently being scriptedand production is expected to start in September or October. Core Studio ...
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Vision Music takes world rights to Punk's Not Dead
Vision Music has picked upworldwide rights excluding Japan (King Records) and Scandinavia (FutureFilm) to Susan Dynner's documentary Punk's Not Dead.The film explores theorigins of punk and features interviews and footage of such luminariesof the genre as The Ramones, Black Flag, and current super group GreenDay.Punk's Not Dead is set to ...
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Schamus and Karpen promoted in Focus reshuffle
James Schamus has been promoted to Focus Featureschief executive officer in the wake of David Linde's appointment twomonths ago as Universal Pictures co-chairman.Schamus, who shared the role of Focus co-presidentsince he founded the company with Linde in 2002, assumes oversight ofFocus, Rogue Pictures and Focus Features International (FFI).Meanwhile Andrew Karpen ...
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Schroeder prepares Inju for SBS
Director Barbet Schroeder is set tostart work on Inju in September forFrench producers SBS Films and La Fabrique de Films.SBS is run by Said Ben Said of UGCInternational which will start sales on the project at Cannes this year.Inju stars Benoit Magimel and is based on a novel by Edogawa ...
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Tartan takes UK, Ireland rights to Mr Lonely
Tartan Films has taken onall UK and Ireland rights to Harmony Korine's Mr Lonely, which is currently shooting on location in Panama,Scotland and Paris. Diego Luna stars as aMichael Jackson look-a-like and the cast also features Samantha Morton, AnitaPallenberg and Denis Lavant. Harmony Korine co-wrote with Avi Korine. MarcelZyskind served ...
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Lionsgate partners with Lakeshore for Midnight Train
Lionsgate and LakeshoreEntertainment are partnering up on the horror thriller Midnight Train based on a short story by Clive Barker.Patrick Tatopoulos willdirect the tale of a New York photographer who tracks down a serial killer andunearths a devastating secret. Jeff Buhler adapted the screenplay.Lakeshore is producing theproject, its second collaboration ...
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UK distributor Soda Pictures adds two to team
UK distributor Soda Picturesis growing with the addition of two new staffers. Kevin Owen has joined as theatricalsales manager. In June, Martin Gough will come on board as marketing manager. Owen worked as a film bookerat Artificial Eye and Tartan Films. Gough has a background in distribution andmedia planning and ...
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Paramount appoints key execs in new international unit
ParamountPictures International has announced a number of key appointments for its newLondon-based international distribution arm, which will become operational inJanuary 2007. All will reportdirectly to Andrew Cripps, who as previously announced will serve as presidentof Paramount's new international operations. Of the four newdepartment heads announced, one is already at Paramount ...
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Film Connection gets Brazil rights to The Gigolos from Punk Cinema
Film Connection has taken Brazilian rights to TheGigolos, the debut feature from new UK company Punk Cinema.Film Connection plans to release theatrically inBrazil in September 2006.New UK distributor Word of Mouth struck a pre-Cannesdeal for all UK rights and also plans a September release. "Our experience suggests that The Gigolostravels ...
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Screen Media buys domestic rights to Disaster!
Screen Media Films has acquired North American theatrical and video distributionrights to the claymation adventure spoof Disaster!Los Angeles-based Dream Entertainment and Bleiberg Entertainment sold therights to the story of a crack team assembled to thwart an earth-boundplanetoid.Screen Media plans an October release followed by DVD launch in February2907 through its ...
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Da Vinci goes global with international launch
The Da Vinci Code floodsthe international marketplace this weekend, opening day-and-date (orthereabouts) with its US launch on nearly 12,000 screens spread across almostevery territory. The international opening is thewidest ever for distributor Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) and itgives the film an even broader global launch than the summer's first ...