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Gatti-Pascual to work with Film London's Microwave scheme
Producer Sol Gatti-Pascual hasjoined Film London's micro-budget feature film fund Microwave as a freelancecreative executive. Gatti-Pascual previouslyworked on films including Glue, L'Annulaire,Joyeux Noel and Noi Albinoi. She will support FilmLondon's head of production Maggie Ellis is overseeing the new scheme, whichwas announced in February.The BBC-backed Microwaveprogramme will work with film-makers ...
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Tartan takes UK, US rights to Ghost of Mae Nak
Tartan Films has acquiredall rights in North America and the UK to De Warrenne Pictures' supernaturalthriller Ghost of Mae Nak. British writer/director MarkDuffield makes his feature debut with the Thai-language project. The film wasalready a success at the box office in Thailand and Malaysia. The deal was struck byproducer Tom ...
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Kim Ki-Duk's Time to open Karlovy Vary
Kim Ki-Duk's new film Time will open the Karlovy Vary International FilmFestival. TheKorean director is scheduled to attend the world premiere of the film June 30 at the Czech festival. The film will see its marketpremiere in Cannes on May 20 and has reportedly already been sold in 15territories. Time ...
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UK Film Council awards $1.2m from Development Fund
The UK Film Council hasannounced funding for nine new film projects through its Development Fund.The total investment in thenine films is $1.2m (£628,339). The projects funded are:Mrs Ratcliffe'sRevolution written by PeterStraughan and Bridget O'Connor, to be directed by Bille Eltringham;Ghetta Life, written by Christopher Browne;West Is West from writer Ayub ...
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EC approves new Irish and Polish film schemes
The European Commission hasapproved new and amended national aid schemes that support film-making inIreland and Poland under EC Treaty state aid regulations.The Irish Section 481 schemeto support film production, which amends the existing scheme previouslyapproved by the Commission, allows film production companies to obtain 80% taxrelief on investments of up ...
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Memento adds two Cannes titles to slate
French sales company MementoFilms International has picked up competition title Juventude EmMarcha as well as Un Certain Regardfilm El Violin.The first film aPortugese/French/Swiss co-production directed by Pedro Costa and will be released in Portgualby Costa Do Castelo, in France by Equation and in Switzerland byFrenetic.El Violin, from Mexico's Francisco ...
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Cannes to go ahead with Summer Palace premiere
One day before Lou Ye's SummerPalace screens in competition atCannes, the controversial film has yet to receive a greenlight from China'scensors, but according to the festival the competition screening will go ahead.The film was made in Chinathrough official channels, but according to Chinese regulations, the censorshipcommittee of the Film Bureau ...
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Woody Allen signs McGregor and Farrell for UK film
French sales, distribution and financehouse Wild Bunch has confirmed casting on Woody Allen's upcoming Summer 2006 Project. Colin Farrell and EwanMcGregor will co-star alongside Tom Wilkinson and an as-yet unannounced female.The film, budgeted at $20.7m (Euros 16.2m),will begin shooting in London in June and should be ready in time for ...
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Shochiku does Kafka in animation debut
Japan's Shochiku is launching two animatedfilms from high-profile directors at Cannes, marking the first time it hasproducedtheatrical animations in-house.The first film, The Country Doctor,is based on Franz Kafka's short prose of the same name and is being directed byKoji Yamamura who picked up an Oscar nomination for his short film ...
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Seven Arts to start sales for Henry Bean's Noise
Los Angeles-based Seven ArtsInternational will commence sales here on 'a slate of new work fromdirector Henry Bean, John Malkovich and Burt Reynolds.Seven Arts is in productionin New York on Bean's black comedy Noise about a frustrated New Yorker who declares war on the city's noise. WilliamHurt, Tim Robbins and Bridget ...
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Chiesa picks up rights to Fortnight's Libero Va Bene
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises(ACE) has picked up world-wide rights to Kim Rossi Stuart's DirectorsFortnight film Anche Libero Va Bene.The drama marks CrimeNovel actor Rossi Stuart'sdirectorial debut, and is about family strife seen through the eyes ofan 11-year-old boy. The picture is produced by Palomar and Rai Cinemaand stars Rossi Stuart and ...
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Capitol takes on sales for Beresford's Mansions
Capitol Films has taken oninternational sales for Bruce Beresford's A Dream Of Red Mansions, currently in pre-production. Kate Hudson and KenWatanabe are set to star in this epic love story set during the ChineseCultural Revolution. Capitol has already closed adeal on A Dream Of Red Mansionspre-Cannes with Toshiba Entertainment for ...
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Intandem on board for sales of new Carry On film
Bawdy British comedyfranchise Carry On is beingrevived. Here in Cannes, London-based Intandem Films is introducing buyers to CarryOn London, the 32nd and latestinstalment in the long-running series that began way back in 1958 with CarryOn Sergeant.The film, now inpre-production, is being produced by Chris Chrisafis and directed by PeterRichardson. Shane ...
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Momentum gets UK and Spanish rights to Cholera
Momentum has acquired the UKand Spanish rights to Cannes market title Love In The Time Of Cholera. Mike Newell, who previouslydirected Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire, will direct the $40m project. Javier Bardem, GiovannaMezzogiorno and Benjamin Bratt will star. The Pianist screenwriter ...
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Fortissimo closes raft of sales on Frank Gehry
Fortissimo Films has closedseveral sales on Sydney Pollack's documentary Sketches Of Frank Gehry on the eve on Cannes.The film, which is screeningin official selection out-of-competition at Cannes, has gone to Germany's Kinowelt, Israel's United King and Wise Policy in Japan. It was previously sold to Bim for Italy and Pathe ...
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Hong Kong's Emperor, Sundream set to steal together
Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) has added severalnew titles to its slate in the run-up to Cannes, including action adventure Let's Steal Together, set to star pop duo Twins.A co-production with Hong Kong's Sundream Motion Pictures, the film revolves around several gangs ofthieves chasing a religious relic. It will ...
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Dubai sets third festival dates for December 10-17
The DubaiInternational Film Festival has announced the dates for its third edition,which will be held December 10-17, 2006. The festival will inaugurate theSheikh Zayed Lifetime Achievement Award to honor a film industry personalitywho has built "cultural bridges on the world stage." Three otherlifetime achievement awards will be presented to artists ...
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here! picks up comic strip adaptation Ethan Green
here! Films has picked up worldwide rights to George Bamber's romanticcomedy The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life Of Ethan Green.Based on Eric Orner's cult comic strip, the project stars Daniel Letterle as asocially inept 'professional assistant' who spins a web of lies in order tohold on to the new man in ...
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Grodnik signs five-year domestic distribution agreement with Genius/TWC
Genius Productshas signed an exclusive five-year distribution agreement with Dan Grodnik'sGrodfilm Corporation giving Genius first right of refusal on all futureproductions.Genius expects torelease six to 12 films each year under the agreement, which includes NorthAmerican home video, digital, television and theatrical rights.Theatricalreleases will be distributed through The Weinstein Company under ...
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MPA appoints Halli Kristinsson to Brussels-based post
The Motion PictureAssociation (MPA) has appointed Halli Kristinsson to the position of VP andregional director, anti-piracy, for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.As regional director, hewill work with the MPA's regional partners from the MPA regional headquartersin Brussels. Kristinsson reports to ChrisMarcich, senior VP in Brussels and John Malcolm, ...