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Hopkins and Dunoyer launch Griot with Chevalier and Minion
Thomas Hopkins and producingpartner Tony Dunoyer have formed New York and Los Angeles-based production and developmentcompany Griot Pictures Entertainment (GPE) and haveannounced their first two projects.Period drama Chevalier takes place inpre-Revolutionary France and charts the real-life exploits of fencing and musical maestroChevalier de Saint George, who became a hero during ...
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Lightning Entertainment gobbles up rights to Grimm Love
Santa Monica-based international sales anddistribution house Lightning Entertainment hasacquired international rights to Atlantic Streamline's controversial German/US thriller Grimm Love.Lightning partner RichardGuardian will begin sales at Cannes on thestory inspired by the true-life cannibal case that rocked Germany and caused a worldwide mediasensation.German distributor Senatorwas blocked by a court injunction on ...
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Initialize launches new UK scheme for female producers
InitializeFilms, in association with BBC Film Network, ShortsInternational and members' club The Hospital, has a new UK industry trainingprogramme for women who want to produce short films. Theprogramme, Athena, is atwo-month course that will train and coach 10 women to produce a short film.The first edition will be comprised of ...
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Cannes announces final film schedule
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the final screening schedule for its 2006 edition. The schedule for all sections of the festival is now available as a .pdf file here.Cannes Market screenings, with schedules being updated, are available at the Marche du Film website.
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Gurassa named chairman of LoveFilm
Charles Gurassahas been named non-executive chairman of LoveFilmInternational. Gurassa is the non-executive chairmanof Virgin Mobile and also chairman of car hire business Worldwide Excellerated Leasing. In addition, he is non-executivedirector of Whitbread PLC and non-executive chairman of human resourcesconsultancy 7Days. He is a Trustee of the National Trust and Chairman ...
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Czech study calls for 12.5% tax rebate on film productions
A 2005 study released May 9 by the Czech Ministry of Culture calls forthe creation of a 12.5% tax rebate for productions filmed in the Czech Republic and the creationof a national body to oversee a comprehensive strategy to promote domesticfilms abroad and boost the country as a destination for ...
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Word of Mouth picks up The Gigolos and KZ
NewLondon-based distributor Word of Mouth Films has signed two new films, The Gigolos and KZ, for UK distribution.RichardBracewell's TheGigolos is a buddy film set against the male escort world in upper-class London. Anna Massey, Sian Phillips and Susannah York star. RexBloomstein's KZis a documentary set in the former SS Concentration ...
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Scalpel takes on sales for Loktev's Day Night Day Night
Pierre Menahem'sParis-based Scalpel Films has picked up worldwide rights to a second Cannes title - the anticipated suicide bomber drama Day Night Day Night by Julia Loktev, which is screening as part of Directors Fortnight.ID Distribution has already signedon for France for this film about a 19-year-old girl preparing tobe ...
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Producer Christine Langan to join BBC Films
UK producer Christine Langan will join BBC Films as a producer/executive producer at the beginning of September.Langan recently produced Pierrepoint and Stephen Frears' forthcoming feature The Queen. She produced ColdFeet for Granada, The Deal forChannel 4 and Dirty Filthy Love forITV. In her new position, Langan will work alongside the ...
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Universal buys spec heist script with 50 Cent attached as star
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Charley and VlasParlapanides' speculative heist script Live Bet and has attached Curtis '50 Cent'Jackson to star.Mary Parent and Scott Stuber will produce, under their exclusive termdeal with the studio, along with Chris Lighty and 50 Cent through his G UnitFilms label.Universal Pictures' president ...
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Australian government to review film funding
The Australian governmenthas announced, at the same time as handing down the annual budget, that it willreview the effectiveness of the various ways in which it supports films in Australia.The review will encompass,among other things, the investment vehicle Film Finance Corporation Australia(FFC), development agency the Australian Film Commission (AFC), tax ...
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Malaysian government bans The Last Communist
Malaysia's Ministry of Home Affairs has banned the release ofAmir Muhammad's The Last Communist,about former Communist leader Chin Peng, over-ruling an earlier decision of theFilm Censorship Board which passed the film uncut last month. According to a spokespersonof Red Films, the co-producer and distributor of the film, the ministry issuedthe ...
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Universal offers download-to-own films in Scandinavia
Buildingon a similar deal in the UK, Universal Pictures Nordicis working with film2home to offer a download-to-own service in Scandinavia. The service will offer athree-copy model, to be launched starting in Sweden from May 22. Other Nordicterritories will follow. Aswith the UK download-to-own deal with LoveFilm, the service will launch ...
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Paula Wagner to head Venice's Lion of the Future jury
TheVenice Film Festival has announced that Paula Wagner will this year head theLion of the Future jury which awards a prize to the best first film. Germandirector Philip Groening will preside over the Orizzonticompetition.The Lionof the Future jury will award $127,565 (Euros 100,000) to the best firstfeature in any section ...
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German director Uwe Boll plans to take Boll AG public
Onthe eve of this year's Cannes Film Market, German film director/media fundmanager Uwe Boll has unveiled plans for his group ofcompanies under the mantle of Boll AG to be listed in the Frankfurt StockExchange's Entry Standard before the summer.Accordingto a company announcement, the injection of fresh cash through a stock ...
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InFrame adds four to slate ahead of Cannes
UK-based sales agent InFrame has added four films to its slate ahead of Cannes: Oliver Rihs's Black Sheep, ValeskaGrisebach's Sehnsucht (Longing),Sean Hogan's Lie Still, and Oscar L Costo's Shanghai Red.InFrame will be doing a work-in-progress screening of Black Sheep, a comedy of five interwovenstories about misfits in Berlin.Director Rihs also ...
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Cinema Expo to honour Narnia and Shrek director
Cinema Expo International will honour directorAndrew Adamson with the convention's 2006 International Filmmaker of the Yearaward. Adamson directed The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, which has grossed more than$735m worldwide. He previously directed Shrek and Shrek 2. He will receive the award at the Cinema ...
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Ulrich Thomsen hooked on Szasz's Opium
Ulrich Thomsen, who hasstarred in Festen,Kingdom Of Heaven, and The World Is Not Enough, has signed on to star in Hungarian director Janos Szasz's Opium. Szasz, who previously directed Woyzeck and The Witman Boys, is currently filming onlocation in Komarom, northern Hungary, at the Monostorifortress, which once served as a ...
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Cannes 2006 line-up
CANNES 2006In CompetitionFlandres (Bruno Dumont)Selon Charlie (Nicole Garcia) Quand J'etais Chaunteur (When I was a Singer) (Xavier Giannoli)Volver (Pedro Almodovar)Red Road (Andrea Arnold)La Raison Du Plus Faible (The Right Of The Weakest) (Lucas Belvaux)Indigenes (Days Of Glory) (Rachid Bouchareb)Iklimer (Climates) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)Juventude em Marcha (Pedro ...
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Peace Arch funnels genre titles through Genius Products
Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment Group has signed anexclusive deal with ambitious Genius Products for Genius to distribute fivehorror and thriller titles from Peace Arch's genre label Archetype Films.Genius now holds exclusive US DVD distribution rights to thebiotech horror project Warriors Of Terra starring Ed Furlong; supernatural tale 5ive Girls starring ...