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Zeta Jones nears deal to star in Death Defying Acts
Catherine Zeta Jones in final talks to join Guy Pearce in theAustralia-UK co-production Death Defying Acts, a drama about Harry Houdini.Filming is scheduled to begin later this summer in the UK withGillian Armstrong set to direct from a screenplay by Tony Grisoni and BrianWard.The Australian Film Finance Corporation, BBC Films ...
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Posey, Poupaud take leads in Cassavates drama
Production is set to begin in New York on May 5 on HD Net Films'romance Broken Englishstarring Parker Posey and Melvil Poupaud.Japan's Phantom Films and France-based Back Up Films areco-producing the story based on a screenplay by John Cassavetes' daughter ZoeCassavetes, who makes her feature directorial debut.Posey plays a high-flying ...
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Swipe takes worldwide sales on thriller Flourish
London-basedSwipe Films has picked up worldwide sales rights on Flourish, a feature that will have its debut at the Cannes Market. Thethriller stars Jennifer Morrison as a babysitter who helps investigate a younggirl's mysterious disappearance. Morrison,who stars on TV's House, alsoproduced the film. The cast also features her House co-star ...
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Pathe and Vertigo set to start Nick Love's Outlaw
Pathe Productions and Vertigo Films are planning a May 12start date for Nick Love's Outlaw.Sean Bean, Danny Dyer,Rupert Friend, Lennie James, Sean Harris and BobHoskins star in five interwoven stories about victims of crime taking law intotheir own hands. The feature will shoot inthe Southwest of England and London. Vertigo's ...
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Strangers to open New York's NewFest on June 1
Paul Dinello's Strangers With Candy will open the 18th Annual NewFest, NewYork's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival that runs from Jun1 to 11.Strangers With Candy stars Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert and Dinello and was written byDinello and Colbert as a prequel to the Comedy Central series of the ...
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Alliance Atlantis, Arclight team for US distribution joint venture
Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution (MPD) and ArclightFilms are launching the US-based distribution joint venture Union Station Media.Former Lionsgate acquisitions executive Paul Gardner will run theLos Angeles-based company, which will initially release 12-18 titles a year onthe DVD, television, cable, internet, VOD, PPV and electronic sell-thruplatforms.The first three pictures are ...
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Danielak's Arsenal picks up Rosario Dawson thriller
Yarek Danielak's fledgling international sales house ArsenalPictures has picked up international rights to the psycho-thriller Descent starring Rosario Dawson.City Lights Pictures' Danny Fisher, MEGA Films' Morris SLevy and Dawson's Trybe Films are producing the story of a rape victim whoreinvents herself as a seductress in order to gain revenge.'Descent is ...
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Ascot Elite picks up German-language rights to thriller Unknown
Onthe eve of this year's Cannes Film Market, Swiss independent distributor AscotElite has announced the acquisition from GreeneStreetFilms International of Simon Brand's high-concept thriller Unknown forGerman-language territories Germany, Austria and Switzerland.Thefilm stars Jim Caviezel, Barry Pepper, Greg Kinnear, Peter Stormare andBridget Moynahan. The Weinstein Company will bereleasing the film in ...
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Barbakow takes over as president of board at Santa Barbara festival
The 22nd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF)will take place in 2007 from Jan 25 to Feb 4.Festival organisers have also announced new officers for the SBIFFboard of directors, headed up by president Jeff Barbakow, the former chairmanand chief executive officer of MGM/UA, who takes over from Arnold Kassoy.The ...
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TWC takes international rights to crossword doc Wordplay
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has acquired all international rightsto Patrick Creadon's crossword documentary and Sundance hit Wordplay and will commence sales at Cannes.Christine O'Malley produced the feature, which profiles NY Times crosswordeditor Will Shortz and charts the fortunes of contestants in the AmericanCrossword Puzzle Tournament founded by Shortz.Crossword aficionados Bill ...
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Kent Jusick installed as executive director and curator of MIX NYC festival
MIX NYC, the media arts organisation behind the New York Lesbian& Gay Experimental Film Festival, has installed a new team of directors.The four-person committee is led by executive director andfilmmaker and curator Stephen Kent Jusick.Co-directors are Canadian-born artist, photographer anddocumentarian Szu Burgess, animator, artist and diversity activist Kate Huh,and filmmaker ...
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Molter promoted to senior vp of distribution at WBPI
Thomas Molter has been promoted to senior vice president of distributionat Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).Among his duties Molter will oversee digital theatrical releases strategyand evaluate new theatrical growth opportunities involving IMAX and other 3Dformats.He is also responsible for distribution strategy in developingmarkets such as China, Vietnam and Russia, and ...
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Cannes Classics to present restored Platoon
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for this year'sedition of Cannes Classics. The initiative is a specially programmed sectionwhich screens new and restored copies of old films.Special invitees include Oliver Stone for a screening of a restoredversion of Platoon and 20 minutes of his forthcoming film World TradeCenter. ...
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Rezo Films takes on sales for Uro
Heading into Cannes, France'sRezo Films International has boarded Un CertainRegard title Uro by Norway'sStefan Faldbakken.The film is a thriller about a member of an elitepolice unit who works undercover to expose a criminal drug network and ends uptorn between following the law and straying to the dark side.Urois Faldbakken's first ...
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High Point adds four films to Cannes slate
High Point Films hasadded four features to its sales slate ahead of Cannes. The London-based film and TV sales and production companyhas picked up world rights to Zoo RangersIn India, Hell in Tangier,Under The Ice, and Doomstown.Zoo Rangers in India, in post-production, is the sequel to teenage adventurefilm Zoo Rangers ...
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Bille August starts South African shoot for Goodbye Bafana
Production has started in South Africa on Bille August's NelsonMandela project Goodbye Bafana, with Dennis Haysbertof TV's 24 playing the former South African premier and Joseph Fiennes as hisprison guard for almost 20 years, James Gregory.Diane Kruger also stars asJames' wife, Gloria, in the Banana Films/ArsamInternational production adapted for the ...
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FFC Australia backs diverse slate of new projects
Film Finance Corporation Australia has provisionallypromised funding to three features, including writer-director Christina Andreef's adaptation of the novel Shiver, one of 18 projects in Cannes' scriptdevelopment program L'Atelier.The other two dramas are Two Fists One Heart, to be directed by NewYork-based Australian John Polson (Swimfan, Hide and Seek),and the German-Australian-Chinese ...
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Thai exhibitor says political chaos is bad for business
Thailand's largest exhibitor Major Cineplex kickedoff the official opening of its latest 16-screen multiplex at upscale SiamParagon shopping centre with the premiere of Mission Impossible III - amid political and business uncertainty."The political chaostogether with high oil prices has been creating a big negative impact on thegroup's business,' says Kittsanan ...
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Italian distributor pioneers straight-to-newsstand distribution
AnItalian distributor is launching today an alternative distribution model forAlex Infascelli's new thriller, H2Odio, which will be released straight-to-DVD and soldwith national daily La Repubblica.Releasedby 52, the distribution company set up by Infascelli,Claudio Mieli and the Espresso publishing group, H2Odio will be available for two monthsin newspaper kiosks across Italy ...
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Beta Cinema to handle sales on Falorni feature debut
Beta Cinema hastaken on international sales on Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Luigi Falorni's fiction feature debut Heart Of Fire based on SenaitMehari's international bestseller of the same name.Published in2004 as Feuerherz,Mehari's memoirs recount how she was given away byher despotic father to the Eritrean Liberation Front to become a child soldierat ...