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EU-funded film workshops to go on summer road show
An Italian developmentcompany is to start holding a series of EU-funded workshops and seminars acrossEurope this year as part of adevelopment training programme aimed at European producers.The first of the week-longresidential MAIA workshops, which are funded by the Media Programme, will kickoff in Italy in June and will focus oncreative ...
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Memento Films announces sales on Tavernier's Aurore
Parisian production, sales and distribution house MementoFilms has announced sales of Nils Tavernier's Aurore to Japan's Gaga and Agora in Switzerland.The film is a fairy tale, complete with a kingdom and alovelorn princess, based in the world of dance. Tavernier's previous effort was2000's Tous Pres Des Etoiles,about dancers at the ...
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Wanda Visions prepares new slate of films
Spain's Wanda Vision, co-producer of Panorama opening title Family Law, is preparing a new slate offilms including two features set in Africa.Documentarian-turned-fiction-filmmaker GerardoOlivares is preparing his follow-up to BerlinaleSpecial screener The Great Match (El Gran Final) for Wanda. The road movie about Africanemigrants to Europe is called Tenere after the ...
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Wild Bunch back Marc Caro's new sci-fi action film
Marc Caro, the French film-makerwho collaborated with Jean-Pierre Jeunet on Delicatessen and The City Of Lost Children, is preparing anextravagant new sci-fi action movie called DanteXXI that is being represented for worldwide sales by Wild Bunch.Billed by the seller as Cubemeets Gattaca,it's a tale about a convict in space. Tormented ...
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WiP picks up North American rights to Chen Kaige's The Promise
Warner Independent Pictures (WiP)has picked up North American rights to Chen Kaige's The Promise ahead of its Europeanpremiere at Berlin.WiP plans a May release on theepic fantasy, which last December became the third biggest grossing releaseever in mainland China behind Titanicand Hero.The picture had originally been acquired for North America ...
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Arclight puts spotlight on Asia
Arclight Films has launched Easternlight, a sales, marketingand distribution division dedicated to Asian cinema.The division will encompass all genres, with Arclight managing director Gary Hamilton serving asmanaging director and chairman.Easternlight will commence salesat Berlin on its first two titlesfrom China:cinematographer Hou Yong's cross-generational familysaga Jasmine Women starring Zhang Ziyi and ...
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BD Fox & Friends signs picture deal with Noble House
Hollywood-based marketing firm B D Fox & Friends'freshly minted sales divisionhas signed a three-picture deal with producer Mark Roemmich's Noble House EntertainmentPictures.In addition to Roemmich'spreviously announced dark romance Taylor, B D Fox & Friends will handlethe $65m Snow Princessand the $54m The Lost Gold Of Khan.Snow Princess isset to go ...
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Bill Block to launch sales, financing and production company
Producer and former Artisanpresident, Bill Block has teamed up with threeentertainment industry veterans to launch the Beverly Hills-based international sales, financing and production house QED International.Block is joined in the newenterprise by senior vice president Kimberly Fox, the former head of international sales at Kathy Morgan International; chief operating officer ...
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Fortissimo sells Cut Sleeve Boys to here! Films
US independent here! Films hasacquired North American rights to UKcomedy Cut Sleeve Boys fromFortissimo Films.Written and directed by Ray Yeung,the film is set in London'sunderground drag club scene and focuses on the British Chinese gay experienceincluding an all-male production of the MissPacific Rim Beauty Pageant.Outside of gay and lesbian film ...
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Casting complete for Douglas Buck's remake of Sisters
French star AnnaMouglalis, Chloe Sevigny and Stephen Rea will head the cast of Sisters, Douglas Buck's remake of BrianDe Palma's cult 1973 thriller which Voltage Picture is selling here.Production is scheduledto begin on March 13 in Vancouver on the first title from Ed Pressman's Pressman &Company and Image Entertainment's genre ...
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SPRI sets Capote international release schedule
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) has finalised key releasedates for Capote, which earned five Oscar nominations last week andgets its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on Feb 17.The picture will open in Italy, Switzerland, Poland and New Zealand onFeb 18, followed by Australia, the UK, Spain, Brazil, Finland ...
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Celluloid Dreams strikes a deal with Hammer And Tongs
French sales house Celluloid Dreams is to part-finance and sell the nextproject from UK film outfit Hammer And Tongs - also known as GarthJennings and Nick Goldsmith.Jennings and Goldsmith, who last directed and produced The Hitchhikers Guide ToThe Galaxy, will move forward immediately with Son of Rambow (working title), to ...
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Samuel L Jackson to star in Myriad's The Shadow Chaser
Samuel L Jackson has signed on to play the lead in The Shadow Chaser, a $30m actionthriller that is being put together by LA-based Myriad Pictures.Myriad is producing the project with Michael Mailer andcompany president and chief executive officer Kirk D'Amico and his sales teamwill commence worldwide sales at Berlin.Filming ...
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Rolf de Heer set to shoot his next project, Dr Plonk
Prolific film-makerRolf de Heer (BadBoy Bubby, Dance Me To My Song) today got a green light from Film FinanceCorporation Australia (FFC) to shoot his next project Dr Plonk. Characteristic of his wildly diverseoeuvre, the new film is a black and white silent comedy set in 1907 about ascientist inventor who ...
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Vision In Production to make Princess Diana death thriller
UK production company Visionin Production (VIP) has acquired the rights to Jon King and John Beveridge's PrincessDiana: The Hidden Evidence and plansto shoot a thriller based on the book. The film Hidden Truth, about journalist King's investigation into PrincessDiana's death and his questioning if there was a cover-up, is currently ...
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London and Shanghai form film partnership
London and Shanghai have announced a new city-to-city partnership to support film culture,education, and industry. London iscurrently hosting a number of Shanghai film industry players during theShanghai On Screen film festival, part of China In London 2006; the newpartnership was announced at a press conference by Film London CEO Adrian ...
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Mike Leigh's next film lands at Summit for worldwide sales
Summit Entertainment has taken on worldwide sales excluding the UK to Mike Leigh's upcoming untitled film. The project will be financed by Ingenious, FilmFour, the UK Film Council's Premiere Fund, and Summit.The follow-up to the multiple award-winning Vera Drake will be produced by Leigh's long time producer, Simon Channing Williams, ...
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Hugh Grant to receive honorary Cesar on Feb 25
British actor Hugh Grant is set to receive an honorary Cesar from theAcademie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema. The Cesars, France's equivalent tothe Oscar, will be handed out at the upcoming ceremony on February 25.French actress Carole Bouquet, who will preside over the ceremony, willpresent Grant with the award.Grant's ...
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Wanda Vision prepares new slate of films
Spain'sWanda Vision, co-producer of Panorama opening title Family Law, is preparing a new slate of films including twofeatures set in Africa.Documentarian-turned-fiction-filmmakerGerardo Olivares is preparing his follow-up to BerlinaleSpecial screener The Great Match (El Gran Final) for Wanda. The road movie about Africanemigrants to Europe is called Tenere after the Saharan ...
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AMC Entertainment to sell Iberian multiplex network
AMC Entertainment is in final negotiations to sell off its multiplexes in Spain and Portugal to UK private equity firm Terra FirmaCapital Partners.AMC and Cinesa (the Spanish brand of TerraFirma-owned UCI) have reached an agreement for the "potential acquisition" of AMC's cinemas on the Iberian Peninsula, according to a Terra ...