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Fortissimo's Sunflower blooms in Spain
Fortissimo Films has soldZhang Yang's San Sebastian winner Sunflower to Spain's Diorama. Starring Joan Chen andco-produced by Fortissimo, China Film and Being-based Ming Productions, thefilm portrays a Chinese family over three decades following the CulturalRevolution. It picked up awards for best director and best photography (JongLin) at this year's San ...
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Fortissimo's Sunflower blooms in Spain
Fortissimo Films has soldZhang Yang's San Sebastian winner Sunflower to Spain's Diorama. Starring Joan Chen andco-produced by Fortissimo, China Film and Being-based Ming Productions, thefilm portrays a Chinese family over three decades following the CulturalRevolution. It picked up awards for best director and best photography (JongLin) at this year's San ...
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Blue Star takes on sales of three Cameo FJ titles
Blue Star Movies has come onboard for international sales of three films from LA-based production companyCameo FJ Entertainment: Erik MacArthur's Bottoms Up and Josef Rusnak's Victims, which are both in final post-production, and DerekCianfrance's Blue Valentine, inpre-production.Bottoms Up is a $4 million comedy starring Paris Hilton andJason Mewes in the ...
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Pan-Europeenne buys Outlander, Labyrinth
Off to a running start atthe AFM, France's Pan Europeenne has acquired French rights to Howard McCain's Outlander and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.The distribution company'sdeputy managing director Jean-Philippe Tirel told Screen that Pan Europeennepaid $3m for Outlander in a dealwith LA-based producer Ascendant Pictures and $600,000 for Pan's Labyrinth ...
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Cruz, DeVito join the cast of Paltrow's The Good Night
Penelope Cruz and Danny DeVito have joined the cast of InfernoDistribution's $15m New York-set romantic comedy The Good Night.As previously announced Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin Freeman and SimonPegg star in the story of a former pop star relegated to writing advertisingjingles who lives through his dreams.Cruz will play the female lead ...
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Paramount Classics goes North with nature doc
Paramount Classics has picked up US, UK and Latin American rightsto Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson's hot documentary Call Of The North, which follows a polar bear and a walrusover the course of five years as they battle for survival on a disappearingcontinent.The $7m National Geographic Feature Films production is ...
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Taiwan's CMC rolls out Silk for market debut
Taiwanese distributor CMCEntertainment Group is attending AFM for the first time as a seller followingits recent move into production with big-budget sci-fi horror Silk. The $5m film is written anddirected by Taiwan's leading screenwriter Su Chao-pin, whose credits includethriller Double Vision and PeterChan's Three: Going Home. Su'ssecond film as director ...
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Japan's Nikkatsu snaps up Welcome To Dongmakgol
Korean major Showbox hassold drama Welcome To Dongmakgolto Japan's Nikkatsu for a sum ofaround $2m. The $5.5m film has racked upmore than 8 million admissions since its local release in August and is nowKorea's fourth biggest ever film. It was also selected asSouth Korea's entry for the foreign-language category of ...
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Pressman horror duo goes to Voltage
Voltage Pictures has picked up worldwide sales on two horrorpictures to be produced by Ed Pressman, a remake of Brian De Palma's 1973 Sisters and The Hill.Both projects are set to begin production in February 2006 throughNew York-based Pressman & Company's No Remorse genre label and will beco-financed by Grosvenor ...
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Optimum, Madman join forces on home video front
UK distributor OptimumReleasing is teaming with Aussie distributor Madman Entertainment for a jointventure home entertainment business, Optimum Madman. Optimum Madman will acquirehome video products to be distributed both in the UK and Australia. Optimum Madman's firstrelease will be Bill Melendez'1979 animated film The Lion,The Witch and The Wardrobe. (Disney'snew live-action ...
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Hopkins, Gosling star in Fracture for New Line
Anthony Hopkins and RyanGosling have signed to star in Castle Rock's crime drama Fracture that New Line is handling worldwide.Gregory Hoblit will directthe story of an assistant District Attorney who takes justice into his ownhands after an assailant tries to murder his wife and leaves her in a coma.New Line ...
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Silverstone, Gallo sign on for Luna's Moscow Zero
Alicia Silverstone andVincent Gallo have been confirmed as leads in $12 million psychological horrorpicture Moscow Zero, the new feature from Luna (Whore, Stranded). The film, due to shoot next month, is the firstproject from aggressive new Spanish production and sales outfit ValentiaPictures.On the first morning of theAFM, Valentia pre-sold several ...
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Hanway takes on Polley, Jarrold projects to sell
HanWay Films hasacquired international sales rights to two projects in pre-production: BecomingJane from Kinky Boots director Julian Jarrold starring AnneHathaway, and Away From Her, actress Sarah Polley's feature directorial debut starringVanessa Redgrave.Becoming Jane stars Hathaway (Brokeback Mountain,The Princess Diaries) asyoung future novelist Jane Austen, who is embroiled in a passionate ...
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Taiwan announces selections for new film and TV event
Taiwan'sGovernment Information Office (GIO) has announced the 21 film and televisionseries selected for the inaugural 2005 Taiwan Film and TV Project Promotion(TFTPP). Theevent runs from 13-14 November in Taipei as part of the newly-announced TaiwanInternational Film & TV Expo (TIFTE).Modelledon the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP), held in South Korea during ...
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MK2, Rialto take Tsotsi from Little Film Company
Robbie Little's Little Film Company has closed more sales on GavinHood's Toronto Film Festival's People's Choice Award winner Tsotsi.Rights have gone to MK2 in France, Rialto in Australia and NewZealand, Castello Lopes in Portugal, and Rosebud in Greece.The picture will be released through Miramax in North America,Kinowelt in Germany, and ...
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Taiwanese-Kiwi venture plans $69m film of Chinese myth
Taiwaneseand a New Zealand companies haveset up a joint venture to produce a $69m English-language feature based on aChinese myth and set for release during the Beijing Olympics in 2008.Lady White Snake has been written by Chinese musician Hou Dejian, owner of Taipei-basedEquinox Film. He is working with USwriter/director Patrick ...
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Baldwin to star opposite Gellar in Odd Lot/Media 8's Guide
Alec Baldwin has been cast opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in OddLot Entertainment's upcoming adaptation of international bestseller TheGirls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing. Media 8 is handling international rights on the project, whichcharts the romantic travails of an ambitious Manhattan book editor who is tornbetween her boyfriend and a notorious ...
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Chicken Little goes big in Mexico, Russia & South Africa
Impressive holds during the All Saints Day holiday in manyterritories this week means that The Legend Of Zorro stands at more than $41m going into theweekend.Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) licensed the majorityof international rights from the picture's co-financier Spyglass Entertainmentand executives expect strong holds in all territories following last ...
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Andreas Klein joins BMD board of directors
Splendid Medien managementboard chairman Andreas Klein has joined the board of directors of BauerMartinez Distribution.“Philippe Martinez is putting together one of the mostexciting entertainment companies in the business and I’m thrilled to be part of it,” Klein, who served as executive producer on Traffic and the Agent Cody Banks franchise, ...
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European Film Awards to be announced at Seville
The nominations for thisyear's European Film Awards will be announced at the Seville Film Festival onSunday.The event (November 4-12)will also host the presentation of the European actors selected for ShootingStars 2005.Seville's festival is decicatedtedentirely to European cinema, with 160 films and $290,000in prizes for the Spanish distributors of winning titles. ...