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Arclight grabs Bana-starrer Romulus
Arclight Films has picked upinternational rights to the Romulus, My Father,an adaptation of Raimond Gaita's award-winning memoir that will star Eric Bana.Australian theatre directorand actor Richard Roxburgh will direct the story of a young family's bid tostart a new life in a hostile country. The story focuses on the relationshipbetween ...
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Celador readies Marshall, Webber projects
Celador Films, the UK production outfit behind StephenFrears' Dirty Pretty Things and Neil Marshall's The Descent hasunveiled its new development slate. The slate includes a string of projects in the £3-5mbudget range from acclaimed directors such as Neil Marshall and Peter Webber (GirlWith A Pearl Earring) that Celador plans to ...
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Starter For Ten cranks up in London
Principalphotography started on September 5 on feature Starter for Ten, producedby Tom Hanks' Playtone in association with Sam Mendes' Neal Street Productionsfor HBO Films. The film is produced in association with the BBC. Shootingwill continue in Greater London, Bristol, and Clacton through the end ofOctober. The budget is described as ...
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Cronenberg Maps future with Wagner, Fields
David Cronenberg is plottinga film of Bruce Wagner's original screenplay Maps To TheStars, to be produced by Robert Lantos and his Serendipity Point Films.But whether he will get to Mapsas his next film is uncertain, since there has been movement on hislong-gestating film of Martin Amis' London Fields. Cronenberg told ...
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Freundlich's Trust The Man flies to Fox
Fox Searchlight Picturescontinued its eventful Torontoyesterday with the acquisition of North American and a raft of internationalrights to Bart Freundlich's Trust The Man.At time of writing advancednegotiations were underway on Michael Gondry's Block Party, and domesticdeals were close on Larry Clark's Wassup Rockers, Josh Gilbert's AKATommy Chong, Lee Daniel's Shadowboxer, ...
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Van Gogh gets US remakes treatment
Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucciand Bob Balaban have signed on to remake three features by the late Dutchfilmmaker Theo van Gogh, who is honoured in Toronto with a selection of screenings and a paneldiscussion.An early 2006 start-date isexpected on the projects, which will shoot back-to-back on digital video in New York ...
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Lions Gate offers $90m for DVD specialist
Lions Gate Entertainmenthas launched a $90m bid to buy Image Entertainment, the North American producerand distributor of home entertainment programming whose operations include a UKsubsidiary.The unsolicited bid sentImage Entertainment's shares soaring by as much as 57% this Wednesday afternoon on NewYork's Nasdaq exchange upon speculation that Lions Gate would increase ...
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FIFM to dole out bounty of prizes
The Festival Internationalde Film de Montreal is preparing to hand out an embarrassment oftrophies when its inaugural edition closes on September 25.The FIFM, topped by Moritzde Hadeln, announced it will present seven audience awards, including four forshort films, and three extra prizes on top of its already announced Iris Awardsfor ...
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Sony Classics buys Waddington's House
Sony Pictures Classics has acquiredNorth American rights to Andrucha Waddington's House Of Sand fromBrazil's Conspiracao Filmes after its premiere at the Toronto film festival.House Of Sand stars leading Brazilian actressesFernanda Montenegro (Central Station) and Palme D'Or winner andMontenegro's daughter, Fernanda Torres (Parle-Moi D'Amour). It tells thestory of three generations of ...
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Soda takes C.R.A.Z.Y. for UK
UK distributor Soda has picked up on Jean-Marc Vallee's Canadian smash C.R.A.Z.Y.Soda co-president EveGabereau signed the all-rights deal on Tuesday in negotiation with Francois Yonof Paris-based Films Distribution on behalf of producer Pierre Even of Montreal's Cirrus Productions. It's the latest majorEuropean territory to fall for the Quebecois coming-of-age tale, ...
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CrossDay strikes raft of sales on Shooting Dogs
Demonstrating that anappetite still exists for cinematic insight into the 1994 Rwandan genocide,producer CrossDay Productions has sold Michael Caton-Jones's drama ShootingDogs to a raft of international territories, including Japan and the UK.Starring John Hurt and HughDancy, the film tells the harrowing tale of 2,500 Tutsis who took refuge in atechnical ...
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Warners takes US rights to heavy metal documentary
Seville International has sold all U.S. rights to thedocumentary film Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, directed by Sam Dunn,Scot McFadyen and Jessica Joy Wise to Warner.Thedocumentary, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International FilmFestival on September 14, follows Sam Dunn, a professional anthropologist andlong-time heavy metal fan, as he ...
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London Film Festival unveils full line-up
The Times bfi London Film Festival (Oct 19-Nov 3) unveiled its fullline-up today and pledged to follow on last year's long-term strategy to expandindustry services. The festival announced a programme of 180 feature films, opening withFerndando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener and closing withGeorge Clooney's Venice hit Good Night, and Good ...
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Leonard's Jailbait finds Kindred spirit
Kindred Media Group haspicked up worldwide distribution rights to Brett C. Leonard's directorial debutJailbait, starring Michael Pitt.The New York andPennsylvania-based boutique distributor plans a North American release in April2006, with home video set to follow shortly afterwards.Pitt plays a young mansentenced to a California maximum-security prison under the three-strikeslaw, who ...
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Spence takes the reins at Seattle
Carl Spence has been namedartistic director of the Seattle International Film Festival Group (SIFF) aspart of an organisational restructure that replaces the role of executivedirector with the equal roles of artistic director and managing director.The restructure follows thedeparture of Helen Loveridge who resigned from her post as executive directorin July ...
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Schrader commits to Adam Resurrected
Paul Schrader has signed onto direct the Holocaust epic Adam Resurrected for Ehud Bleiberg'sfledgling Los Angeles-based Bleiberg Entertainment.Bleiberg will commencecasting immediately and is eyeing a summer 2006 start date in Germany, Romania and Israel.Noah Stollman adapted thescreenplay from Yoram Kaniuk's novel about a former circus entertainer andHolocaust survivor who inhabits ...
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Arclight picks up Hindi Carmen
Arclight Films todayannounced that it has picked up world sales rights to Chamki, ShyamBenegal's Hindi film adaptation of Carmen."We have been activelylooking at projects out of India and believe that this film has the potential ofbeing a truly global film," said Gary Hamilton, managing director of Arclight."Shyam Benegal is a ...
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Bauer Martinez to herd Lau's Flock into Louisiana
Andrew Lau's The Flock, which had been due to go intoproduction in New Orleans later this autumn, may still shoot in Louisiana inspite of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Philippe Martinez, CEOof Bauer Martinez Studios (BMS), told ScreenDaily.com that the plan nowis to see if it will be feasible ...
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Fleishman gets top communications job at Warner Bros
WarnerBros Entertainment has named Susan Fleishman to its top communicationsposition. She will become Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications,effective from September 26.Fleishmanreplaces executive vice president and chief corporate communications officerBarbara Brogliatti, who retired from Warners after 18 years in May.Fleishman,an experienced communications veteran, will oversee all of Warner'scommunications strategies worldwide, including ...
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Corraface named president of Thessaloniki festival
Greek-French actor George Corraface(Giorgos Chorafas) has been named president of the Thessaloniki InternationalFilm Festival.The post has been vacant forfive months following film-maker Pandelis Vougaris' resignation as president inMay, just one month after he was appointed to takeover from fellow film makerTheo Angelopoulos.Corraface will work closelywith artistic director Despina Mouzaki.Corraface's nomination ...