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Star Wars: Episode III already breaking records
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith wasalready starting to break records as its massive international release began onWednesday and continued into the weekend.According to distributor Fox International, the launch ofthe film with more than 9,000 prints in 113 markets in 104 countries outsideNorth America is the widest ...
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European Film Promotion elects new board
The members of European FilmPromotion (EFP) have elected a new Board of Directors at its general assemblymeeting during Cannes.The Board is composed of sixmembers and the term of office lasts for two years. Claudia Landsberger has beenre-elected as President and Christian Dorsch has been re-elected asVice-President, both ...
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Warner Bros takes multi-territory rights to del Toro's Labyrinth
Warner Bros Pictures International has picked upSpanish and Latin American rights to director Guillermo del Toro's upcomingFranco era horror title Pan's Labyrinth.Filming is expected to begin thissummer on the co-production between Estudios Picasso and delToro, Alfonso Cuaron and Frida Torresblanco's new Spanish company OMM.Del Toro, Cuaron and Torresblanco will produce ...
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Hustle and Flow to open CineVegas fest
Craig Brewer's hip-hop drama Hustle & Flow will open the 2005CineVegas Film Festival, which runs from Jun 10-18.MichaelWinterbottom's 9 Songs,Rob Zombie's House Of 1,000 Corpses follow-up The Devil's Rejects, and Gus Van Sant's Cannes competitionentry Last Days arealso among the line-up.ChristopherWalken will receive the Marquee Award following on-stage interview, while ...
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TFI takes world rights to Ong-Bak follow-up
French sales house TF1International has taken world rights to Tom-Yum-Goong starring Ong-BakphenomenonTony Jaa and directed by Ong-Bak's Prachya Pinkaew.Ong-Bak was a huge hit inits native Thailand and also performed well for EuropaCorp. who handled itsinternational sales. The film sold nearly 1 million tickets in France.Tom-Yum-Goong tells the tale ofa villager, ...
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Tartan sails off with French hit 36 Quai
The UK'sTartan Films has acquired Gaumont's French hit 36 Quai Des Orfevres, starring Daniel Auteuil and GerardDepardieu.The deal was brokered byJane Giles of Tartan Films and Philippe de Chaisemartin of Gaumont. The policethriller, which amassed more than 2.1 million admissions in France, has sold toan array of markets, including Japan ...
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Pele plots film expose of South American football
Football legend Pele isplanning what he says will be a sporting equivalent to Fernando Meirelles' Cityof God. Pele says he has beenworking on a script which will expose the seedy underbelly of South Americanfootball, where the flip side of the beautiful game is endemic corruption inthe boardroom."Flamengo is the best-supported ...
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Cannes briefs: latest deals, announcements
Katapult scores with ZidaneKatapult Film Sales hasscored a Japanese deal with Cine Qua Non for football documentary Zidane: A21st Century Portraitabout Real Madrid superstar Zinedine Zidane. UIP pre-bought the rights forFrance. Japan's Presidio has bought Klimt, starring John Malkovich,from Independent Film Sales. The UK sales outfit has also sold the ...
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Arclight strikes raft of sales on Dragon Squad
Arclight Filmshas struck a raft of territory deals on the action thriller Dragon Squad, with key sales going to Momentum in theUK, Aurum in Spain, and Nordisk in Scandinavia.Daniel Lee'sthriller, starring Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, Shawn Yue and Michael Biehn, centreson a team of Interpol agents who travel to Hong ...
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Barenholtz, Mitra tout three new features
Real estate developers andentrepreneurs Joseph Scarpinito and Shiraz Sanjana arrive in Cannes with threeprojects on the books for Mitra Films, the new production company they launchedrecently with longtime producer-distributor Ben Barenholtz.Brooklyn-based Mitra is seeking co-production partners and plans toproduced three titles a year.Featuring on the initial slate are the 1950s ...
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Svankmayer project headlines Barrandov Studios slate
Theproduction arm of Barrandov Studios has announced further details of itscurrent slate.It is shortly to appoint asales agent for Lunacy, the newproject from cult Czech animator Jan Svankmayer. A co-production withAthanor, Czech TV and C-GA Film, Lunacy is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis De Sade. Combining liveaction ...
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Beta Cinema goes into battle with Genghis Khan
Germany's Beta Cinema hasunveiled details of $10m biopic, Mongol - The Early Years Of Genghis Khan, which starts shooting in July with Japanese starAsano Tadanobu playing the Mongol warrior. Directed by Russia's SergeiBodrov with Hong Kong-based Philip Lee (Hero) and Sergey Selyanov (Brother) producing, the film brings together talent andfinancing ...
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Mackenzie recruits Jamie Bell for Foe
Director David Mackenzie's next film will be Hallam Foe, a £4madaptation of the Peter Jinks novel, to star Jamie Bell. Mackenzie's breakthrough film Young Adam screened in Un CertainRegard two years ago and he was back in Cannes this week seeking finance for HallamFoe,which is scheduled to shoot in Scotland ...
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What The Bleep sells like Lightning
Los Angeles-based LightningEntertainment has continued a raft of major sales on the spiritual docu-dramaand North American box office hit What The Bleep Do We Know!' Rights to Will Arntz, BetsyChasse and Mark Vicente's picture went to Hopscotch & Polyphony forAustralia and New Zealand, Revolver Entertainment for the UK, Filmhouse forMexico, ...
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Blue Star launches Tracker, My Favourite Game
London-basedBlue Star Movies is handling international sales on two new projects.Tracker is a $20mdrama-thriller set in New Zealand. It will be co-produced with the UK's EdenFilms. David Burns (Eden Films) and Pete Maggi (Blue Star Movies) will produce,while Nicolas van Pallandt, who also wrote the script, is set to direct.Set ...
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Toho pre-sells Shining Boy And Little Randy
Confirming the currentappetite for films about animals in Asia, Japan's Toho International haspre-sold Shining Boy And Little Randy, based on the true story of Japan's first elephant trainer, to severalAsian territories. The film has gone to GoldenScene for Hong Kong, Major Cinepictures for Thailand and Long Shong for Taiwan.In addition, ...
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Comstock shells out coin for Wild Bunch's Coin
Along with sales to The Weinstein Company on Nomad and Outlander,French sales and finance house Wild Bunch has secured a financial co-producerfor Michael Civetta's Coin Locker Babies in Japan'sComstock.Comstock has come on board the surreal coming-of-agetale which stars Liv Tyler and was adapted in part by Sean Lennon, son of ...
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Celestial's Love travels to Korea, Japan
Celestial Pictures hasscored a pair of major pre-sales on Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love to Korea's Show East and Nippon Herald for Japan.The Hong Kong-based companyco-financed and is handling worldwide sales on the $10m film which is currentlyshooting in Shanghai. Produced by Chan's ApplausePictures and Los Angeles-based Ruddy Morgan Organisation, ...
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Kuhn to chair Independent Cinema Office
Qwerty Filmsboss Michael Kuhn has become Chair of the Board of Trustees of the IndependentCinema Office (ICO), it was announced in Cannes yesterday. The ICO's othertrustees are Julia Short, M-D of Verve Pictures, and Ben Cook, Director of Lux.Set up in July2003, the ICO is funded by the UK Film ...
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Checkmate for Northam, Flanagan in St Petersburg
Fionnula Flanagan and JeremyNortham will star in the psychological thriller Checkmate, which is set tobegin production in St Petersburg on May 31.The Thelma Productionproject marks the first collaboration between international production companyBig Star Entertainment and UK-based financiers Future Films.Voltage Pictures is handlinginternational sales on the story of the enigmatic Lazarov ...