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Carlyle, Firth to learn Meat Trade with The Works
Robert Carlyle and ColinFirth are to star in Meat Trade, a darkly comic, bodysnatching horror writtenby Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh.UK-based sales company TheWorks has taken on international sales to the film, which is pre-productionunder director Antonia Bird.Set in the historic streetsof Edinburgh, the script is a contemporary re-working of one ...
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Hurley rounds out New Line's Cleaner cast
Elizabeth Hurley has roundedout a dynamic cast on New Line's upcoming action comedy The Cleaner, joining Lucy Liu and American comedian Cedric TheEntertainer on the project, which is set to go into production this summer witha North American release set for 2006.Les Mayfield has been linedup to direct the $27m ...
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Endeavour tries China with Shanghai Media Group
Hollywood talent agencyEndeavor has entered into a strategic partnership with China's second-largestmedia giant, the Shanghai Media Group (SMG), and its subsidiary, ShanghaiInteractive Television (SiTV).The agreement sees Endeavorassisting SMG in acquiring programming for its rapidly expanding TV content andmanagement business. SMG recently launched anational distribution platform for 14 digital pay-TV channels, ...
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Filmwerks for Chris Davis International
Chris Davis International is representing a raft of titles at Cannes forLos Angeles-based production company Filmwerks, which has accelerated itsproduction schedule following a development funding deal with Robert LadesichFilms.Available projects includeAlbert Pyun's true-life horror tale Infection, which is scheduled for delivery in July and starsScott Paulin, Virginia Dare, and Norbert ...
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Indie Circle snaps up Iron Island
Pan-Europeandistribution collective Indie Circle has snapped up multi-territory rights toMohammed Rasoulof's Iron Island, this year's closing film in the Quinzaine. Theacquisition was concluded with Teheran-based Sheherazad Media Internationalfollowing this month's Paris screenings of Quinzaine films.The Indie Circle deal guarantees the film a release inItaly via Lucky Red, Haut Et Court ...
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Pressman ponders ContentFilm exit
Whither Ed Pressman' Itseems that the veteran producer of such classics as Badlands and Wall Street is stepping down from his role as joint-chief executive of ContentFilm,the company he founded with John Schmidt in 2001.A spokesperson for Pressman did not deny the rumoursand it is understood that he will continue ...
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Pressman to exit from ContentFilm
Ed Pressman, the veteran producer of such classics as Badlands and WallStreet, is stepping down from his role as joint chiefexecutive of ContentFilm, the company he founded with John Schmidt in 2001.A spokesperson for Pressman did not denythe rumours and it is understood that he will continue to be involved ...
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Darin flies in for Fairy role with Tornasol
Hot Argentinean actor RicardoDarin is to star in Spanish director Jose Luis Cuerda's The Education Of AFairy for producer Tornasol Films.Darin, who has achievedinternational recognition in films such as Nine Queens, Son Of TheBride, Kamchatka and Avelleneda's Moon, will play a man whose lifeis turned upside down when the woman ...
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FilmMates role for ex-Miramax man
Former Miramax Internationalpresident Ian Jessel has joined the board of directors on Alan Goda's ambitiousLos Angeles-based finance, production and distribution company FilmMates Entertainment.Jessel will serve as advisor and help structure domesticand international strategic alliances as FilmMates ramps up activities, and isbusily setting up meetings with potential filmmaking partners.FilmMates' debut slate ...
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UK Film Focus shapes up for London Screenings status
Neil Jordan's BreakfastOn Pluto, which is tipped forcompetition slots in Venice and Toronto, headlines a slate of over two dozenBritish films, many of them world premieres, at next month's second London UKFilm Focus (LUFF), running June 27-30. More than 140 internationalbuyers have been invited to the publicly-funded event and most ...
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Foreign films return to Thailand in post-tsunami recovery
Foreign shoots are startingto return to Thailand after a slight downturn due to the tsunami according toTourism Authority of Thailand governor Juthamas Siriwan.Several feature films areplanning to shoot this year, including the $15m English-language action dramaRound Five to be produced by Barrie M. Osbourne, which starts production inOctober. German director ...
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Lions Gate Films picks up US rights to Skinwalkers
Lions Gate Films has pickedup US rights to Jim Isaac's werewolf project Skinwalkers, while Lions Gate International has acquired allinternational rights except Germany and will commence sales at Cannes thisweek.The film is set to go intoproduction in early autumn for a wide North American release in 2006, and marksthe company's ...
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The Works signs up Italian pair
UK-based sales company The Works hasboarded two films world premiering at Cannes: Critics' Week entry TheHorizon Of Events (L'Orizzonte Degli Eventi) and Come Into The Light (Alla Luce DelSole).Horizon Of Events is directed byDaniele Vicari, whose Velocita Massima played at the Venice International FilmFestival. The story focuses on a nuclear ...
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Palace leaps for Lemming
Palace Films has alreadysnapped up Australian rights for three Competition titles including the openingnight film Lemming.The Australian company hasalso taken director Marco Tullio Giordana's Once You're Born You Can NoLonger Hide from TF1, screening on Monday.The third pick-up is AmosGitai's comedy Free Zone, screening on Thursday, from BAC Films.Palace is ...
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Morena makes waves in Mexico
Spain'sMorena Films is continuing its policy of shooting outside Spain with two newfilms set in Mexico and ArgentinaTheEuros 2.5m Mexican co-production La Zona, set in a wealthy Mexico Cityenclave surrounded by slums, is being directed by Rodrigo Pla. The La ZonaFilms co-production will be sold by Wild Bunch.Andshooting next fall ...
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New Line, HBO open Picturehouse for business
New Line Cinema and HBOFilms have officially launched their new US specialised distribution jointventure, announcing the name of the company - Picturehouse - and unveiling thefirst nine picture-slate.Diane Arbus biopic Fur starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr anddirected by Steven Shainberg was named as the first film to be ...
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Cannes hit by ghosts of rock stars
Two very different directors- Gus Van Sant and Stephen Woolley - hit Cannes today with films inspired bythe deaths of rock stars.Van Sant's Last Days was originally meant to be a full blown biography ofNirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, the director explained at a press conference forthe competition film. "But I ...
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Spain's Zebra readies Cervantes, Shakespeare comedy
Spain'sZebra Producciones andMiguel&William Producciones are developing a Euros 8m period comedy thatasks the question what if Cervantes and Shakespeare had met'Titled Miguel &William, the feature will pull close to 10% of its budget from the public agencyDon Quijote de la Mancha 2005, set up by the Spanish government to ...
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UGC International embraces Family Hero
French sales outfit UGCInternational is to handle Family Hero, the new film from Une Vie A T'Attendre director Thierry Kilfa starring Catherine Deneuve,Gerard Lanvin, Miou-Miou, Geraldine Pailhas and Michael Cohen.At Euros 12m Hero is written by Klifa and Christopher Thompson andwill be produced by UGC International president Said Ben Said's ...
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Woody's next match will be on screen with Scarlett
WoodyAllen revealed that he will star alongside Scarlett Johansson in his next film,which is set to shoot in London this summer."It so happens that in thisnext film there is a very good part for me to play and I'm going to play it,"said the veteran director. He described it as ...