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Loggerheads, Summer Storm bookend NewFest 2005
New York premieres of Tim Kirkman's drama Loggerheads and MarcoKreuzpaintner's Summer Storm bookend the 17th Annual NewFest, thegay, lesbian and transgender event which runs from Jun 2-12.Loggerheads premiered at Sundance earlier this year and stars Kip Pardue, BonnieHunt and Michael Learned in the story of a drifter whose arrival in ...
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Warner Bros to take North America on August Rush
Warner Bros is set to take NorthAmerican distribution rights on August Rush and come on board as a producingpartner.The move was announced inCannes yesterday by production company Southpaw Entertainment, Warner Bros andsales outfit Odyssey Entertainment.Freddie Highmore (FindingNeverland, Charlie AndThe Chocolate Factory) is to star asthe eponymous August Rush, an orphan ...
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Bauer Martinez moves into US distribution
Philippe Martinez' BauerMartinez Studios has launched a US distribution venture with a high profileslate that boasts the $40m John McTiernan actioner Riders Of The Storm, £30m thriller The Flock from Andy Lau, as well as Bauer Martinez'co-production Modigliani andfirst acquisition The Groomsmenfrom Ed Burn's Black and Tan Productions.Backed by an ...
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International quiet before Star Wars storm
Major territory releases for US films are few and farbetween this weekend as the marketplace waits for Star Wars: Episode III tomake its global entrance next week.Fox International's Kingdom of Heaven, currently theinternational box office leader after its launch in 99 territories lastweekend, opens in Japan, its only remaining major ...
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Curse holds key to second Wallace & Gromit film
Wallace& Gromit could soon be the subject of a second full-length feature filmfrom Nick Park, assuming the first, The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, is a big box office hit forDreamWorks when it is released in North America on Oct 7.Ifgreenlit, the Wallace & Gromit sequel might even be squeezed into ...
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Goldwyn, Lecker promoted at Samuel Goldwyn Films
Peter Goldwyn has been promoted to vice president of acquisitions andTamara Lecker to director of acquisitions and development at Samuel GoldwynFilms.Goldwyn will continue to pursue projects from the company's Los Angeles officeand will work closely with president Meyer Gottlieb in negotiating pre-buys andbringing completed projects to the company.Lecker will continue ...
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Goda's FilmMates hits Croisette with 10 titles
Alan Goda's Los Angeles-basedfinance, production and distribution outfit FilmMates Entertainment is hittingthe Croisette for the first time with 10 titles that feature the likes of SusanSarandon, Jeremy Irons, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Shirley MacClaine. The company plans to finance,produce and release eight to 10 pictures a year budgeted at up ...
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German gov't to launch Euros 90m film fund
The German government is tocreate a venture capital fund with a total volume of Euros 90m to support theGerman film industry over the next three years.The funding instrument wasthe result of discussions between a specially convened working group of theFederal Chancellery and the Finance Ministry (ScreenDaily, May 4 2005). Itfollows ...
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King pledges AFM return for Initial
Graham King assured buyers this week that his InitialEntertainment Group will have a new slate of films on offer for buyers by AFMin Nov, following the news in April that he has signed a first-look deal withWarner Bros. Speaking from the New York City set of Martin Scorsese's TheDeparted, which ...
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Toronto's January Films signs Dragojevic to direct After
Start-up Toronto production company January Films has signedSerbian director Srdjan Dragojevic (Pretty Village, Pretty Flame) to direct After, a post- World War II dark comedy abouta trio of concentration camp survivors suddenly set loose in war-ravaged Germany.Based on a novel by Melvin Jules Bukiet, with a screenplay byAngus Fraser (Kissed),the ...
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Warner Bros snaps up Habana Blues for Latin America
Warner Bros has taken rightsin Latin America to Un Certain Regard closing film Habana Blues.The company boarded the filmat script stage and kept rights in Portugal, Italy and Spain, where it has beenseen by more than 600,000 people since it bowed last month.Pyramide International, whichco-produced the film and has rights ...
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Roeg's sales arm kicks off with Klimt
Independent Film Sales, thesales arm of Luc Roeg's UK production operation Artists Independent Films,arrives at its first Cannes with a trio of films including Klimt, a biopic of the artist starring John Malkovich anddirected by Raoul Ruiz.A European co-productioncurrently in post, Klimt marksthe sales division's first third-party film.Also on the ...
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Lolafilms to sell off sales arm
Spanish producer-distributorLolafilms is restructuring - the company is to sell off a majority holding inits international sales and distribution arm.Founder and CEO AndresVicente Gomez will immediatelyfocus on revving up production on two ambitious Lolafilms biopics.Gomez bought back his companylast year from former majority shareholder Telefonica, and recently closed asale of ...
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Von Trier sets aside USA trilogy to renew his Dogme vows
Cannes favourite Lars VonTrier, in competition with the second part of his USA trilogy Manderlay, will shoot aDogme film in February next year before making part three, Wasington, which has nowbeen postponed until 2007.The film, his second Dogmeproduction produced by Trier's Zentropa, has been titled Direktoren For DetHele in Danish ...
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Inarritu's Babel towers into view
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu revealed exclusive details of his latestopus Babel in an interview with Screen from the Morocco set this week. Although he says it is more challenging structurally than AmoresPerros, it has similar themes of 'love and how we deal with it as humanbeings, while on a microscopic level ...
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Zeitgeist takes US rights to Ballets Russes
New York-based ZeitgeistFilms has picked up all US rights from Geller/Goldfine Productions to DanielGeller and Dayna Goldfine's dance documentary Ballets Russes, which premiered in Sundance.Los Angeles-based sales anddistribution house Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights onthe picture, announcing key sales to Xanadeux in Japan and Hopscotch Films inAustralia and New ...
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Woo and Wong boost StudioCanal slate
Adding to their big-ticket Wong Kar-wai film A Lady From Shanghai, StudioCanal hascome to Cannes boasting a new collaboration with John Woo and a line-up thatincludes films from RichardGrandpierre and directors Diane Kurys and Xavier Beauvois The studio is also promising a surprise visitfrom Sydney Pollack.Woo, who is also on ...
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Elton John to exec produce It's A Boy Girl Thing
SirElton John is to executive produce high school comedy It's A Boy Girl Thing through his company Rocket Pictures, it was announced this week. "Iabsolutely love this project. The script is hysterical - I can't stop laughingwhenever I read it," the British pop star commented.Directedby Nick Hurran (Little Black Book, ...
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Icon does brisk business with Clear Day
UK sales outfit Icon International has been doing brisk business on therun up to Cannes with Gaby Dellal's On A Clear Day, securing salesto MK2 (France), Degeto/ARD for free TV in Germany as well as wrapping dealswith Portugal (Lusomundo), Israel (Shapira) and Iceland (Skifan.)On A Clear Day, the opening film ...
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Brits on pre-Cannes shopping spree
UK companies picked up several titles from theCannes official selection before today's festival opening.Tartan signed CarlosReygadas' competition entry Battle In Heaven, Kim Ki-Duk's Un Certain Regard entry, The Bow, and Kim Jee-woon's A Bittersweet Life (screening out of competition.)It also took UK rights (excluding TV) to James Marsh's Un Certain ...