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Lemming jump starts Cannes festival
The 58th CannesFilm Festival gets underway today with the opening ceremony and competitionscreening of Dominik Moll's Lemmingat 19.30.Festival delegates have beenpouring into Cannes over the past two days in preparation forthe start of the festival.According to official Cannes figures, 8281 delegates from 79 countries have registered for the Cannes market, ...
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Street racers on track for Cannes
Bill Johnson and JimSeibel's Los Angeles-based sales and distribution house Inferno Distributionwill be revving up interest at Cannes on Joey Curtis' street racing drama 4NOZA, which played in official selection at Berlinearlier this year.Inferno has acquired allinternational rights to the picture, which won the best cinematography award atSundance 2003 and ...
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Chiesa sells Invisible Children to Japan, Germany
Rome-based sales agentAdriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE) has sold rights for international project AllThe Invisible Children to Gaga forJapan, Telemunchen (Germany) and PCV (Greece).The seven-director projectfor UNICEF/World Food Programme boasts Jury president Emir Kusturica and memberJohn Woo among its contributors. Spike Lee became the lastdirector to join the project when he ...
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Hyde Park, Odd Lot team for multi-picture deal
Hyde Park Entertainment and Odd Lot Entertainment have struck a deal toco-produce and co-finance a raft of features over the next 12 to 18 months,starting with the erotic thriller Trap For Cinderella to be directed byIain Softley. Hyde ParkInternational, the new sales division headed up by Lisa Wilson, will handlesales ...
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Frears set for The Queen and Di
In a move likely to ruffleestablishment feathers in the UK, Stephen Frears is going ahead with TheQueen, his long-gestating featureabout the death of Princess Diana, "the people's princess." Co-financed by Pathe Pictures and Granada Screen, The Queen is scheduled to shoot in September. It is likely toair first on TV ...
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Strand shells out on turtle drama
NewYork-based Strand Releasing has acquired US rights for Tim Kirkman's Loggerheads from Andrew Herwitz's Film SalesCompany.Strandco-presidents Jon Gerrans and Marcus Hu are now planning a November release for the familydrama which premiered in official selection atSundance earlier this year.Herwitz has also sold Israeli rights toShani Films and expects to ...
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Fortissimo scores pre-Cannes sales on high profile pair
Fortissimo Films has secureda slew of sales on two titles - The Night Listener starring Robin Williams and Berlin Golden Bear winnerU-Carmen eKhayelitsha - in therun-up to the Cannes market. The Night Listener, the recently-wrapped adaptation of ArmisteadMaupin's bestselling novel, has been sold to Australia and New Zealand (VillageRoadshow), Benelux ...
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X goes for Zucker punch
X World Sales has landeddistribution deals for North America and Central and Eastern Europe for DaniLevy's Go For Zucker! - An Unorthodox Comedy (Alles Auf Zucker!) which received 10German Film Award nominations this week.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com, X-Filme creativepool's head of business and legal affairs Andro Steinborn said that First RunFeatures ...
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Queens join Golden parade
Hong Kong-based sales agent GoldenNetwork Asia has added Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr's big-budget actionadventure The Queens Of Pattani to a busy Cannes slate. Produced by Nimibutr's Cinemasia with backing from Thai studioSahamongkol, the ambitious two-part feature is scheduled to start shooting nextJanuary for delivery by the end of 2006. Loosely ...
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Queens join Golden parade
Hong Kong-based sales agent GoldenNetwork Asia has added Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr's big-budget actionadventure The Queens Of Pattani to a busy Cannes slate. Produced by Nimibutr's Cinemasia with backing from Thai studioSahamongkol, the ambitious two-part feature is scheduled to start shooting nextJanuary for delivery by the end of 2006. Loosely ...
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Valley to hit LA heights
The North American premiere of David Jacobson's Un Certain Regard entry DownIn The Valley will open the 2005 Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs from Jun16-26.George Clooney will receive the inaugural Spirit of Independence Awardon June 25 and will take part in an on-stage interview with critic andcommentator Elvis Mitchell ...
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Real Madrid scores with Sogepaq
Spain'sSogepaq has picked up worldwide rights including Spain to a surprise new filmabout - and starring - the Real Madrid football club called Real, The Movie.Mixing factwith fiction and action from real-life players David Beckham, Zinidine Zidane,Ronaldo and Raul, Real shot across five countries and is aco-production with the mega-club's ...
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Positive response for Korea's Antarctic Journal at Jeonju
Antarctic Journal, a large-scale Korean mystery thriller set in theAntarctic Circle, provided a high profile close to the sixth JeonjuInternational Film Festival on May 6. The film receives its market premiere viaMirovision in the upcoming Cannes market.Shot in New Zealand, Journal focuses on an expedition to the South Pole thatveers ...
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Kusturica spells out judging criteria for Cannes festival
The Cannes competition titles will be judged on purelyaesthetic grounds rather than box-office potential, said jury president EmirKusturica. It's astatement that sets the tone for this year's genre-focussed and auteur-richfestival. Kusturica promised the festival would "hit the heights" by going backto the value judgements that he says have marked out ...
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Cheung steps up in Celestial hierarchy
Hong Kong's CelestialPictures has promoted international sales chief Gordon Cheung to the newposition of executive vice president, acquisitions & distribution. In his new role, Cheung willoversee Celestial's new movie productions, content acquisition and thedistribution of new film content. The company, which owns and distributes the760-title Shaw Brothers library, is currently ...
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Polo, Kilborn, Electra join Nothing But The Truth
Teri Polo, Craig Kilborn andCarmen Elektra have joined Ryan Pinkston on the cast of New Line's upcomingcomedy Nothing But The Truth,which started production in Winnipeg this week.Atmosphere Entertainment and Relativity Media are teaming up on the story abouta habitual liar who is overrun with problems when his tall stories suddenlybecome ...
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Firth, Kingsley enlist in The Last Legion
Colin Firth andBen Kingsley have been cast in Doug Lefler's upcoming Fall of the Roman Empireadventure and Dino De Laurentiis presentation The Last Legion.Martha De Laurentiis and Raffaella De Laurentiis will produce the project inpartnership with Quinta Communications' Tarak Ben Ammar and Britishco-producers Chris Curling and Phil Robertson of Zephyr ...
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Storm Entertainment takes world for Foolish Things
Michael Heuser's StormEntertainment has picked up worldwide sales rights on Julia Taylor-Stanley's TheseFoolish Things starring TerenceStamp, Lauren Bacall, Anjelica Huston and Joss Ackland.Taylor-Stanley's directorialdebut, which will receive its first market screening at Cannes, is a pre-warstory centring on a young actress' efforts to emulate her mother's glitteringstage career.Taylor-Stanley wrote thescreenplay ...
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Brody, Affleck embark on American Way for Focus
Production has begun on AllenCoulter's Truth, Justice And The American Way, the real-life Hollywoodmystery starring Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Diane Lane. Focus Features will handlethe North American release and international sales on the picture, which alsostars Bob Hoskins and marks Sopranos director Coulter's feature directorialdebut. Brody stars as a ...
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Warner Bros boards Ant and Dec's Alien
Warner Bros is to handleinternational distribution on Alien Autopsy, the new feature showcasingthe acting talents of diminutive British TV presenters Ant and Dec. The film, produced by MichaelKuhn of Qwerty Films and Barnaby Thompson of Ealing Studios, begins shootingnext month.Alien Autopsy is a comedy abouttwo friends who make a spoof ...