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Salvatores' Love set as English-language debut
Gabriele Salvatores, theOscar-winning Italian director of Mediterraneo and I'm Not Scared,will make his English-language feature debut The Rules Of Love in Canadaas an Italy/Canada co-production with Toronto-based Capri Films and Rome-basedColorado Film Production.Inspired by the novel TheLoves Of Judith by Meir Shalev, The Rules Of Love was scripted byLaura Philips; ...
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Lolafilms readies English pair
Spanish producer Lolafilmsis storming ahead with two Euros 10m English-language productions - includingvenerable helmer Carlos Saura's new film.Saura, whose current releaseThe 7th Day is being sold at Cannes by Lolafilms, will shoot LorenzoDa Ponte (working title) in Venice and Vienna. The story of Mozart'slibrettist, who was also something of an ...
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Film-makers vie to remake Japanese Love
Japanese romantic drama CryingOut Love -- The Centre Of The World has scored a monster opening for localmajor Toho, while also drawing remake interest from neighbouring South Korea.Crying Out Love earned $5.3m (Y600m) on 283 screens on its openingweekend, appealing particularly to the under-30 female audience. It is based ona ...
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First Look rides with Minotaur
US-based First Look Mediahas acquired international rights to Jonathan English's UK, German, French andItalian horror co-production Minotaur, which is set to begin productionat Babelsberg Studios in Berlin in August with Luke Mably, Tony Todd and StevenBerkoff attached to star.Sales arm First LookInternational will begin pre-sales at Cannes and Lions Gate ...
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Millennium Kidnapped with Go Fish
Avi Lerner and DannyDimbort's Millenium Films has boarded Arie Posin's directorial debut Kidnappedand is handling international sales on the film which will be distributeddomestically by DreamWorks specialty division Go Fish Pictures throughNewmarket Films.Ralph Fiennes, Rita Wilson,Carrie-Ann Moss, Jamie Bell, Glenn Close, Allison Janney and Camilla Belle starin the film which ...
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Harvey Weinstein to publish memoirs
Miramax co-chairman HarveyWeinstein has closed a deal with HarperCollins Publishers for North Americanand UK publication rights to his memoirs. And Weinstein plans to donate allprofits from the book to three charities: The Robin Hood Foundation, Paul Newman'sThe Hole In The Wall Gang Camp and amfAR.The memoir will trace thelives of ...
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Prolific slate for post-Troy Kruger
Fresh fromplaying Helen of Troy, the face that launched 1000 ships, in WolfgangPetersen's $200 million epic, Troy, German-born actress Diane Kruger isto appear alongside Ed Harris in Agnieszka Holland's low-budget, US independentfilm, Copying Beethoven. "I think this year I'm going to try to dosmaller films and more character work," Kruger ...
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Morena launches Trauma, sets Saura
Spain's Morena Films isgearing up for an ambitious year with the launch of new genre label Trauma anda musical feature in development with veteran director Carlos Saura.The projects represent thetwo divergent lines of production at Morena: commercially-oriented,locally-targeted genre concepts developed in-house; and high-profileinternational fare such as Oliver Stone documentary Looking ...
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FRANCE 14 May
Van Helsingscared up nearly 1 million admissions its first week in release with arespectable $6,902 per screen average. Les Choristes remains in thesecond spot after 8 weeks with last week's number one Mariages! down tothird position.There wasvery little movement at the box office but the films that dropped off did ...
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IDT signs deal to acquire Manga Entertainment
US-basedanimation and live-action producer-distributor IDT Entertainment has signed anagreement to acquire Manga Entertainment, the largest distributor of animeoutside Japan.The move effectively makes IDT one of the largest animedistributors in operation and strengthens the hand of its DVD and videodistribution subsidiary Anchor Bay Entertainment at a time when the worldwideanime market ...
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The Football Factory
Dir: Nick Love. UK 2004. 90minsNick Love's low-budget, digitally shotadaptation of John King's novel is an energetic and creditable addition to whatseems to what seems to be blossoming into a mini-genre in its own right - thefootball hooligan film. Other forthcoming additions to the genre include TheYank, with Elijah Wood ...
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Foley has Pacino for 88 Minutes
Avi Lerner's Millenium Filmsand Randall Emmett and George Furla's Emmett/Furla Films have unveiled theirlatest picture 88 Minutes, a contemporary thriller to be directed byJames Foley with his Glengarry Glen Ross star Al Pacino attached tostar.Scripted by Gary ScottThompson (The Fast And The Furious), the film is budgeted at under $30mand ...
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Last minute addition to Cannes competition
An eleventh-hour addition tothe Cannes competition line-up was announced Wednesday, just hours before thecurtain was set to go up on the opening ceremony.Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovinowill be screened in competition on Friday May 14, festival artistic directorThierry Fremaux announced Wednesday morning. The film is an investigativedocumentary about winemaking that spans three ...
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Last minute addition to Cannes competition
An eleventh-hour addition tothe Cannes competition line-up was announced Wednesday, just hours before thecurtain was set to go up on the opening ceremony.Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovinowill be screened in competition on Friday May 14, festival artistic directorThierry Fremaux announced Wednesday morning. The film is an investigativedocumentary about winemaking that spans three ...
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German cinema admissions plunge
2.4m fewer tickets were soldat German cinemas in the first three months of 2004 compared to the previousyear, according to statistics collated by the German Federal Film Board (FFA).The Berlin-based institutionreported that box-office takings fell year-on-year by 9% to Euros 213.1m andadmissions by 6.2% to 37m, the lowest tally since ...
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Carlyle, Anderson come of age with The Mighty Celt
Robert Carlyle and GillianAnderson are being lined up to star in The Mighty Celt, a coming of age talebased at Robert Walpole and Paddy Breathnach's Irish company TreasureEntertainment.BBC Films, The Irish Film Board and the NorthernIreland Film & Television Commission are to bankroll the production, whichis set to shoot in ...
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Carlyle, Anderson come of age with The Mighty Celt
Robert Carlyle and GillianAnderson are being lined up to star in The Mighty Celt, a coming of age talebased at Robert Walpole and Paddy Breathnach's Irish company TreasureEntertainment.BBC Films and the NorthernIreland Film & Television Commission are to bankroll the production, whichis set to shoot in Northern Ireland this month. ...
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Entertainment falls for Alibi as UK buyers pounce
EntertainmentFilm Distributors has boarded Summit Entertainment's The Alibi as the UKshows strong signs of buying across all budget ranges.Entertainment hastaken the UK on the contemporary thriller, which stars Steve Coogan and RebeccaRomijn-Stamos. Having previously bought Summit's Around The World In EightyDays, also starring Coogan, the Greens' powerhouse will be now ...
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Aligator measures up with Salazar's Centimetres
New Spanish productioncompany Aligator is prepping its first feature film: Ramon Salazar's follow-upto 2001 Berlin screener Stones, the provocatively titled 20Centimetres.Former Alquimia Cinema headof international relations Iker Monfort launched Aligator earlier this yearwith the goal of making and co-producing two to three films per year.Salazar's 20 Centimetres(20 Centimetros) is a ...
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Aligator measures up with Salazar's Centimetres
New Spanish productioncompany Aligator is prepping its first feature film: Ramon Salazar's follow-upto 2001 Berlin screener Stones, the provocatively titled 20Centimetres.Former Alquimia Cinema headof international relations Iker Monfort launched Aligator earlier this yearwith the goal of making and co-producing two to three films per year.Salazar's 20 Centimetres(20 Centimetros) is a ...