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Movieweb casts Shadow with English-lang slate
Movieweb's Massimo Pacilio has teamed up with the UK's Studio Eight and Canada's GFT Entertainment to produce a line-up of big-budget English language pictures.Among the first projects to be made through the new partnership is Shadow Dancer, a $10m movie starring Harvey Keitel, Giancarlo Giannini and Gerard Depardieu. Produced by ...
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Dutch producer under financial investigation
The future of First Floor Features, the Dutch company owned by producer Laurens Geels, who made the Oscar-winning Character, appears to be in the balance. First Floor's backers this week launched an investigation into the financial position of the company and as a result the release of three films, Views ...
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Europe opens up to Tube
Tube Entertainment's big underground action picture Tube has scored additional sales in Europe selling to AV Film for Italy and Pathe for France. Spain's Manga Entertainment bought both Tube and Jan Sun Woo's sci-fi fantasy Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl. Tube has also struck a deal with John Sloss' ...
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Europe opens up to Tube
Tube Entertainment's big underground action picture Tube has scored additional sales in Europe selling to AV Film for Italy and Pathe for France. Spain's Manga Entertainment bought both Tube and Jan Sun Woo's sci-fi fantasy Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl. Tube has also struck a deal with John Sloss' ...
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Lions Gate takes over world for New France
Lions Gate International has acquired worldwide rights excluding France and Canada to Jean Beaudin's epic historical romance New France, starring Gerard Depardieu, Tim Roth and Colm Meaney.The in-production Canadian-French-UK joint venture is being shot in English and French-language versions on locations in Canada, France and the UK.The company's co-presidents Nick ...
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Lions Gate takes over world for New France
Lions Gate International has acquired worldwide rights excluding France and Canada to Jean Beaudin's epic historical romance New France, starring Gerard Depardieu, Tim Roth and Colm Meaney.The in-production Canadian-French-UK joint venture is being shot in English and French-language versions on locations in Canada, France and the UK.The company's co-presidents Nick ...
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Sellers sells for HBO
HBO Films London has sold all rights in four territories to its drama The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers.Toshiba has picked it up for Japan, LNK for Portugal, Spentzos for Greece and Noah for Israel.The company has also reported strong interest from French, Italian and Spanish buyers at Mifed ...
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Sellers sells for HBO
HBO Films London has sold all rights in four territories to its drama The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers.Toshiba has picked it up for Japan, LNK for Portugal, Spentzos for Greece and Noah for Israel.The company has also reported strong interest from French, Italian and Spanish buyers at Mifed ...
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Outlook rosy with $350m investment equity fund
Outlook Films, the newindependent LA film outfit formed earlier this year by CAA agent Adam Krentzmanand Francois Lesterlin, has closed financing deals worth $350m with equityinvestors Pacificap Entertainment and Renaissance Millenium Pictures.Outlook, which plans tofinance and produce up to six films a year, has closed a deal valued at $150mwith ...
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68 projects chosen for Mannheim co-production meetings
New features by Ineke Smits (The Aviatrix Of Kazbek), Nicholas Kendall (The Singing House), Gyorgy Palfi (Taxidermia), Pablo Trapero (Rolling Family), Damjan Kozole (The Dark Side Of Earth) and Joan Chen (The Concubine) are among 68 projects from 27 countries being pitched at the 7th edition of the Mannheim Co-Production ...
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German blockbuster opens London festival of German cinema
Germany's current blockbuster The Miracle Of Bern, which has grossed over $ 14.5m in its first four weeks of release in German cinemas, will open this year's Festival of German Cinema in London on November 27 with director Soenke Wortmann and lead actors Peter Lohmeyer and Louis Klamroth (who are ...
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FRANCE
Continuing on its impressive opening, Francis Veber's buddy comedy Rudy & Quentin remains at number one with a mere 18% drop off from last week. The film passed the one million admissions mark in less than two weeks which will likely land it among France's highest grossers this year. With ...
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SPAIN
Despite its massive local release on 417 prints and a simultaneous worldwide marketing campaign, Warner Brothers' Matrix Revolutions wasn't among the top five biggest openers ever in Spanish history. With Euros 4.2m on the weekend (and a cumulative gross through Sunday of Euros 5.5m), the film also trailed its predecessor ...
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SWEDEN
After seven weeks at the top of the chart even Mikael Haafstroem's Evil had to step down to the Matrix Revolutions' massive 134 prints and impressive $8,441 screen average. However, since both Evil and the action-thriller The Third Wave are still out in 91 and 96 prints respectively, they are ...
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UK/IRELAND
Jim Sheridan's In America held up well against the onslaught of Warner Bros' The Matrix Revolutions thanks to an increased presence in the UK and sustained strength in the Republic of Ireland.Adding two extra screens in Ireland the autobiographical drama, written by Sheridan and his daughters Naomi and Kirsten, slipped ...
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Pescarolo lines up $18m She shoot
Shooting is due to start in May in Shanghai on Leo Pescarolo's $18m international movie, She (aka Draconis).She is produced by Rome-based Pescarolo's Imago Film with Massimo Pacilio for Movieweb, together with Fred Wang from Hong Kong's Salon Media Films, France's Mandarin Films, Germany's CMW Film Company and Australia's Darnley ...
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20 films look to break out of The Asylum
LA-based independent home video production and distribution outfit The Asylum has secured private funding to produce 20 films over the next 18 months, with the first title set to begin principal photography in January 2004 for a summer US release.The line-up will comprise mostly horror, sci-fi and thriller titles budgeted ...
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20 films look to break out of The Asylum
LA-based independent home video production and distribution outfit The Asylum has secured private funding to produce 20 films over the next 18 months, with the first title set to begin principal photography in January 2004 for a summer US release.The line-up will comprise mostly horror, sci-fi and thriller titles budgeted ...
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ACE deals Card Player to Japan, UK
Japan's Gaga Communications and the UK's Arrow Film Distributors have both acquired local distribution rights to The Card Player, the new film from cult Italian suspense master Dario Argento.Sold by Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE), The Card Player is about an unstoppable serial killer who kidnaps young women, holds them hostage ...