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Cannes goes from feast to famine
You win some, you lose some. Last year, Cannes was basking in an abundance of riches that ranged from Palme d'Or winner The Pianist to dazzling documentary Bowling For Columbine and red hot discovery City Of God. This year, the collective Competition choices were considered the worst in living memory ...
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Trudie Styler frustrated at Sweatbox delay
Trudie Styler faces a battle with Walt Disney to secure a release for The Sweatbox, the critically acclaimed documentary on the making of a Walt Disney feature animation which she co-directed and co-produced with John-Paul Davidson.Styler was expecting a release through BVI but parent Disney has yet to commit to ...
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Prague's Stillking plans English-language Moscow hostage feature
Acclaimed Czech commercials director Ivan Zacharias has signed onto an original English-language feature about last year's Moscow hostage crisis titled Russian Theatre, Prague's Stillking Films has announced.It is the first foray into original production announced by Stillking, a leading Prague production services company. The firm has slated the filming of ...
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Greenaway saddles up with erotic horsemen
Peter Greenaway, the experimental British director whose Tulse Luper Suitcases screens in competition tomorrow, has set 55 Men On Horseback as his next film. The long-gestating project is described by his producing partner Kees Kasander as "a very commercial, lighter piece". The Euros 6m-Euros 7m picture draws on 18th Century ...
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Lions Gate snaps up Von Trier's Dogville
LionsGate Films has bought all North American rights to Lars Von Trier's criticallyacclaimed drama Dogville, starring Oscar winner Nicole Kidman.TomOrtenberg, president of Lions Gate Films Releasing, Peter Block, president of home entertainment, acquisitionsand new media, and Jason Constantine, vice president of acquisitions,negotiated the deal on behalf of Lions Gate.AnnakarinStrom, chief ...
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Highlight reports increased revenue and profits
Swiss media concern Highlight Communications has posted a 16% increase in consolidated revenues for the first quarter of 2003 in spite of difficult market conditions.The group, which is currently looking to acquire majority control of Germany's Constantin Film where it has a 41.4% interest, reported revenues of $32.7m (CHF 42.3m) ...
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McTiernan to direct $45m Murder In Canton
John McTiernan is attached to direct a $45m action adventure Murder In Canton, based on the Judge Dee mystery novel, which Samuel and Victor Hadida's Davis Films and Peter Loehr's Ming Productions will co-produce with backing from TF1. French production house D+ Productions, headed by Francoise DeDeu, will also produce. ...
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McTiernan to direct $45m Murder In Canton
John McTiernan is attached to direct a $45m action adventure Murder In Canton, based on the Judge Dee mystery novel, which Samuel and Victor Hadida's Davis Films and Peter Loehr's Ming Productions will co-produce with backing from TF1. French production house D+ Productions, headed by Francoise DeDeu, will also produce. ...
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Africa Cinemas launched to promote local industry
The lamentable state of the film industry in Africa is set to be addressed through the launch of a new organisation, Africa Cinemas, which will be bankrolled by a number of European organisations.Africa Cinemas aims to promote the distribution and exhibition of African films across the continent and support the ...
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Bronfman bids again for Universal
In the latest back-to-the-beginning twist in the Vivendi Universal saga, the Bronfman family which previously owned Universal Pictures through its Seagram drinks conglomerate, has announced its intention to bid for Vivendi's US assets. Edgar Bronfman Jr informed Vivendi chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou that he and his father are assembling a group ...
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Alliance Atlantis plans Foolproof Canadian release
Alliance Atlantis plans to release its fully-financed caper picture Foolproof on 225 screens on Oct. 3, the widest-ever release for an English-Canadian film. The company distributed current record-holder Men With Brooms, which was released on 207 screens in 2002, backed by a P&A spend of more than C$1mDescribing the Foolproof ...
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Norway's BV boasts its best Cannes
Norwegian sales outfit BV International has made a number of pre-sales at the Cannes market making it their best ever according to head Bjorg Veland. Director Simon Marshall's quirky thriller Mister Silvester has been sold to Italy, Greece and Turkey to Minerva Pictures and Benelux and Scandinavia to FEG. Gary ...
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Norway's BV boasts its best Cannes
Norwegian sales outfit BV International has made a number of pre-sales at the Cannes market making it their best ever according to head Bjorg Veland. Director Simon Marshall's quirky thriller Mister Silvester has been sold to Italy, Greece and Turkey to Minerva Pictures and Benelux and Scandinavia to FEG. Gary ...
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Cannes breaks out the Bolly
With Cannes shaping up as the market where the international industry finally comes together with Bollywood, negotiations were reaching fever pitch on Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical. A bidding war had erupted for Australian/NZ rights by yesterday afternoon - Miramax, which already has North and South American rights, is ...
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Cannes breaks out the Bolly
With Cannes shaping up as the market where the international industry finally comes together with Bollywood, negotiations were reaching fever pitch on Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical. A bidding war had erupted for Australian/NZ rights by yesterday afternoon - Miramax, which already has North and South American rights, is ...
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Vincent Gallo defends his Bunny
Although The Brown Bunny left critics cold - it is currently the worst-rated competition film ever to be judged by Screen International's critics' jury, behind both Johnny Depp's The Brave and Mathieu Kassovitz' Assassins - producer-director-actor-writer-editor-camera operator Vincent Gallo lifted the press out of mid-festival doldrums yesterday with a rousing ...
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Vincent Gallo defends his Bunny
Although The Brown Bunny left critics cold - it is currently the worst-rated competition film ever to be judged by Screen International's critics' jury, behind both Johnny Depp's The Brave and Mathieu Kassovitz' Assassins - producer-director-actor-writer-editor-camera operator Vincent Gallo lifted the press out of mid-festival doldrums yesterday with a rousing ...
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Buyers go to White Castle
Senator International has completed multiple sales on its slate of new pictures.Among buyers for Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle were Village Roadshow in Australia, Aurum in Spain, Europa in Latin America, Egmont in Scandinavia and RCV in Benelux.For Gold Circle's White Noise starring Michael Keaton, Senator sold to ...
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Buyers go to White Castle
Senator International has completed multiple sales on its slate of new pictures.Among buyers for Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle were Village Roadshow in Australia, Aurum in Spain, Europa in Latin America, Egmont in Scandinavia and RCV in Benelux.For Gold Circle's White Noise starring Michael Keaton, Senator sold to ...
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Larry Clark to shoot A Good Way To Die
Larry Clark is involved in two new projects, one as director and another as executive producer.As a director, Larry Clark has signed on to direct A Good Way To Die, the chronicle of a cross-country odyssey of two young men and the woman they both love based on the novel ...