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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 ...
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UGC rides into Davies' Sunset
UGC Films UK has pre-bought UK theatrical rights to Terence Davies' upcoming adaptation of Scottish novel Sunset Song.Producers Bob Last and Ginnie Atkinson are also in final negotiations with Janine Gold and Natalie Brenner's Element X for the project to join that sales company's debut international slate. Visionview, the UK ...
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UGC rides into Davies' Sunset
UGC Films UK has pre-bought UK theatrical rights to Terence Davies' upcoming adaptation of Scottish novel Sunset Song.Producers Bob Last and Ginnie Atkinson are also in final negotiations with Janine Gold and Natalie Brenner's Element X for the project to join that sales company's debut international slate. Visionview, the UK ...
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UGC rides into Davies' Sunset
UGC Films UK has pre-bought UK theatrical rights to Terence Davies' upcoming adaptation of Scottish novel Sunset Song.Producers Bob Last and Ginnie Atkinson are also in final negotiations with Janine Gold and Natalie Brenner's Element X for the project to join that sales company's debut international slate. Visionview, the UK ...
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Universal to deliver Twins
Universal Pictures International has picked up UK, Australian, German, Italian and Scandinavian rights to Hong Kong director Dante Lam's vampire thriller Twins Effect. The film is being handled by Arclight Films. The deal was brokered by Wayne Borg, Peter Smith and Phil Rudge for Universal and managing director Gary Hamilton ...
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Universal to deliver Twins
Universal Pictures International has picked up UK, Australian, German, Italian and Scandinavian rights to Hong Kong director Dante Lam's vampire thriller Twins Effect. The film is being handled by Arclight Films. The deal was brokered by Wayne Borg, Peter Smith and Phil Rudge for Universal and managing director Gary Hamilton ...
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Lion's Gate enjoys Freshman year
Lions Gate Films International has sold all key territories to its new titles The Final Cut starring Robin Williams and The Prince And The Freshman with Julia Stiles, the latter of which will be handled by Paramount Pictures.Co-presidents Nick Meyer and Sergei Yershov said that they had sold futuristic thriller ...
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Lion's Gate enjoys Freshman year
Lions Gate Films International has sold all key territories to its new titles The Final Cut starring Robin Williams and The Prince And The Freshman with Julia Stiles, the latter of which will be handled by Paramount Pictures.Co-presidents Nick Meyer and Sergei Yershov said that they had sold futuristic thriller ...
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Japanese Story sold to US
Fortissimo Film Sales has sold North American rights to Un Certain Regard title Japanese Story to Samuel Goldwyn Films following a packed final market screening. The deal was negotiated on behalf of Fortissimo by Cinetic Media's John Sloss with Goldwyn's Meyer Gottlieb in Los Angeles and Tom Quinn and Peter ...
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Mumbai meets Macbeth
South African powerhouse Distant Horizon has picked up world sales rights to Fair Is Foul, an Indian version of Shakespearean classic Macbeth.The film, which is targeting a launch at the Toronto festival, is directed by Vishal Bharadwaj and stars Irfan Khan (star of The Warrior), screen goddess Tabu (pictured) and ...
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Mumbai meets Macbeth
South African powerhouse Distant Horizon has picked up world sales rights to Fair Is Foul, an Indian version of Shakespearean classic Macbeth.The film, which is targeting a launch at the Toronto festival, is directed by Vishal Bharadwaj and stars Irfan Khan (star of The Warrior), screen goddess Tabu (pictured) and ...
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Five world premieres at SF Lesbian & Gay Film Fest
Jennifer Kroot's Orwellian tale Sirens Of The 23rd Century and Jeffrey Schwarz's documentary People Like Us: Making Philadelphia, are among five world premieres at the upcoming 27th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. With notable emphasis on queer youth and AIDS, the festival will screen 77 films ...
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Haut Et Court adds Cantet-connected pair
Haut Et Court, the French production company behind competition film Tiresia and anticipated Un Certain Regard picture Who Killed Bambi, has cast Swimming Pool-star Charlotte Rampling in the new psychological drama by hot shot Laurent Cantet. The film, Heading South (Vers Le Sud) is an adaptation of the novel of ...
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Overseas plunges into Dungeons again
Overseas Filmgroup has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Dungeons And Dragons: The Sequel to be produced by Zinc Entertainment, a division of Joel Silver's Silver Pictures, and Marching Band Productions in association with Sweetpea Entertainment. Warner Home Video is handling video rights in the US and certain territories. Marching Band ...
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Samy Boy Entertainment appoints Kevin Riley as CFO
Former New Regency director of operations Kevin Riley has joined Los Angeles-based financing and production company Samy Boy Entertainment as chief financial officer.In his new role, Riley will oversee daily operations of the company's film division and supervise the development and production departments.Prior to joining the company, Riley held senior ...
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Argentina appoints envoys
Argentina's Film Institute INCAA has appointed four international representatives to act as "antenna" for the nation's cinema. They include journalist Carlos Hugo Aztarain in Spain, Mar del Plata director Miguel Pereira in the UK, film professor Pablo Perel in Israel and producer Matias Doorn in the US. Two more representatives ...
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Bavaria busy with award winners
Bavaria Film International has closed remaining territories on foreign-language Oscar-winner Nowhere In Africa selling to Korea's With Cinema, Finland's Kamras and Portugal's Ecofilmes. Final deals were done on last year's Cannes prize-winner The Man Without A Past, selling Korean rights, also to With Cinema. Korean drama Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...Spring ...
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Chen Kaige named guest director at IFP LA film festival
Chen Kaige, the acclaimed Chinese director of Together and Farewell My Concubine, will be guest director at the 2003 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, executive director Dawn Hudson has announced. The 9th annual event runs from Jun 11-21.Kaige's duties will see him host a two-day film-maker retreat, programme a sidebar ...
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Doug Chiang prepares his Robota
Top visual effects supplier Doug Chiang is putting together Robota, a robot-action adventure which will mix live action and 3D animation. Already backed by French animation house Sparx, Chaing wants to structure the $50m picture as a Euro-US co-venture and is seeking studio-level finance or co-production. Sparx co-chiefs Jean-Christophe Bernard ...
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Elephant stomps up sales
HBO Films London has done a pile of deals for its two festival films Elephant and American Splendor. Tokyo Theatres bought Elephant for Japan, Bim took it for Italy, Frenetic for Switzerland, Vertigo for Spain, Cineart for Benelux, Atalanta for Portugal, Noah for Israel and Audiovisual for Greece. Sundance winner ...