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Spice Factory finds Lost partner in US
US-based Alchemedia Entertainment and the UK's Spice Factory have partnered on supernatural horror movie Lost.The title is the latest Spice Factory project to be pumped through Darclight Films, the genre label of worldwide sales agent Arclight Films. Produced by Billy Dietrich, Jason Piette, Michael Cowan and Maxime Remillard, the picture ...
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Spice Factory finds Lost partner in US
US-based Alchemedia Entertainment and the UK's Spice Factory have partnered on supernatural horror movie Lost.The title is the latest Spice Factory project to be pumped through Darclight Films, the genre label of worldwide sales agent Arclight Films. Produced by Billy Dietrich, Jason Piette, Michael Cowan and Maxime Remillard, the picture ...
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Spice Factory finds Lost partner in US
US-based Alchemedia Entertainment and the UK's Spice Factory have partnered on supernatural horror movie Lost.The title is the latest Spice Factory project to be pumped through Darclight Films, the genre label of worldwide sales agent Arclight Films. Produced by Billy Dietrich, Jason Piette, Michael Cowan and Maxime Remillard, the picture ...
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More foresight than luck for Lucky Red
Italy's Lucky Red is once again proving its foresight thanks to a string of Cannes acquisitions and co-production deals.Headed by Andrea Occhipinti, Lucky Red has boarded Comme Une Image, the new film from bittersweet comedy duo Agnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri It features a number of unlikely characters united by ...
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More foresight than luck for Lucky Red
Italy's Lucky Red is once again proving its foresight thanks to a string of Cannes acquisitions and co-production deals.Headed by Andrea Occhipinti, Lucky Red has boarded Comme Une Image, the new film from bittersweet comedy duo Agnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri It features a number of unlikely characters united by ...
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iDreams sets sights on global markets
iDreams, the film production-distribution house floated by stock broker Sripal Morakhia and responsible for the Indian release of Bend It Like Beckham, is going global. As the company relocates its HQ to London, iDreams now hopes to generate 80% of its revenues from international markets. Sripal Morakhia, chairman of iDreams ...
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iDreams sets sights on global markets
iDreams, the film production-distribution house floated by stock broker Sripal Morakhia and responsible for the Indian release of Bend It Like Beckham, is going global. As the company relocates its HQ to London, iDreams now hopes to generate 80% of its revenues from international markets. Sripal Morakhia, chairman of iDreams ...
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Montage, Korea's Tube go hunting with Van Helsing
Montage Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based company with strong Korean connections has become one of the two indie players to get a piece of Universal Pictures' mega-budget, monster hunter adventure Van Helsing, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale.Tube Entertainment will next year handle the Korean release of the picture, having been ...
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UK's Metrodome is high on Life
UK distributor Metrodome has acquired all rights to Isabel Coixet's Berlin title My Life Without Me and video rights to Kenneth Bowser's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, which played in Cannes' Official Selection.My Life Without Me stars Sarah Polley and Mark Ruffalo in the story of a young woman who determines ...
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Top Spanish talent in LaZona
New Spanish production company LaZona Films, launched in January, has unveiled its first slate of films featuring some of the talent behind the biggest Spanish box office hits of recent years.With Or Without Love is to be written and directed by David Serrano, who scripted Spain's top grossing film last ...
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Top Spanish talent in LaZona
New Spanish production company LaZona Films, launched in January, has unveiled its first slate of films featuring some of the talent behind the biggest Spanish box office hits of recent years.With Or Without Love is to be written and directed by David Serrano, who scripted Spain's top grossing film last ...
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Secretary whips up Metro Tartan's biggest UK opening
Despite six new entries taking up residence in the UK's top 15 chart this week nothing could come close to challenging 20th Century Fox's X2: X-Men United.The blockbuster enjoyed a third weekend at the top, dropping just 31% from the previous weekend to take $3.4m (£2.1m) from 468 sites - ...
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Mia Bays goes Missing In Action
Mia Bays is leaving her post as head of marketing and distribution at UK National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium to launch her own production company, Missing In Action Films.Bays has already assembled a broad slate of commercial and edgier fare, mostly at first draft stage, including horror title Regeneration, ...
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Mia Bays goes Missing In Action
Mia Bays is leaving her post as head of marketing and distribution at UK National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium to launch her own production company, Missing In Action Films.Bays has already assembled a broad slate of commercial and edgier fare, mostly at first draft stage, including horror title Regeneration, ...
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DeAPlaneta, Mikado and Kramer launch Argentine outfit
Spain's DeAPlaneta and Italy's Mikado, both backed by Italian publishing giant DeAgostini, have joined with veteran Argentinean producer Oscar Kramer to form new Argentina-based production company KDM films.With Kramer as president and CEO, KDM aims to make two or three Spanish-language films per year on budgets ranging from Euro 1m-4m. ...
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DeAPlaneta, Mikado and Kramer launch Argentine outfit
Spain's DeAPlaneta and Italy's Mikado, both backed by Italian publishing giant DeAgostini, have joined with veteran Argentinean producer Oscar Kramer to form new Argentina-based production company KDM films.With Kramer as president and CEO, KDM aims to make two or three Spanish-language films per year on budgets ranging from Euro 1m-4m. ...
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Firth stars in Beyond's Dead Wait
Bridget Jones's Diary star Colin Firth is to star in The Dead Wait for Beyond Films.Scheduled to start production early next year on location in South Africa, the project is to be directed by Russian Ark producer Jens Meurer, who directed 1999 Venice Black Panther documentary Public Enemy. The film ...
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Firth stars in Beyond's Dead Wait
Bridget Jones's Diary star Colin Firth is to star in The Dead Wait for Beyond Films.Scheduled to start production early next year on location in South Africa, the project is to be directed by Russian Ark producer Jens Meurer, who directed 1999 Venice Black Panther documentary Public Enemy. The film ...
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Brussels flexes tax muscles
Testament to Cannes's growing role as a film financing arena, some 200 people turned up on Saturday afternoon to a presentation about Belgium's new tax-based film finance system. The scheme, which was greenlit only at the beginning of April and won't see its first productions until late autumn at ...
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Brussels flexes tax muscles
Testament to Cannes's growing role as a film financing arena, some 200 people turned up on Saturday afternoon to a presentation about Belgium's new tax-based film finance system. The scheme, which was greenlit only at the beginning of April and won't see its first productions until late autumn at ...