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Summit dons Maybury's Jacket
Summit Entertainment has added The Jacket, a new film from Mandalay Pictures to its sales slate. Mark Wahlberg is attached to star in the lead role of the drama which is the first US film from the UK's John Maybury (Love Is The Devil).A co-production between Mandalay and Section Eight, ...
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Summit dons Maybury's Jacket
Summit Entertainment has added The Jacket, a new film from Mandalay Pictures to its sales slate. Mark Wahlberg is attached to star in the lead role of the drama which is the first US film from the UK's John Maybury (Love Is The Devil).A co-production between Mandalay and Section Eight, ...
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Paramount to remake Italian drama Three Wives
Paramount Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire English-language remake rights to Italian drama Three Wives (Tre Mogli). The film, originally directed by Marco Risi in 2001, starts with three women from different social classes whose husbands disappear on New Year's Eve after a bank robbery. The story is a ...
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Paramount to remake Italian drama Three Wives
Paramount Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire English-language remake rights to Italian drama Three Wives (Tre Mogli). The film, originally directed by Marco Risi in 2001, starts with three women from different social classes whose husbands disappear on New Year's Eve after a bank robbery. The story is a ...
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Miramax goes Dutch with Twin Sisters
Miramax Films has acquired North American distribution rights from High Point Films to the Dutch local blockbuster Twin Sisters (De Tweeling) directed by Ben Sombogaart. Based on the best-selling novel by Tessa de Loo, the film's set in 1920s Europe and follows two sisters torn apart after their parents die ...
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Miramax goes Dutch with Twin Sisters
Miramax Films has acquired North American distribution rights from High Point Films to the Dutch local blockbuster Twin Sisters (De Tweeling) directed by Ben Sombogaart. Based on the best-selling novel by Tessa de Loo, the film's set in 1920s Europe and follows two sisters torn apart after their parents die ...
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Nicole Kidman graces von Trier with two more
After some prompting from Lars von Trier, Nicole Kidman confirmed yesterday in Cannes that she will star in his next two films, reprising the role of Grace, the heroine of competition entry Dogville. Von Trier revealed also that the third film in his U.S.A. trilogy - all of which will ...
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Nicole Kidman graces von Trier with two more
After some prompting from Lars von Trier, Nicole Kidman confirmed yesterday in Cannes that she will star in his next two films, reprising the role of Grace, the heroine of competition entry Dogville. Von Trier revealed also that the third film in his U.S.A. trilogy - all of which will ...
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Walden Media journeys to Verne, Shakespeare
Cary Granat's Walden Media, the backer of James Cameron's out-of-competition Cannes screener Ghosts Of The Abyss, is to produce a big-budget 3-D movie of Jules Verne's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth as well as a new family film of Shakespeare's As You Like It.Walden will next go into ...
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Walden Media journeys to Verne, Shakespeare
Cary Granat's Walden Media, the backer of James Cameron's out-of-competition Cannes screener Ghosts Of The Abyss, is to produce a big-budget 3-D movie of Jules Verne's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth as well as a new family film of Shakespeare's As You Like It.Walden will next go into ...
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Johnny English passes $100m in international ticket sales
Universal/Working Title's smash spy spoof Johnny English passed $100m at the international box office over the weekend.The comedy grossed $3.3m at 2,276 venues in 24 countries for a $102.7m running total after 39 days on release.British comic Rowan Atkinson stars as the bungling junior intelligence officer forced by circumstances to ...
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X2 hits $150m at international box office
Fox International's sci-fi sequel X2: X-Men United reached $150m in international ticket sales over the weekend.The comic book adaptation grossed $18.5m in its third weekend on release and was the second biggest international film of the weekend behind Warner Bros' The Matrix Reloaded.X2 fared best in those territories where The ...
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Party Monster to open 21st Outfest
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's paean to 1980s excess Party Monster will open Outfest 2003, the Los Angeles-based lesbian and gay film festival that celebrates its 21st anniversary this year.The event, which runs from Jul 10-21 and is lining up 188 films from 26 countries, will close with Emile Gaudreault's ...
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Samuel Goldwyn takes US on Anything But Love
Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up US distribution rights to Anything But Love (formerly Standard Time), a throwback to the 1950s Technicolor musicals that is set for theatrical release this autumn.The film was co-written by director Robert Cary and Isabel Rose, who stars plays an aspiring nightclub singer who becomes ...
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Eddie Saeta boards Argentine Chong
Barcelona-based company Eddie Saeta, producer of Marc Recha's Un Certain Regard entry Where Is Madame Catherine' (Les Mains Buides), has boarded Argentine co-production Chong for director Lucho Bender.The father-son reconciliation tale set in Patagonia will shoot in late 2003 or early 2004. Bender's prior credit is 2000 Gaston Pauls-starrer Merry ...
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Australia calls for cultural exception
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) is calling for recognition of the special status of Australia's film and media industries in trade agreements between Australia and the US. The AFC held a briefing in Cannes yesterday (Monday) to coincide with the start of negotiations in Hawaii for a Free Trade Agreement ...
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Bohemian takes delivery of Life
Bohemian Films, the production, financing and distribution company formed last Cannes by Fran and Kaz Kuzui and Fortissimo principals Wouter Barendrecht and Michael J Werner, has taken delivery of its first film, Last Life In The Universe (pictured). It is expected to appear at a number of autumn festivals. The ...
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Cannes to host piracy summit next year
Next year's Cannes festival will be host to a conference on anti-piracy issues it was announced after a meeting between MPA chief Jack Valenti and France's minister of culture Jean-Jacques Aillagon. 'We urge the creative community and cinema professionals of France, the US and all countries to join together in ...
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Oz caper picked up by Myriad's radar
Myriad Pictures has acquired worldwide rights excluding Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea to Australian comedy caper Under The Radar directed by Evan Clarry and produced by Chris Brown and Chris Fitchett of Picture In Paradise Productions.The film stars Nathan Phillips, Steady Eddy, Clayton Watson and Chloe Maxwell as a ...
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Egoli Tossell dives into cash pool
Egoli Tossell, one of the leading German indie producers, has won itself a pool of fresh cash to boost its development slate. The company, which was involved in last year's Cannes competition title The Russian Ark and Nana Djordjadze's 2000 Directors Fortnight film 27 Missing Kisses, was granted a $1.5m ...