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Saidel's sales house gets name change
Max Saidel's recently formed sales house has changed its name from Slav International to Vision International. The company, which comes to Cannes with a bulging slate of international art-house and smaller commercial titles, is celebrating the success of Toutes Les Filles Sont Folles, which is the first film to be ...
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Hsu's latest joins 'Changing China' series
Taiwan's Arc Light Films has set Hsu Hsiao-Ming's Love Of May as the next film in the 'Changing China' series that it is co-producing with France's Pyramide group. A romantic drama about the relationship between a girl from the Chinese mainland and a Taiwanese boy, the film will star Chen ...
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Zentropa, Nimbus continue Nordisk romance
The prolific Danish production outfits Zentropa and Nimbus Film have extended their output deal with exhibition-distribution major Nordisk Film for another two years. The deal includes a number of new films from directors such as Annette K. Olesen, Per Fly, Susanne Bier, Soren Kragh Jacobsen, Natasha Arthy, Aage Rais Nordentoft, ...
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Modigliani finds his muses
Bauer Martinez Studios has assembled an international cast to join Andy Garcia in Modigliani, a $12m picture about the last days in the life of the famous artist that is scheduled to start shooting in Bucharest on May 25.Elsa Zylberstein will play Jeanne Hebuterne, Omid Djalili will play Picasso, Eva ...
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Weg India on US shopping spree
Indian sales and distribution company Weg India is becoming an aggressive buyer of US product snapping up Indian rights to five pictures during this market so far. Among the pictures acquired by Weg are three from Franchise Pictures - The In-Laws, starring Michael Douglas, The Whole Ten Yards with Bruce ...
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Rainstorm, Uncharted Territory team for Juggernaut
Steven Kaplan, Gregg Daniel and Richard Katz's fledgling LA-based production company Rainstorm Entertainment is teaming up with Volker Engel and Marc Weigert's Uncharted Territory on the second world war drama Juggernaut.The film concerns the fate of two brothers and is set in the North African desert as the Allies battle ...
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Tube speeds to Shochiku
A major Japanese deal for its top action title has crowned the return to market of Korea's Tube Entertainment. Tube Entertainment has had a convoluted corporate history and returned to Cannes this year as a seller for the first time since regaining its independence from an on-off takeover by CJ ...
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Wong's 2046 still in Venice contention
Despite having to shift his final shooting location - either to Macao or Australia - because of SARS fears in Shanghai, Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 is still on course for a October 1 platform release in China, confirmed Fortissimo Film Sales yesterday The prospect of completion raises the possibility that Wong's ...
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Refn continues dark American vein with St John
After the successful collaboration with cult favourite author Hubert Selby Jr. on Fear X, Danish writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn is now turning to another scribe specialising in the seamier side of the American underbelly: Abel Ferrara's longtime screenwriting collaborator, Nicholas St. John.Billy's People follows a idealistic and ambitious female undercover ...
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Disney buys French animation Renaissance
Emerging French production house Onyx Films has scored a notable coup with the sale of its first animated project Renaissance to Buena Vista for US distribution.The deal was brokered by leading independent producer Jake Eberts. Theatrical and video release in France is to be handled by Pathe Distribution, with which ...
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Flach Pyramide on a roll with Arcand's Invasions
Denys Arcand's competition film The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares) has opened strongly in its native Quebec, notching C$1m in its first six days of release on a 120 print release handled by Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm, and giving a further boost to sales agent Flach Pyramide International (FPI).Indeed, Arcand's latest, ...
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Yari funds William Morris indie financing arm
Real estate tycoon Bob Yari has teamed with WMA Independent, the independent finance and packaging arm of The William Morris Agency, to form El Camino Pictures, a dedicated film financing fund for WMA packages which will be run by WMA Independent co-chiefs Cassian Elwes and Rena Ronson.The first film under ...
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United Artists strikes Korean pact
Korean mini-major Mirovision has taken an important step towards expansion of its distribution division thanks to an output deal sealed with United Artists. The unusual deal is expected to see four to five pictures per year handled by Mirovision and start with Nicholas Nickleby, Assassination Tango, Pictures Of April and ...
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Fortissimo strikes financing deal with Bank of Scotland
Fortissimo Film Sales has struck a new relationship with the film finance arm of Royal Bank Of Scotland (RBOS), allowing it to expand at a time when the sales market is getting tighter.The new facility is described as a "multi-faceted financial structure," which could evolve into a fully-fledged revolving credit ...
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Fortissimo strikes financing deal with Bank of Scotland
Fortissimo Film Sales has struck a new relationship with the film finance arm of Royal Bank Of Scotland (RBOS), allowing it to expand at a time when the sales market is getting tighter.The new facility is described as a 'multi-faceted financial structure,' which could evolve into a fully-fledged revolving credit ...
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Gold Circle UK plans unveiled
Gold Circle Films, the Los Angeles-based company which scored with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, has become the latest US company to set up shop in the UK.The operation last week unveiled its partnership with ICE Productions, the production company recently launched under Erica Motley, former head of film at ...
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Gold Circle UK plans unveiled
Gold Circle Films, the Los Angeles-based company which scored with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, has become the latest US company to set up shop in the UK.The operation last week unveiled its partnership with ICE Productions, the production company recently launched under Erica Motley, former head of film at ...
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Icon signs with Turturro's comic musical
Icon Entertainment International has boarded Romance & Cigarettes, a darkly comic musical starring Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini and Susan Sarandon, directed by John Turturro and executive produced by the Coen brothers.MGM/UA will release the film - the latest musical offered on the Croisette after Phantom Of The Opera and ...
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Icon signs with Turturro's comic musical
Icon Entertainment International has boarded Romance & Cigarettes, a darkly comic musical starring Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini and Susan Sarandon, directed by John Turturro and executive produced by the Coen brothers.MGM/UA will release the film - the latest musical offered on the Croisette after Phantom Of The Opera and ...
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HBO Films picks up El Deseo title
HBO Films London has made its first pick-up, acquiring international rights to Lucrecia Martel's The Holy Girl from Pedro and Agustin Almodovar's El Deseo. The film is Martel's first film since La Cienega, the 2001 festival hit about two women and their families in a small town in Argentina.The Holy ...