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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 ...
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Rai, Europa sign two-way pact
Luc Besson's French powerhouse EuropaCorp has sealed a major reciprocal co-production and distribution deal with Italy's Rai Cinema.The deal, valued at around Euros 7m-10m, involves six Europa pictures produced between 2003 and 2005: These are Cannes opener Fanfan La Tulipe, Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Bon Voyage, comic book adaptation Michel Vaillant, Bernie ...
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Rai, Europa sign two-way pact
Luc Besson's French powerhouse EuropaCorp has sealed a major reciprocal co-production and distribution deal with Italy's Rai Cinema.The deal, valued at around Euros 7m-10m, involves six Europa pictures produced between 2003 and 2005: These are Cannes opener Fanfan La Tulipe, Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Bon Voyage, comic book adaptation Michel Vaillant, Bernie ...
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Focus extends Mira Nair ties
Focus Features is in final talks to close a one-year, first-look deal with Mira Nair's production outfit Mirabai Films encompassing films she will both direct and produce. The agreement comes as Focus starts selling Nair's Vanity Fair in Cannes; yesterday a deal was closed for Australia with Icon Entertainment.Focus has ...
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Focus extends Mira Nair ties
Focus Features is in final talks to close a one-year, first-look deal with Mira Nair's production outfit Mirabai Films encompassing films she will both direct and produce. The agreement comes as Focus starts selling Nair's Vanity Fair in Cannes; yesterday a deal was closed for Australia with Icon Entertainment.Focus has ...
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Spanish producer eyes gross-out teen market
Spanish producer Morena Films has opened feature film production label 'Happy Hour Films' dedicated to raucous teen flicks as part of a brimming slate of new projects for 2003-2004.Happy Hour Films is an intentionally low-brow label conceived as the Spanish equivalent for Hollywood fare like American Pie. "There's no we ...
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Spanish producer eyes gross-out teen market
Spanish producer Morena Films has opened feature film production label 'Happy Hour Films' dedicated to raucous teen flicks as part of a brimming slate of new projects for 2003-2004.Happy Hour Films is an intentionally low-brow label conceived as the Spanish equivalent for Hollywood fare like American Pie. 'There's no we ...
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Regis Wargnier finds his missing link
Kristin Scott-Thomas will star in an epic 19th century adventure about the origin of the human species to be directed by Regis Wargnier, the French filmmaker perhaps best known for Indochine and East-West. The film is one of two big-star vehicles being prepared by French sales house Wild Bunch.The Euros ...
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Regis Wargnier finds his missing link
Kristin Scott-Thomas will star in an epic 19th century adventure about the origin of the human species to be directed by Regis Wargnier, the French filmmaker perhaps best known for Indochine and East-West. The film is one of two big-star vehicles being prepared by French sales house Wild Bunch.The Euros ...
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Sophie Marceau flies on Indo-Italian ticket
India has signed a new agreement with Italy that will see the two countries co-produce three major pictures this year, including a new movie with Sophie Marceau.Named Lezioni di Volo (Flying Lessons), the film is due to start shooting this autumn in Italy and India with Sophie Marceau in the ...
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Sophie Marceau flies on Indo-Italian ticket
India has signed a new agreement with Italy that will see the two countries co-produce three major pictures this year, including a new movie with Sophie Marceau.Named Lezioni di Volo (Flying Lessons), the film is due to start shooting this autumn in Italy and India with Sophie Marceau in the ...
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Franchise Pictures targets the UK
Franchise Pictures is going to London. Elie Samaha's LA-based production and financing outfit is launching a UK distribution outfit, hiring London-based production executives and teaming with tax and finance specialist Invicta Capital for co-production and tax finance structuring on the new venture.Samaha and partner David Bergstein are ten days away ...
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Franchise Pictures targets the UK
Franchise Pictures is going to London. Elie Samaha's LA-based production and financing outfit is launching a UK distribution outfit, hiring London-based production executives and teaming with tax and finance specialist Invicta Capital for co-production and tax finance structuring on the new venture.Samaha and partner David Bergstein are ten days away ...
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Solo grabs MDP pair for Germany
Solo Film has bought German rights to two films from MDP Worldwide - 11:14 starring Hilary Swank and The United States Of Leland produced by and starring Kevin Spacey. The deals were negotiated by Mark Damon of MDP with Peter Heinzemann and Marcus Shofer of Solo Film.Cannes is the third ...
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Myriad sells out on Jeepers Creepers 2
Myriad Pictures has sold out major territories on Jeepers Creepers 2, the sequel to the United Artists (UA)/American Zoetrope box office hit which was financed by Myriad and UA, which is planning to release the film in August and has also acquired four further territories - Japan, Italy, France and ...
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Hunter S Thompson doc gets world premiere at CineVegas
The CineVegas International Film Festival in Las Vegas (June 13 to 21) will host the world premiere of Breakfast With Hunter, a feature length documentary starring the outlaw journalist Dr Hunter S Thompson. Directing by Wayne Ewing, the documentary chronicles Thompson's attempt to avoid being placed in the system by ...
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Corman earmarks $10m for Irish co-prods
Roger Corman of Concorde Films has teamed with Kieran Corrigan of Ireland's Merlin Films to launch a $10m drive into financing low-to-medium budget productions primarily from Europe, the partners announced on Thursday.The duo have secured a $10m line of credit targeted at European co-productions with an element of principal photography ...
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CTFDI's Anger Management raises international total to $14.8m
Anger Management grossed $2.8m-$2.9m over the weekend as a series ofexcellent second week holds raised the comedy's international running total to$14.8m.In its second week inGermany the film, which is being released by Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI), remained number one and dropped a mere 8% on $2m for a$4.9m cumulative ...
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Matrix Reloaded takes $31.9m in first international releases
Opening in 13 territories over the weekend The MatrixReloaded dominated the charts with an impressive $31.9m internationalbow.on 2,629 screens In a string of number one openings, the sci-fi sequel took$12m in France (Euros 10.3m) from 894 screens in what was the sixth biggest USopening weekend ever.Figures represent three-day grosses and ...
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Optimum/Rialto buy first joint acquisition
The UK's Optimum Releasing and Australian/New Zealand distributor Rialto have bought HBO Films' Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner American Splendor as the first title in a joint buying relationship.Optimum has taken UK rights to the docu-drama, while Rialto has all rights in Australia and New Zealand. Optimum managing director Will Clarke, ...