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Mother Theresa joins cannibal tale on Blue Spice slate
Anglo-Italian production outfit Blue Spice has closed a $80m deal with Italy's Lux Vide to co-produce five major feature films. It is also lining up a new thriller with Malcolm MacDowell about real-life Russian cannibal, The Monster of Rostov.The Blue Spice-Lux deal will extend over 2 years. The first production ...
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Mother Theresa joins cannibal tale on Blue Spice slate
Anglo-Italian production outfit Blue Spice has closed a $80m deal with Italy's Lux Vide to co-produce five major feature films. It is also lining up a new thriller with Malcolm MacDowell about real-life Russian cannibal, The Monster of Rostov.The Blue Spice-Lux deal will extend over 2 years. The first production ...
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New-look FilmFour boasts tantalizing slate
A best-selling novel generating interest from a host of US companies, a comedy about a rock legend and a thriller about a brutal killing are amongst the avowedly 'catholic' debut slate of the UK's restructured FilmFour under Tessa Ross.Highlights include The Lovely Bones, UK auteur Lynne Ramsay's highly anticipated adaptation ...
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New-look FilmFour boasts tantalizing slate
A best-selling novel generating interest from a host of US companies, a comedy about a rock legend and a thriller about a brutal killing are amongst the avowedly 'catholic' debut slate of the UK's restructured FilmFour under Tessa Ross.Highlights include The Lovely Bones, UK auteur Lynne Ramsay's highly anticipated adaptation ...
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Italy's Mondo strikes cartoon gold in North Korea
One of Europe's top animation houses, Rome-based Mondo TV, has sealed a series of deals worth at least $20m with North Korean outfit Sek - who will now replace South Korean mini-major Hahn Shin Corporation as a co-producer on several major upcoming theatrical animation features.As part of the new relationship, ...
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Italy's Mondo strikes cartoon gold in North Korea
One of Europe's top animation houses, Rome-based Mondo TV, has sealed a series of deals worth at least $20m with North Korean outfit Sek - who will now replace South Korean mini-major Hahn Shin Corporation as a co-producer on several major upcoming theatrical animation features.As part of the new relationship, ...
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Hadidas lord it up in production
The Hadida brothers Samuel and Victor are the latest indie distributors to underline the notion that cash is king. Flush with the proceeds of handling Lord Of The Rings in France through their Metropolitan Filmexport label, they are now stepping up production activities through their other company Davis Films. "This ...
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Hadidas lord it up in production
The Hadida brothers Samuel and Victor are the latest indie distributors to underline the notion that cash is king. Flush with the proceeds of handling Lord Of The Rings in France through their Metropolitan Filmexport label, they are now stepping up production activities through their other company Davis Films. 'This ...
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Alliance Atlantis picks up international to Milwaukee
Alliance Atlantis has acquired international rights to Cannes Critics Week entry Milwaukee, Minnesota which was the closing night film of the Slamdance Film Festival. The film, which stars Troy Garity, Alison Folland, Bruce Dern, Hank Harris, Debra Monk and Randy Quaid, is about a man who can hear fish talking ...
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Blanchett to star as Beatrix Potter for Phoenix
Cate Blanchett has taken the lead role in Phoenix Pictures' Miss Potter, the biopic of Beatrix Potter, which will be directed by Bruce Beresford. Blanchett, who is also attached to star in Alias Grace for Working Title Films, will play the young spinster who became a bestselling author with her ...
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Blanchett to star as Beatrix Potter for Phoenix
Cate Blanchett has taken the lead role in Phoenix Pictures' Miss Potter, the biopic of Beatrix Potter, which will be directed by Bruce Beresford. Blanchett, who is also attached to star in Alias Grace for Working Title Films, will play the young spinster who became a bestselling author with her ...
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Miner tapped by Davis for $15m horror
Steve Miner has been set as the director for Black Sky, the $15m horror movie available here from Chris Davis International. Miner's many credits include Halloween H20, Lake Placid and two Friday The 13th movies. The effects-heavy picture, which starts production in California and Canada in late summer, tells the ...
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MK2 acquires festival duo
MK2, the French mini-major which controls the largest circuit of art-house cinemas in Paris, has added to its distribution slate with the acquisition of Un Certain Regard film Mille Mois by Faouzi Ben Saidi from Fortissimo Film Sales. Release is scheduled for October. On the sales side it also grabbed ...
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ABS traffics again with Luper partners
The Spanish co-producer behind The Tulse Luper Suitcases series, ABS Production-Barcelona, has boarded another project involving several of the same co-production partners: a thriller set against the world of art trafficking and forgeries.ABS is teaming up with Tulse Luper partners Kasander Film Company and Delux Productions on Paul Tickell's The ...
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Australia's development agency and archives to merge
The film industry is generally perplexed by last night's surprise news that the Australian Government has decided to merge the Australian FilmCommission (AFC), which has the principal role of developing Australian films and film-makers, and Screensound, the organisation which collects and preserves the country's audiovisual heritage.Legislation will have to be ...
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Film archivists convene in Sweden
The Swedish Film Institute and the Finnish Film Archive will host this year's congress of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). The event kicks off at Stockholm's Filmhuset on June1 and closes in Helsinki on June7. Attracting delegates from more than 60 countries, speakers will include UCLA film restorer ...
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Ardant, Placido team up
Fanny Ardant and popular Italian actor Michele Placido are to star in a new picture from acclaimed theatre-film director Mario Martone (Nasty Love).Named L'Odore del Sangue (The Smell Of Blood), the picture tells the parallel story of two 50-year-olds who are both in relationships with much younger people. The film ...
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Ardant, Placido team up
Fanny Ardant and popular Italian actor Michele Placido are to star in a new picture from acclaimed theatre-film director Mario Martone (Nasty Love).Named L'Odore del Sangue (The Smell Of Blood), the picture tells the parallel story of two 50-year-olds who are both in relationships with much younger people. The film ...
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Metro Tartan hires Asian buyer
UK distributor Metro Tartan Distribution has appointed Christine Iso as its head of acquisitions with specific responsibility for Asia.Effective immediately, Iso replaces Patrizia Raeli Shibata, who recently co-founded Bright Angel, an Amsterdam-based distribution company covering the Benelux region.Tartan's Hamish McAlpine and Laura De Casto will now primarily deal with all ...
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Cannes claims higher attendance
The Cannes market says that attendance is up 10% and registrations at new record levels.'Although the increase is slight, we are very pleased to see that companies have made the journey to the Cannes Market despite the threat of war, SARS and the transport strikes. We are still expecting further ...