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Aishwarya Rai to star in period epic The Rising
Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai - who paraded here yesterday alongside her fellow Cannes jury members - is to star in Capitol Films' The Rising, a period epic set against the 1857 Indian mutiny that fuses western and Indian filmmaking styles.The story of the friendship between an Indian soldier and British ...
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Aishwarya Rai to star in period epic The Rising
Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai - who paraded here yesterday alongside her fellow Cannes jury members - is to star in Capitol Films' The Rising, a period epic set against the 1857 Indian mutiny that fuses western and Indian filmmaking styles.The story of the friendship between an Indian soldier and British ...
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Distant Horizon buys remake rights to two Asian pictures
South African studio group Distant Horizon has picked up remake rights to two Asian pictures, adding to its stable of international properties in development.From Hong Kong's China Star Entertainment it has picked up rights to My Father Is A Hero, a political-action picture directed in 1995 by Corey Yuen and ...
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Distant Horizon buys remake rights to two Asian pictures
South African studio group Distant Horizon has picked up remake rights to two Asian pictures, adding to its stable of international properties in development.From Hong Kong's China Star Entertainment it has picked up rights to My Father Is A Hero, a political-action picture directed in 1995 by Corey Yuen and ...
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Biblical passion on the rise
While Mel Gibson's Passion is in the cutting room, another biblical movie has just finished shooting in Toronto.Directed by Philip Saville, Word By Word from the Gospel of St John is a $20m picture produced by LA-and Toronto-based Cidif Communications, a subsidiary of Silvio Sardi's Milanese production outfit Cidif Entertainment ...
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Publicity stunt boosts box office
A publicity stunt has reaped solid box office results for Spanish/Mexican co production Asesino En Serio in Mexico. In a bid to replicate the controversy-driven box office success of El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, Altavista organised a street protest against the dark comedy at its premiere. Only when the local ...
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Brideshead Revisited to be revisited
Warner Bros has finalised a deal to develop and produce Ecosse Films' feature adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, the celebrated Evelyn Waugh novel which the hit TV series turned into the quintessential British heritage production.Writer Andrew Davies said he has a "darker", "more heterosexual" take on Waugh's novel than Granada's series, ...
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Buyers on the road to Von Trier's Manderlay
Israel's Shani Films, Switzerland's Monopole Pathe and Taiwan's Crown Films have been the first to sign on for Manderlay, Lars von Trier's next project as director after Cannes competition contender Dogville. It will most likely also star Nicole Kidman. Manderlay is the second instalment in the Danish maverick's new trilogy ...
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Buyers on the road to Von Trier's Manderlay
Israel's Shani Films, Switzerland's Monopole Pathe and Taiwan's Crown Films have been the first to sign on for Manderlay, Lars von Trier's next project as director after Cannes competition contender Dogville. It will most likely also star Nicole Kidman. Manderlay is the second instalment in the Danish maverick's new trilogy ...
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Cannes' 'Europe Day' flies diversity flag
Cannes jury chief Patrice Chereau, Luc Besson and Wim Wenders are among the European talents who today join Gilles Jacob, EU culture commissioner Viviane Reding and a dozen ministers of culture to celebrate Cannes' first "Europe Day".The event kicks off with a ministerial meeting focused on the changing shape of ...
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Cannes' 'Europe Day' flies diversity flag
Cannes jury chief Patrice Chereau, Luc Besson and Wim Wenders are among the European talents who today join Gilles Jacob, EU culture commissioner Viviane Reding and a dozen ministers of culture to celebrate Cannes' first "Europe Day".The event kicks off with a ministerial meeting focused on the changing shape of ...
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Goodman, Hoskins to croon with Spacey
John Goodman and Bob Hoskins are in final talks to join the cast of Kevin Spacey's Beyond The Sea being sold in Cannes by MDP Worldwide. Spacey is directing the film, a biopic of legendary crooner Bobby Darin, and also playing Darin, with Kate Bosworth starring as his wife actress ...
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Idle spoofs Merchant Ivory with Remains Of The Piano
The prolific Stratus Film Co is to fully finance Remains Of The Piano, a spoof of Merchant Ivory costume dramas which has been written and will be directed by Eric Idle, his first film as director since The Ruttles in 1978. Capitol Films is selling the film in Cannes, with ...
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Idle spoofs Merchant Ivory with Remains Of The Piano
The prolific Stratus Film Co is to fully finance Remains Of The Piano, a spoof of Merchant Ivory costume dramas which has been written and will be directed by Eric Idle, his first film as director since The Ruttles in 1978. Capitol Films is selling the film in Cannes, with ...
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Once Upon A Time In The Midlands to open Newport
The East Coast premiere of Shane Meadows' drama Once Upon A Time In The Midlands will open the sixth annual Newport International Film Festival (NIFF), which runs from Jun 10-15.The line-up includes more than 60 American and international films, including Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's Sundance Grand Jury Prize ...
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Roeg, Shivas return to witchcraft
UK auteur Nicolas Roeg and producer Mark Shivas are to return to the sorcery and children brew of their 1990 Roald Dahl adaptation, The Witches.Shivas is in Cannes this week to meet with potential partners for Rock Concert, a tentatively titled contemporary take on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in ...
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Optimum bags Comandante, Animal Factory for UK
UK distributor Optimum Releasing has acquired four films including Steve Buscemi's gritty prison drama Animal Factory, starring Edward Furlong and Willem Dafoe, and Oliver Stone's Fidel Castro documentary Comandante.The distributor also picked up Brazil's Man Of The Year and Chinese festival favourite Blind Shaft from Grupo Novo de Cinema and ...
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Poirier, Rashid boost Alliance Atlantis slate
Alliance Atlantis has acquired international rights to two new films - That Touch Of Pink, which is the feature directorial debut of Ian Iqbal Rashid, and Chemins de Traverse which is the latest from acclaimed French director Manuel Poirier (Western).Both films were picked up by Charlotte Mickie, Alliance Atlantis' international ...
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Poirier, Rashid boost Alliance Atlantis slate
Alliance Atlantis has acquired international rights to two new films - That Touch Of Pink, which is the feature directorial debut of Ian Iqbal Rashid, and Chemins de Traverse which is the latest from acclaimed French director Manuel Poirier (Western).Both films were picked up by Charlotte Mickie, Alliance Atlantis' international ...
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Menemsha flies to Argentinian Moon
Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment has boarded Avellaneda's Moon, the next film from Son Of The Bride team of Juan Jose Campanella and star Ricardo Darin. Menemsha is pre-selling the Argentinian film in Cannes, the first time that it has done so, based on the film-maker's pedigree.Son Of The Bride has ...