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Wild Bunch set to cut loose
Wild Bunch, one of the leading sellers of festival films at Cannes this year, is expected to loosen its ties with parent company StudioCanal.StudioCanal insiders say that StudioCanal' s French head Brahim Chioua will step aside, taking Vincent Maraval, and Wild Bunch, with him. Financial details of the separation have ...
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Golden Harvest reaps Cannes delicacies
Golden Harvest, the powerhouse Hong Kong-based distributor has picked up a collection of the most in-demand indie titles on the Croisette.Quentin Tarantino's martial arts action film Kill Bill has been picked up for Hong Kong and Malaysia from Miramax International. Uma Thurmann, Lucy Liu and Darryl, Hannah star in the ...
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Pardue, Carlyle tempted by Pandora
Kip Pardue and Robert Carlyle are in negotiations to star and William Malone (House On Haunted Hill) to direct psychological thriller Tempting Pandora being sold - appropriately - by Pandora. Meanwhile Pandora's sales head Sebnem Askin has closed a range of deals for the film including to M6/SND in France, ...
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Hopscotch jumps on Columbine
Hopscotch, the Australian distributor launched this month by ex-Dendy Films chief Troy Lum and releasing veteran Frank Cox, has made its first acquisition, picking up Bowling For Columbine.The company bought all rights for Australia and New Zealand to the Michael Moore Competition documentary from Alliance Atlantis. Lum, whose Dendy acquisitions ...
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Fragile deal struck with Miramax
Miramax Films and the UK' s Fragile Films have struck a two-and-half year first look deal.Miramax will get first option on English-speaking markets for film and TV projects developed and produced by Barnaby Thompson and Uri Fruchtmann, heads of Fragile and co-owners of Ealing Studios. Fragile previously had a longterm ...
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Icon falls for Trust's Hearts and Wilbur
Icon has picked up UK and Australian rights to two of Trust Film Sales' hottest new Zentropa titles, Susanne Bier's Dogme-drama Open Hearts and Lone Scherfig's English-language romance Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself.Arsenal Filmverleigh and Shani Films have also taken German and Israeli rights to Open Hearts, which has already ...
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FilmFour's Motorcycle travels far and wide
Testifying to the ability of stand-out market titles to find international pre-buys despite the financial woes of European buyers, FilmFour International has closed a raft of deals on its hot Che Guevara picture The Motorcycle Diaries.The story of the revolutionary's travels as a young man, for which Walter Salles is ...
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MacCabe laments his old place
Among the more interesting films of the Cannes festival this year is a film essay by Anne-Marie Mieville and Jean Luc Godard called The Old Place. By all accounts it is a beautiful and intriguing meditation on the relations between painting and film. But for one of the executive producers, ...
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France's CineTem busy acquiring for new film channels
CineTem, the six film channels being launched by French group AB, will be up and running on Canal Plus' digital platform CanalSatellite and some cable networks from September 7.Laurent Zameczkowski, who heads the group of channels, has been busy buying library titles for over a year, signing up package deals ...
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Icelandic Film Corporation heats up buying activity
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Icelandic Film Corporation (IFC) has stepped up its buying/distribution ambitions, picking titles like 24 Hour Party People and Once Upon A Time In The Midlands even before their screening in Cannes.Distribution now accounts for 30% of IFC's activities, and the company has hired Isleifur Thorhallsson as new ...
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AFI Fest to showcase German cinema
AFI Fest, the 11-day Los Angeles international film festival which takes place in November, has teamed with Export-Union of German Cinema to present a section of contemporary German cinema within the 2002 festival (Nov 7-17).The Made In Germany section will be a combined marketing and programming effort between AFI and ...
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First Look gets No News for North America
First Look Pictures has acquired North American rights to Agustin Diaz Yunes' No News From God, the Spanish comedy starring Penelope Cruz, Victoria Abril, Gael Garcia Bernal and Fanny Ardant. It will open theatrically in autumn, and on video and DVD in the winter.In the film, Abril plays an angel ...
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Anthony Hopkins to take on the Pope
Anthony Hopkins is finalising a deal to play Pope Pius IX opposite Oscar-nominated Spanish star Javier Bardem in FilmFour's $20 million Edgardo Mortara.Miramax Films and Germany's Senator Film are co-financing the true story of how the Vatican divided Catholics, Protestants, and Jews around the world by kidnapping a Jewish boy ...
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Franchise partners with ApolloMedia for big budget sales
Elie Samaha's Franchise Pictures has partnered with Frank Huebner's German private film fund ApolloMedia to represent sales of five completed films including Alan Rudolph's Investigating Sex, Bruce Beresford's Bride Of The Wind and Christine Lahti's My First Mister.Franchise and Apollo are also partnered on big-budget production A Sound Of Thunder ...
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Italy's Bim picks up nine Cannes titles - so far
Italian distributor Bim Distribuzione bought three more official selection films yesterday, bringing its total haul to nine so far this market.Bim picked up Aki Kaurismaki's competition title The Man Without A Past from Bavaria Film, Nicolas Philibert's Un Certain Regard title Etre Et Avoir from Mercure and Director's Fortnight title ...
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SF Bio to help promote short films in Sweden
Swedish major SF Bio will be giving new filmmaking talent a chance to have their short films screened in cinemas across the country from this autumn. "We want to point attention to these great films, which might not be seen otherwise," says Sture Johansson, SF-Bio. "The audience won't have ...
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Thura Film has Itch and Blues
Copenhagen-based Thura Film, which has offices in London and LA, is lining up a slate of new projects following their action-comedy Old Men In New Cars, which is getting good feedback in the market.Thura's London-based Ornette Spenceley has picked up Cecilia McAllister's 20 Year Itch, a comedy drama about a ...
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Swaraj: Bollywood ready to go global
"There is more to Indian creative talent than snake charmers and monkeys, "said Sushma Swaraj, India's minister of information and broadcasting.on the eve of the screening of Devdas, the first "Bollywood" film to obtain a slot in Cannes Official Selection.The minister heads a 100-strong delegation to Cannes, which she claims ...
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Vortex re-teams with Cage's Saturn on Chain
Vortex Pictures is to re-team with Nicolas Cage's Saturn Films on Cage's next production Chain which is written and to be directed by John Rice. Chain is a gritty revenge tale about a modern day cowboy who rides a Harley Davidson and Rice and Cage are looking to have it ...
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Carlyle says hello to Saying Goodbye To Mr. Welcome
Robert Carlyle, star of the hotly pursued Directors Fortnight title Once Upon A Time In The Midlands, has boarded psychological thriller Saying Goodbye To Mr. Welcome, which Gillian Barrie of Sigma Films will co-produce with Denmark's Zentropa.Scottish actor-turned director Kenny Glenaan (Gas Attack) will direct the Brendan Somers' script about ...