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Schloendorff commits to Ten Minutes Older - The Cello
Oscar and Palme d'Or winner Volker Schloendorff has joined the band of top name directors now committed to making Ten Minutes Older - The Cello. The film is an ensemble piece that follows Un Certain Regard portmanteau Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet. The Cello has now been sold to ...
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Cinemavault closes Fast Runner deals
Cinemavault Releasing has closed 14 territorial deals in Cannes on the award-winning Inuit film The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) including with Alcine Terran in Japan, Mediafilm in Italy and SF Norge in Norway.Other buyers snapping up the epic film directed by Zacharias Kunuk were Ost For Paridis in Denmark, Bergvik in ...
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Zonka takes Le Petit Voleur remake to Crossroads
Crossroads Films, the New York-based film, commercials and video production outfit which has a first-look deal with United Artists (UA), has signed a deal with French film-maker Erick Zonka to direct an English-language remake of his 65-minute 1999 movie Le Petit Voleur.The film was the story of a young working-class ...
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Nick Moran tunes up Telstar directing debut
UK actor Nick Moran hit Cannes this week to announce his directing debut, Telstar, a biopic of underground music legend Joe Meek.The Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels star is to start shooting the picture next month on a budget of just under $2million, provided by an unnamed private backer. ...
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Gaga takes Haynes' Far From Heaven
Japan's Gaga has bagged Todd Haynes' forthcoming Far From Heaven, which stars Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid.The title, which had been strongly tipped as a potential Cannes main competition title, is still in post-production but will be ready for Venice and Toronto .TF1 International, which is handling the USA Films ...
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Shaolin Soccer scores in South Korea
Hong Kong director Stephen Chow's Shaolin Soccer has scored big in South Korea, grossing $1.2m nationwide in its first three days to secure the number two spot at the box-office behind Spider-Man. Distributed jointly by Cinema Service and Film Bank, the film's release was timed to take advantage ...
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First Look gets $8m from Seven Hills
First Look Media has accessed new capital to the tune of $8m from a new deal with Reverge Anselmo's Seven Hills Pictures to further build its domestic distribution operation.Under the deal, which was signed this week, Seven Hills will invest $6.05m in cash in First Look, in addition to $2m ...
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Sex doll horror adds to ContentFilm slate
After just eight months in operation New York's ContentFilm, run by indie stalwarts Ed Pressman and John Schmidt, has announced its fifth fully-financed film to go into production, a sexually-twisted psychological horror called Love Object.Said to combine elements of Demon Seed and Chucky with those of Roman Polanski's early classics, ...
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Granada closes German pre-sale on All American
The UK's Granada Film has closed a significant pre-sale to Germany with Telepool on romantic comedy All American Man.The German company bought all rights to the film, which writer-director Craig Ferguson is to shoot in January. "It's a real coup," said Penny Wolf, head of sales. "We have not heard ...
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Snapper, Two Drivers alliance starts with two Minnie features
Juha Wuolijoki's New York and Helsinki-based Snapper Films has formed an alliance with Minnie Driver's outfit Two Drivers, which the actress runs with her sister Kate Driver and producer Lisa Fielding.Their joint slate includes two new features both budgeted under $10m, the horror-thriller Luci's Prayer based on a script by ...
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Fox Searchlight selects Beckham for North & South America
The Works has confirmed that Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired North and South American rights UK hit Bend It Like Beckham.Fox Searchlight president Peter Rice and The Works chief executive Aline Perry said Fox Searchlight will handle North America and Twentieth Century Fox South America. Fox is understood to have ...
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HBO announces international theatrical sales push
UK distributor Momentum Pictures has picked up UK theatrical, TV and home video rights to HBO Films' My House In Umbria, a drama based on the William Trevor novel starring Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall and Ronnie Barker and directed by Richard Loncraine. The sale, closed by Momentum with HBO's worldwide ...
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Arclight, Spice Factory launch UK slate
Horror adaptation Possession, modern-day Count of Monte Cristo story Lazarus Ash and thriller Perfect People head the slate of $10m - $25m productions in a partnership between Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films, the UK's Spice Factory and best-selling horror novelist Peter James.The announcement follows last month's unveiling of plans for ambitious ...
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Svensk Filmindustrie to set up Danish specialist arm
Nordic major Svensk Filmindustrie's Danish branch SF-Film is to launch a new division in a bid to take a greater share of the booming local market."We will set up a branch focusing exclusively on the marketing and distribution of Danish films," said Michael Fleischer, who has been the managing director ...
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Babelsberg to co-fund and house Myriad's Borgia
Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures, the holding company for Vivendi Deutschland's media activities, has cut a deal with Myriad Pictures to house, co-finance and co-produce Neil Jordan's Borgia and the Ed Pressman production The Tenth Victim. Babelsberg CEO Gabriela Bacher has accessed state guarantees from the state of Brandenberg with which ...
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Bavaria takes over from Christa Saredi
Bavaria Film International has taken over sales duties from World Sales Christa Saredi on a trio of Michael Haneke films and a library that also includes pictures by Hal Hartley, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Assi Dayan and Bakhtiyar Khudojnazarov.The move sees Bavaria complete the take-over of the WSCS catalogue that was ...
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Dougray Scott becomes Hero partner
Actor Dougray Scott has partnered in Hero Films, the UK production company of producer Anne Batz and director Mike Barker, with whom Scott recently helped save the troubled production of To Kill A King.The company's first production will be The Bum's Rush, a $2.8 million black comedy set in the ...
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Golan teams up for Blood Games, Return From India
Avi Lerner and Danny Dimbort of Nu Image are re-teaming with their old friend and Dimbort's old boss Menahem Golan, acquiring worldwide rights to Golan's romantic picture The Return From India featuring Israeli stars Aki Avni, Riki Gal and Assi Dayan.The completed film which Golan co-wrote, produced and directed was ...
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Luque enrolled as head of Film Business School
Former director of creative affairs at Lolafilms UK, Nadine Luque has been appointed new director of the Film Business School, part of the MEDIA Programme-backed pan-European training initiative the Media Business School (MBS).Luque's initial one-year contract with MBS will span two intensive four-day sessions of the Film Business School, a ...
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Capitol duets with Medusa on Callas Forever
Capitol Films has partnered with Medusa Film to handle Franco Zeffirelli's Callas Forever, starring Fanny Ardant as the opera legend.UK-based Capitol is representing the film worldwide excluding Italy, France and Spain. The film, which also stars Jeremy Irons and Joan Plowright, takes a fictionalised looks at Callas' final days.Capitol has ...