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Fox looks to steal Jordan's Good Thief
Fox Searchlight Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire US rights to The Good Thief, Neil Jordan's completed contemporary remake of Jean-Pierre Mellville's Bob Le Flambeur which stars Nick Nolte, Tcheky Karyo, Emir Kusturica and Ralph Fiennes. The deal marks the end of a long quest for the film's financier ...
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Kilmer horror helps scare up Helkon slate
Helkon Media's sales, production and distribution arm Helkon International Pictures (HIP) has revealed the first fruits of its new LA operation under former Warner Bros executive Clifford Werber. The company has boarded Anthony Waller's long-gestating $22m horror movie Nine Miles Down with Val Kilmer now attached to star and has ...
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Zentropa launches Industrial revolution
First there was Dogme. Now Danish maverick outfit Zentropa has a launched a new label - this time with even more confining rules. Industrial Films DK will champion ultra-low budget films from new directing talent. In a bid to keep cost right down, one of the requirements of the new ...
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Zentropa launches Industrial revolution
First there was Dogme. Now Danish maverick outfit Zentropa has a launched a new label - this time with even more confining rules. Industrial Films DK will champion ultra-low budget films from new directing talent. In a bid to keep cost right down, one of the requirements of the new ...
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Intermedia, Metropolitan team on Tristan & Iseult
Intermedia is teaming up with Samuel and Victor Hadida of French independent Metropolitan Filmexport to finance and sell their new production Tristan & Iseult, a retelling of the classic story to which Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) is attached to direct. The film is being produced by Samuel Hadida through his production ...
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Intermedia, Metropolitan team on Tristan & Iseult
Intermedia is teaming up with Samuel and Victor Hadida of French independent Metropolitan Filmexport to finance and sell their new production Tristan & Iseult, a retelling of the classic story to which Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) is attached to direct. The film is being produced by Samuel Hadida through his production ...
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Michael Jackson to produce and star in werewolf movie
In the first movie being made under his Neverland Pictures banner, Michael Jackson will play a werewolf in a project he will also produce called Wolfed. Rick Baker, Oscar-winning makeup expert who created the werewolf effects for An American Werewolf In London and Thriller, is already on boardNeverland's financing and ...
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Michael Jackson to produce and star in werewolf movie
In the first movie being made under his Neverland Pictures banner, Michael Jackson will play a werewolf in a project he will also produce called Wolfed. Rick Baker, Oscar-winning makeup expert who created the werewolf effects for An American Werewolf In London and Thriller, is already on boardNeverland's financing and ...
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Attack Of The Clones enjoys $116.3m US four-day opening
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones unleashed The Force over the weekend, zapping the competition and storming to the top of the charts with an estimated four-day gross of $116.3m. George Lucas's fifth Star Wars instalment becomes the second fastest picture to pass $100m behind Columbia's Spider-Man ...
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Tartan, Fortissimo go for Sixteen Years Of Alcohol
The UK's Metro Tartan and international sales outfit Fortissimo Film Sales have partnered on Sixteen Years Of Alcohol, the directing debut of UK TV presenter turned producer Richard Jobson. The autobiographical story, based on Jobson's own book, is to shoot in Scotland next month with a cast including Kevin McKidd, ...
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BBC's Plath project brought into Focus
In its first US acquisition since forming last month, Focus has boarded BBC Films' Sylvia Plath story starring Gwyneth Paltrow. UK-based international sales outfit Capitol Films has also partnered on the project, which focuses on the story of the relationship between the tragic poet who committed suicide aged 31 and ...
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Rosem boards Day & Night
Rosem Films has boarded Day & Night (Ri-Ri Ye-Ye), the second film by Chinese film-maker Wang Chao, whose first title, The Orphans Of Anyang, made a splash last year in Directors' Fortnight. Day & Night - a 'rags to riches' tale set in a Chinese mining town, is produced by ...
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Danish Oscar-winning short earns US remake
Danish newcomer Martin Strange's film Feeling Desire (Naar Lysterne Taendes), has won the Oscar for best foreign student film, which will be awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture and Arts and Sciences on June 9. Already, New York-based Kinetic Arts has been in contact with the filmmakers about remaking ...
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First Floor Feature merger leads to starry slate
First Floor Features, the Dutch production house responsible for 1998 Oscar-winner Character, has put together a star packed production slate following its merger with Guy Walks Into A Bar. Its partner is a Los Angeles-based production and management group headed by Todd Komarnicki. The merger is intended to allow the ...
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France's Talentis moves into features
Short film agency Talantis is branching out into feature films. The company has picked up all French rights on Winnego, a first film by US film-maker Nick James which is to star Salma Hayek and Mickey Rourke. The $3.9m title is currently in development. Talantis are handling foreign sales on ...
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Hartnett moves into L'Appartement remake
Josh Hartnett will star in and Paul McGuigan will direct Lakeshore Entertainment's Wicker Park, the remake of Gilles Mimouni's French drama L'Appartement which starred Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci and Romane Bohringer. Brandon Boyce has written the screenplay to the film. The long-gestating film is now scheduled to start production in ...
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Payne moves Sideways
Alexander Payne's next project will see the acclaimed director move from Nebraska, where his first three films were set, to California. Payne is adapting an as-yet unpublished novel called Sideways by Rex Pickett and will direct the ensuing film which as yet is not set up at any company. A ...
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Miramax, TF1 play up European film push
"We're not coming here to make Spider-Man," said an ebullient Harvey Weinstein, as he unveiled a ground breaking alliance with France's TF1. "This is about fostering European film and European talent."Patrick Le Lay, TF1 chairman and chief executive, presented the partnership as a two step-deal involving the creation of a ...
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Miramax, TF1 play up European film push
"We're not coming here to make Spider-Man," said an ebullient Harvey Weinstein, as he unveiled a ground breaking alliance with France's TF1. "This is about fostering European film and European talent."Patrick Le Lay, TF1 chairman and chief executive, presented the partnership as a two step-deal involving the creation of a ...
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Poire's Visual Factory readies $23m sci-fi comedy
Jean-Marie Poire, creator and director of hit French franchise The Visitors, has started pre-production on his next opus, the $23m sci-fi comedy Damian And The Invaders (Damien Et Les Envahisseurs) through his own outfit, London-based sales and post-production company Visual Factory.Poire is in Cannes to promote his latest film, My ...