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Intimate Scenes picked up by Flach Pyramide
Catherine Breillat, the director who became a cause celebre with her sexually explicit Romance, is three weeks from starting production on Scenes Intimes, a picture about making films and, in particular, shooting nude scenes.French sales house Flach Pyramide International has picked up international rights to the film, which re-teams Breillat ...
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IEG signs on to Douglas' Racing With Monsoons
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is deepening its in-house production programme, striking a deal with Michael Douglas' Furthur Films to develop and finance Racing With Monsoons.The action-adventure is written by Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, who co-wrote Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom and American Graffitti. Set in ...
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UK govt seeks opinion on cross-media ownership
The UK government is to publish a consultation paper next month to canvass opinion on how best to regulate cross-media ownership, culture secretary Tessa Jowell has announced.The consultation paper will inform the government's forthcoming Communications Bill, due to be published next year.According to Jowell, who plans to be as "deregulatory ...
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Berlusconi finally acquitted of bribery
Ending a bitter legal battle that has lasted seven years, Italy's highest Appeals Court has acquitted premier Silvio Berlusconi of bribery charges relating to his media empire, Fininvest. However, the Court did confirm sentences for several of the multi-million dollar group's executives.Berlusconi and other Fininvest executives had been accused in ...
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Svensk Filmindustrie appoints new acquisition head
Nordic major Svensk Filmindiustri's veteran head of acquisitions: Anders Bergholm is to hand over his duties to new head Robert Enmark, as of Nov 2. Bergholm spent more than 30 years within the parent company Bonnier Group and 20 years with Svensk Filmindiustri (SF). "Anders has been with us for ...
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Berlinale films may be influenced by Sept 11deaths
The film selection for next year's Berlin Film Festival will almost certainly be influenced by the terror attacks of September 11, according to festival chief Dieter Kosslick.In an interview with the German film magazine Film-Echo, Kosslick declared: "when I view films at the moment, I am particularly sensitised. My reception ...
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Tokyo festival loses stars to travel fears
Cameron Diaz, Josh Hartnett and Julia Stiles of Save The Last Dance have cancelled their attendance at the 14th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival, citing security concerns.The festival will present 140 films from 24 countries between October 27 and November 4 and is still hoping to welcome 51 ...
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Renaissance finds domestic safety in double deal
The UK's Renaissance Films has seen two of its productions secure North American distribution homes, with Paramount Classics taking domestic and a slew of international rights to Paul McGuigan's The Reckoning and now also IFC Films grabbing domestic rights to Rose Troche's The Safety Of Objects. Both deals were confirmed ...
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EFA to host international film festival conference
The first ever conference of international film festival directors has been scheduled during the European Film Awards (EFA) weekend in Berlin from November 29 to December 2.The unprecedented event will see the Berlinale's Dieter Kosslick and UK film critic Derek Malcolm chair a conference entitled "Film Festivals In The Spotlight ...
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Manitu becomes all-time German champion
After 14 weeks on release, this year's surprise summer hit Der Schuh Des Manitu has broken the 15-year record held by comedy Otto - Der Film to become the most successful German film since records began, in 1980.Michael "Bully" Herbig's Western parody clocked up total admissions of more than 8.85 ...
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Jeepers Creepers leaps into UK box office
UK distributor Helkon SK scored a hit with its horror title Jeepers Creepers at the weekend as it claimed $2.2m (£1.5m) from 307 sites in the UK. The film, which stars Justin Long and Gina Philips, scored the best site average of any of the openers with $7,134 per venue. ...
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Omirbajev's Jol to open FilmFestival Cottbus
Kazakh filmmaker Dareshan Omirbajev's Jol will open this year's FilmFestival Cottbus (October 31 - November 4) which has developed into a leading international showcase spotlighting the range of production from Eastern Europe and Central Asia. German producer Peter Rommel, Directors Fortnight selector Jacques Gerber and Russian actor Ivan Shvedoff ...
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Turin festival announces first competition titles
The upcoming Turin Film Festival (November 15th-23rd)'s line-up will include James Toback's latest film, Harvard Man, Todd Solondz's Storytelling and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, organizers of the northern Italian festival announced. The festival will only reveal its full-line up on November 8th, but organizers have already confirmed that competition titles ...
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Spain chooses three foreign Oscar contenders
Penelope Cruz-starrer No News From God (Sin Noticias De Dios), erotic melodrama Sex And Lucia (Lucia Y El Sexo) and period drama Juana La Loca are the Spanish Cinema Academy's three semi-finalists to compete for the country's nomination to the foreign language category of the Oscars.In accordance with the Spanish ...
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Egmont takes Scandi rights to Skagerrak
Nordic major Egmont has taken Scandinavian rights to Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's Skagerrak, the veteran director's second English-language film after 1997's The Island On Bird Street.Set in the UK, Skagerrak will star Iben Hjejle (pictured), who also appeared in Kragh-Jacobsen's crowd pleasing Dogme-title, Mifune. The romantic-comedy-drama, budgeted at up to $5.5m, follows ...
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Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn gets Myriad money
Myriad Pictures has committed to fully finance romantic comedy Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn, which is set to star Jennifer Love Hewitt.Hewitt, who herself played Hepburn in a recent ABC miniseries, will be directed by Ryan Murphy, the writer and producer of hit US TV show Popular. She plays ...
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Beyond to sell 3 Blind Mice for international
Beyond Films has signed up to handle international sales on 3 Blind Mice, starring Edward Furlong and Sharleen Spiteri, the lead singer of rock group Texas.The cyber thriller is slated to begin shooting in the UK during January 2002, with France's Mathias Ledoux directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with ...
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Global starts pre-sales on Six Bullets From Now
Peter Elson's Global Cinema Group is launching pre-sales on Ridley Scott-produced action film Six Bullets From Now, one of three titles the US sales outfit is handling for Los Angeles production operation Miracle Entertainment.Stephen Kay, whose credits include The Last Time I Committed Suicide and Get Carter, is directing the ...
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Cineart/Cinelibre restructures ownership
Belgium's leading independent distributor, Cineart/Cinelibre, has restructured its ownership, with Eliane Du Bois buying outright control after a 25 year partnership with Thierry Abel.Du Bois took over Abel's share of the business when the duo decided to separate their interests and concentrate respectively on distribution and exhibition. Cineart, the operation's ...
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Recession watch - Part VI
In the sixth, and final, part of Screen International's analysis on the effect on the industry of the Sept 11 attacks on the US, the threat of recession on the corporate finance sector is assessed.Abstracted from Screen InternationalCorporate finance activitiesShare prices have wobbled hugely since the Sept 11 atrocities - ...