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Gershon, Nielsen, Sevigny to star in Demonlover
Gladiator's Connie Nielsen, American indie muse Chloe Sevigny and Showgirls star Gina Gershon are to join the cast of Demonlover, a French-produced thriller to be directed by festival favourite Olivier Assayas.Producer Edouard Weil, co-founder of up-and-coming production company Elisabeth Films, confirmed that the trio of US actresses will begin shooting ...
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Kinowelt shares go into freefall on Neuer Markt
No end seems to be in sight for the downward slide of troubled German media concern Kinowelt Medien's shares, which went into freefall yesterday (June 19) on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt. By the close of business, shares in the company stood 25.37% down on the previous day at Euros2.50.The business news ...
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PACT, Equity draw lines in payment negotiations
UK producers body PACT yesterday appeared to be sticking to its line that it would not agree to profit sharing for actors, despite claims from performer's union Equity that it had "dropped its objections in principle" to additional payments for its members.The assertion was made by Andy Prodger, Equity's assistant ...
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France's Le Sabre readies English-language slate
French high-end TV production outfit Le Sabre is preparing four English-language film projects, including Cheri, to star Jessica Lange, and a $16m ice age epic The Mammoth Hunters. The company is part of the Expand group, which has just been taken over by StudioCanal (see Screendaily, June 18).Lange herself initiated ...
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The Cave opens Utrecht on young, local note
Martin Koolhoven's The Cave (De Grot) is to open this year's Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht.This is the second year running that the festival, this year celebrating its 21st edition, has chosen a film by a young local director to kick off proceedings. Last time out, the festival opened with ...
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EM.TV sells Internet interests, Victory takes over
EM.TV & Merchandising has exited from the Internet activities it has concentrated in EM interactive, amidst a restructuring and re-focusing on core businesses.German media fund specialist Victory Media will now increase its stake in EM interactive from 25.1% to 100%. The firm will continue operating as victory.tv under the new ...
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European bodies unite to form digital forum
Pulling together a swathe of public and private European film bodies, the nucleus for a single agency representing the Continent's interests in the digital era was formed last week under the banner of the European Digital Cinema Forum.The forum is to act as a consultative body for governments and the ...
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UK's Film Council hands out training awards
UK support body the Film Council has allocated its first training grants for film-makers already working in the industry.The council's bursary programme will pay for three writers - Lorrie Sheehy, Phillippa Goslett and Michael Maynard - to attend this year's Moonstone International Screen Labs in Italy. The Moonstone scheme allows ...
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De Laurentiis to give keynote address at Montreal
Actress Sophia Loren and producer Dino De Laurentiis will be feted at this year's Montreal World Film Festival as part of the event's 25th anniversary celebration.Loren will receive a Special Grand Prix of the Americas for her exceptional achievement in cinema. Loren's most recent film, Francesca E Nunziata, directed by ...
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Tender Years best of poor Russian line-up at Sochi
Sergei Soloviev's Tender Years won the main prize at the Sochi International Film Festival, traditionally a weather vane for Russian cinema as it screens virtually all the year's films to an audience of local professionals.This year's edition brought the usual array of Russian stars and international critics for parties, sun ...
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Terry Sanders buys film rights to Tokyo Rose story
Acclaimed documentary film-maker Terry Sanders has acquired film rights to the screenplay Tokyo Rose by Pat Fielder and Richard Bluel based on the book They Call Her Tokyo Rose by Rex Gunn. He will produce and direct through his company The American Film Foundation; It will mark his first fictional ...
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Laura Rooney leaves ShoWest, joins AFM
Laura Rooney has been appointed director, AFM operations, by the American Film Marketing Association.Rooney comes to the AFMA from exhibitors association NATO of California, most recently as director of annual film trade event ShoWest. She will oversee all operational aspects of AFM and, as the primary contact with the Loews ...
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Y Tu Mama Tambien goes to IFC Films
IFC Films, the theatrical distribution arm of Independent Film Channel, has acquired North American distribution rights to Y Tu Mama Tambien, the erotic Spanish-language Mexican film from director Alfonso Cuaron which last week opened in Mexico to the biggest three day opening of a Mexican film in history.Y Tu Mama ...
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Father and son pull off Bollywood double whammy
The second annual Indian Film Awards, held this year at Sun City, South Africa, saw father and son duo Hrithik and Rakesh Roshan pulling off a remarkable double act. Bollywood heart-throb Hrithik Roshan was named best actor for his role in Tell Me You Love Me (Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai), ...
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Hannover Leasing to raise $465m for Fox, New Line
Munich-based leasing company Hannover Leasing (HL) has launched seven separate production funds to raise over $465m (Euros540m) in finance for feature projects from 20th Century Fox and New Line Cinema. HL's collaboration with New Line Cinema follows on from last year when the German fund specialist raised a total of ...
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StudioCanal to take over TV powerhouse Expand
As expected, Vivendi Universal's StudioCanal is to take over Expand, the television production powerhouse born in February 2000 of the merger Canal Plus' television production and distribution affiliate Ellipse Programmes and French television production group Expand.After exercising an option on the 20.4% owned by the FinExpand financial holding in Expand, ...
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Kinowelt finally secures German TV deal with ZDF
Beleaguered German mini-studio Kinowelt Medien has finally found a TV home for the Wachowski brothers' Warner Bros. action blockbuster The Matrix.The title is among 15 German free-TV premieres - including the animation feature Pokemon - The Film and Amos Kollek's Fast Food, Fast Women - sold as part of a ...
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Tiger scores second biggest US DVD launch
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has become the fastest selling DVD title in Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment's history since its release in North America on June 5. The title has sold an estimated 1.5 million units with a 60% sell-off in its first week. On its first day of ...
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German companies team to produce Ramones pic
German production outfits Red Beat Pictures and Indigo Filmproduktion have teamed up to acquire the rights to produce Too Tough To Die, a biopic of punk band The Ramones and its late lead singer Joey Ramone, with LA-based Capture Film Inc.Co-written and to be co-directed by German film-makers Peter Thorwarth ...
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Gong Li climbs aboard Sun Zhou's Train
Chinese superstar actress Gong Li is to star in the new film by Sun Zhou, re-uniting her with the director of Berlin 2000 competitor Breaking The Silence. That film just won her the runner-up prize for Best Actress at the recently completed Seattle Film Festival.Production of Sun's new film, The ...