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McElhone, Purefoy take lead roles in Gorris' Heaven & Earth
Natasha McElhone and James Purefoy have joined Marleen Gorris' $15m period romance Heaven & Earth, which is set to begin shooting in the UK on December 10 before moving to Cape Town in January 2009.Cinema Management Group is handling international pre-sales.McElhone will play Dr James Miranda Barry, Britain's first female ...
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Senator to finance Gregor Jordan's thriller Unthinkable
Marco Weber's Senator Entertainment will produce and finance Gregor Jordan's thriller Unthinkable starring Samuel L Jackson.Weber and Caldecot Chubb are producing and principal photography is set to begin on September 2 in Michigan on the story of a secret serviceman and FBI agent who team up to locate three nuclear ...
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Palm takes North American rights to Patti Smith: Dream Of Life
Palm Pictures has acquired North American rights to Steven Sebring's directorial debut Patti Smith: Dream of Life, which premiered at Sundance earlier in the year.Palm and Celluloid Dreams' Pierre Menahem brokered the deal, which encompasses North American theatrical, home video and VOD distribution rights.The company anticipates a late summer 2008 ...
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Almereyda, Knighton win Sloan grants from Sundance Institute
Michael Almereyda has received the Sundance Institute's 2008 Sundance/Sloan Commissioning Grant for The Stanley Milgram Project and screenwriter Ryan Knighton has been awarded the 2008 Sloan Fellowship for his script Cockeyed.Both the Fellowship and the Grant are part of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation's collaboration with the Institute's Feature Film ...
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Participant names five film-makers to receive short film grants
Participant Media will award $5,000 grants to five film-makers as part of its involvement with the Pangea Day one-day short film global showcase on May 10.In addition to the Outstanding Filmmakers Awards Programme, Participant is sponsoring the Filmmaker Development Grant Programme in which all 34 film-makers whose films will be ...
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Racer, Vegas enter box office fray against Iron Man
Three tentpole releases will vie for supremacy this weekend as the overseas arena enters the second weekend of the summer blockbuster season with a bang.Iron Man dominated the charts with a near-$200m global launch last weekend and Marvel Studios' comic book adaptation, released through Paramount in North America and PPI ...
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Arclight buys Conquistador, names Borno head of sales and acquisitions
Arclight Films International has acquired Conquistador Worldwide Media and installed Pascal Borno as its new president of sales and acquisitions.Borno will lead the Arclight sales team in Cannes with a slate that includes the official selection screening Surveillance.'Pascal is a very experienced and innovative executive with a long history in ...
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Endgame to produce, finance A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
LA-based Endgame Entertainment is to produce and finance A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, a comedy to star Jason Sudeikis and Will Forte from US TV's Saturday Night Live, and Leslie Bibb.Pete Huyck and Alex Gregory will make their directorial debut on the film which is based on their screenplay.Endgame CEO ...
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Natalie Portman drops out as Cathy in Wuthering Heights
Natalie Portman has dropped out of John Maybury's new adaptation of Wuthering Heights.Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae's UK-based Ecosse Films is producing. HanWay Films is handling sales. Bernstein confirmed to ScreenDaily.com on Thursday that Portman had pulled out of the project on Wednesday.The move comes as a surprise as she ...
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NewsSan Sebastian to honour Japanese film noir, Monicelli
Preparations for this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18 - 27) got underway as organisers revealed two retrospectives on the works of Italian maestro Mario Monicelli and a dedication to the Japanese film noir genre.
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Jacquot, Diaz Yanes score Eurimages funding
Council of Europe-backed finance body Eurimages is to plough Euros3.075m into eight European co-productions in its third funding round of this year, including new projects from Benoit Jacquot and Agustin Diaz Yanes.Eurimages has two schemes for production funding, both with distinct cultural objectives. The first scheme's awards are based on ...
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for James Toback's Tyson
Wild Bunch will handle international sales on James Toback's Tyson. The documentary, which looks at the prize fighter's life in and out of the ring, is running in competition in the Un Certain Regard sidebar.The film begins with Tyson's earliest memories of growing up in Brooklyn and traces his rise ...
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Kinowelt CEO Bertil le Claire to leave at end of month
The Kinowelt Group's CEO Bertil le Claire has announced his plans to leave the company at the end of May. His duties will be overseen by Romain Bessi, Directeur General of the group's new owner StudioCanal, until a successor has been appointed.Le Claire joined Kinowelt in 1998 as the managing ...
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K5 takes on world sales for Yu's Ping Pong Playa
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has taken on world sales rights to Jessica Yu's Ping Pong Playa.The film premiered at Toronto.Oscar winner Yu wrote and directed the comedy, about an Asian-American suburbanite who unexpectedly has to take over his family's ping-pong dynasty. Jimmy Tsai, Elizabeth Sung and Rodger ...
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After Becker deal, Icon takes over sales on Hunger
Icon Entertainment International has taken over worldwide rights to Hunger, the CannesUn Certain Regard opening film.Steve McQueen directed the film about the 1981 IRA hunger strike in the Maze Prison. Michael Fassbender is said to give a star-making performance as Bobby Sands.Icon recently acquired Australian media group Becker Entertainment, including ...
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Sarin's Shine Of Rainbows rolls with Quinn and Nielsen
Principal photography has begun on location in Ireland for Vic Sarin's Canada-Ireland coproduction A Shine Of Rainbows, starring Connie Nielsen and Aidan Quinn. Based on the novel by Lillian Beckwith, the magical family drama tells the story of a lonely orphan (newcomer John Bell) whose life is transformed by an ...
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Seville International takes international rights on Pool's Mommy
Montreal-based sales outfit Seville International has acquired international rights to Lea Pool's Mommy Is At The Hairdresser's (Maman Est Chez Le Coiffeur). The film, which has garnered strong critical reaction following its May 2 opening in Quebec, stars Laurent Lucas (With A Friend Like Harry), Celine Bonnier (Monica La Mitraille), ...
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Giuseppe Tornatore back to Sicilian roots for Baaria
Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and Medusa Film CEOGiampaolo Letta unveiled the first details of Tornatore's $30.7m (Euro 20m) film Baaria that has been tightly under wraps since the project's inceptiona year ago.Producing partners for Baaria are Italy's Medusa Film and Franco-Tunisian entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar's French based Quinta Communications and ...
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Bulgarian studio expands facilities
UFO International Productions has announced the opening of a new stage facility in Sofia, Bulgaria.The Bulgarian Film and Television Centre (BFTC) claims to be the largest studio in the Balkans, with nearly double the stage capacity of any other studio in Bulgaria.Sofia is already home to Nu Boyana Studios. Nu ...
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Argentinian film steals top prize at Jeonju
Matias Pineiro's Argentine film The Stolen Man picked up the $10,000 top Woosuk Award at Korea's 9th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF).Shot in black and white on HD, the film revolves around 19th century author and Argentinian president Domingo F. Sarmiento's writings on freedom and the right to education.The international ...