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Optimum bags Comandante, Animal Factory for UK
UK distributor Optimum Releasing has acquired four films including Steve Buscemi's gritty prison drama Animal Factory, starring Edward Furlong and Willem Dafoe, and Oliver Stone's Fidel Castro documentary Comandante.The distributor also picked up Brazil's Man Of The Year and Chinese festival favourite Blind Shaft from Grupo Novo de Cinema and ...
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Aishwarya Rai to star in period epic The Rising
Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai - who paraded here yesterday alongside her fellow Cannes jury members - is to star in Capitol Films' The Rising, a period epic set against the 1857 Indian mutiny that fuses western and Indian filmmaking styles.The story of the friendship between an Indian soldier and British ...
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Intermedia benefits from cost-cutting, eyes T4
IM Internationalmedia AG, the corporate parent of Intermedia, has announced its second consecutive positive quarterly result - scoring EBITA of Euros 4.3m for the first quarter 2003 as compared to a negative Euros 5.4m in the first quarter of 2002. The results come just as Intermedia prepares to launch its ...
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Chow joins Yeoh in $30m costume epic
Chow Yun-Fat has joined Michelle Yeoh in the cast of $30m costume drama Hua Mulan which is being produced by Yeoh's Mythical Films and Han Entertainment.Described by Han managing director Thomas Chung as "Braveheart meets Ran", the film is scheduled to shoot in China from mid-August. Peter Pau, who directed ...
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Cannes' 'Europe Day' flies diversity flag
Cannes jury chief Patrice Chereau, Luc Besson and Wim Wenders are among the European talents who today join Gilles Jacob, EU culture commissioner Viviane Reding and a dozen ministers of culture to celebrate Cannes' first "Europe Day".The event kicks off with a ministerial meeting focused on the changing shape of ...
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Publicity stunt boosts box office
A publicity stunt has reaped solid box office results for Spanish/Mexican co production Asesino En Serio in Mexico. In a bid to replicate the controversy-driven box office success of El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, Altavista organised a street protest against the dark comedy at its premiere. Only when the local ...
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Once Upon A Time In The Midlands to open Newport
The East Coast premiere of Shane Meadows' drama Once Upon A Time In The Midlands will open the sixth annual Newport International Film Festival (NIFF), which runs from Jun 10-15.The line-up includes more than 60 American and international films, including Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's Sundance Grand Jury Prize ...
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Livingstone to steer specialist fare for UIP
Universal has finalised the appointment of David Livingstone, formerly president of marketing at Universal Pictures International, to oversee the release of specialist films through the studio's international outlet, United International Pictures. Livingstone's brief will include titles from the UK's Working Title Films and DNA Films as well as projects from ...
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Goodman, Hoskins to croon with Spacey
John Goodman and Bob Hoskins are in final talks to join the cast of Kevin Spacey's Beyond The Sea being sold in Cannes by MDP Worldwide. Spacey is directing the film, a biopic of legendary crooner Bobby Darin, and also playing Darin, with Kate Bosworth starring as his wife actress ...
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Biblical passion on the rise
While Mel Gibson's Passion is in the cutting room, another biblical movie has just finished shooting in Toronto.Directed by Philip Saville, Word By Word from the Gospel of St John is a $20m picture produced by LA-and Toronto-based Cidif Communications, a subsidiary of Silvio Sardi's Milanese production outfit Cidif Entertainment ...
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European indie sales agents fight their corner
Under pressure from all sides, Europe's independent film sellers are to fight back through a new organisation, which launches today in Cannes as part of 'Europe Day.'The initiative, which sees national federations of film sellers' bodies pact together, is launched as the initiative of Jacques Le Glou, former boss of ...
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Menemsha flies to Argentinian Moon
Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment has boarded Avellaneda's Moon, the next film from Son Of The Bride team of Juan Jose Campanella and star Ricardo Darin. Menemsha is pre-selling the Argentinian film in Cannes, the first time that it has done so, based on the film-maker's pedigree.Son Of The Bride has ...
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Menemsha flies to Argentinian Moon
Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment has boarded Avellaneda's Moon, the next film from Son Of The Bride team of Juan Jose Campanella and star Ricardo Darin. Menemsha is pre-selling the Argentinian film in Cannes, the first time that it has done so, based on the film-maker's pedigree.Son Of The Bride has ...
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FAME strikes deal with Handprint
Film and Music Entertainment Ltd (FAME) has signed an exclusive US representation deal with management company Handprint Entertainment. In pacting with Handprint, FAME's Mike Downey and Sam Taylor believe that not only their access to US talent will be smoother and less time consuming, They also expect to benefit from ...
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FAME strikes deal with Handprint
Film and Music Entertainment Ltd (FAME) has signed an exclusive US representation deal with management company Handprint Entertainment. In pacting with Handprint, FAME's Mike Downey and Sam Taylor believe that not only their access to US talent will be smoother and less time consuming, They also expect to benefit from ...
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Travolta joins The Punisher
John Travolta has joined Thomas Jane in the cast of The Punisher, the latest actioner from a Marvel Comics character which is being produced by Artisan Pictures and Marvel Studios and sold here by Summit Entertainment.Travolta will play the lead villain in the film Howard Saint, a man involved in ...
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Travolta joins The Punisher
John Travolta has joined Thomas Jane in the cast of The Punisher, the latest actioner from a Marvel Comics character which is being produced by Artisan Pictures and Marvel Studios and sold here by Summit Entertainment.Travolta will play the lead villain in the film Howard Saint, a man involved in ...
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Summit severs Artisan ties
Summit Entertainment has reclaimed the 5% stake it sold to Artisan Entertainment in 1998 as part of the two companies' initial international distribution agreement. The companies last month renewed their five year agreement from 2003 to 2005 kicking off with Marvel Studios' actioner The Punisher starring Thomas Jane and John ...
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Finland's Restless knocks down Beauty, Joan
Finnish production Restless (Levottomat) has attracted 54,125 admissions in its first week on release, beating American Beauty to the number one slot with a box office gross of $372,337. The impressive opening is the biggest in Finland for a local film since the 1989 release of The Winter War which ...
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Idle spoofs Merchant Ivory with Remains Of The Piano
The prolific Stratus Film Co is to fully finance Remains Of The Piano, a spoof of Merchant Ivory costume dramas which has been written and will be directed by Eric Idle, his first film as director since The Ruttles in 1978. Capitol Films is selling the film in Cannes, with ...