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Five Korean directors team to form EGG Films
Five established South Korean filmmakers have grouped together to form the nation's first in-house production company. Named EGG Films, the company will tie up the services of directors Park Chan-wook (Joint Security Area), Bae Chang-ho (My Heart), Kwak Jae-yong (My Sassy Girl), Lee Young-jae (Harmonium In My Memory) and Lee ...
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Good Machine ties up Almodovar, Parker deals
Good Machine International (GMI) has tied up key territory sales on Pedro Almodovar's latest picture Hable Con Ella (Talk To Her) and Oliver Parker's The Importance Of Being Earnest. But the deals were not done at Mifed. GMI did most of its business in London last week and president David ...
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Refn secures Eno to score Fear X
Musician and producer Brian Eno is to score Nicolas Winding Refn's English-language debut, Fear X. The script for Fear X was penned by Refn and cult author Hubert Selby Jr, writer of Requiem For A Dream. The Danish filmmaker sent Eno his previous features Pusher (1996) and Bleeder (1999) along ...
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Regent rides with Media Asia's Unicorn
Regent Entertainment has boarded Media Asia's English-language action flick, The Unicorn Hunt. The film, to be directed by Li Chai Ngai, is a light-hearted action film in the mould of The Thomas Crown Affair. It is the story of a reporter and a CIA sleuth on the hunt of a ...
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Salvatores to film Italian kidnap drama
Oscar winning director Gabriele Salvatores's next project will be a screen adaptation of Niccolo' Ammaniti's critically-acclaimed drama, "Io Non Ho Paura."Set in southern Italy in the 1970s, Io Non Ho Paura is the story of a 10-year-old boy who discovers another young boy who has been kidnapped by his own ...
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Greg Sims launches Iron Entertainment
Devin International president Greg H Sims has launched a new company called Iron Entertainment with US theatrical and home video distribution capacity as well as financing, production and sales. Sims is joined in the outfit by Herbert N Dorfman, the former president of Orion Home Video, who has been named ...
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The Pretender delayed by legal dispute
The shooting of The Pretender, Gilles Mimouni's next film after 1996 L'Appartement, is to be delayed until March 2002.Shooting was due to start this month but has been held up by a legal wrangle. Mimouni's producer George Benayoun (Messaouda Films/Natan Films) has filed and won a breach of contract suit ...
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Mifed market premieres attract attention
As the 68th edition of Mifed kicked off yesterday under its new private operator, Rassegne, interest was expected to hot up on a slew of market premieres, including Robert Altman's much-anticipated Gosford Park and Spanish Penelope Cruz-starrer No News From God.Other titles expected to cause a stir include Fred Schepisi's ...
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On The Line
Dir: Eric Bross. US 2001. 85 minutes A Serendipity for the junior high school crowd, On the Line stars two of today's biggest teeny-bopper heart-throbs, 'N Sync bandmates Lance Bass and Joey Fatone. As with the recent John Cusack-Kate Beckinsale romantic comedy, On The Line puts a slight spin on ...
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Box office supports Capitol's sales frenzy
Films that cinemagoers want to see have done wonders for business at the UK's Capitol Films, which is handling the breakout Woody Allen title The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion and horror hit Jeepers Creepers."We are essentially sold out now on Jeepers Creepers," said Capitol co-chief Jane Barclay, after selling ...
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Thirteen Ghosts
Dir: Steve Beck. US. 2001. 90 mins. The ghouls are the title characters but the elaborate set is the real star of Thirteen Ghosts, a one-note, yet efficiently jolting Halloween offering from Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis' mid-budget horror label Dark Castle Entertainment. Re-made (like Dark Castle's Halloween '99 release ...
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Germany's Bavaria takes controllong stake in Odeon
Munich-based Bavaria Film has become a major shareholder in the publicly-listed Odeon Film by increasing its interest to 50.01%.Bavaria Film had originally held a 32% stake in Odeon at the time of its IPO in spring 1999, but had gradually increased its shareholding in the intervening period.An adhoc announcement released ...
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H5B5 issues sales and profit warning
German media company H5B5 Media has issued a sales and profit warning for the current and coming financial years due to "the reserved purchasing behaviour of German and international television stations". The Munich-based company now expects sales for the current year to be on the same level as 2000 (DM ...
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Universal's K-PAX takes the crown at box office
K-PAX, the Universal drama starring Kevin Spacey as a man who claims he's an alien, opened at the top of the North American box office with an impressive estimated three-day gross of $17.5m. The movie was co-financed by Intermedia, which screened it to international buyers for the first time at ...
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Murdoch abandons Hughes bid
News Corp. has abandoned its bid for Hughes Electronics and its DirecTV satellite television service after company parent General Motors failed to choose a buyer. Speculation that GM's board of directors would select between News Corp. and rival bidder EchoStar Communications came to naught over the weekend. The board made ...
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Till launches production, distribution company
Stewart Till has launched an ambitious production, financing and distribution company modelled after PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE), the erstwhile Euro major where he was head of international activities.Montreal-based pension fund CDP Capital Communications and Los Angeles-based Mosaic Media will provide equity financing, although the financing of the first projects will ...
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Sony Pictures Classics in multi-territory deals
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has revisited two former domestic acquisitions - Renaissance Films' The Luzhin Defence and Winchester Films' Last Orders to pick up additional territories. On the former, it has bought Germany and Australia/New Zealand and on the latter it has bought Germany.The moves not only signify the increasing ...
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Italy's Eagle buys Wine, develops Rose
As it beefs up its slate of high-profile pictures, Rome powerhouse Eagle Pictures has acquired rights to Blackberry Wine, the new novel from Joanne Harris, the best-selling author of Chocolat, and is also developing The White Rose, a new project from director Joel Schumacher (Tigerland, The Client).An epicurean follow-up to ...
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Myriad Pictures to finance Imagining Argentina
Myriad Pictures is to fully finance and handle worldwide rights on Imagining Argentina, a film based on the Lawrence Thornton novel which is set to star Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson. Myriad is in discussions with Spanish and UK co-production partners on the project which will be shot in Spain ...