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Cineclick strikes Asian sales deals
Korean seller Cineclick Asia has secured two large package deals in the first few days of the Cannes market.Two of Cineclick's newest slate additions comedies Iron Palm and Oh! LaLa Sisters were scooped up for Hong Kong by Mipic, a distributor which previously enjoyed success with Cineclick's Friend. Mipic is ...
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Australia's Rialto acquires Mystic Masseur
Rialto Entertainment has acquired rights for Australia and New Zealand to director Ishmail Merchant's The Mystic Masseur.The Auckland-based distributor plans to release the film over the Christmas holidays. The film has had high-profile openings in London and New York, including a launch by Bill Clinton at New York's Paris Theatre ...
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Buyers plunge into Cameron's Abyss
Summit Entertainment has concluded a wave of sales on Walden Media's Ghosts Of The Abyss, James Cameron's ground-breaking 3-D large screen documentary exploring the wreckage of the Titanic. Telepool took the film for Germany, Buena Vista International (BVI) for the UK, UGC for France and Belga Films for Benelux. Gaga ...
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Tartan Films, F&ME team on James Elroy project
Hamish McAlpine's expanding production outfit Tartan Films has teamed with Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's F&ME to board Killer On The Road.The project is an adaptation of legendary crime novelist James Elroy's classic serial killer novel about "sexecutioner" Martin Plunkett and a policeman who himself has a murderous past.The team ...
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Spanish-French PHF Films' partners prepare separate slates
Partners in Spanish-French production venture PHF Films, co-producers of Directors' Fortnight title Nada +, are dismantling their joint banner but will continue to co-produce projects together.Antonio Perez of Maestranza Films and Sarah Halioua of MDA Films, who formed PHF at Cannes in 1999 with Thierry Forte of France's DMVB, call ...
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Mercure takes worldwide rights to Dix Sept Fois Cecille Cassard
Mercure's Jacques Le Glou has picked up worldwide rights to the Beatrice Dalle-starrer Dix Sept Fois Cecile Cassard which is screening in Un Certain Regard.Dix Sept Fois Cecile Cassard, which portrays a woman through 17 moments of her life, is a first film by Christophe Honore. The title, produced by ...
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Menemsha takes on controversial Turkish film Hejar
LA-based Menemsha Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights excluding Turkey to the controversial Turkish film Hejar directed by Handan Ipekci. The film, which was the Turkish submission for last year's Academy Awards, was a breakthrough hit and scored 100,000 admissions before being banned for its "chauvinistic portrayal of the Turkish-Kurdish relationship."The ...
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News Corp clashes with Vivendi over Italian pay-TV deal
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has reacted angrily to moves by rival Jean-Marie Messier of Vivendi to pull out of the planned Italian pay-TV merger of Vivendi's Telepi's with News Corp's Stream.Vivendi said on Wednesday it would seek to pull out of the merger, in light of conditions imposed by the ...
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Rasa pitches indie Indian films
Ashvin Kummar and Suran Goonatilake, founders of Rasa Pictures, are in Cannes drumming up interest in a slate of cross-over independent films with their roots in the Indian diaspora.Deepa Metha is to executive produce their first film, Samir The Terrorist a UK-set drama about a man wrongly suspected of terrorism ...
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E Pictures launches Zenith's action thriller
E Pictures, the Korean sales house that was set up a year ago, is launching a new big-budget picture from Zenith Entertainment, the production outfit behind last year's $25m blockbuster My Boss, My Hero.The picture Four For The King: Code Paris is an Asian action suspense thriller with European elements. ...
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Sony Pictures Classics takes US on Owning Mahowny
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US rights to Owning Mahowny, the new film from Richard Kwietniowski from Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group. The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver and John Hurt. The film is inspired by the true story of a junior level bank executive with a secret ...
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France braces for TFI, Miramax partnership
The French film sector is waiting with baited breath for details of a dramatic new production and distribution alliance between French television powerhouse TF1 and Miramax Films that will be unveiled at a heavyweight press conference this afternoon featuring their respective chiefs, Patrick Le Lay and Harvey Weinstein.The venture, which ...
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France braces for TFI, Miramax partnership
The French film sector is waiting with baited breath for details of a dramatic new production and distribution alliance between French television powerhouse TF1 and Miramax Films that will be unveiled at a heavyweight press conference this afternoon featuring their respective chiefs, Patrick Le Lay and Harvey Weinstein.The venture, which ...
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Hollywood majors wade into indie buying territory
The Hollywood majors are wading into the marketplace to pick up the slack left by the TV crisis in Europe, with a slew of deals closed in recent days that leaves sales companies sighing with relief but independents out in the cold.Paramount Pictures alone has just acquired rights in Italy ...
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Paramount Pictures takes Korean Way Home
Paramount Pictures has picked up Korean drama The Way Home (Jibeuro) from CJ Entertainment.The studio has grabbed rights for all English-language territories and will release the film through UIP in the UK, Australia and South Africa.The film, the story of a boy sent to live with his deaf grandmother in ...
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Kidman's Pleasure project tops MDP/Neverland deal
Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide and its investor/partner Neverland Pictures have entered into a first look production deal with hot LA management and production outift Handprint Entertainment which numbers Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez among its clients.The first film under the arrangement is The Sixteen Pleasures which will star Kidman as ...
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Four Horsemen rides with Overseas Filmgroup
Overseas Filmgroup has struck a multi-picture deal to handle sales on films from Four Horsemen Films, the UK genre label which recently struck a deal for European distribution with Buena Vista.The first titles in the deal include Octane, starring Madeleine Stowe, Norman Reedus, Bijou Philips, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Mischa Barton. ...
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Alibi's Davis lined up for Beyond sales job
Australia's Beyond Films is expected to appoint Hilary Davis of UK based Alibi Films International to oversee international sales.Davis will replace former Beyond sales chief Gary Hamilton who left the company earlier this year to launch his own business, Arclight Films.Davis's departure means that both co-founders have now left Alibi's ...
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Reviews
REVIEW: Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress
Dir: Dai Sijie. France. 2002. 116 mins.Un Certain Regard (Opening Film)The French connection makes Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress, a gentle, partly autobiographical coming-of-age tale from the Paris-based Chinese director Dai Sijie, a natural choice to open Un Certain Regard although, in the event, it emerges as on the ...
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REVIEW: Bowling For Columbine
Dir: Michael Moore. US. 2002. 120 minsThose convinced that America is the home of the crazed and the land of the trigger happy will find ample support for their views in Bowling For Columbine. Michael Moore's emotive exploration of the constitutional right to bear arms is a wide-ranging, often shockingly ...