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KWA takes international sales on Carmen
Madrid-based sales house Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up Vicente Aranda's ambitious Carmen for international sales, and will give the film its market debut next month at Cannes.Billed as the biggest-budgeted European erotic production of the last ten years, Carmen is produced by Juan Alexander for Spain's Star Line ...
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The Barbecue People
Dir. David Ofek, Yossi Madmony. Israel. 2002. 102mins.The feature debut by two Israeli directors who have a strong body of TV work behind them at home, The Barbecue People is an ambitious jigsaw puzzle that profiles one specific community of immigrants in Israel, the Iraqi Jews. First launched at last ...
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Fantasporto fetes Bowie, Bunuel at 40th bash
Retrospectives dedicated to David Bowie and Luis Bunuel are among the highlights of the Oporto International Film Festival - better known as 'Fantasporto' - which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year (Feb 25-March 4). Although the festival is best known for fantasy and sci-fi, it boasts a wide-ranging international Official ...
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Reese Witherspoon to play slain American activist
Reese Witherspoon is attached to star in a South African film about slain American activist Amy Biehl for Anant Singh's Videovision. Durban-based producer Anant Singh said this week: "When the movie's ready to go, she will be the star playing Amy." Witherspoon's manager, Evelyn O'Neill, told South African press that ...
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Freedom To Speak project extends to Tribeca and Cannes
The Freedom To Speak (f2s) forum, which gave filmmakers an opportunity to express their views during February's Berlinale, is also to be created at the forthcoming Tribeca (May 3-11) and Cannes (May 14-25) film festivals. "Our goal is to bridge the gap of communication between France, Germany and the US ...
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CNC Associates appointed to The Bridge Of San Luis Rey
CNC Associates has been appointed by production company Pembridge Pictures to supervise worldwide marketing, media relations and publicity on the forthcoming adaptation of Thornton Wilder's novel - The Bridge Of San Luis Rey.Written and directed by Mary McGuckian, The Bridge Of San Luis Rey stars F Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, ...
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Adriana Chiesa Enterprises picks up slew of new titles
Rome sales agent Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE) has picked up worldwide rights to several new films, including Berlin title Little More than A Year Ago - Diary of a Male Porn Star.The Italian drama, which explores the last year in the life of a famous gay porn star, Riki Kandinsky, ...
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UK's Artificial Eye acquires At Five In The Afternoon
UK distributor Artificial Eye has picked up Samira Makhmalbaf's Cannes competition film At Five In The Afternoon.The distributor is waiting until January next year to release the film, understood to be the first foreign film made in Kabul since the toppling of the Taliban regime.The pick-up renews Artificial Eye's relationship ...
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Protests hit theatrical releases in India
The dispute surrounding the waiting time between a film's theatrical release and its TV screening in India has led all Bollywood producers to stop releasing any films from this week onwards. The first films to be affected by the dispute are Ishk Vishk and Pran Jaaye Par Shaan Na Jaaye, ...
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Transylvania film fest announces competition line-up
The Transylvania International Film Festival has announced its program for its second edition to take place May 23-31 in Cluj. Over sixty features will be screened in three venues, out of which thirteen will be in competition for the Transylvania Trophy and the $4,000 prize. The competition is limited to ...
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Cannes lines up series of tributes
Two icons of French cinema passed away this year: director Maurice Pialat and producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier. In tribute, on Saturday May 17, the Cannes Film Festival will be showing 1987 Palme d'Or winner, Sous Le Soleil De Satan, the fruit of their collaboration.Then, on Sunday May 18, a ...
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UK Film Council's development fund backs range of genres
Onegin director Martha Fiennes is to tackle terrorist-themed psychological thriller Revolving Door after securing development support from UK funding body the Film Council.The project, awarded £63,000 in National Lottery support, is set during a terrorist alert and follows a British intelligence operative and a high-class escort girl as they try ...
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EM.TV sells stake in Constantin Film to Highlight Communications
Germany's EM.TV has sold its stake in production company Constantin Film to Highlight Communications for Euros 7.5m.Swiss media concern Highlight Communications will increase its stake in Constantin Film's ordinary capital from 25% to 41.4% after signing a purchase agreement with EM.TV & Merchandising for 2,083,333 Constantin shares at a price ...
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Eyes Wide Shut is French critics' best foreign pic
Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut has been singled out by the French critics as best foreign film of 1999 for their prize, the Prix Leon Moussinac, which was awarded yesterday (Feb 7).The runner-ups for the prize, created in 1967, included Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother, Jean-Louis and Luc ...
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Modern picks up three for Cannes including Piaf, Charlotte
Modern Entertainment hasacquired worldwide distribution rights to three new films in time for theCannes Film Festival - concert film Piaf - Her Story HerSongs, US independent favourite CharlotteSometimes and Harry Shearer's TeddyBears' Picnic.'We decided about ayear ago to expand our core business in distribution to include new worldpremiere movies,' said ...
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Matrix sequels get domestic IMAX releases
Upcoming Warner Brosblockbuster Matrix Reloaded andNovember release The Matrix Revolutions, the second and third films in the Wachowski Brothers' trilogy,will be released in large-format Imax cinemas in North America and, potentially,internationally. An Imax version of Reloaded will open shortly after the May 15 release of the35mm version while an Imax ...
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Menemsha takes world rights to Czech hit Pupendo
Neil Friedman'sLA-based sales agency Menemsha Films has picked up Pupendo, the latest film from Jan Hrebejk who directedMenemsha's previous Oscar-nominated hit Divided We Fall. Pupendois a huge hit in the Czech Republic and is on course to surpass previouschampions Kolya and Dark BlueWorld from Jan Sverak.The film won the best ...
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Heavenly Grassland (Tian Shang Cao Yuan)
Dirs: Mailisi, Saifu. China. 2002. 105 mins.Redolent of Nikita Mikhalkov's 1991 Urga (though more idealised) crossed with 2001's Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner (though much more conventional), Heavenly Grassland tells of a small Chinese boy adopted by a family in the remote steppes of Inner Mongolia. An intimate, very small-scale story ...
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CineNova strikes MGM, Fox deals
Amsterdam based movie channel CineNova has signed new film licensing agreements with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and 20th Century Fox. CineNova already sources movies from shareholders Sony Pictures Entertainment and Buena Vista International Television, as well as movies from outfits such as Indies Entertainment Group, RCV Entertainment Group, Three Lines Pictures, Les ...
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Gilliam heads to Prague for Grimm shoot
Terry Gilliam's Brothers Grimm has received the final go-ahead for a shoot in Prague, with the gothic fantasy set to start a 17-week schedule at the end of June and wrap in late October. Producers are currently in negotiation with Nicole Kidman for a small part in the film, sources ...