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Distant Horizon buys remake rights to two Asian pictures
South African studio group Distant Horizon has picked up remake rights to two Asian pictures, adding to its stable of international properties in development.From Hong Kong's China Star Entertainment it has picked up rights to My Father Is A Hero, a political-action picture directed in 1995 by Corey Yuen and ...
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Poirier, Rashid boost Alliance Atlantis slate
Alliance Atlantis has acquired international rights to two new films - That Touch Of Pink, which is the feature directorial debut of Ian Iqbal Rashid, and Chemins de Traverse which is the latest from acclaimed French director Manuel Poirier (Western).Both films were picked up by Charlotte Mickie, Alliance Atlantis' international ...
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Poirier, Rashid boost Alliance Atlantis slate
Alliance Atlantis has acquired international rights to two new films - That Touch Of Pink, which is the feature directorial debut of Ian Iqbal Rashid, and Chemins de Traverse which is the latest from acclaimed French director Manuel Poirier (Western).Both films were picked up by Charlotte Mickie, Alliance Atlantis' international ...
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UK outfit plans Imax studio
Aiming to tap into an anticipated rise in large-format releases such as The Matrix: Reloaded, UK production company North Star Entertainment is planning to create a 3D Imax studio. The Bradford-based company is setting up offices in London and Toronto and developing a 3D Imax science fiction feature.
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UK outfit plans Imax studio
Aiming to tap into an anticipated rise in large-format releases such as The Matrix: Reloaded, UK production company North Star Entertainment is planning to create a 3D Imax studio. The Bradford-based company is setting up offices in London and Toronto and developing a 3D Imax science fiction feature.
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Grupo Novo boast hot Brazilian slate
Quinzaine entry Filme De Amor tops the slate of leading Brazilian sales company Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV which comes to Cannes with some of its strongest titles to date. "I think we'll see happy times for Brazilian cinema at the Cannes Marche this year. We'll be taking ...
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Grupo Novo boast hot Brazilian slate
Quinzaine entry Filme De Amor tops the slate of leading Brazilian sales company Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV which comes to Cannes with some of its strongest titles to date. "I think we'll see happy times for Brazilian cinema at the Cannes Marche this year. We'll be taking ...
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Buyers on the road to Von Trier's Manderlay
Israel's Shani Films, Switzerland's Monopole Pathe and Taiwan's Crown Films have been the first to sign on for Manderlay, Lars von Trier's next project as director after Cannes competition contender Dogville. It will most likely also star Nicole Kidman. Manderlay is the second instalment in the Danish maverick's new trilogy ...
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Bim backs Resnais musical
Bim, Valerio De Paolis's Rome distribution outfit, has added Alain Resnais's upcoming musical Pas Sur La Bouche to its impressive international production slate, and has also decided to start producing Italian pictures for the first time.Pas Sur La Bouche is Resnais's first directorial effort in five years. The farcical love ...
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Bim backs Resnais musical
Bim, Valerio De Paolis's Rome distribution outfit, has added Alain Resnais's upcoming musical Pas Sur La Bouche to its impressive international production slate, and has also decided to start producing Italian pictures for the first time.Pas Sur La Bouche is Resnais's first directorial effort in five years. The farcical love ...
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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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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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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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Wild Bunch cleans up with new Assayas
Separation from StudioCanal has not dented the ability of Wild Bunch to pack a punch on the Croisette: not only does Vincent Maraval's French sales house boast a trio of films in competition, it also part-financing Olivier Assayas' reunion with his ex-wife Maggie Chung. Assayas, who last year had Demonlover ...
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IEG wed to Thurman comedy
Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) has agreed to fully finance The Accidental Husband which IEG's Graham King will produce with the film's star Uma Thurman and Jason Blum. Thurman is joined by Brendan Fraser in the romantic comedy which will be directed by Hugh Wilson (The First Wives Club).IEG is handling ...
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Fandango finds Australian Tom, picks up Kusturica
Dynamic Italian producer Domenico Procacci, whose Fandango outfit produced Critics Week closing film B&B and The Cormoran, is continuing to ramp up his international production and distribution labels. Procacci has boarded upcoming Australian picture Missing Tom, through the Australian company he runs with directors Rolf de Heer and Richard Lowenstein.At ...
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Stealing Rembrandt to open first Copenhagen festival
The first edition of the Copenhagen International Film Festival, which unspools in Denmark's capital from August 13-20, will have the highly anticipated feature debut from Jannik Johansen, Stealing Rembrandt, as its opening gala screening. The full festival programme and the competition films will be announced in late July, but head ...
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Fandango finds Australian Tom, picks up Kusturica
Dynamic Italian producer Domenico Procacci, whose Fandango outfit produced Critics Week closing film B&B and The Cormoran, is continuing to ramp up his international production and distribution labels. Procacci has boarded upcoming Australian picture Missing Tom, through the Australian company he runs with directors Rolf de Heer and Richard Lowenstein.At ...
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Valenti enlists moguls to improve trade with China
Jack Valenti, chairman and CEO of The Motion Picture Association, has enlisted a who's who of Hollywood's most influential power-brokers to pressure the US Congress into bolster trade relations with China.Valenti, who will head up a new committee comprised of leading media tycoons and studio bosses, said the lobby group ...