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Ryan Phillipe signs up for The I Inside
Ryan Phillippe has signed to star in MDP Worldwide's thriller The I Inside to be directed by Germany's Roland Suso Richter (The Tunnel) and set to start shooting in the UK on June 10. The film marks a return to the UK for Phillippe who appeared in Robert Altman's Gosford ...
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Europa Cinemas increases network to 896 screens
The MEDIA Programme's exhibition initiative Europa Cinemas has added 171 screens in 28 European cities to its network, bringing the total number of screens getting support from MEDIA Plus for programming European films, to 896 in 356 cinemas located in 201 cities in 17 countries.Combined with other similar cultural supporting ...
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Canadian ban upheld on foreign satellite signal reception
A group of Canadian satellite TV dealers has failed in its bid to delay enforcement of a ban on the unlicensed reception of foreign satellite signals. The group, which operates in the so-called grey market, whereby Canadian consumers maintain a US mailing address and receive US signals , was responding ...
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The Importance Of Being Earnest
Dir: Oliver Parker. UK/US. 2002. 97 mins. Three years ago, writer-director Oliver Parker and the UK's Fragile Films re-invented Oscar Wilde's relatively obscure An Ideal Husband for the big screen, opening out the play to delightful effect and earning critical plaudits as well as some impressive box office grosses ($18.5m ...
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Lightning brings two new titles to market
Lightning Entertainment, the new LA-based sales outfit run by Richard Guardian and Mainline Releasing partners Rich Goldberg and Marc Greenberg, has acquired two new pictures for Cannes - taking worldwide rights to medieval thriller Anazapta with Lena Headey, Jason Flemyng and David La Haye and international rights to On_Line, an ...
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Moviehouse wraps Fear X, add two more
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has wrapped Fear X, his John Turturro-starring psychological thriller after a shoot that took him to Winnipeg and Copenhagen.The film has its market debut at Cannes, where it is represented by new UK sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment.Fear X, about a man prompted by dark dreams ...
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Scorsese gangs up again with IEG, Di Caprio
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is backing the next film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio - whatever it turns out to be. Martin Scorsese told Screen International this week that his next film will definitely be either Alexander, his Alexander The Great movie, which IEG bought ...
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Raimi teams with Senator for low-budget genre label
Sam Raimi, whose Spider-Man is set to become one of the biggest grossing films in history, has teamed with Joe Drake's Senator International to launch a genre label producing "intelligently budgeted" horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies - returning Raimi to his low-budget horror roots of The Evil Dead.Senator will fully ...
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Tiger tamer role Tailor-Made for Kate Winslet
With a debut slate headed by a $36m production in which Kate Winslet plays a tiger tamer, newly-launched Tailor-Made Films has emerged as a UK production outfit to watch.Founded by former freelance TV producer Miriam Segal with backing worth£1.3 million from a group of private investors, the company has been ...
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Ealing Studios teams with Odyssey for $40m animation
The UK's Ealing Studios has teamed with Ralph Kamp's newly-launched sales outfit Odyssey Entertainment to produce $40m CG animation film Valiant.John Williams, the US producer of Shrek and Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, is producing with Barnaby Thompson, co-head of Fragile Films, one of the owners of Ealing.The film, which ...
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UGC lures French talent for big budget slate
UGC International has lured some of France's top film-making talent away from rival production houses in lining up a slate of big budget projects for Cannes - led by Ruby Et Quentin, a $25m action comedy starring Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno, and directed by Francis Veber.The high profile slate ...
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Signpost points to Germany for next Int'l distribution move
Stewart Till's ambitious Signpost Films aims to launch distribution operations in 80% of the international sector in the next three to five years, with Germany shaping up as one of the next markets.The would-be studio is holding talks with German distributor Concorde about a partnership, one of several options on ...
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Taewon six-picture deal kicks off busy market for Miramax
Miramax International closed a six-picture deal with Taewon Entertainment in Korea at the end of last week, kicking off a Cannes market which worldwide distribution chairman Rick Sands is anticipating as a busy one.Sands's sales drive is focused around a new package of pictures including Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things, ...
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Signpost points to Germany for next Int'l distribution move
Stewart Till's ambitious Signpost Films aims to launch distribution operations in 80% of the international sector in the next three to five years, with Germany shaping up as one of the next markets.The would-be studio is holding talks with German distributor Concorde about a partnership, one of several options on ...
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Media Asia bolsters library, expands slate
Regional powerhouse Media Asia (MA) is moving to corner the market in Hong Kong catalogue films and has expanded its slate of current pictures.A long-term deal sees the company handle international rights to the 150-title Golden Princess library of martial arts films and dramas, including pictures by John Woo and ...
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France's Haut et Court readies Hitchcockian Bambi tale
French production company Haut et Court is readying Fuis Bambi Fuis, a first directing effort by Gilles Marchand, the co-scriptwriter for both Laurent Cantet's Human Resources and Dominik Moll's With A Friend Like Harry.The film, an Hitchcockian tale of a young nurse fascinated by a doctor who proves much ...
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Nieto moves to Picking Pack
Juan Jose Nieto, the former top executive of Telefonica media division Admira and broadcaster Antena 3, has been hired as president of digital reprographics and data management company Picking Pack. Nieto was replaced by Luis Abril at Admira last January as part of a management overhaul.
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F&ME readies Yugoslav romantic comedy
Veteran Yugoslav director Srdjan Karanovic is to shoot romantic comedy Loving Glances (Sjaj U Ocima) for F&ME, the UK arm of Germany's FAME AG. Set amongst refugees in Belgrade, the production is to start shooting in June as a co-production with Belgrade's Yodi Movie Craftsmen and Paris-based Raphael Films.
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NonStop Sales takes on new Grede film
NonStop Sales has acquired international rights to Sweden's Kjell Grede's as yet untitled new comedy based on Torgny Lindgren's book Till Sanningens Lov. It stars young talents Shanti Roney (Together) and Tuva Novotny, as well as Örjan Ramberg, Simon Norrthon and Ing-Mari Carlsson. The film tells the story of two ...
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KWA strikes Lucky deals
Sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has announced the first sales on Argentine title A Lucky Day (Un Dia De Suerte) to Spain (Nirvana), Orler (Arg) and free TV in the UK (BBC), Holland (VPRO) and Finland (YLE). Director Sandra Gugliotta's prize-winning Day tells the story of a young Argentine ...