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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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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 ...
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REVIEW: Kedma
Dir: Amos Gitai. Israel/France/Italy 2002. 100 mins.Following films such as Kadosh and his last Cannes entry Kippur, Kedma is the latest of Amos Gitai's provocative inquiries into Israeli history and identity. Set in 1948, seven days before the creation of the state of Israel, Kedma proposes a return to historical ...
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REVIEW: Sex Is Comedy
Dir: Catherine Breillat. France. 2002. 92 mins.Director's FortnightA welcome reprieve from the joyless intensity of such recent succes de scandale as Romance and A Ma Soeur, Sex Is Comedy allows Catherine Breillat to reveal the kind of light touch and easy humour that some critics may have thought was beyond ...
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REVIEW: Marie-Jo And Her Two Lovers
Dir: Robert Guediguian. France. 2001. 124 mins.In CompetitionRobert Guediguian's recent work has fallen into two distinct categories: his tough social stories set in Marseilles (A La Place Du Coeur; La Ville Est Tranquille) and the lighter "contes", or fantasies (Marius Et Jeanette; A L'Attaque!) set in L'Estaque, the working-class port ...
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Star Wars: Episode II gets off to a flying start
The opening day (May 16) of George Lucas's Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones has achieved predictably strong results in several major territories for 20th Century Fox.Unconfirmed figures from the US estimate the second instalment of the Star Wars saga taking well in excess of $25m from ...
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Focus picks up Devdas sales duties
Devdas, the first Bollywood picture to screen in Cannes' Official Selection, has been picked up by Focus International (formerly Good Machine International) for world sales.Focus has the film in all territories outside the US and India. Eros International, which produced the film, will jointly sell the film in the UK ...
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Heinzemann braves German market to launch new distributor
Peter Heinzemann, former managing director of Kinowelt Filmverleih, could be one of the most popular men on the Croisette. He has set up a new German distributor, Solo Film Verleih as a joint venture with Helkon Media partners Martin Heldmann and Christian Halsey Solomon.Solo will operate as a distributor with ...
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Hong Kong's Celestial lines up starry debut
Start-up Hong Kong studio Celestial Pictures has lined up some of the territory's hottest talent for its debut production slate including local box office sensations Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng and acclaimed director Stanley Kwan.The company has signed a co-production deal with Lau's Teamwork Motion Pictures, to kick off with ...
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Poire's Visual Factory readies $23m sci-fi comedy
Jean-Marie Poire, creator and director of hit French franchise The Visitors, has started pre-production on his next opus, the $23m sci-fi comedy Damian And The Invaders (Damien Et Les Envahisseurs) through his own outfit, London-based sales and post-production company Visual Factory.Poire is in Cannes to promote his latest film, My ...
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Miramax, TF1 play up European film push
"We're not coming here to make Spider-Man," said an ebullient Harvey Weinstein, as he unveiled a ground breaking alliance with France's TF1. "This is about fostering European film and European talent."Patrick Le Lay, TF1 chairman and chief executive, presented the partnership as a two step-deal involving the creation of a ...