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Fox looks to steal Jordan's Good Thief
Fox Searchlight Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire US rights to The Good Thief, Neil Jordan's completed contemporary remake of Jean-Pierre Mellville's Bob Le Flambeur which stars Nick Nolte, Tcheky Karyo, Emir Kusturica and Ralph Fiennes. The deal marks the end of a long quest for the film's financier ...
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Intermedia, Metropolitan team on Tristan & Iseult
Intermedia is teaming up with Samuel and Victor Hadida of French independent Metropolitan Filmexport to finance and sell their new production Tristan & Iseult, a retelling of the classic story to which Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) is attached to direct. The film is being produced by Samuel Hadida through his production ...
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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 ...
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Hartnett moves into L'Appartement remake
Josh Hartnett will star in and Paul McGuigan will direct Lakeshore Entertainment's Wicker Park, the remake of Gilles Mimouni's French drama L'Appartement which starred Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci and Romane Bohringer. Brandon Boyce has written the screenplay to the film. The long-gestating film is now scheduled to start production in ...
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BBC's Plath project brought into Focus
In its first US acquisition since forming last month, Focus has boarded BBC Films' Sylvia Plath story starring Gwyneth Paltrow. UK-based international sales outfit Capitol Films has also partnered on the project, which focuses on the story of the relationship between the tragic poet who committed suicide aged 31 and ...
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Payne moves Sideways
Alexander Payne's next project will see the acclaimed director move from Nebraska, where his first three films were set, to California. Payne is adapting an as-yet unpublished novel called Sideways by Rex Pickett and will direct the ensuing film which as yet is not set up at any company. A ...
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First Floor Feature merger leads to starry slate
First Floor Features, the Dutch production house responsible for 1998 Oscar-winner Character, has put together a star packed production slate following its merger with Guy Walks Into A Bar. Its partner is a Los Angeles-based production and management group headed by Todd Komarnicki. The merger is intended to allow the ...
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Rosem boards Day & Night
Rosem Films has boarded Day & Night (Ri-Ri Ye-Ye), the second film by Chinese film-maker Wang Chao, whose first title, The Orphans Of Anyang, made a splash last year in Directors' Fortnight. Day & Night - a 'rags to riches' tale set in a Chinese mining town, is produced by ...
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Danish Oscar-winning short earns US remake
Danish newcomer Martin Strange's film Feeling Desire (Naar Lysterne Taendes), has won the Oscar for best foreign student film, which will be awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture and Arts and Sciences on June 9. Already, New York-based Kinetic Arts has been in contact with the filmmakers about remaking ...
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France's Talentis moves into features
Short film agency Talantis is branching out into feature films. The company has picked up all French rights on Winnego, a first film by US film-maker Nick James which is to star Salma Hayek and Mickey Rourke. The $3.9m title is currently in development. Talantis are handling foreign sales on ...
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Tartan, Fortissimo go for Sixteen Years Of Alcohol
The UK's Metro Tartan and international sales outfit Fortissimo Film Sales have partnered on Sixteen Years Of Alcohol, the directing debut of UK TV presenter turned producer Richard Jobson. The autobiographical story, based on Jobson's own book, is to shoot in Scotland next month with a cast including Kevin McKidd, ...
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UK's Entertainment extends New Line output deal
Leading UK independent Entertainment Film Distributors has extended its output deal with New Line Cinema for two years, whereby Entertainment will handle all New Line product in the UK until Dec 2003.The last deal between the two companies expired in Dec 2001 when Entertainment enjoyed its biggest ever hit with ...
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Studio Canal: minus to equal plus
StudioCanal is to slash its production to just 15 films a year as part of a dramatic streamlining of operations. However, closing Vivendi Universal's European production and distribution arm is not on the agenda, insists chairman Richard Lenormand, despite rumours to the contrary.StudioCanal's production policy will now firmly focus ...
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Brosnan to broaden range with two new projects
Pierce Brosnan and producing partner Beau St Clair have announced two new projects - romantic comedy The Laws Of Attraction and 11th century epic Legend Of Lochenbar for an autumn and early-2003 shoot respectively. Both are to star Brosnan.Brosnan, wearing his producer's hat, and St Clair met with potential ...
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Zentropa unleashes 'Dogumentary' label
Under a new 'Dogumentary' label, Denmark's Zentropa has finalised deals for a slate of docs to be mentored by Lars von Trier as a documentary equivalent to his Dogme-movement.Organised by documentary arm Zentropa Real and headed by Carsten Holst, the idea has so far attracted filmmakers from Denmark (Sami Saif, ...
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France's TF1 looks to enter Noe territory
Miramax's new French partner TF1 is understood to be close to buying into Noe Productions, the company which despite having co-produced this year's foreign-language Oscar winner No Man's Land, was recently forced into receivership.With a production track record also including such festival-friendly titles such as Jan Kounen's feature film debut ...
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24hr party - no Cannes do
Outraged guests were pushed and knocked to the floor by bouncers as scenes of violence erupted in Cannes at Saturday night's party for Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People.One guest saw bouncers lock a man's arms behind his back and throw him through a gap in the barriers so he ...
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Heather Graham to star in Stardust
Nick Hurran, whose Plots With A View was sold to Miramax Films for domestic, has signed to direct romantic comedy Stardust for Luxembourg-based The Carousel Picture Company with Heather Graham attached to star and James Purefoy and Brenda Blethyn in leading roles. Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide is handling sales on ...
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Spanish thriller Intacto connects with Cannes' buyers
Intacto, the Spanish thriller that opened Cannes' Critics' Week sidebar, has scored highly with international buyers.Handled by Lions Gate Films International, Intacto was bought by Nippon Herald for Japan, Momentum for the UK, Lady Films for Italy, Scanbox Entertainment for all of Scandinavia, Spentzos for Greece, Cosmopol for Russia and ...
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Attack Of The Clones opens new episode in international box office records
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones has established a new box office record for a simultaneous international opening weekend.According to 20th Century Fox, Episode II grossed $67m internationally from 70-plus territories, in a combination of opening weekend revenues that included Thursday to Sunday tallies as well as ...