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Carlyle, Anderson come of age with The Mighty Celt
Robert Carlyle and GillianAnderson are being lined up to star in The Mighty Celt, a coming of age talebased at Robert Walpole and Paddy Breathnach's Irish company TreasureEntertainment.BBC Films and the NorthernIreland Film & Television Commission are to bankroll the production, whichis set to shoot in Northern Ireland this month. ...
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Europe given warning on internet piracy
Internet piracy was firmly identified as the bogeymanthreatening the future of the creative process and the livelihood of the filmindustry, at a high-powered conference organised by the Cannes film festival onTuesday.Numerous speakers railed against the growing electronictrade that bypasses traditional distributors and funds organised crime."The expansion of broadband is synonymous ...
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Beart joins Film Distribution slate
French sales house FilmsDistribution has announced four pick-ups coming into Cannes' market including anew feature from Train Of Life director Radu Mihaileanu and twoEmmanuelle Beart-starring films.Live And Become is the long-awaited follow up to Milhaileanu'slauded Train Of Life. Films Distribution's Francois Yon told Screen thatthe company has taken world rights ...
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Aligator measures up with Salazar's Centimetres
New Spanish productioncompany Aligator is prepping its first feature film: Ramon Salazar's follow-upto 2001 Berlin screener Stones, the provocatively titled 20Centimetres.Former Alquimia Cinema headof international relations Iker Monfort launched Aligator earlier this yearwith the goal of making and co-producing two to three films per year.Salazar's 20 Centimetres(20 Centimetros) is a ...
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Rogers, Shaw unite against BCE
In a case of "my enemy's enemy is my friend", Canada's two rival cable providers have cut a $2.7bn (C$4bn) deal, swapping cable assets and merging their high-speed Internet access services, to prepare for battle against the nation's principal telco, BCE. The swap sees both companies consolidating their territorial fortresses. ...
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Assayas producer drums up starry slate
Producer Edouard Weil isbusy preparing new projects following his latest collaboration with OlivierAssayas on Cannes competition film Clean.Xavier Giannoli's lovetriangle drama La Belle Image stars hot French up and comer LudivineSagnier, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Bruno Todeschini and is set to start shootingon June 7 in Paris and Brussels. The French-Belgian ...
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Cannes market bustles with attendees
The Cannes Market, which opened its doors yesterday (Wed12 May), looks set to be busier than ever. According to its preliminary figuresregistered attendee numbers are up 11% at 7,225 from 63 countries.Films screening increased this year from 1,214 to 1,340including 55 trailers.According to the market's analysis of the films on ...
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Cannes set for Surreal premiere
Having operated in abelow-the-radar fashion until now, new French distributor Surreal Films isusing Cannes as its public premiere.Headed by Dario Bergesio andPaul Blain, Surreal has already bought two films. First was the distinctly odd ReturnOf The Cagliostro, by Italian experimentalists Daniele Cipri and FrancoMaresco, which was snapped up from Cinico ...
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Classic rolls with Cottontail
New York-based Classic Media has started production on 3-Danimated film Peter Cottontail: The Movie, inspired by the TV special HereComes Peter Cottontail and ready for delivery by spring 2005.Toy Story producer Ralph Guggenheim is producing the film alongsideEvan Baily, Classic Media's head of production, and Sandra Walters, a partnerin Australia's ...
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Echo Bridge digs in with Mortuary
Ambitious new independent Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquiredworldwide rights to Tobe Hooper's upcoming horror picture Mortuary whichit says is its first theatrical acquisition.Production on the film is scheduled to begin in July, with awinter 2005 release planned. It marks the latest horror flick from Hooper whosecredits include The Texas Chainsaw ...
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Enjoy Cinemas dives into diva material
EnjoyCinema, the UK distribution outfit set up by former HanWay executive SimonGosling earlier this year, has caught the diva bug.Enjoyhas taken UK rights to Callas Forever, Franco Zeffirelli's biopic ofopera star Maria Callas, starring Fanny Ardant and Jeremy Irons, from Capitol.In collaboration with EMI who've licensed all of Maria Callas's ...
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Echo Bridge digs in with Mortuary
Ambitious new independent Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquiredworldwide rights to Tobe Hooper's upcoming horror picture Mortuary whichit says is its first theatrical acquisition.Production on the film is scheduled to begin in July, with awinter 2005 release planned. It marks the latest horror flick from Hooper whosecredits include The Texas Chainsaw ...
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Film-makers vie to remake Japanese Love
Japanese romantic drama CryingOut Love -- The Centre Of The World has scored a monster opening for localmajor Toho, while also drawing remake interest from neighbouring South Korea.Crying Out Love earned $5.3m (Y600m) on 283 screens on its openingweekend, appealing particularly to the under-30 female audience. It is based ona ...
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AFM increases stakes in autumn market battle
The fight to be thepredominant autumn market stepped up a gear with the AFM's announcement that ithas over 200 companies committed to exhibit at the Loews in Santa Monica thisautumn (Nov 3-10)."We've had a tremendousresponse from AFM exhibitors. Our new alliance with AFI Fest will make theupcoming AFM bigger and ...
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Billie Piper falls into Spirit Trap horror
British popsinger-turned-actress Billie Piper is to star in Spirit Trap, a horrorfilm set to start shooting this month for the UK's Archangel Filmworks andSpice Factory.Directed by DavidSmith from a script by himself and Phil O'Shea, the film is set in an Englishtownhouse where an evil legacy haunts a group of ...
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Star forms alliance with India's UTV
Rupert Murdoch-owned Star TV is taking a 12% stake in Indian broadcaster United Television (UTV), and has formed a strategic alliance with the company to jointly produce content intended for movie theatres, the Internet and TV.Under the terms of the deal, UTV and Star's Indian subsidiary, Star TV India, will ...
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Prolific slate for post-Troy Kruger
Fresh fromplaying Helen of Troy, the face that launched 1000 ships, in WolfgangPetersen's $200 million epic, Troy, German-born actress Diane Kruger isto appear alongside Ed Harris in Agnieszka Holland's low-budget, US independentfilm, Copying Beethoven. "I think this year I'm going to try to dosmaller films and more character work," Kruger ...
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Assassination Of Nixon proves popular
Senator International hascompleted key territory sales on Niels Mueller's The Assassination OfRichard Nixon which stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Don Cheadle andscreens in Un Certain Regard on May 17.UGC has taken the film forFrance, Lucky Red for Italy and Wise Policy for Japan, while Senator hasextended its sales agency ...
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Wild Bunch gets cash injection
French sales and productionoutfit Exception Wild Bunch has received a cash infusion from NY based DaedalusMedia Partners, with further capital being injected by Paris-based IrisCapital.Wild Bunch is now understoodto have $40m in funds. The funds will be used "to acquire, co-finance anddistribute high-quality theatrical motion pictures in the internationalmarketplace and ...
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Baeres 'had to destroy' Intertainment
The wild ride ofIntertainment Licensing CEO Rudiger "Barry" Baeres took a solemn turn onTuesday as Baeres described the collapse of his company to a jury in a SantaAna, California federal courtroom.Testifying inIntertainment's $100m film-budget fraud lawsuit against Franchise Pictures andits CEO, Elie Samaha, Baeres recounted how he became a pariah ...