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Cannes market buzz titles 2007: Latin America
From starry commercial films to projects from world-renowned auteurs, Screen previews some of the hot Latin American projects in the market at Cannes. Click the sales company names below to navigate to the relevant websites.BrazilElaine Guerini in Sao Paulo More than 30 Brazilian film companies will be at the market ...
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Imax owners plan assault on Oslo cinema market
Investment company Norway Cinema Group (NCG) - which operates Oslo's Imax theatre - is challenging the local authorities' dominance of the Oslo exhibition market with plans for a 10-screen multiplex scheduled to open in 2003.The complex, which represents an investment of $10m-$12m, will be built in Oslo's affluent seaside neighbourhood ...
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Cannes market buzz titles 2007: Europe
From starry commercial films to projects from world-renowned auteurs, Screen correspondents preview some of the hot European projects in the market at Cannes. Click the sales company names below to navigate to the relevant websites.UKWendy Mitchell in London Among this year's hottest UK projects is Incendiary, from Bridget Jones's Diary ...
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My Blueberry Nights
Dir: Wong Kar Wai. 2007. US. 111mins Life is as plaintive and banal as a country western ballad in My Blueberry Nights. Wong Kar Wai's English-language debut may have all the trappings of an American road movie but at the core it is a characteristically dreamy exploration of love, loss ...
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Cannes market buzz titles 2007: North America
From starry commercial films to projects from world-renowned auteurs, Screen previews some of the hot North American projects in the market at Cannes. Click the sales company names below to navigate to the relevant websites.Jeremy Kay in Los AngelesFocus Features International is bringing the Coen brothers’ spy caper Burn After ...
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Cannes market buzz titles 2007: Asia
From starry commercial films to projects from world-renowned auteurs, Screen previews some of the hot Asian projects in the market at Cannes. Click the sales company names below to navigate to the relevant websites.IndiaLiz Shackleton in MumbaiInitially a broadcaster, UTV Motion Pictures has evolved into an integrated studio that also ...
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Cannes market buzz titles 2007
From starry commercial films to projects from world-renowned auteurs, Screen previews some of the hot projects in the market at Cannes (May 16-27).Click on the regional links to the right - each page lists major projects, with links to sales company contact details.
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Industry Trust launches $6m campaign to tackle copyright theft
The Industry Trust for Intellectual Property Awareness is kicking off the largest anti-piracy campaign ever in the UK on June 1 to educate the public about the damaging effects of what they now refer to as 'Knocking Off'.New research shows that copyright theft cost the film and television industry $912m ...
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Suvari, Huston and Murino join Garden Of Eden
The UK's Berwick Street Productions has recruited Mena Suvari, Jack Huston Caterina Murino, and Richard E Grant will star in their forthcoming The Garden Of Eden, which John Irvin (Hamburger Hill) will direct from Ernest Hemingway's story.Omega Entertainment is handling sales.The project will shoot at Cuidad de la Luz in ...
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Satanas takes feature prize at first Emerging Talent Fest in Monaco
The inaugural International Emerging Talent Film Festival ended Tuesday night in Monte Carlo, Monaco, with the festival's Wing Award for best feature going to Satanas by Andres Baiz from Columbia/Mexico.Best director, feature, went to Tai-Sik Kim for Driving With My Wife's Lover (Korea), while best director, short, went to Lily ...
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Films Distribution Cannes slate includes competitor Tehilim
In a nice twist of timing, Films Distribution comes to Cannes this year with a pair of past masterpieces and a companion piece from a current master.The company recently acquired Albert Lamorisse's classic The Red Balloon which won a Palme d'Or and an Oscar in 1956 and 1957 respectively. Alongside ...
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Shochiku unveils Korean co-production
Japanese major Shochiku and Korea's Cinema Service are teaming up to produce $1.8m (Y200m) drama Pure Love Melody (Sunebo), billed as one of the most equal co-productions between the two countries since Korea lifted its 35-year-old cultural embargo against Japan. At a Tokyo press conference yesterday, representatives from the ...
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CMC boards Chen Kaige's biopic of opera singer Mei Lanfang
Taiwan's CMC Entertainment has boarded Chen Kaige's upcoming biopic of Chinese opera singer Mei Lanfang as co-producer alongside China Film Group. Leon Lai and Zhang Ziyi are being lined up to star in the $15m film which is tentatively scheduled to start shooting in July. Mei, who was famous for ...
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Becker rocks on Elijah Wood's Iggy Pop story
Becker International has come on for international sales on Nick Gomez's The Passenger, based on Iggy Pop's life during the 1960s and 1970s.Elijah Wood will play the lead, with a script written by Eric Schmid.This Is That Corporation and Traction Media are executive producing, with Traction representing North American rights. ...
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Horizon to represent four films from Irreverent Media
Horizon Motion Pictures has signed a deal to represent four projects from Irreverent Media Ltd (IML) in Cannes as executive producer and co-producer seeking sales, distribution and co-production partners.The quartet is headed by The Light-House, a story starring Kevin Zegers and William Hurt that is said to be inspired by ...
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Morgan's KMI to sell Kevin Costner comedy Swing Vote
Kathy Morgan's Los Angeles-based sales agency KMI arrives on the Croisette buoyed by the acquisition of the Kevin Costner comedy Swing Vote.Costner will play a beer-guzzling layabout whose precocious 12-year-old daughter triggers a chain of events that renders her father's ballot the deciding vote in the upcoming Presidental Election.The situation ...
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Pyramide lands US deal on hot-selling Irina Palm
Pyramide International has concluded a US sale on Berlin competitor Irina Palm. Sam Gabarski's Marianne Faithfull vehicle has gone to Strand Releasing as well as having sold to nearly 40 other territories.Pyramide is in Cannes with seven films in selection including Catherine Breillat's competition debut An Old Mistress.Other titles include ...
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Ealing closes Germany, Benelux deals for St Trinian's
Ealing Studios International has sold its girls school project St Trinian's, which is still shooting, to Germany (Concorde/Telemunchen) and Benelux (Paridiso). Entertainment already has UK rights. Also, Ealing Studios announced that Mischa Barton of The OC fame has been confirmed to join the film's large, star-studded ensemble cast.The cast already ...
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Derek Jacobi joins cast of Schrader's Adam Resurrected
Derek Jacobi has joined Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe on the cast of Paul Schrader's holocaust drama Adam Resurrected.Based on Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk's novel, the story follows a former circus entertainer who was spared the gas chamber to entertain Jews as they marched to their deaths.After the war he ...
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Frears doesn't expect any 'brutality' as he leads Cannes jury
Stephen Frears and his Cannes competition jury made their first public appearance in Cannes on Wednesday at the festival's opening day press conference.Frears was flanked by jury members Toni Collette, Maggie Cheung, Maria de Medeiros, Sarah Polley, Marco Bellocchio, Orhan Pamuk, Michel Piccoli and Abderrahmane Sissako.When asked whether any of ...