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Clive Owen, Cuaron team up for Children Of Men
Clive Owen will star in Universal Pictures and StrikeEntertainment's Children Of Men, which is being directed by Alfonso Cuaron and is based on PDJames' sci-fi novel of the same name.Cuaron, Tim Sexton and David Arata co-wrote the screenplay set inthe near-future where mankind has virtually lost the ability to procreate.After ...
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Celluloid Dreams picks up Directors Fortnight entry Room
Paris-based international sales house Celluloid Dreams has pickedup all international rights on Kyle Henry's US drama Room, which was announced earlier this weekin the Directors' Fortnight line-up at Cannes.Cyndi Williams stars in the story of a working class Americanwoman who begins to have strange visions following a mid-life crisis.Jesse Scolaro, ...
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Manne's Bristol Media picks up international rights to Z Channel
Tony Manne's New York-based sales and distribution company BristolMedia has bulked up its Cannes sales slate after picking up internationalrights to Xan Cassavetes' Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession.Ironically while this will be Z Channel: A MagnificentObsession's marketdebut, the picture played out of competition at last year's CannesInternational Film Festival.Cassavetes' directorial ...
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McCormack, Cochrane star in Thousand Words thriller Forearm Shiver
Production began earlier this week in Los Angeles on ThousandWords' thriller Forearm Shiver, which marks the directorial debut of production designer and artdirector Chris Gorak (Minority Report, Blade: Trinity).Mary McCormack and RoryCochrane are starring in the picture, which chronicles a disintegratingmarriage over the course of three days in Los Angeles ...
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Sundance finalises programme for June filmmaker & screenwriter labs
Latino teens in a post 9/11 world, 1970s Los Angeles socialhistory, and sex and the Roman Catholic church inform the upcoming slate ofprojects at the Sundance Institute's June Filmmakers and Screenwriters Labs.Among the 13 project line-up this summer are Cruz Angeles's Don'tLet Me Drown, Stew andHeidi Rodewald's We Can See ...
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Platinum Studios, The Shop team for CG horror feature Bonesaw
Alan McElroy, thescreenwriter whose credits include Spawn, Halloween 4: The Return Of MichaelMyers, Wrong Turn and Ballistic:Ecks Vs Sever, has been hired towrite Bonesaw, an $18mcomputer-generated horror movie to be produced by LA-based Platinum Studios andVancouver-based computer animation specialists The Shop Productions.The film is based on theupcoming graphic novel by ...
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Bond Watch: Dame Judi Dench hints at Brosnan return
The new James Bond film, CasinoRoyale, is scheduled to shoot at the end of 2005 - although it is stilluncertain who will play 007 in the film.With ongoing rumourscirculating throughout the media world, it can be difficult to keep tabs on thelatest information. Here, ScreenDaily.com alleviates some of theconfusion by ...
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Hong Kong raises stakes in online piracy battle
Illegaldownloaders in Hong Kong are facing a two-pronged attack as both the Hong KongCustoms and Excise Department and the local film industry have taken the firstconcrete steps towards curbing online piracy. Customs announced this week that it has laid charges againsta man arrested in January on suspicion of distributing three ...
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Funny Balloons acquires world rights to Cannes trio
French sales outfit FunnyBalloons has acquired world rights to three titles selected in Un CertainRegard at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival: Amat Escalante's Sangre,Marcelo Gomes' Cinema, Aspirinas E Urubus and Delwende by S.Pierre Yameogo.Sangre is a first film by the 26 year old Mexican directormaking it eligible for the Camera ...
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Millennium Dome to host Indian Oscars
An Indian cinema awards night - christened the International Indian Film Awards (IIFA) - will be held at the Millennium Dome in London on June 24. The organisation chose London as a venue to reflect the UK's status as the leading overseas market for the Mumbai-based film industry.The show, to ...
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Almodovar ready to roll with Volver
Pedro Almodovar and producer Agustin Almodovar haveconfirmed that Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura will star in the director's newfilm, Volver, shooting from July in Spain."Volver is Michael Curtiz's Mildred Piercemeets Frank Capra's Arsenic And Old Lace, mixed with the surrealistnaturalism of my fourth film What Have I Done To Deserve ...
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UK's Labour Party outlines film policy
One week before the UK election, theruling Labour Party has published a business manifesto outlining how it willsupport the creative industries if it wins a third term.Two of the key pledges concerning thefilm industry centre on tackling piracy and securing tax incentives for filmproduction.In a statement published yesterday(April 28), the ...
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One man's Madness set to screen at Cannes
Madness In The FirstDegree is one of the many films thatwill premiere at Cannes this year.However, promises to stand out in a unique way - it has been madeentirely by one man - Geoff Searle. Everything from acting, toediting, to special effects, to production has been completed entirely bySearle.It is ...
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Iraqi cinema steals Singapore festival limelight
Iraqi cinema stole thelimelight at the Silver Screen Awards Gala of this year's SingaporeInternational Film Festival (SIFF) when Oday Rasheed's Underexposure wasdeclared best film. Billed as the first featureshot in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Underexposure lets theaudience witness 'the powerful voice of cinema trying to understand post-warBaghdad', ...
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3L Filmverleih drafts in senior management team
Ahead of this year's Cannes Film Festival,leading German DVD distributor e-m-s new media has made two high-profileappointments to the management team of its theatrical distribution arm 3LFilmverleih. PeterHeinzemann, previously managing director of the now insolvent Solo-Film Verleih[ScreenDaily.com, March 2005], has been named head of distribution anddeputy to 3L Filmverleih managing ...
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Blackstone Group cleared to take over UGC circuit in UK
US buyout firm TheBlackstone Group has been cleared to take over UGC Cinemas provided that itsells six of its cinemas.The Office of Fair Trading(OFT) said today that it will not refer the deal to the Competition Commissionif Blackstone sells certain cinemas where there are particular competitionconcerns. Blackstone acquired UGC's UKand ...
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Lions Gate brings Lord Of War to North America
Lions Gate Films has pickedup all North American rights to Andrew Niccol's action thriller Lord Of War, which stars Nic Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahanand Ethan Hawke.The picture, currently in post-production, centres on an arms dealer whoreevaluates his purpose in life while on the run from an Interpol agent.Philippe Rousselet ...
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XXX: The Next Level set to storm the world
The international blockbusterseason kicks off this weekend as Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) rollsout XXX: The Next Level onapproximately 5,000 screens in 70 markets, including six Revolutionterritories.The action sequel, called XXX: State Of The Union in North America, was due to open in France on Apr 27 on 450 screens, ...
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Celluloid picks up Euro sales on Three Times
CelluloidDreams will handle European sales for Hou Hsiao-hsien's Cannes competition entryThree Times (pictured), the Paris company said yesterday, after striking a deal with the film's French producers Paradis Films andOrly Films.Making his sixth trip to Cannes, the Taiwanese director returns with a lyricalexploration of love and memory. In this tryptych ...
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TLA picks up select int'l rights to Slutty Summer
TLA Releasing has acquiredUS, Canadian, UK and Irish home entertainment and broadcast rights toCasper Andreas' romantic comedy Slutty Summer.Following a limited New York theatrical releasethrough Embrem Entertainment on Jun 10 in New York, TLA will release thepicture on DVD and VHS on Dec 13 in the US and in 2006 ...