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US turns up the heat on Asian remakes
Hollywood's fervour for remaking Asian genre titles is reaching fever pitch. Dimension Films has acquired North American and remake rights to Cinema Service's comedy-drama that has the working title Teacher Mr Kim. And separately, Cineclick Asia is finalising a deal with Los Angeles-based production and distribution group Mosaic Media for ...
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Fortissimo Eyes up horror sequel
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up world sales rights to The Eye II, the sequel to Danny and Oxide Pang's stylish horror hit The Eye."We are thrilled at the level of interest from buyers. In many cases we have had bids even before the first film has been released in ...
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AFM conference assesses film funding jigsaw
In the wake of Germany's Neuer Markt collapse, global television's retreat from film buying and the general economic downturn, independent production and distribution companies are being forced to reassess their business models and rely on a funding jigsaw from an ever broader and enterprising array of sources, a wide-ranging AFM ...
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Dario Argento set to shoot The Card Player
Cult Italian director Dario Argento is lining up a new thriller, entitled The Card Player. Produced by Medusa, the film starts shooting in March with hot Italian actress Stefania Rocca (Casomai, Resurrection) in the lead role. Worldwide distribution rights are being handled by Adriana Chiesa Enterprises. Argento's last film, Sleepless ...
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Polanski's The Pianist triumphs at the BAFTAs
Roman Polanski's The Pianist completed a dazzling weekend last night, winning the best film and director trophies at the British Film Academy Awards in London. On Saturday night in Paris, the film swept the Cesar awards taking best film, director and actor prizes. Brody, who won the Cesar but lost ...
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Daredevil still flies high
Fox/Regency's Daredevil heroically held off the competition and clung on top spot over the weekend with an $18.9m haul that took its running total after 10 days to $70.3m, according to studio estimates released today (Feb 23). The Marvel Comics adaptation, which stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, is set ...
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AFM 2003 verdict: slow but steady
A few disillusioned buyers may have already left the AFM deal tables this weekend to try their luck at the slots in Las Vegas, but if the market corridors felt emptier this year, at least the remaining buyers were serious. Indeed, many of those who resisted sin city's allure spent ...
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Cannes contenders take shape
Cannes this year looks set to be a feast of high-art with stalwarts Lars Von Trier, Michael Haneke, Arturo Ripstein, Peter Greenaway and Ingmar Bergman all set to light up the Croisette with their latest films. According to international gossip - but absolutely without any sort of confirmation from the ...
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Italian drama heads for box-office glory
Italian director Gabriele Muccino's new film, Remember Me (Ricordati di Me), has grossed a massive $6.8m since its release on February 14th - placing it well on the path to local blockbuster glory. The bitter-sweet drama stars Son's Room actress Laura Morante, Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Teeth), emerging actress Nicoletta Romanov and ...
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US distributors seek legal block on Mexico's cinema levy
In an exclusive interview with Screen International, Steve Solot, MPA senior vice president for Latin America (pictured) has commented about the recent uproar in Mexico over MPAA head Jack Valenti's recent letter to Mexican President Vicente Fox. (screendaily.com/Feb 10 & 20). In his missive, Valenti warned President Fox that ...
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Australia embraces DVD
DVD appears to have gained a foothold in the Australian market according to recent statistics that show that 63% of video stores were carrying DVDs at the end of 1999 compared to only 35% at the end of the previous year.In addition, a total of 529 titles were released ...
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Movies phone home in Germany
Having been one of the most depressed places around, German TV is set for a rebound thanks to last week's takeover of Premiere and the arrival of Deutsche Telekom as a video-on-demand (VoD) broadcaster. Represented by former Kirch executive, Daniel Otto, Telekom's on-line subsidiary T-Online is at the AFM as ...
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Korea's most expensive live-action film begins shooting
Leading production house Kang JeGyu Films has just got underway on the largest ever live-action film - and possibly the country's most topical given current global tensions - ever made in Korea. Tae Guk Gi - which translates literally as "Korean national flag" - is a $11.5m about the Korean ...
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Modern classics for sale at UK's 3DD
UK distributor 3DD Entertainment is offering its newly acquired library of modern classics for sale at the AFM, including rarely seen film versions of Peter Hall's adaptation of the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters directed by Lawrence Olivier. 3DD acquired all worldwide media rights (excluding ...
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Lions Gate hip hops with urban sales push
Lions Gate International has launched a sales initiative of the urban movies that its parent company produces in an effort to capitalise on the worldwide popularity of hip-hop and US black culture. The company scored sales success with Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg vehicle The Wash, which grossed over $10m in the ...
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Arclight skateboards with Deck Dogz
Arclight Films has added Australian skateboarding movie Deck Dogz to its sales slate. The film is directed by Steve Pasvolsky, who was nominated for a short live action Oscar for his film Inja, and is being produced by Bill and Jennifer Bennett and their b:j films. Bill Bennett is the ...
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Keitel political thriller sells to Brazil, Portugal
The Galindez Mystery, a political thriller starring Harvey Keitel and Saffron Burrows, has been bought by Mandra Film for Brazil and Madragoa Filmes for Portugal. The film is handled by Slav International, the new sales outfit founded in January by former TF1 International executive Max Saidel. It is an adaptation ...
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Lightning gets rights on The Job
Lightning Entertainment has picked up international sales rights on The Job, a recently wrapped crime thriller produced by Dan Levin and Marc Levin's Platform Entertainment. Directed by Kenny Golde, the film stars Daryl Hannah as a cold-blooded contract killer who becomes pregnant and struggles with the choice of whether to ...
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Armada pre-sells One Point Zero
Chris Sievernich's Armada Pictures International has announced a raft of pre-sales on Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Steiner Thorsson's thriller One Point Zero. New Select has picked up the film for Japan, New Legend has bought for Germany, A-Film Distribution for the Netherlands, Cinema Park for Russia and Jumbo Film for ...
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Korean horror scares up French sale
Cineclick Asia secured a "low six figures" pre-sale of Korean horror flick A Tale Of Two Sisters to France's Wild Side Films. The film, based on a traditional Korean folk tale is a chamber piece involving an interfering ghost, a cruel stepmother and two sisters with very different characters. The ...