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Martial arts heaven as Jackie and Jet star together for first time
Going under the secretive working title of Untitled J& J Project, the project is being lined up for a 2007 start and isbeing sold here by Arclight Films.Based on a classic Chinese legend, thestory follows a teenager who gets transported to ancient China after hesteals a mystical staff from a ...
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Caetano film cleans up in first competition stampede
In the first buying stamped for a competitiontitle at the Cannes market this year, Wild Bunch has concluded a raft of dealson Adrian Caetano's Buenos Aires 1977(Cronica De Una Fuga).The Weinstein Company took North American, NewZealand and Australian rights while Japan's Comstock Org and the UK's Momentumalso picked up the ...
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Bridging the Gap
After transforming a stodgy French water company into a sparkling communications concern, Jean-Marie Messier now faces the task of smoothing the union between his creation and a Hollywood studio. Patrick Frater examines his credentials. Jean-Marie Messier is the ideal person to put together a trans-Atlantic conglomerate. A Frenchman who has ...
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Hunchback planned as $10m UK-Poland co-production
Producers Nik Goldman and Max Ryan are setting up a$10m UK-Poland co-production for a new adaptation of The Hunchback of NotreDame.The project, entitled Hunchback,will star Ryan, John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee, Said Taghmaoui, StevenBerkoff and Jack Ryan. Battlefield Earth's Roger Christianwill direct.The 10-week shoot will take place this summer inKrakow and ...
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Lights In The Dusk (Laitakaupungin Valot)
Dir/scr: Aki Kaurismaki. Fin. 2006. 80mins.LightsIn The Darkrepresents business as usual, more or less, for Finnish gloomsterAki Kaurismaki - albeit leavened with somewhat lessof his distinctive dry humour. This social-realist tale, with a dash of filmnoir, is about a loner whose life goes from bad to worse to worse still, ...
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Shortbus
Dir/scr: John Cameron Mitchell.US.2006. 102mins.A film thatshows three men having no-holds-barred group sex while bawling out The Star-Spangled Banner at the top oftheir lungs is not going to delight the US censors - but John CameronMitchell's follow-up to Hedwig And The AngryInch has plenty to offer the rest of us. ...
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Southland Tales
Dir/scr: Richard Kelly. US. 2006. 140mins.Maybe SouthlandTales, Richard Kelly's long-awaited follow-up to cult sleeper Donnie Darko,will work as a multimedia project with publishing, music industry and websitetie-ins; it certainly doesn't hang together as a film. Multi-genre film-makingis always a challenge, and this futuristic black comedy musical thriller,larded with facile high-school ...
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Rapid Eye gets German rights to two from UTV
India's UTV has sold twotitles - Rang De Basanti and Don - to Germany's Rapid Eye Movies.Rang De Basanti, starring Indian superstar Aamir Khan, will have afull theatrical release in Germany on June 16. The film has broken new groundin India by becoming a massive hit despite its political theme, ...
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X-Men: The Last Stand
Dir: Brett Ratner. US. 2006. 105mins.Brett Ratner perfunctorily signs off on one of current cinema'smost credible comic-book series with X-Men:The Last Stand, a pulpy action ride that will satisfy teenage audiences butfails to stand up to its immediate predecessor in terms of dramatic cohesion.Compensationcomes in the form of fiery pyrotechnics ...
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Wild Bunch taps into Im Kwon-taek's 100th film
Legendary Korean director ImKwon-taek's 100th film has been acquired by France's Wild Bunch forinternational sales. The drama's working title is Cheonnyeonhak and will be ready in 2007.Wild Bunch acquired the filmfrom new Korean production powerhouse Prime Entertainment. Prime, which ishandling sales itself on other titles, has bought production entities CoreaEntertainment ...
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Climates (Iklimler)
Dir/scr: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Turk-Fr. 2006. 97mins.In 2002, Turkish director NuriBilge Ceylan made his mark on the Cannes competitionwith Distant (Uzak). That, his third feature,struck many audiences as a resounding blow in favour of the great art-cinematradition of films as contemplative, thematically rich personal essays. Ceylan's growing reputation as a ...
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Momentum strikes deals for P.S and Spring Break
Momentum has acquired the UK rights to P.S. I LoveYou from Summit Entertainment and the UK and Spanish rights to Spring Break In Bosnia from QED.Richard LaGravanese will direct the big-screenadaptation of the P.S. I Love You by Irish author Cecelia Ahern. Hilary Swank will star. ForrestGump's Wendy Finerman will ...
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Lescure to head Vivendi Universal film activities
Vivendi staff are to get the top jobs in the new Vivendi Universal combine, but Canal Plus' boss Pierre Lescure will oversee all film and TV activities.Jean-Marie Messier, Vivendi chairman and architect of the deal (see profile), will as expected, become chairman and CEO at the head of a 20-member ...
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Stella Sze takes key role at Global Entertainment Group
Global Entertainment Group(GEG), the recently formed production and financing arm of Hong Kongentrepreneur Johnny Hon's Global Group, has appointed Stella Sze to oversee itspush into the Chinese market.The company, which listedyesterday (May 23) on London's Ofex index, aims to produce and finance film andTV productions aimed at Asia and in ...
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New UK festival Britdoc adds pitching forum
Nokia has come on board as a principal sponsor ofBritdoc, the UK's new international documentary festival. The event isscheduled for July 26-28 in Oxford.The festival has announced a documentary featurepitching forum, presented by Channel 4 offshoot More4, for UK film-makers topitch a panel of commissioners and funders. The panel will ...
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Thessaloniki festival to welcome Wenders and Salles
Wim Wenders and Walter Salles will be attending the47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which will run November 17-26.This year's festival will include a Wim Wendersretrospective, with Wenders in attendance for screenings and also to conduct amasterclass. His wife Donata Wenders will also exhibit photos she has taken ofhis films.Another special ...
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Linklater plans Chet Baker project
Richard Linklater is movingfrom Fast Food Nation into aproject about Chet Baker called Chesney which will look at one day in the life of the jazz legend before he wasfamous.Describing the film as'a small jazz movie,' Linklater said this week that the film would bemade independently. Linklater is in Cannes ...
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Rai Trade lines up A Fortune-Teller Told Me
International sales agentRai Trade is lining up a major English-language adaptation of Tiziano Terzani'sbest-selling novel, A Fortune-Teller Told Me.The book recounts thejournalist's experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, where he waswarned by a fortune teller not to risk flying for a whole year or he would diein a plane ...
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Fortune Star sells remake rights to A Better Tomorrow
Korean production companyFingerprint Pictures has acquired remake rights to classic Hong Kong actiontitle A Better Tomorrow, directedby John Woo in 1986, from Hong Kong-based Fortune Star Entertainment.Fingerprint, founded byKorean producer Park Hyung-jun (My Boyfriend Is Type B), is currently recruiting scriptwriters and adirector for the Korean remake which is planned ...