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Woo and Wong boost StudioCanal slate
Adding to their big-ticket Wong Kar-wai film A Lady From Shanghai, StudioCanal hascome to Cannes boasting a new collaboration with John Woo and a line-up thatincludes films from RichardGrandpierre and directors Diane Kurys and Xavier Beauvois The studio is also promising a surprise visitfrom Sydney Pollack.Woo, who is also on ...
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Warner Bros snaps up Habana Blues for Latin America
Warner Bros has taken rightsin Latin America to Un Certain Regard closing film Habana Blues.The company boarded the filmat script stage and kept rights in Portugal, Italy and Spain, where it has beenseen by more than 600,000 people since it bowed last month.Pyramide International, whichco-produced the film and has rights ...
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Warner international chief Frumkes calls it quits
Ed Frumkes, the president of international distribution and marketing for Warner Bros Pictures, is to leave the studio when his contract expires in December.The 13 year-old veteran of the studio, who took over from Wayne Duband as head of Warner International in Feb 1996, leaves on a high, after his ...
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Lolafilms to sell off sales arm
Spanish producer-distributorLolafilms is restructuring - the company is to sell off a majority holding inits international sales and distribution arm.Founder and CEO AndresVicente Gomez will immediatelyfocus on revving up production on two ambitious Lolafilms biopics.Gomez bought back his companylast year from former majority shareholder Telefonica, and recently closed asale of ...
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Strand shells out on turtle drama
NewYork-based Strand Releasing has acquired US rights for Tim Kirkman's Loggerheads from Andrew Herwitz's Film SalesCompany.Strandco-presidents Jon Gerrans and Marcus Hu are now planning a November release for the familydrama which premiered in official selection atSundance earlier this year.Herwitz has also sold Israeli rights toShani Films and expects to ...
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X goes for Zucker punch
X World Sales has landeddistribution deals for North America and Central and Eastern Europe for DaniLevy's Go For Zucker! - An Unorthodox Comedy (Alles Auf Zucker!) which received 10German Film Award nominations this week.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com, X-Filme creativepool's head of business and legal affairs Andro Steinborn said that First RunFeatures ...
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Von Trier sets aside USA trilogy to renew his Dogme vows
Cannes favourite Lars VonTrier, in competition with the second part of his USA trilogy Manderlay, will shoot aDogme film in February next year before making part three, Wasington, which has nowbeen postponed until 2007.The film, his second Dogmeproduction produced by Trier's Zentropa, has been titled Direktoren For DetHele in Danish ...
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Frears set for The Queen and Di
In a move likely to ruffleestablishment feathers in the UK, Stephen Frears is going ahead with TheQueen, his long-gestating featureabout the death of Princess Diana, "the people's princess." Co-financed by Pathe Pictures and Granada Screen, The Queen is scheduled to shoot in September. It is likely toair first on TV ...
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King pledges AFM return for Initial
Graham King assured buyers this week that his InitialEntertainment Group will have a new slate of films on offer for buyers by AFMin Nov, following the news in April that he has signed a first-look deal withWarner Bros. Speaking from the New York City set of Martin Scorsese's TheDeparted, which ...
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Inarritu's Babel towers into view
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu revealed exclusive details of his latestopus Babel in an interview with Screen from the Morocco set this week. Although he says it is more challenging structurally than AmoresPerros, it has similar themes of 'love and how we deal with it as humanbeings, while on a microscopic level ...
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Street racers on track for Cannes
Bill Johnson and JimSeibel's Los Angeles-based sales and distribution house Inferno Distributionwill be revving up interest at Cannes on Joey Curtis' street racing drama 4NOZA, which played in official selection at Berlinearlier this year.Inferno has acquired allinternational rights to the picture, which won the best cinematography award atSundance 2003 and ...
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Valley to hit LA heights
The North American premiere of David Jacobson's Un Certain Regard entry DownIn The Valley will open the 2005 Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs from Jun16-26.George Clooney will receive the inaugural Spirit of Independence Awardon June 25 and will take part in an on-stage interview with critic andcommentator Elvis Mitchell ...
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Kicking & Screaming
Dir:Jesse Dylan. US. 2005. 93mins.WillFerrell's comic talents are used to very variable effect in Kicking &Screaming, a haphazard family comedy that attempts to combine kid-friendlyhumour with something a bit edgier for youngish parents. It's the kind of safefamily film that sometimes finds a surprisingly large audience, and Ferrell'sgrowing star power ...
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Kicking & Screaming
Dir:Jesse Dylan. US. 2005. 93mins.WillFerrell's comic talents are used to very variable effect in Kicking &Screaming, a haphazard family comedy that attempts to combine kid-friendlyhumour with something a bit edgier for youngish parents. It's the kind of safefamily film that sometimes finds a surprisingly large audience, and Ferrell'sgrowing star power ...
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Kicking And Screaming
Dir:Jesse Dylan. US. 2005. 93mins.WillFerrell's comic talents are used to very variable effect in Kicking &Screaming, a haphazard family comedy that attempts to combine kid-friendlyhumour with something a bit edgier for youngish parents. It's the kind of safefamily film that sometimes finds a surprisingly large audience, and Ferrell'sgrowing star power ...
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The Longest Penalty In The World (El Penalti Mas Largo Del Mundo)
Dir:Jesse Dylan. US. 2005. 93mins.WillFerrell's comic talents are used to very variable effect in Kicking &Screaming, a haphazard family comedy that attempts to combine kid-friendlyhumour with something a bit edgier for youngish parents. It's the kind of safefamily film that sometimes finds a surprisingly large audience, and Ferrell'sgrowing star power ...
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Three Dollars
Dir: Robert Connolly.Aus. 2005. 119mins.Based on an award-winning 1998 Australian novel, ThreeDollars is about a good, honest man utterly unable to compromise hisintegrity. David Wenham is sensitively intelligent in a role that requires himto bravely suffer a variety of modern economic tortures, from sacking andbetrayal to bankruptcy and destitution.Made with ...
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German gov't to launch Euros 90m film fund
The German government is tocreate a venture capital fund with a total volume of Euros 90m to support theGerman film industry over the next three years.The funding instrument wasthe result of discussions between a specially convened working group of theFederal Chancellery and the Finance Ministry (ScreenDaily, May 4 2005). Itfollows ...
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Romero's Dead to world premiere at CineVegas
George ARomero's Land Of The Deadwill receive its world premiere as the closing night picture at the upcomingCineVegas Film Festival in Las Vegas on Jun 18.Romero will also receive thefestival's 2005 Vanguard Director Award from Atmosphere Entertainment chairmanMark Canton, who produced the picture with Peter Grunwald and Bernie Goldmann.Horror fans ...
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Sharon Stone signs for Eslinger's Cannes project
Sharon Stone has signed on tostar in Ryan Eslinger's When A Man Falls In The Forest, one of 18projects by young filmmakers beingshowcased in the inaugural Cannes sidebar L'Atelier du Festival."I think that Ryan Eslingeris enormously talented and I look forward to our collaboration," Stone said ina statement.The star added ...