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Prolific slate for post-Troy Kruger
Fresh fromplaying Helen of Troy, the face that launched 1000 ships, in WolfgangPetersen's $200 million epic, Troy, German-born actress Diane Kruger isto appear alongside Ed Harris in Agnieszka Holland's low-budget, US independentfilm, Copying Beethoven. "I think this year I'm going to try to dosmaller films and more character work," Kruger ...
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Assassination Of Nixon proves popular
Senator International hascompleted key territory sales on Niels Mueller's The Assassination OfRichard Nixon which stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Don Cheadle andscreens in Un Certain Regard on May 17.UGC has taken the film forFrance, Lucky Red for Italy and Wise Policy for Japan, while Senator hasextended its sales agency ...
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Wild Bunch gets cash injection
French sales and productionoutfit Exception Wild Bunch has received a cash infusion from NY based DaedalusMedia Partners, with further capital being injected by Paris-based IrisCapital.Wild Bunch is now understoodto have $40m in funds. The funds will be used "to acquire, co-finance anddistribute high-quality theatrical motion pictures in the internationalmarketplace and ...
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Baeres 'had to destroy' Intertainment
The wild ride ofIntertainment Licensing CEO Rudiger "Barry" Baeres took a solemn turn onTuesday as Baeres described the collapse of his company to a jury in a SantaAna, California federal courtroom.Testifying inIntertainment's $100m film-budget fraud lawsuit against Franchise Pictures andits CEO, Elie Samaha, Baeres recounted how he became a pariah ...
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Morena launches Trauma, sets Saura
Spain's Morena Films isgearing up for an ambitious year with the launch of new genre label Trauma anda musical feature in development with veteran director Carlos Saura.The projects represent thetwo divergent lines of production at Morena: commercially-oriented,locally-targeted genre concepts developed in-house; and high-profileinternational fare such as Oliver Stone documentary Looking ...
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Lakeshore, Screen Gems dig into Romanian Cave
Romania again confirmed its attraction for footlooseinternational productions, with the start this week of principal photography onCave, the supernatural underground thriller from Lakeshore Entertainmentand Screen Gems.Cave, reportedly budgeted at some $20m, is the featuredebut of acclaimed commercials director Bruce Hunt, who was also second unitdirector on The Matrix.The action follows ...
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Chilean director shoots in Palestine for Vision
French-based sales companyVision International has picked up rights to Chilean picture Ultima Luna,currently in final edit. Ultima Luna was directed by Miguel Littin,Salvador Allende's former Minister of Culture.Uniquely, for a Chilean,Spanish and Mexican co-production, Ultima Luna was 100% shot inPalestine and is an entirely Arabic-languageproduction. It centres around the wave ...
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First Look rides with Minotaur
US-based First Look Mediahas acquired international rights to Jonathan English's UK, German, French andItalian horror co-production Minotaur, which is set to begin productionat Babelsberg Studios in Berlin in August with Luke Mably, Tony Todd and StevenBerkoff attached to star.Sales arm First LookInternational will begin pre-sales at Cannes and Lions Gate ...
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Spice Factory taps into South Africa
Jason Piette andMichael Cowan's Spice Factory has joined forces with South Africa's Film Afrikato co-produce films with South Africa, which is seen in the UK as a burgeoningco-production partner.The deal comes asthe UK and South Africa are expected to forge an official co-production treaty.Spice Factory, a highly active co-producer and ...
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BBC's Tweenies head for the big screen
Arclight hasstarted selling international rights to the feature film version of hit BBCchildren's television show, Tweenies.The $15m familycomedy starts shooting in the UK this September for release summer 2005. It is being co-produced by Tell Tale Films,Spice Factory and UK tax fund Movision, which will also co-finance.The film has beenwritten ...
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Asian veteran Sogabe leaves Columbia TriStar
Kunikazu Sogabe has resigned from his post as vice president of FarEast/Asia for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI)to pursue other interests in the Asian region.Sogabe, who was appointed to his current post in Feb 1998, has been withCTFDI for 23 years. He joined in 1977 as an international departmentmanagement ...
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Media Asia dials up Feng's Phone, Thieves
Premier Hong Kong studio Media Asia has picked upinternational sales rights to Cell Phone, the most recent film by one ofChina's most accomplished directors' Feng Xiaogang. The smash hit complementsthe group's burgeoning star-driven production slate which is unveiled atCannes.Cell Phone, a light-hearted drama about thea TV chat show host (Cannes ...
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Millennium Kidnapped with Go Fish
Avi Lerner and DannyDimbort's Millenium Films has boarded Arie Posin's directorial debut Kidnappedand is handling international sales on the film which will be distributeddomestically by DreamWorks specialty division Go Fish Pictures throughNewmarket Films.Ralph Fiennes, Rita Wilson,Carrie-Ann Moss, Jamie Bell, Glenn Close, Allison Janney and Camilla Belle starin the film which ...
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Lolafilms readies English pair
Spanish producer Lolafilmsis storming ahead with two Euros 10m English-language productions - includingvenerable helmer Carlos Saura's new film.Saura, whose current releaseThe 7th Day is being sold at Cannes by Lolafilms, will shoot LorenzoDa Ponte (working title) in Venice and Vienna. The story of Mozart'slibrettist, who was also something of an ...
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British talent headlines Moviehouse slate
UK-based sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has struck a three-film partnership with Subotica Entertainment, the Irish producer of Sundance success Song For ARaggy Boy.
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Lions Gate finds Garcia's Lost City
Lions Gate FilmsInternational has confirmed that it will handle international sales on AndyGarcia's directorial debut The Lost City, a dramatic Cuban love storywhich is set to begin shooting in June in the Dominican Republic, Miami and NewYork.Garcia will play the leadrole with a large ensemble cast including Dustin Hoffman, Benjamin ...
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Salvatores' Love set as English-language debut
Gabriele Salvatores, theOscar-winning Italian director of Mediterraneo and I'm Not Scared,will make his English-language feature debut The Rules Of Love in Canadaas an Italy/Canada co-production with Toronto-based Capri Films and Rome-basedColorado Film Production.Inspired by the novel TheLoves Of Judith by Meir Shalev, The Rules Of Love was scripted byLaura Philips; ...
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Liam Neeson mulls Breakfast
Neil Jordan hasapproached Liam Neeson to join the cast of his upcoming black comedy BreakfastOn Pluto.Neeson would playthe father of the main character, a boy who flees Ireland to end up as atransvestite prostitute in London, who will be played by rising Irish starCillian Murphy.Jordan, whostarts shooting for Pathe Pictures ...
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Harvey Weinstein to publish memoirs
Miramax co-chairman HarveyWeinstein has closed a deal with HarperCollins Publishers for North Americanand UK publication rights to his memoirs. And Weinstein plans to donate allprofits from the book to three charities: The Robin Hood Foundation, Paul Newman'sThe Hole In The Wall Gang Camp and amfAR.The memoir will trace thelives of ...
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Boorman heads Rai Cinemas' English-language drive
Italy's Rai Cinema is liningup a John Boorman Roman epic as part of move to bankroll a slate of Englishlanguage features, and is also backing new Italian projects from Cannesveterans Marco Bellocchio and Pupi Avati.John Boorman is in talks todirect an adaptation of Marguerite Yourcenar's historical novel, Memoirs OfHadrian, a ...