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Senator boards Bridge Of San Luis Rey with De Niro
Senator International has acquired worldwide sales rights excluding France and Spain for The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, an epic new adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 1927 novel which will star an impressive ensemble led by Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne and Harvey Keitel. Mary McGuckian, the Irish director ...
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Alcon, Summit team on talking zebra picture
Summit Entertainment has pacted with Alcon Entertainment, its partner on Insomnia and Affair Of The Necklace, to handle international rights on a major new family movie called Racing Stripes which Warner Bros plans to release domestically in the second half of 2004. Summit will pre-sell the film through IS Film ...
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Wright to direct, Dorff to star in CDI's Mule
Geoffrey Wright has signed on to direct and Stephen Dorff to star in Mule, the $17m actioner about the drug trade in Los Angeles, which is being produced by Tony Ludwig and Alan Riche (The Family Man, Deep Blue Sea) represented here by Chris Davis International. Dorff will also act ...
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CJ strikes early deals at AFM
Korean major, CJ Entertainment sold German rights to two of its leading titles sci-fi fantasy Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl and cyber-thriller Unborn But Forgotten (pictured) to I-On New Media. The deals were struck at the end of last week's European Film Market in Berlin. An earlier Berlin deal ...
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French Cinema Rendezvous announces 2003 lineup in NYC
The latest titles from Claude Berri, Benoit Jacquot and Raymond Depardon are among a line-up of 14 French pictures that will receive their New York premieres in the upcoming festival, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2003. The event, which runs from Mar 7-16 at the Walter Reade Theatre, also features Olivier ...
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Susan Sarandon to star for Andrew Stevens' Powerhouse
Susan Sarandon is in final talks to star in the drama A Whale In Montana for Powerhouse Entertainment, the multimedia outfit headed up by Franchise Pictures co-founder Andrew Stevens that is making its AFM debut this year.Whale In Montana centres on a widowed, small town doctor whose life is transformed ...
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Blake Edwards remakes 10 with MDP
MDP Worldwide is to produce 10 Again, Blake Edwards’ remake of his 1979 hit, 10, MDP chairman and CEO Mark Damon announced at the AFM. Edwards will write and direct the picture, which originally starred Dudley Moore as the lovelorn jet setter in search of the perfect mate, famously played ...
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Malaga fest lines up Aragon and Arias tributes
The sixth annual Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 25-May 3) will include tributes to director Manuel Gutierrez Aragon and actor Imanol Arias.Malaga will also present a posthumous homage to Juan Antonio Bardem, director of 1950's classics like Death Of A Cyclist (Muerte De Un Ciclista) and Main Street (Calle ...
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Lagaan director signs Shahrukh Khan for next feature
Ashutosh Gowarikar, director of India's Oscar nominated cricket epic Lagaan, is lining up a new $6m film starring Shahrukh Khan.Called Swades, the film will be funded by Mumbai's UTV Motion Pictures and produced through Ashutosh Gowarikar Productions. Billed as a patriotic film set in contemporary times, it is being targeted ...
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Punks
Dir: Patrik-Ian Polk. USA. 2000. 103 mins.Prod Co: Tall Skinny Black Guy, Edmonds Entertainment. Int'l sales: contact Edmonds Entertainment. Prods: Tracey Edmonds, Michael McQuarn, Patrik-Ian Polk. Exec prod: Kenneth Edmonds. Scr: Patrik-Ian Polk. DoP: Rory King. Ed: Anne Misawa. Mus: Whole 9, Patrik-Ian Polk. Main cast: Seth Gilliam, Dwight Ewell, ...
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Icelandic Film Foundation drafts in new chief
The Icelandic Film Foundation, the new name for The Icelandic Film Fund, has appointed Laufey Gudjonsdottir as its new managing director. .The appointment of Gudjonsdottir, a former buyer from the Icelandic national broadcaster, has meant that the former managing director of the Film Fund, Thorfinnur Omarsson, has been forced to ...
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French projects set to animate Cartoon Movie market
Reflecting the strong French animation market, over a quarter of the 47 animation feature projects looking for financing or distribution at this year's Cartoon Movie market in Babelsberg (March 13-15) have been initiated by French animation studios. Among the 13 French projects, four are from Les Armateurs (Crossroad - The ...
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Seafood director cooks up second feature with Century Hero
The second feature from award winning Chinese director Zhu Wen - South Of The Clouds - is scheduled to start shooting in Tianjin in northern China next week, with backing from state-owned studio Century Hero Film Investment. The US$363,000 (RMB3m) film, also scripted by Zhu, tells the story of a ...
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Spanish gov't plans to monitor TV investment in film
The Spanish government has said its plans to clarify and regulate television investment in local films more strictly in the future.The move could help appease the film sector, which last week released a seven-page statement detailing a series of measures urgently needed to boost the Spanish film sector, including stricter ...
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Japanese director set for Grudge re-match
Japanesedirector Takashi Shimizu is to remake his horrorflick The Grudge (Ju-On) for GhostHouse Pictures, the newly hatched genre label formed by Sam Raimi, Rob Tappertand Senator International. TakaIchise, who produced Ringu (successfully remade by Dreamworks SKG as The Ring) and Ju-On, will produce for Ghost House. The pictureis being fast ...
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Franchise sells eight to Japan's Artport
ElieSamaha's Franchise Pictures is in aggressive form at the American Film Marketthis year, having already closed an eight-picture deal with Artport in Japan thatSamaha says is worth in excess of $9m.Amongthe titles to which Artport picked up rights are David Mamet's new picture Spartan, which stars Val Kilmerand William H ...
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Artisan enters Ellroy's Dark Places
ArtisanEntertainment has closed on its acquisition of North American distributionrights to My Dark Places, the film of James Ellroy's autobiographical novel, in a deal struck with Myriad Pictures. Thefilm is to be directed by Robert Greenwald and star David Duchovny as Ellroy,who finds himself embroiled in the investigation of his ...
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Israel's Broken Wings takes flight at AFM
UK-basedsales agent Pathe International has sold Nir Bergman's darkly comic Israelidrama Broken Wingsto Optimum Releasing for the UK, Diaphana for France and to Cine Video Y TV forMexico in deals finalised at the American Film Market.On the backof the film's outing in Berlin, where it went to Sony Pictures Classics ...
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Arclight's Twins Effect secures multiple berths
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has picked up North American and Latin American rights in all media on The Twins Effect, the made-in-Hong Kong martial arts vampire picture sold by sales newcomer Arclight Films.The Twins Effect is directed by Dante Lam and features Hong Kong teen singing sensations Charlene Choi and ...
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Theron, Townsend put heads in Duigan's Clouds
Reallife couple Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend have joined Penelope Cruz andThomas Kretschmann in the cast of John Duigan's next film Head In The Clouds which Gary Hamilton'sArclight Films is representing for worldwide sales. NataliePortman was originally attached to star in the lead role with Cruz, but Theronhas taken her ...