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Herod's Law
Dir: Luis Estrada. Mexico. 1999. 120 mins.Prod Co: Bandidos Films, Imcine. Prod: Luis Estrada. Exec prod: Sandra Solares. Scr: Luis Estrada, Jaime Sampietro, Fernando Leon, Vicente Lenero. DoP: Norman Christianson. Prod des: Ana Solares, Salvador Parra. Ed: Luis Estrada. Mus: Santiago Ojeda. Main cast: Damian Alcazar, Pedro Armendariz, Leticia Huijara, ...
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Helkon throws money behind zombie shocker
UK distributor Helkon SK has picked up Boll KG'szombie feature House Of The Dead.The film, which had already been sold France and Spainbefore the American Film Market this week, has, as part of the Helkonacquisition package, an aggressive P&A commitment of EUR(Eu)1.5million. The sale was made with sales agent Interactive ...
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More spanking sales business for Secretary
Lions Gate Internationalhas closed two of last unsold territories on Steven Shainberg'ssado-masochistic relationship drama Secretary, selling the Sundance prize-winning film to ArsenalFilmverleih in Germany and Manga Films in Spain.StarringJames Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal, in the role that earned her a Golden Globenomination this year for best actress in a comedy ...
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Entertainment croons with Spacey's Darin biopic
Leading UK distributor Entertainment Film Distributors(EFD) has emerged as the first international buyer for Kevin Spacey's BobbyDarin biopic, Beyond The Sea.The story of the legendary American crooner, which Spaceywill direct and star in, was unveiled yesterday at the AFM by sales agent MDPWorldwide. Spacey will produce with Arthur Friedman, Bernie ...
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Father Amaro, Aro Tolbukhin lead Mexico's Oscar nominations
Foreign Oscar nominee The Crime Of Father Amaro (El Crimen Del Padre Amaro) and Spanish/Mexican co-production Aro Tolbukhin (In The Mind Of the Assassin) took 13 nominations apiece including Best Picture, Director and various acting categories for Mexico's Oscars, the 45th Ariel Awards. The nominees were announced yesterday (Feb ...
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The Principles Of Lust
Dir: Penny Woolcock. UK. 2003. 105mins.A dark moral tale with a steely eye for life's nastier side, The Principles Of Lust is a compelling and discomforting narrative with intellectual ambitions only too rare in UK cinema. Its visual rawness, distinctly European feel and provocative subject matter will no doubt make ...
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His Brother (Son Frere)
Dir: Patrice Chereau. France. 2003. 89mins.Patrice Chereau's bleak and uncompromising new film about terminal illness and fraternal love is one of the director's most austere and least commercial works to date. Intimacy, to be sure, was not an easy ride for audiences, but it had more focus and structure to ...
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National Security
Dir: Dennis Dugan. US. 2002. 90mins. The interracial cop comedy has not looked too healthy of late, but National Security suggests there may still be life in the genre. Well designed for its star and executive producer Martin Lawrence, the reliably funny, action-spiked buddy caper has taken $35m after four ...
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Australia's Film Finance Corp greenlights two new films
Writer/director Chris Kennedy and his co-producer John Winter, the Sydney-based duo behind Doing Time For Patsy Cline, are to get a second outing together on A Man's Gotta Do. One of Australia's busiest and most versatile actors, John Howard, has been cast in the lead role of Eddy, who "has ...
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Bollywood's most ambitious film unveiled
With a budget of $22m, Indian film Director Rajkumar Santoshi's version of Mahabharat is likely to be the most expensive Indian film ever made.Although shooting is not scheduled to start until 2004, pre-production has been underway for some time. The sets started being built at Hyderabad's Ramoji Film City midway ...
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Celestial to launch 24-hour Chinese movie channel in March
Hong Kong's Celestial Pictures is set to roll out its 24-hour Chinese movie channel, Celestial Movies, in Malaysia and Brunei on March 3, with launches in other territories around the world to follow over the coming year. The channel will be carried on Malaysian satellite platform Astro, which is majority ...
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Mukta Arts plans $18m Indian film school
Mumbai-based film Production Company Mukta Arts is launching a film school named Whistling Woods International. "Today most of us in the industry are products of individual and instinctive talent without much professional training," Mukta Arts' Subhash Ghai told Screendaily. "We want to change that. If the Hindi film industry needs ...
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Kim Ballard joins UK's Random Harvest
Former FilmFour finance director Kim Ballard has joined UK tax-driven financier and producer Random Harvest as director of production finance. Ballard will oversee raising finance to complement Random Harvest's existing tax-based funds under the UK's Section 48 and EIS mechanisms. Random Harvest is adapting Phil Stoole's acclaimed short Schneider's 2nd ...
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Kim Basinger boards John Irving adaptation
Kim Basinger, last seen as Eminem's mother in Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile, has joined Jeff Bridges in the cast of Door In The Floor, Focus Features' film adaptation of John Irving's A Widow For One Year. Tod Williams (The Adventures Of Sebastian Cole) has adapted the novel for the screen ...
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Lions Gate goes trucking with Monsterman
Lions Gate has pre-bought all domestic rights to Michael Davis' Monsterman, an upcoming road picture that centres on a pair of college friends en route to a wedding who realise they are being pursued by a monster in a truck. The project, which is currently in pre-production, will star Eric ...
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DIC signs UK video deal
UK independent DVD distributor Prism Leisure has signed a multi-picture deal with DIC Entertainment, the children's entertainment and programming producer and distributor, to exclusively distribute DIC's feature-length animated titles in the UK. Among the titles are Sabrina, Dennis The Menace, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and Inspector Gadget's Last Case. ...
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Pearl & Dean launch charity initiative for 50th anniversary
UK cinema advertising company Pearl & Dean, has announced a new charity initiative to celebrate its 50th Anniversary.In association with Warner Village and UGC Cinemas, actor Ewan McGregor and singer Sharleen Spiteri, the company will be spearheading campaigns for both the Children's Hospice Association Of Scotland (CHAS) and Medicinema.The campaign ...
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Italy tests product placement as film financing alternative
Rome's Blue Star Movie has sealed a landmark multi-million dollar product placement deal with Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, with the multinational agreeing to fund an international short film and potentially a European feature-length picture. Blue Star Movie head Pete Maggi said Johnson & Johnson is investing "over Euros 10m" ...
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Pianist waltzes off with Cesar sweep
Roman Polanski's Palme d'Or winner, The Pianist, swept the 28th Cesar Awards in Paris Saturday night. In the major categories the film took Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor in what ended up to be a trouncing of odds-on favorite 8 Women. Francois Ozon's musical murder mystery had ...
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Devdas scoops Indian Oscars
Film Producer Bharat Shah's $10m Devdas may not have won an Oscar nomination but it did win 11 Indian Oscars at the 48th Filmfare awards. The awards included best film, director (Sanjay Leela Bhansali), actor (Shah Rukh Khan), actress (Aishwarya Rai) and best actress in a supporting role (Madhuri Dixit). ...