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Rezo's Cannes slate include Sokurov's competitor Alexandra
In its third Cannes, Rezo Films' sales division is gearing up for a busy market. Three films on its line up are official selection titles along with two works in Critics' Week and new market films. In the official competition, Alexander Sokurov marks a return with Alexandra about a grandmother ...
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Warner Independent hatches two-year deal with producer Bregman
Warner Independent Pictures has signed a two-year, first-look deal with producer Anthony Bregman's New York-based production house Likely Story.Likely Story was formed in 2006 and is currently in post-production on Carriers and The Sleep Dealer in association with This Is That, and in pre-production on Synecdoche, New York. The company ...
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Paramount Vantage sales team takes shape with Walton hire
Alex Walton has left HanWay Films to join Paramount Vantage as vice president of international sales and will relocate from London to Los Angeles.The specialty division will launch its foreign sales operation in Cannes, a move that has been widely predicted since Nick Meyer joined the studio as co-president following ...
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Dreamachine handles Broomfield's improvised Iraqi war drama
Fledgling financing and sales house Dreamachine has acquired international rights to Nick Broomfield's drama Battle For Haditha, currently shooting in Jordan.The London, Paris and Toronto-based venture,created through the merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams last month, will commence pre-sales in Cannes.Battle For Haditha re-enacts the aftermath of an Iraqi ...
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GreeneStreet Films options The Contortionist's Handbook
GreeneStreet Films (GSF) has optioned Craig Clevenger's psychological thriller The Contortionist's Handbook through its development finance deal with private financier Sriram Das.Das will produce with GSF the story of a master forger who creates a string of new identities for himself as he runs from a traumatic past. When he ...
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Intermedia-backed sales-distribution company will be called IM Global
The recently launched Los Angeles and London-based international sales and distribution company backed by Intermedia will be called IM Global, it was announced last night.IM Global, headed by president Stuart Ford and Intermedia chairman Martin Schuermann, will bring a number of Intermedia titles, as well as the slate assembled by ...
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Upbeat Babelsberg steps up production plans
Germany's Babelsberg Studios aims to intensify its involvement as a co-producer on national, European and international productions. On the publication of its annual report for 2006, the publicly-listed Studio Babelsberg AG announced that it would 'invest in promising film productions and thereby use the potential of additional sources of revenue ...
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Picturehouse launches open casting calls for American Girl movie
Picturehouse will stage a series of open casting calls at American Girl Place shops in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York in the first two weeks of May for eight-12-year-old roles in its upcoming American Girl adaptation Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery.Abigail Breslin will play Kit Kettredge, a resourceful ...
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Producer Ahrenberg plans US remake of Sophie's World
Translated into 54 languages, and selling 35 million copies worldwide,Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder's novel, Sophie's World, which wasfilmed to limited success by Norwegian director Erik Gustavson in 1999,will now become a bigger-budget English-language project.Swedish producer Staffan Ahrenberg, who worked on Phillip Noyce's TheQuiet American (2002) and executive-produced Zandalee and Johnny ...
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$80m investment fund to cashflow UK tax credit
An $80m (£40m) investment fund has been set up to cashflow the new UK tax credit.The Limelight Fund is offering producers who qualify for the incentive finance on what it says is a competitive terms.UK producers David Parfitt and Christopher Figg are amongst the scheme's designers and sit on Limelight's ...
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German regional fund backs 18 projects with $6.8m
The fifth outing of The Wild Soccer Bunch franchise, an adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks and a TV remake of the classic The Bridge are among 18 projects awarded a total of $6.8m (Euros 5m) by the Munich-based regional fund FFF Bayern in its latest round of funding. The ...
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Sweden's Jonsson starts shoot for debut feature King Of Ping-Pong
After 14 shorts and several awards, Swedish director Jens Jonsson has started principal photography for his first feature, King of Ping-Pong, in Norbotten,northern Sweden.Scripted by Jonsson with Hans Gunnarsson, the story is about the relationshipbetween an obese table tennis champion and his younger brother. Jan Blomgren is producing for Sweden's ...
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Luhrmann's Australia starts production in Sydney
Filming started today in Sydney on the long-planned romantic action adventure Australia , Baz Luhrmann's fourth film and his third with 20th Century Fox. The cast is headed by Nicole Kidman, as English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley, and Hugh Jackman, the rough hewn cattle-drover who initially repulses her, then catches ...
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DFFF-backed Flame & Citron moves to Babelsberg Studios
Shooting begins today on the lot of the Babelsberg Studios for Ole Christian Madsen's thriller Flame & Citron (Flammen und Citronen), which has become the first international co-production to receive support from the newly established German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).The story about two gangsters who became the most wanted men ...
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Tribeca All Access prizes go to Waste, Salvation and Sisterhood
The Tribeca Film Festival's fourth Tribeca All Access programme closed Saturday night with awards (including cash prizes) presented to Ben Rekhi's Waste (narrative prize), Dee Rees' Eventual Salvation (documentary prize) and Marilyn Fu's The Sisterhood Of Night (screenwriting prize). The TAA programme, which seeks to connect industry experts with narrative ...
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Ossard to produce Chomet's first live-action feature
French producer Claudie Ossard plans to work with animator Sylvain Chomet (Belleville Rendez-Vous) on Chomet's first full-length live action feature.The pair previously collaborated on one of the segments of portmanteau project Paris je t'aime. Ossard, producer of past hits including Amelie and Delicatessen, spoke about the new project at a ...
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Goodman, Ricci and Sarandon join Speed Racer cast
John Goodman, Christina Ricci and Susan Sarandonhave joined the cast of Larry and Andy Wachowski's action film SpeedRacer which will commence principal photography at the BabelsbergStudios outside of Berlin from June. The German-English co-production between Sechste Babelsberg Filmand London-based Velocity Productions - which is based on the animated1960s cult series ...
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Neil Marshall shooting Rogue's Doomsday in Cape Town and Scotland
Neil Marshall, writer/director of The Descent and Dog Soldiers, has started shooting in Cape Town for Doomsday for Rogue Pictures. The action thriller is about a lethal virus that hits a major country. Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddiq and Adrian Lester star.Crystal Sky Pictures' Steven Paul and Benedict Carver are producing ...
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Ronning and Sandberg on board for $8m Manus project
Norwegian directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, whose first feature was the Luc Besson-written and produced western comedy, Bandidas (2006), starring Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek, have signed to direct Max Manus, a $8.4m (Euros 6.1m) World War II epic to shoot from February 2008 for Norway's Filmkameratene.Scripted by Thomas ...
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TFI International acquires Tavernier's In The Electric Mist
TFI International has acquired In The Electric Mist, the new English-language film from director Bertrand Tavernier.TFM Distrbution will release Mist in France in 2008. TF1 is selling world rights outside the US and English-speaking Canada where Ithaca will handle the film. The pedigree cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, ...