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Elena Anaya joins cast of The Floating World
Goya nominee Elena Anaya hasjoined Wintertime Films and Walker Films' Australian Outback-set drama TheFloating World.The Spanish actress willstar as a grieving widow who embarks upon ajourney of self-discovery andlearns disturbing truths about her past.Ben Mendelsohn and VinceColosimo round out the key cast.John Winter wrote anddirected and is serving as producer ...
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Julian Richards prepares for Summer Scars
Prolific British filmmaker Julian Richards, whopreviously directed The Last Horror Movie, has completed the financing of hislatest project.Summer Scars, Richards'sfourth feature, is billed as "a dark psychological thriller about a gang ofschool truants held hostage in the woods by a psychopath."Kevin Howarth (who also played in The Last HorrorMovie) will ...
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Lazio starts Italy's fourth regional film fund
The long drought that hashit Italy's traditional film financiers is spurring the country to find newways of bolstering its film industry.As such, the Lazio regionaround Rome will become the fourth region in Italy to establish a filmfund.The $12.8m (Euros 10m) fund,created along the lines of France's Ile de France fund, ...
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Scottish producers criticise Scottish Screen
Scottish producers in Canneshave issued a stinging rebuke to national film agency Scottish Screen over itsdelay in revealing its long-term plans for feature film production. "Again and again(in Cannes), we have been asked what is happening with Scottish Screen. We don't quite know," said Mark Cousins of 4 Ways Productions. ...
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Czech producers protest funding cut in Cannes
Czech producers in Canneshave reacted with dismay and fury to yesterday's decision by the Czech Parliamentto kill off the long-awaited law to boost Czech production support.To register their anger, theCzech film delegation attending the Cannes Film Festival shut down the Czechstand at 5 pm yesterday for the remainder of the ...
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Israel Film Fund backs new film from Koshashvili
The Israel Film Fund hasannounced that it is boarding a raft of new projects. The Fund will pump morethan $300,000 into $5m drama Kishta,by director Dover Koshashvili and producers Marek Rozenbaum and EdgardTenenbaum.Meanwhile, the Fund hasalready committed $400,000 to Lebanon, produced by Einat Bikel and executive produced by France-based AlainGirard ...
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Rai Trade lines up A Fortune-Teller Told Me
International sales agentRai Trade is lining up a major English-language adaptation of Tiziano Terzani'sbest-selling novel, A Fortune-Teller Told Me.The book recounts thejournalist's experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, where he waswarned by a fortune teller not to risk flying for a whole year or he would diein a plane ...
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Momentum strikes deals for P.S and Spring Break
Momentum has acquired the UK rights to P.S. I LoveYou from Summit Entertainment and the UK and Spanish rights to Spring Break In Bosnia from QED.Richard LaGravanese will direct the big-screenadaptation of the P.S. I Love You by Irish author Cecelia Ahern. Hilary Swank will star. ForrestGump's Wendy Finerman will ...
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Fortune Star sells remake rights to A Better Tomorrow
Korean production companyFingerprint Pictures has acquired remake rights to classic Hong Kong actiontitle A Better Tomorrow, directedby John Woo in 1986, from Hong Kong-based Fortune Star Entertainment.Fingerprint, founded byKorean producer Park Hyung-jun (My Boyfriend Is Type B), is currently recruiting scriptwriters and adirector for the Korean remake which is planned ...
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Linklater plans Chet Baker project
Richard Linklater is movingfrom Fast Food Nation into aproject about Chet Baker called Chesney which will look at one day in the life of the jazz legend before he wasfamous.Describing the film as'a small jazz movie,' Linklater said this week that the film would bemade independently. Linklater is in Cannes ...
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Wild Bunch taps into Im Kwon-taek's 100th film
Legendary Korean director ImKwon-taek's 100th film has been acquired by France's Wild Bunch forinternational sales. The drama's working title is Cheonnyeonhak and will be ready in 2007.Wild Bunch acquired the filmfrom new Korean production powerhouse Prime Entertainment. Prime, which ishandling sales itself on other titles, has bought production entities CoreaEntertainment ...
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Hunchback planned as $10m UK-Poland co-production
Producers Nik Goldman and Max Ryan are setting up a$10m UK-Poland co-production for a new adaptation of The Hunchback of NotreDame.The project, entitled Hunchback,will star Ryan, John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee, Said Taghmaoui, StevenBerkoff and Jack Ryan. Battlefield Earth's Roger Christianwill direct.The 10-week shoot will take place this summer inKrakow and ...
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Lucky Red finds partners for Mereu's Sound Of Wood
Italy's Lucky Red is teamingup with France's Haut et Court andBelgium's Artemis to co-produceSalvatore Mereu's new feature,Sound Of Wood (Sonteaula).The $3.85m film, produced byAndrea Occhipinti of Lucky Red, hasjust started shooting in Sardinia for20 weeks.It is adapted from a book byGiuseppe Fiore, about a 12-year-oldshepherd whose father is unjustlyaccused of ...
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Filmax recruits Universum for Transsiberian
Spain's Filmax Entertainmenthas signed on Germany's Universum Film to co-produce Brad Anderson's new film, Transsiberian.Set to shoot in English inlate October between Spain and Eastern Europe, the project is the director'sfollow-up to the well-received The Machinist, also a production of Julio Fernandez for Filmax.Universum will retaindistribution rights in German-speaking territories. ...
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NonStop Sales gets Irreverent Media slate
Stockholm-basedinternational sales agent NonStop Sales has struck a multi-picture deal withVancouver-based Irreverent Media Ltd.The slate deal includes TheBestRestaurant in the World. Ever, starring Bruno Ganz with THINKFilm to distribute in Canada; TheLight-house starring Kevin Zegers,Ryan Reynolds, Henry Czerny and Ewen Bremner; and mockumentary Gay Like Me', also with THINKFilm. The ...
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Jodorowsky plans new film King Shot
Alejandro Jodorowsky, theoriginator of the midnight movie, has a new film planned, entitled King Shot.He describes the project as somethingof a metaphysical spaghetti Western that could star his fans and friends NickNolte and Marilyn Manson. Producer Pieree Spengler is developing.Jodorowsky is in Cannestoday for Cannes Classics screenings of 1971's El ...
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Films Distribution takes rights to new Leopold film
Fran'ois Yon's FilmsDistribution has taken worldwide rights to Wolfsbergen, the latest feature fromhighly acclaimed Dutch director Nanouk Leopold (whose Guernsey screened in the Quinzaine last year.) The new film --a kaleidoscopic drama about four generations of a family -- re-unites severalof the stars from Oscar-winning Character.The cast is headlined by ...
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Oliver Stone unveils World Trade Center footage in Cannes
The first nerve-crunching 20minutes of Oliver Stone's World Trade Center were screened before the 20th-anniversary screeningof Platoon on Sunday night to astrong response from a packed Salle Debussy in Cannes.The footage laid out themorning of September 11, 2001, from the point of view of John McLoughlin(Nicolas Cage), a Port Authority ...
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TV producer Red to make film debut with Mark of Cain
Nicola Shindler's UKtelevision drama production outfit Red Production Company is to venture intofeature film production. Red, whose TV credits include Queer as Folk and Clocking Off, will make its big-screen debut with The Mark OfCain, a hard-hitting film aboutBritish soldiers' experiences in the Iraq War. Shooting starts this month inTunisia ...
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Punk Cinema plans Gigolos follow-up later in 2006
UK production company PunkCinema has commissioned the writers and actors its film The Gigolos to write a follow-up.Sacha 'Tarter andTrevor Sather will write Billion Dollar Break for production in late 2006. The caper comedy is about aRussian billionaire and an office drone who find themselves on the run togetheracross Europe. ...