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01 Distribution roars for Benigni's Tiger
RaiCinema label 01 Distribution has taken Italian distribution rights to Tuscancomic Roberto Benigni's upcoming film, The Tiger And The Snow. As aresult it can be expected to see asignificant jump in its 2005revenues.Theannouncement yesterday by Benigni's production outfit Melampo Cinematograficaand Rai Cinema marks the end of a protracted battle among ...
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EASTERN EUROPE Prod lists - November 16
EAST EUROPEAN LISTINGS -November 16RUSSIAPRE-PRODUCTIONBLIND-MAN'S-BUFF(ZMURKI)(STV Film Company). Dist: NasheKino. Comedy. Prod: Sergei Selyanov.Dir: Alexei Balabanov. Scr: Stas Mohnachev, Alexei Balabanov. Cost des: TatyanaPatrahaltseva. Main cast: Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexei Panin, Dmitry Duzev, SergeiMakovetskiy, Victor Suhorukov.Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684 5817ESCAPE (POBEG)(Central Partnership) Action.Eugenii is accused of murdering ...
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Yates in talks to direct fifth Harry Potter
Harry Potter could be in fora surprise. David Yates, an acclaimed UK TV director but largely unproven infeatures, is in talks to direct the franchise's fifth instalment, HarryPotter And The Order Of The Phoenix.Yates' TV creditsinclude political conspiracy thriller State Of Play, which won a Directors Guild of Great Britain ...
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Johnnie To cranks up Election drama
Hong Kong director Johnnie To has started shooting triaddrama Election - the first project inwhich his production company Milkyway Image has made an investment - andannounced that the $6.4m (HK$50m) production will be made as two films.To expects the contemporary drama, which traces a democraticelection within a triad society, to ...
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Magimel tipped to star as career criminal Mesrine
Hot French star BenoitMagimel (The Piano Teacher) has beentipped to star as Jacques Mesrine in Barbet Schroeder's upcoming two-partadaptation of books written by the career criminal.The first instalment of thefilm, The Death Instinct, is based onMesrine's autobiography L'Instinct DeMort, written during one of the prison terms of France's Public EnemyNumber ...
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Teague's Last Drop wraps in Romania
Principal photography is now complete in Romania on ColinTeague's The Last Drop, a heistmovie set against the backdropof World War II, starring Billy Zane, Michael Madsen, Karel Roden and footballstar David Ginola in his first feature film role.The film is the story of British military operationduring World War II to ...
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Salvatores begins shoot on psychological film noir
Oscar winnerGabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo)has started shooting his latest film, a psychological film noir entitled Quo Vadis, Baby'Produced byMaurizio Totti's Colorado Film, the Euros 3m picture is adapted from theeponymous novel by Grazia Verasani. Its title is inspired by Marlon Brando'sfamous line in Last Tango In Paris.Quo Vadis, which Salvatores is ...
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Coixet embarks on Secret Life shoot
Spanish director Isabel Coixet begins shooting today(Monday, November 8) on her new English-language film, The Secret Life OfWords, starring Tim Robbins and SarahPolley.The Euros 4m film is a co-production between the Almodovarbrothers‚ El Deseo, which backed Coixet's award-winning My LifeWithout Me, and MediaPro. Focus Features,which also handled My Life, hasinternational ...
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Clooney readies McCarthy era drama
George Clooney will direct and star in McCarthy era drama Goodnight.And Good Luck. for Section Eight and ToddWagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment.Clooney's directing follow-up to Confessions Of ADangerous Mind is being set up at WarnerBros Pictures for domestic and sold to overseas buyers through 2929International, 2929's new sales arm ...
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Christopher Lambert set for Day Of Wrath
Christopher Lambert is set to star as a 16th century Spanishdetective in the thriller Day Of Wrath,which Mark Lester's American World Pictures has acquired for worldwidesales.'I play this sheriff whoinvestigates a series of murders that are going on around the time of theSpanish Inquisition,' Lambert told Screen duringa brief stop ...
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Fortissimo boards Hedwig follow-up Shortbus
Fortissimo Film Sales haspicked up international rights to Shortbus,the much-discussed sexually frank new ensemble piece from Hedwig AndThe Angry Inch director John CameronMitchell.The film, in which Fortissimoalso takes an equity stake, is an exploration of sexuality, art and music thattracks a group of people during a power cut in New ...
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Renaissance gets Creeeepy! with Araki
London-based Renaissance Films has picked up internationalrights to Gregg Araki's next film - a scary movie with teen sexcomedy elements called Creeeeps! whichis currently casting and will start shooting early next year. Araki wrote thescript and Mary Jane Skalski, who produced his last film MysteriousSkin, will produce.UTA is handling the ...
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Kaye returns with Reaper for Media 8
Maverick filmmaker Tony Kaye (American History X) has been confirmed to direct the thriller Reaper, which Media 8 will co-produce with Circle OfConfusion and is financing and distributing.Production is set to begin in February 2005 on the project,which tells of a private eye hired to work for a beautiful woman ...
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Happinet invests $1m in A Thousand Plateaux
Japanese finance anddistribution company Happinet this week committed $1m for an equity stake andJapanese rights to A Thousand Plateaux.The $2.8m Mongolian-set familyadventure by Jang Sun Woo, Korea's controversial director of Lies and Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl, will shoot in June next year.'We are thrilled to beable to continue ...
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Oscar Moore winner teams with Secretary director
Oscar Moore prize winnerLindsay Shapero is adapting Tibor Fischer's award-winning novel Under TheFrog for American director/producer Steve Shainberg (Secretary).The film, which is currentlyin development, will be produced by Shainberg and directed by US-basedHungarian director Dezso Magyar.Under the Frog is a black comedy set against the backdrop of theHungarian uprising of ...
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Paris Hilton goes Bottom's Up for Blue Collar
Paris Hilton is in talks tostar in the satire BottomC;s Up, which actor Paul Walker isproducing with his Blue Collar Films partner Brandon Birtell along with HalfMoon Bay and Cameo FJ Entertainment.The story centres on aseemingly witless Midwestern bartender whose Hollywood connections confoundeveryone he encounters.Walker will take a cameorole in ...
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Paris Hilton goes Bottom's Up for Blue Collar
Paris Hilton is in talks tostar in the satire Bottom's Up,which actor Paul Walker is producing with his Blue Collar Films partner BrandonBirtell along with Half Moon Bay and Cameo FJ Entertainment. Gibraltar International is selling the film at AFM.The story centres on aseemingly witless Midwestern bartender whose Hollywood connections ...
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Wild Bunch in the Ascendant
Wild Bunch, the ambitiousFrench sales and distribution group, has begun what it hopes is the beginningof a beautiful friendship with fast-rising US indie producer AscendantPictures. In a last minute dual addition to its autumn AFM slate,Wild Bunch has added the $40m heroic fantasy Outlander and the quirky$10m romantic drama The ...
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Six suitors seek sales on sexy Shanghai Lady
At least half a dozen of the world's top sales companies havejoined the frenzied chase for the next Wong Kar-wai film The LadyFromShanghai, which stars Nicole Kidman and Gong Li.The sellers range from Studiocanal, TF1, Wild Bunch, Pathe andWong's regular sales and finance house Fortissimo Film Sales to US powerhouseSummit ...
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Night People, GAMERz win Scottish funding
Ensemble drama Night People and comic fantasy GAMERzare the latest features to be funded under the New Found Films scheme runby Scottish Screen, Scottish Television and Grampian Television.Each feature will have a budget of £300,000 and both areexpected to go into production in the first months of 2005.Written by Adrian ...