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    Roeg, Shivas return to witchcraft

    2003-05-15T04:05:00Z

    UK auteur Nicolas Roeg and producer Mark Shivas are to return to the sorcery and children brew of their 1990 Roald Dahl adaptation, The Witches.Shivas is in Cannes this week to meet with potential partners for Rock Concert, a tentatively titled contemporary take on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in ...

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    Idle spoofs Merchant Ivory with Remains Of The Piano

    2003-05-15T04:05:00Z

    The prolific Stratus Film Co is to fully finance Remains Of The Piano, a spoof of Merchant Ivory costume dramas which has been written and will be directed by Eric Idle, his first film as director since The Ruttles in 1978. Capitol Films is selling the film in Cannes, with ...

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    Idle spoofs Merchant Ivory with Remains Of The Piano

    2003-05-15T04:05:00Z

    The prolific Stratus Film Co is to fully finance Remains Of The Piano, a spoof of Merchant Ivory costume dramas which has been written and will be directed by Eric Idle, his first film as director since The Ruttles in 1978. Capitol Films is selling the film in Cannes, with ...

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    Goodman, Hoskins to croon with Spacey

    2003-05-15T04:05:00Z

    John Goodman and Bob Hoskins are in final talks to join the cast of Kevin Spacey's Beyond The Sea being sold in Cannes by MDP Worldwide. Spacey is directing the film, a biopic of legendary crooner Bobby Darin, and also playing Darin, with Kate Bosworth starring as his wife actress ...

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    Brideshead Revisited to be revisited

    2003-05-15T04:05:00Z

    Warner Bros has finalised a deal to develop and produce Ecosse Films' feature adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, the celebrated Evelyn Waugh novel which the hit TV series turned into the quintessential British heritage production.Writer Andrew Davies said he has a "darker", "more heterosexual" take on Waugh's novel than Granada's series, ...

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    Biblical passion on the rise

    2003-05-15T04:05:00Z

    While Mel Gibson's Passion is in the cutting room, another biblical movie has just finished shooting in Toronto.Directed by Philip Saville, Word By Word from the Gospel of St John is a $20m picture produced by LA-and Toronto-based Cidif Communications, a subsidiary of Silvio Sardi's Milanese production outfit Cidif Entertainment ...

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    Aishwarya Rai to star in period epic The Rising

    2003-05-15T04:05:00Z

    Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai - who paraded here yesterday alongside her fellow Cannes jury members - is to star in Capitol Films' The Rising, a period epic set against the 1857 Indian mutiny that fuses western and Indian filmmaking styles.The story of the friendship between an Indian soldier and British ...

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    Aishwarya Rai to star in period epic The Rising

    2003-05-15T04:05:00Z

    Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai - who paraded here yesterday alongside her fellow Cannes jury members - is to star in Capitol Films' The Rising, a period epic set against the 1857 Indian mutiny that fuses western and Indian filmmaking styles.The story of the friendship between an Indian soldier and British ...

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    Chow joins Yeoh in $30m costume epic

    2003-05-15T04:05:00Z

    Chow Yun-Fat has joined Michelle Yeoh in the cast of $30m costume drama Hua Mulan which is being produced by Yeoh's Mythical Films and Han Entertainment.Described by Han managing director Thomas Chung as "Braveheart meets Ran", the film is scheduled to shoot in China from mid-August. Peter Pau, who directed ...

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    Chow joins Yeoh in $30m costume epic

    2003-05-15T04:05:00Z

    Chow Yun-Fat has joined Michelle Yeoh in the cast of $30m costume drama Hua Mulan which is being produced by Yeoh's Mythical Films and Han Entertainment.Described by Han managing director Thomas Chung as "Braveheart meets Ran", the film is scheduled to shoot in China from mid-August. Peter Pau, who directed ...

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    Bim backs Resnais musical

    2003-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Bim, Valerio De Paolis's Rome distribution outfit, has added Alain Resnais's upcoming musical Pas Sur La Bouche to its impressive international production slate, and has also decided to start producing Italian pictures for the first time.Pas Sur La Bouche is Resnais's first directorial effort in five years. The farcical love ...

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    Bim backs Resnais musical

    2003-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Bim, Valerio De Paolis's Rome distribution outfit, has added Alain Resnais's upcoming musical Pas Sur La Bouche to its impressive international production slate, and has also decided to start producing Italian pictures for the first time.Pas Sur La Bouche is Resnais's first directorial effort in five years. The farcical love ...

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    Shoreline launches Riptide horror division

    2003-05-14T04:05:00Z

    Shoreline Entertainment CEO Morris Ruskin has teamed up with former advertising executive Steve Chicorel to form Riptide Entertainment, a new division of horror and action films for worldwide sales.The first two films from Riptide are based on the Judge Dredd comic book series about law enforcement in an apocalyptic future ...

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    Young Hannibal Lecter joins Dino-sized slate

    2003-05-14T04:05:00Z

    The grandfather of international sales Dino De Laurentiis arrives in Cannes next Tuesday (May 19) with seven major territories to sell on his $150m Alexander The Great epic as well as a brand new Hannibal Lecter project currently being plotted by Lecter's creator Thomas Harris.The Lecter Variation, which is being ...

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    Young Hannibal Lecter joins Dino-sized slate

    2003-05-14T04:05:00Z

    The grandfather of international sales Dino De Laurentiis arrives in Cannes next Tuesday (May 19) with seven major territories to sell on his $150m Alexander The Great epic as well as a brand new Hannibal Lecter project currently being plotted by Lecter's creator Thomas Harris.The Lecter Variation, which is being ...

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    German-UK development venture formed

    2003-05-14T04:05:00Z

    Germany's MagicWorx has formed a development joint venture with What's The Story, the production outfit of UK casting directors Ros and John Hubbard (Lord Of The Rings) to join forces on developing high-profile feature projects budgeted at between $2m-$20m, with the majority being between $5m-10m.This move comes after the two ...

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    CJ shoots first fully financed film

    2003-05-14T04:05:00Z

    After years as a co-investor or distributor, Korean major, CJ Entertainment has begun production on its first fully financed picture. Filming started this week on comedy The Greatest Expectation, by first time director Oh Sang-hoon. Production is handled through CJ's new production division, which is headed by Seok Dong-jun, senior ...

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    Groundhog remake completes cast

    2003-05-14T04:05:00Z

    Amores Perros star Goya Toledo has joined the cast of Il Giorno della Civetta, the Italian-Spanish remake of Groundhog Day, which starts shooting in the Canary Islands on Wednesday. Toledo will feature alongside popular local comedian Antonio Albanese, who will star in the lead role played by Bill Murray ...

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    Greenaway's Suitcases open for business

    2003-05-14T04:05:00Z

    Peter Greenaway's opus The Tulse Luper Suitcases, has secured a clutch of key sales ahead of the world premiere on the last day of competition (Sat 24) of the first instalment: The Moab Story. Handled by Fortissimo Film Sales, the picture has been sold to Triangel Films for Scandinavia, Atalanta ...

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    New Benelux buyer grabs Shara

    2003-05-14T04:05:00Z

    Newly formed Dutch distributor Bright Angel Distribution has inked its first acquisition. It has bought all-Benelux rights to Cannes competition film Shara (Sharasoyju), which screens on the last Saturday of the festival. The deal was struck through French sales house Flach Pyramide International.The film, directed by Japanese director Kawase Naomi, ...