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France's TF1 to increase film production, financing activity
Just as StudioCanal is scaling back its European film production and distribution operations, TF1 seems to be intent on increasing its activity and filling the void.After boldly branching out into distribution through its as yet unamed joint venture with Miramax - which is expected to be headed by Jose Covo ...
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Nick Moran tunes up Telstar directing debut
UK actor Nick Moran hit Cannes this week to announce his directing debut, Telstar, a biopic of underground music legend Joe Meek.The Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels star is to start shooting the picture next month on a budget of just under $2million, provided by an unnamed private backer. ...
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Zonka takes Le Petit Voleur remake to Crossroads
Crossroads Films, the New York-based film, commercials and video production outfit which has a first-look deal with United Artists (UA), has signed a deal with French film-maker Erick Zonka to direct an English-language remake of his 65-minute 1999 movie Le Petit Voleur.The film was the story of a young working-class ...
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Schloendorff commits to Ten Minutes Older - The Cello
Oscar and Palme d'Or winner Volker Schloendorff has joined the band of top name directors now committed to making Ten Minutes Older - The Cello. The film is an ensemble piece that follows Un Certain Regard portmanteau Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet. The Cello has now been sold to ...
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Carlyle says hello to Saying Goodbye To Mr. Welcome
Robert Carlyle, star of the hotly pursued Directors Fortnight title Once Upon A Time In The Midlands, has boarded psychological thriller Saying Goodbye To Mr. Welcome, which Gillian Barrie of Sigma Films will co-produce with Denmark's Zentropa.Scottish actor-turned director Kenny Glenaan (Gas Attack) will direct the Brendan Somers' script about ...
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Franchise partners with ApolloMedia for big budget sales
Elie Samaha's Franchise Pictures has partnered with Frank Huebner's German private film fund ApolloMedia to represent sales of five completed films including Alan Rudolph's Investigating Sex, Bruce Beresford's Bride Of The Wind and Christine Lahti's My First Mister.Franchise and Apollo are also partnered on big-budget production A Sound Of Thunder ...
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Anthony Hopkins to take on the Pope
Anthony Hopkins is finalising a deal to play Pope Pius IX opposite Oscar-nominated Spanish star Javier Bardem in FilmFour's $20 million Edgardo Mortara.Miramax Films and Germany's Senator Film are co-financing the true story of how the Vatican divided Catholics, Protestants, and Jews around the world by kidnapping a Jewish boy ...
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Tristan And Isolde involved in double shooting
Start-up production company Octagon Films will co-produce a version of Tristan And Isolde with Ridley Scott's Scott Free, to be directed by Kevin Reynolds - while at the same time Intermedia and Metropolitan Filmexport have teamed to finance and sell their own Tristan & Iseult, to which Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) ...
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Cannes gets first glimpse of Gangs Of New York
After months of media attention over the fights that supposedly went into the making of Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York, the film's key figures settled their score with the press at yesterday's footage screening. "This is real art, unlike half the shit in this goddam Hollywood" declared executive producer ...
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Golan teams up for Blood Games, Return From India
Avi Lerner and Danny Dimbort of Nu Image are re-teaming with their old friend and Dimbort's old boss Menahem Golan, acquiring worldwide rights to Golan's romantic picture The Return From India featuring Israeli stars Aki Avni, Riki Gal and Assi Dayan.The completed film which Golan co-wrote, produced and directed was ...
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Arclight, Spice Factory launch UK slate
Horror adaptation Possession, modern-day Count of Monte Cristo story Lazarus Ash and thriller Perfect People head the slate of $10m - $25m productions in a partnership between Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films, the UK's Spice Factory and best-selling horror novelist Peter James.The announcement follows last month's unveiling of plans for ambitious ...
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Snapper, Two Drivers alliance starts with two Minnie features
Juha Wuolijoki's New York and Helsinki-based Snapper Films has formed an alliance with Minnie Driver's outfit Two Drivers, which the actress runs with her sister Kate Driver and producer Lisa Fielding.Their joint slate includes two new features both budgeted under $10m, the horror-thriller Luci's Prayer based on a script by ...
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Hong Kong's Cheung and Law plan epic Story Of Ah-Toi
Hong Kong on and off-screen partners Mabel Cheung and Alex Law are planning a giant leap in budget for their next production, provisionally titled The Story Of Ah-Toi, to be set in the US and written and directed by Law with Cheung producing.Throughout their career together, Law has written and ...
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Sex doll horror adds to ContentFilm slate
After just eight months in operation New York's ContentFilm, run by indie stalwarts Ed Pressman and John Schmidt, has announced its fifth fully-financed film to go into production, a sexually-twisted psychological horror called Love Object.Said to combine elements of Demon Seed and Chucky with those of Roman Polanski's early classics, ...
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Heather Graham to star in Stardust
Nick Hurran, whose Plots With A View was sold to Miramax Films for domestic, has signed to direct romantic comedy Stardust for Luxembourg-based The Carousel Picture Company with Heather Graham attached to star and James Purefoy and Brenda Blethyn in leading roles. Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide is handling sales on ...
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Brosnan to broaden range with two new projects
Pierce Brosnan and producing partner Beau St Clair have announced two new projects - romantic comedy The Laws Of Attraction and 11th century epic Legend Of Lochenbar for an autumn and early-2003 shoot respectively. Both are to star Brosnan.Brosnan, wearing his producer's hat, and St Clair met with potential ...
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Poire's Visual Factory readies $23m sci-fi comedy
Jean-Marie Poire, creator and director of hit French franchise The Visitors, has started pre-production on his next opus, the $23m sci-fi comedy Damian And The Invaders (Damien Et Les Envahisseurs) through his own outfit, London-based sales and post-production company Visual Factory.Poire is in Cannes to promote his latest film, My ...
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Tesela heads new slate with Manas project
Firming up its reputation as a wellspring for new talent in Spain, start-up Tesela Producciones is prepping four new films for its second-year slate headlined by writer-director Achero Manas' follow-up to his multiple award-winning debut feature Pellet (El Bola).Manas, who won four of Spain's top Goya awards and the EFA's ...
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France's Haut et Court readies Hitchcockian Bambi tale
French production company Haut et Court is readying Fuis Bambi Fuis, a first directing effort by Gilles Marchand, the co-scriptwriter for both Laurent Cantet's Human Resources and Dominik Moll's With A Friend Like Harry.The film, an Hitchcockian tale of a young nurse fascinated by a doctor who proves much ...
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France's Haut et Court readies Hitchcockian Bambi tale
French production company Haut et Court is readying Fuis Bambi Fuis, a first directing effort by Gilles Marchand, the co-scriptwriter for both Laurent Cantet's Human Resources and Dominik Moll's With A Friend Like Harry.The film, an Hitchcockian tale of a young nurse fascinated by a doctor who proves much ...