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Iceland's Kormakur readies trio of new projects
Hot Icelandic actor-writer-director Baltasar Kormakur is going to follow his festival and crowd pleasing feature directing debut, 101 Reykjavik, with two new films from his own hand as well as one as producer. Kormakur, who is in Cannes acting in Hal Hartley's No Such Thing, has set up his own ...
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Concorde, StudioCanal, USA back Zentropa Zhillers
Germany's Concorde has joined Studiocanal and USA Films in backing the 3-6 picture Zentropa Zhillers slate from Denmark's Zentropa. Produced by the company's international arm, Zentropa Internationale, the films are budgeted around $5m. The first, Saying Goodbye To Mr Welcome, is set to shoot in Oct on location in Scotland ...
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Alta, Celluloid team for Noriega starrer Nova
Spain's Alta Films is prepping feature film Novo with France's Celluloid Dreams, set to star heartthrob Eduardo Noriega in his first non Spanish-language role.The $4-5m film, which will shoot in Paris beginning in August, is about a man whose memory problems get him in trouble with women. Jean-Pierre Limosin directs.The ...
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CANNES: WEEKEND DEALS AND NEW PROJECTS
TF1 International has boarded The One And Only, a romantic comedy produced by the UK's Assassin Films and to be directed by Simon Cellar Jones.The world-wide acquisition and sales arm of TF1 Group, which is co-producing the title along with Pathe UK, will be handling worldwide sales with the exception ...
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Hammer teams with Sturridge to scare up six films
Resurrected UK horror brand Hammer Entertainment has partnered with FirstSight Films, the production outfit of Charles Sturridge, Francesca Barra and Selwyn Roberts, to make a slate of six films over the next three years.The deal is the first step back into feature film production for Hammer after it was bought ...
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Tokuma mounts new project from Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tokuma International has moved quickly to capitalise on the intense heat surrounding Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, following the acclaimed Un Certain regard screening of his Pulse (aka Kairo).Tokuma is to handle world sales on his next directorial effort, an untitled drama about the uneasy relationship between two men. ...
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Hundred Steps producer lines up Palestinian movie
Fabrizio Mosca, producer of the Italian Oscar candidate The Hundred Steps, is lining up three English-language pictures, including Return to Haifa - a breakthrough Israeli-Palestinian-Italian film about Middle East tensions. Return to Haifa is based on a book by a leading Palestinian author, Ghassan Kanafani, who was killed by Mossad ...
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UK's FilmFour takes on Borgias, Che Guevara
Joining a pack of film-makers taking on the same ambitious material, the UK's FilmFour is tackling two historical subjects of world-wide renown - Che Guevara and the Borgias.FilmFour's Che will focus on the relationship between Guevara and Fidel Castro, ranging from the Cuban revolutionary's rise to power to his death ...
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Vine teams with Samaha brother on Spheeris comedy
Samaha Productions, the LA production outfit run by Elie's brother Demetri Samaha, has teamed with Marie Vine's London-based Vine International Pictures to co-finance Penelope Spheeris' Spam On Rye which will be distributed domestically by Warner Bros. Vine will handle international sales.A dark comedy about an unambitious young man who unwittingly ...
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Gilliam, Thomas trip out together on fantasy film
Terry Gilliam, in Cannes on the main jury, has teamed with producer Jeremy Thomas on Tideland, an adaptation of US author Mitch Cullin's dark twist on child fantasies such as The Wizard Of Oz and Alice In Wonderland.The often surreal story of a girl who flees from Los Angeles to ...
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Chan, Hung replace Hudlin on EMG's Highbinders
Hong Kong star directors Gordon Chan and Sammo Hung are to jointly replace Reggie Hudlin behind the camera on The Highbinders, a $35m sci-fi action adventure that breaks the international financing mould by being structured as a Hong Kong-Irish co-production. Jackie Chan is attached to star in this English-language project, ...
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Mueller creates new film production company
Marco Mueller, head of the Benetton-owned production company Fabrica Cinema, is planning to create a new, autonomous production company at the end of this year. Mueller said he will maintain his role at Fabrica, which will continue to build on its reputation of fostering new talents from around the world. ...
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Zefirrelli lines up next project with Italy's RAI
As part of its drive into high profile film production, Rai Cinema is set to produce the next project by Franco Zeffirelli after the Italian director completes his widely anticipated upcoming film, Callas Forever, for rival mini-major Medusa Film. Although it is not yet clear what the next Zeffirelli project ...
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Storm, ChickFlicks team for Coyote horror movie
H Michael Heuser's Storm Entertainment has teamed with Sara Risher's LA-based ChickFlicks to finance and co-produce Coyote - a comic special effects-driven horror movie about a pack of coyotes taking revenge against some schlocky Hollywood film-makers in Los Angeles.Heuser will produce alongside Risher, Steven Wolfe and Leslie Tobin Bacon; Dorothy ...
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Spanish Dogme producers prepare new projects
Pilar Suero and Juan Pinzas, the producer-director team behind Spain's first official Dogme film, Once Upon Another Time (Erase Otra Vez), are preparing two new Dogme feature films.First up is Although The Bride Wears Silk (Aunque La Novia Se Vista De Seda), planned for a September shoot. Described as an ...
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Hurt joins Deneuve on trip to Marshall's Heaven
William Hurt is to co-star with Catherine Deneuve in Au Plus Pres du Paradis (Nearest To Heaven), the next film by award-winning French director Tonie Marshall.French sales outfit Flach Pyramide International is launching pre-sales in Cannes on the $7m title - which will be shot in both French and English ...
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Harte Jungs duo bank on new success with Pornorama
Constantin Film's Bernd Eichinger and director Marc Rothemund are developing a new project entitled Pornorama after the box-office success of their teen comedy Ants In The Pants (Harte Jungs) which registered over 1.7m admissions and was the second most successful German film last year after Stefan Ruzowitzky's Anatomie.According to Eichinger, ...
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Summit wakes up to new Alcon picture trio
Summit Entertainment has struck a three-picture deal with Alcon Entertainment, producers of Christopher Nolan's Insomnia which is on Summit's Cannes sales slate. None of the three pictures has yet been specified but a deal has been struck for Summit to raise additional equity from a few select key territory sales. ...
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Crystal Sky unleashes Voight films with Apollo
Steven Paul's Crystal Sky Worldwide Sales has teamed with German film fund Apollo Media on two new films: kung fu fighting talking dog saga Unleashed co-starring Jon Voight, Simon Rex and Jaime Pressly and Façade, a $25m heist thriller which teams Voight with Julia Ormond under director Danny Cannon.These two ...
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Exotic locales abound in ambitious BBC film slate
BBC Films is developing a slew of large-scale international projects for its debut feature slate under director general Greg Dyke's new drama-entertainment structure. The UK public broadcaster's film arm wants to use the projects and an equally ambitious financing pact for bigger titles with Cobalt Media Group (formerly MM Media ...