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Branagh plays Russian Czar in star-heavy Napoleon
Kenneth Branagh will join the already stellar cast of the Ffr250m French mini-series Napoleon, an English-language co-production which unites seven countries and will start shooting May 21. Produced by French big-budget TV drama specialist GMT Productions , previously responsible for Monte Cristo and Les Miserables, the four-part historical drama is ...
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Bille August seduced by Lola's Maid Of Buttermere
Spanish producer Lolafilms has signed two-time Palme d'Or winner Bille August to direct The Maid Of Buttermere, a long-gestating period love tale set in England's Lake District.No cast has yet been confirmed for the film, which was written by Raymond Khoury as an adaptation of a novel by intellectual, TV ...
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Assante, Forster, Caruso head Promark action trio
Arman Assante, David Caruso and Robert Forster head the casts of a slate of new action-thrillers unveiled by film and TV group Promark Entertainment. All three pictures will be co-produced with German post-production powerhouse Das Werk, marking the first time that the two companies have co-operated on a creative level ...
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Bridget director takes new aim at Austen
Sharon Maguire, whose debut feature Bridget Jones's Diary this weekend became the biggest UK opener ever, is to direct Mail, a modern-day Jane Austen-style comedy of manners for the UK's Archer Street. Set in Boston, the project sees Maguire return to the fertile ground of her debut, itself based on ...
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Shore, Fridriksson top debut UK slate for F.&.M.E.
New films by Get Real director Simon Shore and Icelandic maestro Fridrik Thor Fridriksson head the debut slate of F.&.M.E. (UK), the new British outpost of German group F.A.M.E.F.&.M.E. (UK), which is managed by Mike Downey and production head Sam Taylor, has unveiled a line-up of five new features it ...
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Sloss forges global film financing hub for indies
John Sloss,the New York-based entertainment lawyer who brokered so many of the distribution deals at this year's Sundance Film Festival, is now wading fully into the project financing arena through a new standalone packaging operation known as Cinetic Media.Cinetic, which will work in close co-ordination with his Sloss Law Office, ...
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Sydney prepares to welcome Matrix marathon
Warner Bros in Los Angeles and the Premier of New South Wales Bob Carr in Sydney simultaneously announced today that Australia will host production of two sequels to the action thriller The Matrix, Warner Bros' biggest hit to date with a worldwide gross of US$450m. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne ...
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Beacon to remake Not Of This World
Beacon Communications has acquired US remake rights to Giuseppe Piccioni's multi-award winning Italian film, Fuori Dal Mondo (Not Of This World).The film, about a nun's search for an abandoned child's father, was Italy's foreign Oscar candidate in 1999. Produced by Lumiere & Co and sold by Rome-based Intra Films, Piccioni's ...
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Zhang Ziyi to star in Wong Kar-Wai's 2046
Zhang Ziyi, the newcomer who stole the plaudits as rebellious princess Jiao Long Yu (Jen) in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo Hu Zang Long), is to star in Wong Kar-Wai's forthcoming 2046.Zhang currently on set in Hong Kong with New Line's Jackie Chan film Rush Hour 2, this week revealed ...
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Danish funds overcome Dogville's language barrier
Lars von Trier will always be regarded as the exception to any rule, so while there is still some dispute over the Danish Film Institute's reluctance to back Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love with more than $357,000 (DKR3m) on the grounds of it being an English-language project, no one ...
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Miramax smells victory with Apocalypse Now Redux
Miramax Films has acquired North American theatrical rightsto Apocalypse Now Redux, the officialname given to Francis Ford Coppola's extended cut of his 1979 classic Vietnamwar opera that will be given its world premiere as a special screening at this year's Cannes Film Festival in May.The film, which includes an additional ...
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Universal creates dedicated studio franchise unit
Every Hollywood studio conglomerate talks in terms of creating multimedia "franchises" around their most popular properties and commodified characters; now one of them, Universal Pictures, has taken the full plunge and created an entire division dedicated to unlocking theglobal franchising potential of its content across every conceivable distribution outlet.Louis A. ...
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Robin Williams plays villain in Nolan's Insomnia
Robin Williamsis to play the villain in Insomnia, Christopher Nolan's big-budget Hollywood studio remake of the Norwegian psychological thriller originally made in 1997. He will staropposite two other Oscar-winners, Al Pacino and Hillary Swank, when shootinggets underway in Vancouver on April 16th.In a major change of direction from his typical ...
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Biopic planned of Joy Division's doomed frontman
The film rights to a book about the life and suicide of Ian Curtis, the singer/songwriter who fronted theManchester pop group Joy Division, has been snapped up the same New York productioncompany that made Michael Almereyda's Hamlet and Jonathan Nossiter's Sundance-winning debut SundayAndrew Fierberg and Amy Hobbyof Double A Films ...
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The Film Company boards Russell's Louse Of Usher
London-based sales outfit The Film Company has boarded Ken Russell's The Fall Of The Louse Of Usher as international sales agent, handling all rights.The film, an update of Edgar Allen Poe's story, is currently being shot on digital video by Russell, who also produces through his Gorsewood Studios outfit. Seminal ...
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Duke Nukem enters a new big screen Dimension
Duke Nukem is coming to a much bigger screen near you now that Dimension Films has acquired the movie rights to the video game phenomenon from Larry Kasanoff and his Threshold Entertainment. In his feature film debut for the Miramax genre label, Duke assumes the role of Earth's best defense ...
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Internet merger provides Giants with new beanstalk
Afterspending a year making a noise at international film markets through blanketadvertising campaigns and huge slate announcements, David Dadon's GiantsEntertainment has been sold to a tiny publicly-quoted Internet company that hasbeen operating until now as a minor-league entertainment-themed portal.The merger with Hollywood Partners.com Inc - no relation to the German ...
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RAI and Lakeshore to make first Gere
Richard Gere is set to make his directorial debut with a feature film that is being planned as a co-production between Italy's RAI Cinema and Lakeshore. The two companies are currently in talks to reach an agreement on the 52-year-old actor's film, which it is understood could go into production ...
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Indian epic to be most expensive ever
Hindi film star, director and producer Sanjay Khan hasannounced a multi million dollar historical feature film, which will roll inNovember. The film, titled Maryada Purshottam Ram and based on the epic RamaYana will be made on an international scale and will be the most expensivefilm ever made in Mumbai. Kahn ...
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Good Machine strikes first-look deal with Miramax
Good Machine, which previously enjoyed housekeeping arrangements with 20th Century Fox and most recently Universal Pictures, has now has struck an exclusive first-look deal with Miramax Films, the Disney-owned studio that is within walking distance of Good Machine's building in downtown Manhattan.The multi-year deal, which becomes effective this month, means ...