All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 176

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    Danish Film Institute's THINKTANK could become policy body

    2006-05-25T04:00:00Z

    The Copenhagen THINKTANK,the new initiative organised by the Danish Film Institute (DFI) to ponderstrategy for European film, is looking over time to become a policy body.'We have all the keyplayers with us, all the national institutes and a lot of people from theindustry,' said the DFI's Henning Camre in Cannes ...

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    Danish Film Institute's THINKTANK could become policy body

    2006-05-25T04:00:00Z

    The Copenhagen THINKTANK,the new initiative organised by the Danish Film Institute (DFI) to ponderstrategy for European film, is looking over time to become a policy body.'We have all the keyplayers with us, all the national institutes and a lot of people from theindustry,' said the DFI's Henning Camre in Cannes ...

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    Israel Film Fund backs new film from Koshashvili

    2006-05-25T04:00:00Z

    The Israel Film Fund hasannounced that it is boarding a raft of new projects. The Fund will pump morethan $300,000 into $5m drama Kishta,by director Dover Koshashvili and producers Marek Rozenbaum and EdgardTenenbaum.Meanwhile, the Fund hasalready committed $400,000 to Lebanon, produced by Einat Bikel and executive produced by France-based AlainGirard ...

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    Celsius racks up deals on Paris Je T'aime

    2006-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Buyers have fallen head overheels for Paris Je T'Aime.Mid-way through the market, the portmanteau picture (which opened Un CertainRegard) has been snapped up by more than 20 buyers. The French release throughLa Fabrique is scheduled for June 1. Celsius Entertainment, which co-financedthe film and is handling world sales, is in ...

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    Trust books several deals for Red Road

    2006-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Andrea Arnold's Red Road, one of the buzz titles in the Cannes competition,has closed multiple deals following its premiere earlier this week, with Spain,France and a host of other smaller territories already gone. The film is alsoattracting strong interest from the US.The version of Red Road on Copenhagen-based that screened ...

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    NonStop Sales gets Irreverent Media slate

    2006-05-23T04:00:00Z

    Stockholm-basedinternational sales agent NonStop Sales has struck a multi-picture deal withVancouver-based Irreverent Media Ltd.The slate deal includes TheBestRestaurant in the World. Ever, starring Bruno Ganz with THINKFilm to distribute in Canada; TheLight-house starring Kevin Zegers,Ryan Reynolds, Henry Czerny and Ewen Bremner; and mockumentary Gay Like Me', also with THINKFilm. The ...

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    Hawke. Finney and Tomei sign to Lumet film

    2006-05-23T04:00:00Z

    Oscar-winning director Sidney Lumet is moving aheadwith new thriller, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead. London-based Capitol Films revealed at Cannes that isfinancing and selling the project.Lumet (whose credits include such acknowledgedclassics as Network, Dog Day Afternoon and Twelve Angry Men) is currently putting together a heavyweight cast. Already attached ...

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    Films Distribution takes rights to new Leopold film

    2006-05-23T04:00:00Z

    Fran'ois Yon's FilmsDistribution has taken worldwide rights to Wolfsbergen, the latest feature fromhighly acclaimed Dutch director Nanouk Leopold (whose Guernsey screened in the Quinzaine last year.) The new film --a kaleidoscopic drama about four generations of a family -- re-unites severalof the stars from Oscar-winning Character.The cast is headlined by ...

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    TV producer Red to make film debut with Mark of Cain

    2006-05-23T04:00:00Z

    Nicola Shindler's UKtelevision drama production outfit Red Production Company is to venture intofeature film production. Red, whose TV credits include Queer as Folk and Clocking Off, will make its big-screen debut with The Mark OfCain, a hard-hitting film aboutBritish soldiers' experiences in the Iraq War. Shooting starts this month inTunisia ...

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    Verhoeven's Black Book continues shoot in Israel

    2006-05-23T04:00:00Z

    Paul Verhoeven's wartimeepic Black Book, recently sold toEureka for Korea, is now in the final part of its marathon shoot.Verhoeven, producer San FuMaltha, writer Gerard Soeteman and other colleagues invested an extra $382,770(Euros 300,000) of their own money to enable Verhoeven to take the project toIsrael.He is currently on locationin ...

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    London Film Festival plans 50th anniversary events

    2006-05-23T04:00:00Z

    As the Times bfi London FilmFestival prepares for its 50th anniversary (October 18-November 2), plans areunderway for a series of celebratory events.These will include a specialscreening under Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square as well as the largest surprisefilm screening, showing simultaneously in 50 venues across the city. There arealso expected ...

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    Serbia, Norway plan new film tax incentives

    2006-05-22T04:00:00Z

    As competition to attractinternational production heats up, territories from Scandinavia to the Balkansare trying to woo big-budget, runaway films by offering new tax breaks.Serbia is the latest countrylooking to join the tax credit bandwagon. The new Serb incentive is likely tobe worth 21.5% in total to both local and international ...

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    Cillian Murphy and Natalie Press to star in Telepathy

    2006-05-22T04:00:00Z

    Rising young stars CillianMurphy and Natalie Press are to star in Telepathy, a new sci-fi feature just announced on Beyond'sCannes slate.Miranda Richardson and SamNeill are also in the cast. The project, due to shoot in October 2006, is scriptedby Stephen Volk and is to be directed by Lesley Manning (whose ...

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    BBC Films' slate includes US-set film by Lynne Ramsay

    2006-05-22T04:00:00Z

    "We're in very bullishmood. We've got some great films," says head of BBC Films David Thompson. Threemonths ago, it was announced that the Beeb's investment in film production isset to rise from $17m to $26m a year, subject to the favourable settlement ofthe current licence fee negotiations.Here in Cannes, BBC ...

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    Tartan picks up Invisible Waves from Fortissimo

    2006-05-21T04:00:00Z

    UK distributor Tartan hastaken UK and Irish rights to Pen-ek Ratanaruang's thriller Invisible Waves fromFortissimo Film Sales.Invisible Waves first lappedup in the main competition in Berlin earlier this year. It also opened theBangkok Film Festival.The film is produced byFortissimo Films' Wouter Barendrecht and Michael J Werner and executiveproduced by Miky ...

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    Danes and Cubans bed down with Marquez whores

    2006-05-21T04:00:00Z

    The Danes and the Cubans are getting into bed together on ascreen adaptation of Nobel-prize winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez's mostrecent novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores."The year I turned 90, I wanted to give myselfthe gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin," begins thenovel, which ...

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    Moviehouse takes on sales for Jerusalema

    2006-05-20T04:00:00Z

    London-based salesoutfit Moviehouse Entertainment has boarded the new South African film Jerusalema, by writer-director Ralph Ziman.The film is based on realevents and is set in contemporary Johannesburg. It tells of the rise and fallof a notorious Robin Hood gangster figure Lucky Kunene.Jerusalema began shooting onMay 8 and continues for 10 ...

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    Shepperton Studios set to host Pullman film

    2006-05-20T04:00:00Z

    The new UK tax credit looksto have already paid dividends, luring New Line's $150m adaptation of PhilipPullman's His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass away from the Czech Republic to Shepperton Studiosjust outside LondonThe prospect is bound toprovide a major boost to the British studio sector following a lengthy periodof uncertainty ...

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    London Film Focus will feature a dozen world premieres

    2006-05-20T04:00:00Z

    A dozen world premieres are among around 40 filmsscreening at this year's London UK Film Focus (LUFF). The third edition of the event runs from June 26-29,attracting distributors from around the world to see UK product. Among the titles likely to pique the curiosity of thebuyers are Life & Lyrics ...

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    Haneke plans English remake of Funny Games

    2006-05-19T04:00:00Z

    Revered Austrian auteurMichael Haneke is to take his English-language bow, it was announced in Cannesyesterday. He is remaking his 1997 film Funny Games, but the setting will now be the Hamptons. NaomiWatts is to star.The film is about amiddle-class family on holiday who are terrorised by two young men.Chris Coen ...