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Infinity Film Completion Services launches financing and production arms
Indian completion bond outfit Infinity Film Completion Services has launched a film financing and production company which is producing Colours Of Passion from The Rising director Ketan Mehta and a slate of martial arts movies.The new outfit, Infinity Filmed Entertainment, plans to produce four to five features a year for ...
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Crimson Rivers floods French box office
The Crimson Rivers (Les Rivieres Pourpres), which opened in France on Sept 27 to mixed reviews, attracted nearly one million admissions in its first week. The Gaumont title, a thriller directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and starring Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel, carved a huge 39% share for itself in its ...
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Italian production boosted by $1.5m Turin fund
Production in Italy will be given a major boost by the launch in Cannes today of a $1.5m (1 million Euro) film fund aimed at first and second features. TorinoFilmLab, as the new venture is called, will invest in training, development and funding of feature films.Linked to the Torino Film ...
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Strand asks Bankside: How About You'
UK-based sales company has struck a deal with LA-based Strand Releasing for all US rights to Anthony Byrne's comedy How About You. Strand plans a September launch.Hayley Atwell stars alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Imelda Staunton, Brenda Fricker, and Joss Ackland. The story is about a young woman who has to run ...
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Capitol restructures but says business is solid
Following recent disparaging press reports and rumours following staff departures, Capitol Films managing director Peter Naish reiterates that the business is solid, if a bit dampened by current market conditions.Naish, who joined Capitol from Icon about a year ago, said that the recent departure of his co-MD Nick Hill wasn't ...
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Hyde Park launches fund to back Singapore operations
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment is setting up a $55m-$72m (S$75m-S$100m) fund to back its new Singapore-based operation Hyde Park Asia. The fund will be structured with a combination of debt and equity, with support from Singapore 's Media Development Authority (MDA). Operational from 2008, it will be used ...
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CP Productions signs first look deal with Tim Kwok's Convergence
Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters' ambitious Paramount-based CP Productions has signed a first-look deal with Tim Kwok's Convergence Entertainment.The alliance will focus on acquiring remake rights to Asian entertainment properties. Beyond that, CP is keen to expand its reach in the region and is scouting satellite offices in Japan, Hong ...
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Val Kilmer on pole position for Arctic thriller
Val Kilmer has signed to play the lead in the Arctic sci-fi thriller The Thaw, which Voltage Pictures will introduce to buyers here.Telefilm Canada is financing the story of an expedition that uncovers a prehistoric parasite capable of destroying mankind.Martha MacIsaac from last year's hit comedy Superbad will play Kilmer's ...
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Prince Caspian begins roll-out, Iron Man nears $200m
Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian starts its international roll-out this weekend, opening in one major market in Asia, one in Europe and one in Latin America. But the family adventure sequel is unlikely to break Iron Man's two-week grip on the marketplace as Paramount's comic book-based blockbuster approaches ...
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Sally Hawkins to play Northern Irish civil rights campaigner
Sally Hawkins, coming off her Berlinale Best Actress award for Happy-Go-Lucky, will star in Aisling Walsh's The Roaring Girl.Kate Gartside wrote the script and producers are Sophie Balhetchet for Cougar Films and Tristan Orpen Lynch for Subotica. The Irish Film Board and Northern Ireland Screen supported the film's development.The story ...
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Stars sign up for Future Films' Parasomnia
Future Films signs Karolina Kurkova and Kevin McKidd to ParasomniaBritish star Kevin McKidd (The Last Legion, Trainspotting) and Victoria's Secret model Karolina Kurkova have signed as the leads in Future Films' and MilCoz Films' psychological horror Parasomnia.Written and directed by Modigliani director Mick Davis, Parasomnia tells the story of a ...
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Zhang Ziyi heads cast for Susanne Bier's Lost For Words
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is set to star in romantic comedy Lost For Words, which Susanne Bier is directing for the UK's Working Title Films. Hugh Grant is also in talks to join the film. The film is scheduled to start shooting in September in London and possibly ...
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How To Kill Your Neighbour's Dog
Dir: Michael Kalesniko. US. 2000. 104 mins.Prod co: Millennium Films, South Fork Pictures, Lonsdale Productions. International sales: Nu Image (310) 246 0240. Exec prod: Robert Redford. Prod: Michael Nozik, Nancy M. Ruff, Brad Weston. Scr: Kalesniko. DoP: Hubert Taczanowski. Prod des: Stephen Lineweaver. Ed: Pamela Martin. Mus: David Robbins. Main ...
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NonStop acquires Park Chan-wook's vampire film
Sweden 's NonStop Entertainment has acquired two vampire features - Park Chan-wook's highly-anticipated Thirst and Not Like Others from Swedish director Peter Pontikis. Both films are still in production and will premiere later this year. Nonstop has acquired rights to both films for Scandinavia, Iceland and the Baltics. ...
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Mazodier and Oursel prepare $9.2m frightener Prey
Two Days In Paris producer Christophe Mazodier and 13 Tzameti producer Olivier Oursel are teaming for an ambitious thriller from first-time director Antoine Blossier. The $9.2m (Euros 6m) project Prey is currently in pre-production. Mazodier describes it to Screen as ' Jaws meets ...
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Cannes sales 2008
Click here to see stories in fullFinal Cannes deals Ealing deals include Dorian Gray to Alliance FilmsSplendid buys include Swing Vote, UnshakableArtificial Eye takes The Class, Il Divo and two other Cannes titlesGerman distributors announce salesCJ Entertainment wraps further Good dealsFocus creams off sales for Milk, Mendes comedy Kinowelt acquisitions ...
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Fassbender signs on as Heathcliff for Wuthering Heights
Michael Fassbender, star of Un Certain Regard opener Hunger, has been confirmed for the role of Heathcliff in Ecosse Films' new Wuthering Heights.HanWay films is handling internationals sales. John Maybury is directing the project, which is now searching for a new Cathy after Natalie Portman pulled out last week.Fassbender previously ...
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Ed Blum signs on for two $15m F&ME features
Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's UK-based production company Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has signed on Scenes Of A Sexual Nature director Ed Blum for two new features, FAKE! and The Laughter Clinic.Blum's Tin Pan Films will co-produce the films, each budgeted around $15m.Previously announced art heist movie FAKE! is ...
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Halcyon crowns Countess for UK
Chris Coen's new UK distribution company Halcyon Pictures has taken UK rights to Julie Delpy's The Countess sold by Celluloid Dreams. The film stars Delpy, William Hurt, Daniel Bruhl and Anamaria Marinca in the story of Countess Bathroy. Halcyon have also bought David Auburn's The Girl In The Park, starring ...
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Duvall and Spacek Get Low with K5, Zanuck
UK- and Germany-based K5 International has taken on world sales for Get Low, which the sales outfit is also co-financing.The Zanuck Company production will star Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek. Oscar winner Aaron Schneider, who shot films including Titanic and Kiss The Girls, will direct and producers will be Richard ...