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Hot Britstar goes to war for Calderwood
Rising British male star Chewitel Ejiofor, who shot to prominence opposite Audrey Tautou in Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things, has joined the cast of African love story Girls At War, which is based at Andrea Calderwood's UK production outfit Slate Films.The love story set in post-independence Nigeria aims to bring ...
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Icelandic films back on track
After almost a year without funding for local films, a restructured Icelandic Film Centre has been put back into business by the new managing director Laufey Gudjonsdottir. The first projects should be getting backing from mid-June. 'We have just appointed the new film commissioners and the first projects arrived just ...
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Italiano mambos to Icon for UK/Oz
Montreal-based Equinoxe Films has closed some key deals on its hot comedy Mambo Italiano starring Paul Sorvino, Ginette Reno and Mary Walsh. Icon Entertainment has taken the film for the UK and Australia/New Zealand, Fu Works has bought it for Benelux, Lolafilms has bought Spain and Italy and Shani Film ...
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Golino, Gassmanon, Verdecchi slate
Valeria Golino (Respiro, Frida) has just finished shooting a new Italian film, entitled Prendimi E Portami Via.Written and directed by Tonino Zangardi, the film focuses on a young Roman boy who falls in love with a gypsy girl. Rodolfo Lagana' stars alongside Golino in the film, which is produced by ...
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Lucas Foster leaves Myriad
Lucas Foster, president of production at Myriad Pictures, is leaving the company 'to pursue his personal projects.' Company president Kirk D'Amico issued a statement yesterday to the effect that Foster's contract would not be renewed and that he is leaving the company immediately.Foster is currently on location in Mexico producing ...
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Cruz eyes more Euro projects
Just as Spanish talents are making greater-than-ever strides into Hollywood, Spain's leading lady Penelope Cruz looks set to rev up her European activity.Cruz has signed on with French agent Bertrand de Labbey of Art Media to seek future projects in France following her Fanfan La Tulipe experience. "She's very interested ...
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French Asterix revival in Danish hands
The first feature to be produced by French network M6 - the Euros 22m animated Asterix And The Vikings directed Denmark's Stefan Fjeldmark and Jesper Moller - should be delivered by 2006. M6 is collaborating with the experienced Danes at A-Film, whose credits includes Fjeldmark's Help, I'm A Fish ...
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Curb stalks Sundance chiller
Curb Entertainment has acquired international sales rights to Smooth Pictures' Nightstalker, the serial killer chiller which world premiered as a midnight movie at the Sundance Film Festival this year.The film, to which Columbia TriStar holds US rights, was produced by Ash Shah and Chris Fisher and written and directed by ...
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Shoreline picks up six
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired six completed films for international sales including UK thriller Butterfly Man starring Stuart Laing and Mamee Nakprasitte, Marley Shelton-starrer Moving Alan, and the Hungarian smash hit A Kind Of America directed by Gabor Herendi. Shoreline has also sold German home video rights to Moving August directed ...
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Levinsohn promoted to head Fox pay-TV
Peter Levinsohn has been promoted to executive vice president, worldwide pay-TV and pay-per-view, for 20th Century Fox. Levinsohn has been senior vice president, international pay television and pay-per-view, since Sept 1997 and will now be responsible for the distribution of Fox's feature film and television programming to all worldwide pay-TV ...
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Germany shows off Next Generation
Germany may not have had a film in competition at Cannes for ten years, but the Next Generation event has now become a regular - and popular - fixture.Organised by the Export Union, Cannes screenings showcased ten short films by students from six German film schools. In addition to the ...
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Endgame commits to Compleat, Harold
Endgame Entertainment - the financing and production outfit formed by entrepreneur and Broadway producer James D Stern - has committed to co-finance two films through its entertainment fund The Endgame Fund.Endgame will co-finance Compleat Female Stage Beauty with Artisan Pictures and Michael Kuhn's Qwerty Films. Artisan has domestic rights to ...
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Euro funding for Bartolome's Sirens
Spanish sales and production house Bulbeck & Mas, co-producer of Un Certain Regard entry Today And Tomorrow (Hoy Y Manana), is now prepping The Silence Of The Sirens (El Silencio De Las Sirenas) from director Cecilia Bartolome.The magical love story set between two centuries is a Euro 2.4m co-production with ...
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Euro sellers body founded
The European Film Export Association (EFEA), a new federation of film sellers, launched on Thursday with a dozen founder members. Headed by Jacques Le Glou of Mercure international, the committee members include Jacques Eric Strauss (Plaza Production), Adriana Chiesa (ACE), Wolfram Skowronnek (Telepool), Marina Fuentes (Lolafilms). Their deputies include Alain ...
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FAME targets third party pictures
Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME), the UK independent production outfit, has launched a new division to service third party pictures, including the eight co-productions that have already been lined up alongside its own in-house pictures.The new division will be headed by FAME's Sam Taylor with Sam Lavender and newly-appointed head ...
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Zenpix initiates Affair in US
Zenpix, the domestic and international distribution company founded by Susan Jackson and Jon Kramer, has acquired all US distributIon rights to A Foreign Affair starring David Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson and Emily Mortimer. Myriad Pictures is handling foreign.Zenpix plans to release the film through Mark Borde's Innovation Film Group in ...
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Turin offers new road to Kiarostami
Former Venice chief Alberto Barbera, currently head of the National Film Museum in Turin, is lining up a complete retrospective of the works of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, entitled On The Roads of Kiarostami.The event will run between September 10 and October 12th in Turin. All of Kiarostami's 30 films, ...
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Optimum/Rialto buy first joint acquisition
The UK's Optimum Releasing and Australian/New Zealand distributor Rialto have bought HBO Films' Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner American Splendor as the first title in a joint buying relationship.Optimum has taken UK rights to the docu-drama, while Rialto has all rights in Australia and New Zealand. Optimum managing director Will Clarke, ...
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Netherlands production platform expanded
The Netherlands Production Platform, which is held during the Netherlands Film Festival's (NFF) Holland Meeting (September 26-29) in Utrecht, is to be extended this year to include European feature projects seeking Dutch financing or co-production partners and involving major Dutch elements.Last year, producers of two German and two Belgian feature ...
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Franchise Pictures targets the UK
Franchise Pictures is going to London. Elie Samaha's LA-based production and financing outfit is launching a UK distribution outfit, hiring London-based production executives and teaming with tax and finance specialist Invicta Capital for co-production and tax finance structuring on the new venture.Samaha and partner David Bergstein are ten days away ...
