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Wild Bunch picks up Stone's Looking For Fidel
France's Wild Bunch has picked up international rights on Oliver Stone documentary Looking For Fidel. The 100% Spanish production, which is likely to make its debut at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in September, is billed as an intimate portrait of Fidel Castro and today's Cuba. Co-producers include Media ...
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Mexico's Titan to co-produce Chilango Blues with Argos
Mexican powerhouse Titan Producciones is developing a new co-production with Argos Comunicacion, its partner on hit Sex, Shame And Tears, called Chilango Blues (El Malboro Y El Cucu), set to shoot in Mexico City next year. Billed as a thriller, producer Javier Patron's debut feature tells the tale of two ...
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Warner Bros wakes up to Insomnia in France and Spain
Warner Bros has picked up rights in France and Spain to Insomnia, the critically acclaimed thriller directed by Christopher Nolan and sold internationally by Summit Entertainment. The film, starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank, world premiered at last week's Tribeca Film Festival and opens through Warner in North ...
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Van Sant takes Last Days with MDP
Gus Van Sant is following up his experimental film Gerry with another low budget picture, Last Days, to be financed by Mark Damon's revitalised MDP Worldwide. The film follows the last day in the life of a rock star and will feature Michael Pitt, the hot young actor who had ...
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Holland's Orange Worldwide Film Sales to launch at Cannes
New Dutch sales outfit, Orange Worldwide Film Sales is to get its international launch this week at Cannes. Headed by Michael Berkel and Peter van Vogelpoel, Orange arrives on the Croisette with four films on its slate.The slate is headed by Britney Baby One More Time, a Ludi Boeken-directed comedy ...
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Advanced Medien agrees settlement with Wolfgang Petersen
German rights trader Advanced Medien and film director Wolfgang Petersen have reached a settlement in the lawsuit regarding mutual contract fulfilment, which had been dragging on since August 2001. As part of the settlement both parties agreed to abandon the suits they had filed before a US civil court and ...
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Askin promoted to VP, worldwide sales at Pandora
Shebnem Askin has been promoted to executive vice-president, worldwide sales, at Pandora; she was previously senior vice president at the company. Askin joined Pandora three years ago in Paris, working with Ernst Goldschmidt, before relocating to Los Angeles when Pandora was taken over by Gaylord Entertainment. Since then, she ...
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Taurus expected to be sucked into Kirch bankruptcy vortex
Taurus, the parent company that spans Kirch Media, KirchPayTV and KirchBeteiligung, is expected to be the latest element of the beleaguered Kirch empire to be sucked into bankruptcy. According to sources close to Kirch, a filing with the courts is "expected soon". Further confirmation came earlier this week when BSkyB ...
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Killer Queen, Impotent Man join Peppermint's Cannes slate
German sales outfit Peppermint has added Killer Queen, a psychological thriller about a man involved in a game of human chess, to its Cannes slate. The film, which starts shooting in summer, is a first feature to be directed by Christian Alvart. The cast is headed by Norman Reedus, Kim ...
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Capitol handles Cannes sales for Festival In Cannes
The UK's Capitol Films is handling international sales on Festival In Cannes, Henry Jaglom's comedy about a group of filmmakers and stars wading through the chaos of the 2000 edition of the festival. The film, which screens in the market, stars Anouk Aimee, Greta Scacchi and Ron Silver.
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Sales vet Davis goes it alone for Lipsticking It, Sea Devils
Sales and marketing veteran Chris Davis has struck out on his own to represent two new projects - adventure comedy Lipsticking It and WWII thriller Sea Devils. In the former, two unrelated women who have been duped by their lovers hook up to take their revenge, while the latter, written ...
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Avrio handles Rave MacBeth sales for North America
Canadian entertainment outfit Avrio Filmworks has closed a deal to become the exclusive North American sales agent for Rave MacBeth, a modernisation of Shakespeare's Macbeth set entirely at a race and starring Michael Rosenbaum, star of TV's Smallville. The film was previously represented by the now defunct 310 Entertainment.
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Hollywood studios clamour for TF1's He Loves Me remake
France's TF1 International is in advanced negotiations with Hollywood studios over English language remake rights to the Audrey Tautou-starrer He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (A La Folie, Pas Du Tout). Several US production outfits are lining up to buy, including frontrunner 20th Century Fox.He Loves Me is produced ...
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Hollywood studios clamour for TF1's He Loves Me remake
France's TF1 International is in advanced negotiations with Hollywood studios over English language remake rights to the Audrey Tautou-starrer He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (A La Folie, Pas Du Tout). Several US production outfits are lining up to buy, including frontrunner 20th Century Fox.He Loves Me is produced ...
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New Line rings up fresh quartet of hot titles
New Line Cinema is introducing four new pictures to buyers at Cannes: Secondhand Lions; the long-awaited Dumb And Dumber prequel; action thriller Highwaymen; and clash of the horror titans movie Freddy Vs Jason to be directed by Ronny Yu.New Line, which has its first ever film in competition with Alexander ...
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Spain's 42nd Street takes English-language route
Spanish production outfit 42nd Street Productions is beefing up its international presence with two new English-language co-productions.Set to star Anjelica Huston, Rosanna Arquette , Gary Oldman and Sergi Lopez for director Carolina Ducrocq, The Lunatic Fringe is based on the autobiographical novel by US writer Chester Himes. The $7m co-production ...
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Scorsese gangs up again with IEG, Di Caprio
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is backing the next film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio - whatever it turns out to be. Martin Scorsese told Screen International this week that his next film will definitely be either Alexander, his Alexander The Great movie, which IEG bought ...
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Tiger tamer role Tailor-Made for Kate Winslet
With a debut slate headed by a $36m production in which Kate Winslet plays a tiger tamer, newly-launched Tailor-Made Films has emerged as a UK production outfit to watch.Founded by former freelance TV producer Miriam Segal with backing worth£1.3 million from a group of private investors, the company has been ...
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Taewon six-picture deal kicks off busy market for Miramax
Miramax International closed a six-picture deal with Taewon Entertainment in Korea at the end of last week, kicking off a Cannes market which worldwide distribution chairman Rick Sands is anticipating as a busy one.Sands's sales drive is focused around a new package of pictures including Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things, ...
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UGC lures French talent for big budget slate
UGC International has lured some of France's top film-making talent away from rival production houses in lining up a slate of big budget projects for Cannes - led by Ruby Et Quentin, a $25m action comedy starring Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno, and directed by Francis Veber.The high profile slate ...