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Redbus renames as Helkon SK, acquires films
Newly-christened Helkon SK - better known as UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution - has made a trio of acquisitions including Ed Burns' gangster thriller Ash Wednesday and Capitol Films' American Zoetrope production Jeepers Creepers.The company founded by Simon Franks and Zygi Kamasa - now majority owned by Germany's Helkon - ...
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Good Machine closes string of deals on They
Good Machine International is close to completing its international sales patchwork on suspenser They, which is the first film from its exclusive foreign sales arrangement with Ted Field's Radar Pictures. Bac Films has taken France, Entertainment the UK, Concorde Germany, Nu Vision Mexico and Sandrew Metronome Scandinavia. Starring Laura Regan, ...
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Miramax may remake Besson-produced Weekend Break
Having bought just about everything this year, Miramax Films is now out to remake just about everything. The Weinstein powerhouse is negotiating remake rights for 15 Aout (Weekend Break), a three men and some children tale reminiscent of one of the most succesful re-makes ever - Trois Homme Et Un ...
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Spain's Boca launches international sales division
Spanish production house Grupo Boca has launched a new worldwide sales and production division, signalling plans to significantly grow its international presence.Former Boca TV acquisitions and distribution head Mercedes Borruel has been appointed director of the new department. She will handle international sales on all feature film product out of ...
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Luhrmann's Sensory Overload
Dir: Baz Luhrmann. Australia/US. 2001. 124 minAussie wonder boy Baz Luhrmann continues to break rules and to shock in his new tragi-comic musical, Moulin Rouge his most audaciously innovative feature to date. Like his stylized dance melodrama Strictly Ballroom and his postmodern Shakespearean adaptation, Romeo + Juliet, the new musical, ...
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Mueller creates new film production company
Marco Mueller, head of the Benetton-owned production company Fabrica Cinema, is planning to create a new, autonomous production company at the end of this year. Mueller said he will maintain his role at Fabrica, which will continue to build on its reputation of fostering new talents from around the world. ...
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Chan, Hung replace Hudlin on EMG's Highbinders
Hong Kong star directors Gordon Chan and Sammo Hung are to jointly replace Reggie Hudlin behind the camera on The Highbinders, a $35m sci-fi action adventure that breaks the international financing mould by being structured as a Hong Kong-Irish co-production. Jackie Chan is attached to star in this English-language project, ...
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Gilliam, Thomas trip out together on fantasy film
Terry Gilliam, in Cannes on the main jury, has teamed with producer Jeremy Thomas on Tideland, an adaptation of US author Mitch Cullin's dark twist on child fantasies such as The Wizard Of Oz and Alice In Wonderland.The often surreal story of a girl who flees from Los Angeles to ...
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Vine teams with Samaha brother on Spheeris comedy
Samaha Productions, the LA production outfit run by Elie's brother Demetri Samaha, has teamed with Marie Vine's London-based Vine International Pictures to co-finance Penelope Spheeris' Spam On Rye which will be distributed domestically by Warner Bros. Vine will handle international sales.A dark comedy about an unambitious young man who unwittingly ...
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UK's FilmFour takes on Borgias, Che Guevara
Joining a pack of film-makers taking on the same ambitious material, the UK's FilmFour is tackling two historical subjects of world-wide renown - Che Guevara and the Borgias.FilmFour's Che will focus on the relationship between Guevara and Fidel Castro, ranging from the Cuban revolutionary's rise to power to his death ...
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Camela Galano named president of New Line Int'l
Camela Galano, who has been living in London as executive vice president and European supervisor of New Line International (NLI), has been named president of New Line International. She takes over international duties from Rolf Mittweg whose job at New Line Cinema was recently expanded when he was named president ...
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M6 to buy French distributor SND from RTL Group
M6, the French broadcaster which has been quietly been acquiring all French rights to films such as Martin Scorsese's mega budget Gangs of News York, is in the process of taking control of its theatrical distribution operation with the purchase of RTL Group's SND.RTL is also a main shareholder in ...
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Hundred Steps producer lines up Palestinian movie
Fabrizio Mosca, producer of the Italian Oscar candidate The Hundred Steps, is lining up three English-language pictures, including Return to Haifa - a breakthrough Israeli-Palestinian-Italian film about Middle East tensions. Return to Haifa is based on a book by a leading Palestinian author, Ghassan Kanafani, who was killed by Mossad ...
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Tokuma mounts new project from Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tokuma International has moved quickly to capitalise on the intense heat surrounding Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, following the acclaimed Un Certain regard screening of his Pulse (aka Kairo).Tokuma is to handle world sales on his next directorial effort, an untitled drama about the uneasy relationship between two men. ...
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Miramax buys Rabbit Proof Fence, Fox grabs Jessica
Buying heated up in the weekend sun at Cannes as an acquisitive Miramax Films put down $4m for North and South American, UK and Italian rights to Phillip Noyce's aboriginal period drama Rabbit Proof Fence.Fox Searchlight Pictures also used the festival to unveil its acquistion of worldwide rights to Charles ...
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Weinstein teases Bac's Labadie, then regrets it
Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein became the unwitting talking point of this year's Cannes Film Festival after poking fun at Jean Labadie, the head of French distribution house Bac Films and also Miramax's regular theatrical partner in the territory.Taking the microphone at this year's annual luncheon held by Miramax International ...
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Hammer teams with Sturridge to scare up six films
Resurrected UK horror brand Hammer Entertainment has partnered with FirstSight Films, the production outfit of Charles Sturridge, Francesca Barra and Selwyn Roberts, to make a slate of six films over the next three years.The deal is the first step back into feature film production for Hammer after it was bought ...
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CANNES: WEEKEND DEALS AND NEW PROJECTS
TF1 International has boarded The One And Only, a romantic comedy produced by the UK's Assassin Films and to be directed by Simon Cellar Jones.The world-wide acquisition and sales arm of TF1 Group, which is co-producing the title along with Pathe UK, will be handling worldwide sales with the exception ...
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The Mummy 2 smashes competition; Knight opens OK
The Mummy Returns, Universal Pictures' blockbusting sequel, dominated the North American box office for a second weekend with a powerful $32.2m for a ten-day total of $116.5m. Although the film lost 53% of its audience, it is still on track to become the first film of the year to gross ...
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Lacklustre Cannes festival leaves d'Or still ajar
At its exact midway point, with only five more days to go, the 54th edition of the Cannes Film Festival registers as a solid but not particularly exciting programme. No major discoveries, no artistic breakouts, not many commercial hits -- not even real controversies or scandals to stir festival watchers ...