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Luque enrolled as head of Film Business School
Former director of creative affairs at Lolafilms UK, Nadine Luque has been appointed new director of the Film Business School, part of the MEDIA Programme-backed pan-European training initiative the Media Business School (MBS).Luque's initial one-year contract with MBS will span two intensive four-day sessions of the Film Business School, a ...
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Hong Kong's Cheung and Law plan epic Story Of Ah-Toi
Hong Kong on and off-screen partners Mabel Cheung and Alex Law are planning a giant leap in budget for their next production, provisionally titled The Story Of Ah-Toi, to be set in the US and written and directed by Law with Cheung producing.Throughout their career together, Law has written and ...
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Snapper, Two Drivers alliance starts with two Minnie features
Juha Wuolijoki's New York and Helsinki-based Snapper Films has formed an alliance with Minnie Driver's outfit Two Drivers, which the actress runs with her sister Kate Driver and producer Lisa Fielding.Their joint slate includes two new features both budgeted under $10m, the horror-thriller Luci's Prayer based on a script by ...
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Capitol duets with Medusa on Callas Forever
Capitol Films has partnered with Medusa Film to handle Franco Zeffirelli's Callas Forever, starring Fanny Ardant as the opera legend.UK-based Capitol is representing the film worldwide excluding Italy, France and Spain. The film, which also stars Jeremy Irons and Joan Plowright, takes a fictionalised looks at Callas' final days.Capitol has ...
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HBO announces international theatrical sales push
UK distributor Momentum Pictures has picked up UK theatrical, TV and home video rights to HBO Films' My House In Umbria, a drama based on the William Trevor novel starring Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall and Ronnie Barker and directed by Richard Loncraine. The sale, closed by Momentum with HBO's worldwide ...
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Cannes gets first glimpse of Gangs Of New York
After months of media attention over the fights that supposedly went into the making of Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York, the film's key figures settled their score with the press at yesterday's footage screening. "This is real art, unlike half the shit in this goddam Hollywood" declared executive producer ...
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Dougray Scott becomes Hero partner
Actor Dougray Scott has partnered in Hero Films, the UK production company of producer Anne Batz and director Mike Barker, with whom Scott recently helped save the troubled production of To Kill A King.The company's first production will be The Bum's Rush, a $2.8 million black comedy set in the ...
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Bavaria takes over from Christa Saredi
Bavaria Film International has taken over sales duties from World Sales Christa Saredi on a trio of Michael Haneke films and a library that also includes pictures by Hal Hartley, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Assi Dayan and Bakhtiyar Khudojnazarov.The move sees Bavaria complete the take-over of the WSCS catalogue that was ...
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First Look gets $8m from Seven Hills
First Look Media has accessed new capital to the tune of $8m from a new deal with Reverge Anselmo's Seven Hills Pictures to further build its domestic distribution operation.Under the deal, which was signed this week, Seven Hills will invest $6.05m in cash in First Look, in addition to $2m ...
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Golan teams up for Blood Games, Return From India
Avi Lerner and Danny Dimbort of Nu Image are re-teaming with their old friend and Dimbort's old boss Menahem Golan, acquiring worldwide rights to Golan's romantic picture The Return From India featuring Israeli stars Aki Avni, Riki Gal and Assi Dayan.The completed film which Golan co-wrote, produced and directed was ...
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Donaldson Polakoff looks to capitalise on Shimkent Hotel
Paris-based producing duo Gil Donaldson and Carol Polakoff are moving quickly to capitalise on the anticipated success of their Directors' Fortnight film Shimkent Hotel.The film, which screens in the ACID section of the Fortnight, is the directorial debut of bad-boy artist and former jockey Charles de Meaux.Boasting a clutch of ...
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UK filmmaker Eddie Cantor dies, aged 36
British filmmaker Charlie Cantor died last week, aged 36. Friends and colleagues are invited to a memorial service at Bafta in London on May 28 at 7.00pm. Cantor's credits include Appetite, which he produced and co-wrote for J&M Entertainment and the Isle of Man, and Blood, which he wrote and ...
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Send in the Clones: UK box office under attack
It came as no great surprise last weekend when 20th Century Fox opened the latest film in the Star Wars saga, Episode II - Attack Of The Clones, to massive results and the number one spot in the UK.The four day opening scored $16.6m (£11.4m) from 467 sites in the ...
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Zonka takes Le Petit Voleur remake to Crossroads
Crossroads Films, the New York-based film, commercials and video production outfit which has a first-look deal with United Artists (UA), has signed a deal with French film-maker Erick Zonka to direct an English-language remake of his 65-minute 1999 movie Le Petit Voleur.The film was the story of a young working-class ...
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Anthony Hopkins to take on the Pope
Anthony Hopkins is finalising a deal to play Pope Pius IX opposite Oscar-nominated Spanish star Javier Bardem in FilmFour's $20 million Edgardo Mortara.Miramax Films and Germany's Senator Film are co-financing the true story of how the Vatican divided Catholics, Protestants, and Jews around the world by kidnapping a Jewish boy ...
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Franchise partners with ApolloMedia for big budget sales
Elie Samaha's Franchise Pictures has partnered with Frank Huebner's German private film fund ApolloMedia to represent sales of five completed films including Alan Rudolph's Investigating Sex, Bruce Beresford's Bride Of The Wind and Christine Lahti's My First Mister.Franchise and Apollo are also partnered on big-budget production A Sound Of Thunder ...
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Nick Moran tunes up Telstar directing debut
UK actor Nick Moran hit Cannes this week to announce his directing debut, Telstar, a biopic of underground music legend Joe Meek.The Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels star is to start shooting the picture next month on a budget of just under $2million, provided by an unnamed private backer. ...
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Carlyle says hello to Saying Goodbye To Mr. Welcome
Robert Carlyle, star of the hotly pursued Directors Fortnight title Once Upon A Time In The Midlands, has boarded psychological thriller Saying Goodbye To Mr. Welcome, which Gillian Barrie of Sigma Films will co-produce with Denmark's Zentropa.Scottish actor-turned director Kenny Glenaan (Gas Attack) will direct the Brendan Somers' script about ...
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Swaraj: Bollywood ready to go global
"There is more to Indian creative talent than snake charmers and monkeys, "said Sushma Swaraj, India's minister of information and broadcasting.on the eve of the screening of Devdas, the first "Bollywood" film to obtain a slot in Cannes Official Selection.The minister heads a 100-strong delegation to Cannes, which she claims ...
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Italy's Bim picks up nine Cannes titles - so far
Italian distributor Bim Distribuzione bought three more official selection films yesterday, bringing its total haul to nine so far this market.Bim picked up Aki Kaurismaki's competition title The Man Without A Past from Bavaria Film, Nicolas Philibert's Un Certain Regard title Etre Et Avoir from Mercure and Director's Fortnight title ...