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Menemsha ties knot on Bride deals
Neil Friedman's LA-based sales agency Menemsha Entertainment has sold Argentinian Oscar nominee The Son Of The Bride to Movienet in Germany and Tandora in Singapore. The film, directed by Juan Jose Campanella, is a family drama with Ricardo Marin, Norma Aleandro and Natalia Verbeke.The film, which has been confirmed as ...
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Icon falls for Trust's Hearts and Wilbur
Icon has picked up UK and Australian rights to two of Trust Film Sales' hottest new Zentropa titles, Susanne Bier's Dogme-drama Open Hearts and Lone Scherfig's English-language romance Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself.Arsenal Filmverleigh and Shani Films have also taken German and Israeli rights to Open Hearts, which has already ...
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Helkon seduced by Bollywood Queen
Flush with the success of runaway UK hit Bend It Like Beckham, UK distributor Helkon SK has bought Bollywood Queen for the UK and France.Helkon, which bought the Bollywood-inspired romantic comedy from Gary Hamilton and Victor Syrmis' Arclight Films, is expected to eventually sell on French rights.The film, backed by ...
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MacCabe laments his old place
Among the more interesting films of the Cannes festival this year is a film essay by Anne-Marie Mieville and Jean Luc Godard called The Old Place. By all accounts it is a beautiful and intriguing meditation on the relations between painting and film. But for one of the executive producers, ...
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Palm takes Fulltime Killer to North America
Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures has bought North American distribution rights to Hong Kong hit Fulltime Killer from TeamWork Motion Pictures. The action thriller was directed by Johnny To and collaborator Wai Ka Fai and stars Andy Lau as a master assassin pursued by two relentless predators. It was selected as ...
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Hopscotch jumps on Columbine
Hopscotch, the Australian distributor launched this month by ex-Dendy Films chief Troy Lum and releasing veteran Frank Cox, has made its first acquisition, picking up Bowling For Columbine.The company bought all rights for Australia and New Zealand to the Michael Moore Competition documentary from Alliance Atlantis. Lum, whose Dendy acquisitions ...
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DVD piracy panel calls for jail terms amongst penalties
"If DVD piracy is allowed to continue it means the long term death of culture," boomed David Kessler, head of France's national cinema body the CNC, speaking in Cannes yesterday at a seminar on DVD piracy.Also involved were Nicolas Seydoux, chairman of Gaumont and MPAA chief Jack Valenti.All three speakers ...
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Tonie Marshall revs up France Boutique
Pyramide Productions's Fabienne Vonnier is in Cannes wrapping up financing for Tonie Marshall's next title France Boutique, which is to star Karin Viard and Francois Cluzet as a couple specialising in the production of TV home-shopping shows.France Boutique sees Marshall going back to a comedy in the vein of Venus ...
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Pardue, Carlyle tempted by Pandora
Kip Pardue and Robert Carlyle are in negotiations to star and William Malone (House On Haunted Hill) to direct psychological thriller Tempting Pandora being sold - appropriately - by Pandora. Meanwhile Pandora's sales head Sebnem Askin has closed a range of deals for the film including to M6/SND in France, ...
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Myriad sources Jeepers Creepers 2 financing
Myriad Pictures has closed a deal to source financing from Comerica Entertainment Group, the entertainment financing arm of Comerica Bank, for Jeepers Creepers 2: Like A Bat Out Of Hell which is being produced by American Zoetrope and distributed in North America by United Artists.
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Spider
Dir. David Cronenberg, Can-UK. 2002. Screened in CompetitionDavid Cronenberg has described Spider as "pure". This is something of an understatement. An uncompromising portrait of mental disturbance, Spider makes Cronenberg's previous Competition entry Crash seem commercial; whereas the 1996 film promised attractions such as cars and sex, Spider has nothing to ...
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The Man Without A Past (Mies Vailla Menneisyytta)
Dir: Aki Kaurismaki. Finland. 2002. 97mins. Screening in CompetitionA low-life comedy-drama guaranteed to leave the viewer feeling high, the latest from Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki has all of his distinctive features: poker-faced humour, stripped-down and highly composed visuals, and a humanist romantic sensibility. All combine to make The Man Without ...
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About Schmidt
Dir: Alexander Payne. US. 2002. 125 mins. Screened in CompetitionUnderplaying the overt social satire of Citizen Ruth and Election, Alexander Payne's remorselessly interior dramedy is centred squarely on a single character, and narrower in focus and more pessimistic in tone than either of its predecessors. About Schmidt also abandons the ...
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REVIEW: About Schmidt
Dir: Alexander Payne. US. 2002. 125 mins. Screened in CompetitionUnderplaying the overt social satire of Citizen Ruth and Election, Alexander Payne's remorselessly interior dramedy is centred squarely on a single character, and narrower in focus and more pessimistic in tone than either of its predecessors. About Schmidt also abandons the ...
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The Man Without A Past (Mies Vailla Menneisyytta)
Dir: Aki Kaurismaki. Finland. 2002. 97mins. Screening in CompetitionA low-life comedy-drama guaranteed to leave the viewer feeling high, the latest from Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki has all of his distinctive features: poker-faced humour, stripped-down and highly composed visuals, and a humanist romantic sensibility. All combine to make The Man Without ...
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REVIEW: Ararat
Dir: Atom Egoyan. Canada. 2002. 115mins. Screened in CompetitionArarat is the film Atom Egoyan has been waiting to make his entire career. All the familiar Egoyan tropes are present - the obsession with mediated images, the juxtaposition of 'truth' and 'fiction', of the 'normal' and the 'foreign', - but the ...
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Cannes 2002: tough choices for Palme readers
Constantly improving after far from auspicious beginnings, Cannes 2002 should finally settle in the memory as a robust and rewarding vintage. Filled with uncompromising auteurist statements, exciting discoveries and tender explorations of the human condition, it was a Festival to restore anyone's faith in the health and vigour of world ...
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Borgia inches forward
Regarded as a barometer of the health of large-scale film financing in a depressed European market, Neil Jordan's epic Borgia appears to be finally coming together as a mammoth co-production between the UK, Germany, Italy, Ireland and possibly France.Co-producers and partners deep into talks include BBC Films for the UK ...
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Germany remains weak as Miramax strikes multi-territory deals
Miramax International may have completed a string of deals here but one territory it wasn't closing on was Germany. "We've seen everyone, but the offers are just too low," said worldwide distribution chief Rick Sands. "Their mission was to push down pricing, but we have to tough it out. Germany ...
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Warner expands European production push
Warner Bros Pictures has hired Crisilde Dominici as director, local production, Italy as part of its expansion drive into European production and acquisitions, and has declared its intentions to embark on a Spanish local production plan later this year.Dominici, who has worked with directors such as Nanni Moretti, joined the ...