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Hudlin to direct Chan in $35m martial arts fantasy
Emperor Multi-media Group (EMG) has signed Reginald Hudlin to direct its Jackie Chan film The Highbinders which, at a suggested budget of $35m, is the most expensive film ever to be financed from Hong Kong. The English-language martial arts fantasy will shoot later in June or July in Hong Kong ...
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Fortissimo serves up spicy Thai dish
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up a trio of new pictures including Jan Dara, by Nonzee Nimibutr, the Thai director behind last year's pan-Asian blockbuster Nang Nak.His follow-up Jan Dara is a saga of sex, guilt and retribution set in 1930s Thailand which sees a young man return to a ...
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Del Toro, Rush join Intermedia's Assumption
Two of this year's Oscar nominees Benicio Del Toro and Geoffrey Rush, together with acting legend Vanessa Redgrave, are all lining up to star opposite Juliette Binoche in Intermedia's period drama Assumption Of The Virgin.Directed by Walter Salles, the film stars Binoche as a nun lured away from her convent ...
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Wild Bunch hits the road with The Red Siren
French super-mini Wild Bunch has boarded its second English-language picture The Red Siren (La Sirene Rouge) by rising French filmmaker Olivier Megaton Fontana, a director rated by compatriot Luc Besson as one of the hottest emerging talents in Europe. Megaton's film is a road movie thriller with a heavy accent ...
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Mandolin to play first in UK
Universal has moved Captain Corelli's Mandolin from its April release date in the US back to August. The romantic drama, starring Nicolas Cage, was scheduled to open on April 27 in North America, before commencing its international roll-out in the UK on May 4. According to Universal's London office and ...
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Large Screen Format gets downsized
Further fallout in the Large Format cinema sector is being predicted, following the news that IMAX Corporation has slashed 13% of its 1000-strong workforce.The job cuts come as part of a broader corporate restructuring plan, according to the company, which involves the consolidation of the manufacturing of sound and projection ...
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Grupo Novo returns to AFM
Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV, a distributor of films by Brazilian independent producers, is back at the AFM for the first time in ten years with a slate headed by two pictures which recently appeared at Berlin.Latitude Zero, by Toni Venturi, whose script was backed by the Sundance ...
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Studio Hamburg Produktion and Ellipse Deutschland
Studio Hamburg Produktion (SHP), a production arm of Studio Hamburg, and Berlin-based Ellipse Deutschland Film- und Fernsehproduktion have joined forces to work together on animation projects for film and television.In a first phase of the collaboration, the partners are planning to co-develop and produce four projects including TV animation series ...
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Fox joins Brazil's cunning fiscal movie scheme
20th Century Fox Film Brazil has closed an unprecedented package deal with local production company Total Filmes.According to the terms of the agreement, Fox will distribute three feature films produced by Total over a three year period, starting in 2001. Fox will exploit the fiscal advantages provided by Brazil's audiovisual ...
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Fortissimo picks up Ayres' debut film
Co-chair Wouter Barendrecht has confirmed that Fortissimo Film Sales is taking all international rights for Walking On Water, one of three Australian features which go into production in the next few months in time to premiere in March 2002 as The Adelaide Festival of Arts' first ever film content.It will ...
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New European short film awards launched
The Brussels-based European Coordination of Film Festivals and Jameson Irish Whiskey have joined forces to launch an initiative worth Euros300,000 over the next three years to support European short film-making. The Jameson Short Film Awards will be presented annually at eight European film festivals to a short film with the ...
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MARKET UPDATE
RIPLEY'S GAME ADDS CASTRay Winstone, Lena Headey and Chiara Caselli have joined the cast of Fine Line Features' Ripley's Game which is currently shooting in Italy under the direction of Liliana Cavani. Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, the film stars John Malkovich as Ripley and Dougray Scott as ...
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Goldman launches p&a-fueled US releasing outfit
Former New Line Cinema president and COO of distribution Mitch Goldman has launched The Premiere Group, a new marketing and distribution operation that intends to guarantee Hollywood-level films a wide release in the US.J.P. Morgan will arrange a revolving credit facility of at least $100 million to partly back The ...
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AFM buyers adapt quickly to Spike Jonze
Intermedia and Good Machine International (GMI) have closed a raft of sales on Adaptation, the new movie from director Spike Jonze which stars Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper. Columbia Pictures will release the film in North America; sister company Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group has taken it for ...
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Miramax circles cult Japanese sci-fi fantasy
Continuing its buying spree of international films, Miramax Films is in the final stages of picking up domestic rights to Japanese sci-fi fantasy Avalon directed by Mamoru Oshii whose credits include cult movies Ghost In The Shell and Patlabor. The film, which - bizarrely enough - was shot in Poland ...
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US buyers starting to look south of the border too
Mexico is emerging as a hot buying territory - a trend driven not so much by local distributors as by US distributors such as Miramax Films which have been adding territorial rights south of the Rio Grande as part of their North American purchases.The suddenly acquisitive Miramax, which is driving ...
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Europe ready to roll its costliest cartoon feature
Europe's most expensive animated feature, Simsala Grimm, is finally poised to go into production in May under the direction of cartoon veteran Gerd Hahn.Drawn from a Russian fairy tale, the long-in-development theatrical version sees the return of the evil characters from the eponymous TV series who attempt to take over ...
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Fat Girl (A Ma Soeur!)
Screened at Berlin (Competition). Dir: Catherine Breillat. France-Italy. 2001mins. No European director, and certainly no female European film-maker, has made a more audacious series of films than Catherine Breillat. There are times, in fact, when she seems to court controversy. In this respect, Fat Girl carries on where Romance left ...
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Amores Perros escapes UK censorship
Mexican Best Foreign Oscar nominee Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros) is set to receive clearance from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), despite a harrowing and controversial dog fight scene.The scene, a 21-second, yet pivotal, sequence in the film, was in danger of falling foul of the Cinematograph Films ...
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Roddy Doyle adds Film Board to commitments
WriterRoddy Doyle has been appointed to a revamped Irish Film Board by Irish Arts andHeritage minister Sile de Valera. The new board was announced after amonth-long vacuum, which arose when the remit of the last board members ran outon January 15. Doyle has awriting and producing credit on the ...