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MTV, Paramount start dancing to Britney's tune
MTV Films has boarded the Britney Spears movie What Are Friends For as co-producer, while MTV sister company Paramount Pictures is in advanced negotiations to take domestic distribution rights on the film which is being sold by Summit Entertainment.MTV and Paramount have a history of youth-oriented hits which include Save ...
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Egoyan's tough-sell Ararat finds French home
While a film within a film set against the 1915 Turkish massacre of Armenians might seem like a hard sell, Atom Egoyan's Ararat has already been picked up for France by ARP. Meanwhile, TMN has taken Canadian pay TV rights.Not that commercial considerations are upper most on the filmmakers' ...
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Sogepaq adds Medem's latest to Cannes slate
Spanish rights house Sogepaq has added two films to its Cannes sales slate: Julio Medem's Lucia And Sex (Lucia Y El Sexo) and Antonio Hernandez's In The City Without Limits (En La Ciudad Sin Limites).Lucia is the much-anticipated new film from cult director Medem (The Lovers Of The Arctic Circle). ...
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Rea seduced by Spanish Aphrodite
Stephen Rea has joined the cast of Spanish-based international co-production Aphrodite (Afrodita), writer-director Fernando Solanas' adaptation of popular Isabel Allende novel Aphrodite: Stories, Recipes And Other Aphrodisiacs.Rea will star alongside Cecilia Roth and Marisa Paredes, reunited after Oscar-winner All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre), and Italy's Giovanna Mezzogiorno, ...
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KWA chews on Beach Dogs for worldwide sales
Spanish sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up worldwide rights on Beach Of Dogs (La Playa De Los Galgos), a new forthcoming feature film from director Mario Camus.The $4m mystery stars Laura Morante (The Son's Room), Carmelo Gomez (Between Your Legs), Ingrid Rubio and Miguel Angel Sola. It ...
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Kids of Kids prepare for Marathon
French TV production and distribution house Marathon International is producing its second feature film, Ken Park, the directorial debut of Ed Lachman, the cinematographer on Erin Brokovich. Lachman will co-direct with Kids director Larry Clark. Marathon produced, financed and is now selling Amos Kolleck's Directors' Fortnight title Queenie In Love, ...
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Fox digs into Germany in search of funding
20th Century Fox is planning to tap into the German private equity market to raise funds for feature projects.Munich-based Fox Deutsche Filmproduktion Beteiligung has been founded to attract private investors' money for four projects: John Pasquin's Joe Somebody starring Tim Allen, James Belushi and Julie Bowen; Bobby and Peter Farrelly ...
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Fortissimo clinches string of pre-Cannes deals
Hong Kong-Dutch sales powerhouse Fortissimo has clinched a string of pre-market sales on its roster of festival films. The deals come as Fortissimo has just secured a major coup in selling last year's Cannes competition film Devils On The Doorstep to Japan's Gaga Films. The film from mainland Chinese director ...
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Artificial Eye takes UK for The Piano Teacher
UK specialist distributor Artificial Eye Film Distribution has picked up Austrian auteur Michael Haneke's Cannes Official Competition entry The Piano Teacher.The Austrian-French title, which is represented on the Croisette by international sales outfit MK2, stars Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot and Benoit Magimel.Artificial Eye this year teamed with Metro Tartan Films, ...
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Celluloid adds Quinzaine title Lan Yu to slate
Celluloid Dreams has picked up sales right on Directors' Fortnight title Lan Yu, by Hong Kong film-maker Stanley Kwan (The Island Tales). The pick-up takes Celluloid's haul of Cannes festival this year to an astonishing eleven.Lan Yu is a gay-themed melodrama based on the anonymous Internet novel Beijing Story. Set ...
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CANNES DAY ONE ROUND UP
IEG CONFIRMS ALI DEAL WITH COLUMBIAInitial Entertainment Group (IEG) has confirmed that the deal between Columbia Pictures and IEG for Michael Mann's big budget boxing biopic Ali has been finalised, with IEG providing funds to finance the film against worldwide distribution excluding the US and Canada. IEG has been involved ...
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Ben Ammar to bankroll Samaha's Dante outfit
The irrepressible Elie Samaha has formed a new financing, production and distribution venture Dante Entertainment with Paris-based Tarak Ben Ammar and his Quinta Communications. The deal will see Quinta bankrolling Dante - which plans to produce four films a year - to the tune of between $200m and $300m.Although separate ...
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Exotic locales abound in ambitious BBC film slate
BBC Films is developing a slew of large-scale international projects for its debut feature slate under director general Greg Dyke's new drama-entertainment structure. The UK public broadcaster's film arm wants to use the projects and an equally ambitious financing pact for bigger titles with Cobalt Media Group (formerly MM Media ...
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Crystal Sky unleashes Voight films with Apollo
Steven Paul's Crystal Sky Worldwide Sales has teamed with German film fund Apollo Media on two new films: kung fu fighting talking dog saga Unleashed co-starring Jon Voight, Simon Rex and Jaime Pressly and Façade, a $25m heist thriller which teams Voight with Julia Ormond under director Danny Cannon.These two ...
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Miramax seals five picture pact with Japan's Gaga
Miramax International has sealed a five-picture output deal with Gaga Communications in Japan for a reported $15m, marking the biggest deal the company has ever scored in the territory and signalling a new aggression among Japanese buyers.The films are James Mangold's Kate & Leopold starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, ...
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Miramax takes Germany's Scotia to arbitration
One of Germany's oldest distribution companies is in hot water as it came to light this week that Miramax International has taken Scotia Film to an arbitration board for non-payment. Scotia, which has enjoyed the fruits of Miramax's output in the past including Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, Life Is ...
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Summit wakes up to new Alcon picture trio
Summit Entertainment has struck a three-picture deal with Alcon Entertainment, producers of Christopher Nolan's Insomnia which is on Summit's Cannes sales slate. None of the three pictures has yet been specified but a deal has been struck for Summit to raise additional equity from a few select key territory sales. ...
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Advanced adopts cautious approach to rights buying
In recognition of the difficult climate of the German television market, troubled German rights trader Advanced Medien will in future only acquire film licenses so long as a broadcaster is already lined up to buy them.This new acquisition strategy was outlined by Advanced's newly bullish CFO Otto Dauer at the ...
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Harte Jungs duo bank on new success with Pornorama
Constantin Film's Bernd Eichinger and director Marc Rothemund are developing a new project entitled Pornorama after the box-office success of their teen comedy Ants In The Pants (Harte Jungs) which registered over 1.7m admissions and was the second most successful German film last year after Stefan Ruzowitzky's Anatomie.According to Eichinger, ...
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Hurt joins Deneuve on trip to Marshall's Heaven
William Hurt is to co-star with Catherine Deneuve in Au Plus Pres du Paradis (Nearest To Heaven), the next film by award-winning French director Tonie Marshall.French sales outfit Flach Pyramide International is launching pre-sales in Cannes on the $7m title - which will be shot in both French and English ...