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San Sebastian announces Films In Progress projects
San Sebastian has announced the six titles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Nicaragua that will make up this year's Films In Progress section of the festival.The projects are:Carlos Serrano Azcona's Mexican drama El Arbol about a man who has to turn his life around after being prevented from seeing his ...
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Norwegian government affirms commitment to film
Speaking in Venice this weekend, Norwegian Minister of Culture Trond Giske has outlined the country's long-term plans to boost film production and to attract foreign movies.At a time when other Western European Governments are feeling the financial squeeze, Norway is continuing to strike a bullish note about its film policy. ...
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Finns fly to China for kung fu co-production Jade Warrior
Beijing-based MingProductions has boarded AJ Annila's Jade Warrior, billed as Finland's "first ever martial arts movie",which is set to shoot in China, Finland and Estonia starting in August. Also the first-everChinese-Scandinavian co-production, the $3m film was previously set to shootonly in Finland with an all-Finnish cast. It will now shoot ...
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Mallboy team set to produce Melbourne-set Orange
The team behind Directors' Fortnight film Mallboy is now developing Orange, a love story set amid feuding families in a bustling wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Melbourne, Australia.Vincent Giarrusso is writing, directing, and working with script editor Tony Ayres, and Fiona Eagger is producing. This time around Chris Fitchett ...
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World's Fastest Indian heads East
TheWorld's Fastest Indian, starring Anthony Hopkins, has sold to Alexander van Duelman's EEAP forEastern Europe, including Russia, and German-speaking markets.The distributor picked upthe film, directed by Roger Donaldson, from Tanlay AG and NZ Film. "I was impressed with Anthony Hopkins' performance," said vanDuelman. "However, seeing the 16 minutes of cut ...
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New York Doll ready to rock festivals
Gary Rubin's First LookIndependent is planning a high-profile festival berth for Greg Whiteley'sdocumentary New York Doll aheadits October US release.Rubin has been fieldingstrong interest from festival organisers on the picture, which charts the upliftingstory of former New York Dolls bass player Arthur 'Killer' Kane, a reformedalcoholic and Mormon church librarian ...
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Fortissimo, Notro in TV deal
FortissimoFilms' recently-established TV sales division has closed its first majormulti-rights deal by selling a package of nearly 50 film titles to Spain'sNotro Films.Included inthe package is the Jim Jarmusch library of films, including Down By Law, the Killer Films Collection,including Todd Haynes' Poison, and Gregg Araki's most recent film Mysterious ...
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Cash versus culture clash for European film finance
Tension between cultural andeconomic aims have become a serious complicating factor in film financepolicies in Europe, according to the European Audiovisual Observatory.At a conference oninternational partnerships at Cannes on Sunday, experts said transnationalco-production was a clearly growing trend. Accordingto its 2005 Focus report, US-launched films benefiting from European funding -like ...
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Lou Ye wraps Summer Palace
Productionwrapped last week (May 13) on Chinese director Lou Ye's Summer Palace, following a three-month shoot inChina and two weeks in Berlin.Co-producedby China's Laurel Films and France's Rosem Films, the $3m drama follows thelives and love affairs of four ordinary people from 1988, when China had juststarted to open up, ...
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Greeks set sail with financing deals
The sword and sandal epic isset to get its biggest gift since the wooden horse. Greece is launching a filmfinancing incentive worth up to 30% of a budget to boost its local industry andattract overseas productions.Speaking in Cannes, deputyminister of culture Petros Tatoulis said the financial incentive, part of thecountry's ...
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America Theatrical gets Childstar
Fledgling theatrical salesventure America Theatrical is busily assembling its initial slate and haspicked up international rights to Don McKellar's Childstar.Launching here under theaegis of Argentina-based America Video Films, the company is targeting 12commercial titles for sale each year.Childstar earned Jennifer Jason Leigh a best supportingactress Genie in March for her ...
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Bond plots shooting defection from UK to Prague
Having boosted the Britishproduction sector for decades, James Bond is in advanced negotiations to headto Eastern Europe for his next outing, Casino Royale.A spokesperson for Prague'sBarrandov Studios confirmed that the studio is well along in talks with EonProductions, the production outfit behind the James Bond franchise, to come to the ...
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Oliver Stone drops out of Night Watchman
Uncertainty surrounded thefuture of James Ellroy adaptation The Night Watchman last night after it emerged that Oliver Stone hasdropped out of the Keanu Reeves-starrer due to problems with the screenplay.Stone came on board todirect the story of a disgraced policeman who launches a crusade againstcorrupt officers after Spike Lee dropped ...
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Venice shapes up as star magnet
With journalists dailybemoaning the dearth of major American stars in Cannes, The Venice FilmFestival is once again shaping up as a showcase of star-studded prospects fromthe US and Europe. John Madden's Proof, Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm, James Ivory's The White Countess and Fernando Mereilles' The Constant Gardener are just ...
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Lucky Red embarks on Cannes buying spree
Upscale Italian arthousedistributor Lucky Red has been on a buying spree in Cannes, snapping up rightsto three new titles. It has picked up Korean gangster drama A BittersweetLife from CJ Entertainment, Thaihorror hit Shutter from GMM ThaiHub and Carlos Reygadas' competition entry, Battle In Heaven from The Co-Production Office.Just prior ...
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Hayden strikes back with first-look Bauer Martinez deal
Philippe Martinez' BauerMartinez Studios has struck a first-look deal with Hayden Christensen's ForestPark Films.Hayden, in Cannes for StarWars, runs the production outfitwith his brother Tove.The 18-month deal will cover projects in the $10m-$40m range and bothparties are currently discussing which titles to take into development.All productions in the partnership will ...
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LITE launches Latin American film fund
A newBrazil-based finance and development company has launched a $1m fund to supportLatin American projects with international potential.Life In TheTropics Entertainment (LITE) says the money will nurse 10 scripts and ideasthrough early stages of development.Fundfounders Roberto d'Avila and Richard Palmgren say film-makers from across theregion will benefit not just from ...
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Louis Malle collection sells for Pyramide
Pyramide International'scollection of newly-remastered Louis Malle films has sold strongly at Cannes.The UK's Optimum, Italy'sMikado, Lumiere in Benelux and Avalon Productions in Spain are among thebuyers.This follows on fromprevious sales to US distributor Criterion and Arte for France in dealsbrokered by Malle's son Manuel via his company NEF.Pyramide's Malle collectionis ...
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Amelio's Star shines as Italian, Singapore co-production
Gianni Amelio's new film LaStella Che Non C'e' (The Missing Star)has been set up as a Singapore/Italian co-production, with Sergio Castellito inthe lead role of an Italian worker trying to prevent an industrial disaster ina Chinese steel mill.Shooting will start nextmonth in Shanghai on the film, which is to be ...