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Warner marches abroad with Alexander
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired the key English-language territories of UK, Australia and New Zealand to Oliver Stone's untitled Alexander The Great project from Intermedia and Summit Entertainment. Warner already has rights in North America and plans to release it on Nov 5, 2004."Warner Bros. continues to be a great ...
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Medusa adopts Polanski's Oliver
Italy's Medusa is the first major territorial buyer to parent Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist from Summit Entertainment. The distributor is in final negotiations to take Italian rights to the $60m film which is being produced by Polanski, Alain Sarde and Robert Benmussa.Polanski is currently scouting locations in eastern Europe for ...
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Arclight clinches sales on The Merchant Of Venice
Arclight Films has completed a string of deals on Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice, starring Al Pacino.MGM has taken the film for the UK, Art Port for Japan, Manga for Spain, Paradise for Russia and New Films for Eastern Europe and Latin America.The $30m film of Shakespeare's play will ...
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Movieweb casts Shadow with English-lang slate
Movieweb's Massimo Pacilio has teamed up with the UK's Studio Eight and Canada's GFT Entertainment to produce a line-up of big-budget English language pictures.Among the first projects to be made through the new partnership is Shadow Dancer, a $10m movie starring Harvey Keitel, Giancarlo Giannini and Gerard Depardieu. Produced by ...
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Arclight chief relocates to London
Australia's top sales agent Gary Hamilton is to leave Sydney and relocate to London where he will set up a UK arm of his successful sales and production outfit Arclight Films. Hamilton said that he will be installed in London before Christmas this year.Arclight will retain its Sydney office for ...
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Recorded to Franchise: Hands off Scheherezade
London's Recorded Picture Co (RPC) and its sales arm Hanway Films have become engaged in a bizarre tussle with LA-based Franchise Pictures over hot MIFED title Scheherezade directed by Michael Apted - which both companies appear to be selling.But according to Jeremy Thomas, the film's producer, and head of Recorded/Hanway, ...
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Camel trots into France with ARP
ARP has bought French rights to The Story Of The Weeping Camel, one of the surprise hits of the Toronto Film Festival and the official Mongolian entry for this year's best foreign language film Academy Award. Sold to the French independent by Menemsha Entertainment, which has worldwide sales rights, the ...
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Sellers sells for HBO
HBO Films London has sold all rights in four territories to its drama The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers.Toshiba has picked it up for Japan, LNK for Portugal, Spentzos for Greece and Noah for Israel.The company has also reported strong interest from French, Italian and Spanish buyers at Mifed ...
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Rudolph investigates sex for Germany's Gemini
Cologne-based production outfit Gemini Film is lining up three international features for production this year including Investigating Sex, written and to be directed by Alan Rudolph, which has Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte and Neve Campbell attached to star.The $8.5m project is set to start shooting in North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin ...
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Martian flies out of Office
France's Co-Production Office may have only picked up the film in the hours before Mifed, but it is selling strongly on adult animation film Mercano The Martian from Argentina.The irreverent youth-oriented picture by Juan Antin denounces globalisation with a mixture of irony and black humour. It won the jury ...
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20 films look to break out of The Asylum
LA-based independent home video production and distribution outfit The Asylum has secured private funding to produce 20 films over the next 18 months, with the first title set to begin principal photography in January 2004 for a summer US release.The line-up will comprise mostly horror, sci-fi and thriller titles budgeted ...
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Camel trots into France with ARP
ARP has bought French rights to The Story Of The Weeping Camel, one of the surprise hits of the Toronto Film Festival and the official Mongolian entry for this year's best foreign language film Academy Award. Sold to the French independent by Menemsha Entertainment, which has worldwide sales rights, the ...
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Lions Gate takes over world for New France
Lions Gate International has acquired worldwide rights excluding France and Canada to Jean Beaudin's epic historical romance New France, starring Gerard Depardieu, Tim Roth and Colm Meaney.The in-production Canadian-French-UK joint venture is being shot in English and French-language versions on locations in Canada, France and the UK.The company's co-presidents Nick ...
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Europe opens up to Tube
Tube Entertainment's big underground action picture Tube has scored additional sales in Europe selling to AV Film for Italy and Pathe for France. Spain's Manga Entertainment bought both Tube and Jan Sun Woo's sci-fi fantasy Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl. Tube has also struck a deal with John Sloss' ...
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75% more entries for 2nd Berlinale Talent Campus
The Berlinale Talent Campus has received 75% more applications for next year's event with 3,500 entries coming from 101 countries, compared to 2,000 from 70 countries for the first edition last February.Talent Campus project manager Christine Dorn told ScreenDaily.com that applications had come from countries like Mali, Azerbaijan, Syria, Senegal ...
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Israeli Film Authority announces 2003's fund allocations
The Israeli Film Authority, which allocates state funds for the cinema industry, has finally announced its long-awaited allocations for 2003. As expected, 85% of the $13.5m (NIS 61m) distributed by the government will go to production (two thirds of it for features, the rest divided between documentaries, shorts and experimental ...
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Nordisk Film goes to Hollywood
Nordic major Nordisk Film is to open a US office in Los Angeles on January 1, where international head of acquisitions Kim Beich will handle the company's many US relationships. "It is a part of the strategy we have been following for some years now," Nordisk Film MD, Kenneth D ...
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Fortissimo picks up Girl
Fortissimo Film Sales unveiled the pick-up of yet another title and the conclusion of a raft of sales on its diverse and expanding slate.Company co-chief Wouther Barendrecht said that Fortissimo will be handling Fanchin (pictured) (literally "My Girl"), a feel-good film that has become one of the biggest grossing ...
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Osborne prepares Magic Fingers in NZ
Producer Barrie M Osborne, who relocated from the US to New Zealand to work with director Peter Jackson on The Lord Of The Rings, is set to continue his relationship with the country - and to keep putting myth and fantasy up on the big screen. He is now in ...
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Hidden River (Rio Escondido)
Dir: Mercedes Garcia Guevara. Argentina. 1999. 87 mins.Prod: Mercedes Garcia Guevara. Int'l sales: Tequila Gang (00 207 290 0773). Exec prod: Diego Dubcovsky. Scr: Mercedes Garcia Guevara. DoP: Esteban Sapir. Ed: Alejandro Brodersohn. Mus: Martin Bauer. Main cast: Paolo Krum, Juan Palomino, Pablo Cedron, Maria Jose Gabin, Laura Melillo.A consistently ...