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Palme d'Or winner: Wim Wenders
German director Wim Wenders has had eight films in the Cannes Competition, including 1993's Faraway, So Close, which won the Grand Jury prize, and Wings Of Desire, for which he picked up best director. Wenders won the Palme d'Or in 1984 for Paris, Texas. What did it feel like to ...
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Joffe takes Corsan passage to India
Roland Joffe is India-bound. The Oscar winning British director (The Killing Fields, The Mission) is to direct $35 million epic Singularity with Aishwarya Rai (Provoked, Bride and Prejudice) in the leading role. The film, due to begin production early next year, is being produced and co-financed by Belgian outfit Corsan ...
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Mendes confirmed to direct Hanks in gangster pic
British wunderkind director Sam Mendes will return to DreamWorks SKG for his second film after his Oscar winning debut American Beauty. He will direct megastar Tom Hanks in The Road To Perdition, a film adaptation of a 1930s gangster comic strip novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayners. ...
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Barunson producer team to support foreign shoots in Korea
South Korean production house Barunson has announced it is launching a consortium of Korea's hottest producers and line producers to work on productions from overseas.Lewis Kim, head of international at Barunson, has drawn together a stellar group which includes Lee Sung-hoon (Taegukgi, Shiri), Han Jae-duk (Old Boy), Park Bong-soo (The ...
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Zodiac, Shrek open in pre-Pirates international lull
The lull between the global assaults of Spider-Man 3 and next week's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End continues this weekend, though the debut of Zodiac and the Russian opening of Shrek The Third could produce some new action in the international marketplace. David Fincher's acclaimed Zodiac, with ...
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Bridges steps up to join cast of $25m Weide film
In a move which is already whetting buyers' appetites, Jeff Bridges has joined the cast of Bob Weide's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, the $25 million adaptation of Toby Young's bestselling satirical memoir about his time as a British journalist abroad, working in Manhattan. Bridges will be playing ...
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Relativity spies franchise potential in Clancy adaptation
Relativity Media has lined up an adaptation of the Tom Clancy thriller Without Remorse and is eyeing a potential franchise centered on the character of CIA operative John Kelly/John Clark. Lionsgate is believed to have acquired North America, the UK, Australia and several other territories on the project, which ...
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Olivier Assayas springs Binoche for $6m drama
MK2 will produce the next effort from French director Olivier Assayas, Springtime Past. The $6m (Euros 4.5m) drama will star Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling and Jeremie Renier and will be ready for Berlin. Assayas is in competition at Cannes this year with Boarding Gate. ...
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Last Vampire gets first bite in UK
Hong Kong producer Bill Kong has sealed one of the first major deals on upcoming action title Blood: The Last Vampire in the first days of the market, by selling all UK rights to Pathe UK Distribution. Chris Nahon is directing the $35m English-language film starring Korean superstar Gianna Jun ...
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Nguyen promoted to Warner Bros International senior VP of operations
Jack Nguyen has been promoted to senior vice president of operations at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI). Nguyen is a 17-year veteran of the studio and supervised the studio's distribution activities during a period of intense growth across the Asia-Pacific region. Nguyen joined the studio in 1990 as ...
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Gans in the game for fantasy adventure
Christophe Gans has signed to direct the $70m-plus epic adventure Onimusha for Samuel Hadida's Davis Films. Gans previously collaborated with Hadida on the worldwide hits Silent Hill and Brotherhood Of The Wolf and will arrive on the Croisette on Sunday to meet buyers. Several studios are believed to ...
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Constantin doubles turnover, posts profit increase
Germany's Constantin Film has reported that turnover doubled to $57.6m (DM125.1m) and pre-tax profit increased to $4.8m (DM10.4m) in the first half of the current financial year.Constantin boasts a 34% share of the German distribution market and has also had success with its own productions during 2000 including Harte Jungs ...
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Vantage/PPI to handle international distribution on Overture titles
Paramount Pictures has confirmed rumours that Paramount Vantage and Paramount Pictures International (PPI) will handle international sales and distribution of the Overture Films slate. Overture will have access to Vantage's newly installed international sales division as well as PPI's global distribution apparatus. The new deal complements the domestic organisation that ...
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Bold, The Orphanage to produce supernatural action thriller Legion
Bold Films, the LA-based production company behind Bobby, is teaming with visual effects outfit The Orphanage to produce Legion, a supernatural action thriller about a group of strangers stranded in a desert truck stop that bands together to stop an army of demonic creatures bent on fulfilling an age-old prophecy ...
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Flight Of The Red Balloon (Le Voyage Du Ballon Rouge)
Ostensibly an homage to the fifty years old classic The Red Balloon, this is the kind of tribute that only Hou Hsiao Hsien would devise for his first fully French-speaking and produced picture. Albert Lamorisse's lyrical, dialogue-less half hour survey of Paris in the fifties, in which the director followed ...
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Love Me Not gets Wasted
New UK independent production company Loves Me Not Films has secured the option on its debut feature project Wasted.The British drama, written by Livy Austin, tells the story of the harsh reality behind the lives and loves of ordinary women living in the hard, professional city of London and explores ...
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Salles to co-produce Trapero's Misencounter
Cineclick Asia has announced Motorcycle Diaries' Walter Salles will co-produce Pablo Trapero's Misencounter, making it the first Argentina-Brazil-Korea joint project.'Pablo Trapero is one of the most talented directors of his generation. His new film project is a uniquely strong, emotional story about characters immersed in a world you rarely see ...
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The Banishment (Izgnanie)
Dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev. 2007. Russ. 150minsThe Banishment struggles to carry the burden of expectations surrounding the second feature from writer-director Andrey Zvyagintsev. Like his Venice Golden Lion winner The Return, it offers a tale of pride and patriarchy illuminating the dark soul of the Russian male. It confirms Zvyagintsev as ...
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Abu Dhabi announces inaugural film festival and new film fund
The Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi announced that it is launching an international film festival in October 2007, and also launching a film fund to support local, regional and international films, supported by an 'unlimited' government budget.Postioning itself as the burgeoning cultural hub of the Gulf, Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon ...