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Cineclick's Eastern western conquers France
Cineclick Asia has closed a flurry of deals headed by the sale of Kim Jee-woon's Oriental Western The Good, The Bad, and The Weird to ARP for French-speaking territories. After screening footage of the $11 million film, ARP pacted with Cineclick for a high-six-figure deal - relatively high for an ...
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Menahem Golan brings Festival to Cannes
Cannes veteran Menahem Golan is to direct Holocaust comedy Le Grand Festival, starring Gerard Depardieu. The film, set up as an Austria/Italy/Hungary/Israel co-production begins shooting in Budapest in August. Producers are Norbert Blecha, Laura Susanne Ruedeberg, Jeno Hodi, and Doran Eran. The executive producer is Bernhard Wolschlager. In the ...
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Allen, Frears titles to get airing at Athens
Dir: Joel Coen. US. 2001. 117 mins.With their latest foray into film noir, Joel and Ethan Coen continue to explore a recurrent motif of their work: The destructive force of unbridled individualism, or more specifically, greed as the dark side of the American Dream. Arguably their most ambitious film since ...
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Pusan announces Asian Cinema Fund
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced the Asian Cinema Fund, a new production support programme for emerging Asian filmmakers. In addition to $860,000 in funds for projects in all stages, the Asian Cinema Fund also offers support in the way of post-production services in Korea. 'PIFF has always ...
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Kiriyama makes directing debut on Yoroi
Japanese scriptwriter Isao Kiriyama, a regular collaborator with cult director Ryuhei Kitamura, is set to make his directing debut on horror project Yoroi for Gaga Communications. Kitamura has developed the project which he will also produce alongside Ring producer Shinya Kawai. The story revolves around a hostage family on the ...
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Little Film sees future in Meyers partnership
The Little Film Company is partnering with producer Lawrence Steven Meyers on Air And Fire and Serendipity Starlight.Ludivine Sagnier, Val Kilmer and Vincent Perez will star in the Rupert Thomson adaptation Air And Fire, about a clairvoyant woman who relocates with her husband to Mexico and falls for a Mexican ...
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Uwe Boll game for $7.5m horror sequel
Uwe Boll is lining up a summer shoot in New York for the $7.5m horror sequel and video game adaptation Alone In The Dark 2.Boll, in Cannes to handle sales on the upcoming video game adaptations Far Cry starring Til Schweiger and Postal, among others, will announce the director and ...
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Muhe and Tukur join cast of One Woman
Ulrich Muhe and Ulrich Tukur, two of the stars of Oscar-winner The Lives Of Others, are to appear alongside Marie Bonnevie (The Banishment) in One Woman. The $3.5m drama written and directed by Mauricio Mendiola, will offer a fictionalised history of Monika Ertl, a heroine of the Bolivian revolution.Monika is ...
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Asia Pacific Screen Awards make Cannes bow
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards, a collaboration with CNN International, UNESCO and the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF), announced nine members of its nominations council yesterday (May 20).They included Philip Cheah, head of the Singapore International Film Festival, Azize Tan, director of the International Istanbul Film Festival, Anne ...
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Fernandes makes Anxious follow-up to Magnus
UK-based producer Donal Fernandes whose first production Magnus is playing in Un Certain Regard is currently in advanced stages of post-production on black comedy Anxious Dave.Fernandes who wrote and directed the $190,000 UK-production, describes Anxious Dave as 'a scary film about loneliness that evolves into a comedy'. The film, which ...
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Lupovitz lines up Podeswa, Evans, Palmer projects
LA-based producer Dan Lupovitz, executive producer on Death Defying Acts starring Catherine Zeta Jones and Guy Pearce and one of the producers on the currently-shooting Good with Viggo Mortenson, has lined out a slate of international projects here from film-makers including Jeremy Podeswa, Marc Evans and hot UK commercials directors ...
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Companies sign up for London Finance Market
Film London's new Production Finance Market (October 22-23), held in association with the Times BFI London Film Festival, has announced some major players who have confirmed their attendance, including Working Title, Focus Features, Paramount, Pathe, The Weinstein Company and StudioCanal.The market will address private film finance and new distribution avenues. ...
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Das Werk buys stake in new producer
German post-production giant Das Werk has acquired a 25% stake in FutureWorks Crossmedia Production, a Munich-based events agency which plans to expand into film production and marketing.The company, which is organising the Nea World Xtreme Sports Awards in Munich, plans to draw on the experience of chairman Joseph Schoninger, a ...
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Bleiberg closes key sales on Kollrin title
Bleiberg Entertainment has closed key sales here on Eran Kolirin's Un Certain Regard entry Band's Visit following a rapturous screening on Saturday night.The film's co-producer Sophie Dulac has taken French rights and plans to release on a minimum of 80 prints.Deals also closed in Italy (Mikado), Spain (Manga), Latin America ...
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A Lost Man (Un Homme Perdu)
Dir: Danielle Arbid. Fr. 2007. 97 mins. Somewhere, buried deep down this pseudo-road movie that moves round in circles, there is a burning issue begging to be explored. All the more pity that Danielle Arbid never actually comes to grips with it, though it is pretty obvious the relations between ...
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To Each His Own Cinema (Chacun Son Cinema)
Dir: 35 leading directors. Fr. 2007. 120minsConceived as a homage to the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, this improbable congeries and potentially incoherent work of cinema (35 different directors making three-minute shorts about the movie-going experience and their own introduction to the world of film) is surprisingly successful. ...
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Blind Mountain (Mang Shan)
Dir/scr/prod: Li Yang. Ch. 2007. 103 mins. Li Yang demonstrates once again that he is a master of cinematic tension with his second feature, Blind Mountain . Based on the widespread practice of bride trafficking in rural China, this harrowing but limpidly shot story of the abduction and sale of ...
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All Is Forgiven (Tout est pardonnee)
Dir/scr: Mia Hansen-Love. France 2007. 105 mins.Debut director Mia Hansen-Love turns seemingly random slices from the life of a disintegrating family unit into a remarkably graceful, natural film about what it is to be human. Perhaps the most persuasive aspect of this hopeful parable of failure is the way casting, ...
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Import Export
Dir: Ulrich Seidl. Aust. 2007. 135 mins.Very much in the vein of his best-known film, Dog Days (2001), Austrian auteur and documentarian Ulrich Seidl continues in this, his first fiction film in 6 years, to explore the darker aspects of human existence. His unremittingly depressing view of the human condition ...
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Tilda Swinton joins Connery as Edinburgh festival patron
Tilda Swinton has been named a patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, joining Sean Connery, the festival has announced in Cannes.Swinton said: 'It is a sincere thrill for me to accept the honour the great Edinburgh International Film Festival does me by asking me to be a patron. Edinburgh ...