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Cannes market bustles with attendees
The Cannes Market, which opened its doors yesterday (Wed12 May), looks set to be busier than ever. According to its preliminary figuresregistered attendee numbers are up 11% at 7,225 from 63 countries.Films screening increased this year from 1,214 to 1,340including 55 trailers.According to the market's analysis of the films on ...
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German cinema admissions plunge
2.4m fewer tickets were soldat German cinemas in the first three months of 2004 compared to the previousyear, according to statistics collated by the German Federal Film Board (FFA).The Berlin-based institutionreported that box-office takings fell year-on-year by 9% to Euros 213.1m andadmissions by 6.2% to 37m, the lowest tally since ...
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UK Film Council spells out slate rules
Aiming to keep asmany doors as possible open to producers while channeling funding through aselect few companies, the UK Film Council has stipulated that 30% of investmentunder its new super slate deals must go to third parties.Successful bidsfor the development and overhead deals will oversee up to £1.5m in NationalLottery ...
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Almodovar toys with trio
Spain's El Deseo is preppinga new English-language drama from director Isabel Coixet for an autumn shootprior to cranking up Pedro Almodovar's as-yet undecided next film in 2005.Almodovar, whose latestfeature, Bad Education (Mala Educacion) inaugurates Cannes, has threescripts in development, according to producer Agustin Almodovar. The directoraverages one film every two ...
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Beart joins Film Distribution slate
French sales house FilmsDistribution has announced four pick-ups coming into Cannes' market including anew feature from Train Of Life director Radu Mihaileanu and twoEmmanuelle Beart-starring films.Live And Become is the long-awaited follow up to Milhaileanu'slauded Train Of Life. Films Distribution's Francois Yon told Screen thatthe company has taken world rights ...
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The Crossing
Dir: Higashi Yoichi. Japan. 2000. 116 mins.Prod co: Siglo Ltd. Int'l sales: Brussels Ave (+32 2 511 9156). Prods: Yamagami Tetsujiro, Sho Koshiro. Scr: Higashi Yoichi. DoP: Tsutai Takahiro. Art dir: Itoh Akoi. Main cast: Tsutsui Michikata, Hoyosamada Takahito, Tsumiki Miho. The Crossing is another fascinating inter-generational story similar to ...
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Media 8 bankrolls Binder's Town
Media 8 Entertainment is to fully finance Man AboutTown, the next picture from its Upside Of Anger director MikeBinder, which will star Ben Affleck as a Hollywood talent agent,Binder is the actor and director behind TV series Mind Of TheMarried Man, cult film Sex Monster and Anger which stars JoanAllen ...
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Last minute addition to Cannes competition
An eleventh-hour addition tothe Cannes competition line-up was announced Wednesday, just hours before thecurtain was set to go up on the opening ceremony.Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovinowill be screened in competition on Friday May 14, festival artistic directorThierry Fremaux announced Wednesday morning. The film is an investigativedocumentary about winemaking that spans three ...
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Roeg, Beresford front Beyond slate
Beyond Films hasunveiled a new slate including a Nicolas Roeg erotic thriller with DonaldSutherland Robert Carlyle, a Bruce Beresford title with Colin Firth and twopictures with Ripley's Game star Dougray Scott.Sutherland, whostarred in Roeg's classic psychological thriller Don't Look Now, willplay an author trapped in a web of lies when ...
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Roeg, Beresford front Beyond slate
Beyond Films hasunveiled a new slate including a Nicolas Roeg erotic thriller with DonaldSutherland Robert Carlyle, a Bruce Beresford title with Colin Firth and twopictures with Ripley's Game star Dougray Scott.Sutherland, whostarred in Roeg's classic psychological thriller Don't Look Now, willplay an author trapped in a web of lies when ...
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Movision, Invicta team for all-star Pushers
Joan Allen, Claire Danes,Kathy Bates, Brenda Blethyn and Maggie Smith will head the cast of JimmySmallhorne's second feature film Pushers Needed which is being financedby Movision, Invicta and The Irish Film Board. Arclight Films is handling saleshere.The film, which is describedin the vein of The Full Monty and Calendar Girls, ...
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Entertainment falls for Alibi as UK buyers pounce
EntertainmentFilm Distributors has boarded Summit Entertainment's The Alibi as the UKshows strong signs of buying across all budget ranges.Entertainment hastaken the UK on the contemporary thriller, which stars Steve Coogan and RebeccaRomijn-Stamos. Having previously bought Summit's Around The World In EightyDays, also starring Coogan, the Greens' powerhouse will be now ...
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Fortissimo's new Taiwan Formula
Fortissimo Films has picked up world sales rights toTaiwanese hit Formula 17The gay comedy-drama about a man who moves to Taipei insearch of his first love was a rare hit in Taiwan for a local film. It notchedNT6m, ranking it in the top five Taiwanese films since 1998.The feature debut ...
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Neil Jordan prepares Breakfast for Pathe
Neil Jordan willshoot Breakfast On Pluto for Pathe Pictures, the UK company announcedWednesday.The adaptation ofPatrick McCabe's novel will star Cillian Murphy, the rising Irish star of BatmanBegins and Cold Mountain. Shooting is set for September, with Pathehandling UK distribution and international sales.The 1970s-setblack comedy follows a boy who flees Ireland ...
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Tartan launches with Hell into US
The UK's Tartan Films is tomake its debut as a US distributor with Catherine Breillat's Anatomy Of Hell,which it will release on August 27.The UK distributor andproducer announced plans to launch into US distribution earlier this year.Other titles set so far for a US release include Ji-Woon Kim's Tale Of ...
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Lord Of War cast rounds out
Ethan Hawke, BridgetMoynahan, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Wright and Donald Sutherland have joined NicolasCage in the cast of Lord Of War, Andrew Niccol's action-adventure whichis being produced by EMC, Ascendant Pictures, VIP3 Medienfonds, Saturn Filmsand IMG, with financing being provided by the producers and Rand Merchant Bankin South Africa through IMG.Arclight ...
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VCL takes 25% stake in next two Terminator films
Germany's VCL Film+Medien is to take a 25% stake in the next two Terminator films being produced by Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna's C2 Productions and Japan's Toho Towa.VCL, which went public last year, will get a 25% share of world revenues in all media and an option on the ...
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Foley has Pacino for 88 Minutes
Avi Lerner's Millenium Filmsand Randall Emmett and George Furla's Emmett/Furla Films have unveiled theirlatest picture 88 Minutes, a contemporary thriller to be directed byJames Foley with his Glengarry Glen Ross star Al Pacino attached tostar.Scripted by Gary ScottThompson (The Fast And The Furious), the film is budgeted at under $30mand ...
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Tarantino to screen 'Japanese edit' of Kill Bill
Jury chairman and formerPalme D'Or winner Quentin Tarantino confirmed yesterday that Cannes would hosta special screening of Kill Bill in its entirety. Kill Bill Vols 1and 2 in a so-called Japanese edit (complete with intermission) will screen onthe final night of the festival, shortly after his jury has come to ...
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Becker boards Islamic omnibus
LeBrocquy FraserProductions, whose first feature credit was Osama, has signed on BeckerFilms International to help finance and later sell Five Worlds - anomnibus of 20-minute films from different Islamic countries by fivehighly-regarded local directors.Each of the five films is avery personal story but also demonstrates the effects of recent political ...