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Lions Gate sews up Saw deals
Lions Gate FilmsInternational has closed key territory deals on its horror thriller Sawstarring Cary Elwes, Danny Glover and Monica Potter. Metropolitan has taken thefilm for France, Kinowelt for Germany, Dea Planeta for Spain, Eagle Picturesfor Italy, Asmik Ace for Japan, Mirovision for Korea, Gussi for Latin Americaand Scanbox for Scandinavia.Company ...
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Fireside looks to sparkle on Cannes debut
Fireside Entertainment, anew Dallas-based film financing and production outfit, is in Cannes for thefirst time with two new projects - Connected and A Knight's Fall- in addition to its completed thriller A Killer Within which is beingsold by Showcase Entertainment.Run by three partners -director Brad Keller, screenwriter Chris Peirson and ...
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Lord Of War comes together with Cage, Hawke, Leto
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 which is being produced by EMC, AscendantPictures, VIP3 Medienfonds, Saturn Films and IMG, with financing being providedby the producers and Rand Merchant Bank in South Africa through IMG.Arclight ...
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Media Asia revs up Initial D with Infernal Affairs talent
Hong Kong productionpowerhouse Media Asia has confirmed the directors and cast for its big-budgetcar racing drama, Initial D, which reunites key talent from its hugelysuccessful Infernal Affairs trilogy.As expected, InfernalAffairs directing duo Andrew Lau and Alan Mak will direct the US$8m comicbook adaptation, which is scheduled to start shooting in ...
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Homeboy Hennie heads for Haugesund opening
Uno, the feature directing debut fromNorway's most prolific young actor Aksel Hennie, has been selected as theopening film for the upcoming Norwegian International Film Festival inHaugesund.Hennie, who has starred in a number of recent filmsincluding Jonny Vang and Buddy, also wrote the script and starsin Uno, which is described as ...
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Aligator measures up with Salazar's Centimetres
New Spanish productioncompany Aligator is prepping its first feature film: Ramon Salazar's follow-upto 2001 Berlin screener Stones, the provocatively titled 20Centimetres.Former Alquimia Cinema headof international relations Iker Monfort launched Aligator earlier this yearwith the goal of making and co-producing two to three films per year.Salazar's 20 Centimetres(20 Centimetros) is a ...
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Classic rolls with Cottontail
New York-based Classic Media has started production on 3-Danimated film Peter Cottontail: The Movie, inspired by the TV special HereComes Peter Cottontail and ready for delivery by spring 2005.Toy Story producer Ralph Guggenheim is producing the film alongsideEvan Baily, Classic Media's head of production, and Sandra Walters, a partnerin Australia's ...
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Echo Bridge digs in with Mortuary
Ambitious new independent Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquiredworldwide rights to Tobe Hooper's upcoming horror picture Mortuary whichit says is its first theatrical acquisition.Production on the film is scheduled to begin in July, with awinter 2005 release planned. It marks the latest horror flick from Hooper whosecredits include The Texas Chainsaw ...
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Horizon takes Eternal rights
HorizonEntertainment has acquired international rights to the thriller Eternalwhich will be released theatrically in Canada by TVA. Written and directed byWilhelm Libenberg and Federico Sanchez, the film was shot in Venice andMontreal and stars Conrad Pla and Caroline Neron in the story of a detectivetracking a female killer who has ...
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Wild Bunch goes to Hell and beyond
France's Wild Bunch hasadded a crop of high-profile pictures to its slate including a $35m warriorepic from famed Czech director Ivan Passer, and Danis Tanovic's Hell,the second part of a trilogy originally written for late-director KrzysztofKieslowski.Other additions include thefirst English-language film from cult French director Leos Carax and a stylishpenguin ...
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Thunderbirds
Dir. Jonathan Frakes. US. 2004. 90 min.Thunderbirds, the 1960s UK television series starring action-hero marionettes and model rockets, has been given the big-screen, live-action tween treatment, and the result is a bouncing colourful kid-friendly romp. That it is entirely unrecognisable from the series is beside the point. It's a triumph ...
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Weinsteins in talks with Disney to buy Fahrenheit 911
In a dramaticand not entirely unforeseen twist to the Fahrenheit 911 debacle, Miramax Films' Bob and HarveyWeinstein were last night holding talks with the Walt Disney Company topersonally buy Michael Moore's terrorism documentary.Spokespeople forboth Disney and its subsidiary Miramax confirmed the parties were innegotiations but stressed the deal was incomplete.Controversyerupted ...
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Troy prepares to lay siege to global box office
Troy is the odds-on favourite to lay siege tothe global box office this weekend as the Warner Bros epic opens in 47countries on an undisclosed number of screens.Wolfgang Petersen's picture is the second near day-and-daterelease of the international summer season following the impressive $50m-plusbow ofUniversal's Van Helsing through UIP last ...
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JAPAN 13 May
Only one percent of all Japanese may be Christians, but MelGibson's The Passion Of The Christ has made many converts, if the film'sfirst week box office total is any indication. Opening on fivenine-major-cities screens, the film earned $457,987 for a screen average of$91,579 -- topping the number one The Haunted ...
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HUNGARY 13 May
Hugh Jackman's Monster flickwas unrivalled last weekend at the Hungarian box office after being released ona strong thirty-three prints by distributor UIP-Duna Film although not quitematching the results of the director's previous works, The Mummy and TheMummy Returns. The film managed over 45,000 admissions which,along with thepre-screening results means the ...
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Lord Of War comes together with Cage, Hawke, Leto
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 which is being produced by EMC, AscendantPictures, VIP3 Medienfonds, Saturn Films and IMG, with financing being providedby the producers and Rand Merchant Bank in South Africa through IMG.Arclight ...
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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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US, Canadian producers agree BC labour pact
Three years of harmony is assured in Canada's west coast film production sector as producer representatives from the US and Canada ratified a collective agreement with the British Columbia Council of Film Unions. The agreement provides a 3.5% salary increase in the first year followed by 3% increases in the ...
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Weinsteins in talks with Disney to buy Fahrenheit 911
In a dramaticand not entirely unforeseen twist to the Fahrenheit 911 debacle, Miramax Films' Bob and HarveyWeinstein were last night holding talks with the Walt Disney Company topersonally buy Michael Moore's terrorism documentary.Spokespeople forboth Disney and its subsidiary Miramax confirmed the parties were innegotiations but stressed the deal was incomplete.Controversyerupted ...
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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 ...