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Marilyn Manson film impresses buyers
Lured by the presence in Berlin of Goth rocker MarilynManson, buyers have been buzzing round Manson's Phantasmagoria The Visions Of Lewis Carroll.Wild Bunch subsidiary Pan-Europeene will handle the French release of the film, Lucky Red has taken Italy,Triangel for Scandinavia, SPIfor Eastern Europe with Tarantula poised to board asSwiss co-producer.Meanwhile ...
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Polaris Production & Finance to produce two Delpy films
Julie Delpy's production companyStar 69 has joined forces with the new Paris-based outfit Polaris Production& Finance to produce two feature projects this year.French writer-director Philippe Rouquier'sfeature debut The Last Mile (workingtitle) is described as a US-set noir drama taking place at the end of the1980s/beginning of 1990s and will shoot ...
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Carlos Saura's Iberia will open Guadalajara Film Festival
The 21st annual Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexicowill open on March 24 with a screening of Carlos Saura's Iberiaand close on March 31 with Edward James Olmos'English-language picture Walkoutfeaturing Spy Kids star Alexa Vega.This year marks the inaugural event run by director-generalJorge Sanchez Sosa, a veteran producer with credits ...
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First Look International closes pre-sales on Araki film
First Look International has closed a raft of pre-sales onGregg Araki's upcoming comedy Smiley Facestarring Anna Faris. Rights have gone to Momentum in the UK,Quality in Latin America, Nordiskin Scandinavia, LNK in Portugal,Hollywood in Greece,and Falcon in the Middle East.Production is set to begin this spring in Los Angeles ...
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Hungary's Eurofilm lines up English-language films
Fresh from its success with Hungarian Film Week winner Taxidermia, Eurofilm Studio, the Hungarian production outfit run byPeter Miskolczi and Gabor Varadi, has attached Oscar nominee Paul Giamattiand Clemence Poesy to head the cast of Ildiko Enyedi's next film Tender Interface.The English language sci-fi film, scheduled toshoot in the first ...
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The Road To Guantanamo
Dirs: Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross. UK. 2006.95mins Michael Winterbottom's reputation as afiercely enterprising and provocative film-maker gets another boost from TheRoad To Guantanamo, co-directed with Mat Whitecross, his editor on 9 Songs.Thedigitally-shot film is a docudrama-style reconstruction of the fate of a groupof young British Muslims who went to Afghanistan ...
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Shochiku closes multiple deals on Fox
Continuing the Fox feverthat has swept through the EFM, Japan's Shochiku has sealed several deals on itslive-action Helen The Baby Foxincluding a sale to France's Metropolitan.Directed by Keita Kouno andstarring Takao Osawa and Yasuko Matsuyuki alongside the eponymous fox, the filmhas also been sold to Korea's IMX Inc, Taiwan's Long ...
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CJ CGV to build multiplexes with Shanghai Film Group
Major Korean exhibitor CJCGV is forming a joint venture company with Chinese state-owned studio ShanghaiFilm Group (SFG) to build multiplexes in China. CJ CGV announced the dealwas signed by its chief executive Park Dong-ho and SFG president Ren Zhonglun yesterday(Feb 14) in Shanghai. The joint venture will be called Shangying ...
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India, Hungary line up two co-productions
Indian film-maker Ramesh Sharma is set to produce and direct a biopic of Hungarian scientist Sandor Korosi Csoma, one of two Indian-Hungarian co-productions set to shoot early next year. Transylvanian writer Laszlo Csiki and Geza Bethlenfalvy, an expert on Korosi Csoma's work, are scripting the project which will follow the ...
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Pakistani censors clear three Indian films for release
The Central Film Censor Board of Pakistan has cleared threeHindi filmsto bereleased for the first time in forty years. Indian Cinema was banned in Pakistan following the Indo Pak War in 1965and under its rules motion pictures linked to either an "Indianartiste" or "Indian director" are strictly prohibited in thecountry.The ...
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Mandate Pictures secures major sales for Mr Magorium
Mandate Pictures hasfinalised major territory sales on fantasy drama Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium starringDustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman.Deals have closed with Iconin the UK, Kadokawa in Japan and Hong Kong, Village Roadshow in Australia, DeAPlaneta in Spain, Nordisk Films in Scandinavia, and Two Tube in South Korea.Further rights have gone ...
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Latido wraps up sales on its Berlin slate
As the European Film Market(EFM) enters its final furlong, Massimo Saidel'sMadrid-based Latido has been wrapping up sales on anumber of titles on its Berlin slate. Goya winner The Method has gone to France (CTV), and Chile (Bazooka) with Mikado poised to take Italian rights.De Profundis, Latido's big-budget adultanimated feature, has ...
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Judelewicz preps My Life As A Dog sequel
Pascal Judelewicz'sParis-based Les Films De Cinema, the production outfit behind Panorama entry BirdsOf Heaven, has announced a slate ofprojects all to shoot this year.The films are Hair Of TheDog, the sequel to My Life As ADog, starring Stellan Skarsgaard andto be directed by Ludi Boeken (Deadlines); Catherine Cabrol's House 5 ...
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Trust sells Guerrilla Girl to Colombia
Copenhagen-based sales agent Trust has closed a deal withColombian distributor Cineplex for Frank Piasecki Poulsen's feature documentaryGuerrilla Girl.When premiered at the IDFA Festival in Amsterdamlate last year, the film caused a huge controversy back in Colombia.To make the film, Poulsen had entered Colombiaillegally and spent three months in a jungle ...
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Iran exporters blossom at the European Film Market
New Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may haveunsettled western governments with his fervid anti-western rhetoric but thathasn't affected the continuing international push of Iranian cinema. There were six Iraniantitles in official selection in Berlin this year, and for the very first time,the Government has paid for private Iranian sales outfits to ...
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Emperor Motion Pictures closes sales on The Myth
Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) has closed three major European territories on Jackie Chan actionadventure The Myth at the European FilmMarket. France's Metropolitan has acquired the $20m picture, produced by Chan's JCEMovies, along with Germany's Splendid and Spain's Manga. The film, whichstars Chan, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Bollywoodactress Mallika ...
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Big-name directors line up for Cinema 16 short films
DVD label Cinema16 has recruited A-list directorsincluding George Lucas, Tim Burton, Alexander Payne, Todd Solondz,Gus van Sant and DA Pennebakerfor its first US edition. The American short filmcollection follows the earlier European and British DVDs, which included shortsfrom directors including Lars von Trier, Jean-Luc Godard, Mike Leigh, Ridley Scott and ...
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Lionsgate doc First Descent sweeps up deals
Lionsgate Films International hasclosed multi-territory sales here on MD Films' snowboarding documentary First Descent.Rights have gone to Tiberius in Germany,Tohokushinsha in Japan,Metropolitan in France,Rialto in Australiaand New Zealand,Sandrew Metronome in Scandinavia,and California Filmes in Brazil.Deals also closed with Modus Vivendi/Blue Sky Media in Eastern Europe excluding Russia,Myndform in Iceland,Viva in ...
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Cast confirmed for Pinball Films' Kaz
Nora Von Waldstattenand Gary Lewis are set to star in Pinball Films' Kaz, directed by Ashley Horner.The English-languageproject, budgeted at less than $1.2m (1m Euros), will be shot in HD. Theproject is backed by Northern Film and Media (which also put up developmentfunding), digital facility VMI, and private equity. No ...
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Babelsberg production chief slams German tax laws
Studio Babelsberg's managing director for production, Rainer Schaper, called for changes to German tax legislation during a speech at this week's Media Forum NRW in Cologne.Schaper criticised current laws under which non-German talent is taxed when shooting in the country. Earlier this year, Schaper successfully beat off rival bids to ...