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Cannes briefs: latest deals, announcements
Content spooks AliensContent is to handle the UKand US releases of Jake West's Evil Aliens. The £1 million slapstick British horror film will bereleased theatrically in the UK through Content's distribution arm. It will goout in the US as part of Content's deal with Martin W. Greenwald's ImageEntertainment.Pangs go UniversalUniversal ...
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Bowie to executive produce 30 Century Man doc
David Bowie isexecutive producing a new music documentary about American rock muse ScottWalker called 30 Century Man. The projectheads up the debut slate of UK production outfit Missing In Action Films, runby former marketing and distribution executive Mia Bays.Bays is inCannes with a 10-minute promo of 30 Century Man: The ...
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Daybreak signs up Laing for House Guest
John Laing has signed to directThe House Guest, the second film to go into production this year under the Daybreak Pictures production banner, and the second from the New Zealand company to be handled by UK sales outfit 2 Match. The film is being financed by presales, local private investors ...
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Japan, France strike joint production, distribution agreement
Representativesfrom UniJapan, the Japanese film industry's export body, and the FrenchNational Film Centre (CNC) signed a protocol for mutual cooperation in filmproduction and distribution at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14. CNC DirectorGeneral Catherine Colonna and UniJapan chairman Kaoru Yosano and TokyoInternational Film Festival chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa participated in ...
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Le Temps Qui Reste
Dir. Francois Ozon. Fr.2005. 79mins.Faithful to his reputation of changing genres with everynew film, Francois Ozon reveals yet another facet of his talents with LeTemps Qui Reste, treading on a familiar path which he tries to decorate inhis own personal style.The concept - a personfacing imminent death and having to ...
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Battle In Heaven (Batalla En El Cielo)
Dir:Carlos Reygadas. Mex. 2005. 98mins.Followingon the heels of his demanding but brilliant first feature, Japon,Mexican director Carlos Reygadas now bulls his way into the Cannes competitionline-up to give us another exceptionally ambitious aesthetic effort. While itdoesn't always work - and critical opinion is sure to be violently split - it'simmensely ...
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Where The Truth Lies
Dir:Atom Egoyan. Canada. 2005. 107mins.Fans of Canadian auteurAtom Egoyan, hoping for a comeback from the multiple missteps of his last film,Ararat, which played at Cannes in 2002, are bound to be disappointed bythe director's latest offering, Where The Truth Lies. Based on RupertHolmes' novel of the same title, the film, ...
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Manderlay
Dir/scr: Lars Von Trier. Den-Swe-Fr-UK-Ger-Neth.2005. 139mins.The road to hell is pavedwith the noblest of intentions in Manderlay, the stunning second film inLars Von Trier's American trilogy. A philosophical debate on slavery, equality,oppression, free will and racism, it will inevitably be read as anti-Americanin general and a specific response to the ...
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A History Of Violence
Dir: David Cronenberg.US. 2005. 96minsTwo American genres - thefilm noir and the Western - are gene-spliced into vigorous new shape in whatlooks, at first sight, like David Cronenberg's most mainstream project inyears. Yet A History Of Violence, a deviously-plotted tale of danger andthe darkness beneath innocent surfaces, soon reveals characteristic ...
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Von Trier's Manderlay stirs up Cannes controversy
If Lars Von Trier's Manderlay doesn't elicit claims of anti-Americanism, hiscomments at today's Cannes press conference for the film certainly will."Let's get this businessabout me being anti-American out of the way," said the director beforelaunching into a blistering attack on the President of the United States."Mr. Bush is an asshole,"said ...
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NewsUK shoot commences on Hyde Park On Hudson
Bill Murray and Laura Linney star in the historical tale which is being co-produced and co-financed by Focus Features and Film4.
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NewsNew report identifies Ireland’s audiovisual growth opportunities
Report sees potential for Ireland’s industry to double turnover and jobs
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NewsScott Shooman joins CBS Films as EVP of Acquisitions
Shooman worked at Sony Pictures for a decade; he will attend Toronto for CBS.
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NewsGambit completes shoot, sells out internationally
CBS Films holds US rights to the Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz caper, while FilmNation has virtually sold out all international territories.
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NewsProduction starts on Ira Sachs’ Keep The Lights On
The drama follows two men in a long relationship in New York City and stars Thure Lindhardt and Zachary Booth, who can be seen in Todd Solondz’s Venice-bound Dark Horse.
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NewsEstevez's The Way inspires PDA, ARC and AMC
John Sloss and Bart Walker’s Producers Distribution Agency and Trevor Drinkwater’s ARC Entertainment form strategic partnership with AMC to release Emilio Estevez’s The Way.
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NewsPotter bears down on $1bn at worldwide box office
As Warner Bros’ franchise finale charges towards the $700m international milestone, all eyes will be on when it will become the first in the franchise to cross the coveted $1bn worldwide mark this weekend.
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NewsRob Cohen to direct $100m war epic for CJ, Grapevine
Korea’s CJ E&M Pictures and Grapevine Entertainment have attached Rob Cohen to direct $100m war epic 1950, described as the biggest-budget project ever undertaken by the Korean film industry.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Simon Pegg is currently shooting the comedy A Fantastic Fear Of Everything in London, and Stephen Dillane will star in Papadopoulous & Sons, due to commence production next month.
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NewsState of the art studio to open in Wroclaw, 2012
Wroclaw’s traditional feature film studios WFF is to be transformed into a state-of-the-art facility with a focus on innovative special effects techniques from 2012.