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Myriad sources Jeepers Creepers 2 financing
Myriad Pictures has closed a deal to source financing from Comerica Entertainment Group, the entertainment financing arm of Comerica Bank, for Jeepers Creepers 2: Like A Bat Out Of Hell which is being produced by American Zoetrope and distributed in North America by United Artists.
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Schloendorff commits to Ten Minutes Older - The Cello
Oscar and Palme d'Or winner Volker Schloendorff has joined the band of top name directors now committed to making Ten Minutes Older - The Cello. The film is an ensemble piece that follows Un Certain Regard portmanteau Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet. The Cello has now been sold to ...
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Vortex re-teams with Cage's Saturn on Chain
Vortex Pictures is to re-team with Nicolas Cage's Saturn Films on Cage's next production Chain which is written and to be directed by John Rice. Chain is a gritty revenge tale about a modern day cowboy who rides a Harley Davidson and Rice and Cage are looking to have it ...
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AFI Fest to showcase German cinema
AFI Fest, the 11-day Los Angeles international film festival which takes place in November, has teamed with Export-Union of German Cinema to present a section of contemporary German cinema within the 2002 festival (Nov 7-17).The Made In Germany section will be a combined marketing and programming effort between AFI and ...
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Attack Of The Clones opens new episode in international box office records
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones has established a new box office record for a simultaneous international opening weekend.According to 20th Century Fox, Episode II grossed $67m internationally from 70-plus territories, in a combination of opening weekend revenues that included Thursday to Sunday tallies as well as ...
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France braces for TFI, Miramax partnership
The French film sector is waiting with baited breath for details of a dramatic new production and distribution alliance between French television powerhouse TF1 and Miramax Films that will be unveiled at a heavyweight press conference this afternoon featuring their respective chiefs, Patrick Le Lay and Harvey Weinstein.The venture, which ...
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France braces for TFI, Miramax partnership
The French film sector is waiting with baited breath for details of a dramatic new production and distribution alliance between French television powerhouse TF1 and Miramax Films that will be unveiled at a heavyweight press conference this afternoon featuring their respective chiefs, Patrick Le Lay and Harvey Weinstein.The venture, which ...
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Ryan Phillipe signs up for The I Inside
Ryan Phillippe has signed to star in MDP Worldwide's thriller The I Inside to be directed by Germany's Roland Suso Richter (The Tunnel) and set to start shooting in the UK on June 10. The film marks a return to the UK for Phillippe who appeared in Robert Altman's Gosford ...
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Winchester racks up Scorched sales
Winchester has sold Alicia Silverstone comedy Scorched to Spain's Vertigo, Benelux's RCV and Scandinavia's Egmont. As reported on Screendaily in March, German private broadcaster RTL Television has bought the picture under its strategy of acquiring all rights will release the film in the UK through its own distribution arm, Winchester ...
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Nieto moves to Picking Pack
Juan Jose Nieto, the former top executive of Telefonica media division Admira and broadcaster Antena 3, has been hired as president of digital reprographics and data management company Picking Pack. Nieto was replaced by Luis Abril at Admira last January as part of a management overhaul.
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NonStop Sales takes on new Grede film
NonStop Sales has acquired international rights to Sweden's Kjell Grede's as yet untitled new comedy based on Torgny Lindgren's book Till Sanningens Lov. It stars young talents Shanti Roney (Together) and Tuva Novotny, as well as Örjan Ramberg, Simon Norrthon and Ing-Mari Carlsson. The film tells the story of two ...
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KWA strikes Lucky deals
Sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has announced the first sales on Argentine title A Lucky Day (Un Dia De Suerte) to Spain (Nirvana), Orler (Arg) and free TV in the UK (BBC), Holland (VPRO) and Finland (YLE). Director Sandra Gugliotta's prize-winning Day tells the story of a young Argentine ...
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F&ME readies Yugoslav romantic comedy
Veteran Yugoslav director Srdjan Karanovic is to shoot romantic comedy Loving Glances (Sjaj U Ocima) for F&ME, the UK arm of Germany's FAME AG. Set amongst refugees in Belgrade, the production is to start shooting in June as a co-production with Belgrade's Yodi Movie Craftsmen and Paris-based Raphael Films.
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Omar Sharif to star in Dupeyron's Momo
Omar Sharif will star in Momo, the next film by Francois Dupeyron, the director of 2001 Cannes title La Chambre Des Officiers (Officer's Ward).Produced by Michele Halbersdat and Laurent Petin's Arp Selection which also produced La Chambre, the film, set in Paris in the sixties, is adapted from a novel ...
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Screen International launches on-line database
Screen International launched ScreenIntelligence.com on May 15, the first day of the Cannes film festival. Developed in response to demand from the users of Screen International's daily news service screendaily.com, this online database of European films includes up-to-date details of almost 2,000 titles from 27 countries at every stage of ...
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Wild Bunch picks up Stone's Looking For Fidel
France's Wild Bunch has picked up international rights on Oliver Stone documentary Looking For Fidel. The 100% Spanish production, which is likely to make its debut at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in September, is billed as an intimate portrait of Fidel Castro and today's Cuba. Co-producers include Media ...
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Mexico's Titan to co-produce Chilango Blues with Argos
Mexican powerhouse Titan Producciones is developing a new co-production with Argos Comunicacion, its partner on hit Sex, Shame And Tears, called Chilango Blues (El Malboro Y El Cucu), set to shoot in Mexico City next year. Billed as a thriller, producer Javier Patron's debut feature tells the tale of two ...
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Killer Queen, Impotent Man join Peppermint's Cannes slate
German sales outfit Peppermint has added Killer Queen, a psychological thriller about a man involved in a game of human chess, to its Cannes slate. The film, which starts shooting in summer, is a first feature to be directed by Christian Alvart. The cast is headed by Norman Reedus, Kim ...
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Capitol handles Cannes sales for Festival In Cannes
The UK's Capitol Films is handling international sales on Festival In Cannes, Henry Jaglom's comedy about a group of filmmakers and stars wading through the chaos of the 2000 edition of the festival. The film, which screens in the market, stars Anouk Aimee, Greta Scacchi and Ron Silver.
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Taurus expected to be sucked into Kirch bankruptcy vortex
Taurus, the parent company that spans Kirch Media, KirchPayTV and KirchBeteiligung, is expected to be the latest element of the beleaguered Kirch empire to be sucked into bankruptcy. According to sources close to Kirch, a filing with the courts is "expected soon". Further confirmation came earlier this week when BSkyB ...