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Dir: Olivier Megaton. France. 2002. 108 mins.A blandly conventional English-language actioner featuring good and bad mercenaries battling it out across Europe to retrieve a 12-year-old runaway, The Red Siren seems more like a spin-off of a Luc Besson formula thriller than a screen adaptation of a cult French suspense novel, praised by critics for its stylish, densely textured them
stanley cup atics. Perhaps the only surprise here is that the film was developed by French indie Haut et Court, which has carved out an enviable place in the French industry as a packager of more high-profile arthouse fare such as the recent Time Out. Despite its English-track and Euro-cast, this siren call is unlikely to be heard in the Anglo-Saxon marketplace. In France itself it has registered a disappointing 121,312 admissions $630,822 from 308 screens during its first week.It took no fewer than four credited writers - including Paris-based US sci-fi writer Norman Spinrad and Alain Berliner, director
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stanley uk aut et Court s breakout international success, Ma Vie En Rose - to boil down Maurice G Dantec s multi-layered, epic-length 1993 novel into submissive screenplay form. Reduced thus to its bare bones, the story is little more than an ersatz Bessonian pursuit thriller about a warm-hearted mercenary Barr who becomes the bloodletting guardian angel of a 12-year-girl Negao pursued by mad-dog gun-men in the employ of a wicked gangster mother Barber .Throughout the film, one glimpses remnants of themes that c Aqms Celluloid Dreams celebrates its most successful Cannes
UK thriller financed by SEIS/EIS and equity; Colin Jones is casting.Psychological thriller Dartmoor Killing is now casting and gearing up for shooting in June.The film is co-written by writer/director Peter Nicholson and Isabelle Grey BBC series Accused .The filmmakers have participated in the ICO and FDAs Get it Seen initiative and Film Londons B
stanley cup uild Your Audience programme. The team pitched to financiers at the Film London Micro-Market during the Production Finance Market.Dartmoor Killing has been financed through a mix of private SEIS/EIS investors and corporate equity and production partner, Films@59 in Bristol.Colin Jones Zero Dark Thirty serves as casting dire
stanley cup ctor.The story follows two female friends, both with secrets, who go on a weekend trip to Dartmoor and meet a charismatic but troubled man who leads them into mind games, sexual deceit and betrayal.Bristol-based Jayne Chard produces. Executive Producers include former IFG MD Luke Randolph The Iron Lady and Stagereel Chairman Paul Morrissey Thorne .Nicholson and Chard said: A small independent film needs to punch above its weight in the marketplace to get noticed. For us, the huge benefit of the training on Get It Seen and Build Your Audience and the support of The ICO, Film London and Creat
stanley cup ive England has helped us develop a hybrid distribution strategy, combining traditional partnerships, innovative digital media and event screenings. For example The Barn Cinema, Dartington, has proposed a spectacular outdo
