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Strong slate for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films
´óÏó´«Ã½ Films approaches the 60th Cannes Film Festival with a strong and
varied list of co-productions.
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Set to roll later this summer is Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road, based on
the celebrated novel by Richard Yates.
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The film re-unites five-time Oscar nominee
Kate Winslet and three-time Oscar nominee Leonardo di Caprio – for the
first time since the 1997 all-time box office hit and Oscar winning
Titanic – to play the leading roles in this heart-rending story of
thwarted passion and the search for fulfillment.
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John Maybury's The Edge Of Love (formerly known as The Best Time Of Our
Lives), starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and
Matthew Rhys, has just started shooting.
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A beautifully drawn love story,
the film tells the story of two feisty, free-spirited women, Caitlin
Thomas and Vera Killick, Vera's husband William Killick, and the
brilliant, charismatic poet Dylan Thomas who loves both women.
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Set to shoot later this summer is Julian Jarrold's Brideshead Revisited,
starring Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell with Emma Thompson and
Michael Gambon.
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A heartbreaking romantic epic adapted from one of the
truly great works of fiction of the 20th century, Brideshead Revisited is
a gorgeously evocative story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence
set in a pre-Second World War era when privileged aristocracy fell into
decline.
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In post production are several high-profile ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films co-productions:
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 Justin Chadwick's tale of Mary and Anne Boleyn, The Other Boleyn Girl, starring Scarlett Johannson, Natalie Portman and Eric Bana, written by
the much garlanded Peter Morgan;
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David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, a
London set thriller, starring Naomi Watts and Viggo Mortensen;
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Gillian
Armstrong's Death Defying Acts, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy
Pearce, about the dramatic last days of Harry Houdini's life;
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and Richard
Laxton's nourishing, magical comedy about real life, true love and plump
vegetables on a city allotment in Liverpool – Grow Your Own, written by
Frank Cottrell Boyce, and starring Benedict Wong, Eddie Marsan and Omid
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James Honeyborne's The Meerkats – the first time ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films has
collaborated with the world-renowned ´óÏó´«Ã½ Natural History Unit – is a highly
dramatic family story that brings the heart of Africa to the big screen.
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Shot using ground-breaking filmmaking techniques in one of the harshest
places on earth, the Kalahari Desert, the film is about meerkats growing
up, pulling together and beating the odds.
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Three ordinary blokes may hold the fate of the entire world in their
hands when they discover a rift in the space-time continuum in the gents'
of their local pub in Gareth Carrivick's debut feature FAQ starring Chris
O'Dowd, Mark Wootton, Dean Lennox Kelly and Anna Faris – Shaun of the
Dead meets Back To The Future perhaps?
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´óÏó´«Ã½ Films has had a very successful time at the box office around the
world too, with positive results for the likes of Richard Eyre's Notes On A Scandal, Julian Jarrold's Becoming Jane, Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Nicholas Hytner's The History Boys and Chris Noonan's Miss Potter.
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David Thompson, Head
of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films, said: "We think this is the most exciting slate of films we've ever had, with many
more excellent projects on the horizon.
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"We are particularly proud of the range of films, the
major international stars we are attracting to the projects we've
developed, together with the exciting new and emerging talent."
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Notes to Editors
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Death Defying Acts: Film Finance Corporation Australia, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films, UK
Film Council, Myriad Pictures present in association with the New South
Wales Film and Television Office a Macgowan Lupovitz Nasatir Films and
Zephyr Films Production.
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Grow Your Own: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films, UK Film Council, North West Vision present in
association with Warp Films/Art in Action.
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The Other Boleyn Girl: Columbia Pictures and Focus Features present, in
association with ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films, a Ruby Films Production.
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Eastern Promises: Focus Features in association with ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films present a
Kudos production.
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Meerkats: The Weinstein Company and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films.
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FAQ: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films and HBO Films present a Doglamp production
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Edge of Love: to be confirmed.
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Miss Potter: Phoenix Pictures and Momentum Pictures present, in
association with The Isle of Man and The UK Film Council, a David
Kirschner production in association with ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films. A Chris Noonan Film.
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Becoming Jane: Miramax Films, Hanway, UK Film Council and The Irish Film
Board present in association with 2 Entertain and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films an Ecosse Films Production in association with Blueprint Pictures produced with
Scion Films.
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The History Boys: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures and DNA Films present in association with the UK Film Council a National Theatre
Production.
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Notes On A Scandal: Fox Searchlight and DNA present in association with
UK Film Council and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films a Scott Rudin, Robert Fox Production.
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Red Road: UK Film Council, Scottish Screen, Glasgow Film Office and ´óÏó´«Ã½
Films in association with Zoma Films and Verve Pictures present a
Sigma/Zentropa Entertainment5 Production.
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