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Reuters: "Art School" offers movie antidote for "M:i III"

Take heart, art house movie fans: Big bad Tom Cruise and his Hollywood thriller "Mission: Impossible III" is not the only film in theaters on Friday. Small-time director Terry Zwigoff, whose low-budget films have won fans with quirky tales about people living on the edge of mainstream America, sees ...

Former Showtime Exec Launches Bridge Films to Acquire non-English Remake Film Rights

Former Showtime executive Matt Riklin has launched the first company that will exclusively seek out and acquire remake rights for non-English language films. The new company, Bridge Films -- which is being financed with private equity -- employs 10 "agents," who will canvas Asia and Latin America as a whole and, individually in Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Spain, attending festivals and tracking box office. Acquired product will then be brought to U.S. studios. Bridge Films has already optioned remake rights to three films, including Dutch director Japp van Eyck's "Flirt," Toronto Film Festiv...

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