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Trade Breaks: 2046, Time, Blue

By Garth Franklin Wednesday March 23rd 2005 09:18PM

"Sony Pictures Classics will acquire the North American rights to Wong Kar-wai's film "2046," the studio said Tuesday. Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai ("Hero"), Ziyi Zhang, ("House of Flying Daggers"), Gong Li ("Farewell My Concubine") and Maggie Cheung ("Hero"), "2046" is Wong's first feature film since the award-winning "In the Mood for Love" four years ago..." (full details)

"In a deal that grew out of "Project Greenlight," Ben Affleck and Neo Art & Logic partners Joel Soisson and Mike Leahy have optioned Rick Carr's script "Does Anybody Here Remember When Hanz Gubenstein Invented Time Travel? Sci-fi comedy was one of three final scripts under consideration to be produced for the third season of "Greenlight,"..." (full details)

"George Hickenlooper will direct the coming-of-age thriller "Blue Mountain" for Carson Signature Films and Chapman Ventures. Story, set in a small Southern town, concerns a stolen gun that may have been linked to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Pic's backdrop stems from the theory that RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan did not act alone..." (full details)

Thanks to 'KC'

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