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Dreamachine

Hanway Films - financiers of the best film of 2006, Terry Gilliam's Tideland - and Celluloid Dreams - financiers of the best film of 2007 so far, Garth Jennings' Son of Rambow - have merged.

Variety announce that the new company will be called Dreamachine and have a library of 500 films. It will be run by Hengameh Panahi and Jeremy Thomas. Thomas will continue to produce films independently through The Recorded Picture Company, but these will then be handle by Dreamachine.

Upcoming films from the new super sales entity include Tom Kalin's Savage Grace, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark and Johnnie To's Triangle, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Todd Haynes' I'm Not There. Hopefully there'll be even more of this calibre to come now they've pooled dollars.

Looks like Cannes this year is going to be dominated by this wonderful new beast.

Triangle

Variety have more details on Triangle, the film directed by Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam and Johnnie To - one at a time, one after the other, for 30 minutes apiece.

The film will wrap by next week and be submitted for Cannes. I can see it being selected quite easily.

The plot apparently revolves around "three desperate friends who are given an opportunity to find buried treasure by a mysterious stranger." Simon Yam, Louis Koo, Kelly Lin and Sun Honglei are the announced cast.

I'm sure I'll like at least half an hour of it but this might end up the most abruptly shifting structure we'll see in the cinema in a long time.