All Screen articles in 14 November 2003 – Page 7
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Becker blooms with Marigold, Osama
Newly formed Becker Films International has picked up sales duties on Osama, the award-winning Afghan film, and has unveiled hot Bollywood fusion film Marigold.The Sydney-based company, operated by former MDP sales executive Reiko Bradley, was formed earlier this autumn as a joint venture between Bradley and Richard Becker's Australian distributor ...
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Becker blooms with Marigold, Osama
Newly formed Becker Films International has picked up sales duties on Osama, the award-winning Afghan film, and has unveiled hot Bollywood fusion film Marigold.The Sydney-based company, operated by former MDP sales executive Reiko Bradley, was formed earlier this autumn as a joint venture between Bradley and Richard Becker's Australian distributor ...
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Miracle heralds Bavaria sales deals
Germany's Bavaria Film International has struck a six picture deal with Israel's Orlando Film and has concluded further sales on its Berlin 2003 slate.Orlando bought rights to Soenke Wortmann's hit drama The Miracle Of Bern (Das Wunder Von Bern), Santiago Loza's Extrano, Martin Rejtman's The Magic Gloves (Los Guantes Magicos), ...
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Italy's Bim bites at arthouse trio
Already proving to be one of the most active buyers at MIFED, Italian arthouse distributor Bim has snapped up Italian distribution rights to three new pictures: Michael Moore's widely anticipated Fahrenheit 9:11, Jonathan Demme's The Agronomist and John Curran's We Don't Live Here Anymore.Sold by Wild Bunch, Fahrenheit 9:11 is ...
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Italy's Bim bites at arthouse trio
Already proving to be one of the most active buyers at MIFED, Italian arthouse distributor Bim has snapped up Italian distribution rights to three new pictures: Michael Moore's widely anticipated Fahrenheit 9:11, Jonathan Demme's The Agronomist and John Curran's We Don't Live Here Anymore.Sold by Wild Bunch, Fahrenheit 9:11 is ...
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Arclight chief relocates to London
Australia's top sales agent Gary Hamilton is to leave Sydney and relocate to London where he will set up a UK arm of his successful sales and production outfit Arclight Films. Hamilton said that he will be installed in London before Christmas this year.Arclight will retain its Sydney office for ...
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Arclight chief relocates to London
Australia's top sales agent Gary Hamilton is to leave Sydney and relocate to London where he will set up a UK arm of his successful sales and production outfit Arclight Films. Hamilton said that he will be installed in London before Christmas this year.Arclight will retain its Sydney office for ...
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Arclight chief relocates to London
Australia's top sales agent Gary Hamilton is to leave Sydney and relocate to London where he will set up a UK arm of his successful sales and production outfit Arclight Films. Hamilton said that he will be installed in London before Christmas this year.Arclight will retain its Sydney office for ...
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Arclight chief relocates to London
Australia's top sales agent Gary Hamilton is to leave Sydney and relocate to London where he will set up a UK arm of his successful sales and production outfit Arclight Films. Hamilton said that he will be installed in London before Christmas this year.Arclight will retain its Sydney office for ...
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Animated Odyssey begins Happily
Shrek producer John Williams and sales company Odyssey Entertainment have teamed on Happily N'Ever After, their second animation production following $40m hot seller Valiant.Odyssey has also boarded Renaissance, a sci-fi animation thriller being associate produced by Jake Eberts and involving such talent as dance outfit Daft Punk which Disney will ...
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US distributor First Run launches political website
First RunFeatures, the US independent distributor of political titles such as The WarAt Home and S21: TheKhmer Rouge Death Machine,is launching a discussion website about the politics of war and America'sinvolvement in the fight against terrorism. A new section onthe company's website www.firstrunfeatures.com entitled FRF Community features directorinterviews, chatrooms, forums, ...
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Helen Loveridge named executive director at Seattle Film Festival
Fortissimo Filmsco-founder Helen Loveridge has been named executive director at the SeattleInternational Film Festival (SIFF) and will begin her tenure at theevent's 30th anniversary, which runs from May 20-Jun 13 2004. The position wasleft open when the festival's founding director Darryl Macdonald moved toPalm Springs Film Festival to become executive ...
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O'Shea moves to Media 8 as sales chief
BrianO'Shea has joined Media 8 Entertainment, formerly MDP Worldwide, assenior vice president of worldwide distribution. In his new postO'Shea will be responsible for all licensing and sales activities for thecompany, which is in the process of expanding its production and financingoperations. He previouslyserved as senior vice president of worldwide sales ...
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NEW ZEALAND
The Matrix Revolutions blitzed the opposition in New Zealand as it did around the world, grossing a highly impressive NZ$1,266,716 from 77 screens for a screen average of NZ$16,451. Such was its power that it also pulled The Matrix Reloaded back into the chart in thirteenth spot, despite being on ...
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ITALY
Italian film Prima Dammi Un Bacio (literally, First Give Me A Kiss) became the top-grossing local film of the weekend, after it earned Euros 221,083 for UIP from 93 screens.Produced by Rome's Sunflower Productions with backing from the Italian government's Fondo di Garanzia, Prima Dammi Un Bacio tells the story ...
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HONG KONG
Two Category III films (for persons aged 18 or above only) top the Hong Kong box office this week. Chan Hing-kai and Dante Lam's comedy Naked Ambition took the top slot with $553,710 from 29 screens. Produced by Panorama Entertainment and China Star, the film is about two university graduates ...
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Good Woman starts shooting
Mike Barker's A Good Woman, billed as a scandalous but comic tale set in New York and Italy's Amalfi Coast during the 1930s, has begun principal photography on location in Sorrento.Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Wilkinson star in the film, which is based on Oscar Wilde's classic play Lady ...
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Trust to sell Mother's Elling
Trust Film Sales will handle world sales on Mother's Elling, the follow up to 2001's international box-office hit Elling, which has already been seen by more than 300,000 Norwegians and grossed some $2.5m in four weeks. UIP, which distributes the film in Scandinavia, had first look, but Trust Film Sales ...
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Diot's Onoma unveils debut slate
Onoma International, the new sales company launched in September by Pascal Diot, former head of Pathe International (France), has unveiled a four film slate headed by new Chinese picture Day And Night (Riri Yeye).Day And Night is directed by Wang Chao, who attracted strong critical acclaim for his first film ...
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Dream racks up Monster deals
LA-based production and international sales outfit Dream Entertainment has completed a raft of sales on Michael Davis' horror film Monster Man, which completed production last month.Gaga has picked up rights for Japan, Magna Pacific for Australia, Kinowelt for Germany, Gussi for Mexico, Scanbox for Scandinavia and Village Roadshow for Greece.In ...