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Koch Lorber picks up rights to The Five Obstructions
KochLorber Films has acquired theatrical and DVD rights to Lars von Trier andJorgen Leth's acclaimed 2003 documentary The Five Obstructions.Thefilm is the result of a challenge by Von Trier to Leth in which the latter hadto remake his 1967 short The Perfect Human in five different ways, eachtime within the ...
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Hickel joins Valhalla as president of production
Bryan Hickel has been namedpresident of production at Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures, effectiveimmediately.Hickel will overseeacquisitions and development of all company projects including Valhalla'scurrent project, MarvelComic's The Punisher,set to be released in the US through Lions Gate on April 16 and internationallyby Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International.He will work ...
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DVD piracy on the rise in Asia-Pacific, MPAA report warns
The Motion PictureAssociation of America (MPAA) said it organised and conducted anti-piracyoperations in the Asia-Pacific region last year that resulted in nearly 13,000raids by law enforcement agencies, as well as the seizure of nearly 45millionpirated optical discs, a new record.Videotape seizures in 2003dropped 55% compared to 2002, while seizures of ...
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Walden Media fast-tracks three children's projects
Fast-tracking threechildren's projects, Walden Media has acquired rights to KatherinePaterson's Newbery Award-winning novel Bridge To Terabithia and Australian author Wendy Orr's award-winnerNim's Island and has signedAntz writer Todd Alcott to adaptLois Lowry's Newbery Award-winner The Giver.The company has partneredwith Jeff Bridges and his AsIs Productions and RCN Entertainment (RCNE) toproduce.'These ...
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Firstsight Films and Classic Media team up on Lassie
Charles Sturridge, theBATFA-award winning director of Shackleton and Longitude, haswritten and is set to direct a live-action version of Lassie with his Firstsight Films and New York-based ClassicMedia set to produce.Firstsight's SelwynRoberts, who shared BAFTA honours with Sturridge, and Francesca Barra willserve as producers while Classic Media's chairman and chief ...
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Roadside and Goldwyn pick up US rights to Super Size Me
Roadside Attractions anddistribution partner Samuel Goldwyn Films have picked up US theatrical andvideo rights to Morgan Spurlock's hot Sundanceaward-winner Super Size Me.Spurlock won the BestDirector award in the festival's documentary section last month andearned wide popularity for the film, which charts his efforts to eat onlyMcDonalds food over the course ...
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Greidinger named ShoWest 2004 International Exhibitor of the Year
Moshe (Mooky) Greidinger,the chief executive officer of I T International Theatres, has been namedShoWest 2004 International Exhibitor of the Year.'Mooky Greidinger hastaken his prowess for building and operating state-of-the art theatre complexesin Israel and expanded to central Europe with great success,' ShoWest2004 co-managing director Mitch Neuhauser said in a statement.'Moviegoersin ...
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AFM 2004 gears up with 246 market premieres
The24th Annual American Film Market (AFM) will feature 246 marketpremieres and 379 films in 28 languages from 291 film and television companieswhen it takes place in Santa Monica from Feb 25-Mar 3.Announcingthe line-up at a press conference yesterday, AFMA president and chief executiveofficer Jean Prewitt and executive vice president and ...
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USA Video Interactive Corp named official AFM digital watermarking company
Connecticut-based internet systems specialist USA VideoInteractive Corp (USVO) has been named the official digital watermarkingcompany of the 2004 AFM, which runs in Santa Monica from Feb 25-Mar 3.The company will unveil its digital watermarking technologyMediaSentinel at a press conference on Feb 27. The software package is based onUSVO's proprietary content ...
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Opening on $3.3m in unlucky 13th place was Warner Bros' crime caper The Big Bounce. It was a deeply disappointing bow for George Armitage's Elmore Leonard adaptation, which stars Owen Wilson and Morgan Freeman, and this was matched by a slew of poor write-ups.It averaged $1,448 from 2,304 and the ...
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BVI readies independent French distribution venture
Less than a week after it emerged that Buena VistaInternational's joint distribution venture with French studio Gaumont wasending, the distributor announced it will open an independent office in Francethis summer to handle all Walt Disney Studios films in the territory.Buena Vista International (France) will be headed up inParis by Jean-Francois ...
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Sarasota jury launches emerging Florida film-makers' fund
In an unusual move the juryat this year's sixth Annual Sarasota Film Festival elected not to handout prizes for best narrative and documentary and instead ploughed the moneyback into the creation of an emerging Florida film-makers' fund.'After much discussion,we felt that the best contribution we could make was not to ...
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Brother Bear nears $50m for BVI
Brother Bear scored a superb $4.6m number one opening from 781 screensin France at the weekend as the animated title added $6.3m from all its marketsto raise the international running total to $48.4m.Alreadyin the throes of a highly successful international campaign, Brother Bearshould continue to build with openings for the ...
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Return Of The King closes in on $600m international
NewLine International's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The Kinggrossed $20.7m from 6,353 screens in 58 territories at the weekend to raise itsinternational cumulative total to $572.8m.Thekey driver was Italy, where in its second weekend the film added $7.2m anddropped only 30% from last weekend's record-breaking opening. The ...
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Master And Commander sails to $93m at international box office
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World raised its internationalrunning total to $93m through all distributors following a $970,000 weekendhaul from 641 screens in Fox International markets.Thethriller Runaway Jury added $1.6m from 419 screens at the weekend toraise its international running total to $11.4m.Itopened in third place in ...
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Warner Bros wins trio of distributor awards in Japan
Warner BrosPictures Japan (WBPJ) has been awarded three top honours from Japan's MotionPicture Exhibitors Association, capping its position as the territory'sdominant foreign distributor of the last three years.Thecompany picked up the Grand Prix Award for Best Foreign Film Distributor of theYear as well as awards for Harry Potter And The ...
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Samurai is still first with $22.4m weekend in 45 markets
The Last Samurai has passed $350m in worldwide ticket sales accordingto Warner Bros Pictures Int'l following an estimated $22.4m weekendinternational gross from 5,907 screens in 45 markets.With mostly smaller bowsincluding Finland and four in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the actionadventure raised its international cumulative total to a mighty ...
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Dembia joins Denmead as account manager
Former Artisan Entertainmentdirector of corporate communications Dennis Dembia has joined Denmead Marketingas account manager.Dembia will work withcompany president Nikki Parker and will be based at Denmead's headquarters inHollywood, reporting directly to Parker.Besides day-to-day publicityand maketing duties, he will work closely with Parker overseeing corporateaccounts and handling international marketing and publicity ...
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Polly stays top in Australia, Grams is hot in Spain for Universal
Universal's Along CamePolly stayed top in Australia as itgrossed an estimated $1.1m and fell 44% in its second weekend for a $3.9mrunning total.The romantic comedy is dueto roll out in the other major markets over the next two months and its nextbow will be Portugal on Feb 6.21 Grams had ...
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Don Bird joins DTS as vice president of marketing
Don Bird has joined digitaltechnology company DTS as vice president of marketing, where he will overseemarketing and branding activities for all areas of the company's entertainment,technological and corporate business.Bird brings with him morethan 20 years of experience in the development and marketing of technicalproducts for the entertainment industry.Prior to DTS, ...